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Powder Springs, Ga, Us

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Dallas, Tx, Us

Senior Project ManagerConsultant for CGI, Inc. Supervised as Lead Project Manager cloud migrations projects to Microsoft cloud platform. Led 3 project scrum teams in transforming AT&T Chief Data Office to reduce costs, and deliver immediate business results for their customers. Provided oversight on a $10 million budget with 3 distributed teams, hosting daily scrum meetings, to enable retirement of legacy applications and the migration of 3 hosted internal applications that have reduced operating costs by $7 million dollars annually.Data Platform Transformation: Led scrum/distributed teams in providing technical solution and implementation transforming 17 applications from on-prem to the cloud via application management. Directed application rationalization with strategic planning and execution of over 35 applications to retirement resulting in total operating savings of $9 million dollars.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

IT Project ManagerConsultant for CGI, Inc. Led implementation of online telecommunications applications to optimize customers' cross-channel exposure to a full menu of services and products across all customer touchpoints, including mobile. Managed distributed teams consisting of 40+ onshore resources and 45+ offshore resources. Managed schedule and scope for multiple projects using Agile/Scrum methodologies. Successfully migrated the below projects from Waterfall to Scrum with zero delays in overall schedule delivery.Small Business: Directed $8M project that enabled the exchange of retired customer portal for small business customers to new platform that will allow for the first time the customer to buy and service digitally with a seamless experience. Customer will now have the functionality with one platform and login to perform account changes, add/move services or upgrades.Mobile: Coordinated sprint planning and led user story acceptance with delivery teams to align with overall sprint 3 week iteration schedule and release planning. Worked with business partners for requirement gathering, technical solution architecture and building product backlog. Managed execution of two-way interactive (SMS) system that proactively delivers messages to customers and allows them to reply and have a text conversation with service representatives, using existing chat infrastructure. This change contributed to business savings of $2M/month and forecasted savings of $89,379,900 over 5 years.Digital Experience: Facilitated backlog grooming sessions, release and sprint planning, daily standups, and impediment removal. Completed product demonstrations, retrospectives, and resolved actions, and assisted Product Owners with backlog maintenance. Led a portfolio of projects migrating retail ordering, billing, marketing, and advertising to the new integrated AT&T New Customers Flow for National Rollout targeting 4,000 new online customers per month.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

IT Product & Project ManagerDelivered the formulation and execution of Total Network (EFM and Fiber) and 911 program plans, strategies, and functions. Directed cross-functional teams to implement upgrade/replace network servers and switches to support our regional rollout to our entire network. Exceeded executive leadership directive in completing infrastructure enhancements in a 12-month timetable to support Fiber initiative for all our customers.Telecommunications: Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review and Retrospective. Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports and velocity target updates. Assumed and re-organized approach for program implementation of Cbeyond Ethernet in 14 US markets. Assigned resources for Total Network program and project implementations which covered a team of 55+ resources from Marketing, Engineering, Operations, and IT. Led project initiative to implement Ethernet DIA product to Cbeyond clients providing high bandwidth access product 100MB to 1GB.Cloud Implementation: Facilitated the design and future administration of incentive compensation plans for the sales force, 500+ sales reps, with a monthly operating budget of $2M. Lead Sales Operations project to migrate off Motiva ICM to top tier Gartner SPM system (Xactly). Implemented effective customer targeting and reporting tools to support on-going sales objectives and assist the management team in evaluating sales productivity/performance.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Project ManagerDeveloped/implemented IT infrastructure programs to improve IT ROI, time to market application release and data protection.Corporate Systems Implementation and Integration: Managed a large team of IVR and Telephony developers to deliver all new consumers site projects within the call center footprint (continental US) of the entire organization. Assisted with the business on estimates and budgets between $20K-$2M for the flight plan of new projects and Small System Change Requests (SSCR’s) for the entire year impacting IVR and Telephony business solutions. Designed a business continuity product template to be included in future requests for proposals. Contributed to the development of a risk management strategy.Infrastructure Support: Led a matrixed team of system design engineers, system build engineers, infrastructure technologist to successfully deliver multiple concurrent infrastructure changes in a large scale environment. Managed end of life initiative to exchange servers (over 200) in Northeast Region of the continental US to support new IVR and Telephony technologies for new call/upgraded call centers.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Project ManagerActed as team lead to improve team performance and productivity in process, control evaluation, assurance, management reporting, and enterprise cost reduction programs. Participant in initial Primavera tool launch to manage online banking projects to align Enterprise direction to reduce time, testing, and development errors causing increased IT spend.Enterprise Integration: Led business analyst team in gathering requirements and providing functional analysis of online systems for the Crestar to SunTrust merger. Developed proposals/recommendations responding to RFP/RFI’s, development of statement of work, developed product specifications, business requirements, test cases, technical requirements, test plans, project plans, process and procedures for new product implementations.Online Banking: Assisted the Plumtree Portal 5.0.4 and migration of 1M customers off the retiring legacy platform to the new Plumtree platform. Co-Delivered eBusiness Program which paper suppression, password set and reset, and customer update functionality for all Online Banking customers.Online Identity Management: Coordinated an enterprise Online identity management (Oracle Core ID) and (EMC/RSA adaptive authentication 6.0) multi factor authentication solution across channels for SunTrust external customers.