Results-driven business professional with over 15 years experience of successful accomplishments in diverse industries ranging from finance, retail, healthcare and IT, with a strong concentration for the past 10 years in program and project management, business analysis, software development and large scale infrastructure deployments in the IT industry. I have repeatedly outperformed in the face of getting major projects and programs done on time and within budget, and accomplished this in diverse markets and challenging economic conditions with a proven ability to deliver substantial revenue, productivity, and quality improvements.

Fully knowledgeable in formal project management methods and best practices having earned a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) as well as being a Certified ScrumMaster from the Scrum Alliance. I have a deep understanding of and successfully applied current industry best practices such as the PMBOK, Agile, Scrum, Lean and XP to the development of custom software, delivery of enterprise systems, and to the build out and deployment of mega IT infrastructure projects.

Possess extensive experience in PMO implementations from the development of departmental and enterprise wide project management methodologies, frameworks and processes to a hands on technical knowledge and deployment experience of enterprise project management systems such as Planview and Microsoft Project Server.

With extensive business experience in having built several successful businesses from the ground up, gives me a very unique and pragmatic perspective in how to manage projects, programs and company initiatives in that my focus is always on the bottom line and business value.

I am a part-time faculty instructor for UCLA Extension, UCI Extension and the University of Redlands and for their Project Management Certificate Programs.  I’m also speak and conduct PMP training for PMI-LA as well as regularly contribute articles, blogs and discussion forums for ProjectManagement.com, Projects@Work and other industry leading forums, sites and portals, while my long term professional interest include becoming a professionally published author, speaker, and serial entrepreneur. I’m also currently serving as volunteer board member for PMI-LA in the role of VP of Marketing and Public Relations.

Please visit my website for more information: www.projectation.com

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