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| Year of birth |  | 1969 |
Current Location/Address |
| City or Town | | Arizona |
| Country | | USA |
Permanent/Home Location/Address |
| Country | | USA |
Languages |
| Primary Language | | Fluency |
| English | | Read, write and speak fluently |
Nationalities |
| Nationality By Birth | | USA |
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Experience Classification |
| Job Function | | Years Experience |
| Project Management | | 15 |
| Consultant | | 10 |
| Server Consultant | | 10 |
| Database Administration | | 10 |
| Data Warehousing | | 10 |
Qualifications |
| Highest Qualifications | | Degree |
| Qualification | Subject | Establishment/Country | Year |
| Degree | Computer Science /Business Management | Columbia Pacific University /USA | 1990 |
| HNC/ONC/Certificate | PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification | USA | 2004 |
Other Qualifications, Memberships, Certification
PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification - 2004 / 2007
The Project Management Certification program is the development, maintenance, evaluation, promotion, and administration of a rigorous, examination-based, professional certification program of the highest caliber. The application of project management principles enables senior executives, project managers, consultants & other specialists in project management
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Computer Skills and Software Used |
Large Packaged Systems: Acton CIS/Service 2000, Indus Passport, Curator, PeopleSoft, EMPAC,
Walker Financials, Energy Softworx, WorldWide Chain Store, IBS,
Operating Systems: UNIX, MVS/CICS, AIX, DOS, OS/390, FreeBSD, Novell, VM/CMS, HP UNIX, Windows 2000, z/OS, IRIX, Windows 2003, Linux, Windows NT.
Project Management tools: MS Project, Primeverra, Prolog, ProjectTalk, Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server.
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Work Locations |
| Are you willing to move or relocate? | Countries NOT Willing To Work In! |
Yes - I will travel internationally
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Availability |
| Start Immediately? | | Available Now |
Employment History |
| Total Years of Work Experience: | | 19 |
| Commenced Full Time Work: | | 1991 |
| Name | | Chanen Construction |
| Job Title: | | Project Manager |
Summary |
PROJECT SKILLS:
10+ years of experience of Project Management / Senior Leadership skills.
Responsible for initiation and implementation of projects
Ability to plan & manage project from beginning to end
Communicate project statues to management and other team
Coordinate project priorities by business priorities’
Facilitate business requirement definitional and functional specifications meeting ensuring that solution meet business requirements.
Run regularly scheduled project statues meeting fro team and upper management
Coordinate effort as liaison between business unite and technical team
Develop and tack project between business unite and technical team
Develop and track project plans and actions items.
Communicate project status, outstanding issues and key change in scope or schedule
Proven technical and leadership skills, with the combined managerial and technical ability to deliver multiple projects concurrently within budget, while maintaining a high degree of quality and customer satisfaction
Strong skills and experience in managing IT technical projects, budgets and people
Leveraged broad business experience, technical knowledge and analytical skills to help organizations achieve their strategic objectives and articulate a vision for the future.
Provided innovative thinking, bringing proactive solutions to difficult situations
Experience in successfully managing small and large, complex software development projects concurrently, thru full Life cycle development. (initiation thru implementation)
Experience with Business Process and Systems Analysis / Requirements gathering and documenting of Business and Technical requirements.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple projects / Top 10 projects.
Hands-on experience using MS Project, Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint
Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
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Work Experience |
Chanen Construction (independent consultant), Chicago, IL / Phoenix, AZ
04/2007 – Present
Data Warehouse - Project Manager
• PM the Design and Implementation of a User Demographics Data Warehouse for the support of End User Services, Customer Management, Service Development and Service Delivery. This data warehouse will dynamically extract the SMS 2.0, User Support dB, Active Directory and LDAP server domain user listings, application deployment data, HR data from PeopleSoft using ACTA into an Oracle based normalized structure available for Business Objects, Crystal Reports and ODBC reporting based on key stakeholders needs
• Manage the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple or large scale projects; Oversee managers working on client engagements within practice;
• Review high-level deliverables across projects; Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with client methodology to ensure profitable and successful execution of consulting engagements as measured by regional goals and customer satisfaction; Minimizes client exposure and risk across multiple projects;
• Manage scope and mitigates risk across projects; Responsibilities: Provide project leadership and management support on the development and implementation of system capabilities across data warehouse, web and production applications.
