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Greater New York City Area

Jersey City Nj

• Proactive point of contact on a Federal compliance project which focused on Application Security and Certification across the Enterprise.• Worked across all technical environments ,UNIX, Oracle, Windows, and MSSQL to gain understanding of the unique challenges and impact on the scope.• Worked directly with individual Application and Technology Managers to ensure that critical applications met project scope and federal compliance.• Developed MS Excel Pivot tables and Vlookups to… Show more • Proactive point of contact on a Federal compliance project which focused on Application Security and Certification across the Enterprise.• Worked across all technical environments ,UNIX, Oracle, Windows, and MSSQL to gain understanding of the unique challenges and impact on the scope.• Worked directly with individual Application and Technology Managers to ensure that critical applications met project scope and federal compliance.• Developed MS Excel Pivot tables and Vlookups to analyze large amounts of data from across the enterprise systems.• Created, updated, and maintained the MS Project plan to ensure on time, and on budget execution of project related tasks, milestones, and deliverables.• Utilized MS PowerPoint to create status reports and updates for senior level management.• Applied relationship building skills rather than strong arm tactics to achieve cooperation with the project. • Through effective follow-up, with downstream stakeholders, ensured that all aspects of the project met deadlines. Show less

Greater New York City Area

• Acted as the point of contact for the project team, business partners and management to provide updates, resolve issues and establish the project delivery vision of the Specialty Operating Platform Project team. Specialties: MS Project and SharePoint• Utilized Waterfall Project Management methodology to support and guide the project to its logical conclusion• Followed strict SDLC guidelines to create the MS Project Plan• Directly responsible for updating and maintaining all… Show more • Acted as the point of contact for the project team, business partners and management to provide updates, resolve issues and establish the project delivery vision of the Specialty Operating Platform Project team. Specialties: MS Project and SharePoint• Utilized Waterfall Project Management methodology to support and guide the project to its logical conclusion• Followed strict SDLC guidelines to create the MS Project Plan• Directly responsible for updating and maintaining all aspects of the MS Project Professional Server plan including budget, schedule, and resource allocations. • Work closely with Project Business Analyst to collect and organize business side project requirements and to build a product hierarchy matrix • Worked along with Infrastructure Architecture team to perform Gap Analysis and create a Future State Diagram as required by the PMO• Collected project documentation to support PMO Phase Gates requirements• Maintained Project SharePoint space with latest version documents and project information.• Updated MS Project Plan with latest task status and assigned shared resources to appropriate tasks• Coordinated project team meetings with cross functional internal and external project teams, vendor teams, and other stakeholders Show less

Fairlawn Nj

• Acted as the point of contact for gathering and documenting requirements, participated in review sessions, enable organization readiness, testing, and go-live support. • Utilized Agile Project Management methodology to support a small team of Business Analysts on a low impact project.• Continually sought to identify, suggest, and implement process improvements, control measures, and solutions. • Utilized MS Excel to create, track, and adjust budget on an ongoing basis. Specialty:… Show more • Acted as the point of contact for gathering and documenting requirements, participated in review sessions, enable organization readiness, testing, and go-live support. • Utilized Agile Project Management methodology to support a small team of Business Analysts on a low impact project.• Continually sought to identify, suggest, and implement process improvements, control measures, and solutions. • Utilized MS Excel to create, track, and adjust budget on an ongoing basis. Specialty: MS Excel• Documented a process based on operator description, process mapping and workflow/gap analysis. Monitored measurements, commitments, project attributes and progress against the project plan. • Coordinated across teams, along with management, to ensure aligned resource engagement. Organized and lead weekly meetings and conference calls with global cross-functional teams to capture and streamline processes while noting and accounting for required foreign local standards. • Developed Standard Operating Procedures for cross-functional and global stakeholders across the Americas to increase department efficiency and stakeholders’ satisfaction while establishing solid training material for future members of those teams. • Interacted with senior management and PMO to provide feedback on current status and to discuss strategy and prioritization of future steps. • Utilized MS Project to organize, maintain and drive project plan tasks and deliverables.• Created required SharePoint structure to maintain affective archiving of project deliverables, published process map and process artifacts. Specialties: MS Project and SharePoint Show less

