Lasheka Battle Email & Phone Number

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

• Manage $4.3M SAP Supply Chain Optimization program that consist of enhancements to identify & relieve inventory, identify best inventory for order fulfillment, provide visibility of products; implementation will result in $22M savings over a 5-year period• Manage Dashboard project that provides an integrated, consolidated view of supply chain metrics for 5 mills; tool consolidated data from three systems• Manage implementation of forecasting that will autonomate the sourcing and replenishment of inventory; implementation will result in $1.5M-2M annual cost improvements• Develop procedures, processes, and templates for Project Management within the Center of Excellence while ensuring alignment with ePMO• Manage project financials of capital and expense budget lines for external vendors and internal resources; develop forecast at onset of project and manage actual-to-forecast on a monthly basis to track completion of project• Manage project tasks of onshore and offshore project resources; implemented various methods of tracking to facilitate on-time completion of tasks; develop milestone-based project plan• Utilize various tools and techniques to ensure quality of the product and/or service as well as project management (processes and documentation)• Manage scope of project by ensuring consensus and proper documentation of business, functional and technical requirements; ensure adherence to change request process throughout project lifecycle• Manage projects using SDLC waterfall and agile/iterative methodology; determine best method based on factors such as risk mitigation, ability to deliver value-added functionality, and schedule constraints• Develop and maintain business facing SharePoint site for awareness of status and project activities; develop and maintain site for project repository for documentation• Create weekly executive and summary status reports for VPs and CIO; create status report and facilitate weekly cadence with project sponsor

Atlanta, Ga

• Provided input to procedures, processes, and templates for Project Management team within the IT Office of Applications • Led GIS data consolidation project that consist of creating a centralized data store and providing a data model for statewide assets such right-of-way extents, parcels, intermodal elements (rail and transit), and wetland mitigation banks• Led the implementation of various application development initiatives for GDOT divisions and external customer utilizing waterfall methodology for the initial release (v1.00) and agile methodology for subsequent release:• GOALS – Transform manual grant request application utilized by local municipalities (150 counties and 530 cities and towns)• LMIG – Transform manual application to track minority vendor participation throughout the GDOT project

• Developed procedures, processes, and templates for PMO; applied process improvements that resulted in the PMO progressing from a maturity level of Phase 0 to Phase 2-3 within a 2-year period as assessed by Accenture Consulting• Served as change agent and sustained interdepartmental relationships in IT to establish PMO; served as change agent to improve cross-departmental collaboration with County agencies to design application solutions and develop strategies• Supervised up to 16 direct reports and up to 30 indirect reports across various divisions; direct report includes full-time and hourly employees as well as contractors• Managed the implementation of various applications including enterprise resource planning, enterprise content management, and enterprise asset management; implemented various business specific applications for more than 40+ departments • Successfully implemented ERP major release upgrade from CGI v3.5 to v3.8 within budget of $2M (migrated 22 physical servers to virtual servers); successfully implemented ERP major release upgrade from v3.8 to v3.10 within budget of $2.2M• Implemented Kronos Workforce Central (5.1 and 6.2) timekeeping application for 40+ departments which eliminated unnecessary procedures for 90% of departments• Implemented on-premise and hosted (SaaS and IaaS) solutions; implemented solutions with a hybrid of SaaS and on-premise (ex: Jury Management System) • Led various infrastructure initiatives including migration to VM environment and SQL enterprise environment; managed numerous database conversions from Access to SQL that improved application uptime, disaster recovery, and data integrity• Integrated Agile project management into the PMO and led a team of web developers, system analysts, and database administrators in the successful implementation of various full-stack development projects using scrum framework

• Managed dedicated team of analysts, programmers, and consultants for the County’s enterprise systems• Led the implementation of the website redesign for the historic Auburn Avenue Research Library• Led the major release upgrade (3.3 to 4.1) of a PC reservation system that impacted 32 libraries and up to 4 million patrons• Implemented self-check-out kiosks for 8 library branches that created benefits such as increased circulation, resource efficiencies, and decreased congestion

• Implemented a 3-phase data center redesign project which included power equipment, switches, routers, servers, generator, and environment protection components• Managed project which consisted of EDI (electronic data interchange) transactions from major shipping companies to the ERP system SAP• Managed RF wireless barcode unit upgrade project for warehouse; provided Tier I technical support during project implementation and post go-live

• Utilized six-sigma methodology to manage various areas of the supply chain business unit which included the warehouse, process, and finance components• Streamlined process to reduce cycle time for telecommunication projects resulting in a 3-day implementation cycle for projects within a specific scope (more than 80% of projects for the business unit)• Managed implementation of telecommunication projects for AT&T and BellSouth• Successfully implemented 5000+ node upgrade of multiplexer/ demultiplexer in sites located in all 50 states across the US for the AT&T network