Jeffrey Braverman, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Manage a global multi-year product (LEAP) E2E SIT Test Team for the client’s largest US Sales Solution (Scrum Master) which is comprised of both internal (Salesforce) and multiple vendor applications. Test team is.
• Manage JIRA release plan, issues/risks, resources, change control, daily standup meeting, PI grooming, defect meetings and update stakeholders at scrum of scrum.
• Managed over 5 Product releases and continue to deliver improved test quality/speed.
• Continue to receive many positive accolades from my client and asked me to move into this role.Managed Atlas program to implement the final major software release. Also managed the program cutover process for all the.
• Managed program charter, program project plan, issues/risks, cost, scope, resources, change control, meetings and updated stakeholders. (Used MS Project, Clarity and Sharepoint).
• Managed all IT workstreams to improve overall delivery efforts, quality and contain cost increases. Managed the SOWs and helped guide Procurement in these efforts.

London, GB

• Managed the first release of the product build for the Sales and Marketing application. This product is to become the new standard for the entire company built using Salesforce.
• Managed the project plan, RAID log, meetings and updated stakeholders as required.
• Used the Jira tool to manage the project methodology with the team.Managed multi-year million dollar merger and acquisitions international phased project that migrated the Advanstar business onto the financial system.
• Phase 1 replaced the Payroll provider and integrated into the UBM Oracle application.
• Phase 2 changed the Advanstar as is Order to Cash process (Salesforce to Oracle) to a new UBM process with Advanstar Salesforce to UBM Oracle.
• Managed large conversion of open and historical data with extensive UAT test.

New York, NY, US

• Managed five projects for a major Enterprise conversion from ACES (home grown) to Oracle, Salesforce and other ancillary projects. These projects printed the Show Directory, handled the Sales Commissions, reporting.
• Followed firm’s SDLC process to ensure customers receive expected results and suggest improvements to newly created PMO.
• Managed project plan, issues, risks, cost, scope, resources, meetings and updated business stakeholders on a scheduled basis. (Used MS Project, Innotas, Sharepoint, Join me and Google docs)
• Managed and interfaced with multiple work streams, vendors and off shore teams to deliver services. Team used Google Docs to share information between the dispersed resources.Implemented a new standardized tool.
• Managed project plan, issues, risks, cost, scope, resources and update business stakeholders on a scheduled basis. (Used MS Project, Innotas, Sharepoint, Join me and Google docs)Integrated new business IT.
• Moved and merged the IT functions from NYC and LA into the corporate locations with no impacts to the end clients. These services included the phone, fax, email, email distribution, printers, office network and servers.

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Determined the OTC business unit’s best solution to meet the 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) to avoid large financial penalties.
• Documented the initial Scope and High level User Requirements
• Reviewed other business units solutions to determine best fit or custom solution
• Helped to create development vendor RFP, scorecard used to evaluate vendors and recommended final vendor choice
• Finalized solution, cost, consolidated project plan, created Project Charter and presented to Steering Committees for funding
• Updated PMO, managed weekly meetings, managed issues/risks/actions items, followed internal ICE methodology, updated Clarity/Documentum/Sharepoint site as required

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

• Managed a $16M yearly budget portfolio for the OTC NA IT organization.
• Developed, documented and implemented process standards for budget control, forecasts, accruals, inter-company project invoices, variance reports, portfolio management and risk management to keep client within budget.
• Negotiated inter-company vendor contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to deliver improved service and a cost reduction of $1M for a $16M yearly budget.
• Managed the project plan and advised the OTC SAP Travel and Expense Project Team on the use of the company lifecycle process (ICE) to ensure high quality, delivery, scope and cost control.
• Managed development project that delivered a department Sharepoint Site for the organization’s projects, PMO and administration tasks.
• Provided monthly project and program updates to the IT and Sales Steering Committees.

New York, NY, US

• Supported the USB PMO as it merges with two other business units.
• Recommended PMO business processes to outsource thereby reduce overall cost and free up resources to work on other key tasks with minimum risk to client.
• Identified gaps, risks and issues with the new Corporate PMO SDLC procedures versus the current.
• Identified and resolved risks, gaps and issues so that client can successfully implement Clarity with Microsoft Project.
• Reviewed and merged multiple business process PMO SDLC methodologies into a new USB methodology using Sharepoint throughout the project.
• Documented the as is/to be Visio process flows for the Infrastructure portion of the proposed projects which improved the information quality and reduced the overall process time.

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, US

• Managed the transition of the US IT Finance Legacy SAP applications to the new Corporate SAP template application.
• Provided weekly guidance to the PMO and Steering Committee on the project deliverables, issues and risks.
• Managed project defects and change control items using Quality Center/weekly meetings.
• Managed MS project plan with various groups and distributed on a weekly basis.

New York, NY, US

• Managed a $10M yearly budget portfolio to enable an international eighteen country multi-year general ledger Systems Union rollout.
• Provided strategic guidance on sizing of yearly budgets, forecasts, variance reports, PMO updates, FFI Steering Committee updates and risk management to keep client within budget.
• Implemented improved vendor management controls to minimize cash expenditures with increased vendor quality which improved client satisfaction.
• Developed standardized Microsoft Project country templates and a rollup template which increased project/program level visibility and improved department project management.
• Mentored client project managers which increased their project delivery skills, issue management and cost management.
• Reviewed all vendor contracts, expense reports, and time sheets to ensure consistency with client policies.

New York, NY, US

• Managed the delivery schedule for multiple HR releases (PeopleSoft, web and forms) related to compensation, employee and manager self service, and health and welfare benefits.
• Implemented project management best practices to enable the client to run a more efficient operation that helped to re-sign a current client for a multiple year million-dollar contract.
• Enabled client to deliver customer implementations consistently on time and with high quality.
• Managed weekly client meetings to manage the project(s) status, issue, action and risk items.
• Documented and distributed weekly status reports and project plans to client and PMO.
• Documented and presented close out report.

US

• Senior Project Mgr (Bankruptcy Systems Testing) at AT&TManaged the User Testing team to validate a custom web enabled Bankruptcy system developed by an outsourced firm.Senior Project Mgr (Supply Chain Assessment) at.
• Teamed with business development to achieve a $2.5M annual contribution target.
• Managed multiple pursuit teams to deliver quality proposals (web intra/extra portals, data warehouse, ERP, custom applications/integration), statement of works, appropriate resource team sizes and presentations to.
• Ensured high customer satisfaction on delivery with multiple projects and clients concurrently.
• Built and help grow sales through software alliances with both Yantra and Blue Martini

• Project Manager (SAP) Jointed managed the first SAP baseline implementation for the Germany customer team (multi-million dollar project). This team included 50 global team members.
• Delivered the baseline solution and the first customized rollout – ultimately implemented solution across 80% of the company revenue.
• Improved the order-to-cash process during implementation and made further recommendations for future phases.

WMS Project Manager (Clients included Bristol Myers-Squibb, Baxter International, Comdial and Colgate Palmolive)

Mba

Bs, Industrial Engineering