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Calm Leadership Driving ChangeExperienced in Information Technology project management & leadership roles by consistently deliveringassignments on time and budget for over 20 years.Executed projects in the financial, pharmaceutical, retail and manufa...
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Portfolio Projects
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- Implementing Informatica Cloud to have bidirectional data integration with CallidusCloud for a global medical device company. The first is to have an ETL Layer from SAP Order and Revenue data into CallidusCloud. The second is to extract CallidusCloud's computed commission data to a data mart.
- Engaged SAP and Informatica Customer Satisfaction teams to get technical issues resolved.
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- Instructor for : Professional Scrum Master 1, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP). and SQL
- Agile Coach. For one client, I recommended switching them from Scrum to Kanban methodology based on their need for continuous development. For another, client, I am coaching them on breaking down epics into smaller stories and reviewing the storing grooming process.
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Consolidate 1 million daily file transfers to a single vendor Managed File Transfer Platform.
Coordinating the clients and 3rd party integrator’s resources to keep the program on track during the Analysis and Build phases and oversaw the creation of the test and production
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- Managed the End to End and UAT testing for a new NetSuite implementation for a highly complex POS retail and eCommerce application.
- Coordinated testing resources from company’s IT staff, implementation partner, and with several outside vendors.
- Monitored and tracked testing progress and defect management using burn down charts and status reporting. Led Daily status meetings. Reported on progress and Key Performance indicators 2-3 times a day. Project was successfully implemented.
- Jira Administrator to assign access, manage workflows, track progress and perform bulk changes and imports.
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- Managed multiple business and technology initiatives for the North American region Agencies and Agency-Customer relations.
- Led projects of mixed methodologies of Waterfall and Agile (SAFe) that had to ensure that dependencies and timings were met to deliver projects on time for end-to-end testing and scheduled monthly release cycle. Facilitated Scrum of Scrum meetings, Stakeholder meetings, and demand in-take meetings. Negotiated change to schedules due to changing management priorities, team capacity issues, and other roadblocks. Coached business and IT teams transforming to Scrum on Agile concepts. Managed risks and issues.
- Accountable for project budget forecasts and tracking actuals to ensure compliance within lower and upper limits. Executed appropriate actions when items were out of bounds.
- Applications involved web development, email content generation, and agency/customer texting.
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- Developing a new Ecommerce site. Insured complete methodology practiced including Sprint Planning, Scrum Meeting, Sprint Review, and Retrospective ceremonies. Resolved any interference or issues. Produced burndown chart and other reporting.
- Product Owner for comprehensive job board features to focus on Schaumburg employers
- Continually write and groom product backlog and working with stakeholders.
- Engaged in Product Roadmap and release planning. Prepared business and technical architectures for business expansion.
- Successfully started and coached two scrum teams and ensured continual improved velocity and team cohesion.
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- Managed entire operations of B2B and B2C retail Sign Company growing sales 450%. Acted as project manager for all sales and operations activities.
- Established growth by setting monthly, quarterly and yearly target goals for sales team.
- Improved value stream by removing non-essential work and adding new processes to reduce waste and rework by 80%.
- Set release plan for target products and customer markets for high profit margin sales.
- Established vendor relationships for high quality products at low costs.
- Generated repeat customers and increased average per order sales by effectively networking.
- Trained and empowered employees to function as a high performing team.
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- Responsible for delivering of Global SAP (SD, MM, FICO, and APO) and Non-SAP related Projects.
- Successfully led 15+ projects from concept to launch in the heavily regulated pharmaceutical environment, while meeting target dates and operating and capital expenditures.
- Managed concurrent projects ranging from $50K to $300K, with a total of $1.75 million. Projects were focused on warehousing and distribution of Injectables, I.V. Solutions, Infusion System and Medical Devices.
- Effectively created quicker development cycles by creating a streamlined methodology for small IT Projects (<$300k). Initial results of 7 projects showed a 40% decrease in time and $100K in savings.
- Managed business plans for world-wide locations in US, Canada, Europe, Asian-Pacific, APAC and Latin American.
- Provided effective leadership to cross-functional teams by defining clear & realistic goals and removal of barriers to warrant team progress and facilitate rapid decision-making.
- Developed project budgets and resource requirements (+-15%) for the IT financial planning group.
- Key environments included SAP, Solution Manager, MS Project, Clarity, Sharepoint
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- Led projects and teams for several IT and business areas including SAP (CD & FICO), Hyperion Planning and ESSBASE, Callidus, Financial Planning, Vended Applications, Claims to SAP ETL, Reporting and Business Intelligence, and Agent Administration & Commissions, Treasury and PCI.
- Fully responsible for project budgets ($10k - $3 million), resource planning and following the SDLC.
- Successful results for delivering projects on time at 85% and about $1 million under budget in total.
- Led matrix application teams, business resources and offshore personnel with a high level of enthusiasm to adhere to task level target dates.
- Proactively adapted leadership style to teams ranging from 2 to 26 resources while understanding each individual’s motivation and skill set.
- Reported to all levels of management on project progress, issues and risks.
- Diligently served on committees to assist in PMO with process definitions, Create Change Management processes and change review boards. And helped design and implement employee recognition programs.
- Successfully introduced new technologies into the IT environment: Crystal Reports and Hyperion Planning & Essbase. Worked with developers and IT architects to determine best practices for these technologies. Trained new resources on the business area they would be supporting.