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Success-focused, adaptable, and entrepreneurial Project Manager with more than 15 years of experience leading complex projects in the Information Technology service industry. Diverse background in overseeing work for clients in the travel, education, manufacturing, trade associations and other business sectors. Effective leadership abilities combined with excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills. Proven record of optimizing operations and motivating cross-functional teams towards delivering mission-critical initiatives on time and within budget, while also ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.Proficient in project portfolio management, building robust stakeholder relationships, presenting key decision-influencing information, directing high-performing teams, driving innovation, and savvy vendor selection.Career Accomplishments• Founded IT services agency and invented a proprietary CMS. Defined strategic planning for corporate identity and marketing. Built up an eclectic client base and highly proficient company staff. Realized more than $10M in client revenues and sold agency to investors.• Saved Marriott International substantial cost overrun by leading more than 40 associates to generate a new content standardization and platform migration effort that was executed in less than one year.• Reinvented dysfunctional political advocacy application for General Motors International. Formulated growth strategy and enacted it in six subsequent foreign markets in under four years.• Elevated Johns Hopkins University’s revenues and students’ scholastic achievement measures by supervising the creation of a software articulation of their proprietary teaching techniques and deploying it in Maryland and Florida grade schools.Areas of ExpertiseIT Program and Project Management • Web Application Development • Requirements Analysis • Agile Software Development • Project Budgeting, Expense and Risk Management • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) • Brand Development and Management • Business Analytics • Business Development • Service Launch • Talent Development • Vendor Management • C-Level Interface • Corporate CommunicationsIndustry ExperienceHospitality and Travel Industries, Healthcare, Trade Associations, Non-Profits, Education, Political Advocacy

Listed skills include Cloud Computing, Sharepoint, Project Management, Software Project Management, and 22 others.