Ed Alexander Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Hands-On management of project delivery related items for Regulatory and Compliance global Assurance tools. Primary focus is on the "Global (Partner) Rotation Tool• Build efficient, reciprocal relationships with all levels of Leadership• Manage global application development teams to deliver business solutions for consulting services. • Directly interface with Senior level management and vendors• Adhere to the methodologies of the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK • Quantify, apply, monitor and control large project budgets • Manage multiple, complex project objectives • Acquire and coordinate resources from a multitude of professional disciplines and locations • Consistently communicate project status to all stakeholders • Actively track project tasks, progress and burn rate • Coordinate and monitor transition of completed deliverables to all users and stakeholders • Triage troubled projects to healthy status • Process Improvement across all projectbdelivery areas (Support Ticket management, scope prioritization, delivery pipeline)• Adhere to the SAFe 5.0/6.0 methodologies respectively

London, Gb

Lead of a volunteer group of other like-minded EY professionals to learn, grow and share financial knowledge to our Program Execution peers to remain financially current, responsible and effective managers of Financial tracking, reporting and planning of IT budgets. Additionally, this group was tasked with creating a new FInancial Tracking and Reporting tool to centralize financial data, reports and changes. This community worked with many otherfinancial teams to gather and assess reports, financial structure and processes. The community then created an extensive wireframe design and presented to leadership. Response was positive and is planned for continued work in the coming fiscal year.

London, Gb

Program Management: • Project financials, procedures are accurate • Projects, business cases are accurate • Project components are properly costed by country • Project financials accurately reflect weekly actuals reporting • Reporting issues are investigated and resolved • Project forecasting numbers are updated regularly • Team with BMO to ensure that project concepts/engagement codes are created • Projects are running to schedule/cost • Coordinate PCRs (Project Change Requests) as needed with the related business approvals • Manage global finance RAID tracker • Produce a weekly Program reportFiscal Year Planning Management• Coordinate eDiscovery operate/invest/country splits and staffing for the fiscal year with Product Managers• Calculate hosting requirements• Prepare draft software maintenance schedule• Prepare draft Invest and Operate budgets • Arrange meetings with countries to confirm budgets• Prepare, maintain master budget spreadsheet• Provide data to BMO for byte/PPM entryActuals/Forecast Preparation• Prepare global actuals reports by country • Chair weekly/monthly financial review meetings as needed• Liaise with BMO to fix incorrect actuals as needed• Chair Global Leadership Meetings, present monthly financialsCentral Governance of Global Budget• Review/approve all IT expenditure. Escalate anything out of budget• Request business budget approval where necessaryPurchasing• Point of contact for all purchasing requests• Check against budget, escalate as needed for approvals, answer queries• Liaise with BMO to release purchase orders and Journal entries• Ensure invoices are correctly split into proper engagement codes as needed• Point of contact for general Business finance queriesResource/Demand Management• Manage SOW/recruitment tracker, timely initiation of renewals• Ensure business cases are included in budget• Determine which budget should be used if the item isn’t in budget

London, Gb

Program Management• Work with Project Managers to ensure that:• Project financials, procedures are accurate• Projects, business cases are accurate• Project components are properly costed by country• Project financials accurately reflect weekly actuals reporting• Reporting issues are investigated and resolved• Project forecasting numbers are updated regularly• Team with BMO to ensure that project concepts/engagement codes are created• Projects are running to schedule/cost • Coordinate PCRs (Project Change Requests) as needed with the related business approvals• Manage global finance RAID tracker• Produce a weekly Program reportFiscal Year Planning Management• Coordinate eDiscovery operate/invest/country splits and staffing for the fiscal year with Product Managers• Calculate hosting requirements• Prepare draft software maintenance schedule• Prepare draft Invest and Operate budgets • Arrange meetings with countries to confirm budgets• Prepare, maintain master budget spreadsheet• Provide data to BMO for byte/PPM entryActuals/Forecast Preparation• Prepare global actuals reports by country • Chair weekly/monthly financial review meetings as needed• Liaise with BMO to fix incorrect actuals as needed• Chair Global Leadership Meetings, present monthly financialsCentral Governance of Global Budget• Review/approve all IT expenditure. Escalate anything out of budget• Request business budget approval where necessaryPurchasing• Point of contact for all purchasing requests• Check against budget, escalate as needed for approvals, answer queries• Liaise with BMO to release purchase orders and Journal entries• Ensure invoices are correctly split into proper engagement codes as needed• Point of contact for general Business finance queriesResource/Demand Management• Manage SOW/recruitment tracker, timely initiation of renewals• Ensure business cases are included in budget• Determine which budget should be used if the item isn’t in budget

