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Karen Granger 

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Karenyg16@hotmail.com
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RESUME

  

Resume Headline: Karen Granger - Service Delivery Manager

Resume Value: nyws9tiaaua66wwz   

  

 


EDUCATION:

M.P.A. University of North Texas

B.S. University of Arkansas at Little Rock

 

CERTIFICATIONS:

PMI-PMP Certified

CMS – Certified Scrum Master

SOX Certified – Sarbanes-Oxley

20 hours Six Sigma training

Certified Bronze FPM

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TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Operation Software - Windows MS Project, AS400, UNIX, Wintel, SQL, Nexus, Maximo, PPRT,  IVR, CTI, ACD, Geo Tel, Aspect , Office Suite MS Exchange, Outlook, Notes Lotus Notes ~ for Windows, SQL, CICS, Viper, ECMS, C++, Clarity, Service Center, CA7, TSO, PCM, Nexus, Websphere, Tomcat, JBoss, .Net, OSI, ,Net, CARS, JCaps, Database Hosting

 

TESTING TOOLS: Mercury Interactive -Win-Runner, Test Director, Rational Team Test, Quality Center, SQL

 

MANAGEMENT TOOLS:

 

Incremental SDLC,  Six Sigma Lean BPO –analysis, HLD, LLD, Specs, Caliber, ITIL, Sizing Tool, Testing, Visio, Fishbone,  SOX 302, 404, COSO, Cobit, SEI-Capability Maturity Model (up to level 3)., Kaizen, DMAIC, Rational Unified Process  (RUP), (ISO) International Standards, ABS Benchmark WBS

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 

 

Present

·   I have been a care giver for terminally ill parent recently deceased

·   Volunteered with homeless and North Texas Food Bank

 

June 2012 to Dec 2013    BANK OF AMERICA HOME LOAN/SERVICING Service Delivery Manager (contractor)

·   Moved Line of Business Managed projects into secure data centers to mitigate risk findings.

·   Developed risk mitigation plans to automate process and systems integrations for new technology.

·   Provided leadership and initiated strategic/tactical direction and planning of client/business process improvement in the development of IT environments.

·   Communicated with key stakeholders and worked with distributed teams at all level to provide executive status, dashboards and track projects for a timely project delivery.

·   Successfully drove complex projects end to end including the direction of the team, management of personnel and development of the strategy to deliver technology to the business owners.

·   Followed ITIL processes to support business process manage risk and enable change for the customers

·   Responsible for decisions and directing the team impacting the outcome of the project

·   Worked with internal technology groups i.e. CIS, I Series, CIAS, ODS, Architecture, QA, Stability testing, Performance testing, billing external vendors i.e. Equator, Cognos, PEGA for successful delivery of IT initiatives

·   Delivered project estimates for governance review to determine project viability and funding.

·   Developed strategies to turn business process into IT applications for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Conventional, Home Savers, HELOC. REO, SS/DIL, FHA, VA, HAMP, Non HAMP foreclosures loans.

·   Single point of contact and the escalation point between the client/business area and internal IT management for the resolution of problems, complaints and complex service requests.

 

 

 

 

October 2011 to April 2012 Ally Bank GMAC Finance Sr. Project Manager (contractor)

·   Senior Project Manager $40 million data center optimization (migration) project.  Leading application, middleware, database, and hosting teams to move third party vendor servers and applications into on site data centers.

·   Used project management tools i.e. sizing tool (determines project risk, size, types of resource allocation etc., Caliber tool to develop project documents i.e. BRD and technical documents.

·   Facilitated decommissioning of old infrastructure, new systems Integration and cloud storage.

·   Worked closely with Program Manager to ensure that all project managers were in step with multiple simultaneous projects and ensure proper resource, hardware allocation while closely following the overall project plan.

 

November 2010 to August 2011BAC Card Technology Strategies Service Delivery Manager (contactor)

·   Service Delivery and Change Manger for Customer facing e commerce technology projects i.e. Rewards Expirations, Virtual Wallet and IDM statements project; projects utilized systems including the BACARDI, The W and AT&T cloud based file transfers.

·   Used Six Sigma end to end Project Management using Bank of America Systems and tools i.e. Changescape, Discovery, PCM, Clarity, Nexus, Quality Center, Maximo etc.  Used the standard Bank of America reports i.e. consolidate report, Adherence Report, Burn Rate, Placement, Four Blocker, Red/Yellow report, On Time Report, Four blocker, Express Project Document, Placement, etc.   Performed Monthly Forecast according to the Clarity month.

·   Project documentation:   Project Charter, New Project Request, Complexity Index, BRD, LLD/HLD,  VOC/VOA, Communications Plan, RACI,FMEA, Configuration Plan, Implementation Plan, deployment plan, contingency plan change request, control plans, go to green plan, tollgates, baselines, Change request  etc.

 

May 2010 – November 2010  Capital One Mortgage Services Senior Project Manager (contractor)

·   Managed Infrastructure projects using Agile methodology.

·   Delivered internal customer facing e commerce infrastructure upgrade projects.

·   Led team to upgrade the Capital One Mortgage infrastructure, communicated with business project sponsors, technical and PMO project teams. 

·   Utilized agile methodology for project documentation and project delivery.

·   Facilitated team meetings, reported status and met with project stakeholders and executive management.

·   Developed project plans, allocated project resources (using a work breakdown structure that categorizes tasks appropriately for use in capitalization), tracked project progress, and communicated project status, risks and issues

·   Delivered project at 1/3 of budget with on time delivery.

