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Hamline University

University of Northwestern – St. Paul

Century College

Senior IT Project Manager at Self Esteem Brands, LLC

Self Esteem Brands, LLC

SaaS Solutions Manager

Corporate IT & End User Tech PM

Manager - IT End User Team

Senior IT Project Manager

Project Manager Scrum Master (TekSystems)

(TekSystems Contract)

- Responsible for all aspects of project management throughout the project life cycle, including planning, directing, and managing cross-functional team members.
-	Develop project-level vision, strategy, approach, and implementation plans required to achieve necessary business outcomes.
- Assist with the creation of business cases, project road-maps, and project governance structures to support Project Managers. 
- Ensures the integrated scope, schedule, budget, and quality of multiple project teams.
- Work with the technical leads and project team members to document requirements, identify resources and develop detailed project and resource plans.
- Manage scope, schedule, and dependency and ensure quality of project deliverables.
- Identify issues and risks and work with project team to develop mitigation plans and provide timely escalation.
- Conduct project meetings, track and monitor tasks, milestones, deliverables, risks and issues.
- Manage and coordinate day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of approved projects, including internal and external project resources.
- Ensure quality of project management work, timely updates, prepare and collect project related artifacts.
- Manage stakeholders’ communication and expectations.
-	Adhere to IT governance processes and provide regular transparency, status reports and escalate risks and issues impacting project delivery.

Senior Project Manager (TekSystems)

(1yr Contract)

 Drive and support Global Value Improvement initiatives in businesses & functions. 
 Partner with leaders to develop Value Improvement strategy, goals and plans in order to achieve operating income targets. 
 Collaborate with leaders and their organization to inspire a continuous improvement culture by deploying process improvement/operational excellence toolkits and methods across the enterprise. 
 Build a strong pipeline of value improvement projects to achieve a 5-10% productivity rate of improvement annually. 
 Partner with leaders, champions and employees to share best practices to further accelerate the rate of improvement. 
 Facilitate kaizen events to target key enterprise improvements and provide instant offense when necessary to drive strategic business priorities. 
 Facilitate best in class Value Improvement, Lean, Lean Business Process (LBP), and VIP training for employees at all levels. 
 Collaborate with Global Councils to drive and improve value improvement culture and toolkits.

Boston Scientific

Senior Enterprise Business Consultant / Project Manager

 Visible, accountable leader who oversees the successful delivery of Insight projects and programs for Insight clients and helps develop to new opportunities for future business.
 Develops and maintains project financial forecasts reflecting revenue, costs, and gross profit expectations over the duration of the project.
 Work with internal leadership to help drive best practices, standards, and methodology to the regional practices.
 Ensures the change management process is utilized in order to maintain profitability and ensure customer satisfaction.
 Lead projects relative to milestone completion while managing to resource and financial budgets.
 Develops and implements complete project schedules to ensure required dates are met.
 Monitors and maintain client and internal project executive satisfaction by engaging in weekly status meetings.
 Assist Sales in business development activities to grow Insight Services business.
 Participates in the development and delivery of Statements of Work (SOWs), Requests for Proposals (RFP), and Change Requests (CR).
 Presents Insight’s Project Management and service capabilities to prospective clients.

Insight

Project Manager

Responsible for the planning and managing of projects operating on a three week sprints. Duties include research, requirement writing, bid review, management of project and closing documentation.
 Manage project development from initiation to closure.
 Be accountable for project results along with project sponsor.
 Plan and manage new product rollouts including marketing strategies.
 Provide project schedule to identify when each task will be performed.
 Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders.
 Resolve any issues and solve problems through project lifecycle.
 Conceptualize and review wireframe designs and layouts.
 Effectively manage project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented.
 Track and report project milestones and provide status reports to sponsor.
 UX / UI Review and QA
 Lead, coach and motivate project team members on a proactive basis.

Wolfnet Technologies

Provided first level support to clients on eFunds web based platform

Maintained SLA s in accordance to customer service agreements

Escalated issues to appropriate levels when necessary

Maintained rapport with team members & clients

Fidelity National Information Services

Member Solutions Representative

Provide on demand & technical assistance & support for networks [ Win Server 2000 ] & computer users in the district

Multiple OS environment [ Mac OS, WinXP, Win2000, Linux ]

Support demands: software, hardware & operational support to ensure minimal down time & greatest staff productivity

Assist the staff members with problems relating to daily or routine network or computer usage

Managed district wide software rollouts to teacher workstations & labs

Diagnose reported problems & determine appropriate solutions for the problem

Advise appropriate staff members of possible causes of the problem & precautions necessary to avoid additional issues

Managed multiple computer labs

Provide on-site service in support of the Network Manager

Work cooperatively with Network Manager

Alert the staff of developing issues & formulate potential fixes

Articulate & manage issues related to network & or systems problems

Littleton Elementary School District #65

District Technician

Sole IT support for staff of 8

Responsible for maintenance & repair of client workstations [ Win98, WinXP, Win2000 ]

Performed daily backup & upkeep on network server [ NT 4.0 ]

Collaborated with staff & executive board to develop web strategy

Designed & created first website [ including online registration & payment portals ]

Participated in annual statewide Government IT Symposium

Brian Smith, MBA