Anthony W. England

**** ******* ******

Sachse, Texas 75048

214-***-****

adht3c@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 20 years of experience including 10 years of experience in telecommunications. Extensive background in managing large software implementation projects. Highly experienced in all phases of the SDLC Waterfall and project life cycle (inception, initiation, planning, execution, implementation, and deployment). Also, strong Agile and Scrum proficiencies while maintaining PMO standards, practices, and governance. Project leadership abilities and skills that drives commitments and responsibilities of all project team members to meet deadlines.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Software/Databases: MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Lotus Notes, SAS, Tableau, Spotfire, Microsoft SharePoint, PRISM, Doors, DOVICO, HP PPM, HP Quality Center, Dash, Clarity, Team Foundation Server, Documentum, JIRA, Remedy and ClearQuest.

Methodologies: Waterfall-SDLC, Iterative, Agile, Scrum & SAFe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PAMERI PROPERTIES 2/2020 – CURRENT

Project Manager

Provide project Management support for real estate business development.

Identify properties within the business model buy criteria.

Preform due diligence regarding comparable recent property sold in the target area.

Prepare proposal documentation for offer to purchase property.

Develop statement of work (SOW) for project property construction.

Provide oversight of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual operating and financial reports.

Conduct weekly meetings with Property Managers, Leasing and Maintenance resources.

Reinforce company standards in all operations.

Work with Asset Manager to create and evaluate property budgets and performance goals.

Work with Asset Managers on evaluating capital needs and to plan capital projects.

MODIS ON ASSIGNMENT AT SAFRAN 4/2019 – 1/2020

Project Manager

Provided project management leadership in the implementation of the Payroll and HR Systems (ADP Vantage and Workforce Now).

Managed the overall product delivery and project scope in a matrix environment.

Worked with Resource Managers to identify resources and appropriate allocations needed to meet project requirements.

Coordinated data elements mappings and system configurations to develop the new business process workflow.

Conducted daily stand-ups meetings, proactively managed, and tracked work progress, identified roadblocks, and implemented the appropriate remediation plans to keep project on track.

Developed the project schedule with tasks and activities identified by the project team members.

Managed project risks and issues, by working with the team to developing mitigation plans and issues resolutions.

Conducted monthly Steering Committee Meetings, presented current project status, and forecasted the expected upcoming month progress.

Provided close monitoring of the testing activities to ensure appropriate functionality.

STEWARTS STAFFING ON ASSIGNMENT AT NORTEK AIR SOLUTIONS 11/2018 – 3/2019

Project Manager

Provided project management leadership in the manufacturing of commercial and custom air solutions products and the modification of existing infrastructure and operations.

Provided oversight of all production activities; design, fabrication and the assemble of the end product units.

Identified project team and contract resources needed to meet project requirements.

Utilized Waterfall methodology for this project initiative; by identifying the requirements, signoff from stakeholders, develop project team, design plan, and execute plan.

Lead project planning sessions, document input from project team and stakeholders.

Collaborated with sales and account teams, supply chain and plant resources to identify and develop project deliverables.

Developed project schedule, milestones, provide walkthrough and request stakeholders signoff.

Submitted Request for Proposals, Request for Quotes and negotiated pricing for scope of work to be executed.

Utilized daily SCRUM (stand-ups) meetings to identify daily work, roadblocks and resolutions to keep project on track.

Provided weekly status reports to stakeholders and upper management.

PAMERI PROPERTIES 3/2018 – 11/2018

Project Manager

Provided project Management support for real estate business development.

Identified properties within the business model buy criteria.

Preformed due diligence regarding comparable recent property sold in the target area.

Prepared proposal documentation for offer to purchase property.

Developed statement of work (SOW) for project property construction.

Provided oversight of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual operating and financial reports.

Conducted weekly meetings with Property Managers, Leasing and Maintenance resources.

Reinforced company standards in all operations.

Worked with Asset Manager to create and evaluate property budgets and performance goals.

Worked with Asset Managers on evaluating capital needs and to plan capital projects.

MATRIX RESOURCES – ON ASSIGNMENT AT TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES 12/2017 – 2/2018

Project Manager

Managed Vendor Management Enterprise System (Coupa) and HR Solution (Workday) initiatives across multiples business units.

Collaborated with the business units to identify areas requiring decisions and clarification to define project scope and objectives of required solution.

Determined high level budget and timeline to implement solution.

Coordinated brainstorm sessions to identify and assess risks.

Worked across IT to ensure that all components supporting the end-to-end solution were engaged.

Utilized Agile methodology for this project by determining the most critical requirements from the client; then with the help of the product owner, prioritizing these requirements into a product backlog. Incremental delivering these requirements to the client.

Lead assigned SCRUM Team in the development of User Stories for the product backlog work.

Facilitated joint application designs sessions across the IT teams. Developed the Sprint Plan with the identified product backlot items to be delivered in the sprint backlog.

Held weekly meeting with the Product Owners to review progress made by the SCRUM Team, User Stories development, Coding and Testing.