 

June 2008 – February 2010  BANK OF AMERICA HOME LOANS DIVISION Senior Project Manager (contractor)

·  Managed project scope, objectives, deliverables and accountable for functional and technical documents and agreement/sign off between business and technology groups  Develop detailed project plans, establishes milestones, and defines resource requirements

·  Delivered projects implementing Data Center Infrastructure Mortgage systems, Enterprise Servers (UNIX, Wintel, Linux)

·  Provided IT operations for Release Management, Change Management, Configuration Management and Problem Management for BOA infrastructure projects

·  Led status meetings, identifies project risk and mitigation strategies, and communicates status and risk issues to stakeholders

·  Deliver Development, Load Test, Quality Assurance,  UAT, Sandbox, Training, Staging, Integration,  Production, Disaster Recovery environments for Documentum and Captiva software

·  Performed project assessment, critical path, dependencies and impact analysis and presents escalated issues and recommendations to executive management

 

August 2006 - May 2008TXU Enterprise Project Manager (contractor)  

·  Led Enterprise wide team from multiple Lines of Business though ROM, Analysis, Specs, LLD, SOW testing, Implementation and Warranty for successful on time on budget project completion

·  Led collaboration of IT functional and business executives and managers to gain and provide project status,  kept the project stakeholders apprised of all project issues and risk and the mitigations of the solution

·  Facilitated definition and conflict resolution to lead cross functional team solutions taking into consideration each LOB’s concerns (LOB – lines of business i.e. consumer, small business, large business (corporations)

·  Reported status at  companywide executive team meetings  i.e. actual cost, earned value and estimate at completion

·  Identified and managed risk by assessing, and developing mitigation plans for events that could impact the success of the project which resulted in customer savings of 1.5 million annual

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 2006 - August 2006MBNA/Bank of America   Technical Project Manager (contractor)

·   Managed projects and resources i.e. development and implementation teams at all levels for CARA (Customer Account Relations Activities) group. Project Manager in process driven highly structured financial environment

·   Resource manager for development team leading project budget forecasting, resource allocation, time tracking 

·   Implementation Manager developed for the execution of CARA group events in companywide implementation

·   Led development participation in Mock (stress testing) SOE, FSTRUC, all testing stages dress rehearsal

·   Managed development defect team utilizing Quality Center and production incidents

·   Led and motivate team members to develop strong working team advised in career development

 

September 2003 – August 2005 VERizon Program Manager  IT Program Manager (contractor)

·   Led development for a team of 50+ members to build FTTP ordering resolved business problems and conflict with multi ethnic teams across the enterprise teams i.e. COFFEE, VOL etc.  Collaborated with other manager from six Business Units to assist in determining  technical specifications

·   Ensured high quality and cost effective project management, to project teams and provided analytic support services and technical expertise for FTTP team.

·   Managed Ordering Services process end to end software development and the completion of all related system development for customizations and enhancements as specified in BRD and design documentation i.e. video, features enhancements and backend customer data updates.   Managed team member to ensured project milestones were met for both Business and Data Services.   Facilitated design, development and implementation of software functionality

·   Led the timely completion of project milestones with daily status to track progress from Business Services and Data Services to Verizon executives using Waterfall and Agile project methodologies

·   Directed the coordination of monthly releases of new Ordering System Software.  Conducted and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses of complex and diverse scope and cost 

 

December 2001 – August 2003 Verizon Technical Manager – Business Program Manager (contractor) 

·                  Accountable for meeting committed project goals, revenue, ensured compliance of FCC rules regulatory requirements to avoid fines, business objectives and deadlines

·   Led on shore and off shore international teams to develop functional and technical applications requirements for the development of the automation of the CA Lifeline project.  Reduced implementation timeline of over 700,000 users from 9 months to 6-months.

·   Responsible for the daily project activities and process i.e. developing project plan, action items log and developing project strategies to follow critical path. Ensured project alignment with business unit objectives and customer needs.

·   Direct project manager for central office personnel to ensure a timely facilitates build of over 40 central offices in VA, PA and NY 

·   Proactively created & maintained relationships and resolved conflict with key stakeholders including executives and project team member at all levels in the organization across multiple business units

·   Led the marketing team in the MCI competitive response to stop loss and increased revenue by >2 million. Project was nominated for the Verizon Excellence award

 

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Karen Y Granger

MPA, PMP, CSM, CSOX

Karenyg16@hotmail.com

214-544-6688

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

 

Over 12 years of IT Project Management experience.  Led the planning and development of complex projects and business solutions from 250k to 20 million. Project deadlines span 3 weeks to multiple years with teams up to 85+ across all levels of management, regions and continents. Accountable for successful project documentation and delivery including budget, resource management and delivery.  Responsible for providing vision, direction and mentoring for managers and team members at all levels. Internal and external customer focused. Excels at leading and participating on teams to find solutions to resolve strategic corporate technology issues, focusing on customer facing application and infrastructure in the mortgage and credit card space.  Thrives in a changing environment with individuals and organizations managing change and identifying risk and compliance

 

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Experience

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Service Delivery Manager

Bank of America

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Years of relevant work experience:

7+ to 10 Years

Date of Availability:

Immediately

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

US citizen

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Service Delivery Manager

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         IT Project Management

Project/Program Management

·         Program Management

·         Project Management

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-TX-Dallas

Relocate:

No

Willingness to travel:

Up to 25% travel