Project Manager Business Analyst

Ed Harmon

(C) 803-***-**** *.**************@*****.*** Swansea, South Carolina 29160

SUMMARY

Results-driven and collaborative IT Project Manager and Business Analyst offering 30+ years' experience in managing assets, mitigating risks and overseeing projects. Creative and focused with the dedication and fortitude to deliver exceptional and efficient work. Bringing an excellent attention to detail, organized nature and dedication to continuous process improvement.

SKILLS

·Agile

·Application development

·Experience with government environments

·Budgeting & Fiscal Forecasting

·Business solutions

·Data migration

·Designing

·Documentation

·Executive management communications

·Financial

·GUI

·Imaging systems

·Insurance

·Invoicing

·SAS

·SAP Enterprise

·Law Enforcement (LIMS)

·Managing professional staff

·MS Excel

·MS Project

·MS Word

·Procurement

·Project plans

·Proposals (RFPs)

·Quality assurance

·SCRUM (CSM)

·Server deployments

·Software development deployments

·SQL (MySQL & MS SQL Server)

·Testing Documentation Development

·User manuals

·User documentation

Experience

IT Senior Project Manager, Pioneer Technology Group, Oct 2021 through Feb 2022

Remote-Columbia, SC

·Researched and documented previously captured, but ineffectively co-located, business requirements defined earlier for assigned enterprise level project effort.

·Re-tasked earlier composed project plan to reflect requirements not previously addressed within the project’s scope, overall plan, and critical budget forecasting.

·Coordinated project effort meetings to ensure that all relevant project team members were included in related meetings.

·Functioned as the first point of contact between the client and Pioneer Technology Group.

IT Project Manager and Business Analyst, SC Dept. of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services, September 2020-Current

Columbia, SC

·Responsible for IT related projects covering multiple scopes from server decommissioning, optical fingerprinting implementation, local government court system file integration, to agency wide OS updates and complete network and equipment refreshes.

·Manage all software development testing and subsequent release scheduling.

·Develop user requirements from program areas throughout the agency and communicate those accurately to the 3rd party applications development vendor.

·Monitor IT budget as it relates to software development expenditures. Reconcile and approve all vendor invoices for payment. Development of fiscal impact analysis and forecasting (using SQL) for all new technology projects under consideration by the agency.

·Using Azure, transfer internal systems change requests to 3rd party vendors to ensure accurate monitoring of work effort priories.

·Manage the content of functionality within all software application releases and release updates for all systems utilized by the agency.

IT Project Manager, Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, July 2019-July 2020

Columbia, SC

·Responsible for initiating, monitoring, facilitating, and implementing projects in an IT environment in both a traditional prescriptive methodology as well as Agile software development lifecycle.

·Responsible for assembling and managing project plans and teams.

·Communicate project status using a variety of tools to project team and executive management.

·Escalate project issues to the proper identified adjudicating authority.

·Responsible for ensuring that projects are within scope, budget, and timeframes.

·Responsible for all agency RFS (Requests for Solutions) proposals.

Business Analyst II, South Carolina State Law, February 2019-June 2019

Columbia, SC

Employed at the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) assigned to the rewrite of the state's Sexual Offender Registry Tool (SORT). In this capacity I was responsible for:

·Gathering, compiling, and synthesizing user requirements.

·Making recommendations and assisting in evaluating recommendations for development or enhancements.

·Analyzing business user needs to assess technical feasibility and solutions.

·Translating business requirements into functional specifications using a variety of tools, to include UML diagramming.

·Being a subject matter expert in the systems life cycle to include designing, testing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting software, testing, etc.

·Assisting in the identification of test scenarios and their execution to ensure proper system operation and freedom from defects.

·Preparing flowcharts, block diagrams, and other documentation to illustrate programs and procedures.

·Ensured that all data transactions and network communications between agency and NCIC were CJIS compliant.

·Preparing user documentation including user manuals.

IT Project Manager, South Carolina State Budget and Control Board-PEBA, December 2004-February 2017

·Managed multiple IT and business-related projects.

·Managed systems development (particularly software application development) utilizing a variety of software development methodologies, to include waterfall and agile models (especially SCRUM).

·Provided technical and formal documentation throughout project lifecycle utilizing MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, and SQL, where applicable.

·Responsible for PEBA's agency-wide strategic project and replaced all internal legacy green screen functionality with JAVA based GUI systems.

·In conjunction with the providing vendor, responsible for executing imaging project whereby millions of documents were moved from optical images to solid state storage and retrieval.

·Negotiated with vendors and stakeholders.

·Led financial project that allowed for on-line invoicing and payment of installment loans.

·Project Manager for a SC complete move to a SAP based enterprise platform.

·Assisted with the data migration of the state employee insurance database from the state CIO to PEBA's own in-house servers.

·Advised executive management regarding proper project management strategies (e.g. SDLC: prescriptive/agile)

·Effectively executing business goals, objectives, as well as legislative and judicial mandates.

·Ensured that IT procurements were within required state code regulations and quality assurance guidelines.

·Reported to executive management on status of current efforts and ability to connect resources to new objectives, to include project portfolio management.

·Mediated business solutions between agency operational areas and IT group.

·Ensured that all project documentation was completed and conformed to adopted agency project standards.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Certified SCRUM Master

South Carolina Senior State IT Procurement Officer

South Carolina Senior State Certified Project Manager

Post-Graduate Studies

Philosophy, University of South Carolina, 1985-1988

Bachelor of Arts

Philosophy, University of South Carolina, 1985

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