Senior Corporate IT Project Manager
Gentiva Healthcare, Inc, Atlanta, GA
Feb 2012 – Current
Managed multiple concurrent enterprise projects and smaller projects using Waterfall Methodology.
- Managed Project with a budget of $8M to deployed over 12K I-Pads that used the iCloud for each clinicians or nurses to use in visits to clients that allow recording of the clients' vitals, billable time, and payroll time. There were 21 direct reports on the project team for the enterprise project with sub-projects with other project managers managing the sub-project and I managed one of the sub-projects to move the client medical visits records retion from paper file cabinets at branches to the clinician I-Pad.
- Conducted weekly PowerPoint Presentation review with CIO, and Vice-Presidents.
- Developed SOW for vendor requirements and requested Level of Effort and negotiated for price with the Vendor. After negotiation submitted for CIO approval. Tracked vendor against the approved Level of Effort.
- Developed SOW internally for Application development or interfaces with PeopleSoft. Received Technical, Business Requirements, and testing Level of Effort for the SOW. Developed workbreak-down schedule which was used to develop the Project Schedule.
- Trained Project Managers who were using Microsoft Excel to manage their projects using Microsoft project 2010 the resulted in an 18% decrease in the product development life cycle.
- Created an annual capacity plan for all project using Master Project Schedule to account for resource load.
- Managed a $3M Project to upgrade the Payroll system consolidating all Payrolls and provided improved accountabilities of branches. Project Team was 12 for the enterprise project
- Managed a 8000 Hospice employees trained in Compliance in Gentiva's Learning Management System required by the Office of Inspector General and at least 98% must be trained within 90 days in order for Gentiva maintain business with Medicare of $480M annually. Project accomplished 99.6% of Hospice employees were trained within 90 days.
- SharePoint Administrator for multiple SharePoint sites
- Mitigated Risks on each project I managed
Environments: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, iCloud, Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, and, VISIO), SharePoint 2007
Senior IT Project Manager
Reed Construction Data, Norcross, GA
Jan 2011 – Apr 2011
Multiple enterprise web site projects were managed. Created and executed project schedules using 2 week Sprint Iterative approach and daily or 3 times a week scrum meetings.
- Offshore resources utilized to supplement the company development resources. Submitted SOWs and requested Level of Effort and submit to Vice-President for approval.
- New business processes were developed for the Project Life Cycle Framework for a new PMO from Project Initiation through Project Close-out. Create environment for project to be completed on time or completed early while mitigating risk.
- Each Project Life Cycle Framework phase was reviewed with each department involved and training was provided to the department on the Project Life Cycle Framework Phases that applied to them.
- Developed a Budget Estimating Tool using Pert Calculations and Standard Variance so company could estimate budget based on confidence level needed during Initiation phase and then again during planning phase.
- Created an Executive Scorecard for each project. Mentored junior and new Project Managers.
- Identified Lessons Learned after each project completion that helped improve other projects
Environments: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Microsoft Project 2007, Agile, Microsoft Office 2007 (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, and, VISIO), SharePoint 2007, HP Quality Center, PMO, Offshore Resources
Program Manager
Waters Management Group, Roswell, GA
Nov 2008 – Dec 2010
Developed, documented, and taught Professional Project Management Courses. Project Management principles taught using the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and Best Practices for a Project Manager as the baseline for the course
- Negotiated and documented the Workforce Investment Act requirements to allow Waters Management Group to be an Eligible Education Provider of classroom instruction.
- Negotiated and documented the Project Management Institute Registered Education Provider for allow Waters Management Group to be a Registered Education Provider.
- Wrote the revised documentation for training using PMBOK v4
- Audited a Fundamentals of Microsoft Project 2007 taught by Microsoft Certified Instructors from PM Resources Group for inclusion in the PMP Certification Review Courses taught to WIA students.
- Evaluated other education providers course that solicited Waters Management Group to become part of the WIA offering
Environments: Microsoft Project 2007, Microsoft Office 2007, WebEx, PMBOK
Senior IT Project Manager
Advance Auto Parts, Inc, Roanoke, VA
Jul 2008 – Oct 2008
Managed integrated portfolio of 24 projects or program initiatives simultaneously for the Visual Merchandising Group with budget from $800k to $150K
- Articulated a vision of a successful project for each project team member
- Developed Project schedules based on the Work Breakdown Structure of each project or Initiative
- Established a Master Project Schedule and uploaded each of the 24 Projects and Initiatives to load cross dependencies between tasks of each Project or Initiative
- Project Status Meetings were facilitated with project teams reviewing completion of task, forecast of future task completion, monitor and manage risk and manage open issues
- Project Status was communicated to the internal and/or external customers and third party vendors. Tracked vendor against the approved LOE
- Managed change requests for each Project and Initiative and mitigate identified risks.
- Budgets forecasted for each project or program initiative and tracked
- A JDA Intactix Floor Planning Planograms, Space Planning Planograms, and Intactix Knowledge Base system for store floor and space planograms project was implemented successfully on time and 29% under budget using SDLC methodologies and Quality Assurance processes to manage the project. The JDA vendor and other vendors were managed for the Point of Sales systems in the retail stores. Interfaced the ETL files from Data Warehouse to the JDA Intactix system.
