Tracy Smith
***** ******* ***. 952-***-****
Lakeville, MN 55044 *****.*******@*******.***
Skills:
Global Project Manager
Marketing
Voice of Consumer
Innovation
Fundamentals of Digital Marketing- Google Certified
Campaign Manager Certification Exam- Google
Agile
Scrum Master
Work Experience:
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida – IT Incident Project Manager June 2022- Present
Coordination of incidents reported by customers and users: - coordination of resolving Driving an incident to resolution.
Documenting key actions and events during the conference call
Sent notification to senior leadership of current status and impact.
Ensure proper escalation procedures are followed and correct support teams are engaged.
Facilitating peer to peer conference calls between resolver teams on non-significant incidents and escalating if impact increases.
Work with all parties and engagement of technical teams, - leading incidents to fast resolution, - owner of the escalation process, - owner of the major incident management process, - managing Emergency incidents with high business impact, - continuous contact with customer's business representatives, end users and 3rd party vendors.
Reporting: - preparing reports related to statistical data for incidents, - post incident review, - quality analysis, - tracking and reporting the life path of ongoing incidents.
Change and Problem management: - work closely with respective change and problem management teams on organization of changes with the focus on high availability and quick maintainability of services, - coordination of change related incidents ensuring the fast restoration, - collaboration with problem managers in order to determine the proper root cause analysis
Symphony AI Digital Manufacturing - Project Manager April 2019- May 2022
Manage project budgets ranging from $185,000-$300,000
Manage project delivery in 9 countries globally
Improve customer relationship by improving satisfaction
Manage project timelines ranging from 2 months – to 3 years
Provide monthly resource forecasting
Manage team members weekly assignments and priorities
Increased billable IT hours by 50% with broader project scope including additional BU coverage
Decreased amount of time to bill customer from 45 hrs. to 20 hrs. a month via process improvements
Oversee customer project implementations
Write blogs for internal Marketing teams, on what it’s like to be a project manager in Savigent
Gather and provide architecture diagrams to Solutions Architect so they can provide a project estimate to client based on complexity of solution design
Manage scope for project SOW and change requests
Thomson Reuters - Content Coordinator September 2018 – March 2019
Review and manage content blogs
Contribute to Lawbuzz Project to gain Facebook Administrative access from clients
Manage and facilitate realignment of workload for content writers
Co-facilitated in development of project metrics for Management
Polaris Industries - Project Assistant - Post Sales November 2016 - September 2018
Manage and schedule on-site inspections for post sales surveillance
Facilitate meetings with Product Group leaders and VPs to deliver weekly reports on trending potential issues identified by Post Sales operations
Provide customer resolution- includes calling consumers, transferring vehicles, replacing unit or providing customers with a credit, and obtaining final documentation
Prepare reports for Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Work with dealers on resolution for safety claims
Administrator for SharePoint site
Co-facilitated in developing the Post Sales surveillance workflow
Implemented manufacturing health checks on units we do on-site investigation for
Polaris Industries – International Project Assistant April 2013 - November 2016
Global travel to India, Brazil, and Switzerland working on multiple new business initiatives to bring Polaris’s products to emerging markets
Project Assistant on first ever international joint venture in India with Eicher Motors/Polaris
Started production and sales of Indian Motorcycle brand in Brazil
Prepared new international program unit cost tracking
Acting Project Leader for Value Improvement Process - central corporate cost reduction team
Review and maintain budget and labor accounts
Obtain quotes from vendors
Develop, listed, and maintained part numbers for new products
SME for Implementation for product Life-cycle management (PLM) system
SME for SAP Implementation
Run and track BOM metric audits
Facilitate purchasing meetings
Project manage change control board meetings
Manage all shipping requests
Assist Managers with budget reports
Drive proto-type parts fabrication for new product design
Polaris Industries – Project Assistant – Power Train June 2012 - April 2013
Prepare documents for new dyno test requirements
Prepare monthly TIR closure meetings
Send out 60-day test plan
Prepare and send out project status slides
Responsible for writing test outcomes/reports
Previous Experience:
Snowmobile Demonstration Tour – Marketing Coordinator December 2010 – March 2012
Polaris Industries - Production Team Leader July 2010 - June 2012
Wells Fargo/RHI - Home Mortgage Loan Processor November 2009 – April 2010
Education:
University of North Dakota - Bachelor of Business Administration
University of St. Thomas – Certified Professional Project Manager
Computer Skills:
WordPress, BPM, Wrike, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Salesforce, TaskRay, Iron Mountain, SAP, AS400, SharePoint, Microsoft Project Management, Teams