Jersey City Nj

• Supported Global Deployment and implementation of all projects within of the Global Sourcing and Procurement Services program within the Procurement Shared Services space.• Adhered to SDLC guidelines for application implementation. • Used robust SDLC project management styles to support a diverse group project teams• Acted as a communication conduit between the stakeholders and the team • Created SharePoint structure required to support affective archiving of project… Show more • Supported Global Deployment and implementation of all projects within of the Global Sourcing and Procurement Services program within the Procurement Shared Services space.• Adhered to SDLC guidelines for application implementation. • Used robust SDLC project management styles to support a diverse group project teams• Acted as a communication conduit between the stakeholders and the team • Created SharePoint structure required to support affective archiving of project artifacts.. Appointed as a SharePoint Power user with unrestricted access to create and maintain the PMO SharePoint site. • Developed dashboard reports for project schedule and financials. Developed and tracked the master list of program deliverables through completion as well as effectively coordinated with cross-functional team to manage project risks, dependencies and mitigation plans. Tracked critical success metrics for implementations to measure utilization, sourcing processes and system performance across all applications within program.• Developed and published project schedules using MS Project as well as configure MS Excel and SharePoint project work break down schedules. • Lead project schedule reviews during weekly PMO governance meetings and manage updates to the plan via project team progress reviews. Identify and alert management team of schedule exceptions reported and potential change control requests. • Manage change requests; generate reports on change requests and attend CRB meetings to review and update the change logs.• Maintain and monitor Issue and Risk Logs for Buyer Portal and Ariba project deployment and implementation. Support third-party SLA monitoring, issue resolution, business reviews and planning sessions.• Create and maintain PowerPoint presentations with a focus of status and progress reporting to Executive Steering Committees and Senior Management stakeholders. Show less

Fairlawn Nj

• Play a pivotal role in the advancement and improvement of company's business processes. Document a process based on operator description, process mapping and workflow/gap analysis. Monitor measurements, commitments, project attributes and progress against the project plan. • Manage the efforts to identify, revise and improve existing reporting processes. Maintain and monitor Issue and Risk logs for assigned projects. Specialties: MS Project and MS Excel• Work collaboratively with… Show more • Play a pivotal role in the advancement and improvement of company's business processes. Document a process based on operator description, process mapping and workflow/gap analysis. Monitor measurements, commitments, project attributes and progress against the project plan. • Manage the efforts to identify, revise and improve existing reporting processes. Maintain and monitor Issue and Risk logs for assigned projects. Specialties: MS Project and MS Excel• Work collaboratively with region and departmental administrative users to analyze business requirements and identify solutions that measurably serve to maximize resources (people, money, time). Map processes in MS Excel and identify gaps in each region's process.• Conduct complex analyses and lead cross-functional teams using appropriate process improvement methodologies that further organizational and strategic goals, identify and analyze current-state processes and issues, and recommend and implement measurable process improvements to the Global Operations Steering Committee. Show less

Newark, Nj

• Monitor measurements, commitments, project attributes and progress against the project plan through the Task Look Ahead (TLA) reporting. Maintain and monitor Issue and Risk logs for assigned projects. Specialties: MS Project and MS Excel• Provide proactive support to EPMO/DPMO staff and project teams. Schedule meetings, create and distribute minutes and document the resolution of action items.• Administer all project documents and coordinate documentation revisions and releases;… Show more • Monitor measurements, commitments, project attributes and progress against the project plan through the Task Look Ahead (TLA) reporting. Maintain and monitor Issue and Risk logs for assigned projects. Specialties: MS Project and MS Excel• Provide proactive support to EPMO/DPMO staff and project teams. Schedule meetings, create and distribute minutes and document the resolution of action items.• Administer all project documents and coordinate documentation revisions and releases; ensure that project documents are archived in Planview for later retrieval. Administer any project-related SharePoint sites.• Develop and maintain procedures, tools, and practices that systematically control revisions to the scope, schedule, and cost of organizational projects to ensure that- Changes are well defined and coordinated; approved at appropriate authority levels; and approved changes are fully documented, promptly communicated to stakeholders and stored. • Review submitted requests for changes within the organization and ensures required signatures and documentation are completed; coordinate and conduct change control meetings; update and maintain change control database; maintain change control supportive documentation and issue various reports to show status of change control. Show less

Paramus, Nj

• Identified areas requiring improvement in efficiency to qualify for sustainable points.• Proposed action plans to reach required efficiency levels to qualify for grants.• Identified existing key processes which expedited the certification procedure. • Manage strategic project initiatives, updates, and outcomes in a project plan with deliverables by the use of MS project.• Monitor measurements, commitments, project attributes and progress against the project plan through the… Show more • Identified areas requiring improvement in efficiency to qualify for sustainable points.• Proposed action plans to reach required efficiency levels to qualify for grants.• Identified existing key processes which expedited the certification procedure. • Manage strategic project initiatives, updates, and outcomes in a project plan with deliverables by the use of MS project.• Monitor measurements, commitments, project attributes and progress against the project plan through the Task Look Ahead (TLA) reporting. Show less

