Chuck Dickson, Pmp, Mba Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Lead cross-functional project teams consisting of internal human resources and payroll team members, and information technology team members in the implementation of replacement human resources and payroll systems. Responsible for managing scope, budget, work assignments, and project risk. • Maintained and drove the overall project delivery schedule for Workday HR, Workday Mobile, and Lawson Payroll.• Maintained the Capital budget for the implementation of Lawson Payroll, Lawson Healthcare Analytics, Lawson Smart Office, Lawson Accounts Payable, Lawson Expense Management, Lawson Supplier Portal, and the upgrade from Lawson 9 to Lawson 10.• Led the coordination of all program testing efforts including Human Resources business process testing, Payroll Testing, Integration testing, 3rd party vendor testing, and end to end testing.• Assessed project scoping gaps and identified solutions to reduce risk to solution, project timeline, and budget.• Established a program change management review and approval process to help manage project scope and costs.• Prepared for and lead executive level project reviews.• Communicated project updates and needs with team members and stakeholders.• Lead change within project team.

Led cross-functional project teams consisting of external client human resources team members, business subject matter experts, third party consultants, software engineers, and business operations representatives in the planning, monitoring and completion of multiple human resources projects. Ensured projects completed on time, within budget, and to defined scope. • Project managed large retirement process redesign for a Fortune 500 client. Project included multiple change requests to be implemented within the original schedule. Project completed on schedule and under agreed upon budget.• Project managed implementation phases of new time reporting system for multiple Fortune 500 clients. Involved use of third party application consulting and completed projects on schedule and to agreed upon budget. • Led program management office for client team. Responsibilities included tracking work and change requests, implementation schedules, and cross project dependencies for payroll, benefits, and information technology projects.• Program managed initial implementation of outsourced system deployment to ensure successful testing across applications completed on time and within budget. Resulted in successful first transition implementation and recovered a schedule that was not going to be met.

Lead cross-functional project teams consisting of external client human resources, vendor management team members, business SMEs, software engineers, testers, change management, training, and support call center representatives in Project Managing payroll, WFA, benefits, and time reporting projects. Scope of responsibility encompassed client relationship management, cost/benefit analysis, all ranges of Project Management, budgeting, training, communications and end user support. Ensured projects completed on time, within budget, and to defined scope.- Project managed implementation of new time reporting system for Fortune 500 client. Involved use of third party application consulting. Managed project scope and budgeting changes after client completed merger with another large firm. - Worked on Hewitt responsibilities for client merger activities.- Program managed the successful testing of all appications contained in an initial implementation of outsourced system deployment.

Lead cross-functional project teams of 5-20 software engineers, architects, QA analysts, and business analysts in the planning, monitoring and completion of new product generation and product data creation and maintenance projects. Scope of responsibility encompassed cost/benefit analysis, project definition, planning, scheduling and monitoring, budgeting, resource management, testing, and status reporting. Served within Program Office to determine implementation strategy, required projects, staffing requirements, and coordinate communications with vendors and business partners. Initiated program to implement a new PLM environment within HP that would replace a highly customized legacy system and result in savings of $50 million. Evaluated and recommended terminating multiple projects where ROI did not justify expense.

Managed multiple software project schedules and worked closely with executive management to control project risks involving schedule, technical issues and personnel. Communicated with sales, marketing, engineering and product delivery staff to determine tasks and schedules required for numerous domestic and international projects. Reported directly to V.P. of Engineering.

Joined company as a Test Engineer and advanced through a series of increasingly responsible positions in the areas of software development and program / project management. Consistently selected to lead complex projects where time constraints and multiple teams were involved including: addressing Compaq’s Configure-to-Order requirements; consulting on a team challenged to design new processes for downloading software to hard drives in a new factory while reducing hard drive failures; implementing a new method of installing software applications on Compaq products while reducing cycle time in half.

Initially hired to address problems reported in the MPX-32 operating system’s real-time scheduler. Assigned within 6 months of hire to a new team challenged with developing a new operating system. Selected to investigate and implement a major enhancement to the Micro-MPX operating system.

Mba, Business

GPA 4.0

Bs-Cse, Computer Science Engineering

Activities and Societies: University of Florida Band, Army ROTC, Kappa Kappa PsiMajor GPA 3.3