Project Manager / IT Director Resume

Title
Project Manager / IT Director

Primary Skills
Project management, MS Project

Location
US-MN-Apple Valley

Posted
Oct-22-08

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Project manager with 17 years of information technology experience. Coordinated and directed teams involved in Oracle Applications projects with an emphasis on Oracle Financials 11i. Management background includes leading teams, developing and managing budgets, devising time lines, monitoring project standards for all deliverables, creating strategies, overseeing technical design and development of all solutions, new business development, documentation and maintaining quality assurance.

Recognized for leadership in project planning, scheduling, prioritization, contingency and risk planning, work assignments, and definition of scope for enterprise information systems projects.



Experience
Tranwhite Inc, Eden Prairie, MN June 2008 - September 2008
Project Manager
I was the project manager at ADC Telecommunications for the Fiscal Year End change project implementation. The objective of this project was to facilitate the change to the fiscal year end for ADC's SAP and non-SAP systems to better align ADC's financial reporting periods with those of the company's telecommunications industry peers. My primary responsibility included:
* Conducting the impact analysis on the change and prepare the scope of the effort
* Coordination of the testing effort for the SAP systems
* Manage the scope of the reporting effort

Tranwhite Inc, Eden Prairie, MN December 2006 - April 2008
Project Manager
I was a project manager for the Fleet services division of GE Capital Solutions. In this capacity, I was responsible for managing a variety of projects in the Sourcing, Operations, Accounting/Finance and Infrastructure areas. The total budget managed was about $1.5M and the number of people reporting to me was 15. The onsite team was based in Eden Prairie and the offshore team was based in India and Mexico. The project methodology was a combination of the traditional waterfall method and the agile method which is based on release and iteration planning.
* Responsible for the entire project life cycle from contract management to project closure including management of financials and delivery.
* Strong interpersonal communication skills helped in bringing people from various vendors and departments in a highly matrixed environment to get things done.
* Was able to juggle multiple projects at one time by prioritizing the activities on a daily basis
* Enforced strict adherence and compliance to GE PMM (Project Management Methodology)

Tranwhite Inc, St. Louis Park, Minnesota August 2006 - September 2006
Project Manager
I was the project manager for the ERP implementation at MoneyGram International. The scope of the work was for delivering the General Ledger and Accounts Payable modules. The number of direct reports was 10.


Project Manager
I was the project manager for the payroll implementation at Best Buy. My main responsibility was the governance of the payroll implementation from a scope and budgeting standpoint. The budget on this project was approximately $5M. I was responsible for overseeing the work of Accenture Consulting, the project integrator, to ensure that work is performed according to the contract. I also made sure that change orders are signed and executed for out of scope work that needs to be included as part of the implementation and the change management procedures and processes are in place targeting 120,000 employees.
My main responsibilities included the following:
* Provide governance for the payroll implementation for BBY
* Issue and risk management for the project
* Directly responsible for the implementation for tax and garnishments processing that is outsourced to external vendor - ADP
* Responsible for change management activities targeting Best Buy employees

Cap Gemini US LLC, Atlanta, Georgia May 2004 - November 2004
Technical Team Lead
I was the technical team lead for the ERP implementation at Cox communications. The project resources were located onsite in Atlanta, GA and in Mumbai, India. The team size for this implementation was 20. My responsibilities included the following:
* Project scope planning and staffing the team
* Oversight of planning and delivery for the development and infrastructure team
* Communicating status and issues to the management
* Managed multiple project streams - onsite development, offshore development and the infrastructure team.
* All technical lifecycle activities from scope definition to testing

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young US LLC, Boise, Idaho June 2002 - November 2003
Project manager and subject matter specialist for Information Delivery
I was responsible for the scoping, planning, delivery and implementation of information delivery for general accounting at Albertsons Inc (Supervalu). using the Financial suite of Oracle Applications(11.5.7). The number of direct reports was 15 and the project budget was about $3M. My responsibilities included the following:
* Subject matter specialist for guiding the scoping phase of enterprise wide information delivery.
* Staffing and project management of the team
* Communicating status and issues to executive management
* Requirements definition, delivery and implementation of period end, analytical and day-to-day reporting using Financial Statement Generator (FSG) and Oracle 6i's
* Requirements definition, delivery and implementation of report distribution to 2300 stores and accounting offices
* Lead the package selection exercise and coordinated with external vendors for finalization of report distribution software (selected Vista Plus from Quest)
* All activities spanning the application development life cycle - creation of vision and scope to implementation and post production support
* Managed multiple sub-projects within this implementation - offshore delivery of technical reports, onsite technical development and creation/testing of business reporting

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young US LLC, Atlanta, Georgia March 2002 - April 2002
Project manager
I was the project manager for the assessment phase for implementation of shared services processing at GE Power Systems for Accounts Payable enterprise-wide that includes the short-term goal of replacing the current AP shared services support provided by GE Corporate. My responsibilities included
* Review of user requirements and creation of future state model
* Definition of scope, creation of project plan along with resource and cost models


Cap Gemini Ernst & Young US LLC, Eagan, Minnesota April 2001 - December 2001
Technical team lead and architect
I was the technical team leader/architect for the ERP and data warehouse implementation at Buffets Inc. I was responsible for the staffing and delivery of the technical team and implementation of the solution. The highlight for this implementation was an under budget-on time delivery. My responsibilities included:
* Implementation of the financial modules and Oracle portal
* Implementation of Oracle Express/Oracle Financial Analyzer
* Project management of the technical team
* All aspects of technology from scope definition to post production support

Education
Govt college of engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala, India September 1991
Bachelor of Technology, Electrical & Electronics engineering

Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP) awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI), January 2005

Certifications
See above


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