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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 planning in multiple locations. Additional responsibilities include: • 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. • Implement & manage tools for test design/coverage, execution, defect management, automation and performance• Drive requirements for testing automation team leading to increased efficiency, increased test coverage and decreased downstream defects.• Communication, problem resolution and analytical skills; interacting across multiple levels of the organization

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 of their job including requirement analysis, test case definition, technical execution, track defects and process adherence. Interface with a variety of departments across the organization such as IT project managers, development groups and management to define and provide solutions to meet customer expectations and reduce risk. Additional responsibilities include: • 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 requirements for application setup and configuration including interfacing with the Program Team, Information Technology Project Manager and Requirements Analyst to configure products for users of the system. Facilitated and lead communications across functional groups to meet scheduled milestones and requirements without compromising quality.Additional responsibilities included: • 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. • Created and updated documentation related to the configuration for each specific project.

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. Supervise staff and operations of data department and oversaw training for administrators and staff on new software implementations. Full responsibility of overseeing contract management, ensuring compliance with federal and state requirements. Assessed project specifications, assigned work schedules and monitored project benchmarks. Provided support for Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) data procedures to maintain data warehouse. Key Achievements: Drove project to develop and implement new programs, policies and procedures for data entry thus ensuring data accuracy. Instrumental in leading conversion team, managing three major software application migration and upgrade projects across four major information systems. Exceeded expectations in building strong support team, which resulted in successfully completing several state audits.  Credited for successfully implementing multiple data sharing projects across four student information systems, reducing data inaccuracies and increasing data sharing.

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. Developed automated test scripts using Mercury products. Provided additional assistance testing Java based web applications when needed.