Held daily SCRUM (stand-ups) to keep Sprint timeline on schedule. By tracking daily activities and resolving roadblocks to stay on track.

Facilitated Sprint Reviews to get signoff/acceptance of completed work in the Sprint.

Facilitated the creation and review of vendor management documentation and ensure compliance with Vendor Management Office procedures.

NEXTGEN INFORMATION SERVICES – ON ASSIGNMENT AT AT&T 7/2016 – 10/2017

Project Manager

Managed Business Intelligence Data Warehouse system integrations for wireless, landline, internet and satellite services platforms using SDLC – Waterfall Methodology.

Conducted stakeholder identification, defined project scope and established objectives, gathered high level requirements and identified project resource.

Determined project management methodology to be used in the varies programs and projects.

Conducted daily brainstorming sessions with stakeholders to define scope and gathered requirements.

Identified deliverables and developed the project schedule with tasks and activities that adhere to organizational standards.

Manage the solution from initiation through deployment in a Waterfall environment with the Project Team by conducting project team meetings, Weekly project status meetings as project management methodology tools for holding team members accountable for assigned tasks.

Identify risk and issues with Project Team Members and assigned owners with action items for resolution.

Escalated issues to upper management when needed, to clear roadblocks to meeting timelines.

Gained sign-off on deliverables to move to next toll gate and or phase.

PAMERI PROPERTIES 5/2015 – 7/2016

Project Manager

Provided project Management for real estate CRM configuration and set up for the Dallas office.

Managed the budget for a new property rehab and constructions.

Identified properties within the business model buy criteria.

Preformed due diligence regarding comparable recent property sells in the target area.

Provided oversight of the weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual operating and financial reports.

Conducted weekly meetings with Property Managers, Leasing and Maintenance resources.

Reinforced company standards in all operations.

Worked with Asset Manager to create and evaluate property budgets and performance goals.

Worked with Asset Managers on evaluating capital needs and planning capital projects.

APEX SYSTEMS – ON ASSIGNMENT AT DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES 3/2014 – 3/2015

Project Manager

Managed major project for IT PMO organization for Health Laboratory systems.

Managed the vendor (LabWare) systems upgrade and data migration to LabWare v6 with ICD-10 federal mandated specifications.

Managed the upgrade to Oracle 11g which was a LabWare v6 requirement.

Conducted daily Scrum sessions to keep project activities and tasks on schedule.

Conducted Executive Sponsor Alignment and established Level of Effort and budget.

Identified Stakeholders, worked with Subject Matter Expert (SME) to define the scope, budget and schedule.

Established goals, objectives, guidelines, procedures, schedules, priorities and methods for achieving project goals and coordinated activities with all impacted organizations.

Defined Development activities, Systems and User Acceptance Testing and Implementation activities for the Laboratory applications.

Managed and directed teams of business analysts, systems analyst’s developers, DBAs, IT Ops and vendor project team.

Conducted risks Identification and analysis.

Created the project schedule with the integrated product team input to ensure all tasks, project activities and milestones were identified, tracked, and completed according to the scope and business requirements of the project while managing project budget to plan.

TECHNOLOGY VENTURES – ON ASSIGNMENT AT FANNIE MAE 8/2011– 5/2013

Project Manager

Provided project management leadership for Mortgage Servicing financial reporting applications.

Managed application Development activities, Systems and User Acceptance Testing and data migration for the Implementation of the reporting applications.

Managed and directed teams of business analysts, developers, and quality analysts in a multi-environment consisting of the implementations of (COTS); SAS, Spotfire, Tableau, Business Objects projects.

In a HTML, Java, C++, C-sharp, Oracle, and UNIX environments.

Stakeholder Management and partnership.

Worked with the stakeholders by partnering to define requirements and the best solution through effective collaboration and negotiation.

Provided informational presentations to executive leadership; managed stakeholder expectations; held self and project team accountable for project delivery; and develop status reports.

Establishment of goals, objectives, guidelines, procedures, schedules, priorities and methods for achieving project goals and coordination of activities with other organizations.

Ensure resolutions of critical issues, monitor progress and escalate complex or difficult issues, utilize change orders to track changes to the project, track expenditures and budgets.

Managed projects in the SDLC Waterfall and Release Management discipline, utilizing the Waterfall methodology from project initiation through project closure.

Applied Project Management Principles, methods, techniques, and tools to effectively manage project throughout the project life cycle.

Created project schedules with input from the project team to ensure tasks and milestones were tracked according to the scope and business requirements of the project.

Experienced user of HP PPM in initiating projects, obtaining approval of project deliverables and artifacts and managed the core team activities.

Effectively utilization of the tool in providing weekly project reports to upper level management.

Managed several projects for the NUC (National Underwriting Center) and REO/REAM, (Real Estate Owned – Real Estate Asset Management) and the NSO (National Servicing Organization).

Deployed the projects associated with the NUC KPI Dashboard, NUC 10Q 10K Reporting, REO Valuation Dashboard, and REO CLM ODS BO Equator project.

