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Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Design and implement solutions utilizing industry best practices. In Customer environments, operate as a leader of virtual teams to implement and integrate software solutions or platforms to meet identified objectives

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Plan, execute and close projects according to schedule and within budget. Providing mid-size to enterprise public and private sector clientele with technology and business best practice project management. Provide project ownership and experience throughout the entire project lifecycle. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating activities of.

The Woodlands

• Manage team of 30 Project and Program Managers with corporate capital project portfolio values of over $20M. Facilitated project portfolio planning and governance.
• Built multi-national PM team (30+ members) into cohesive, high-performing unit, delivering exceptional project management value and increasing execution effectiveness by 70%.o Determined staffing requirements related.
• Facilitated annual capital project budget management process for 5 corporate business functions, providing forecast of revenues and expenditures enabling management to model financial business performance and reduce.
• Led project troubleshooting efforts to minimize cost and schedule impacts., keeping project on track and reducing schedule and budget overages, maintaining budget within +/-10% of target and accounting for spend.
• Facilitated and managed issues and risks through to appropriate resolution, improving project management of issues and risks, decreasing schedule delays and cost overruns.

• Conducted detailed walkthroughs and testing of internal controls and assigned IT audits. Supported major IT projects and initiatives to ensure compliance with audit and internal control requirements.
• Implemented IT audit and controls testing process review, reducing testing duplication by 10%.
• Led IT controls review and design for $22M global IT transformation program, reducing risk, streaming processes, and shortening project close out time, leading to cost savings.
• Developed policy and standards in accordance with IT Risk and compliance governance, reducing risk in environment, controlling cost overruns, lowering missed deadlines, and meeting business requirements.
• Served as IT audit and controls liaison for regional service teams, improving communication and understanding between service team and audit requests, resolving issues quickly and efficiently.
• Conducted testing of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) IT controls, maintaining business SOX compliance requirements.

• Provided SAP user administration and access management. Monitored SAP GRC components. Led security support for projects, functional teams, infrastructure operations, and business units.
• Led information security team during enterprise wide $1.8M SAP reimplementation.o Managed team of 4 developers and analysts, managing SAP security projects and overseeing business SAP security needs. o Ensured security.
• Reduced Segregation of Duties (SOD’s) from 4K to less than 10 using Versa GRC 5.2 and 5.3.
• Developed and maintained detailed SAP security processes and procedures for SAP environments, allowing team to be faster and more effective in meeting business requirements and timelines.
• Provided annual global security training to IT, increasing understanding of business’ risk profile and audit concerns.

Managed project proposals, worked with business and information technology leaders, facilitated various committees and participated in planning sessions. Managed team of 5 staff members. Developed portfolio management process and strategy. Effective liaison with Business Relationship Managers and other Portfolio Managers. Created and published monthly.

• Developed portfolio management process and strategy. Managed project proposals with business and information technology leaders. Participated in planning sessions.
• Provided daily support of a $30M portfolio while managing team of 5 staff members.
• Managed organizational change for small and mid-sized projects, reducing project management process for small projects while increasing user acceptance for project change.
• Facilitated project portfolio senior leadership governance committee, implementing Executives direction for IT project portfolio and demonstrating that IT was adhering to and achieving desired business strategies.
• Liaised with business relationship managers and portfolio managers to determine project cost reductions and portfolio planning.
• Created and published monthly metrics and project status reporting.

Global Supply and Trading IT Atlas ProgramChevron is an international, complex organization that effectively uses resources in order to meet global energy challenges and needs.Responsibilities include gathering business requirements, functional specifications and users needs for HSE processes. Communicating with staff and clients to understand and present.

Responsible for project management of information technology including hardware analysis, purchases, installations and integrations. Contract to Permanent.  Project Manager for integration of IT systems for mergers. Successfully coordinated ERP, BASIS/SAP projects and Infrastructure Operations. Led requirements gathering for Asset tracking System using.

Contributed to the organization by focusing on cost reductions, increased efficiencies, analysis reporting and technical implementations that supported business objectives. Project Manager for IT projects.  Responsible for regular status reporting to upper management. Key contributor to turnover reduction. Lead cost reduction and increased efficiencies.

Offer quality, cost effective information technology solutions. Responsible for technical installation and support for software, desktop administration and networks. Managed Common Office Environment rollout in Houston with the support of techs and handled over 300 issue tickets within 2 hours by establishing email drop systems for complaints, adding staff.

Bachelor Of Arts, History And Political Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History And Political Science

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