Jennifer Gulledge, Pmp Email and Phone Number

Championed the implementation of PMO governance and strategic, cross-functional portfolio management. Created and executed a 3-year vision for the evolution of project management at Elkay. Established a standard process for executing IT projects, put in place KPIs and metrics used to measure a project’s health, and forecasted IT resource availability. Experienced across the full software development life cycle using both Agile and Waterfall approaches. Managed high-profile, cross-functional IT software development projects and new product introduction projects as well as smaller projects for Marketing, Procurement, Sourcing, and Finance, new product development projects. Developed strong, cross-functional teams that collaborate well whether on-premise or remote. Effectively communicated project progress across all organizational levels including senior leadership.Notable Contributions: • Provided leadership and structure to a struggling product and custom website development project bringing a new product to market on time and within the $3.6M budget.• Implemented Oracle Production Scheduling in our most complex plant on-time and under the $725K budget, improving on-time shipping metrics from 60% to 90%.• Successfully created and managed the IT project portfolio, mentoring the project leads and ensuring successful delivery of project goals and objectives.

Managed up to 5 simultaneous custom software development projects, lasting 3-14 months, through the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) with budgets ranging from $200K-$7M and teams comprised of members from 12 departments. • Managed the development and release of a new business product achieving $7M increase in revenue.• Successfully planned, managed and executed a project that reduced UNIX CPU processing by 15.7% per year.

Advised on software development and infrastructure projects, giving input on all aspects of project work including: scope, requirements, design, and testing.• Liaison between IRI and Acxiom (IT outsourcing) for production systems and processing support.• Trained and guided an off-shore support team that produced a 30% reduction of support tickets sent to the onshore support team.