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New York, New York, United States

Project Manager to a leading media-industry client; collaborating with executive-level management to define project scope and analyze end-user requirements. Engaged to develop content business and workflow solutions.• Facilitation of a cross-functional team using hybrid methodology to provide deliverables.• Assessed project performance and launched corrective action when needed.• Leveraged technical skills to identify and resolve project issues.• Collected and analyzed feedback to improve processes, products, and services.• Collaborated with executive management and stakeholders to develop project scope.

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Technology advisor and Project/Product Manager to clients; collaborating with executive-level management to define project scope and analyze end-user requirements. Apply Agile/Scrum methodologies to business and workflow solutions; in support of strategic business initiatives.

New York, New York, United States

Client-facing Project Manager/Scrum Master that works with Stakeholders, Business Clients, Sponsors, Product Teams and Vendors in line with achieving company goals & objectives. Budget creation, Product planning, Roadmaps, Workflows, Research, Procurement, Sourcing, Vendor-Client Relationship.• Document project scope and recommended proposals.• Implemented a Project oriented structure, within a strong ad-hoc culture.• Worked with Scrum teams to remove impediments blocking the completion of work or commitments.• Assisted several groups by the development of projects in Jira, to manage and coordinate team tasks, products and deliverables.• Designed workflow solution around patch management, utilizing and integrating several open-source backend components.• Evaluated upcoming and potential projects for a preliminary 2 year roadmap.• Took lead in organizing and defining the scope of several new business unit specific projects.• Redesigned the Helpdesk Support System and Portal in Jira, to provide improved organization of different issues and request tickets.

New York, New York, United States

Brought an agile mindset and practices to help facilitate content creation. Promoting close collaboration, communication and constant feedback, which made the team more flexible, and able to anticipate changes, achieving constant incremental progress until content completion.• Served as a servant leader/facilitator for two separate teams, of approximately 30 individual resources under a Digital First narrative.• Facilitation of a cross-functional team using agile methodology to create content deliverables.• Keeper of the Scrum process, responsible for ensuring the team has everything they need to deliver value. Including, but not limited to: facilitating meetings, coaching the team, removing impediments, providing feedback, backlog grooming, and helping in writing user stories. • Lead multiple Retrospectives after the completion of Sprints to identify and define the ways of working that were advantageous vs. non-productive.• Responsible for drafting and creating several key project deliverables, including Statement Of Work and tracking workflow forms in Smartsheet.

New York, Ny

Project Manager on multiple Active Directory domain migrations, for several business divisions. In addition, managed the implementation of a comprehensive Apple computer management solution and simultaneously a Proof of Concept project around several Windows 10 Readiness solutions.• Manage large scale, infrastructure projects with high level of urgency and visibility across the organization in a hybrid waterfall/agile (scrum) environment.• Engagement with Solutions Delivery, Client Services, Business Sponsors, Key Stakeholders, Help Desk and Project team to share project goals, implementation scheduling, execution and metrics reporting.• Managed project team of internal and external resources, globally.• Successful completion of projects, several resulting in project closing 20% or more under budget.• Managed project financials including P&L and budget forecasting.• Facilitated daily and weekly cadence calls, to ensure project status, risks and issues are identified, tracked and resolved.• Removed resource roadblocks, by performing systems engineering task such as Active Directory administration and device management policies & configurations.• Developed processes to maintain and update the standard corporate configuration template periodically with operating system, security, and application updates.• Designed and developed a Zero Touch workstation solution, as part of employment onboarding.

New York, Ny

Maintained relationships and project oversight between Information Technology and Christie’s International Media Division. Worked closely with colleagues to ensure that any enterprise wide requirements or cross-business dependencies are identified and accounted for.• Implementation and integration of new Publishing System with several core systems. Automating the consolidation of property attributes from multiple sources, reducing production time by over 50%.• Identified problems and needs across processes, IT systems and organization structure. • Provided continuous feedback to business stakeholders with regards to project progress and status.• Worked with business stakeholders to perform up-front, high level problem analysis to help shape and define the business need and identify operational efficiency.• Built and administrated cloud infrastructure instances in AWS, of primary content management related backend systems.• Liaise with IT architecture functions to ensure that proposed solutions are consistent with the overall IT and business strategy

New York, Ny • London, England • Beijing, China

Helped leading publishing companies in supporting mission-critical editorial production systems. Provided supervising, planning and managing of multifaceted IT projects with multiple deliverables and complex dependencies. Projects were often multi-disciplinary and required the coordination of geographically dispersed resources.• Executed project assignments at client sites, including residency relocation at international bureaus.• Worked closely with stakeholders, vendors, developers in identifying requirements, updating and designing workflow processes, and creating solutions that meet clients ongoing business needs.• Developed and solved technical issues for several international clients workflows and production systems.• Developed appropriate workflow models for the proper integration of MEI software at client sites including Customer Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Documents, Use Cases, and Specifications.• Assisted customer sites with integration of MEI software with third-party software packages already in use.

New York, Ny

Key technology advisor to publishing-industry clients; collaborating with executive-level management to define project scope and analyze end-user requirements. Engaged to develop content management, business and workflow solutions; in support of strategic business initiatives.• Project Manager of mission-critical applications upgrade, across 19 brands and 4 locations in the US.• Provided managed workflow expertise and support for new publication acquisitions.• Trained Director and Senior level management staff on primary production system.• Worked with clients on future conversion projects and implementations.• Created documentation regarding operation and policies for administrating production system.

New York, Ny

Project Manager for the implementation and deployment of a new publishing system across 9 brands and 200 end-users in 3 locations. Including replication of the publishing systems database for disaster recovery, test environment, roll-out schedules, created best practices, training of end-users, coordinated with DBAs and desktop support on roll-outs, maintenance windows, backups and oversaw go-lives.• Project Manager for the transition of mission-critical editorial applications, across 16 brands, 4 locations and over 300 end-users.• Provided expertise in Macintosh and Production workflow, to aid in SOX compliancy.• Provided ongoing workflow analysis solutions for editorial and design teams. • Managed the day-to-day operations of publishing systems: ongoing application support and troubleshooting for publishing system, Adobe products and font management.• Quality assurance reviews of InDesign, InCopy templates to troubleshoot issues and ensure parity between all workflows wherever possible. Creating new and revising existing templates as needed, working with design staffs during redesigns and new product development.• Leveraged features within the new publishing system, along with custom tool development to meet editorial teams changing needs from print-centric workflow to multi-channel output.• Developed training manuals and curriculum, best practices, workflow diagrams, troubleshooting guides.• Managed the implementation of a Netboot server, for mass deployment of software and workstations.

New York, Ny

Managed the Editorial Systems department (staff of 2) for The Deal, a financial newspaper. Assumed the role on numerous projects; most notably, installing a new publishing system for editorial operations. Developed automations to repurpose editorial content to online products and syndication partners. Later promoted to Director of Systems.•Managed the implementation of a new production system and conversion from QPS.•Supervised and coordinated the training for all Editorial staff on new production system.•Developed automated scripts to facilitate workflow between production and web environment.•Stabilized and enhanced the production environment to facilitate production.•Provided IT assistance and management to HR and Office Services.•Extend life cycle of workstations, resulting in reducing cost of new purchases.

Certificate In Project Management

Architecture