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EXPERIENCE:

5/2015 - Present

Industry: Food and Beverage Production

Senior Project Coordinator

Coordinate and influence activities and resources in support of a high visibility, large-scale project to upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.2. Maintain project plan and assure completion of project tasks. Assist in coordinating the user testing phases by facilitating daily defect meetings. Generate project status reports.

7/2014 - 11/2014

Industry: Financial Services

Technical Project Coordinator

Supported project managers in directing work efforts of project team on a $1.5 million development project.Created and maintained multiple project plans in Microsoft Project. Worked directly with business and technical team members to create project schedules and assure project milestones were met in a timely manner. Created financial variance reports comparing forecast information to actuals. Maintained action items, issues, risks and decisions log. Scheduled project meetings, took and distributed minutes, and facilitated meetings as requested. Audited and maintained project deliverables in SharePoint, Planview, and PMUWS.

6/2013 - 5/2014

Industry: Financial Services

Senior Project Coordinator

Supported project managers in directing work efforts of project teams on multi-million dollar projects. Assisted in resource planning, tracking, budgets, and financial reporting using Microsoft Project and Clarity. Worked with business and technical team members to create project schedules and assure project milestones were met. Maintained the actions items, issues, risks, and decision logs. Responsible for assuring that the audit of the project would be successful. Maintained project documents in the SharePoint repository.Managed the project change request process. Chaired the project change control meeting. Scheduled project meetings, took minutes, and facilitated meetings as requested.

8/2012 - 6/2013

Industry: Financial Services

Project Analyst

Coordinated the information security assessment process for a portfolio of Target vendors. Worked with account managers and vendors to create risk-based assessments. Partnered with security consultants to remediate findings. Used Archer vendor management system to track progress of vendor assessments.

10/2011 - 8/2012

Industry: Financial Services

Project Coordinator

Developed a vendor management program for the vendor compliance area. Gathered requirements and wrote procedures to support the program. Worked with account managers to pilot the program. Developed and taught formal classroom training to the vendor compliance team.

1/2011 - 8/2011

Industry: Retail

Project Coordinator

Created projects and maintained project information on Clarity/Niku Workbench. Generated variance reports and worked with project managers to rectify variances in effort and schedule.

12/2009 - 1/2011

Industry: Financial Services

Project Coordinator

Maintained and tracked a $15 million forecasting budget for a large scale reorganization and merger project. Coordinated receipt and entry of forecasting information for 100+ cost centers and 1000 resources. Generated forecast variance reports from Excel and worked with resource managers to rectify variances. Maintained project deliverables in SharePoint. Assisted in SOX audit of project documentation.

5/2008 - 1/2009

Industry: Financial Services

Project Coordinator

Implemented a vendor compliance project. Worked with account managers to assure that their vendors followed the compliance lifecycle. Remediated findings and escalated to senior management as necessary. Developed and wrote procedures for the program. Developed project tracking reports from Excel to communicate project progress to senior management.

3/2007 - 7/2007

Industry: Financial Services

Project Coordinator

Supported project managers in an Agile Development environment to develop a client/server application for capturing home mortgage information. Maintained project plans and produced project reports. Facilitated daily project team meetings. Acted as scrummaster as requested. Created Powerpoint presentations. Created and distributed meeting minutes.

7/2006 - 10/2006

Industry: Manufacturing - Other

Project Coordinator

Acted as a project coordinator for $2.5 million global manufacturing reorganization project. Managed 9 interrelated Microsoft project plans. Traveled to factories and worked directly with end users to develop the project plan. Developed project reports to track project progress using customizing features of Microsoft Project. Acted as PMO resource for Microsoft Project.

7/2001 - 5/2003

Industry: Insurance

Project Manager

Led project to create a web-based application for HIPAA privacy regulations. Trained analytic staff on HIPAA regulations. Managed a group of business analysts and programmers in health care analytics department.

6/1996 - 6/2001

Industry: Healthcare Services

Manager/Senior Systems Analyst

Managed programming staff in a pharmaceutical benefits management company. Developed and taught project management methodology to staff. Developed project tracking system for department. Worked directly with physicians, pharmacists, sales and marketing, care management staff, research analysts, and senior management to design health care reports, systems, and databases.

6/1995 - 6/1996

Industry: Healthcare Services

Data Analyst/Programmer

Perform analysis and SAS programming for the utilization reporting department.

7/1992 - 6/1995

Industry: Healthcare Services

Data Analyst/Programmer

Performed analysis and SAS programming for the health care policy and evaluation department. Performed business analysis of information needs of department. Implemented quality assurance procedures.

EDUCATION:

11/2003 - 1/2006

Master's Degree

Master's in Human Development with a specialty in Life Coaching

9/1970 - 12/1976

Bachelor's Degree

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