Planning Lead at Global Chemical client. Summary:Responsible for leading and managing complex technology projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. Coordinated cross-functional teams, managing resources, mitigating risks, and communicating project progress to stakeholders.Accomplishments:1. Implemented Microsoft Project Server and Power BI across the organization, streamlining enterprise project management and enhancing reporting capabilities, resulting in a 30% improvement in project tracking efficiency and faster decision-making through real-time data insights.2. Developed and managed over 150 Microsoft Project plans across 8 cross-functional teams, overseeing the scoping and delivery phases, which enabled successful on-time completion of projects and ensured alignment with organizational goals.3. Designed and integrated a comprehensive project plan, automating the process to export plan data and publish to Power BI, reducing manual reporting time by 40% and improving the accuracy and timeliness of project status updates.

PMO Manager at Northeast Utilities Energy Retail client. Summary:Responsible for the project management office, ensuring standardized project management practices, processes, and methodologies are implemented across the organization. Managed project portfolios, tracking project performance, resource allocation, and providing strategic oversight to ensure projects align with business goals and are delivered on time and within budget. Accomplishments:1. Led program status reporting and review sessions with client leadership, providing comprehensive insights on project health, timelines, and risks, resulting in improved stakeholder engagement and timely decision-making.2. Managed RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) reviews with client leadership, proactively identifying and mitigating critical risks, which minimized project delays and maintained a high level of client satisfaction.3. Oversaw workplan management across all projects, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery by monitoring key milestones, which led to the successful completion of 95% of projects within the agreed timeframe and budget.4. Monitored and managed deliverables to ensure scope requirements were met, securing client acceptance on all major deliverables and maintaining a 100% client satisfaction rate with project outputs.5. Directed change management processes for scope and budget adjustments, ensuring clear communication with stakeholders, which resulted in successful scope adjustments with minimal impact on project timelines and costs.

Senior Project Manager at Northeast University client. Summary:Responsible for leading and managing complex technology projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. Coordinated cross-functional teams, managing resources, mitigating risks, and communicating project progress to stakeholders.Accomplishments:1. Led a cross-functional application development team to design and build ETLs for synchronizing financial data between a legacy system and a new student information system for a Public Sector client, resulting in seamless data integration and improving data accuracy by 20%.2. Managed disaster recovery projects for implementing Rubrik online data backups and automating recovery processes for the student information system, ensuring 99.9% data availability and reducing recovery time by 30% during incidents.3. Directed infrastructure projects to upgrade the AIX operating system and Unidata file structure for the student information system, improving system performance and reducing downtime by 25% while ensuring compliance with industry standards.4. Led a project to optimize batch processes within the student information system, improving system stability, performance, and security, which resulted in a 40% reduction in processing time and a 15% increase in system security.

Senior Project Manager and Lead Planner at Global Chemicals client.Summary:Responsible for leading and managing complex technology projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. Coordinated cross-functional teams, managing resources, mitigating risks, and communicating project progress to stakeholders.Accomplishments:1. Led an IT M&A project to successfully migrate 30+ hosted applications between a Chemical industry client's European Data Centers, ensuring zero data loss and a 20% reduction in application downtime, streamlining operations and improving system reliability.2. Developed a comprehensive IT M&A project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for 70 global divestiture sites, coordinating 12 cross-functional work streams and 100 tasks per site, and automated processes using Microsoft Project VBA, resulting in a 30% increase in project tracking efficiency and ensuring on-time delivery.3. Implemented Microsoft Project Server for the IT M&A program, centralizing project management and enhancing real-time collaboration, which improved project transparency and reduced reporting time by 25% across multiple teams and stakeholders.

PMO Manager at Global Pharmaceuticals client.Summary:Responsible for the project management office, ensuring standardized project management practices, processes, and methodologies are implemented across the organization. Managed project portfolios, tracking project performance, resource allocation, and providing strategic oversight to ensure projects align with business goals and are delivered on time and within budget.Accomplishments:1. Transformed client reporting for a pharmaceuticals industry client by replacing traditional PowerPoint slides with a collaborative online Power BI dashboard, shifting from status updates to insights and actionable recommendations, improving stakeholder decision-making speed by 20%.2. Developed a risk assessment report using project metrics and status commentary to predict project risks with high accuracy, enabling the project team to take proactive action and reducing project delays by 15%.3. Managed the program office, overseeing resource allocation, deliverable tracking, and the creation of project plans and timelines, ensuring that 95% of projects were delivered on time and within scope, while improving resource utilization by 20%.4. Led the overall process for Portfolio monthly governance and business review meetings with the client's VP of Operations, ensuring alignment on project progress and strategic goals, resulting in improved project prioritization and a 25% increase in stakeholder engagement.

