Dana Poer Davis, Retired, Mba, Pmp, Csm, Ssmc, Ssgb, Itil Email & Phone Number

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Responsible for deploying Dell cloud SaaS SecureWorks Threat Monitoring and Tibco universal servers used by US and territories in 2 months.Deployed Rec Cloak, Advanced Endpoint Threat Detection, enterprise wide on laptops/workstations.Decommissioned AlertLogic Threat Monitoring services/appliances in 1 month.Replace enterprise FTP protocol with SFTP/FTP-s.Evaluated and executed enterprise-wide Access Control to least privilege.Manage project for data masking of personal identifiable information (PII) Setup components and provided direction for data tokenization and encryption proof of concept.

Carrollton, Tx

**SalesForce and Vistex/SAP Integration**Accomplishments:Managed software development life cycle (SDLC) future state technology. Decreased time from customer enrollment to increase sales by $20K/month and one employee reduction. Implemented eSignature functionality to 18 legal documents shrinking time to market.Experience: Executed project management framework (PMI PMP) through lifecycle of project. Defined scope, developed plan, executed plan and held accountable to implemented projects.Managed nine cross functional teams: osite, remote and offshore.Raised requirement standards to stop rework, minimize design errors, reduce costs, and contain scope. Directed and provided oversight for requirements definition.Created and stayed within budget. Changed to deliver key functionality and stay within budget.Deployed first SalesForce application to SAP integration, setting road map for future state.**QuickBooks to SAP Transformation.**Accomplishments:Improve economies of scale and redundancies by moving $16M to shared financial services (billing through accounts receivable).Experience:Partnered with work streams, SAP onshore/offshore development teams, and offshore QA.Create and executed project plan and schedule, risk and risk mitigation, issues and issue action plan, resource constraint planning, scope enforcement and scope creep prevention.Developed and executed communicate plans for change leadership. Presented progress reports to executives, cross-functional leaders and project teams. Managed expectations of vertical and horizontal stakeholders.**Champion Requirements Improvement Initiative**Championed and deployed business requirements improvement initiative to shared financial services organization that process $120B reducing time to market, rework, and ops impact.Develop best practices for creating business, functional and non-functional requirement.Training shared financial services and national customer support groups.

Carrollton, Tx

Contract management and pricing systems. JD Edwards.Accomplishments:Transitioned $500M in active contracts from legacy systems to JD Edwards, customizing applications of contract and cost/price systems, without impact to customers, invoices or vendors. Maintained mirror and redundancy in legacy and new systems for contract and pricing.Implemented first corporate 100% pure agile project.Experience:Managed teams including two business units, six locations, nine cross functional teams, three external suppliers and one 3rd party vendor.Adapted project management framework to apply to agile methodology. Championed and successfully implemented agile stand ups, user stories, backlog, success criteria, velocity, retrospectives, and inter-discipline teams. Coached and directed team as CSM.Created and executed communication cadence plan with executives, directors, governance teams, project teams, change management, cross-functional teams, and other key stakeholders. Communications included project status, risk and risk mitigation, issues and issue action plan, accomplishments, next steps, budget adherence, and resource constraint issues.Closely monitor and realign priorities to manage critical path and deliver on schedule.Supervised multiple training sessions for 100 plus users working in dual systems.

Fort Worth

Project Manager of Mobile Device Process Definition and ImplementationAssessed AS IS process for near real time wireless baggage/vehicle scanners. POS in flight, wireless devices with domestic to international capability and cell phonesIdentified gaps and process that cost company. First process improvement projected $1.2 million savings. Other process improvements projected to save company $400,000 annually.Created TO BE process repeatable acquisition, maintenance and retirement of variety of mobile devices with connectivity, functionality and countries. Process will free up 0.5 head count.

State Of Hawaii

Project Manager Production Support for State of Hawaii Judiciary Turnaround business contract in jeopardy to contract renewed in 3 months. Managed 100% accuracy constraints for Supreme and Appellate Courts for case management. Managed high volume traffic system following implementation of user needs.

**Sr Project Manger - Converting Streaming Video to view on Smartphone/iPad**Launched worldwide prototype “anywhere” webcast streaming on Smartphones/tablets. Increased participation by 50% and user satisfaction 25% quarter over quarter. Managed cutting edge technology for video on Droid family, iPad family and Blackberry. Setup infrastructure and secure access on EVDO and WiFi on internal & 3rd party network.**Project Manager - Mobile Access For Home Security Systems**Managed cutting edge project that provided home security and home environment systemsBuilt on current consumer platforms integrated with breaking technology including remote access of camera, thermostats, and security available through TV, web, and mobile app.

***Business/System Analyst***Industry mandated project to be deployed in 7 months and impacted an averaged 60 resource per month. Impacted code for 30 applications and 20 with test/support.Championed and spearheaded effort to reduced project from 7 months to 6 months, from 60 FTE to 25 FTE saving company $2.2 million in FTE costs.Created and executed project plan resulting in turnaround of stalled project within one month of takeover.Created and enforced schedule to meet deadlines while leading 35 JAD sessions and producing deliverables with 50 applications in virtual environment.Created and published functional, non-functional, and technical requirements for input into traceability matrix creating accountability for the project objectives.***Business/System Analyst*** Multi-phase project (2 years with 3 overlapping phases) implementing strategic technology and business direction.Directly responsible for reduced analysis time by 50% for subsequent projects by reusing system dynamic models. Company saved $500,000.Project came into analysis 15% behind schedule and was completed 5% ahead schedule.Led system requirement and integrated design sessions of multi-phase project involving order management, order tracking and provisioning.Effectively avoided date slippage of project plagued with additional and changing requirements but with concrete target date.***Team Lead*** Project to deploy new enterprise standard order system with 12 code impact applications, 20 test, and 2 new. Implemented over 2.5 years and replaced 9 order systemsTrained and coached team of 3 new members conducting comprehensive requirements sessions. Created schedule, enforced budget, met milestones, supervised deliverables.Developed and directed team to run concurrent JAD sessions. Completed analysis sessions, produced deliverables, met milestone with allotted resources and time.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Primary analyst of jobs including analysis, estimated hours, design, development, testing, implementing and support of COBOL, JCL and DB2 in 6 data centers and a centralized frame.Project lead and provided subject matter expertise and training for accounting and financial systems.Analyze business requirements and design solutions for development and maintenance.Responsible for accounting stream, catalog inventory at store and warehouse fulfillment scheduling.

Mba, Mis

Activities and Societies: President TTU DPMAGraduated with honors.

Med, Education Administration, 3.7

Graduated with honors.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Secondary Education And Teaching