Norman Naylor, Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Lynchburg, Va, Us

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Work with highly knowledgeable IT professionals to break large business needs down into manageable pieces.Create project charters and project plans on aggressive schedules to provide increased business value to customers (faculty and staff of the university).Monitor and assist engineers, system administrators, and other highly skilled IT professionals to assure delivery in a highly dynamic environment.Oversee and coordinate multiple projects over time to deliver maximum value within given constraints.Coordinate procurement of services and hardware from obtaining quotes through contract review/negotiation and processing of purchase orders.Identify and manage risk.Assist with the annual preparation of business cases for pending IT initiatives.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Worked with senior-level IT management (CIO, Enterprise Architect, Directors) to identify business value in proposed IT projects through analysis and presentation. Spearheaded the creation of new business-oriented project chartering process.Performed retroactive analyses to prove measurable business value from delivered IT projects.

Consulting with new business to define requirements and build structure around the development of an IT product from initial concept to Phase I launch.

• Designing Project Management workshops for various organizations.• Developing requirements and material for New Media seminars.• Creating multiple business development and coaching organizations.• Facilitating over 200 introductions to create fruitful business relationships—earning a reputation as a “Connector”.• Cultivating professional relationships with more than 25 community leaders for mutual benefit.• Writing and "evangelizing" on Project Management and Risk Management practices.• Proofreading and participating in the creation of a best-selling book on using LinkedIn to maximize impact.• Providing leadership for numerous community and non-profit organizations.Marketing Research, Strategic Alignments, Community and Client Relationship Development, Personnel Development, Motivation and Training, Communications, Contingency Planning, Goal Setting

Job Description: Led cross-functional teams of 5-20 people to deliver clear business benefits.Accomplishments:• Coordinated a team of 20 from diverse disciplines and two countries to complete the final stages of a 500-person facility build-out in Santiago, Chile, saving the company $10.6 million per year.• Applied established PM techniques (scope, schedule, risk, and communication management), interpersonal leadership skills, and “sweat equity” to rescue a foundering $1.2 million Application Security Project and deliver it on time and on budget.• Coordinated and augmented the efforts of international Telecommunication and Procurement teams to streamline global voice and data communications and unify service contracts, resulting in $4.2 million in projected savings over five years.• Led and coordinated leaders from divergent business and functional units to build a business case to determine the steps and costs of consolidating test environments from four large mainframes. This information was presented to senior IT management for budgeting and strategic planning.• Facilitated efforts to establish global technology roadmaps and standards by maintaining focus, coordinating efforts and implementing new technology. These efforts later served as the foundation of a massive enterprise-wide initiative.• Developed structure and timelines around efforts to consolidate global desktop purchases and contracts.• Effectively utilized “down” time to make improvements to PMO’s set of tools and processes.• Coordinated exploratory discussions with a major client on the development of new products and relationships.• Led team meetings, made presentations, and produced notes/dashboard reports as required.• Developed and nurtured excellent professional working relationships with personnel throughout IT environment (in the US, UK, and Chile), resulting in faster team engagements and improved results.

Job Description:Worked independently and with small teams of experts to monitor, measure, and report on developing risk exposures in the business environment.Accomplishments:• Worked with Executive Management to create and implement a best-in-class risk monitoring and reporting system, minimizing potential losses by 72% over two years.• Coordinated efforts across management levels and organizational functions to develop and model meaningful performance metrics to report to executive management and to our parent company (H&R Block).• Within the first sixty days of hire, I repaired numerous damaged relationships between my department and other areas of the company. These efforts generated trust and cooperation between functional areas and greatly expedited the exchange of information.• Developed a new tool for calculating hedging requirements and discovered errors in previous work. This enabled more efficient and more accurate monitoring of hedges and better protection of company assets.• Led executive level meetings, made presentations, and guided discussions to focus attention on the highest priority issues.• Summarized monthly results in written reports for distribution across the organization.• Utilized slow periods to create and implement a new process for tracking legally required loan officer training, reducing reporting time by 75%.

Job Description: Met, individually or as team member, with borrowers of various financial institutions to analyze their assets and liabilities and to document weaknesses in their collateral base.Accomplishments:• Designed and implemented a database to resolve differences among three parties in a bankruptcy dispute, greatly accelerating reconciliation and leading to savings of approximately $30,000.• Diligently analyzed the financial position of a borrower to discover they could no longer support their credit line. This allowed the creditor to limit losses by 50%.

Mba, International Finance

Activities and Societies: Leadership in various social organizations.

Bs, Industrial Psychology

Activities and Societies: Four year member of Corps of Cadets; Fish Camp Counselor; Hospitality Committee

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