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Sewickley, Pennsylvania, United States

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Greater Pittsburgh Region

Joined the Enterprise Project Management Office and led cross-functional projects with a product impact of ~$2M+ for the ‘Early Pay’ production feature and implementation of a Risk/Security platform upgrade. Utilized best practices and collaborated with Dollar Bank stakeholders, kept the projects on schedule and minimized budget overruns to >5% while solutioning critical issues that threatened a highly publicized launch. Partnered with Project Sponsors and introduced new tools and processes to empower data driven decisions to create Project Champions.• Championed the project management of projects through project scoping, requirements definition, building and maintaining project plans and schedules, resource allocation, tracking deliverables and deliverable ownership, managing an issues log and escalation process, risk mitigation, and analysis of macro data to inform forecasting.• Provided weekly and monthly reporting to multiple levels of EPMO and Business stakeholders.Partnered with Project Sponsors to design and implement Product KPI and success metrics within the project to align with strategic business goals.• Coordinated, led, and directed strategic meetings from Kick Off to Go Live in a production environment to ensure all quality standards were met.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Led the Meta testing program with a budget of $4M+ for multi-generational emerging technologies by collaborating with Meta stakeholders on solutions, specifying product requirements, and defining project scope. Executed 65+ test projects across multiple platforms, business functions, and locales by collaborating with 20+ global resources to administer testing to ~72K dedicated test users to collect user data and deliver results for global launches.• Drove program management across projects through project scoping, requirements definition, building and maintaining project plans and schedules, resource allocation, tracking deliverables and deliverable ownership, managing an issues log and escalation process, risk mitigation, and analysis of macro data to inform forecasting• Coordinated multiple concurrent programs varying in size/scope/complexity with Agile methodologies, spanning across several different teams and locales to support Meta's business strategy• Led strategic planning of programs, supports the research team, navigates ambiguous situations, manages multiple short and long-term program milestones, connects resources to research needs, and removes barriers to doing great work• Maintained a deep, technical end-to-end understanding of the solution and its upstream and downstream dependencies and impacts• Served as a subject matter leader who can dive deeply into cross-functional areas to proactively identify risks before they become issues and develop solutions with cross-functional teams• Created and ensured effective and efficient communication with all levels of Meta and Applause, from leading daily standups with tactical teams to creating and delivering senior executive level presentations with data-backed insights through storytelling• Consulted with Meta on evolving requirements of ongoing and new programs, while influencing Meta by finding opportunity value• Tailored Applause solutions to meet Meta's context and needs

San Francisco Bay Area

Led an emerging technology project by defining product offerings and mapping the competitive landscape. Supports ~10 IT professionals globally to administer internal and external beta trials to ~50K end users, collects feedback, answers technical questions, and reports performance results to senior leadership. Conducts extensive research on industry trends, competitive offerings, and technical performance to provide context when writing business requirements, user stories, and identifying risks.• Facilitates regular team meetings, team coordination, action items, and reporting project progress• Identifies timelines, creates Jira dashboards, defines success metrics, and burndown and scorecards for project• Builds out integrated project dashboards and documentation based on data sets utilizing Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence• Produces concise, crisp, and consequential executive status reports to executive staff • Coordinates across multiple teams and disciplines in diverse geographical locations