Paramus

• Achievements: President’s List for entire college career - ASL Honor Society Member. GPA 4.0• Specialties: Environmental health and safety; Sustainability solutions; Prioritization; Statistical Analysis; Project and Excel

Client Locations

URL Studios – Ocean Township NJ Project Consultant – Consultant • Provided analytical and administrative support to the executive committee by maintaining and reporting on product and project status for client project initiatives • Developed, maintained and executed MS Excel spread sheets based on schedules and budgets • Maintained and managed relationships with nationwide network of print and mailing vendorsThe New York Botanical Garden– Bronx, NY Production… Show more URL Studios – Ocean Township NJ Project Consultant – Consultant • Provided analytical and administrative support to the executive committee by maintaining and reporting on product and project status for client project initiatives • Developed, maintained and executed MS Excel spread sheets based on schedules and budgets • Maintained and managed relationships with nationwide network of print and mailing vendorsThe New York Botanical Garden– Bronx, NY Production Analyst – Consultant • Mobilized stakeholders to assure projects adhered to stringent timelines and insured minimal variance from budgets. • Collaborated and insured recommendations for improvement to areas of inefficiencies as related to outdated product production.• Developed and implemented SOP’s for competitive bid process and identified appropriate vendor to create single source and alternative plan solutions. • Delivered business insights, supply planning, analyses, estimating, scheduling, trafficking, and purchasing.URL Studios – Ocean Township NJ Social Media Manager – Consultant • Devised and incorporated client management strategies through the use of online marketing. • Maintained social media community to assure effective traffic and community involvement. • Led cross-functional teams to conceptualize, develop, and deploy programs and content that increased social media. Show less

Greater New York City Area

• Instituted comprehensive MS Excel dashboards that helped give insight and drive business decision-making. Build out financial and procurement metrics through deep and innovative analysis. Spearheaded forecasting and financial reporting using a variety of tools. • Executed strategic project initiatives, product planning, updates, and outcomes in a multi-tiered project plan with complex deliverables. • Launched a project plan for coordinating, monitoring, and control all production and… Show more • Instituted comprehensive MS Excel dashboards that helped give insight and drive business decision-making. Build out financial and procurement metrics through deep and innovative analysis. Spearheaded forecasting and financial reporting using a variety of tools. • Executed strategic project initiatives, product planning, updates, and outcomes in a multi-tiered project plan with complex deliverables. • Launched a project plan for coordinating, monitoring, and control all production and manufacturing functions for assigned product lines. Executed assigned tasks in the trafficking, maintaining bills of materials, and warehousing of multi version products. Monitored cost throughout the product delivery cycle.• Supply Planning - Sourced potential suppliers for defined scopes of work and generated RFI, RFQ. Tracked supplier performance and business unit's acceptance. • A centralized point of contact between the external vendors and the internal editorial, creative, & marketing associates. Managed expectations, identified risks & issues and kept required tasks to a tight timeline. Special Project ResultsFormulated and mapped out a process which assured the safe and accurate transition of production from multiple domestic vendors to a centralized overseas source solution for a multimedia product line.Project Coordinator – Education Division Show less

• Managed all aspects of day-to-day print operations including estimating, bid analysis, vendor relations and negotiations.• Carried out full scope project management role from conception to completion.• Maintained specification for client requested promotional and advertising specialty products. Identified appropriate vendor and provided estimates, timelines, and appropriate samples. Managed the entire scope of the project once final client side decisions were made. Strategized… Show more • Managed all aspects of day-to-day print operations including estimating, bid analysis, vendor relations and negotiations.• Carried out full scope project management role from conception to completion.• Maintained specification for client requested promotional and advertising specialty products. Identified appropriate vendor and provided estimates, timelines, and appropriate samples. Managed the entire scope of the project once final client side decisions were made. Strategized appropriate solutions to printing problems related to various substrates including fabric, plastic, and wood. Bolstered total packaging and fulfillment solutions. • Studied problem areas of production and manufacturing. Compiled extensive customer cost and usage analysis, evaluating and adjusting short range plans and objectives to assure they are internally consistent and compatible with overall company objectives, while remaining competitive. Crafted recommendations for productivity and quality improvements through the use of new methods. Show less

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Enviromental Managment, 4.0

Activities and Societies: President's List ASL Honor Society Summa Cum Laude

A.S. Marketing, Marketing