Jim Bennett Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Rancho Santa Margarita, Ca, Us

Manager of IT Project Management team supporting the Corporate Infrastructure group.

Remote, Us

Responsible for the overall IT project management and governance function, providing leadership, coordination, and management of the IT PMO resources, processes and functions.• Directed the streamlining of the project/portfolio management corporate IT group, improving average project on-time delivery by 30%.• Managed improved project delivery resulting in improved delivery and user experiences.• Restructured the project pipeline process to improve business and internal IT engagement resulting in a significant decrease in issues during project delivery.• Emphasis on Merger & Acquisition efforts from a Corporate IT Infrastructure perspective .

Dublin 2, Ie

Project/Program Management Consulting for high value clients in the utility space. Focus on testing capabilities for grid management systems.• Directed a key client project to establish a full and complete testing environment for multiple utility applications.• Identified proposal opportunities to expand environment and process support for key client needs.

Project/Program Management Consulting for corporations and non-profit entities in the realm of PMO creation and improvement, business development, IT projects and project/process improvement. Focusing on improvement with limited budgets while maximizing the business impacts..

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Director of PMO group responsible for the mortgage servicing business line, including portfolio and resource planning and prioritization/status reporting with senior executives. • Directed the streamlining of the project/portfolio management for the largest business unit, improving average project cycle time by 50% and decreasing the backlog by over 90%.• Managed improved ROI for project delivery resulting in savings of over $10m for 2016, $14m for 2017 and $15.2m for 2018.• Restructured the project request process to improve requirements gathering and business engagement resulting in a significant decrease in issues during user acceptance testing.

Rosemead, Ca, Us

Project Management for a major utility corporation. Focused on IT project implementation and system integration via collaboration and teamwork between cross-functional business and technology teams. • Directed project recovery efforts on a complex field tool project that was over budget and behind schedule. Responsible for organizing the agile estimation efforts, training the technical and business teams in agile methodology and managing initial sprints as SCRUM Master to complete training of two sprints teams for continued efforts. Trained and mentored two scrum masters and team. • Managed the initial releases of the complex software replacement of the Distribution Management System (DMS), including representing IT in multiple vendor negotiations and direction of the multiple vendors with a cross section team from IT. The initial phases were delivered on schedule and within budget. The program was on schedule for delivery under the original budget of $33.4 million.

Veteran with service on Active Duty and Reserves.Retired - 01 January 2010 with the rank of Commander (O-5).

Mib, International Business

Bs, General Engineering