Mary Beth Ambriz Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia

Greater Atlanta Area

• Built spreadsheets and dashboards for professional and personal purposes, applying the following as applicable: PMP certification, Visual Basic (macros), pivot tables, graphs, conditional formatting, and more.

Waukegan, Il

• Initiated and managed multiple simultaneous capital projects that contributed to the overall capital project portfolio strategy of US Commercial IT.• Created and managed schedules and financials for multiple cross-functional teams per project to ensure on-time delivery within budget.• Hosted regular steering committee meetings to apprise project governance of current status, address significant issues/risks, and make critical decisions.• Led monthly status meeting of 40 individuals, including 12 senior management leaders. Managed monthly collection of project statuses, delivery dates, and financials for the entire US Commercial IT project portfolio.

Waukegan, Il

Project manager for 7 international cross-functional teams in the Middle East, Australia/New Zealand, East Asia, Africa, and the Netherlands to implement a financial planning system at affiliate sites.• Liaison between US HQ and 7 affiliates in the Middle East, Australia/New Zealand, East Asia, Africa, and Europe.• Traveled to each country to conduct project workshops tailored to each affiliate.• Managed language barriers and differing cultural expectations and customs.• Created and managed schedules for multiple cross-functional teams based on project timelines, team availability, financial planning calendar, and international holidays.• Led inter-divisional IT teams, business users, and steering committees to achieve the same goal.• Hosted weekly calls at affiliate-convenient times to further project progress and resolve issues.Subject matter expert (SME) for international financial planning system.• Independently conceived of and designed new user-friendly navigation menu by assessing business processes and system inefficiencies. Proposed to steering committee and drove to implementation.• Documented requirements, test plans, installation scripts, unit/system/user acceptance tests.• Created templates and instructions.• Trained over 65 international and domestic colleagues on use of system.• Certified in Cognos 10 Business Insight Advanced and Query Studio.

Waukegan, Il

• Accepted to two-year post-graduate rotational program in IT.• Developed base skills as a business systems analyst, learning all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including: collaborating with software end users; writing and executing software requirements, design documents, installation docs, system testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT); and training users and creating training materials.• Certified in Cognos 8 Report Studio and Query Studio.