Lake Worth, Florida, United States
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) Instructor/Trainer and Authorized Training Partner Instructor (ATP) from PMI. Sr. Project/Program Manager (PMO)/ Senior Business Analyst / Business Continuity professional with exceptional verbal communication skills/strong leadership/coaching/mentoring skills. Build/Lead efficient PMOs. Extensive experience managing/implementing complex applications/business solutions projects, consisting of large cross-functional matrix global teams of 500+ stakeholders. Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) highest communication and leadership level award achieved in Toastmasters International (www.toastmasters.org). Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Smartsheet, HP-Quality Center and MS-SharePoint. Managed 500+ Project Team Members. Key-note presentation "How to Improve Your Communication and Leadership Skills" at PMI venue. Updated and created over 5,000 PMP practice test questions for PMBOK 6. PMO Coordinator in Health Information Technology (HIT), completed Health Information Technology - Implementation Manager government sponsored certificate program (August 2012). Expertise in PMF and TMF for Project Life Cycle within PMO established framework focusing on rapid team-building. Coordinated and managed activities of cross-functional IT teams and business professionals (500+). Received STAR Leadership Award out of 8,000 Associates from the NY, NJ, Westchester area as a result of excellent leadership skills. Excellent training skills from facilitating monthly new hire training program used for presentation/training of software and PMO processes. Mentored, coached and trained project managers. Strong analytical and technical solutions skills to develop business and technical workflows for business/technical process improvement/streamlining for straight through processing (STP) and systems integration. Excellent training skills (trained over 4,500) from facilitating monthly new hire training program at Bank of America. Mentored/trained/coached project managers, technologists, and business partners.
PMP/CAPM PMI Authorized Instructor assigned by Simplilearn for various lengths of virtual PMP Certification Training sessions or batches.
Authorized Training Partner/Instructor from the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Manager Trainer/Coach and PMBOK Guide SME for those working towards taking their Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. Managed various remote and web-based projects to improve service offerings with on/off-shore project teams. Conducted successful in-depth knowledge transfer sessions on: * Project Cost Management for estimating, predicting and analyzing project(s) financial performance; * Project Earned Value Management and Forecasting to measure and improve project performance and measurement; * Project Risk Management to identify, rank, and successfully manage and control project risks; * Project Scope Management including collecting requirements defining scope, and WBS creation; * Project Schedule Management including defining, sequencing, estimating activities resources/activities duration and develop and manage Project Schedule; * Project Stakeholder Management, Project Communications Management, Project Procurement Management, and Project Quality Management are covered in intensive detail. Worked with students in the Project Management Institute (PMI) South Florida, local chapter, and elsewhere, to improve their project management skills and improve their PMP exam preparation, using my communications, interpersonal, leadership, and training skills. Successful training/coaching have results in several individuals passing the PMP exam and obtaining their PMP certification. Have trained over 4,500 new associates at Bank of America, with facilitating a day long, new hire program entitled "Day One - Making Connections" where besides my full-time Project Manager/Business Continuity VP position, I traveled across the country to train new-hire associates, and full-time associates related to Business Continuity across various lines of businesses. Have trained over 1,500 persons in Toastmasters International to improve their communications and leadership skills.
Utilized Smartsheet as an SME and MS-Project as an SME and provided project management/program management/portfolio management consulting for the I.T. Department and then for the Engineering Department at the City of West Palm Beach, Florida. Designed and developed $300 million Capital Improvement Program Portfolio and $59 million Sales Tax Portfolio and $30 million Parks Bond Portfolio into Smartsheet. Serving as a Smartsheet SME, and developing/maintaining projects/programs/portfolios, dashboards, financial reporting (e.g., cash flow), project schedules, automated workflows, and training/coaching Engineering Project Managers, resulting in improved efficiency for managing projects.
Functioned as an Adjunct Instructor and Course Developer (Syllabus and Curriculum) for Project Management at Palm Beach State College in the Corporate and Continuing Education (CCE) Division, for PMP Exam Prep Course.
Effective and passionate certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and Lead Instructor, Subject Matter Expert (SME) of the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition. Facilitating training for PMP Exam Preparation 4-day Boot Camps and 2-day MS-Project Professional 2016 on-site classes, making project management training, an exciting and fun experience. PMP Certified/Sr. Project/Program Manager (PMO), Senior Business Analyst, Business Continuity and Health Information Technology (HIT) professional with exceptional verbal communication skills/strong leadership/training/coaching/mentoring skills and building/leading efficient PMOs. Extensive experience managing/implementing complex applications/business solutions projects, consisting of large cross-functional matrix global teams of 500+ stakeholders.