Project Manager
Unisoft
Total years of experience :17 years, 11 Months
• Managed projects, and drove the project team from start through to completion;
• Defined project scope, objectives, milestones and deliverables;
• Ensured business requirements are suitably defined, understood and signed off;
• Pro-actively managed project risks and issues and minimised their impact on the project;
• Regularly communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders and used their feedback to optimise progress;
• Negotiated use of resources in a matrix management environment;
• Coordinated and managed project reporting, project reviews and project steering meetings.
• Formulated strategic and long-term business plans;
• Developed and implemented policies relating to planning activities, which include cost, budget, accountability and dashboard analysis;
• Conducted reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities;
• Collaborated with clients, end users, and developers and ensured technical requirements are thorough using standard tools and modeling techniques;
• Established solid working relationships using open communication with customers via meetings and interviews;
• Documented detailed analysis of end-to-end business processes, including reports and exhibits for the Business plan and Capital Budget. Ensured information was accurate and complete;
• Assisted in the preparation of presentations for the Business Plan, Capital Budget and Expenditure request to senior management.
• Wrote computer system procedure specifications and user manuals;
• Implemented appropriate tactical plans to meet budget funds objectives and deadlines;
• Proactively carried out analyses on financial data and identified areas of opportunity;
• Planned long and short term financial budgets and daily morning reports;
• Assisted in the preparation of presentations for the Business Plan and Capital Budget and developed programs and distributed ad-hoc management reports, as required, to keep senior management apprised of important and strategic activities and their outcome.
• Met with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define and document business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals;
• Leaded architecture and design sessions in describing new systems for the purpose of enhancing business processes, operations, and information process flow;
• Reviewed and analyzed the effectiveness and efficiency of existing production systems and developed strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems;
• Performed cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions;
• Defined budget funds, operations and management objectives and implemented appropriate tactical plans to meet budget funds objectives and deadlines.