James P. Williams, PMP, ITIL

401 Lighthouse Landing St.  Satellite Beach, FL. 32937

407-361-6195 - Email – jimwilliams44@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Project management professional who is able to harness the talent of project teams and take them to the next level of productivity and output. Self-starter who can ensure that project goals are accomplished according to the highest specifications and business objectives. He is a fast learner who can quickly gain an understanding of new products, technologies and services. He communicates effectively across organizational lines. His projects span cross functional areas, both domestic and international, which requires the discipline to align project teams with the objectives of his projects.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Management ~ Process Engineering ~ Budget Management ~ Cost Management ~ Resource Management
Quality Management ~ Change Management ~ Risk Management ~ Issue Management
Vendor Management ~ Project Schedule Management ~ Managing Cross Functional Teams
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Contract Project Manager/Scheduler November 2014 – Current
GE Transportation, Melbourne, Fl.

 

Leading effort to standardize and consolidate GE Transportation’s Global Codes meta-data in Primavera P6.

·   Perform analysis on usage of Global Project Codes, Global Activity Codes and Global Layout and Filter codes.

·   Develop Excel Pivot Tables to perform global codes analytics.

·   Develop P6 Global Codes Summary report which reflects the results of the analysis and recommendations for standardization, consolidation and catalog coding structure in Primavera P6.

·   Develop process and procedure to perform updates to the global project schedule for domestic and international projects. Worked with PMO, Project Managers, Engineer Project Leads, Schedulers and Planners to accomplish this effort.

Project Manager January 2005 – June 2013
Marriott Vacation Worldwide, Inc.
Orlando, FL.

Managed New Product to Market (NPM) projects and modifications to existing products and applications.

 

·   Managed multiple projects simultaneously ranging from maintenance releases to small and large projects.

·   Managed technical and business resources ranging from 5 to 50 allocated resources per project.

·   Developed project charters and ensured input was obtained from sponsors, stakeholders, product managers and technical leadership. Ensured project charter was vetted and gained approval.

·   Worked extensively with project sponsors, stakeholders and product manages to ensure project requirements and objectives were met.

·   Built and maintained project schedules, utilizing MS Project Server, to include applying actual hours, schedule changes, resource allocation updates and percent complete.

·   Ensured project resource roles were identified, resources obtained, managed and included in the project plan.

·   Negotiated resource conflicts with project managers and functional managers when resource project schedules conflicted with other projects or functional work.

·   Communicated project status to business and stakeholders during monthly status update presentations.

·   Conducted project team meetings to key on resource allocation, status updates, issues and risks.

·   Updated weekly project dashboards and metrics according to timeline developed by PMO.

·   Provided leadership and direction to project team members.

·   Ensured timely conflict resolution and follow up on conflicts.

·   Performed project cost estimating, cost tracking, financial forecast, variance analysis and financial reporting for assigned projects. Managed change order costs against the budget of the project.

·   Managed change control to approved requirements baseline following change management process.

·   Managed project teams consisting of technology engineers, developers, infrastructure, contractors, and business resources. Team make-up was on-site and virtual members.

·   Worked with PMO on strategy alignment, executive management dashboards and portfolio status updates.

·   Worked with Financial Management Office (FMO) to update monthly project financials.

·   Ensured project team adhered to documenting deliverables according to the quality standards.

·   Ensured projects met quality assurance and configuration management guidelines.

·   Ensured software developed followed rigorous testing and verification.

·   Managed along cross functional areas to ensure development, infrastructure, testing and release processes were integrated into projects.

·   Worked with product delivery managers to ensure the smooth transition from development and testing to product release.

·   Managed implementation of projects to include integration of new products with customer and technical Help Desks and Call Centers (Salt Lake City, UT., Tampa Fl. and Orlando, FL.).

Key Accomplishments:

·   Quarterly Maintenance Releases - The releases consisted of approximate thirty (30) small projects per quarter. Releases included web enhancements, small product upgrades, defect maintenance, network and infrastructure upgrades.

·   Microsoft Server 2000 – Managed the implementation of MS Project Server. Worked with Microsoft, PMO and infrastructure support to develop implementation strategy and plans to do the initial setup and configuration.

·   MVW Reservation System - Managed total rewrite of a reservation system integrating off shelf products with legacy applications.

·   American Disabilities Act (ADA) - Managed ADA U.S. Justice Department mandated compliance project to ensure that customers and owners, who made reservations though the corporate systems were presented with the mandated ADA options..

·   Payment Card Industry (PCI) – Managed PCI project to ensure customer and owner credit card information payments were in compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards.

·   Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) – Managed the integration of the Office of Foreign Assets Control watch lists with the company’s existing reservation and financial systems. The watch lists includes the names of terrorists, terrorist organizations, foreign nationals and foreign governments that U.S. businesses are forbidden to do currency exchange.

·   Technology Projects – Managed projects to implement and upgrade, IBM WebSphere, IBM DataPower, Oracle, SQL Server.

·   MS Exchange Separation - Managed MS Exchange Server transition to Cisco Appliance Services Platform.

ManagerJuly 1999 – December 2004
Project Management Center of Excellence
Marriott Vacations Club, Orlando, Fl.

Established and managed Project Management Center of Excellence (PMCOE) Office. The establishment of the PMCOE resulted in consistent management and execution of defined processes to ensure the consistency of managing and tracking projects. 

·                        Established PM core competencies, established standard project management templates and processes based upon industry standards.

·                        Developed processes to support Budget preparation, Cost Estimation, Project Management, Change Management, Quality Management, Risk Management and Problem Management.

·                        Process teams consisted of various levels of functional management, business, and associates.

·                        Established training program to ensure all project managers managed projects within the defined processes and governance models.

·                        Developed project management documents relating to project charter, communication plan, risk management plan, quality plan and change management.

Sr. Project Manager – Contractor    August 1997 – July 1999
Message Quest, Tampa, FL.

Assigned to Publix Supermarket Year 2000 compliance effort.

·                     Managed projects to ensure company’s application and infrastructure systems were Year 2000 compliant. These included desktop applications, servers, financial system, inventory systems and ATM firmware.

·                     Managed transition from IBM OS2 network to Windows NT and IBM mainframe to Unix operating system.

KEY SKILLS
MS Project Server, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, Windows 7, and Adobe PhotoShop.

EDUCATION
MIS - Management Information Systems - Kennedy Western University.
BS - Computer Sciences – Kennedy Western University