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Highly motivated, well organized project manager offering a proven history of success supervising, planning, and managing one or more multifaceted IT projects with multiple deliverables, complex dependencies and multi-million dollar budgets.

Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects. Experience in multi-disciplinary environment such as Telecom, Banking, Healthcare and Aerospace.

 

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Professional Experience

AT&T Dallas TXOctober 2014 - Present

Project Manager

Manage and assume full responsibility for the lifecycle of assigned projects of medium to very high complexity from initiation to completion for IT Retail application projects. Projects are across multiple regions, functions, and business units throughout the Retail IT software development lifecycles including project scope, schedule, quality, and change utilizing the Technology Development Unified Process (TDUP).

 

·   Responsible for all aspects of assigned project for or within the Mobility organization delivering the project within the identified timeframe and at or below budget. 

·   • Responsible for all aspects of assigned project/projects for or within the Network organization delivering the project within the identified timeframe and at or below budget. 

·   Single Point of contact on end to end management of assigned (large,/multiple) project.

·   Clarified and developed project scope, detailed work plans, schedules, objectives, estimates coordinated activities of the project team, identifying resources and implementation strategy. 

·   Performed analysis of business and functional requirements for ITInfrastructure and software deployment project. 

·   Conducted project status meetings, project reporting, and responsible for project tracking and analysis, including project interdependencies. 

·   Collaborated across multiple functions to ensure adherences to quality standards, internal processes, and reviews project deliverables to drive to required project results. 

·   Identified, recommended and took action to drive the analysis, solutions resolution to all issues/roadblocks in a timely fashion. 

·   Provided overall direction and technical or analytical guidance to project and program teams that typically span multiple organizations, markets and outside suppliers/vendors. 

·   Provided technical and analytical guidance to project team. 

·   Recommended and takes action to direct the analysis and solutions of problems. 

·   Responsible for communication with stakeholders, internal clients, vendors and executive leadership. 

·   Experience with Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies in PMO environment

 

JDCQ Solutions, Addison, TXApril 2014 – October 2014

Project Manager

Agile Project Manager responsible for a Hospice program to allow their billing department to process the data to Medicaid electronically. This project consist of developing front end which will allow the end users such as nurses, supervisors and billing department to enter the customer data using tablets or computer. This project will check the validity of all the data entered from the care rep to billing department to make sure all the necessary fields completed and move to the next and the data’s are required by Medicaid. Project was developed using latest technologies such as Java, JEE, JSP and relational database. Managed this project using scrum methodologies and used JIRA to assign task and to track the movement.

 

Key Accomplishments:

·   Lead a team of 10 to 12 to achieve a common goal under budget and on time

·   Develop, analyze and execute project budget; working closely with the assigned budget area(s) to monitor and explain variations from the budget, pressures that may lead to variations, or opportunities for savings/increased revenue throughout the year

·   Assigning task and monitoring progress and developing burn down charts to report.

·   Apply effective project management methodologies and control techniques.

·   Conduction daily meeting for status report and technical resolutions.

·   Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking metrics and project outputs.

·   Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an effective transition into production.

·   Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or projects.

 

Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas, TXOctober 2013 – April 2014

Project Manager Consultant

Managing an Agile scrum project that will allow the bank employees to reimburse their business expense through a web application.  This JavaScript, Cobol and ERP combined project was designed as a six month project and was able to complete on time. Front end was designed using JavaScript, HTML, SQL and JQuery. The back end of the system was using COBOL to connect to Lawson ERP systems.

Key Accomplishments:

·   Consider, prioritize and balance the competing needs of diverse stakeholders

·   Managing client expectations by ensuring the delivery of the highest quality service

·   Participated in cross functional interview sessions to gather information from functional managers and their staff on business processes and opportunities for improvement.

·   Liaison to business and top management and provide Project Status report for upper management and business management

·   Lead daily status meetings with the team to monitor progress

·   Conducting detailed analyses and projections, estimating current and future year costs under various scenarios

·   Prepare budget estimates and financial plans, managing deployment in future periods

·   Manage matrixed resources and related relationships within each functional area.

·   Run weekly resource meeting, review resourcing forecast spreadsheets and facilitate resourcing issues / conflict resolution with Production Team and appropriate department heads.

·   Create and maintain risk log and participate in internal audit review

·   Reviewed and Iidentified issues that impact project cost, scope, schedule and facilitate resolution and mitigation plans.

·   Coach, mentor and motivate junior level PMs and leads.

