Kansas City Metropolitan Area
I take requirements, concepts, or goals, and lead a team to make it reality. I am a self-starter with excellent communication skills able to facilitate meetings with stakeholders to develop a delivery strategy and navigate the team around obstacles and within business constraints to find a successful project delivery. I take ownership of the project and strive to instill trust in those I work with by delivering honest status even when not ideal, set expectations and strive to meet them, and do as I say I will. As a certified Project Management Professional, I have a proven track record of effectively managing complex projects to meet deadlines. I have kept my teams connected and engaged virtually through a global pandemic. Proficient at monitoring thousands of deliverables to create reporting for team accountability and stakeholder status updates. Extensive experience collaborating and delivering projects with the support of remote and global teams. Competencies: Project Planning, Forecasting, Work Breakdown, PERT (3 Point Estimating), Risk Analysis, Mentorship, Change Requests and Impact Analysis, Status Reports, Resource Management, Critical Path, International Project Teams Software Skills: Office Suite, Microsoft SharePoint, Project, Visio, Teams, Tableau, Adobe Photoshop and Premier Elements, Thoughtspot, SAP, CA Clarity
Project managed cross-functional international teams to perform customer hardware installation and integration, network optimization, software deployments to cellular towers, and strategic internal projects. Developing the project plan and providing strategic direction to the team. • Managed project team delivering and installing hardware simultaneously to 9 markets across 4 states, requiring detailed scheduling and forecasting of resources and procurement timelines to coordinate delivery • Led global project teams performing 33,000 cellular tower node software upgrades over 3 weeks which delivered margin 128% of forecast and satisfying the external customer allowing for 2 additional projects to be awarded
Project managed global teams to deploy unique customer builds, deployment of inter-operator connections, and infrastructure decommissioning. • Managed project team validating and disconnecting over 230,000 cellular tower backhaul connections for external customer while problem-solving to ensure high-quality and minimize risk of disconnects in error
Led international test and self-assessment examination conversion teams. Developed conversion schedules, provide guidance on procedures, and deliver training to others on team. Ensured contractual deadlines were met. • Assessed alignment of new testing software with existing processes and procedures before software rollout to Development and Scoring departments through software functionality reviews with department Director. • Streamlined process handoffs between Test Development and Test Scoring departments allowing for more efficient quality control methods and status tracking by integrating SharePoint logic and alerts
Oversaw scoring for 28 clients and test development processes for 10 clients, ensuring accuracy of testing metrics to ensure psychometric validity of test results • Facilitated meetings with test subject matter expert volunteers to develop and review new test items • Streamlined numerous scoring processes through the creation of Excel spreadsheets, some including complex macros • Ensured psychometric validity of test scores for Program Director though SPSS statistical analysis of test results