• Manage project team resources during the project life cycle; Manage deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor and summarize progress of projects. Prepare project plans and other supporting documentation.
• Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of projects; Manage and document project risks and issues, escalating when necessary. Ensure that established project methodology is followed. Manage customer expectations including scope, schedule, changes, problem resolution, and cost. Co-ordinate calls, meeting, and updates with customers and stakeholders as needed during the project life cycle.
• Collaborate with business, technology, and vendor partners as required to facilitate project deliverables. Provide thought leadership in driving toward on-time, high quality project outcomes
Ganette / PNI, (independent consultant) Arizona Republic Phoenix, AZ
07/2006 – 3/2007
Project Manager
• Full life cycle management for multiple projects including application development and production release, network design, communication infrastructure, QA, Change Control. Managed multiple teams, budgets and assigned projects with more than 15-20 resources that included: Team leads, Senior Systems Analysts, QA/ testers, DBA’s, programmers, with a budget of more than $5M.
• PM the Design and Implementation of a User Demographics Data Warehouse for the support of End User Services, Customer Management, Service Development and Service Delivery. This data warehouse will dynamically extract the SMS 2.0, User Support dB, Active Directory and LDAP server domain user listings, application deployment data, HR data from PeopleSoft using ACTA into an Oracle based normalized structure available for Business Objects, Crystal Reports and ODBC reporting based on key stakeholders needs
• Partnered with business sponsors and various I.S. function to create alignment between business and I.S. Interact with stakeholders on a recurring basis
• Develop budget and obtain business sponsorship for key investments
• Partnered with the I.S. leaders and business sponsors to ensure that project requirements are funded, if necessary, in upstream projects
• Managed technical delivery team to source products, solutions, and resources to deliver Circulation, Advertising, Finance and Data warehouse projects Recruited , developed, and retained a Onshore/Offshore team to lead delivery of Circulation, Advertising, Finance and Data warehouse projects
• Provided structured, ongoing communication of project status
American Express (independent consultant) Phoenix,AZ
9/2005 – 6/2006.
Project Manager
• Deliver end-to-end project management for projects supporting the Cobrand Travel Portfolios CCSG card products and OPEN card products for OPTIMA IB. Project teams included up to 40 staff, QA, testers, business analysts, developers with a budget of over $10M.
• Partnered with cross-functional business and technology partners in delivering technology projects that meet or exceed expectations on quality, scope, schedule, milestone, functionality, deliverable and budgetary commitments. Project assignments varied between large, multi-year, multi-million dollar projects and concurrent smaller projects.
• Managed platform delivery teams’ Onshore / Offshore activities on a daily basis; lead development status and issue resolution meetings, document and communicate agendas, actions items. schedules, issues, and risks to broad team of project stakeholders
• Ensured consistent, effective communications of plan status and issues to all stakeholders, providing appropriate escalation when necessary
Currently own the delivery of the project documentation (e.g., Epic, Project Workbench Plan, Project Agreements, Method/1 documentation, and Implementation plans)
Ensured adherence to project management practices and the use of standard American Express project management tools (Method /1, Project Work Bench, EPIC, Mercury Quality Center, etc.).
Conley Publishing Inc. Chicago, IL 12/2002 – 8/2005
Sr. Project Manger / Data Warehouse Project Manager
• Full life cycle management for multiple projects including data warehousing and application development. Team size of 50 comprised of on shore and off shore developers, QA, testers, and business analysts technicians, with a budget of over 12M.
• Responsible for tasking of assignments, planning, staffing, budgets, vendor negotiations, hardware and software evaluating and purchasing.
