AARON SMITH
Hackensack,NJ
Summary
Dedicated and focused Project Management Specialist with over 20+ years of experience excelling at prioritizing, completing multiple tasks simultaneously and following through to achieve project goals. Flexible, detail-oriented and adaptive team player with expertise in equipment operation, staff training and development, customer service and process improvements.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Project Manager, Program Manager (Contractor)
Radiant Systems
Plainsboro, NJ
11.2022 - 08.2023
- Managed program budgets and timelines, ensuring projects stayed on track and within allocated resources
- Developed project plans, identified risks, set objectives and monitored progress towards completion
- Coordinated with internal stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of the program initiatives
- Communicated regularly with external partners to ensure alignment of strategies and goals
- Drafted reports for senior management highlighting key milestones achieved throughout the program lifecycle
- Collaborated with teams across departments to develop effective strategies for executing programs
- Conducted regular meetings with team members to review progress and address any issues or concerns arising from the program execution process
- Identified areas of improvement in existing processes, procedures and systems related to the program delivery cycle.
IT Project Manager, PMO
WSA Audiology
Piscataway, NJ
02.2021 - 08.2022
- Spearheaded key ERP (Infor LN) Implementation projects efforts in North & South America, resulting in high customer satisfaction and increased business revenues
- Kept project teams on-task utilizing PMO designated Project Management Information Systems (MS Project, Smart Sheet, JIRA) with proactive control of budgets, schedules and scopes
- Updated project plans based on changing objectives, specifications and staff availability
- Enhanced development and drove continuous improvement of project delivery process by providing strong program leadership
- Delivered updates and managed inquiries of Corporate C-Level Stakeholders on project delivery / status of key initiatives
- Provided awareness and understanding of overall project portfolio, interactions and issues to team members and stakeholders
- Monitored internal financial budgets to measure against projections
- Completed thorough risk assessments and deployed management and response strategies to prevent roadblocks.
IT Project Manager, PMO (Contractor, Perm)
Benjamin Moore & Company
Montvale, NJ
10.2016 - 04.2020
- Successfully Performed IT Project Manager (PM) Role within Benjamin Moore & Company's Project Management Office (PMO)
- Enforced PMO established procedures & guidelines to complete business partner, as well as, IT, initiatives within assigned budgets and timeframe(s)
- Led various BMC strategic efforts for 1
- Infrastructure, 2
- ERP, 3
- Business Intelligence (BI) & 4
- Tax
- Infrastructure Effort(s): Planned, Organized & Led Full SAP UNIX “On Premise” Server Suite Migrations to A New Cloud Solution (Data Center)
- Planned, Organized & Led Enterprise Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Execution
- ERP (SAP) Effort(s): SAP S4 HANA Implementation
- SAP Change & Release Management (Charm) Upgrade
- Business Intelligence
- SAP Business Objects (BOBJ) Upgrade
- Tax(es)
- SAP Integrated Tax Solution (VERTEX) Upgrade v6 to v8
- Created & managed approach, plan & efforts for BMC new business, marketing & sales opportunities on Amazon AWS Platforms (Vendor Central, Seller Central) with IT, Digital Marketing & Sales Teams
- Partnered with various external IT business areas: Accounting, Compliance, Financial Planning, Marketing, Operations & Sales to foster relationships, identify strategic goals & objectives, as well as, planning for efforts within the company's strategic pillars: Ease of Doing Business, End User Engagement, Expansion of Outlets (New Business) & Health of Independent Channel
- Managed end to end project management activities such as project status reporting, project planning, issues & risk identification & tracking, scope management, budget & schedule management, resourcing & vendor management
- Drove key decision making on project methodology used (Agile – Scrum, SDLC, PLC), as well as, constructed tools for performance monitoring (milestone tracking, sprint to release planning)
- Utilized PMO Project & Portfolio Management tools (MS Project, ServiceNow - PPM, Smart Sheet) to reflect work efforts planned & executed for all initiatives managed.
