Mariana Mekhaiel

PMP SMC PMO MSIS Program Management Portfolio Optimization & Process Improvement

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Summary

Results oriented IT Management professional with over 20-year track record of successful results. Over 14 years experience in managing programs, large scale software development projects, multi-million-dollar budgets and complex diverse teams. Keen on process improvement, portfolio optimization, cost reduction, and resource efficiency. Lead successful projects in various areas including Supply Chain, Finance, Transportation, Engineering, Energy Management, Energy Efficiency and Risk Management. Over 6 years experience in hands-on software development.

Accustomed to handling sensitive, confidential records and managing SOX projects. Flexible and versatile – able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure. Poised, confident, and competent with demonstrated ability to easily transcend cultural differences.

Skills

PMP & Scrum Master Certified

Project & Program Management

Full SDLC Lifecycle ((Waterfall, Agile/Scrum)

PMO, Portfolio Optimization, Cost Management

Vendor Management, RFP, SOW, Contract Management

PM Tools (JIRA, Pi360, MS Project, Visio, SharePoint)

Cloud/SaaS Implementation/Management

Benchmarking, Market Research & Software Evaluation

Onsite, Remote & Offshore Teams Management

SOX/ITGC, FERC & PII Systems Mgmt & Auditing

Resource & Change Management (Peoplesoft, Hyperion

Workforce Planning, ServiceNow, STAT)

Implementation & Integration of Global Systems such as

Oracle ERP, SAP, C3 IoT, Pi360

Professional Experience

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER (CONTRACT) JUNE 2020 – PRESENT

MERCK & CO.

Manage 6 projects to split off Business Warehouse and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation systems to a new company

Responsible for planning, scheduling, directing & tracking all projects tasks and milestones

Lead project status calls and present progress to upper management

Manage project budget and forecast

Manage various PMO trackers

Manage onshore and offshore/remote teams

SENIOR IT MANAGER SEP 2016 – APRIL 2020

CONSOLIDATED EDISON, NEW YORK, NY

Managed a team of 9 application developers & project leads.

Was responsible for an average of 4 major IT capital projects per year with a budget over $40M, and supporting 16 systems.

Created and managed 5-year roadmap for all systems & resources with focus on long term sustainability, improving customer experience, team development, portfolio optimization, operating cost reduction, and efficient resource allocation.

Directly managed 2 high profile critical projects with a total of $29M budget to implement new Commodity & Financial Trading & Risk Management System, and Demand Response Management Systems. Systems include tens of integrations with onsite and SaaS systems such Oracle ERP & C3 IoT.

Responded to PwC and internal SOX PMO audits.

Lead or was member of multiple senior committees such as IT Project Management Office (IT PMO), Cognizant Outsourcing Transition, Diversity & Inclusion, Women in IT.

Managed & successfully completed multiple critical projects and major enhancements. Examples include:

oNew Energy Management Data Warehouse & Reporting system to automate multiple complicated manual reports and consolidate dept. reporting functions in a single system. The effort resulted in retirement of a vendor system (ABB Project Explorer) and eliminating annual support renewal costs.

oGas Pipeline Interfaces project to automate Gas purchasing, scheduling, transporting, & accounting tasks between the company and various pipelines.

SYSTEMS MANAGER MAY 2012 – SEP 2016

CONSOLIDATED EDISON, NEW YORK, NY

Managed a team of 11 application developers & project leads.

Managed an average of 2 IT capital projects per year and supported 21 systems.

Directly managed multiple critical projects such as Oracle EBS and BI implementation (replacing legacy AP, AR, GL and financial management systems), Fleet Management system replacement, implementation of Hyperion Workforce Planning, Hyperion Suite upgrade & move to the Cloud, implementation of Hyperion Strategic Finance system, COBOL & VB6 Modernization, Cable and Reels System upgrade & enhancement, and the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure implementation project.

Completed portfolio risk management and process improvement plan to identify and reduce/eliminate manual and redundant processes, modernize old technology, and introduce automation where applies. Plan yielded multiple efforts that resulted in over 3900 hours/year reduction in manual efforts and close to $600k/year cost reduction.

Implemented advanced monitoring across portfolio of systems and assigned/trained backup analysts on all systems.

Selected as member of multiple senior committees such as IT Governance and Proactive Obsolescence Management, Frontline Leadership.

Utility Information Technology Benchmark (UNITE) consortium representative for Con Edison in 2015.

Two times recipient of company TEAM Award in Achieving Technical & Customer Excellence for role in the implementation of a platform to communicate fuel stations status to internal employees and external customers such as MTA & Yellow Cab, as well as role in implementing the technical infrastructure for Electric Vehicle Charging project.

SYSTEMS SPECIALIST FEB 2007 – MAY 2012

CONSOLIDATED EDISON, NEW YORK, NY

Managed a team of 4 developers and LAN support employees.

Managed all Central Engineering (CENG) software projects and software maintenance efforts.

Managed the CENG Drawing Management System Replacement project from both the technical and business aspects.

Managed the CENG Website Conversion to SharePoint.

Lead all vendor selection and evaluation efforts and managed SDLC lifecycle and documentation for all projects/efforts.

Developed Web applications in ASP.NET/C#, JavaScript, VB Script, Oracle & SQL Server DB.

Developed new SharePoint sites, libraries, lists and forms.

CENG Web Master and responsible for SharePoint site security, updates and programming support.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER JAN 2000 - FEB 2007

INSURANCE SERVICES OFFICE, JERSEY CITY, NJ

Managed the Intranet development through all changes and upgrades of company internal web site.

Lead COGNOS development effort in implementing various new financial reports to allow for better expense management and budget forecasting as part of a cost savings initiative.

Lead CRM SalesLogix version upgrade & customization project team.

Lead the integration of Avaya CTI & CA’s Unicenter for Help Desk project.

Developed and maintained various client/server and web applications in .Net and Java.

Tested & scripted various applications in WinRunner for Software Quality Assurance testing.

Education

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - 2007

Master's Degree, Information Systems & Information Management

Hoboken, NJ (US)

THE CHUBB INSTITUTE - 1999

Technical Diploma, Web Development & Business Programming

Jersey City, NJ (US)

AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY - 1996

Bachelor's Degree, Business Management

Cairo (Egypt)

Certifications

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - 2006

Project Management Certificate (PMP)

SCRUMstudy - 2020

Scrum Master Certificate (SMC)

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