Sean Smith 123 Main St. Apt. 1 | New York, NY 00000 | 000.555.1212 | email@gmail.com

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Freelance Project Manager

Cost-conscious, reliable project manager offering a proven history of success supervising, planning, and managing one or more multifaceted IT projects with multiple deliverables, complex dependencies and multi-million dollar budgets.

Professional Competencies

Communication and Goal Setting

• Maximize productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management.
• Draft and distribute project objectives and tasks to the solutions team.
• Negotiate successfully with clients, staff and outside vendors.
• Nurture relationships with project sponsors as well as business and IT executives.
• Craft and disseminate a clear vision by linking projects to the company’s objectives and results.

Project Delivery

• Direct and oversee multiple PMs and/or team leads on complex projects.
• Ensure integrity and delivery of multiple projects with respect to time, budget, scope, change, risk and resources.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.
• Manage resource allocation across multiple projects including tracking resource bandwidth and forecasting future availability for scheduling new projects.
• Guarantee the attainment of key milestones by proactively tracking metrics and project outputs.
• Apply effective project management methodologies and control techniques.
• Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery groups and/or projects.
• Conduct planning and operational readiness assessments to provide an effective transition into production.

Financial Management

• Identify, maintain and coordinate the elements that lead to financial success.
• Collaborate with finance team to determine impact and implications of various options and recommend the best course for project delivery.
• Accountable for management of financial risk and opportunities across multiple project phases and delivery groups.
• Facilitate the development of a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

Leadership

• Work with project team and key stakeholders to devise best practices and continuous improvement of project delivery across the enterprise.
• Synchronize the efforts of major initiatives involving multiple groups and departments.
• Coach, mentor and motivate junior level PMs and leads.
• Escalate issues and concerns appropriately.
• Offer input and feedback on growth and development opportunities for junior PMs.
• Consider, prioritize and balance the competing needs of diverse stakeholders
• Manage matrixed resources and related relationships within each functional area.

Selected Projects and Achievements                             2009-present (Complete project chronology available upon request)

• Software Upgrade: Managed a team of 12 through all phases of a $17 million upgrade in the banking operations software for ABC Bancorp. Results: Achieved a seamless, defect-free migration at 10 percent below budget with no unscheduled downtime, due to careful planning and strategic resource allocation.
•  Digital Initiative: Rescued a troubled $13 million project that involved building a full web/mobile campaign around a TV show for XYZ Productions. Results: Got project back on track within a week by creating a well-defined project backlog plan, removing impediments and tightly integrating offshore development teams into the project work stream.
• PeopleSoft Enhancement: Created application enhancements, reports and debugged contract to cash modules in PeopleSoft for Mega Financial Services. Results: Completed project one month ahead of schedule, for $1.2 million under budget while garnering acclaim from key stakeholders.
• Database Development: Guided a team of eight in the development of relational database management systems (RDBMS) for a multi-billion dollar global staffing firm. Results: Reduced inefficiencies and the time needed to fill requisitions by 15 percent.
• Infrastructure: Led several teams at Mega Financial Services in completing file migrations, office moves, data center migrations, business objects/reporting and SharePoint migrations following the acquisition of a major retirement services firm. Results: Completed $34 million in mainstream technical upgrade projects within 8 months
• Enterprise Implementations: Directed global rollouts of new software and systems for two Fortune 100 insurance firms. Results: Ensured timely releases through diligent planning, neutering vendor relationships and partnering with the controller to develop realistic forecasts.

Tools

Microsoft Project ▪ Excel ▪ Outlook ▪ PowerPoint ▪ Word Windows NetMeeting ▪ Microsoft LiveMeeting Cisco WebEx ▪ CutePDF ▪ Adobe Acrobat ▪ Blackboard Agile

Affiliations

Member, Project Management Institute (PMI)