Senior IT Project Manager
Bed, Bath & Beyond
Union, NJ
04.2013 - 10.2016
- Successfully Managed, Lead and Coordinated Project Management (PM) activities for replacement of BBBY's IBM Point of Sale (POS) & Promotions Management solutions using Waterfall & Agile / Scrum methodologies
- Executed RFI, RFP & RFQ procedures through documented business requirements for vendor evaluation & selection (ORACLE, IBM, NCR)
- Documented gathered vendor supplied details for solution replacement (requirements addressed, project approach, & costs & similar projects executed) & provided recommendation to Leadership for vendor selection
- Planned and conducted various project related ceremonies & team meetings (ex
- Status Meetings, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective / Reviews, Release Planning & Execution)
- Created and maintained project controls including project plans, project status dashboards / reports, Gantt charts, issue / risk logs and scope change registers
- Collaborated with Information Technology, Application Development, and Business Analytical partners to interpret requirements & their translation into solution design specifications
- Tracked performance against project objectives while resolving conflicting priorities in scope, schedule and cost amongst key stakeholder groups
- Lead end-to-end project deliverables for both business and technology components, ensuring alignment to business objectives and benefits, as well as, ensured accountability for project success (budget, schedule & quality).
Business Analyst/Project Manager (Contractor)
YOH IT Services, LLC
Stamford, CT
10.2011 - 11.2012
- Performed BA/PM contract work for GE Capital's Treasury IT Division
- Led requirements analysis, documentation & modeling for Foreign Exchange Exposure (FAS 52) Identification & Monthly Re-Measurement/Translation through ORACLE (GL) enhancement
- Orchestrated weekly work sessions with Treasury IT - Wall Street Suite (WSS), Functional Currency Simplification (FCS), Controllership/Cash Management & ORACLE GL Functional Teams for Scope & Risk Management
- Built relationship with Treasury IT – Data Warehouse & ETL (TIBCO) Developers acquiring an understanding of data processing models/procedures, as well as, assisting with development (unit) testing - which increased scope delivery efficiency
- Assisted Treasury IT - Quality Assurance (QA) Team with defining test activities/goals, planning, test case creation/documentation & execution
- Assisted FCS Functional Team & Business Users with User Acceptance Test (UAT) planning, test case creation/documentation & execution
- Ensured proper stakeholder communication through weekly project dashboard updates, which included project delivery status, key milestone capture/delivery, including key issue/risk identification & mitigation efforts performed
- Produced SQL queries which analyzed and reported on data variations within the Wall Street Suite (WSS) – Hedge Accounting Module, GL (ORACLE) & Treasury IT's Data Warehouse
- Documentation included: Business Requirements Documentation & Operational Process Workflows
- Functional Specifications - with Use Case(s), Business Process Modeling through flow charts, block & wire diagrams, and other graphical key project metric representations
- User Acceptance (UAT) Test Plan – including test cases, expected results
- Requirements Traceability Matrixes (RTM) – for Business/Stakeholder Tracking & Approvals
- Technical Procedure/Process “Run Books” for IT Support Team Training
- IT Support Team Training – through MS-Word Documents & MS-PowerPoint Presentations.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science -
University of Maryland
05.1994
Skills
- Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Program Management Profession (PgMP) Certification (In Progress)
- Project Planning & Life Cycle (PLC) Management
- Project Development Methodologies: Waterfall / SDLC & Agile / Scrum
- Project Stakeholder Engagement & Communications Management
- Project Quality Assurance & Risk Management
- Cross-Functional Team Organization & Leadership
- Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
- ERP Systems (SAP, INFOR LN) Implementations
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Program Management Professional (PgMP)... In Progress
Timeline
IT Project Manager, Program Manager (Contractor)
Radiant Systems
11.2022 - 08.2023
IT Project Manager, PMO
WSA Audiology
02.2021 - 08.2022
IT Project Manager, PMO (Contractor, Perm)
Benjamin Moore & Company
10.2016 - 04.2020
Senior IT Project Manager
Bed, Bath & Beyond
04.2013 - 10.2016
Business Analyst/Project Manager (Contractor)
YOH IT Services, LLC
10.2011 - 11.2012
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science -
University of Maryland
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Program Management Professional (PgMP)... In Progress
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