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Profile__________________________________________________________________________________ Skilled project management professional with multi-faceted aerospace, IT, development, and manufacturing experience areas of excellence______________________________________________________________________ * Project Management Professional (PMP #1752059) * Highly Proficient in Process and Project Management * Lean Manufacturing/Continuous Process Improvement * Financial Planning and Forecasting * Fluent in German * Proposal Pricing, Labor Estimating Familiarity with Web and App Development - using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, API integration, HTML5 Mobile App, iOS 9 App Salient Management - Horseheads, NY 10/2013 - 2/2015 Principal Project Manager, Internal Projects * Managed project portfolios for Software Engineering, Marketing, and Applications departments - a portfolio of 100,000+ hours of multi-year projects. * Lead project manager for the Generation 5 IT development project - organized, loaded, and maintained the IT development plan using Clarizen and MS Project for the entire portfolio of front-end, back-end, and web product software development, from task definition through quality release * Developed and managed the new Gen 6 backlog, collecting and organizing the customer requests and needs, the internal development ideas, user stories, business cases, estimates, and risks * Developed training materials and trained managers and staff to increase project management skills, discipline, and usage of project management practices and tools, improving the project management culture at Salient * Led Marketing team's development of priorities, scope, budgets, schedules, and exit criteria for 20+ different successful projects in web design and development, collateral design and copy writing, * Successfully launched monthly webinar series that significantly increased customer engagement * Worked with Agile web team to improve Agile and Scrum processes through integrated project management tool usage * Organized Applications department workflow into executable projects increased the level of key stakeholder engagement through increased communication and regular reviews