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Texas, United States

• Partnered with Technology Managers and Directors to lead large technology projects/programs, aligning with department and enterprise strategic plans.• Defined and executed complex project plans/roadmaps, driving analysis, recommendations, and decisions through the implementation of standard project management methodologies.• Led cross-functional teams in breaking down work into smaller components, ensuring alignment with critical path and project goals.• Facilitated effective communication and collaboration across project teams and support groups to drive testing, acceptance, and project alignment.• Mentored and coached other Project Managers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.• Program manager counterpart to retail partners project team• Overall life cycle tracking and timeline management• Managed complex internal project scope within the overall project, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure.• Managed projects using the organization's project management methodology, ensuring timely delivery within budget.• Monitored project progress, managed scope changes, tracked KPIs, and produced reports and presentations for clients and stakeholders.• Led cross-functional teams to deliver technology solutions that meet or exceed customer requirements, following best practices.• Facilitated internal and client-facing meetings, documenting decisions and action items.• Implemented business strategic through collaboration with key stakeholders• Direct management of 25+ project team members• Responsible for multiple large scale projects working across cross functional environment.• Led client engagement teams through the entire project life cycle, ensuring adherence to standard project management processes and tools.• Interface with vendor project team to align contracts, schedules, and hardware purchases and shipments.• Project financial tracking and delivery of weekly project burn rate

Plano, Texas, United States

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive the analysis and breakdown of complex projects, ensuring successful delivery and alignment with project goals.• Employed agile development practices and ceremonies to optimize project processes and drive effective problem management.• Managed application impact on operational and business functions, interpreting corporate financial analysis and statements to guide project decision-making.• Fostered a strong customer service and team-oriented culture, ensuring high-level responsibility and direction in a collaborative environment.• Led a team responsible for managing complex, cross-functional programs impacting both product and business areas.• Oversaw the development and delivery of products and services, ensuring adherence to financial performance and contractual commitments.• Applied a growth mindset to foster an environment of support, learning, innovation, and intelligent risk-taking, resulting in improved team performance and collaboration.• Successfully developed end-to-end delivery plans for complex solutions spanning multiple engineering teams, resulting in the timely and efficient execution of projects.• Effectively communicated with and influenced teams and leaders at various levels, ensuring alignment with project objectives and organizational goals.• Managed and delegated tasks to team members, closely monitoring their progress and ensuring the successful completion of project milestones.• Led and managed large-scale efforts, showcasing strong leadership skills and strategic decision-making capabilities.• Facilitated cross-functional collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to execute client and product vision, objectives, and strategy.• Served as an escalation point for solution issues and risks, driving effective incident resolution through collaboration with internal teams.

Dallas, Texas

• Information Technology Program Manager providing leadership within End User Computing to effectively support corporate and business unit strategies.• Manage infrastructure decommission team. • Participated in Pre-Sales and Request for Proposals (RFP) for multiple clients.• Managed service relationships with external clients to Oncor for hardware and applications.• Prepared annual roadmaps for new technology and/or enhancements that may better service the desktop computing environment• Review and analyze business Charter, develop Statement of Work (SOW) and Project Plan, create/plan tasks & activities that align with the scope and project objectives.• Lead organization in the evaluation and identification of enterprise system specifications utilizing industry best practices and proper use of technology and applications architecture.• Led and managed deskside support teams of up to 25 team members.• Drive project progress and work cross-functionally at the senior management level to resolve issues and clear roadblocks.• Identify areas of risk, monitor them throughout the project, and report to customer groups. Create risk-management assessment, advise executives of the trade-offs, and monitors risk factors continually.• Create and present capital acquisition requests required for the project. Monitor overall project budget, work with executives to address budgetary issues.• Identify and address technology delivery gaps identified throughout the project life cycle. • Develop, implement and maintain NERC Compliance program dashboards, metrics and KPIs using technology and automation techniques• Participate in compliance program audits. Review records and record keeping practices of compliance enforcement activities to document findings and observations that will be used to create detailed audit reports communicating the results of audits, including areas of strengths, areas for improvement, and observations to support consistency.

Irving, Texas, United States

• Managed data center projects up to $500,000 budget as the Project Management Team client liaison• Migrated newly acquired insurance companies into the Allstate processing environment• Subject matter expert (SME) for requirement definitions, process standards, and documentation for migration projects• Established communications lines between clients, technical departments, development staff, and directors • Managed project deliverables during system migrations and integrations• Provided support for project teams of up to 20 resources• Coordinated continuous system enhancements to improve processing and availability in to meet client needs and requirements• Facilitate project status meetings with senior migration management• Lead for the migration of CNA Insurance personal lines to the Allstate Insurance processing environment• Developed and enhanced migrated operating systems to Allstate standards• Worked directly with CNA staff to manage remaining transmissions between Allstate and CNA• Managed Change Management for day to day processing• Provided Technical troubleshooting for migrated mainframe processing environment

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Economics

9Th -12Th

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