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Consultant/Sr. Program Manager

Posted on: 2011-01-08

 CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Full Life Cycle Project Management (SDLC)
  • Requirements Gathering/Definition
  • Strategic Partnership/Alliances
  • Staff Development & Training
  • Project planning and sizing
  • Budget forecast and tracking
  • Quality Assurance & Efficiency Improvement
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Product Launch/Go-to-Market Strategy
  • Change Request Management
  • Agile/Scrum
 

Professional Skills

Senior Program Manager

 

  • Develop methodology, project plans, procedures, communication methods, risk assessment, contingency plans, and QA standards for the PMO
  • Manage web-based application development
  • Oversee entire portfolio of projects, assuring they are delivered according to project design, budget and timelines
  • Implementation planning
  • Vendor selection process
  • SOW review and signoff
  • Budget forecasting
  • Monitor allocated budgets and resources
  • Manage resource allocation across global cross-functional teams for multiple projects
  • Collaborate with stakeholder to define product requirements
  • Prepare business cases, cost/benefit analysis, contingency plans, and risk assessment
  • Track and report resource and budgetary aspects for multiple projects over the extended life cycle
  • Change management

Senior Project Manager

  • Manage large-scale solutions development and execution of Web-based projects in line with established and changing requirements
  • Manage the entire project lifecycle from project definition/scope through implementation
  • Direct outsourced global project teams and coordinate diverse off-shore vendor relationship
  • Write functional specifications
  • Review and respond to requests for proposal (RFPs) and statement of work (SOWs)
  • Create and coordinate end-to-end project plans outlining scope, budgets, resource allocations and benchmarks
  • Monitor and revise project plans while maintaining seamless communication with all stakeholders, including QA and development engineers
  • Create test plans to ensure full alignment of new products with functional specifications
  • Coordinate with development, QA and marketing teams to ensure on-target launch
  • Direct work flow of on-shore as well as off-shore development teams

 

RECENT CONSULTANT EXPERIENCE

CENGAGE LEARNING, Boston, MA

Consultant /Sr. Program Manager            2008 - Present

Franklin Pratt, Franklin, MA

Consultant/Sr. Program Manager 2006 - 2008

         

Avery Dennison, Retail Info Systems, Framingham, MA

Consultant/Program Manager                  2005 –2006

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS       1995 - 2005

Arbella Mutual Insurance Co., Quincy, MA    

Project Manager

Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Braintree, MA    

Project Manager

Bay State Gas, Westborough, MA    

Program Office Manager 

Putnam Investments, Andover, MA      

Project Manager

Fidelity Investments, Marlborough, MA    

BUSINESS ANALYST

EDUCATION

BA Liberal Arts, Loyola University of Chicago.  Spent Junior year in Rome, Italy

Certificate in Computer Programming, Computer Learning Center of Boston

Technical Proficiencies

MS Office

MS Project

Workbench

JIRA Bug Tracking

Visio

Microsoft SQL Server

Windows (Vista, XP, 2000, 9x)

Mac OS

Web-Based Applications