BRIAN OSSER

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PROJECT MANAGER - SUMMARY

Professional with over 10 years of project management experience from planning through rollout. Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of projects ensuring consistency and company strategy. Ability to multi task and prioritize several projects simultaneously. Highly skilled in monitoring the progress of each project, troubleshooting and resolving issues. Ability to work with cross-functional team members to facilitate their needs. Experienced in organizing project meetings, write detailed meeting minutes including action items and deliverables. Successfully created a professional and respectful work environment which helped to motivate & inspire the team toward a common goal. Presently taking courses in preparation for the PMP certification (Project Management Professional from PMI)

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Managed onsite and remote teams, successful history in keeping projects on schedule and within budget

Created project schedules, to include timelines, milestones, requirements and deliverables

Prepared meeting agendas, captured and recorded meeting notes and tracked all action items to insure they were completed timely.

Performed risk and issue management to ensure the expected project outcomes are achieved on time and within budget & scope.

Passionate about the small details while understanding and focusing on the bigger picture strategic goals.

Ability to juggle competing priorities and projects.

Communicated weekly project status and dashboards to all impacted stakeholders, management and team members throughout the duration of each project.

Assisted in the review & planning of product launches and marketing asset development.

Interfaced and managed cross-functional teams.

Performed Risk and Resolution management by using dashboards and visualization tools.

Managed programs through stage gate reviews and drove the completion of milestones based on project & schedule requirements.

Used Agile & Waterfall methodologies, created & managed detailed Project Schedule’s, Gantt Charts, identified and confirmed dependencies to ensure team collaboration and functional flow within the schedule.

Identified & monitored project milestones, critical path evaluations, internal & external resource assignment and productivity analysis through earned value.

Managed the creation of the project charter, cost estimates, project scope, work breakdown structure, project schedule, resource assignments, communication plans and scope changes.

Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.

Worked collaboratively alongside internal and external business units.

Conducted Post Mortem meetings to improve productivity, promote best practices and share lessons learned.

Ability to take constructive criticism and channel it to build professional quality projects based on team and client input

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

CITY NATIONAL BANK, Los Angeles, CA

PROJECT MANAGER IV 2020 – 2021

Planned, executed, and finalized Bank projects according to timelines, milestone events and within budget. This included acquiring resources, capacity planning and coordinating and motivating all project team members, to complete project deliverables. Helped define project objectives, project scope and project requirements; and ensured high levels of development and project execution throughout its life cycle.

OSI-SYSTEMS INC., Hawthorne, CA

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER IT 2019 – 2020

Lead multiple Corporate Initiatives, Software and Integration projects of varying size and complexity. Effectively communicated timely status updates on projects to senior leadership including project roadblocks in order to avoid timeline, cost and quality slippage while meeting customers’ expectations.

MOLINA HEALTHCARE, Long Beach, CA

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER II 2011 – 2019

Annually managed seven software upgrade projects and change requests projects simultaneously utilizing up to 65 resources. On a single project, I saved the company 4.5 million dollars by delivering on time and withing budget. Implementing Agile methodologies, I was able to enhance team collaboration; communication and improved functional workflows for the project thus reducing schedule by 20%. Managed the annual disaster recovery exercises for the State of Maine; Drafted the playbook for the disaster recover exercise; Successfully met the state’s specific recovery time objective and the recovery point objective. Scrum Master – Created User Stories and acceptance criteria; executed Sprint Planning meetings, Daily Scrum stand-ups, Sprint Review’s and Sprint Retrospective.

MEDTRONIC, Northridge, CA

PROJECT MANAGER 2010 – 2010

Managed the PDS project (Patch Delivery System) with a 7-million-dollar budget.

Managed cross-functional teams, with 45 people reporting to me. Managed the software development team, mechanical & electrical development & testing teams; algorithm development & testing team. Designed processes to address identified and solved strategic problems.

BELKIN INTERNATIONAL, Compton, CA 2006 - 2009

PROJECT MANAGER 2006 – 2009

Managed the development of over 50 projects launches such as accessories for the iPhone, iPad, iPod’s & Routers. Managed cross-functional teams locally and in Asia. Worked global sales and the marketing team by supplying them with prototypes for trade shows, advertising material and packaging. Worked within a fast passed product design and development cycle.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

MS Project; Primavera EPPM P6; PPM Tools; SharePoint; Jira – Scrum Master; Word; Service Now ITBM; Excel; Power Point; Outlook; Access; Photoshop (basic); InDesign; Maya 6.0, Visio, MS Teams

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