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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

• Sr. Project Manager responsible to manage resources, budget, schedule and scope across multiple global teams to implement a variety of software solutions for internal and external customers.
• Accountable to provide guidance to implement a global Testing Center of Excellence utilizing Tricentis automation software to establish test and business process automation across multiple teams.
• Selected to lead complex software upgrades that are utilized by internal and external customers.
• Report project statuses and consult with global senior leadership to determine project scope, budget and schedules for implementing a variety of software solutions.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

• Contracting as a Sr. Project Manager with the AGT (Aegon Global Technology) division within Transamerica.
• Utilize the Stage Gate project management methodology, Microsoft Project and SharePoint to manage multiple projects that span global technologies and teams.
• Complete and manage several PMO project documents including budget, scope, schedule, resource management and additional project related artifacts.
• Conduct team and status meetings to surmise the health of the projects and report the project status to project sponsors and senior leadership.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Accountable to manage the activities of a large staff with multiple project schedules on a variety of short/long term projects. Manage cost center budget and headcount utilizing domestic and international resource.
• Drive continuous improvement and efficiency through process enhancement, automation and efficient use of resources.
• Collaborate with leadership improve overall life cycle.
• Manage employee performance, feedback and formal training of direct and indirect reports. Motivate and mentor staff and foster employee career growth
• Develop and maintain performance, defect, financial and customer satisfaction metrics.
• Engage third-party contracting for resource augmentation.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Responsible to lead, train, coach and mentor a team of test engineers located locally and abroad. Coordinate team schedules and resources across multiple software testing projects. Assist test engineers in all facets.
• Participate in management meetings.
• Provide support for the Software Testing Manager including documenting testing status, operational reports and testing execution metrics.
• Work with a team of automation engineers to improve performance and efficiencies by the utilization of all software and hardware tools and assist in the creation of new testing automation and techniques.
• Assist with training effort of new systems implementation as needed
• Coordinate and plan daily tasks and schedules for team of test engineers onshore and offshore

Iowa City, Iowa Area

• Provide lifecycle support to proprietary software projects including requirements gathering, scheduling, monitoring, setup and configuration, system test, production support. Responsible to collect and assemble.
• Work reprioritization as needed in order to provide deliverables on time.
• Risk identification and mitigation for committed deliverables.
• Facilitated and lead cross-functional team efforts to meet deliverables.
• Provide application training, expertise and support to internal customers.
• Assisted with development of processes and procedures, improving individual and team productivity, improving quality of deliverables and introduction of new applications and technologies.

Greater New Orleans Area

Held concurrent responsibilities to manage and direct software and technical development projects as well as the influx and manipulation of all student and school data. Directed the implementation of several software products which included; created and managed timelines, monitored and reported project status, controlled scope, change requests and budget..

Iowa City, Iowa Area

Provided technical expertise in managing Oracle Database environment. Established dynamic testing and reporting processes. Proactively prepared and loaded data into data modules, created SQL Scripts to manage Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) data processes. Responsible for creating and testing report functionality of various Oracle stored procedures..