Project Manager at Global Chemicals client.Summary:Responsible for leading and managing complex technology projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. Coordinated cross-functional teams, managing resources, mitigating risks, and communicating project progress to stakeholders.Accomplishments:1. Implemented a "project planning as a service" model for the IT Mergers and Acquisitions program at a Chemicals industry client, resulting in streamlined project initiation and 25% reduction in planning time for new M&A initiatives.2. Developed a comprehensive IT M&A project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for 168 global acquisition sites, coordinating 12 cross-functional work streams and 100 tasks per site, while automating updates and maintenance through Microsoft Project VBA, improving project tracking efficiency by 30%.3. Designed and implemented an IT M&A project WBS for 343 global divestiture sites, managing 12 cross-functional work streams and 130 tasks per site, and creating automated processes using Microsoft Project VBA, improving project timeline accuracy and reducing manual updates by 40%.4. Developed an Excel-based estimating tool for IT M&A projects, utilizing historical project data and templates, which enabled accurate estimates based on variables like site type and vendor involvement, and reduced estimating errors by 20%, improving project planning precision.5. Created an Excel tool using VBA to audit project data, ensuring data quality and conformity to PMO standards, reducing the risk of errors and ensuring 100% compliance with internal project management guidelines.

PMO Manager at National Retail client.Summary:Responsible for the project management office, ensuring standardized project management practices, processes, and methodologies are implemented across the organization. Managed project portfolios, tracking project performance, resource allocation, and providing strategic oversight to ensure projects align with business goals and are delivered on time and within budget.Accomplishments:1. Oversaw the program office for a Retail industry client, managing resource allocation, deliverable tracking, and project timelines, resulting in a 20% improvement in on-time project delivery and optimized resource utilization across multiple teams.2. Led the risk and issues management process throughout the program, proactively identifying and mitigating potential risks, which resulted in a 15% reduction in project delays and ensured minimal disruption to timelines.3. Monitored completion metrics, team velocities, and progress of Product Teams, ensuring alignment with program goals and driving a 10% increase in team productivity through targeted adjustments to project plans and processes.4. Established and managed work planning tools and guidelines, standardizing processes across the program, which improved project tracking consistency and resulted in a 30% reduction in planning errors.

Application Development Manager at State Government client.Summary:Responsible for leading and managing complex technology projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. Coordinated cross-functional teams, managing resources, mitigating risks, and communicating project progress to stakeholders.Accomplishments:1. Led a JAVA application development team for a Public Sector client’s child support enforcement project, mentoring junior developers to deliver high-quality code that exceeded the performance and quality standards of other teams, resulting in increased team productivity and on-time project delivery.2. Took charge of a JavaScript application development team for an online professional licensing project, rescuing the project from delays and ensuring the development team delivered code on time and within budget, resulting in a successful project launch and improved client satisfaction.

Technology Manager at Global Computing client.Summary:Responsible for leading and managing complex technology projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives. Coordinated cross-functional teams, managing resources, mitigating risks, and communicating project progress to stakeholders.Accomplishments:1. Established and managed the Functional Competency Center at a High Tech Communications industry client, overseeing both onshore and offshore resources. Led services including Business Requirements Analysis, Process Design, Functional Specifications, and Change Management across the client’s application portfolio, resulting in a 15% increase in process efficiency and improved stakeholder alignment.2. Spearheaded all project management activities, including demand management, resource allocation, monitoring service delivery, issue and risk management, and financial oversight, leading to improved project visibility, 10% reduction in resource bottlenecks, and successful on-time delivery of key projects.3. Drove service delivery optimizations by transforming from effort-based delivery to fixed-fee deliverables, reducing costs by 20% and enhancing predictability and client satisfaction through streamlined processes.4. Managed multiple monthly releases for a national high-tech client’s Oracle 11i application, implementing critical product and professional services enhancements, while successfully overseeing the migration of the client’s on-prem mainframe servers to remote data center VMs, improving system reliability and reducing infrastructure costs by 25%.5. Developed an automated product configuration application for the Oracle/SAP conversion project, reducing delivery costs by 30% and significantly improving data quality and accuracy, contributing to a faster project turnaround and increased client satisfaction.