Faye Ravandi, Project Manager

Faye Ravandi

Project Manager

Fannie Mae

Location
United States
Education
Master's degree, Information Systems Technology
Experience
13 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 0 Months

Project Manager at Fannie Mae
  • United States
  • July 2010 to March 2014

Managed and lead complex financial SDLC projects with cross functional technical and business teams from pre-initiation through implementation and closing phases. Developed project schedule and milestones, estimating costs and driving project milestones, managing stakehoder’s requirements, risks, communications, training, SDLC documentations and day to day activities for complex projects in credit, finance and risk organizations. Implemented SDLC and organizational standards and procedures through life cycle of projects using various enterprise tools.
Implemented organizational SDLC and change management standards within all projects. Proven track in delivering projects on time, on budget and in-scope. Proven skills in communicating project status to executive management and all stakeholders on a regular basis throughout the lifecycle of the project. Responsible for compliancy of projects with EPMO project execution requirements.

Program Manager at Lockheed Martin
  • United States
  • August 2008 to July 2010

In this position performed in different capacities as; Deputy Transition Manager for an awarded $400M program; Deputy Program Manager for software development and IT related projects; SME, technical contributor, recruiting and staffing specialist for various capture and proposal activities ranging from $400M to $2.6B; Hiring advisor for several awarded DoD related programs. Lead and delivered projects with tight deadlines on-time and on-budget with %15 ROI.

Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton
  • United States
  • March 2007 to August 2008

Project Management and consulting responsibilities: managed day to day activities (contractual and managerial) for development and implementation of a new SDLC project for a project that earned the IRS Commissioner’s Highest award in July 2008; participated in proposal capture activities; assisted in organizing various corporate events such as division’s monthly and quarterly meetings and other fundraising and social events.

Project Manager at Unisys
  • United States
  • March 2001 to March 2007

Performed in different capacities to gain working knowledge of all aspects of software development phases; project management, Business Analyst, Release and Configuration Management and Software Development:
Project Manager: managed moderate to complex SDLC projects to from inception to implementation: developing and controlling schedule, resourcing, managing costs and risks; creating SDCL documentations such as WBS, schedule, Requirements document, Developing and implementing several standards, procedures, corrective and preventive measurements for the organization to achieve CMMI level II and III
Business Analyst: performed analysis on several financial reporting and procurement applications, developed RTM and requirements documents. Leaded a pilot project for initiating the Business Process Modeling within the organization to create Business Process Model and Business Rule and Requirements Modeling in department. Member of Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG)
Configuration Manager: managed and monitored code deployment activities by identifying and defining configuration items (CI); controlling the release and change of configuration items throughout the system lifecycle, managing and pushing code for implementation; participates in CCB meetings by establishing software baselines and change management activities under the task orders
Software Engineer; developed code for 3rd generation applications, developed complex stored procedures, re-engineered legacy applications utilizing client-server to distributed n-tier using JAVA/J2EE technologies to business analysis.

Education

Master's degree, Information Systems Technology
  • at George Washington University
  • May 1995
Bachelor's degree, B.B.A.
  • at George Washington Unoversity
  • May 1992

Specialties & Skills

Budgeting
Leadership
Full SDLC
Project Management
Release Management
Project Management
Software Development, SDLC
Scheduling
Leadership
Cost & Budgeting

Languages

English
Expert
Persian
Expert

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Certified PMP
  • August 2005