George W Brower Email & Phone Number

Rosemont, Illinois, United States

Project Management for Enterprise Applications (ended contract position and continuing current position as an FTE)

Remote

United States

Provides supervision and guidance to the project management team. Oversees various systems projects of significant magnitude in terms of complexity, cost, time constraints, internal & external staffing.Manage change and promote continuous improvement of project mangement related processes.Ensure on time, on budget and within organizational performance targets as adminstered by the PMO, delivery of projects and programs, as well as adhering to best practices and standard approached for program and project mangement.actively pursues issue resolution and communicates project status/issues to business stakeholders and operational management.

Westmont, Il

Working at a large Healthcare Industry retailer, supporting infrastructure, global security, and corporate facility projects. Current projects focus on building new VMs for EOL servers and expanding security devices and appliances.

Naperville, Il

Built a project QA process to showcase BMO Harris's Fraud Prevention PMO project quality through robust adherence to requirements and use the assurance feedback to improve areas that show challenge (i.e., additional education/training). This was accomplished by developing an independent framework and practice to support the quality of projects, focused on:• Completeness of artifacts• Adherence to established PMO process; and• Achieving quality inputs in all areas• Moved to Central Testing Unit • Performing PM activities for quarterly testing and identifying controls to test for the IS PMO

Greater Chicago Area

Contracted Program Manager for CVS Health's Enterprise Digital small project effort comprising of fixes and enhancements to the desktop and mobile web applications and their mobile app. Projects deploy on the company's major release cycle of 5 releases per year. Each release cycle can have as many as 10 small projects running simultaneously. Also worked on larger mobile app projects that release along the same schedule but are too large to be considered small projects. Worked with the Business Leads and the PMO to enhance the way the small project program is run.

Greater Chicago Area

Delivering Enterprise Shared Service application enhancement projects for Allstate Insurance's HR & L&R divisions. Projects involve improvements to existing processes and the introduction of all new processes involving Ariba, SAP, Data Warehousing, Ab Initio, and Tibco.

Oak Brook, Il

Project Manager for a nationwide POS deployment at Ace Hardware deploying approximately 6,000 new credit card readers to over 2,100 locations to facilitate a processor change and bring the stores in line with the new EMV chip card technology.

Northbrook, Il

Working in the ISG PMO at AllstateWorked on Solution Delivery projects with company’s Data on Demand and Data Warehousing groups.Worked on as many as 8 projects simultaneously. Suggested improvements and changes to the PMO methodology.Worked with teams across three continents.Made bi-weekly status presentations to senior management.

Rolling Meadows, Il

Working on Project Management opportunities for several clients in various stages of planning and execution as well as contributing to the development of IP methodology and creation of BCM and DR project plans for the Fusion Framework.

Mettawa, Il

IT Project Manager – Card Separation Project at HSBC/Capital One Finance• ITO TSA Exit Project Manager responsible for tracking and maintaining scheduled exit of temporary service agreements.• Work across platforms, workstreams and companies to interface with other project managers to institute and execute exit plans.• Devise cross functional tracking mechanism with project governance team that can show completions by move wave, application, hardware, project and temporary service agreement.• Maintain project plans using Clarity

Schaumburg, Il

● Placed on long term Data Center Migration project for Zurich/Farmers Insurance located in Chicago area.● Maintain the project schedule and conduct analysis on slipped tasks, upcoming milestones, and dependencies. Research variances and report on or escalate findings.● Track inter-project and task dependencies and report on impact to schedules at the project and program level.● Maintain documentation of project status and program-level risks and issues, including ensuring impact analyses and mitigation/resolution plans are captured. ● Responsible for escalation to Project Directors and Business Unit Directors where required, and executing follow-ups on risk/issue closure● Perform various personnel administration duties● Responsible for the ramp up, preparation, customer side resources and coordination of activities with customer’s vendor on all moves in my work stream. ● Organize and maintain project documentation, project Lotus Notes QuickR site and Lotus Notes Team Room.● Monitor move activities while move is live and assist in any troubleshooting

Skokie, Il

● Hired as independent consultant to complete unfinished initiatives from my previous tenure. ● Capture, organize and publish in document and on company website, policies for the Professional Services business practice.● Convert PowerPoint presentations into online training courses via Brainshark.