London, Gb

Ernst & Young LLP, Assistant Director, Assurance IT Service Delivery, Regulatory and Compliance Portfolio• Build efficient, reciprocal relationships with all levels of Leadership• Manage global application development teams to deliver business solutions for consulting services. • Directly interface with Senior level management and vendors• Adhere to the methodologies of the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK • Quantify, apply, monitor and control large project budgets • Manage multiple, complex project objectives • Acquire and coordinate resources from a multitude of professional disciplines and locations • Consistently communicate project status to all stakeholders • Actively track project tasks, progress and burn rate • Coordinate and monitor transition of completed deliverables to all users and stakeholders • Triage troubled projects to healthy status • Adhere to the SAFe 4.5 and 5.0 methodologies respectively

Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

• Managed an enterprise project to implement new tools for proactive management of approximately 140 product applications using Splunk and AppDynamics• Managed an Agile team of 18 to 24 resources with duel development teams focusing on assigned workstreams each with their own Project Manager. • Provided oversight and guidance to Project Managers as needed• Conducted regular status reporting via email and regular meetings to all Sponsors and Stakeholders• Migrated the project from a Waterfall methodoly to an Agile methodology in-flight• Project was successfully completed within budget and schedule

London, Gb

• Promoted to Team Lead for Project Managers and Business Analysts for the Americas in March 2017 (official title assigned in October 2017)• Coach, guide, grow and serve my team of Business Analysts and Project Managers• Involved with other FIDS IT Service Delivery and eDiscovery Business Leadership to streamline and improve speed-to-market for IT initiatives• Continued improvement efforts for business case and project methodologies• Global Program Manager for Managed Document Review (MDR) and Cyber programs• Build efficient, reciprocal relationships with all levels of Leadership• Manage global teams to deliver business solutions for consulting services. • Coordinate project and business case pipeline priorities with business and IT stakeholders• Directly interface with Senior level management and vendors• Adhere to the methodologies of the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK and SAFe for Agile• Quantify, apply, monitor and control large project budgets • Manage multiple, complex project objectives • Acquire and coordinate resources from a multitude of professional disciplines and locations • Consistently communicate project status to all stakeholders • Actively track project tasks, progress and burn rate • Coordinate and monitor transition of completed deliverables to all users and stakeholders • Triage troubled projects to healthy status • FIDS eDiscovery Project Management Process Champion: ▪ Worked in a liaison role between the Global PMO and Assurance PMO and FIDS IT Service Delivery Teams• Provide process improvement ideas from direct peer feedback• Communicate process/methodology updates back to our team• Provide revised templates for all project managers and Business Analysts to use in conjunction with PMO and PMI methodologies• On-board and acclimate new Project Managers and Business Analysts

London, Gb

Ernst & Young LLP, Assistant Director, Assurance IT Service Delivery, 2011 to Present (Employee); Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services Group• Assigned to vendor management for FIDS largest hosting provider partnership• Global Program Manager for Managed Document Review (MDR) and Cyber programs• Established the portfolio for the MDR service offering. Coordinating priorities, budget, resources, schedules, reporting and strategy• Build efficient, reciprocal relationships with all levels of Leadership• Manage global application development teams to deliver business solutions for consulting services. • Directly interface with Senior level management and vendors• Adhere to the methodologies of the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK • Quantify, apply, monitor and control large project budgets • Manage multiple, complex project objectives • Acquire and coordinate resources from a multitude of professional disciplines and locations • Consistently communicate project status to all stakeholders • Actively track project tasks, progress and burn rate • Coordinate and monitor transition of completed deliverables to all users and stakeholders • Triage troubled projects to healthy status • Mobile application project management and delivery • Structured, coordinated Agile program process for Enterprise Architecture• Served as Product Manager for Data Analytics for 9 months while Knowledge Center was in transition • Covered multitude of Data Analytics products, managing 4 application portfolio, Product Roadmap, Production Support • Assurance area Project Management Process Champion:▪ Worked in a liaison role between the Global PMO and Assurance PMO and FIDS IT Service Delivery Team• Provide process improvement ideas from direct peer feedback• Communicate process/methodology updates back to our team• Provide revised templates for all project managers to use in conjunction with PMO and PMI methodologies• On-board and acclimate new project managers

London, Gb

Consulting contract for EY through Netpolarity. Management of the full project lifecycle for global IT initiatives.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Expanded role to manage the portfolio of internal application and web based development projects spanning HR, Finance and IT development teams.

Cleveland, Ohio , Us

60 day consulting contract to redesign MMOH's benefits intranet. Final deliverable was a detailed functional specification document.

Beachwood, Oh, Us

Complete ownership/management of the company's project portfolio.

Cleveland , Ohio, Us

Management of a large number of projects, from Packaged Deployments and Information Security to Infrastructure.

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Owned and managed numerous e-commerce development projects. - Launched the first e-commerce site for Krylon.com (a division of The Sherwin-Williams Company) - Launched the first e-commerce site for Duplicolor.com (a division of The Sherwin-Williams Company) - Launched the first e-commerce site for Raymour & Flannigan Furniture

London, Gb

Project Consultant for a multitude of Marketing, IT Training and Business Process Improvement projects.

Bfa Visual Communication And Design

Associate'S Degree, Hospitality Administration/Management

Graphic Design

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