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As senior project manager at a telecommunications company, was tasked with the redesign and implementation of the flagship sales application used nationwide by over 120 sales reps. Responsibilities:• Managed the project through the entire SDLC including cost/benefit analysis, SOW documentation, scope, business specifications, management of development and QA resource tasks and time tracking via the MS Project tools.• Hands-on coordination of business level UAT, end user training, launch management and ongoing application support.• Responsible to establish a project management team from ground up for the software division.

As a technical analyst, undertook a newly created role in the company in support the shift to a relational database implementation with Oracle RDBMS. Consequently, promoted into the Project Management role to:• Prepared a company-wide implementation of development cycle and PMI best practices• Improved resource and scheduling estimate accuracy for financial portfolio management projects• Managed multiple projects of various size and priority through all phases of the SDLC, including:o Leading scope definition sessions with business stakeholders.o Gathering requirements from business and development groupso Working with several issue tracking and time-management software tools, such as Niku.o Primarily utilized MS Project for schedule and time trackingo Improved teamwork and communication methods between product management, systems analysts, developers and clients to improve efficiency.