Edwina Wright 214-***-****

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Objective

—A leadership position which leverages experience and success bringing technical talent and business objectives together to deliver competitive products and services.

Summary

—Innovative, Analytical, and Customer-Focused with domestic and international experience leading empowered teams and spearheading large-scale, critical, high-pressure technology projects.

—Effective turnaround agent known for integrity, strong leadership skills, and infectious laugh.

—Adept at providing best-in-class service and communication with internal and external customers to support business goals. Well versed in negotiating and building strong relationships with stakeholders.

—Provided solutions in a variety of domains including: Computer Hardware, Software, Cloud computing, Data Storage, Information Security, Consulting, Health Care, Government, Transportation and Logistics, and Telecommunications.

—Experienced with all project management knowledge areas necessary to deliver solutions from initiation through closure. Delivered projects requiring strategic planning, setup and implementation of hardware infrastructure, vendor selection, contract agreements, commercial product development, partnering with third party vendors, offshore development, custom software development and software package installation.

—Developed Portfolio and Project Management Framework defining disciplines, policies, methodologies and templates. Supervised and mentored project managers responsible for delivery of projects in a Project Management Office.

—Excellent consulting, communication, problem solving and client relationship skills. Recognized as an effective and positive team player working with clients, senior management and peers with diverse backgrounds in challenging and difficult settings.

—Success selecting, contracting and managing global vendors and agency partners, including back in services, web services, hardware infrastructure and legacy solutions to deliver revolutionary products.

—Assists teams to thrive in culture of hyper-productive Agile practices and processes using lightweight framework of tools and methods to deliver product value. Recognizes and models value of collaborative habits, flexible planning, and culture of transparency, inspection and adaptation to improve team dynamics, performance and cohesion.

—Superior skills working both independently and cross-functionally to manage and analyze data, identify and mitigate risks, acquire and maintain certifications, establish controls, deliver effective training, prevent data loss, standardize policies and procedures, and analyze and resolve complex risk management issues.

Proficiency with the following: Smartsheets, LucidChart, Visio, Confluence, Jira, Scrum, Agile, Microsoft Office Products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, etc.), Google Workspace (Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar, Hangouts, G Drive, SharePoint, Trello, Box, Confluence, CA Clarity, etc.).

Professional Experience

Manager, PMO – Infrastructure 08/2021-Present

Kubota Tractor Corporation

—Currently as an PMO Manager in Infrastructure, Project Manager in the PMO, providing coaching and support of collaboration within the various teams to ensure higher quality designs and lower total cost of software and hardware assets.

—Work collaboratively with IT teams, stakeholders, business partners, vendors, legal, compliance and other teams to achieve delivery of features and functionality to users

—Partner with internal and external teams to manage vendor contracts and SOW tasks

—Effectively communicate with the Project team, Stakeholders, and Executive Leadership the status of the project and any Issues, Risk, Actions or Decisions pertaining to the project

—Manage multiple projects simultaneously, with diverse groups and geographic location

—Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand stakeholder requirements, align with software developers to manage requirements, team performance and delivery milestones through out the lifecycle of the project.

Senior Project Manager

American Heart Association (Contract) 08/2020–04/2021

—Senior Project Manager at American Heart Association managed team responsible for providing a web services interface to enable internal Partners to access SharePoint. The program successfully provided a new strategic distribution channel with a remarkable payback within weeks of production launch.

—Led the integration of efforts across multiple teams leading Daily Scrum of Scrum, individual stand up meetings and integration Scrums with teams in Arkansas, New York and London.

—Developed and maintained strategic partnerships with stakeholders and peers

—Manage project timelines, deadlines and effectively communicate the status while continuing to build trust.

Senior IT Infrastructure Project Manager 06/2018–07/2020

Signet Jewelers

—Develop performance measures and targets for delivery of the current and future phase of the projects

—Responsible for the execution and delivery of Signet IT Infrastructure projects while assuming full ownership and

oresponsibility for the project and driving continuous improvement, realizing an average of $15,000 savings per project.

—Responsible for ensuring compliance with data policies, performing project risk assessments, resolving project barriers, and deployment planning.

—Communicate project status with executive leadership, including presenting solutions to project barriers, identify emerging opportunities and risks.

—Identifies and mitigates program risks and issues, from project documentation through solutions implemented while maintaining project classifications from red to yellow to green.

—Coordinates multiple teams in different geographic locations across multiple platforms

Senior IT Project Manager – Security Clearance Required 07/2015–04/13/18

IBM (previously Verizon)

—Leveraged Agile and SDLC methodologies to manage full scope of project from inception to delivery, identifying and mitigating risks along the way.

—Worked cross-functionally to identify resources and build teams to support concurrent projects to ensure a solid customer experience.

—Routinely met with project team, stakeholders, and leadership to ensure continuous effective communication and client satisfaction

—Responsible for ensuring compliance with data policies, performing project risk assessments, resolving project barriers, and deployment planning.

—Conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) for vendor data transfers.

—Worked closely with the Stakeholders, Operations, and development teams to make any development or process changes required to complete this transition for all products and services conveyed from Verizon to IBM.

Senior IT Transformation Project Manager 3/2014–07/2015

Novartis

—Managed multiple projects simultaneously in the Latin America region

—Lead team to complete, Server Reduction, Server Virtualization, Data Center Closures and Windows 2003 Server reduction

—Manage Scope, Schedule, Risk Registry, Budget, Status Report and partner with various teams and stakeholders to ensure project success.

—Led the planning and execution of various data center consolidations across the US and LACAN regions.

—Oversee Windows Audit Remediation

—Security Remediation

—Oversight Data Privacy Coordination and Execution oversight

Senior IT Security Project Manager 06/2014–12/2014

Neovia Logistics

—Worked in concert with team members, Information Security personnel and relevant Subject Matter Experts

—Lead team of engineers to process, analyze and drove the remediation of 200K + vulnerabilities for multiple customers to obtain security compliance in the network in both a physical and virtual environment.

—Drove Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM) for all control deficiencies and vulnerability remediations.

Senior Program Manager 01/2007–04/2014

Dell Inc. (previously Perot Systems

—Managed Oracle System 9 Planning Implementation. Selected Oracle BI and planning tool and integration vendor, established contract agreement and established project management controls. Responsibilities included planning and implementation of hardware infrastructure necessary for multiple environments.

—Managed Enterprise Performance Management (EPM/BI) Program and developed EDW Roadmap which defined integrated management and analytic processes supported by technology, addressing financial and operational activities including monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) linked to organizational strategy.

—Utilized CA Clarity tool for program portfolio management, project management, status reports, issue tracking, timekeeping, change control and document repository.

Senior Program Manager, Tenet Healthcare (02/2013–06/2013)

—Lead teams to implement NextGen application throughout Tenet Clinics using the SDLC model to enable the synchronization of patient records.

BOARD MEMBERSHIP & VOLUNTEER WORK

Simply Grace 12/2021-Present

Board Member

Simply Grace exists to provide a safe, structured environment to assist women recovering from substance abuse, help to rebuild their lives and achieve long term recovery.

Resolana, Dallas, TX 2011–2015

Board Member

Served on Board of non-profit organization dedicated to reducing recidivism of incarcerated women. Assisted in all aspects of the organization, including fundraisers, treasury responsibilities, and training delivery.

Toastmasters, Dallas, TX 2013

Member

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