Skokie, Il

● Cost, plan and manage data center migrations from single units to hundreds of servers and storage units spaced over multiple move dates. ● Provide forecasting on revenue, margin and project profitability.● Part of team that developed and maintained data center practice's micro-website: datacentersolutions.com.● Worked for Solutions Engineering on the creation and refinement of company business tools and templates to bring a more uniformed approach across the different practices.● As part of tools refinement worked with Legal to revise SOW templates by service offering and provide T&C Agreements to incorporate the requirements of the company’s OEM partners.

Formerly, Lombard, Il - Currently, Nashua, Nh

● Managed Team of Partner Specialists who facilitated customer product orders.● Overhauled Jabra product return process with GN North America home office to provide faster response.● Developed career pathing opportunities for Partner Specialists.● Worked with Finance on invoicing issues and revenue projections.● Was Jabra lead on project to migrate the Enterprise and Mobile product databases into one consolidated database.● Worked alongside Global Supply Chain and Product Marketing to keep Team and customers apprised of product movement from manufacture to warehouse.

Elk Grove Village, Il

Icon is a national sign company that services the implementation of facility branding programs.; · Facilitated national clients signage needs through comprehensive site surveys. · Coordinated with architects and general contractors on design and construction of facility in order to get maximum exposure for the clients sign. · Worked with local municipalities on permitting issues. · Hired subcontractors for sign installations. · Coordinated permitting, building, construction and installation phases. · Worked with all the above to resolve any delays and phase issues. · Made projections on project financials, bill accordingly and help to resolve collection issues.

United States

ARC was a national IT services company with over 4,000 employees and $800M in revenue. In July of 2004 ARC merged with Pomeroy IT Solutions. It's operations were absorbed by Pomeroy. Business Operations Manager- March 2003 to December 200 · Worked on contract review for ARC's clients including top name computer manufacturers. · Created centralized control and responsibility for company's client contracts. · Engineered format, structure and reduced response times for company's contract review process from two weeks down to two business days. · Managed and negotiated the company's contracted insurance requirements, including professional liability, worker's comp. and criminal theft. · Orchestrated contract terms into procedures with ARC's HR, Billing, Credit, AP and Recruiting organizations.

· Managed integration of business operations across several departments. · Developed ARC policies and program standards. · Worked with HR to establish pre-employment testing requirements. · Worked with A/P to develop billing format and policies. · Created format for department financial reporting. · Increased billing frequency from monthly to weekly, resulting in more timely customer payments. · Instituted several new data reporting structures to the department, increasing project management efficiency. · Promoted to ARC's Business Operations Manager in March 2003.

· Managed the more challenging deployments, remotely managing deployment teams of up to 150 technicians. · Brought in to fix troubled projects by interfacing with clients and act as buffer between technicians and end clients to promote a more productive and cohesive working environment. · Responsible for financial projections, project planning and deployment delivery. · Managed team of project coordinators, and project analyst, as deployment became ARC's core business. · Promoted to Deployment Operations Manager

· Was ARC's first project coordinator for new national deployments business, working with the company's top customers, managing teams of field technicians tasked with specific project requirements. · Reported project progress to clients on a daily basis. · Instrumental in the outline and refinement of national project management process and procedures, as National Projects became Technology Deployment Services (TDS).

Crystal was a start up company trying to bring new medical technology to market. This company is no longer in operation.; · Coordinated and administered company payroll, receivables and payables. · Managed office and assisted in all needed areas of business start-up. · Worked with consultants on contract terms and investor relations.

Oak Brook, Il

Mid-America Management (Inland Property Management) was the mid-west's largest property manager with 250+ residential and 100+ commercial properties. Currently operating as Community Property Management. Advertising Manager · Managed all phases of print and specialty advertising, including newspapers, trade publications and guide books for over 250 residential and 100 commercial properties. · Responsible for advertising signage. · Cut newspaper and specialty ad costs while increasing their effectiveness through design and innovative ad copy. · Worked with local municipality ordinances, permit requirements and plat surveys in the course of company's signage deployment. · Created and ran special marketing promotions. Recording and reporting promotions effectiveness to area managers and senior company executives. · Organized and ran annual sales contest and awards banquet.Additional Skills · Worked on page layouts and ad copy for publishing company. · Retail Manager for specialty chain store. · Freelance writing for small independent publications. · Freelance graphic design and editing for corporate clients. · Served as Sports Anchor and occasional News Anchor for a local cable news program. · Voice over work for training

Non Degree, Communications

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