Technology Project Manager Resume
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Resume:
Yolanda Davis-Harris
Boyce Drive
Marietta Ga,
Email:
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Qualification Summary
Information Technology Manager with over seventeen years of IT experience, ten years in Project Management. Proficient in managing cross-functional Projects and Project teams through project lifecycle processes delivering expected results within budgetary and time constraints. Comfortable delivering project statuses to all levels of management and leading project discussions with key stakeholders within multiple business areas. Decision oriented and a proponent to change management. Directly manages both employees and contractors.
Experience
Cox Enterprises, Cox Newspapers Division
Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Information Technology
Sr. Project Manager/ Account Manager Information Technology
October - Present
• Manages and directs multiple mid to large scale projects from conception through implementation of the software development project lifecycle.
• Creates project plans, defines resource plans, determines project risk assessments, test and implementation plans.
• Assembles project teams, manages project resources, and writes employee evaluations.
• Provides project status reports and project presentations on a monthly basis.
• Collaborates with stakeholders, business groups and team members impacted by project implementations or changes. Serves as an IT voice in Strategic project assessment discussions.
• Leads bi-monthly Steering Committee meetings that provided direction for system projects. Creates meeting agendas that lead to decisions that have financial implications or causes changes to existing cultural structures.
• Manages all financials according to negotiated contract. Validates all milestone functionality is delivered before payment schedule fees are approved. Validates and approves professional services costs and expenses, and confirms software cost as required throughout the duration of the project.
• Serves as an Account Manager for proposed project assessments, product implementations or support concerns for the Advertising Department.
Notable Accomplishment:
• Managed a $M Advertising System project effort of a -member cross functional project team categorized as one of the top-tier cross functional project being implemented at the AJC. The project replaced the current Advertising order entry system and five supporting applications.
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Target Technology Services (Feb – Oct )
Program Manager – (-)
Information Technology Manager (-)
Internet Portal Project Manager (-)
Conversion Planning Manager ()
Deployment Lead ()
• Managed and directed large scale projects from conception through implementation of the software development project lifecycle by developing and executing project plans, risk assessments, test and implementation plans using MsProject suite of applications.
• Initiated organization changes to existing processes and procedures based on decisions made.
• Transitioned support and documentation to appropriate support groups once system stability was approved and accepted.
• Participated in vendor software selection processes by performing infrastructure and/or hardware feasibility studies, identifying the financial investment required, and comparing outcome to anticipated functionality benefits.
Staff Management and Development
• Managed a staff of Technical Architects, System Engineers, Business Analyst, and Business Consultants by providing leadership, coaching, and assistance through weekly one-on-one statuses. Monitored progress and encourage career development by engaging and contributing to Individual Development Plans (IDPs).
• Developed and administered performance appraisals as well as recommends wage and promotion actions. Administered counseling and corrective action as needed with Human Resources Representative.
• Participated in the interviewing/hiring process for various team positions.
Client/Customer Support
• Managed client expectations by communicating project accomplishments and development updates related to pre-defined and approved client requirements. Delivered feedback to business owners that had potential negative impacts to the scheduled timeline and or financial obligations.
• Managed project tasks and maintained scope objectives by using Niku status reporting, Mercury Test Director for testing, and MsProject (Microsoft suite) for managing project tasks.
• Defined and implemented appropriate end-user training courses and documentation for ongoing system maintenance and support.
Financial Responsibilities
• Completed initial project estimating process by calculating time, resource, and budget project requirements. Managed project budget throughout completion of project.
• Selected appropriate vendor support/consultant contracts to offset internal support and development efforts through the project lifecycle.
• Reviewed and approved contractor timesheets, invoices and software/hardware invoices.
Notable Accomplished Implementations:
• Served as Program Manager of a multi-million dollar Divestiture decommission project for the sale of Marshall Fields Department Stores business to May Company Department Stores. Managed and provided leadership and guidance for multiple platform functional business team leads and teams consisting of + contractors and + team members. The objective of this initiative was to decommission Marshall Fields business from Target’s infrastructure in compliance with legal contract obligations. Worked directly with the Legal department for contract compliance, external vendors to complete data purge/retention initiatives, and partnered with vendor management to calculate cost and expense savings resulting from the decommission efforts.
• Served as Technology Project Manager and managed a $. – $ MM project to automate the non-retail ordering process in Target Stores by providing an online indirect procurement solution for purchasing and invoicing, Ariba. An initial annual spend savings of over a million dollars within the first year was realized. Managed project budget, internal and external resources, and client and vendor relationships. Negotiated vendor contracts.
• Managed the creation and deployment of the Technology intranet portal, Technology Zone. As Intranet Technology Manager, managed a web-software engineering team whose focus was to build an internal portal framework that allowed personalization, customization and a reporting solution to internal teams by using ATG and Websphere architecture solution.
• As Consumption Reduction/Conversion Planning Manger, my role was to manage a $.M effort of a -member contractor team whose main objective was to reduce normalized CPU hours from mainframe application consumption. In addition, this role allowed me to facilitate a DB consumption reduction strategy with partnering vendors. Determined how to reduce consumption reduction efforts through database reorgs and rebinds. These efforts also included introducing an audit trail for our Vendor Management team to report ongoing performance.
• Served as a Sr. Deployment Lead/LAN Administrator that leads pilot rollout phases of client server applications, infrastructure changes, and desktop configurations in a Windows/NT environment. Lead Local Area Network (LAN) installation projects to remote sites.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Washington, DC
Directorate of Intelligence
Office of Information Resources (June – Feb ) Top Secret Clearances*
Computer Systems Consultant
Alternate LAN Technical Manager
• Administered LAN configuration, server support and user accesses for OS/, Novell Netware v., and NT Network environments. Administration included documenting LAN devices addresses, userids, user profiles, server and application software, and disaster recovery processes.
• Provided technical support, training, and troubleshooting on mainframe and LAN based applications. Focused on developing, testing, and deploying strategies for application implementations.
• Served as Lotus Notes Administrator - administrated user accesses, designed users databases, reference tools, and online bulletin boards.
Education
Certification:
George Washington University (July, )
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Project Management Masters Certification
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis MN (Jan, )
Management School of Business
MBA
Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC (May, )
School of Business and Economics
BA - Business Information Systems
Additional Information
• PMI Member, Atlanta Chapter (present)
• IT Communications Committee Chair, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (-)
• National Black MBA Association – Twin Cites Chp. Director, Membership ()
• Selected, Volunteer Council, Target Corporation ()
• CIO Awards, Target Corporation (, )
• Minority Manager’s Leadership Award, CIA ()