Greater Seattle Area

Managed cross-functional teams of ~20 IT professionals, from planning to delivery, in the launch of IT products aboard state-of-the-art cruise ships (Seabourn Ovation and HAL Nieuw Statendam) to meet non-negotiable delivery dates for 2018 global consumer use, achieve brand strategic objectives, and limit IT project resource rework post-delivery to a maximum of 80-hours.• Implemented PMBOK life cycles for IT projects (40 apps, on-board data center infrastructure, global connectivity, and security) on 2 new cruise ships by planning, executing, controlling, and achieving successful delivery to operations with a total operating project budget of ~$14M.• Led daily scrum meetings with global tactical resources and weekly status meetings with key stakeholders to manage, monitor, and control project risk, budget, and schedule in Daptiv (within a 10% acceptable variance via assigned follow-up tasks) to deliver on drop-dead sail constraint.• Established new RFQ, procurement tracking, task variance analysis, and budget forecast report documentation in Confluence for future organizational use.• Facilitated brainstorming and mindmapping sessions with ~8 business groups (~50 stakeholders) to encompass emergent work packages and evaluate impact of business features with integrated change control management.• Maintained effective relationships with ~8 business groups (~30 POCs) to tailor and negotiate business requirements and expectations through stakeholder management to meet quality expectations of project scope.• Managed and evaluated procured resources (human and material) to provide client with accurate progress reports and budget forecasts to provide context for any variances in performance.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Led team of ~10 IT professionals in initiating, planning, and implementing new products for real-time payment and wire transfer software undergoing sanctioned screening enterprise-wide for consumer use in PNC network.• Directed full life cycle of 7 concurrent software projects with total operating budget of $2.5M. Met all requirements within specified timelines and scored in 95th percentile by internal business stakeholders.• Conducted daily scrum standups and weekly strategic defect meetings with ~30 subject matter experts (SMEs) to collect status, establish action items, revise project schedule, and update resource burn reports, following SDLC best practices in Clarity.• Adhered to PNC’s strict quality stipulations while negotiating business requirements to achieve organizational goal of establishing connectivity to a multi-regional bank network of ~20 partners.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Oversaw ~12 IT professionals tasked with designing, developing, and implementing: 5 software projects that provided identification of ERP process gaps and executable solutions that resulted in the recovery of more than $13M in unbilled revenue.• Partnered with Senior Project Manager to acquire and develop a project team with a successful culture by implementing PMBOK best practices, Agile reporting structures, service-level agreements, risk management protocols, change control processes, and weekly organization status reports for C-suite client review.• Collaborated with SMEs to create technical project requirements for ERP system upgrade and new custom solution designed to resolve ongoing billing inconsistencies impacting ~100,000 customers.• Introduced daily scrum meetings to direct, manage, and re-enforce accountability when gathering updates to revise project schedules, resource burn reports, and weekly project status reports.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Prepared and managed Project Management Office (PMO) weekly status reports and monthly capability release program reports for ~30 IT platform projects and developed a Profit and Loss (P&L) investigation across ~25 projects.• Coordinated with senior project manager to manage project plans goals, timeframes, budget, and resources to meet 100% PMO acceptance at phase-gates.• Facilitated project meetings, risk assessments, and strategy discussions with cross-functional project teams and senior managers to meet project milestones for client-facing products.• Specified goals, project strategy, and risk contingency plans in the project plan to support portfolio reporting needs.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Managed a $600K customer engagement campaign to increase e-customer base; maintained project plan, tracked project status, and allocated resources of Marketing, Design, Business Development, and IT teams.• Analyzed competing products and developed gap analysis of client’s online presence to provide C-level executives with insight into current successes and failures to initiate business case for rebranding project.• Used Salesforce to forecast campaign’s projected profitability; presented results to influence target audience.

Greater New York City Area

Directed ~ 3 medical device research projects totaling $750K, to achieve on-time delivery and comprehensive analysis of device usability and database for global clients.• Created and maintained project plans to communicate tasks, milestones, status, and resource allocation to clients, stakeholders, and internal teams to ensure project scope compliance.• Developed new organizational assets (RFPs, SOWs, and weekly status report) for clients and internal teams.• Negotiated and formalized project contracts in excess of $250K with third-party vendors, providing 25% savings to the organization by consolidating multiple projects.

Greater New York City Area

Coordinated ~10 research projects per year, developing scope, schedule, and quality guidelines to achieve medical grant awards in excess of $1.5M/year. Analyzed and prepared project findings for future project optimization.• Managed research studies; screened participants for eligibility, registered subjects with sponsoring agencies, administered lifestyle questionnaires, and followed up with participants.• Collected, recorded, and managed project information in SQL databases to produce on demand reports.

Greater New York City Area

• Collaborated with program director to create project scope, timeline, and quality guidelines• Spearheaded new projects by evaluating previous projects of similar design for optimization• Assisted in collection, analysis, and review of data for presentation and analysis• Supported team members by proactively preparing progress reports and presentations of results• Trained new employees on position responsibilities and project objectives

Greater New York City Area

• Researched supplementary information to support project• Organized and interfaced with potential users to establish an understanding of the project requirements• Familiarized participants with study objectives and addressed follow up questions