 

BELL HELICOPTER, Hurst, TX    April 2011 - October 2013

BSM Project Management Consultant

Delivered detailed, integrated project plan covering business and implementation activities for a Business System Modernization program, the largest IT conversion effort in Bell history. The project plan was a milestone-driven division of gate execution whereby pre-cycle data capture is followed by test and production cycle builds, systems conversion, Data migration, testing, conversion data validation, business user signoffs, Pre-Cutover and Production Cutover task execution and, ultimately, the retirement/sunsetting of the affected legacy mainframe applications

 

Key Accomplishments:

·   Managed day-to-day operational aspects of project and scope. Reviewed and Identified issues that impact project cost, scope, schedule and facilitate resolution and mitigation plans.

·   Work with cross functional Team Members to develop detailed project schedules and milestones based on business objectives, budget, scope, timeline, and risks

·   Maintain projects and project files in MS Project, Project Server, and SharePoint

·   Ensured stakeholders, management and program managers are fully informed of project risks, team activities and project status.

·   Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities and documented all the necessary processes and procedures required for the go-live
 

GE AVIATION, Grand Rapids, MI      Mar 2003 - Mar 2011

Business Analyst/Project Manager (2006-2011)

Defined, documented and communicated functional and business requirements. Performed business process analysis and prepared business process models. Collected required user data and coordinated with ERP (Enterprise resource planning) implementation team. Involved in business requirement reviews, compilation of business process flows, and service level agreements. Performed gap analysis between goals and existing processes and systems, and designing system and process improvements to increase efficiency and deliver business benefis. Identified and proposed business process and system enhancements. Defined milestone deliverables. Facilitated issue resolution during testing process and established critical success factors. Conducted weekly team meetings and prepared weekly status reports.

 

Key Accomplishments:

·   Liaised with functional and business owner during risk screening and high – level review sessions to derive and execute action plans and meeting deadlines

·   Drives and supports knowledge transfer of functional processes/systems and best practice within the team

·   Managed teams across technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

 

Lead Software Engineer (2004-2006)

·               Work with Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) project Systems and Software team to develop software and process that will increase efficiency and accuracy of software test and implementation of requirements for Hamilton Sundstrand Rockford Illinois. This process includes:

·               Develop Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP) testing software using C#. This software allows the user to automate the test developed using Test Stand.

·               Write test applications using Test Stand to test units developed by customer.

·               Develop scripts that will help software developers to collect the requirements in formats customer request.

·               Software design for communication using CAN protocols and ARINC 469

 

·               Lead multi-disciplinary project team including coaching and technical direction to meet Problem Report Verification (PR Verification) that complies with DO-178B Level A and B software. Provide regular updates to project Manager and Deliver professional, high quality results to customers. Provide periodic reports of staffing, workflow and other key performance metrics that validate the evolving, documented business operations Analyzes reports to ensure business operations are efficient and cost effective.

Engineering Responsibilities include:

·               Performed Formal Testing and Dry run Requirement Based Testing (RBT) for

            Boeing 787   software and Airbus A-400 software.

·               Develop RBT test software using C. Based on Test Procedure provided by customer, develop test software that satisfy requirements.

·               Verify software according to DO178B standard. This involve verifying all the code modifications are completed according to FAA standards and making sure all forms and checklists are completed for certification.

·               Managing documents in DOORS. Generating links from higher level requirements to lower level requirements and lower level to higher level requirements

 

Software Engineer (2003-2004)

·               Spearhead the development of web service using JSP and JDBC that will allows engineers to perform unit testing of their UUT online through company’s Intranet. This service facilitate a login for the dedicated employee to login to the web and select one of the UUT and enter the desired value and see the UUT will pass the low level Unit Test. Responsibilities include:

·               Responsible for gathering business and functional requirements from the users

·               Involved in front end development utilizing JavaScript, HTML and CSS3

·               Utilized Struts Validator framework to validate the form data.

·               Used Hibernate as persistence framework for updating the database tables with execution ids

 

MOTOROLA , INC.– Fort Worth, Texas                                                                                                   Feb 2000 - Nov 2002

Software Engineer                                                                                                                             

·                 Produced and tested Shared Data Services (SDS) in C for UNIX operating system for Motorola brand Set top Boxes to replace existing database and data transferring mechanism improving data access time by 50% and data transfer time by 70%.

·                 Generated a C template for payload applications to use with Fault Management (FM) software and reduced developmental time by 90%.

·                 Spearheaded and managed GoAhead Relational Database to store Base station thresholds.

·                 Implemented test application using C language to validate release software that reduced test cycle time by 50%.

·                 By coaching different groups to use DOORS software, saved documentation time by 50%.

·                 Researched and developed requirements document for Shared Performance Management.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering

University of Texas at Arlington – Arlington, Texas 1999

 

Currently working on PMP certification

Critical Software Development

Michigan Tech University – Houghton MI -2009

 

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