Sr. Project Manager Resume

Title
Sr. Project Manager

Primary Skills
Project management professional gets challenging projects delivered ;Action-oriented, results-focused Senior Project...

Location
US-VA-Broadlands

Posted
Sep-15-09

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
College Board, Reston, VA (2006-Present)
Project Manager
Managed internal project staff of six and four external consultants on one of the organization's most challenging and strategic projects - adoption of CMMI process framework for the IT group that impacted 90 staff.
* CMMI maturity level two was achieved two months ahead of schedule and 10% under budget.
* Supported process improvement effort by authoring and reviewing various process assets as well as organizational policies. Helped lead the initiation and launch of Communities of Practice and Engineering Process Group.
* Served as the acting Measurement and Analysis Analyst and played a key role in the development and implementation of M&A process assets.
* Simultaneously managed a Business Process Modeling (BPM) project to install and pilot the Appian Enterprise system.

Project Manager/Analyst
Joined project staff as analyst on cross-functional project chartered to consolidate enterprise services architecture and streamline build/deploy process.
* Within six weeks assigned the project manager role and got project back on track by instituting basic project management practices and artifacts.
* Creatively resolved key resource constraints to meet major milestones and delivered critical project deliverables on time.
* Received recognition for creation of one-page "cheat sheet" that effectively demystified changes and impacts of changes to enterprise architecture.

Analyst
Analyst for major strategic project to transform the professional experience for users of the College Board educator website.
* Met tight project deadlines to gather functional requirements and document as use cases helping project meet delivery deadlines.
* Due to many dependencies on other systems and impacts on enterprise architecture, effort required extensive review, coordination and management of risks and issues with over 50 impacted stakeholders.

Number Six Software, Vienna, VA (2004-2006)
Project Manager (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Managed enterprise web based search application that indexed and search the agency's large document repository.
* Introduced tailoring and rollout of RUP based project artifacts that contributed to delivering project on time.
* Introduced formal test procedures and test tools, which increased software quality.

Project Manager (American Red Cross)
Project manager for multiple and simultaneous data warehouse and business intelligence projects that required managing the activities of 30 project staff members.
* Introduced iterative development practices, which increased user acceptance and software quality.
* Delivered projects on time and budget with high user acceptance in an environment where aggressive schedules needed to be met and multiple projects and groups coordinated.

Fannie Mae, Washington, DC (2001-2004)
Project Lead
Lead team of six developers in the full life cycle development of multiple strategic projects of 3-tier Java based enterprise system. Responsible for managing projects using usinew enterprise level implementation framework mandated by corporate and regulatory entities.
* Developed strategy to complete functional use case requirements on time despite limited availability of analysts and subject matter experts.
* Introduced iterative development strategy to attack major project risks earlier and improve software quality.

Senior Consultant
Led implementation of Business Objects in conjunction with the rollout of two major new business systems.
* Designed and setup of key Business Objects functions: administration, universe design, reporting, Broadcast Agent, and Web Intelligence.
* Designed and created over one hundred complex reports of which one-third required the use of complex stored procedures. Designed curriculum and trained more than two hundred users on basic and advanced Business Objects concepts.
Performance Manufacturing, Broadlands, VA (1990-2001)
Consultant
Self-employed doing business as Performance Manufacturing providing a wide range of consulting services to support enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementations and operations. Provided services to over one hundred clients in the financial, manufacturing and high tech industries.
* Major clients included: BMW, Fannie Mae, IBM, Kemet Electronics, and Orbital Sciences Corporation
* Developed a suite of add-on and custom software products, which enhanced the functionality and value of enterprise resource planning systems.

Prior Experience: Worked as Management Information Systems Manager for Vega Precision Labs, Technical Support and Training Manager for Centec Corporation and Project Lead for Scope, Inc.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
BS in Industrial Economics (1980), College of Earth and Mineral Science Honors Award
Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Full-time Graduate Studies in Business (1982)
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
PMP, Project Management Professional (2005)
RUP, Rational Unified Process (2005)

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Project Management: Microsoft Project, Rational Portfolio Manager
Office Productivity: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft SharePoint
Software Development & Business Process: Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational ReqPro, Business Objects, SQL, Appian Business Process Modeling
Web and Multimedia: Adobe Dreamweaver, Sony VegasPro
Databases: MS SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle

Certifications
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