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Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

Assist in the strategic prioritization and delivery of technology driven enterprise level projects. Maintain a holistic view of organizational/departmental efforts to manage the dependencies between projects and creating program level plans to accomplish organizational/departmental strategic objectives. Monitor potential risk associated to timelines, human capacity and monetary constraints. Direct the development of the IT PMO department to ensure that all department resources obtain/maintain the required competencies and knowledge to successfully launch new large and complex project efforts.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

Communicate strategic initiatives, risks, and key issues with executive leadership, project teams and impacted stakeholders. Proficiently manage small and large strategic teams through the software development life cycle (SDLC). Participate in business case development, risk mitigation, preparing and reviewing requirements, design documentation and third-party contracts. Communicate and facilitate to technical and non-technical personnel. Strive to provide creative and effective solutions to business challenges and product issues while maintaining positive client and team relationships.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

Transition payroll process to a new software platform to eliminate process inefficiencies and redundancies. Ensures the successful implementation for HRIS software Dayforce. Develops project plan and maintain project budget. Ensures internal resources and vendors meet expectations with respect to quality, budget, delivery, timeline, and strategy. Track project delivery tasks, mitigate risks, organize project artifacts and provide status to senior management throughout project execution. Analyzes customer and employee feedback to evaluate company initiatives and process improvements. Serves as first point of contact for client escalations and issue resolution. Manage, track, and report on maintenance and enhancements projects for an enterprise ecommerce program. Review business needs and challenges to create and recommend a strategic road map with an executive steering team. Review third party contracts for technical gaps and system architecture requirements. Manage project teams through the project life cycle. Evaluate project methodology and process for efficiencies. Track and report project changes on scope, schedule or budget. Work with project team to evaluate workload and estimates to report on resource capacity. Leverages third party vendors to maintain project schedule and mitigate risk while maintain great working relationships with third party vendors.

Nashville, Tn, Us

Provide support and motivation to consulting team to ensure the success of our consultants and clients. Balance consultant team skill set, consultant availability, and client needs to appropriately resource projects to fulfill client needs. Manage and evaluate resource capacity to forecast resource availability and maintain an 85% billable utilization. Analyze customer and employee feedback to evaluate company initiatives and process improvements. Insure projects meet internal and client expectations with respect to quality, budget, delivery timeline, and strategy. Maintain project documentation and sign off. Contact vendors and gather system specifications and requirements for system interfaces. Serve as first point of contact for client escalations and issue resolution.Engaged as PM for various clients including: Google, Public Commission Accounting Oversight Board, SunState Equipment and Spectrum. Engaged to manage the transition of the North American Payroll Processing from a third party international vendor to a state side vendor utilizing the current system and database. Manage change focused communications to project team and stakeholders including the project team and both national and international vendors. Update project documentation and provide weekly project status reports. Maintain visibility to project risks and issues and provide creative solutions for mitigation. Develop process for project changes and additional statements of work. Organized the cleanup efforts of a difficult implementation project. Provided needed structure and rigor to existing project and project processes. Responsible for managing team assignments, daily activities, project status reports and high level updates to leadership. Completed data configuration and system updates. Established daily team meetings and weekly stakeholder updates as part of company project methodology.

Hanover, Md, Us

Develop reporting to assist in the allocation of funds for corporate budgeting Analyze work levels to identify risk and mitigation needs for future developmentDevelop process within the field of Capacity and Resource Management including level 1&2 process mapping, adoption and implementation plansAnalyze resource capacity to identify opportunity for resource substitution and/or provide justification for additional hires Implement and facilitate training for corporate process and project methodologyPlanView Systems AdministrationProduce corporate training with PMI PDU accreditationCreate and respond to ticket workflows within Service Now for corporate offerings Develop reporting for program and portfolio managementSystem testing including user acceptance testing and regression testing for new processes or tools developed within Planview

Global, Us

Execution of End-to-End, Integrated System, Regression, and User Acceptance Test ScriptsDesign Business Use Cases for Integrated System, Regression, End-to-End and Production/ End User testingCreate and execute project plans, test approach, test scripts and testing wrap up documentationUnderstand the interdependencies of systems, components and software throughout the lifecycleManaged teams of ten or more analyst from various system backgrounds and companiesPlanned and executed projects for Government and Commercial ContractsCreated and aligned project use cases within the constraints of business requirements, timelines and budget Created, organized and direct meetings with customers and management Report project status to management and executives to maintain project alignment and company integrityCoordinated and developed functional integration test specifications for new or enhanced products entering the marketIdentified system gaps in new and existing processesUtilized Mercury Quality Center to create and track code defect reports though resolution Worked directly with development teams to isolate and define defects to enable expedient defect resolution

Effectively managed classes of 20-30 students grades 9-12Created and aligned district Curriculum to State StandardsRecipient of the Colorado Department of Education Start Up Grant ($400,000)Created discipline matrix for Administration

Greeley, Colorado, Us