Auburn University

Makerere University

Cloud Operations Program Manager, Architecture & Oversight Management at Oracle

Pewaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Oracle

Cloud Operations Program Manager  Architecture & Oversight Management at Oracle

- Provides leadership and identifies strategic plans and business case /value proposition for identified initiatives in the Finance & Administrative Affairs division and across campus
- Facilitates and oversees all project-planning strategic efforts, and ensures project management methodology and standardization are enforced across all campus projects
- Defines key project management strategies and services for all projects implemented for the UW-Milwaukee campus and drives organizational change through communication of vision and objectives to gain support for strategic projects
- Develops the business plans, ensuring projects align market and system strategies
- Collaborates with divisions and departments across campus on the planning and design of a variety of projects, based on appropriate business requirement and implementation strategies and trends.
- Provides guidance on project management methods as well as the task of planning and carrying out the project management of UWM's ongoing projects.
- Performs project risk assessment to identify key organization risks and opportunities. Leads resolution of issues, risk mitigation plans and change management process
- Defines standards of project management practice and mentors and trains project management staff
- Leads current wide campus multi-year initiative to design and implement a shared services administrative structure to provide excellence across UWM, focusing on the functions of Finance and Accounting, Procurement, Human Resources, and Information Technology, by creating long-term service efficiencies, making better use of technology, and enhancing professional development opportunities in administrative areas.
- defines the tasks needed to meet stakeholder requirements as provided by the FAA's business requirements analysts, to ensure that business-process requirements are clearly defined, and that those requirements are adequately fulfilled by project implementation teams.

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Senior Project Manager / Program Manager, Finance & Administrative Affairs

Provides IS professional leadership in the early stages of projects; generally deals with major projects, complex business applications and/or use of new technology.  Coordinates the implementation of new products and systems or major modifications to existing systems that cross multiple areas/projects.
- Responsible for the alignment of subordinated projects with business objectives/program cost/outcome evaluation
- Accountable for the coordinated planning, management, execution and closure of a program.
- Responsible for working with the business area(s) impacted by the program's outcomes to define and ultimately transition outcome measurement plans.
- Accountable for the day-to-day execution of a program within the approved scope, schedule and cost.
- Accountable for coordinating scope and schedule adjustments within the program to ensure program efficiency.
- Accountable for merging all Business and I.S. project plans into a single, unified view for program or multi-project efforts.
- Responsible for working with partner (brokered) teams to ensure successful outcomes
- Responsible for coordinating the efforts of the Organizational Change Lead, Process Lead and Solution Lead to identify and quantify business opportunities (problem size, cost benefit analysis, measures, urgency, etc.).
- Responsible for validating estimates, risks, assumptions, constraints and interdependencies for the viable solution options.
- Accountable to execute the Corporate Contract Management (CCM) process to secure the vendor contract and establish/sustain the vendor relationship.
- Responsible for obtaining resources (money, staffing, technology) to deliver the program.
- Responsible for the allocation of resources to program components.
- Responsible for defining the program structure into manageable work units.
- Accountable for working with the functional organization to determine the appropriate PM
- Accountable for defining the staffing and acquisition

Northwestern Mutual

System Lead Program Manager

As Project Manager, assumed the overall responsibility for planning and execution of Information Systems.
- Supervised all aspects of Systems Development from business case development through Systems Implementation.
- Developed and maintained project plan
- Managed staffing and project execution, and coordinated resource planning with Information Systems and Client functions.
- Ensured that projects were executed in compliance with defined methodologies and processes.
- Ultimately ensured that projects were delivered on time, on budget and consistent with the defined scope

MillerCoors

Senior Project Manager

Sylvia Banda