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Highly organized project manager with over 15 years of success projects from inception to completion and post-implementation support in public and private organizations. Consistently achieve project goals and objectives within time and funding parame...
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Successfully manage concurrent software projects remotely for federal agency, includes maintaining MS Project plans, client interfacing, provide regular project status updates and assign and track work of developers. Mange resource allocations between competing projects and software developer operational support (Tier 2) to ensure resource allocation is appropriately assigned using Microsoft Project with PWA.
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Successfully managed and implemented IT portion of program to implement SAP ATTP (Advance Track and Trace for Pharmaceuticals) to generate, track and trace serial numbers of manufactured products. Responsibilities included: working with Stakeholders; project team and vendors to ensure requirements were met; review of deliverables for completeness, accuracy, and feasibility; facilitation of regular weekly reviews of project status; provide monthly assessments of overall project health and financials; monitoring of risks to the project and addressed issues as they arose; proactively identified possible risks and determined mitigation strategies; management of complex schedule in MS Project and management of MS SharePoint as a repository for project artifacts. Also, supported contract negotiation process with service vendors and reviewed project invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy.
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Project Manager over multiple projects utilizing Agile framework. Duties included: client interfacing, management of project schedule and project budget, responsibility for all contractual deliverables, facilitated Sprint daily stand-up meetings with the AINS project team. Worked with client and project team to define product backlog priorities and enhancements for each Sprint was managed effectively, drove Sprint planning, development, testing, implementation and retrospective activities to completion. Conducted weekly meetings with client and AINS project team to ensure status, future tasks and issues were understood by everyone. Managed schedules with MS Project.
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Led the implementation of SAP, including integration with custom applications.
- Developed work breakdown structure (WBS) to baseline, monitor, adjust timelines, identify critical paths, adjust tasks and resources using MS Project Server 2013.
- Utilized MS SharePoint as a repository for project artifacts, including action item list, risk register, change log and project deliverables.
- Prepared and published weekly status reports.
- Presented to senior management, stakeholders and PMO on project status, costs, change requests impact and feasibility, alternatives, issues and recommendations. Escalated issues as necessary.
- Interfaced with business leaders and project team members across multi-site locations.
- Facilitated steering committee meetings, directed IT and business project teams and ensured adherence to deadlines.
- Worked with systems integrator, IT and business project team members to systematically gather requirements from multiple operating areas across in the organization.
- Led design, configuration, development and data migration test load activities.
- Managed QA integration and UAT testing preparation, execution and reporting using the HP ALM tool.
- Oversaw the planning and execution of cutover and go-live activities.
- Facilitated lessons learned and gate review meetings at the end of each project phase.