Project Manager

HORACE LINDSAY - Project Manager

E-mail: *****************@*******.***; Phone: 289-***-****

Education

Diploma: Business Administration - Accounting & Financial Management

Centennial College - Scarborough, ON

Certificate: Business Analyst- University of Toronto (PDC)

PM1-PMP- Project Management Professional - PMI

PMI-RMP - Risk Mgmt. Professional - PMI

CMP - Change Management Professional - Acuity Institute

Implementation Specialist - Dynamic Nav - Microsoft

Work History

2019-04 - 2020-01 Sr Project Manager (contract)

Ministry of Immigration, Refugee, and Canadian Citizenship, IRCC, Ottawa, ON

Worked with IT and Business resources to developed and implemented a Web Portal to streamline potential Immigrants applications for entry into Canada.

• Coordinate with the PMs responsible for Business, Front-end Development, Back-end Development, and QA.

• Monitor and report on the VAC portal project activities to ensure timely, cost-effective, and high-quality results.

• Continuous assessment of the VAC project management execution focused on the development and ongoing enhancements of the program management framework.

• Develop framework to include the processes, structures, and monitoring and reporting tools required to maintain program governance.

• Manage conflicting change requests to delivering projects following agile principles and approaches.

• Reviews of existing program execution and make recommendations for corrective actions to ensure that the program delivers on the project objective in a cost-effective way and in alignment with planned objectives.

• Monitor and report the weekly status of PMs (Business, Front-end, Back-end, QA).

• Review test data processes, data governance, ensuring availability and consistency across all internal and Applicant’s systems.

2017-07 - 2019-02 Senior Project Manager (contract)

Hexo Corp, Ottawa, ON

Assigned to various projects, including implementation of MS Application (Dynamics ERP), LIM, Digital Marketing, and monitor the construction of new Warehouses and Office space.

• Reviewed existing projects to gain an understanding of requirements (budget, staffing, quality) necessary to complete the project within the required period and specifications.

• Developed and execute the project plan and monitor progress, ensuring projects remain within scope, timeline, and budget.

• Consulted with internal and external stakeholders on an on-going basis: clarify requirements and expectations, address issues and monitor/report on progress.

• Assessed the need for additional resources (human, financial or material): consult with Human Resources and/or Procurement Team to source and secure resources as appropriate.

• Reported to senior management on project status.

• Developed migration plan; and migrated data (etl).

2016-06 - 2017-06 SharePoint Project Manager (contract)

Solarfective Products, Toronto, ON

Migrate MS SharePoint 2010 to 2013 application using the database attach migration method.

• Migrated SharePoint binary, and all users' files, AD refresh.

• Provided overall management for the assigned project utilizing Agile methodology.

• Worked in collaboration with senior Stakeholders, and the Project team to migrate files.

• Collaborated with Sponsor to define scope of projects and prepare all project and gating artifacts to formally initiate and execute the project, define success criteria, and initial issues/risk.

• Ensured that quality standards are adhered to, and that projects will provide the expected business-value.

• Created and Implemented governance plans, project management guidelines, development, and deployment plans to decrease SharePoint deployment timeline.

• Meeting with stakeholders to groom backlog items, and create functional documents, GAP analyses, UAT scripts and project implementation plan.

• Managed the design and configuration of SharePoint Lists, Content Types, Workflows, web parts, Views, Sites’ libraries, calendar, user roles, GUI etc.

• Collaborated with Architect and BSA to managed and support SharePoint servers (MOSS 2010 & MOSS 2013) including authentication issues, STSAdm commands, site templates, PowerShell, AD user account integration and troubleshooting, configured changes, Security configuration, site templates/solutions and other administrative duties.

• Ensured available SharePoint patches and services packs were schedule and implemented.

• Managed site collections, web applications, authentication and user roles, Site development, testing, implementation, documentation, and training.

2014-11 - 2016-05 Implementation Project Manager (contract)

Symcor Inc, Mississauga, ON

Managed and Implemented COTS Application (Digital Transformation - Kofax Capture Platform, FISERV application, Workday upgrade), AD upgrade, and Infrastructure transformation upgrade (Red-hat to HP servers).

• Vendor's software (DMS) implementation to automate the transformation of client's paper data to Digital format, in compliance with CPA (Cdn. Payments Assoc) regulation.

• Implemented security (tripwire and SSL) on Servers housing Clients' data.

• Worked in collaboration with senior management, internal stakeholders, and Vendor.

• Facilitated daily scrum.

• Prepared steering committee materials e.g. Actual vs planned spending, monthly resources allocation, and Risks’ assessments.

• Established the Governance framework appropriate to the project.

• Managed and coordinated with QA to ensure quality improvement methodologies were used in the development of Test Plan/cases.

• Ensured that the Project Management hybrid (Waterfall/Agile) methodologies utilized.

• Developed, supported, influences and responsibility for the creation of best practices and tools for project execution and management.

2013-01 - 2014-10 Technology Project Manager (contract)

TD BANK, Toronto, ON

Managed/implemented Regulatory, and Business Projects (COTS - ServiceNow, Cognos 10, Infrastructure Upgrade, Server Migration Projects -MS Server, and Windows Application, Implemented BI/DW, SharePoint Upgrade), ETL - Data Migration.

• Accountable for the project management change processes, and Business Processes mapping/analyses.

• Development of project artifacts including charter RFI/RFP, SOW, integrated Project plan, resource plan, contingency plan, and related gating artifacts, while complying with applicable enterprise standards (e.g. SRS, SDS, Risk, Issues, Compliance)

• Developed and monitor the project Financials.

• Ensured timely delivery of the projects' deliverables to the business partner, meeting the approved scope/cost/schedule/quality for the project.

• Performed risk identification and mitigation activities; and escalated unresolved issues to the Executive and / or Steering Committee to secure their timely decisions/support.

• Managed the acquisition and deployment of resources, by engaging the appropriate Managers to secure the resources required for the project.

• Managed diverse team of IT professional to develop relation database to support DW/BI.

• Ensured client satisfaction with the project process and project team by effective and timely communication including status reporting, EVM, continual risk/issue assessment/management and escalation, and resolution of issues as they aroused.

• Identified projects' dependencies, and constraints, ensuring that they were effectively managed/monitored, and contingency plans were in place.

• Built and sustained day-to-day relationships and communication with key stakeholders.

2012-05 - 2013-01 Program Control Officer (contract)

RBC - DEXIA, Toronto, ON

• Provided updates to the PMO lead (in the UK) to fully understand the progress, and any barriers to the Program's delivery.

• Worked with PMs to encourage the use of the RBC Large Program Management Framework (LPgMF) and RBC Dexia's Project Management Framework (PMF) Guidelines.

• Provided guidance to PM's/PCO's on creating and monitoring detailed project schedules.

• Managed the integrated Program-level schedule.

• Provided project planning and project management tool guidance to PM's/PgM's.

• Prepared Program Level Status Report with Sponsor and identify program progress variance and escalated, as necessary.

• Created and implemented processes and templates to improve the efficiencies of the Program.

• Provided appropriate guidance and training to PM's/PCO's on LPgMF gaps.

• Maintenance of the Sub-Project schedule(s) to reflect the latest status.

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