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Edwardsville, Il, Us

Edwardsville, Illinois, United States

Edwardsville, Illinois, United States

Edwardsville, Illinois

Greater St. Louis Area

➢ Member of the PMO team that provided strategic planning and governance for the IT- Tech Dev budget for projects that totaled over 45 million in 2018. Calculated ROI on each pitched project to make educated decisions on value.➢ Served as a liaison between our Front-Line Teams and our internal IT developers gathering business requirements, facilitating meetings and communications with the business unit. Operated as a trusted business partner by providing support and services to enhance organization performance and program delivery.➢ Utilized analytical thinking, strategic planning, organizational skills and leadership to drive the success of changes in new technology among IT.➢ Solely responsible for the financials of an IT project with a budget of $6.3 million and 22 projects in 2018.➢ Managed 550 resources charging an annual charge of $36 million for IT.➢ Interfaced with the development and system requirements resources to ensure the requirements were met.➢ Acted as an SME for the team on existing functionality of the application and gave feedback on the new functionality that needs to be incorporated into the application.➢ Monitored and controlled project scope, schedule, cost and quality.➢ Responsible financial review for Integration initiatives within the Transformation Office.➢ Responsible for tracking KPI's within the initiatives to show benefit to the organization.➢ Participated in weekly meetings with the business initiative leads to ensure all their deliverables for the initiatives were up to date➢ Coordinated with the stakeholders to integrate the customer experience into the projects.➢ Responsible for directing a cross-functional team to ensure project completion for IT projects following the Agile process. Presented monthly status report on projects to senior leadership.➢ Led and managed team of 12 PMs to ensure successful product implementation of products.

Greater St. Louis Area

Faced multiple competing meeting priorities and was able to prioritize overlapping requirements through in-depth understanding of project status/timeline and creating meeting plans to best support outcomes➢ Participated in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Methodologies included Agile Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM).➢ Managed SDLC phases via Jira Issue & Project Tracking Software tool.➢ Successfully created and performed new and change process User Acceptance Testing (UAT).➢ Engaged in Agile project management, sprint planning, daily scrums and improvement reviews.➢ Developed Functional Requirements Documentation (FRD) from Business Requirements Documentation (BRD); Developed Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM).➢ Conducted gap analyses and used root cause tools to determine areas for process improvement.➢ Created systems requirements using both waterfall and agile methodologies, identifying stakeholders and gaining approval on a timely basis➢ Identified duplication of data in multiple environments; able to eliminate overlapping efforts and redundancies.➢ Developed several financial reports to assist the IT organization in managing project budgets.➢ Support IT PM Organization by providing reports comparing project Estimates, Budgets and Actuals.➢ Established a time report to assist Associate Directors in viewing time coding for employees.➢ Created metrics reports to provide group metrics data to Associate Directors and Directors within IT organization. Data extrapolation via Business Objects relational database.➢ Responsible for creating various financial reports throughout the year based on needs of the business.➢ Created presentations for executive leadership.

Greater St. Louis Area

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Bachelor In Business Management