Mercedes Spratt, Csm, Cspo Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

Proagrica (Part of Reed Business Information and RELX), St. Louis, MOIntegration Project Manager 5/2019-PresentConducting internal and client stakeholder negotiations spanning multiple portfolios by driving and managing large, complex technical projects.• Provide strategic direction, prioritize, and deliver key initiatives to high top tier client.• Capacity and Demand impact communications.• Identify and recommend process and procedure improvements.• Define, track and report Key Performance Parameters.• Proactive problem management and resolution.• Project budget and schedule ownership.• Partner with all project stakeholders to resolve issue and mitigate project impacts.• Lead team in identifying, researching and coordinating need resources to effectively diagnose/troubleshoot complex project issues.• Facilitate management decision-making by identifying alternative complex issue solutions with risks and impacts.• Communications and presentations to senior and executive management, clients, B2B customers and internal resources and management.

Greater Atlanta Area

Delivery of strategic SAP FI/CO initiatives, critical problem solving, vendor oversight.• Sr. Project Management / Account Management.• Successful project delivery of multiple finance projects of $3-$12MM.• Multi-year program of infrastructure decommissioning, data archiving, financial reporting/ownership transference and strategic planning, asset retrieval/disposal, vendor oversight, issue mitigation/resolution) involving multiple vendor negotiations. • Strategic IT innovation projects: SAP Finance, HR and Supply Chain; largest SAP Cloud. • Hired after 3 years as an independent consultant (see below).

Contracting with The Coca-Cola Company (CCNAG IT), I managed IT custom development, including SAP applications for Finance (Container Deposit Solution, Tax Exempt Certificate Management, Sales quote system, Cost of Sales Budgeting), Procurement (Spend Analytics, e-Sourcing) and Supply Chain (infrastructure, metrics reporting with first global installation of SAP's Supply Chain Management module). I also managed implementation of SAP's first ever installation of its Supply Chain Performance Management module and its associated custom development and portal development of the web-based front end. Also provided mentoring to junior Project Managers.As Program Management consultant to United Air Lines I delivered a $500k short-term Business Process Re-Engineering project for their Fleet Maintenance program.While consulting to the Credit Union Group, I led delivery of ISO 2007 Audit Control processes and documentation within budget and on-time.At Delta AirLines I provided Program and Project Management leadership for the Northwest AirLines acquisition. As PMO Lead I was responsible for 7 divisions, 2 geographic locations, mentoring 14 Project Managers, built best practices for FAA and non-FAA merger activities for on-time and within budget Single Operating Certificate program. This platform was used for subsequent projects involved in the transformation of these two airlines.

Managed strategic initiatives within IT's Strategic Opportunities, working on the next generation of revenue generating platforms.I delivered projects driving over 80% ($70M) of consumer site budget; directed and managed 16 IT project managers. I established PMO strategic direction, SDLC governance and associated artifacts. As Manager of IT Project Managers, I designed and led Stage Gate reviews of all project management deliverables prior to implementation. I also developed program plans, provided crisis project management and recommended third party PM tools. Additionally, I On-boarded, Managed, Instructed and Mentored Project Managers on PM platform and how to work within ATC environment. It was also my responsibility to develop job descriptions and postings, interview / hire employees and delivered individual performance reviews. I also researched and implemented “best of breed” SDLC processes; developed JAVA, B2C and B2B applications, established status reporting to senior management and routinely met with executives of IT as well as all levels of business leadership..

Atlanta, Georgia

As Program/Project Manager consultant resource to AutoTrader.com, I delivered IT projects for this highly successful web client. I also managed high visibility projects totaling $70M utilizing 20 project managers as a member of Fujitsu’s US PM Community of Excellence. Defined PM structure and SDLC; provided executive reporting. I also concurrently led three projects totaling $2.7M. Managed 51 total resources, involving software engineers, UI engineers, QA, BA, content engineers and graphic design team members charged with delivering internet based applications.In this role, I also created project plans, developed and managed budgets, identified risks and proactively resolved issues as well as communicated status to management and stakeholders.

Consulting to Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), I managed special projects including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for SAS development, ($3MM budget, 12 resources) mobile sales application for CRM, ($5MM budget, 17 resources) and a Pricing Authorization Tool, ($3MM budget, 15 resources).I also managed SAP projects including GL, FI/CO, HR and CRM component development and conversions as well as managed on-shore, near-shore and off-shore matrixed teams for SAP application development using PMBOK standards.

As Project Manager / Lead Business Analyst to the DFACS Safe Futures Program ($2MM, 22 resources), I spearheaded administrative functions for the design and implementation of a statewide automated child welfare information system (SACWIS) ($50MM+, five years).

As Sr. PM, I monitored 50+ high visibility multi-year national projects involving 35 project managers nationwide as National PMO senior lead. I also provided leadership of 61 resources on a two year $80MM nationwide project at Delta Air Lines using full life cycle project management for field deployments addressing Y2K risks. Post acquisition by Broadwing (aka Cincinnati Bell), I managed nationwide project teams in data warehousing, procurement, help desk, IMACs and disposal. I also provided Account Management to top tier VOIP manufacturing client.

Provided Project Management consulting to multiple client companies.

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