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Chicago, Il, Us

Servant Leader on a talented team of Senior Software Engineers!

Chicago, Il, Us

Project Management for Emergency Notification, SAIP, Vesta Alert, and Vesta Communicator.

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Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Business Analyst Project Manager• Managed HCL’s functional team for multimillion dollar software development of a centralized Unemployment Insurance SaaS cloud solution. • Instrumental in successfully achieving payment milestones. • Member of the Program Management Office (PMO) for the WyCAN Consortium.• Experience includes working with technical staff across multiple time zones, including offshore teams. • Lead business analyst in requirement definition and gap analysis with storyboards, use cases and supplemental specification deliverables, business process solutions, scenario development, configuration and customization, user reviews, application and user testing, training with multiple teams in various stages of development. • Project Management areas of concentration included; schedule maintenance with the PMO, managing payment milestones, program plan and client management, reporting and metrics, document change management, functional area risk identification and risk mitigation.

Brentwood, Tn, Us

• Managed IT projects encompassing the following scope criteria: server virtualization, private cloud migration, disaster recovery planning, wide area network upgrade, data center relocation, voice & data carrier porting, and office relocation with new telephony implementation. • Utilized MS Project and MS Office to manage project tasks related to issues, risks, scope changes, and the assigned resource pools and schedules for time tracking.• Turned around the troubled project by separating the vendor in breach of contract while obtaining competitive bids, negotiating and procuring replacement vendor contract• Provided cost savings that exceeded my labor costs by correcting vendor billing issues, negotiating fixed costs, correcting misunderstandings in draft statements of work, and identifying cost-saving alternatives for cost avoidance, significantly improving ROI.

• Successfully completed ten year tenure of employment at the State of Tennessee qualifying for TCRS pension, during many challenging political and bureaucratic challenges that forced me into unreasonable budgets and scopes, without missing a single deadline.• Managed projects encompassing web and mainframe technologies.• Project Manager of vendor systems integration into the enterprise system architecture. Experience in managing vendors and ensuring contract terms are met.• Each year as a State of Tennessee Project Manager, prepared the annual 3 year Information Systems Plan. • Worked cohesively with business users, business analysts, programmers, systems administrators, database administrators, project sponsors and executive management.• Led project kick off meetings, led technical team meetings and reported status. • Worked with technical teams to create the Work Breakdown Structure, prepare Design documents which included: Business Requirements Documentation, Technical Design Documents, Documented Test Cases, which were reviewed and signed by business and technical stakeholders; insured that infrastructure was prepared. Maintained up to date Action Item lists, meeting minutes and project document in MS Project.• Worked with technical team during software development to construct and test components, conduct system testing, integration testing, regression testing, stress testing, to insure quality assurance for technical and business requirements meet acceptance criteria. • Create or oversee the creation of change requests as needed, control costs, document implementation plans, obtain User Acceptance Testing Sign off, maintain the up to date information in MS Project. • Oversaw Implementation, verification, and formal project closure acceptance sign off.

• Returned to the State of Tennessee converting from contractor to full time employ with the career emphasis to further develop project management expertise. • Managed Remedy Action Request System development and maintenance in support of Statewide business processes related to the department's: IT Security, IT Asset Management, IT Change Requests, IT Helpdesk, Commissioner Ombudsman and Child Perpetrator system.

Miramar, Florida, Us

• Managed staff on multi-billion dollar projects in support of various clients.• Project Manager responsible for launching an internet eCommerce system and the company website.• Performed technical interviews and hiring.• Managed office staff and budget for 25 consultants. Most of those staff were working on the ION project (a VOIP project) at Sprint Long Distance.

Miramar, Florida, Us

• Took on risks outside the scope of the clients EDS contract, and managed them to a successful closure.• Founded contracting company (United Data Corporation d.b.a. Paragon Consulting Group) to Analyze, Test and Develop code and perform other IT services.• Project Manager of first project, which was the implementation of a commercial off the shelf software Best Fixed Assets and migrated the legacy system financial information from four large corporations to the new system.• Project management with co-founder of PCG on the ERP/WMS Integration project. Successfully completed project to replace the Mainframe/Circa interface with a new BAAN ERP interface to the CIRCA Warehouse Management System. • Performed operational support for daily sales orders taken via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), both flat file and X12 format.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

• Took second contract job to analyze, test and develop code for the financial services industry.

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

• Took first contract job and moved out of state to analyze, test and develop code for the financial services industry.

• Learned to analyze, test and develop code for statewide financial systems.