• Responsible for the quality of Enterprise – wide data to be placed in the Metadata Repository.
• Provided Internet access to users of Data Warehouse, Followed system development / PMI methodology Responsible for data quality of the billing system and all other corporate data entered into the Corporate Metadata Repository.
• Managed upgrades of company’s computer infrastructure using Oracle and Sybase.
Served as liaison between the business community and the IS Organization, both Off-shore (China) as well as On-site in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs
Provided expertise in the business unit(s) I supported (Billing, Ordering, Accounting), as well as an understanding of the IS organization's systems and capabilities.
• Analyzed business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
• Assisted in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology.
• Translated high-level business requirements into functional specifications for the IS Organization and managed changes to such specifications.
ZINC Consulting 10/1998 – 10/2002
King Faisal Hospital/Research Center (KFH&RC) Ryahd, Saudia Arabia
Sr. Project Manager
• Managed multiple budgets, schedules and assigned projects with more than 50-75 resources and a budget of more than $12M.
Managed Software development departments Onsite (Saudi Arabia) and Off-Shore (India); (staff of 100: analysts, programmers, DBA’s, testers. Managed multiple projects concurrently (between 2-15), to include software processes, policies, procedures, and quality improvement depending on phase of lifecycle. Utilized QA standards, cost, scheduling, and risk management.
• QA/CM standards, Responsible for the overall planning, staffing, management and leadership of a software development product team through the full software development life cycle for KFH&RC.
• Information Management Migration, Conversion and Support projects for the ORACLE software
• Developed and updated project plans, schedules, monitored budgets and task orders
• Managed day-to-day activities of staff, quality assurance, and maintenance of software development processes
Managed / supported in-house and OIS testing/evaluation and acceptance processes. Conducted technical software product evaluation
• Managed all aspects of the assigned project’s requirements and deliverables and budgets including allocating and managing personnel
Park Nicollet Medical Center 5/1991 – 8/1998
Project Manager / Data Administration
Developed and delivered numerous courses for various organizations on topics such as: Project Management,
• Information Systems Analysis and Design, Systems Development Life Cycle, Data and Process Modeling, Developing Use Cases for Training and Testing, Requirements Gathering and Documentation,
• Teamwork and Team Management, Communication and Presentation Skills, Data Warehousing, Information Management, Data Stewardship
• Developed case studies to be used in consulting and training engagements across varied topics, with teaching Notes and instructor resources.
• Performed business process assessments using the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and other process improvement frameworks for information systems and business functions in organizations of varying sizes and across industries. Led the development of information systems methodologies based on the CMM
• Led efforts to re-engineer business processes for numerous functional areas
Implemented an enterprise-wide Repository Management system by conducting a thorough
• investigation and test of products available, developing a test script
Hill Construction, Sioux Falls, SD - 05/1987 – 01/1991,
Project Coordinator
• Work with multiple project managers on a variety of projects in a junior project management role
• Interfaces with management, subcontractors, vendors and suppliers to obtain information and data.
• Submitting contracts, changing orders, and creating correspondence from field to office. Additional duties will consist of copying plans and tracking them.
• Prepares correspondence/ prepares general correspondence/ makes appropriate distribution.
• Prepares and maintains master contract and files for all projects.
• Prepares, reviews, and forwards purchase orders, subcontracts and change orders for projects from information provided by construction manager and field personnel to full execution.
• Updates and distributes job write-ups and addenda to owner and CM
• Processes contracts and change orders received from GC/Owner/Client.
• Files all contract information, RFI’s and Change Order.
• Records & updates Access weekly various reports.
• Manages the construction trailer to ensure effective telephone and mail communications General responsibilities include providing general administrative support, communicating with departments
• Participates, as needed, in special assignments.
• Prepare contracts and negotiate revisions, changes and additions to contractual agreements with architects, consultants, clients, suppliers and subcontractors.
• Requisition supplies and materials to complete construction projects.
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