Michael Brooks Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Experienced Event and Project Manager with a strong track record in coordinating and executing high-impact events, including kickoffs, conferences, panel discussions and quarterly all-hands meetings. Skilled in managing all aspects of event planning from initial concept to final execution. Known for exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to thrive in fast-paced environments. Passionate about creating memorable experiences that align with organizational goals.

Milpitas, California, Us

Milpitas, California, Us

Major Accomplishments Summary:• TPM: Managed Enterprise to workgroup-sized projects impacting and requiring tight collaboration with business partners in HR, Legal, Marketing, Security, Facilities, Engineering and Finance. Projects resulted in significant cost savings, process alignment and efficiencies, data standardizations and uplifting technology platforms. • Innovation, Communications and Collaboration, UCC: Successfully managed the consolidation and implementation of standardized communications and collaboration technologies (Office 365 and Teams) realizing high cost savings, technology stability and strong employee engagement. Created and facilitated change management efforts across the enterprise and driving innovation resulting in high adoption rates. Continually worked to implement and advertise tools aimed at increasing employee productivity. Solution provided a swift work from home transition due to Covid-19. • PMO Redesign: Lead team member responsible for the redesign of ailing PMO processes. Focused on the alignment of standard processes and reporting across various methodologies. Coordinated with Enterprise COE to algin processes and terminology. • Facility Moves and IT Improvements: Provided IT project management and coordination for site moves of offices of all sizes throughout the U.S. Worked cross-functionally to ensure all IT business solutions were addressed accordingly. Efforts included revamping AV conferencing technologies globally achieving a goal of improving meeting productivity and flexibility.Please see resume for detailed accomplishments

San Jose, Ca, Us

· IT Applications Program and Project Manager for Legal eDiscovery Group. Coordinated the efforts to replicate and stand up four active systems as part of the eBay / PayPal company separation. Collaborated with PMO, infrastructure, networking, network security, release management, compliance and business units to ensure applications for both companies were ready for legal and operational day one.

San Francisco, California, Us

· IT Applications Program and Project Manager for delivery of an enterprise rollout of Office365 and SharePoint (cloud version). Led the IT support, network and Windows teams through multiple beta release cycles to ensure tenant stability. Collaborated with Microsoft on issues we identified in the tenant which were later determined to be bugs affecting all farms. Coordinated testing, communications, support readiness, business readiness, rollout strategy and training. Successfully rolled out the platform to 3000+ users. · Planned and facilitated content migration strategy which looked at how to best clean up and migrate data from network shares, Google drives, Box, etc. to SharePoint Team Sites and personal OneDrive folders. · Program Management oversight for various global security upgrade and network analysis efforts.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Major Accomplishments: • IT Applications Program and Release Manager for new mfg site constructed in Costa Rica. Coordinated efforts across 6 IT groups. Responsible for coordinating testing validation of thin client technology introduced to the organization. Budget of $7M+. • IT manufacturing and quality representative chartered with creating internal IT PMO processes and best practices. Represented IT in organizational initiatives to align all business units to a standard approach to project management. Influenced all other business departments to align to a standardized approach based on IT project methodologies.• Lead Organizational Excellence teams: Departmental communications and change management effectiveness analysis. Introduce, standardize and sustain system roadmaps and application portfolios. Assisted and supported various initiative sub-teams: Standardized estimation practices, glidepaths, business intelligence, dashboards and scorecards.• Managed workload and HR responsibilities for staff of direct reports locally and internationally.• Coordinated and facilitated IT cross-team yearly budget planning and reviews with associated business partners. • Served as Senior Project Manager in the IT Manufacturing and Quality Systems group responsible for managing numerous production support and development releases for mission-critical manufacturing and quality apps. • Managed and facilitated domain separation and integration of applications when the company was bought, sold and split apart. (Guidant / Abbott). Coordinated world-wide communications and transition schedules and planning. • Ensured validation of systems by utilizing specialized SDLC methodology which held applications to the highest standards of project documentation and validation, including full end-to-end traceability and deliverable specific signoff and version control. Presented documentation to FDA as well as other Domestic and International regulatory agencies.

