EVA SHAALAN
East Brunswick,USA
Summary
- Results driven project and operations professional with extensive experience leading global initiatives, driving process improvement, and solving complex business challenges through AI and automation.
- Member of the HR Project Management Office, responsible for managing a project portfolio, coordinating efforts across multiple workstreams, and ensuring on time, within scope, and within budget delivery.
- Diligent in tracking project progress and controlling risks and issues to drive efficient, high quality project delivery.
- Responsible for project budget management, overseeing projects totaling over $3M, and providing regular financial reporting.
- Skilled in integrating people, processes, and technology following mergers and acquisitions.
- Experienced in keeping leadership and stakeholders informed of project health through steering committee meetings and regular updates via reporting, dashboards, and presentations.
- Collaborative and adaptable team player with proven success partnering across global teams, supporting and developing team members to drive successful project delivery.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior HR PMO Project Manager
Bristol Myers Squibb
Princeton, NJ
12.2022 - Current
- Define project success criteria and run the project activities efficiently including maintaining the governance, operations, budget, securing resources, and monitoring critical path initiatives.
- Kickoff project ensuring resources and stakeholders are aligned and understand the project plan.
- Collaborate with various business groups to translate project strategy into workable project plans.
- Track project milestones and deliverables, providing timely status updates to leadership.
- Assess, monitor, and plan for issues/risks applying solutions to ensure quality of work and timely deliverables.
- Determine change and communication impacts and develop plans and responses accordingly.
- Ensure validation, documentation, and approvals for GxP projects following change and quality controls.
- Deliver services and solutions aligned with business needs and operational excellence objectives.
- Support stakeholders through post go-live hyper care and transition to BAU.
- Conduct project postmortems and present recommendations to ensure continuous process improvement.
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
Senior Strategy & Business Excellence PM
Bristol Myers Squibb
Princeton, NJ
10.2021 - 12.2022
- Partnered with IT, Learning, and functional teams to define data requirements, establish migration rules, and ensure consistency and accuracy across systems.
- Coordinated migration testing activities (UAT, reconciliation, post-migration validation), ensuring all learning data was accurately captured and functional in SuccessFactors.
- Provided regular reporting on migration progress, data quality, and defect resolution, giving leadership clear visibility into readiness for go-live.
- Led end to end data migration for learning to integrate data into a single platform.
Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst
Sanofi
Bridgewater, NJ
05.2018 - 10.2021
- Translated Sanofi's Global OneLMS Project strategy into workable project plans, defined project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Defined project rollout plan, success criteria and ran project activities efficiently, leading several workstreams to complete implementation, data migration, and archival of legacy systems.
- Assessed, monitored, and planned for risks; identified and removed bottlenecks; and implemented solutions to ensure quality work and timely deliverables.
- Ensured conformity to Sanofi's documentation and approval policies following GxP regulations and internal PUMA Methodology.
- Tracked project milestones and deliverables, providing timely status updates to leadership.
- Conducted project postmortems and presented data-driven recommendations to ensure continuous process improvement.
Project Manager/Business Analyst
Johnson & Johnson
New Brunswick, NJ
01.2016 - 05.2018
- Strategically aligned functional and technical business process design, working closely with global process owners across core HR, Talent, Performance and YE Compensation.
- Partnered with HRIT to implement Workday globally, ensuring optimization of self-service capabilities to enhance the employee experience.
- Managed project plans, prioritization of critical path initiatives and secured resources for timely delivery.
- Determined change and communications impacts and developed plans and responses accordingly.
- Served as escalation point to Tier 3, continually evaluating operational excellence and working with IT and Workday to provide solutions.
- Gauged on employee experience and return on investment via Voice of Customer surveys and KPIs and implemented continuous improvements to streamline and simplify the user experience.
- Assessed monthly and semi-annual releases for adoption/maintenance and coordinated change management.
Project Manager/Business Analyst
Ralph Lauren Corp.
New York, NY
04.2013 - 01.2016
- Worked with global process owners to streamline business processes using technology in learning and development, performance management, and talent management.
- Developed solution prototypes and provided demonstrations to stakeholders to confirm requirements.
- Created project plans, test plans, coordinating activities internally and with external implementation partners to deploy SAP SuccessFactors.
- Deployed effective change management to ensure end user system adoption and ensured employees were well informed and prepared to embrace initiatives.
- Ensured project activities remained on track, reported risks and issues, looked for innovative solutions, and provided timely status reports to leadership.
- Defined the governance and operational structure to enable smooth post-go-live operations and long-term BAU support.
- Retired legacy systems, migrated legacy data, and implemented solutions to serve 30,000 employees globally.
LMS Configuration Specialist
Canon USA
Lake Success, NY
01.2011 - 04.2013
- Provided advanced system administration (Tier 3 support), including monitoring of integration issues, and troubleshooting while continually looking for creative solutions to organizational, workflow, and application constraints.
- Gathered business requirements, configured solutions in test and production environments.
- Coordinated release management, business testing, change and communications prior to deployment and go-live.
- Provided guidance and training to regional LMS administrators to ensure consistent and effective use of LMS.
HRIS Systems Analyst
Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
04.2010 - 01.2011
- Supported recruiting managers throughout recruiting cycles as Applicant Tracking Systems subject matter expert.
- Prepared and delivered systems training for new and experienced recruiters and granted permissions accordingly.
- Managed all second and third level support for ATS, resolving complex system issues efficiently.
- Audited recruiting systems to determine compliance, usage, defects, enhancement needs and provided solutions internally or through outside vendors.
HR Employee Service Center Representative
UBS Financial Services
Weehawken, NJ
06.2006 - 07.2008
- Responded to employee/manager inquiries and escalated requests to respective administrators as needed.
- Supported effective onboarding of new hires/transfers including validating paperwork and onboarding employees via PeopleSoft.
- Trained peers on customer service, policies, procedures, ensuring timely communications.
- Maintained the Shared Services intranet page by regularly updating policies, forms, and critical employee resources.
- Ran queries and analyzed HR data to support business partners in identifying and resolving operational issues.
Education
MBA - Business Administration
Long Island University
Brookville, NY09.2009
BA - Economics
Hunter College - CUNY
New York, NY01.2004
Skills
- Project management
- Requirements gathering
- Systems implementation
- Influencing skills
- Data analysis
- Risk assessment
- Change management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Process improvement/Automation
- Vendor management
- Artificial intelligence
- Waterfall and Agile methodologies
- Hybrid project management
- PMO practices
- Budget administration
- Problem solving
- Change impact analysis
- Project planning and development
- Progress reporting
- Coaching and mentoring
- Project scheduling
- Microsoft office suite expert
- Compliance monitoring
Volunteer Experience
Girl Scout Troop Leader and Treasurer of Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey.
Certification
Project Management Professional Certification
Timeline
Senior HR PMO Project Manager
Bristol Myers Squibb
12.2022 - Current
Senior Strategy & Business Excellence PM
Bristol Myers Squibb
10.2021 - 12.2022
Senior Project Manager/Business Analyst
Sanofi
05.2018 - 10.2021
Project Manager/Business Analyst
Johnson & Johnson
01.2016 - 05.2018
Project Manager/Business Analyst
Ralph Lauren Corp.
04.2013 - 01.2016
LMS Configuration Specialist
Canon USA
01.2011 - 04.2013
HRIS Systems Analyst
Morgan Stanley
04.2010 - 01.2011
HR Employee Service Center Representative
UBS Financial Services
06.2006 - 07.2008
MBA - Business Administration
Long Island University
BA - Economics
Hunter College - CUNY