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Charleston, SC, US

Arlington, VA, US

Charleston, South Carolina, US

• Project Manager responsible for leading high profile multi-million-dollar IT projects including major enterprise initiatives for Blackbaud’s IECO business segment
• Lead major infrastructure projects using lean and agile processes
• Manage and lead projects from planning to closeout, meeting project success criteria and commitments for timeliness, quality, budget and business success
• Manage and lead multiple cross functional project teams
• Drive collaboration and communication necessary to ensure project success, includingsuccessful integration of projects and dependencies.
• Act as the point of escalation for risks, issues and obstacles raised by project teams,ensuring action items are clearly defined, assigned to owners and driven to resolution in atimely manner.

Charleston, South Carolina, US

• Project Manager responsible for leading high profile multi-million-dollar IT projects including major enterprise initiatives for Blackbaud’s K-12 business segment
• Led major Education Management application development projects using lean and agile processes
• Managed and led projects from planning to closeout, meeting project success criteria and commitments for timeliness, quality, budget and business success
• Managed and led multiple cross functional project teams
• Drove collaboration and communication necessary to ensure project success, includingsuccessful integration of projects and dependencies.
• Acted as the point of escalation for risks, issues and obstacles raised by project teams,ensuring action items are clearly defined, assigned to owners and driven to resolution in atimely manner.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Project Manager responsible for leading high profile multi-million dollar IT projects including PNC's mobile application for Corporate and Institutional banking (PINACLE)
• Led development efforts supporting a wide range of mobile technologies including IOS and Android
• Implemented projects using both agile and waterfall methodologies
• Guided projects through all aspects of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) from project concept through production implementation
• Managed multimillion dollar budgets
• Organized diverse teams across multiple sites, identifying resources and assigning roles based on individual strengths

• Provided leadership and direction to major PNC program for a revenue collections data warehousing and business analytics platform that reports 40 million financial transactions for collections worth over $200 billion.
• Worked with business and technology stakeholders to enhance current features and develop new product capabilities to establish and achieve strategic objectives
• Led medium sized teams across business and technology domains in all aspects of product enhancements encompassing the full scope of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Introduced aspects of agile development into the requirements analysis process and SDLC, combining agile and traditional development methodologies
• Owned a product backlog and roadmap that supports strategic goals and considers emerging technologies and the competitive landscape
• Worked with client to understand client goals, needs, areas of program improvement and to identify new business opportunities

• Project manager responsible for leading multiple complex IT projects from original concept to completion, drawing upon acute leadership abilities to guide teams of over 30 analysts, developers, and testers to deliver.
• Led cross functional project teams in a matrix organization setting
• Engaged, built relationships, and influenced stakeholders at all levels of the organization to achieve project and organizational goals
• Negotiated with functional managers to obtain and allocate resources across multiple projects
• Met deadlines by effectively formulating and managing project plans and proactively taking corrective actions when potential project issues were identified
• Led and coordinated project update meetings; prepared status reports and presentations for executive management regarding status of projects and project issues

• Senior business analyst and project leader responsible for boarding trading partners to major collections reporting system, responsible for all phases of the SDLC including requirements definition, design, build.
• Formulated project scope and objectives ensuring alignment with organization's business plan
• Led development teams of 7 to 10 analysts, developers and testers
• Maximized customer satisfaction as a top level liaison by maintaining high levels of service delivery to external clients and trading partners by ensuring timely completion of project deadlines and deliverables
• Led requirements definition and project planning effort for major business initiatives, developing requirements documentation and project plans
• Reviewed and approved project deliverables throughout the SDLC including requirements, design, unit testing, system testing, and end to end testing documentation

Columbia, MD, US

• Project manager responsible hands-on day to day technical project management of multiple development teams in an Agile based environment.
• Created and tracked detailed project plans incorporating resource allocations, dependencies, and milestones
• Accountability for ensuring timely completion of development projects responsible for managing critical path and mitigation of project risks
• Consistently met all project deadlines with 100% adherence to CMMI Level 2 guidelines and SDLC
• Effectively collaborated and communicated project status and metrics, risks, challenges, and solutions to various levels of management and business partners
• Effectively negotiated with management for optimal resource allocation amongst ongoing projects

Columbia, MD, US

• Led team of business analysts for Arbitron’s main survey processing system, which collects radio listener data analyzed to produce radio ratings nationwide.
• Lead analyst on multi-million dollar research and development project
• Mentored staff of three mid-level analysts
• Assisted Project Management staff with estimation and scoping of major enterprise initiatives
• Worked with business to develop new and reengineer existing business processes
• Analyzed and recommended improvements in Personal People Meter (PPM) distribution operation that led to a 15% improvement in productivity

• Managed analyst team responsible for delivery of comprehensive business analysis documentation for mission critical $20 million registration and scheduling system project
• Developed in-house training program for system analysts to develop core competencies in analysis and design that saved over $50,000
• Interfaced with business users and call center personnel to develop functional specifications and use-cases for scheduling and registration system in support of over 2,000 Prometric testing sites and call centers
• Formulated project plans that ensured project resources were available and properly allocated to meet critical project deadlines and that team activities are aligned with strategic organizational goals
• Mentored junior analysts in industry best practices for requirements definition and the systems development life-cycle that resulted in a 20% reduction in change requests

US

• Senior systems analyst for UCCnet Global Trading Web a web based product information repository for product information, operated by the Uniform Code Council for the retail industry, designed to improve supply chain.
• Developed business requirements for web based product information repository
• Met with potential UCCnet clients to identify business issues and market UCCnet services
• Developed requirements management guidelines for the UCCnet Analyst Team
• Mentored junior analysts in object oriented analysis and design methods

• Systems analyst responsible for comprehensive business analysis documentation for mission critical $20 million registration and scheduling system project
• Documented business processes and recommended improvements that led to a 30% reduction in average call time in call centers
• Conducted build versus buy analysis of software and led evaluation and integration efforts of third party software packages, working with vendors to ensure organizational needs were fulfilled
• Developed and implemented web based change control process
• Evaluated and selected requirements management and object oriented design tools for Software Development Department

Master'S Of Science, Information Systems And Telecommunications

Bachelor'S Of Science, Information Systems Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics

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