Managed the monthly Change Management Releases for NUC, REO/REAM and NSO report migrations, which entailed managing new reports deployments, updates/enhancements to existing reports as well as critical emergency fixes.

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 10/2003 – 12/2010

Senior Associate Project Manager

Provided senior-level project management leadership to system development, testing and implementation of audit applications.

Lead and direct teams of business analysts, developers, and quality engineers in a multi-environment consisting of HTML, Java, C++, C-sharp, Oracle, Lotus Notes and.Net applications.

Provided project management leadership to Infrastructure related projects such as Windows server upgrades, Lotus Notes server upgrades, Oracle, and UNIX upgrades to latest versions.

Also, managed the regression efforts of applications impacted by the server upgrades, to ensure application functional integrity.

Managed task and project milestones utilizing MS Project for resource allocation and task assignments tracking.

Proficiency in project management principles, methods, techniques and tools used in the effective management of projects throughout the project life cycle.

Worked with stakeholders to create the WBS to identify tasks and timelines using Microsoft Project schedule for tracking tasks and timelines for project delivery.

Conducted quality audits to ensure projects were managed according to guidelines established for project execution.

Provided weekly status reports to upper level management in a high-level PowerPoint format summary.

Managed the deliverables of user acceptance testing, functional testing and systems testing on web-based asp migration to.net platform with interfaces to Lotus Notes applications.

Ensured task such as execution of test scripts are prioritized to match business requirements coverage and the resolution of defects are thoroughly documented, coded, and retested before functionality is implemented.

Management of all project artifacts in repositories such a Microsoft Project Server and Documentum.

Held tollgate reviews to ensure project deliverables and artifacts were according the PMO SDLC Waterfall guidelines.

Worked closely with Business Analysts, Business Technical Managers and Testing Managers to proactively define and create Project Approach, Scope and Plan based on business Stakeholder requirements and specifications.

Provided daily communication of tasks discussion to manage scope creep and utilized change management processes and methodologies when needed.

Held project team accountable for risk assessment, risk management and application of the appropriate mitigation strategies.

Managed task such as test environments readiness and set up with the appropriate build and test data while acting as the Lotus Notes administrator for dedicated testing servers.

Assist with defining and implementing test environments, core competencies and methodologies.

Established release readiness criteria and requirements and contribute to product release readiness decisions in weekly status calls.

Led project team in process improvement, collaborated with stakeholders to enhance processes across business units.

METASOLV 9/2000 – 2/2003

Project Manager

Performed project management function surrounding the quality assurance and application acceptance testing activities for enhancements and new software releases for the (COTS) MetaSolv Solution application GUI and interfaces.

This required interfacing with Development teams to code new requirements and specifications to meet client expectations and deliverables.

Scheduled tasks such as bug fixes as they were reported to development using Remedy and Continuus tracking applications.

Identified and estimated the level of effort of software fixes for Telecom customers.

Documented and create a work breakdown structure with the team and worked with the team to assign the appropriate timelines based upon the project delivery date.

Scheduled unit and functional regression testing efforts into plan.

Responsible for documenting system requirements and new enhancements and defining test strategy to ensure test coverage throughout the software coding, testing and implementation life cycle.

Interfaced with large telecommunication clients, customers, Account Teams, Development, Engineering, and Architecture departments to provide timely resolutions to software related problems.

Incorporated process improvements as needed and change management strategies and processes to manage scope creep.

Lead internal white board discussion panels for integrating new technology functions into the MetaSolv Solution application, which helped establish future positioning of the company’s OSS application into new markets.

Established release readiness criteria and requirements and contribute to product release readiness decisions.

Assisted with the selection, integration, and implementation of tools to support testing.

Consulted with cross teams, reviewed their requirements, designs and planned functionality from a quality and test perspective.

MCI WORLDCOM 12/1994 – 9/2000

Project Manager

Project Manager for multiple projects, which required the designing of custom private networks for high visibility clients.

Managed the implementation of new vendor (COTS) switch software releases, (Nortel, Siemens, and Ericsson) which included managing the project throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) Waterfall, coordinated and facilitated lab, and system testing.

Managed all aspects of the software implementation program, from initial scheduling and planning of delivery, through facilitation of client meetings, creation of presentations and reports, and design, development, testing, documentation, and delivery of custom and packaged software.

Conducted team and department level meetings to exchange technical knowledge via open discussion and transfer of information (TOI) sessions.

Interfaced with several functional groups (Billing, Translations, Vendor Account Teams, Switch Planning, Network Support and Lab Engineering) to ensure timelines were met according to the scheduled timelines, to certify software and to ensure operational readiness for implementation into the MCI network.

Worked with the Implementation team to assist in the implementation of software releases for Siebel 99 and 7.5 Ordering and provisioning application.

EDUCATION

PMP-PMI, Project Management Certification, Training and Development

PMI Dallas Chapter Member

B.S. Business Management

Southeastern University

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