Angela O'Leary
Summary
Determined PMO Manager with commitment to excellence and more than 23 years of experience. Effective collaborative leader promoting communication and listening abilities. Known for great efficiency and detail-oriented work. Dedicated to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PMO/Planning Manager
North Dakota University System
Grand Forks, ND
07.2019 - Current
- Collaborated with the organization leaders to support consistency and best practices.
- Oversaw training and onboarding process for all newly hired employees within the Project Management department.
- Created new methodologies to improve planning process and results for Business Analyst
- Assisted with internal financial planning, analysis and budgeting.
- Worked closely with project managers to create project work scopes and schedules.
- Maintained positive customer relations by addressing problems head-on and implementing successful corrective actions.
- Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
- Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
- Established performance goals for employees and provided feedback on methods for reaching those milestones.
Lead IT Project Manager
North Dakota University System
Grand Forks, ND
07.2018 - 06.2019
- IT Strategic Planning and Reporting; Worked with 11 institutions that encompasses North Dakota University System in their planning process, reviewed and submitted business cases; managed , updated, and maintained the enterprise portfolio
- Supervised, provided leadership, mentored, and managed the project management team in providing support for process and best business practices.
- Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
- Present ideas and suggestions in a clear and effective manner
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Executed projects and acted as senior project manager for multiple projects.
- Gathered project requirements through interactions, meetings and walk through with potential application users and to develop business requirements documents (BRD), functional requirements documents (FRD) and user mock ups.
- Kept project on schedule and within budget while serving as project leader.
- Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing and planning sessions to validate requirements.
Student Finance Business Analyst
North Dakota University System
Grand Forks, ND
10.2004 - 10.2018
- Supported solution assessment and validation to check functional and technical specifications against identified business needs.
- Developed and reviewed test plans and testing methodology to mitigate risks.
- Partnered with business functions to define, determine, analyze, document and communicated objectives, business requirements and priorities for information systems and solutions.
- Worked with application and technical experts on solution design, implementation, support, maintenance and enhancement of information systems.
- Worked with 11 different institutions to define, document and develop metrics for student finance initiatives.
- Provided operational support for all 11 NDUS institutions.
Education
Major Business Administration
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TXBS Degree - Business Administration, Project Management
Mayville State University
Mayville, ND12.1998
Skills
- Continuous Improvement Projects
- Change Management Process
- Scheduling and Coordinating
- Project Documentation
- Issue Resolution
- Project Monitoring
- Microsoft Applications
- Smartsheet
- Teams
Certification
- CAPM Certified - Credential ID: 3008891
- ITIL v4 Certified - Credential ID: GR671128551AO
- Facilitation Certified - McGraw Rush
References
Deb Dunham, CPA|CFO, Dakota Commercial, (701) 772-3101 (w), ddunham@dakotacommercial.com
Myrna Fitzpatrick, Senior Technical Support Analyst, Oracle Canada ULC, (780) 233-1198 (m) myrna.fitzpatrick@oracle.com
Mary Eisenbraun, Director of Student Financial Services, Bismarck State College, (701) 527-2568 (m) meisenbraun54@gmail.com
Timeline
PMO/Planning Manager
North Dakota University System
07.2019 - Current
Lead IT Project Manager
North Dakota University System
07.2018 - 06.2019
Student Finance Business Analyst
North Dakota University System
10.2004 - 10.2018
Major Business Administration
Texas Tech University
BS Degree - Business Administration, Project Management
Mayville State University
- CAPM Certified - Credential ID: 3008891
- ITIL v4 Certified - Credential ID: GR671128551AO
- Facilitation Certified - McGraw Rush
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