SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES: Six-Sigma Green Belt, PMI certified PMP, ITIL certified, Risk Management and Business Continuity Specialized, and a CSM (SCRUM Master) with 29 years of diversified IT experience inclusive of high end consulting with Fortune 500 and Big 5 firms * High Quality Leader- Director/Executive caliber professional with innovative out of the box thinking, temperance and six sigma tier execution. * Received honorary recognition in Cambridge Who's Who Registry for International Project Management Executives and Professionals * Exceptional program leadership abilities. Skilled at engaging and integrating cross-functional teams at both Business and Technical levels. Extensive experience working with near-shore and offshore project team models. * Engaging presentation and delivery manner with C-level executives and clients Expertise with Vendor and Software evaluation, Strategy and Building Roadmap, Process re-engineering * International exposure to project management for various clients. Intermediate linguistic skills in Spanish and proficiency in Hindi * Progressive project related career experience in various industries and technologies with a dynamic and diverse background in implementing, integrating, customizing and managing projects for global, industry-leading enterprises. * Possess excellent blend of technical experience, interpersonal and management skills inclusive of strong team-building capabilities. * A strong tenacious, passionate leader technical and business teams of 10-25 in Business Process Analysis and requirements gathering sessions for project scope formalizations and project quality surveys and assessments. Experienced with all phases of project life cycle, including project scoping, requirements analysis, specifications development, implementation, integration, testing, documentation and user support. * Member of NAPW ( National Association of Professional Women) Major Functions: Environment: MOSS, Clarity, MS Project Server, .NET, LAN WAN Technology Major Functions: Accountable for project initiation, scope definitions, budgeting and project planning for the delivery of multiple projects, from their inception through to closure. The projects consisted of enterprise wide software upgrades, security, telecommunications and infrastructure changes, having budgets from $100K to several million dollars. Effectively manage projects phases utilizing PMI methodology and IT best practices. Manage cross-functional project teams, track budgets and deliverables. Review Design Specifications and schedules from AutoCAD for data migration efforts on various projects. Used various PM methodologies such as SCRUM, SDLC, Waterfall, and Agile for various development initiatives. Performed periodic project reviews, manage risk/issues though closure, manage KPI and program reporting. Approve Release, Deployment, Change Management and QA plans. Participate in Change Management and Executive status meetings representing project sponsors. Provide mentoring to Junior Project Managers and Business Analysts. Collaborated with cross-functional project teams consisting of sponsors, offshore teams, offsite vendors, capital planning, procurement, and asset management. Facilitated agreements and commitments between business unit (s) and IT groups, for project delivery. Served as nexus of communication and collaboration between internal & external IT staff, third-party vendors, and senior stakeholders through all functional areas of the enterprise. Performed reviews of SOW, RFP and led in the process of vendor selections and evaluations. Managed a project portfolio of five IT projects which required maintaining capital expenditures and budgets ranging from $100K to several million dollars. Developed Project Plans and managed all aspects of Project execution. Acted as a project advisor on IT initiatives contributed to IT strategy and roadmap and involved with pre-project initiation and project prioritization activities. Played a key role in the ongoing definition development and management of processes to streamline executive reporting. Worked with Graphic artists and technical designers on project deliverables using AutoCAD. Utilized extensive business analysis skills and maintain stakeholder communications and expectations. Assisted in developing The Sun-Sentinel PM methodology SDLC and AGILE for development initiatives and integrated ITIL best practices that proved to be a significant contribution to the initialization of the PMO and Governance office. Provided guidance mentoring and training on the policies processes and tools used by PMO. Played a key role in the development and utilization of processes for Change Management system for Technology operations utilizing using lean Six-Sigma and ITIL framework. Managed Capital appropriation requests in collaboration with technology and business to initialize new projects and obtain project funding where required writing RFPs for vendor selections for Project initiatives and project budget estimating with both Top down and bottom up methods. .
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