Oakland, California, Us

Served as Lead Project Manager in the IT PMO managing projects budgeted from $500,000 to $1,500,000 with teams of up to 12 members utilizing standard SDLC methodologies and practices for time-sensitive, government and BSBC Association mandated projects. Created and maintained detailed project plans, work breakdown structures, network diagrams, business and technical requirements documentation, cost estimating, tracking and initiation task documentation. Managed budget and resource allocations and reported scheduled dashboard status to upper management. Assisted with technical evaluations and facilitated numerous presentations to business units. Managed an upgrade of the HIPAA 'BlueExchange' EDI System which utilized SeeBeyond and MQ Series to facilitate the sending and receiving of HIPAA compliant federally mandated ANSI X12 EDI transactions between Blue Shield of California and all other Blue Plans nationwide. Required to manage teams of in-house technical and business unit resources as well as outsourced vendors (EDS) and contractors, evaluate and modify internal system routing logic and processes, identify inefficiencies and recommend solutions, migrate from a Batch to a Real Time environment and create standardized responses. Conceptualized, designed and managed the full life cycle creation of a custom web tool which allows Customer Service Representatives and Providers to send, store and view electronic claim status requests to all other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans nationwide utilizing the 'BlueExchange' infrastructure.Facilitated JAD sessions with numerous department representatives in order to evaluate impacts of new Federal and Association requirements against current business workflows. Designed and created training curriculum to assist customer service in understanding application functionality, new processes and assessing questions from Provider and Subscriber community. Effectively communicated technical issues to non-technical group

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Served as Analyst on a version upgrade of the credit scoring application Experian Transact for both the business and consumer segments for which there was no previous internal documentation. Wrote extensive use cases, following UML guidelines, which detailed interactions with the Transact application from six external systems. Analysis included documentation of all system originating calls to Transact, internal business logic and system processes and data rules based on data received from Transact's internal processes. Facilitated meetings with each segment of the organization that utilized the impacted systems including Credit, Accounting, Fraud and Security in an effort to garner all system dependencies from a business standpoint. Converted use cases into test cases and test scripts in Test Director.Served as Analyst for a data conversion project that consisted of migrating consumer loan information out of a lease management system into a system which tracked and managed revolving credit accounts. Use cases and test cases encompassed: Data extractions from dependent systems, importing data provided by various banking institutions, Dell internal data warehousing processes, cutover processes and procedures, maintaining payment, collections and invoicing information and integrity, and securitization loan tracking. Tools: UML, Test Director, Microsoft Office, Visio

Managed integration of a CRM Internet advertising serving system to replace existing overburdened ailing system.Acted as main point of contact in vendor-client relationship, managed sales expectations, provided risk analysis and risk management, conflict resolution, and managed cross-departmental teams on numerous initiatives.Facilitated JAD sessions between various departments to insure all internal customization work would meet company needs. Facilitated weekly status meetings between engineering, sales and inventory management.Coordinated full evaluation of two ad-serving solutions which included creation of test environments, end-to-end testing and analysis, integration and compatibility considerations. Provided results analysis to senior management.Wrote customization specifications which included defining data models required for audit purposes and specialized reports to handle unique site setup.Created various UML models, including use cases, interaction, workflow and sequence diagrams in order to fully maximize implementation of new system and pinpoint existing system limitations.Wrote training materials and conducted training sessions on how to use new software specific to the user's role. Evaluated RFI's from numerous companies and conducted on-site meetings with potential vendors to determine best possible ad-serving solution. Provided results analysis to senior management.Provided ad-hoc reporting for sales, inventory and audit via SQL and Access. Coordinated channel by channel migration from old ad serving system to new system including coordinating efforts with remote offices throughout South America and Spain.Provided troubleshooting assistance and data analysis to fix errors in ailing system.Tools: Microsoft Project, UML, Visio, Access, HTML, Microsoft Office, FrontPage, SQL, SQL/Plus, Flash, Engage-AdManager, Photoshop, Illustrator

Designed and developed a database application which consolidated security processes for 20 different applications, including in-house and outside vendor applications. Interviewed vendors and created and implemented security policies for all applications. Provided GTE audit with security processes and extensive documentation. Designed and developed a 'Risk Analysis Database' application which provided issue tracking and reporting of project and program risks/issues. Application allows for analytical studies based on numerous data groupings and summarizations. Designed and implemented reporting capabilities to address needs at various levels of management as well as project teams, project managers, program director and individual team members.Designed and created a 'Change Control' application which tracked issues pertinent to the success of the company launch. Reports provided senior management and leads with the status of issues hindering rollout target dates.Conducted data analysis on company's convergent billing platform and provided reports to top-level management. Investigated data discrepancies and assisted departments in validating data integrity. Continuously conferred with numerous departments including QA, Program Management Organization and Billing Departments in order to gather requirements, create requirements documentation, provide project statuses, coordinate presentations to management and facilitate training on the various applications.Created highly customized monthly, weekly, daily and ad-hoc reports for Marketing, Finance and Regulatory departments to assist with company performance analysis.Tools: Access, HTML, Microsoft Project, Visio, IBM Client-Access, Microsoft Office, ODBC, FrontPage

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Communications

Project Management