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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas

Support Business goals through the delivery of projects spanning technology, operations, business continuity, and offshore management. Collaborate across a matrixed organization to deliver business value through efficient, disciplined and predictable project execution of effective solutions to business problems and opportunities.Responsibilities:Accountable for defining, planning, orchestrating, and delivering a given strategic initiative including business, operational, and information technology deliverablesDirect large-scale, complex projects often involving multiple internal and external constituents and partnersDirectly manage all aspects of the project life cycle and oversees all phases of a projectRigorously manage scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parametersValidate financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and provides on-going reconciliation of resources and other related project expendituresDefine and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery planMentor and advise Project Managers and Project Coordinators on my team and those on partner teams in the organization

Austin, Texas Area

People manager who is responsible for the production, engineering and on-schedule delivery of assigned projects within a particular program or discipline regardless of market or medium. In addition, am responsible for a team of Sr. Production Managers and Production Managers with varying levels of experience and skill sets in delivering print and digital production. Work collaboratively with Lead Production Managers to ensure workforce needs are met and teams are created to produce high-quality product. Ensure my team members are trained, coached, and given development opportunities and project assignments that meet professional and personal development needs as well as organizational and business needs.Works collaboratively to develop organization structure, provide coaching and mentoring to direct reports, manage staff, and monitor procedures to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.Act as Lead Production Manager on projects assigned to me,managing the schedules for both in and out of house production teams. Project are managed to scope and budget and ensuring on-time delivery for both print and digital product. Involved in creation of new workflows for Version Updates (Reprints) to ensure corrections to legacy product, both print and digital, are completed in scope and budget with clear documentation and transparency of approvals.

Austin, Texas Area

Oversee multiple complex programs at the same time. Participate in decisions about which products to publish, what the program budgets will be, and when products must be delivered. Lead Scope Statement creation through discussions among members of the development team (Editorial, Design, Portfolio Management and Marketing), defining product specifications and budgets. Determine program milestone schedules, help identify appropriate suppliers, and helps develop and implement the production process for each product. Facilitate communication among all departments and with vendors regarding budget, schedule, and development concerns. Help prepare and communicate reliable scope, status, and budget information to senior management, including participation in Change Management via escalation processes. Have a comprehensive understanding of the ElHi publishing process, demonstrates excellent organization and written and verbal communication skills and practical problem solving abilities. Have specific experience working with overseas vendors, and on projects with third party partners. Manage and develop a staff of Project Managers and Coordinators. Serve on multiple Kaizen teams to create best practices.

Responsible for several complex projects at the same time. Prepare and communicate information to all departments and to outside vendors about assigned print, technology, and online projects. This includes milestone schedules, project scope information, budget information, product specifications, production process information, and project status information. Coordinate interdependencies of multiple projects, and anticipate when a delay on one project will impact other projects’ production schedules. Summarize project status and convey any concerns about process or file delivery delays, then recommend actions necessary in order to meet delivery dates. Alert senior staff and Finance to any change in project scope that has potential budget exposure or schedule implications. Monitor final delivery dates and product availability, and relay product availability information to Sales and Marketing.Create milestone schedules, establish detailed project schedules that reflect all stages of the agreed-upon production process, from initial editorial and design prototyping through final print or online product availability.

Actively managed Math and Science programs by measuring projects against established metrics, identifying risk areas, suggesting possible solutions and facilitating collaborative tradeoffs and decision making; balanced internal and external resources, coordinated with the Project Manager to ensure projects were managed to schedule and scope, coordinated with Budget Manager and Finance to ensure projects were managed to budget.Reported project status without spin but with context; held Lessons Learned events and synthesized results. Created and implemented both milestone and detailed schedules and workflows in MS Project. Created specialized reports for team members to ensure schedules were easily understood. Made recommendations on resource allocation, resolved schedule conflicts and scheduled projects through both real and hypothetical scenarios with internal Project team, external vendors and authors. Adept at tracking multiple source projects with challenging deadlines in a high-stakes environment. Populated and tracked components in MS Access database.

Created and maintained large schedules (averaging 5,000 tasks or more) and workflows to determine overlap of workload for complex textbook programs including both print and online components. Created new MS Project views and reports to provide the Project team with up-to-date schedule information. Mentored other Performance Analysts in schedule creation and trouble-shooting techniques. Helped stakeholders document, revise and manage all issues related to workflow and processes. Identified and resolved schedule related risk at the project level. Established and monitored a process for allowing Mac team members to view MS Project schedules via Citrix and was responsible for installing/training the team on a MS Project macro which allowed them to generate their own reports. Created the project management position for a large Math textbook series which included three Student Edition books (average 800 pages each), three Teacher’s Editions, eight ancillary books and all content provided for on-line and CD needs. Project was completed in six months and I was awarded the company “Star Award”. Populated a components database, tracked changes. Was the representative in a corporate initiative to review possible database software.

Monitored project schedules for current projects, alerting team and/or Production Director early and often about potential obstacles that may affect deadlines or resources. Read vendor con¬tracts to understand the scope and expectations for the project, monitored performance and alerted Director to potential obsta¬cles that affected costs, quality or deliverables. Reviewed each contract and provided details and delivery dates. Created Service Agreements contracts for smaller cost projects. Secured final disk dates, projected backwards to estimate when Production needed to receive benchmark materials and/or information and communicated this to the project team. Considered parameters of the schedule, printing/pre-press issues, technology, costs and offered creative production solutions that fit within those parameters. Specifically managed the schedules and production vendors on a large multi-state Test Prep program. This program required monitoring of four different schedules from the four vendors on the project. Each vendor was advised on schedule creation and weekly updates were monitored.

Austin, Texas Area

Supervisor of nine individuals, overseeing all projects in the department; duties include: Creation of a new workflow for the company (includes a New Vision Award for Removing Obstacles), training staff in the use of the new workflow, ensuring procedures are followed to allow faster, better page composition, managing the department’s workflow using tracking systems, working with direct reports on assigning deadlines and tracking costs, reviewing templates and pages of inside staff as well as outside vendors and serving as a liaison for the department both inside and outside thecompany.