- HP Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) were used to capture actual costs weekly and captured vendors cost manually form bi-monthly invoices
- Managed an Infrastructure project to establish a secure data connection between Roanoke, VA and Minneapolis, MN
Environments: SQL, AS-400, ETL, Intactix Knowledge Base, HP PPM, Microsoft Project 2007, Microsoft Office 2007, VISO 2007
Senior IT Project Manager - Manufacturing & Supply Chain
The Coca Cola Company, Atlanta, GA
Feb 2008 – Jun 2008
Managed a new consumer product implemented at two manufacturing plants during the Beta phase
- Work streams managed were the SAP Order to Cash, Forecast to Deploy, and Procure to Pay
- The Supply Chain included distributors and third party warehouses using an Oracle Shipping system that SAP had to interface
- One plant had SAP ECC and the primary plant for the new product had Prism as the planning software
- Supported the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management to drive timely creation, review/approval, and archival of project quality data records in conformance with company IT Program Management Waterfall methodology
- Conducted JAD sessions and performed gap analysis for the new business processes on new equipment with a new SAP system
Environments: SAP ECC6, Oracle, ARIS Business Management System, Business Case, SharePoint, Microsoft Project 2007, Microsoft Office 2007, PMO, Supply Chain
Principal
Manhattan Associates, Atlanta, GA
Mar 2007 – Dec 2007
Projects were managed in the Advanced Planning Group whose vertical was the Retail Industry with customers that are tier 2 and tier 3 level companies using Microsoft Project
- Managed project using SDCL methodologies and managed budgets.
- Managed offshore employees that developed the code based on the modification of business rules requested
- The Advanced Planning Implementation Methodology was developed to align with Manhattan Associates ISO 9001 and their PRISM Implementation Methodology. The Advanced Planning Group had recently been a separate company Evant acquired by Manhattan Associates.
- A key project was managed with the first client of Evant for three modification requests to their five-year-old system that required re-configuration of the Advance Planning System
Environments: Oracle 11i, Java, SharePoint, Microsoft Project 2003, Microsoft Office 2003, VISIO 2003, Offshore Resources
Project Manager
Activant, Austin, TX
Jun 2006 – Dec 2006
Developed and documented a new Implementation Methodology that included a Microsoft Project schedule based on the Work Breakdown Structure to eliminate/prevent Activant' s loses on each client because of no defined methodology
- Led multi-skilled project teams using the new implementation methodology and articulated a vision of a successful implementation to the project team
- Budgets were typically in the $300K to $1M range. Led project team weekly status meetings and mentored project team consisting of two or three Activant subject matter experts and 3 to 4 client team members
Environments: Oracle, Microsoft, EDI, Microsoft Project 2003, Microsoft Office 2003
Customer Operations & Systems IT Project Manager
T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA
Dec 2005 – May 2006
Multi-skilled project teams were lead simultaneously in implementing multiple IT projects for T-Mobile PMO with their implementation methodology
- Projects were structured systems development that required integration with R/3 SAP, TIBCO, SQL, Web Portal, Java, J2EE, PkMS, Oracle and Streamline to enable the new features the project were delivering
- Analyzed Requirements and Functional Specifications and estimated level of effort for Identified resource required for the project team, negotiated with their managers to get a commitment to the support for the project, and asked the team members for a Level of Effort required by each team member as a beginning point in developing and documenting the budget. On occasion, the manager would hire a contractor to satisfy the project needs
- Forecasted and managed multiple projects budgets between $500K and $2M
- Return on investment on the projects ranged from 180% to 423%
- Managed 3 large projects and Multiple smaller projects in the Order Management Program
Environments: SAP, TIBCO, Business Intelligence (BI), SQL, Lombardi's Teamwork's Portal Technology, Java, J2EE, Oracle, and PkMS, Clarity PPM, Microsoft Project 2003, Microsoft Office 2003, PMO
Senior Principal Consultant
Adjoined Consulting, Atlanta, GA
Sep 2005 – Dec 2005
Reviewed current business processes, analyzed the client users input, and evaluated client business systems and user needs using SAP GUI 4.6c PP
IT Project Manager
Propex Fabrics, Austell, GA
Feb 2004 – May 2005
Managed a custom and third-party implementations, using software development life cycle, for two phases of Zemeter' s Integrated Supply Chain System (SQL), Forecasting and Product Supply Planning that replaced/augmented the IBM outsourced SAP MM/PP systems and an Access database
- Return on the investment for the project was 378% on an $879K budget
- Wrote concise project business financial cases and attain financial approval and business buy-in of the cost/benefit analysis to proceed on the capitalized project
- Managed project budget and managed the scope change management plan
- Led and mentored project team consisting of 3 vendors, one third party contractor and 5 business users and 3 staff technical resources
- Managed the Supply Chain Consulting 3rd Party vendor supporting the Zemeter Supply Chain System.
Principal Instructor
Waters Management Group, Roswell, GA
Sep 2003 – Feb 2005
Taught Professional Project Management Courses at Universities using the PMBOK
Strategy Coordinator
Siemens Homeland Security, Irving, TX
Oct 2001 – Aug 2003
Implemented a call center for Siemens Homeland Security Division.
Project Manager and Senior Business Consultant
American Software, Inc, Atlanta, GA
Sep 1988 – Mar 2001
Led multiple project deployment teams at clients' sites implementing global ERP, Supply Chain, Warehouse Management and/or Business Decision Management Tools Knowledge Based systems.
Previous 9 years' experience in workforce management in manufacturing operations as a Production Supervisor, Master Scheduler, Production Control Manager, and Corporate Manager for Production and Inventory Management.