Technology Project Manager, IT Leader
Career Summary
• PMP certified project manager with successful track record in leading complex, multi-million dollar IT projects to on time and under budget completion. Experience with Deloitte and other big 4 consulting firms.
• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills. Managed large teams of up to 50.
• Strength in building consensus. Ability to work across organizations and levels, from executives to functional teams and IT.
• Strength in project management. Experience with project scoping, planning, estimation, execution and implementation methodology. Experience with global template design, project rollouts.
• Ability to solve complex problems. Breadth and depth of experience with several business processes and industries enabling implementation of best practices and technology solutions.
• Strong and hands on experience with broad range of technology. Ability to quickly grasp the problem, develop solution, learn new technology.
• Experience managing onshore/offshore technical development.
• Staff and competency development experience with strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Masters degree in Engineering and Operations Management.
Professional Experience
2004-Present: Senior Manager, Big 4 Consulting.
1999-2004: Principal Consultant/Practice Manager, Leading A&D SAP consulting company
1996-1999: Lead SAP consultant representing big 4 firm, SAP America.
1994-1996: Project Leader with Largest Publishing Company, New York, NY.
1988-1994: Manager in Citicorp Software, a Citicorp company providing technology solutions worldwide.
Work Experience
Project Management and Leadership
Leveraged functional, industry and technology knowledge to develop value propositions, define project scope, budgets and schedules to balance business needs, budgets and risks. Estimated work effort, skills/resource requirements and developed high level as well as detailed project plans.
Solid understanding of implementation methodology gained with big four as well as boutique consulting firms. Experience with adopting and customizing methodology and tools to meet project objectives. Strength in disciplined project execution through well defined processes for all of the following dimensions of project management: Scope, Schedule, Resources, Financial, Status, Risks, Issues, Quality, Governance, Supplier. Defined, documented and instituted these processes to manage projects in a disciplined manner.
As practice manager and counselor, ensured professional development of staff. This includes on going coaching, mentoring, individual strength and development assessment, performance reviews and internal communication. Lead competency development and knowledge management efforts.
Functional and Technical Expertise
As a solution architect and lead functional consultant performed business process reengineering, as-is/to-be modeling, functional mapping, gap analysis/resolution. Identified business drivers. Designed, configured, prototyped well thought out, robust solutions. Communicated solutions at all levels. Designed integration across systems. Managed large conversion efforts. Designed solution deployment and rollout strategies.
The breadth of functional experience includes business applications for supply chain as well as financial services and cross functional enabling technologies such as document management. The technology experience spans ERP / SAP package solution implementations as well as custom development using leading technology components.
This breadth as well as depth of experience enables me to lead all aspects of business and technology projects with first hand appreciation for issues and solutions as well gain respect of team members. |
