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Summary - Senior IT Project Manager * Have been involved in Management of Information Technology for 25 years with extensive knowledge of the processes involved in applying and integrating information systems with other ERP/Legacy, manufacturing and retail processes of business. Have experience with defense manufacturing (General Dynamics F-16 program), Banking (Deposit Guaranty) and Retail (Hudson's Bay/Saks Fifth Avenue). * Transitioned during a 3 to 5-year period from the technical side to the Project Management and integration and implementation side of information platforms for the business. Was "lead" in driving enterprise and external vendor solutions for quality deployments with on time deliverables that saved the company measurable time in addition to expenses. * I have been in the Senior Project Management role for over 11 years. * Planned and Implemented the Ariba procurement software suite for Saks Fifth Avenue and led the migration team in deploying to the "cloud solution" * Senior Project Manager/Director for the "Ariba Procurement and Sourcing" project that involved coordinating a team that ranged from 25-35 people over the course of 2 years, covering 2 continents. Have progressively moved from the design and management of projects to overseeing management of projects from small to medium size up to large scale initiatives involving large, multi-million-dollar company strategies. Possess excellent verbal skills and have had interpersonal relationship building opportunities with both internal and external customers while at Saks. * SME in Supply Chain logistics / EDI / Statistics * SME in Cloud concepts of storage and application deployments. Lead for the Saks' procurement operations systems for 14 years. * Have now taken on role as Senior Project Manager for all Hudson's Bay e-Business solutions. * Proficient in SDLC, Scrum and AGILE methodologies. * Microsoft Project Office SME * Proficient in managing Milestone metrics and budget processes of major initiatives * Have Experience in Analytics involving - Correlation, Regression Analysis, Null Hypothesis Acceptance, Clustering of Big Data, Association Analysis * Extensive knowledge of Procurement, Loss Prevention, Accounting controls and Forecasting using Analytics * Contract negotiation skills (RFS) * PMO skillset's - MS Project Management Computer and ADDITIONAL Skills