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Willis, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Contracted to the Master Data Entity organization of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.• Led 3 highly visible projects reporting to steerco consisting of impacted manger/director/vp stakeholders, including a top-5 HPE project to implement software and services as-a-service capability.• Successfully implemented 3 other projects that delivered new capabilities, end user training, and issue tracking needed to support legacy user migration to go-forwards systems.

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed the Next Generation Quoting tool for client Hewlett-Packard Enterprise designed to improve sales productivity, increase margins, and provide more pricing discipline with estimated benefits of $144M. • Serve as main point of contact to manage implementation decisions and obtain scope change approvals; responsible for releases, infrastructure improvements, and maintenance.• Responsible for new development and maintenance of an in-house Linux/Java application that streamlines quoting capabilities and enhance ability to perform business transactions with HPE.• Lead 30-member global application team based in India, US & Mexico to plan and prioritize deliverables, coordinating through software development lifecycle.• Plan, prioritize, and schedule multiple concurrent projects and assignments with team and key stakeholders, providing roadmap to deliver key features and capabilities.• Research, analyze, and define systems requirements in coordination with business units to provide solid architecture and functional improvements.• Meet quality and downtime metrics while following established change control process that align with HP standards; established 99.9% uptime. • Drive business process improvements across IT pre-sales space to automate manual processes. • Reduced quote approval turnaround time for sales reps from one week to four hours for complex quotes while automatically approving standard quotes.

Houston, Tx

Led a team of 25 developers and 10 QA testers responsible for pricing quotes and specially negotiated large deals that processes $3.5B monthly of direct customer sales and channel-led sales. The application is the largest internally developed application within HPE, consisting of a Windows client and web-based user interface with 10K users and is a company Top 18 mission critical asset. Under my leadership, the system has had the longest period of uptime and stability since its inception 15 years ago. • Plan, prioritize and schedule project assignments• Tracked multiple concurrent project deliverables and bug fixes on a roadmap of future releases.• Encouraged the team to perform at their best during stressful times to overcome tight deadlines. • Held accountable for code quality, documentation and testing.• Input on hire/fire and annual performance reviews• Trained and mentored new hires.

Managed code implementations to production, infrastructure upgrades, and hardware maintenance for pricing, quoting and configuration assets and managed complicated change management procedures to ensure successful deployments. Responsible for maintaining application stability and up-time. • Executed multiple releases per month according to the technology roadmap• Adhered to internal audit requirements, SOX IT project governance and Change Management request for change practices.• Coordinated weekend deployments with world-wide IT, QA and business testing teams.• Published deployment plans and tracked progress to plan.• Resolved resource conflicts, time zone conflicts and all hardware and software issues that arose from deployment and subsequent validation.

Houston, Tx

Managed the retirement of large, legacy systems and migration to go-forward systems. Reported status, risk and milestones for weekly presentations to the IT VP. Responsible for overall program milestone dates, deliverables and risk mitigation management. • Managed other project managers and project technical leads located throughout the world.• Demonstrated strong leadership, organizational, & time management skills to meet aggressive targets

Houston, Texas

Managed multiple transformational IT projects each fiscal year. Globally coordinated teams in the Americas, Asia & Europe to ensure a high level of quality and facilitate problem resolution in a timely manner. High visibility projects required reporting to upper levels of management. • Managed project within the constraints of scope, time & budget.• Managed resource requisition for third-party contractors, statements of work, procurement of equipment and network access.• Managed deliverables, schedules and project risk and escalated issues appropriately.One particular innovative eCommerce solution won a $1B contract with the US Postal Service. This contract had competition from IBM, DELL and NEC. The IT portion of the contract was worth 25% of the overall vendor selection rating. My system was completed 4 months early and HP was awarded maximum points because of this. No other company finished their system. The HP account manager said my team was the reason the contract was won, and further said that the level of IT support received was the highest ever experienced in her 25 years at HP. My display of competence, attention to detail and extreme customer focus led HP to be selected over the competition. I materially impacted the bottom line of a huge company.

Houston, Tx

Contracted with Microsoft, Time Warner and Exxon for B2B eCommerce services to integrate automated EDI and other eCommerce capabilities into their SAP ERP systems.

Master'S Certificate, Project Management

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management