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Plano, Texas, United States

Plano, Tx

• Performed forecasting, create project plans, facilitate meetings at all levels, and managed progress.• Successfully delivered a $100M project, migrated off human resources legacy applications to updated security platform.• Supported upgrade of security platform to 500+ applications with annual budget of over $200M, coordinating progress through all phases of project lifecycle.

Pepsico

• Successfully delivery of $15+MM program leveraging proven methods of developing strong relationships with internal cross-functional teams and outside partners to create a highly collaborative environment.• Content owner for weekly leadership meeting, enabling leadership to be informed of project timeline and deliverable deadlines. • Owner and Facilitator of Weekly Cross Functional Team meeting, driving clear goal alignment while fostering a greater understanding for the project. • Drove weekly consistent portfolio and project management activities enabling project data accuracy and consistent reporting to financial forecast. Oversaw weekly Executive Committee project reporting, creating and routing work design Change Requests, tracked issues and risks, and routing Deliverable approvals and Stage Gates. • IT Test Manager – accountable for all testing cycles, including partnering and mentoring with external System Test Leads along with executing user acceptance testing triage for business team.

Pepsico

• Change Lead – executed all associated deliverables including: organizational impacts, communication plans to business partners and all affected end users. • Test Lead Coordinator for several masterdata related projects, comprising 90+ legacy applications to be tested and vetted for final deployment. • Liaison with external testing partner organization: Provided structure and oversight on project interactions and deliverables. Recognized as the best integration the external test partner has achieved with any project team. • Facilitated testing cycles, prepared required deliverables for program methodology, including all test plans, communication and training plans, and testing summary reports.

Plano, Tx

• Supported and executed SAP testing activities – both System and User Acceptance Testing over 48 months.• Provided on-site support for both manufacturing and distribution center to 8+ locations over 18 months. Tasks included training and technical assistance.

Plano, Tx

• Deployment Lead for 10+ applications plus associated infrastructure at 80+ distributions centers.• Developed repeatable project plan template that was run 140+ by all members of the team.• Facilitated systems critical activities at project assessment meetings with regional and IT leadership. • Identified and implemented radio frequency and full module infrastructure, building a strong vendor relationship and long track record of success. • Partnered with vendors to support infrastructure for parts and service to ensure the high uptime.• Key support lead for previously deployed applications and business processes, continued to partner with sites after the deployments were complete.• Continuously delivered projects to lower costs and improve efficiencies.