TAMIKA POAG
**** ***** **** • Rock Hill, SC ***** • ********@*********.*** • 803-***-****
Energetic and creative Project Management Professional with 15 years of experience in the financial industry with expertise in Information Technology.
TEAM BUILDING ● TRAINING ● PROCESS MANAGEMENT ● HIGH-RISK PROJECTS
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Highly adaptable and resourceful rapidly learns new procedures and processes, quickly adjusts to changes in schedule, environment and organizational objectives.
• Detail-oriented with exceptional multi-tasking abilities, self-motivated and goal-oriented, thrives in independent operations and team dynamics, with effective interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrates professionalism, tenacity, thoroughness and dedication with solid work ethic in executing professional responsibilities.
• Successfully creates collaboration across teams, insightfully responds to tough situations and finds innovative solutions for complex problems.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WELLS FARGO, Charlotte, NC 1998 – Present
American multinational diversified financial services company.
PROJECT COORDINATOR
Enterprise Access Management 2011 – Present
• Increase efficiency and reduce redundancy through directing project activities to determine role based access and provisioning for new and existing employees.
• Determine objectives, initiatives and project requirements for ventures involving the access management group and various other lines of business.
• Manage and update team share point site which supplies centralized location for all project documentation and status for team and leadership.
PROJECT COORDINATOR
Technology Connection 2009 – 2011
• Supported security support services projects implementing access management for over 80,000 personnel in targeted business areas of the organization including high-risk production and workflow initiatives.
• Collaborated with project managers and teams in establishment of successful implementation strategies and plans affecting associates in multiple corporation business categories.
• Directed midsized, inter-departmental ventures while partnering with all necessary cross functional team members.
• Achieved completion of a tool rewriting project to add major enhancements for line of business requirements within 4 months that had been languishing in as-time-permits status for more than a year.
BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST / INFORMATION MANAGER (WACHOVIA CORPORATION)
Vertical Application Support (VAS) Team 2007 – 2009
• Increased efficiency by eliminating redundancy throughout Internal Support Team (IST) and reducing call transfers to VAS through implementing a direct call system.
• Built and maintained effective business partnerships via influence, negotiation and mutual respect while increasing collaboration to include creation of a marketing tool to connect VAS team to potential partners.
• Analyzed, improved and supported procedures and projects on a corporate level for 8 VAS Team Leaders and their technical support staff, including information and project management, marketing of services, and process integration.
• Documented project actions and improved information dissemination by generating internal share point team sites for data sharing and storage.
PROJECT COORDINATOR (WACHOVIA CORPORATION) 2006 – 2007
Vertical Application Support Team
• Improved productivity and excellence through successful execution of a VAS leadership Incentive program giving recognition to project analysts for meeting and exceeding corporate goals which was extended to 6 VAS businesses and Corporate support teams.
• Increased business continuity through management of a collaborative project to create a working process agreement between Wholesale Banks Support (WBS) Tier I and VAS Tier II and implemented in 4 of 6 VAS businesses and corporate support teams.
• Orchestrated project meetings, created supporting documentation, and assisted in new hire training.
WHOLESALE BANK SUPPORT ANALYST II (WACHOVIA/FIRST UNION) 2000 – 2006
PROJECT LIAISON 2002 – 2006
(Dual position)
• Assisted in investigation and resolution of complex issues for 36 internal and desktop applications used by over 8,000 personnel nationwide as well as performing application downloads and installations.
• Administered user profiles, developed new procedures and supported operating platforms, systems operational processes and information needs of business partners.
• Appointed project liaison for RM internal application along with aiding in system migration from First Contact, training 9 systems support analysts in its use, creating a training guide and submitting articles to knowledge database used to resolve common issues.
ADDITIONAL POSITIONS
• Wholesale Support Analyst I
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
MASTER OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
KELLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT Charlotte, NC
CERTIFICATE OF DIPLOMA / COMPUTER TECHNICIAN PROGRAM
ECPI COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY Charlotte, NC
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE / BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia, SC
Dual Major: Organizational Management – Management Information Systems
ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND SKILLS
• PMP Exam Boot Camp (36PDU), Global Knowledge Network.
• Project Management Fundamentals I & II, Wachovia Professional Training.
• Project Planning and Control (24PDU), Project Management Institute, through Wachovia.
• Skilled with Windows Operating systems and proficient in Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office Suite, Norton Antivirus, Symantec Antivirus, Blackberry Desktop Manager, Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio.
• Capable with Active Directory and Novell Servers networking systems.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS / COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
• Project Management Institute (PMI), Member
• Occupational Skills Training Program, Goodwill, Volunteer
• Reading First Program, Wells Fargo, Volunteer