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Hermosa Beach, CA, US

• Established the Global Program Management function, by developing the strategy, recruiting, training, managing a team of 10 project and program managers and implementing project and performance management processes.
• Drove strategic objectives and KPI targets for all project teams, resulting in a KPI success rate of over 90%.
• Completed successful delivery of over 100 cross-functional projects (ranging from $1M to $12M), with the focus of improving Information Security posture across 5 regions (over 40 Toyota companies globally).
• Managed over $60M global budget (P&L), demand and resource capacity planning.
• Led outsourcing activities including RFPs/RFQs vendor negotiations, SOW, and vendor performance management.

• Directed overall program plan, budget ($100M), scope, risks and issues for integration of over 130 applications as part of legacy servicing application replacement.
• Led a team of 5 project managers to organize and monitor inter-connected projects and to coordinate activities across different stakeholders (engineers, architects, business operations).
• Implemented and administered end-to-end portfolio and project management processes for planning (roadmap, critical path, level of effort), resource utilization, budget management, risk management, team communications.
• Created Portfolio level status reporting and facilitated monthly executive leadership meetings for the 4 top priority strategic initiatives ($30M- $300M): Retail Transformation, Insurance Management, NYDFS, and Lease.
• Implemented Jira, created upskilling training content and led PMO Fundamentals/Agile training for 100+ project team members.
• Collaborated with Finance and IT executive leadership to create Toyota agile framework, conducted deep-dive analysis on over 200 business cases and prioritized the projects based on the strategic objectives and.

Toyota Financial Services

• Established Project Management and BSA Center of Excellence. Implemented best practices, processes, and training which improved successful delivery of projects by 30%.
• Devised overall PMO career path planning, job descriptions and recruiting strategy.
• Developed and delivered methodology, tool training and on-the-job mentoring to 60+ team members.
• Administered in-depth analysis of over 20 under-performing projects to identify gaps, scope creeps and risks. Collaborated with project teams to plan and implement countermeasures to ensure effective risk management.
• Managed C-suite relationship through active communications, providing overall project portfolio health status reports.
• Product Owner for Project Management and Business Analysis tools such as, PPM, DOORS, System Architect, Clarity and iRise.

Agile Certified Practitioner

Pmp

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics