KATRINA L. FOREMAN, PMP

 

(214) 356-3812 | kforeman00@gmail.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrinaforeman

 

IT Project Manager with progressive project management experience, including managing up to 21 team members and up to six software projects concurrently in a fast paced, dynamic environments. Demonstrated ability to produce significant cost savings and improve project efficiency through strategic and innovative solutions.

 

▪ Schedule Management ▪ Cross-Functional Collaboration▪ HR Management

▪ Quality Management▪ Stakeholder Management▪ Process Changes

▪ Communication Management▪ Product Support▪ SDLC

▪ Release Management▪ Cost Reduction Strategies▪ Product Delivery

▪ Change Management▪ Budget assessments▪ Training

▪ Documentation

 

 

Verizon, Richardson, TX                                                                                                               

Project Manager / Lead Quality Assurance, 2010 - 2015

Managed the Project Management and led the Quality Assurance team for custom coded, highly integrated software systems that provided data transference and / or web-based ordering, provisioning, reporting and billing services to internal and external facing customers.

 

·               Absorbed Project Manager role of up to six projects per release cycle using waterfall and agile methodologies to provide validation of deliverables, progress reports and status of resolutions to stakeholders; monitoring and adjusting budget, resource allocations and schedules throughout the project life cycle. This kept the projects on track, eased partner frustrations and successfully delivered per schedule.

 

·               Reviewed scope and budgets of projects for packaging for up to 20 projects yearly. Reduced feature creation expense by 10% by convincing sponsors to rethink nonconforming to business strategic direction.  Ensured delivered projects were meeting the sponsor’s business objective and stakeholder’s requirements to deliver revenue generating features.

 

·               Persuasive in gaining and maintaining cross-functionality collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to ensure staffing, appropriate materials, completed deliverables, systems access and training is available and obtained to complete project per schedule.

 

·               Evaluated and provided change management signoff of change requests for business relevance, technical integrating and capability to deliver while maintaining commitments to current and future release dates.

 

·               Conducted meetings for review of requirements, design documents, test suites, method of procedures, defect analysis, review and resolution resulting in full agreement of all stakeholders.

 

·                                                                                                                                                                   Provided to management the project effort estimates based on input from key contributors; risk assessments and dependencies analysis for up to 10 feature initiatives per release.
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·               Administered planning, scheduling, acquisition, reallocation, training and mentoring of up to 21 multinational engineers creating a cohesive team that contributed to reducing regression suite execution costs by 33% and reducing production defect leakage to less than 8%.

 

·               Coordinated and communicated the migration of HP ALM from centralized environment to localized environment; result was reduction of administrative work by one week per release cycle.

 

·               Liaison and primary service provider in acquiring, loading and configuring multiple layers of applications on remote desktops for access by offshore staff, working through firewall concerns, open service requests for hardware, network and security purposes, tracking and balancing resource access to remote desktops and managing user access privileges and profiles.

 

Verizon, Richardson, TX

Quality Assurance Tester / IT Project Management Specialist, 1998 - 2010

Senior tester providing mentoring, leadership, strategic QA release planning and advanced testing solutions from feature inception to production release.  Included complex web-based software platforms that integrated with multiple partner platforms within five test environments.

 

·               Led 21 system engineers from India, Mexico, Argentina and USA through team restructuring, work redesign and process improvement effort that resulted in improved quality and efficiencies within Quality Assurance group and improved group morale.

 

·               Enlisted SMEs and gathered technical data flow from multiple platforms to create process that reduced E2E environment set-up time by one week per release cycle and solidifying an understanding across multiple groups the overall environment structure for each release.

 

·               Eliminated 1.5 weeks of platform outages impacting E2E and UAT schedules by establishing process for integrated test bed set-up and clarity of maintenance of the test bed for each release cycle.

 

·               Within waterfall methodology, developed and implemented process reducing test suite preparation time by two days per release cycle by streamlining preparation tasks and linking preparation tasks with execution efforts and quality control/monitoring.

 

·               Collaborated with facilities and multiple IT departments on various infrastructure efforts to deliver hardware set-ups and maintenance within data centers and raised platform labs as well as disaster recovery planning for customer facing applications on servers housed within multiple data centers.

 

·               Acted as manager of the Quality Assurance team.

 

 

BBA, Personnel and Human Resource Management, Texas A&M University

Project Management Professional

PMI Dallas Chapter

 

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Software:               MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, Lotus Sametime, MS Communicator, QC Explorer 10, Google Chrome, MS Outlook, Access, VoIP, Sharepoint, Soap UI, iPlanet web server, Adobe, Jrun4, IE 11, Java

 

Format:                            XML, HTML, Web services

 

Tools:              HP Application Lifecycle Management, Rally, F-Secure SSH Client, Hummingbird, PuTTY, TeraTerm, Secure CRT, AQT, Toad, SQL developer, SQL Server Management Studio

 

Operating Systems:              MS Windows 7, UNIX/Linux/Solaris

 

Test Methodologies:              Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Unit, E2E, Black box, White box, Regression, Automated