Gabriela Silva
Called to Peace Ministries
Clayton,NC
25
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Eager to contribute to the growth of your business by applying skills learned and sharpened throughout my IT career, Homeschool Educator and volunteer work as well. After 12 years as a Homeschool Teacher and manager of my family, I am ready to get back to the workforce and thrive together with your business and clients.
Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure professional level positions. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Work History
Substitute Teacher
2 Years 7 Months- Substitute teacher for the Johnston County Public Schools.
Founder/President
3 Years 2 Months- Counsel victims and survivors of Domestic Violence (DV) to understand and learn their civil and immigration rights in the U.S.A
- Advocate for victims and survivors of DV during Civil Court Proceedings
- Contact Non-Profit Organizations, Churches, Ministries, Foundations and Private Businesses in order to create fundraisers to help the women, children, victims and survivors of DV in the U.S.A
- Teach families how to build their financial life so they can become financially independent
- NC Notary Public services.
Volunteer
3 Years 2 Months- Help with planning and executing webinars series for support groups sessions
- Designing the workflow charts for the Support Group Ministry
- Formatting excel sheets to reflect the support group attendees, leaders and leaders in training.
Homeschool Educator
7 Years 11 Months- Plan and develop the appropriate curriculum to fit the needs of each of my individual students
- Plan, teach, manage and organize daily lessons for my students and coops throughout the year
- Host coops and field trips to my individual students and others.
IT Project Manager
4 Months- Conduct the IT governance projects
- Conduct the Business Intelligence (BI) projects for the Department of Treasury
- Prepare initial project plan, monitor, coordinate and implement the project
- Manage and control the project budget and other costs related to the project
- Manage and control the use of time and resources of the project
- Track progress and report status internally and to customers during the entire lifecycle
- Identify, analyze, and respond to project risks
- Prepare and submit progress reports to managers.
IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 Years 9 Months- Infrastructure Project Management for American Express
- Manage and track project budget, utilization, and other project-related costs
- Manage and track resource scheduling, and project time utilization
- Manage changes to project scope, through a formal change management policy
- Track progress and report status internally and to clients throughout the project life cycles
- Identify, analyze, and respond to project risks
- Lead quality acceptance activities, for each of the project milestones
- Participate in, and co-lead, the Functional Requirements Workshop / Project Kick-off Meeting
- Draft the Functional Requirements Specification for the project
- Coordinate transition from Professional Services to on-going support, at the completion of the project.
IT Project Management Consultant
2 Months- Manage and track resource scheduling, and project time utilization
- Manage changes to project scope, through a formal change management policy
- Track progress and report status internally and to clients throughout the project life cycles
- Identify, analyze, and respond to project risks.
IT Security Consultant
3 Months- Facilitate processes related to Information Security Policy and Standards
- Support development of Information Security Policy instruments, including Business and Technical Security Standards
- Advise operational teams regarding use of standards for development of security-related procedures
- Manage the repository of Policy instruments
- Support the activities of the Information Security Policy and Standards Focus Team as appropriate
- Provide support as needed to IT Compliance in collecting evidence related to security practices for internal and external audit reviews.
Quality Assurance Consultant
9 Months- Conduct validation points to ensure that all members of the PMO maintain project documentation
- Serve as an escalation point for high-level and urgent issues and risks that impact project timeline, scope, quality and/or financials
- Validate that projects implemented by PMO team members adhere to best practices and standard approaches for program and project management
- Continual improvement of project management related processes
- Balance of resources and capacity management of work effort to ensure high priority projects and initiatives that involve the PMO receive the necessary amount of focus and required skill sets to instill success
- Instill efficient, effective and concise communication surrounding all project matters throughout the life cycle of all projects implemented by the PMO
- Provide mentoring skills surrounding the management, monitoring, and tracking of project-related costs and all facets and knowledge areas within the life cycle of a project and/or program.
Project Manager and PMO Consultant
5 Years 10 Months- Research and evaluate alternative solutions, and recommend the most efficient and cost effective solution for systems/program design and develop system specifications and procedures
- Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications and with some guidance, devise, test and implement efficient, cost effective application program solutions
- Guide other systems analysts/programmers
- Follow best practices and develop software / system solutions per requirement and specifications
- Document code design, analyze and document unit test cases to provide a quality product
- Identify and resolve a broad range of problems that occur in production applications
- Assist in schedule development, cost/benefit analysis, priority planning, and establishment of work plans.
Education
Bachelor in Science - Economics
Associate Degree - System Analysis
Skills
Project Management
Client Service
Financial Advisory
Problem-solving
Time management
Leadership
Advocacy
Counseling
Curriculum Development
Quality Assurance
Teaching
Lesson Planning
Discussion Facilitation
Verbal and written communication
Multi-Subject Instruction
Certification
- NC Notary Public Agent
- Johnston County Schools Effective Substitute Teacher Training (Interactive)
Technologies
Intel Platform / Client-Server, Windows 95 - 98 / NT / 2000 / XP, ASP / Visual Basic / JavaScript / VBScript / JAVA / Swing / HTML / MS Project / Enterprise Architect / CVS / Power Designer 10 / SQL Server 2000 / Staffware (Workflow) / CM (Content Manager) / Stored Procedures / COM+ / Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose 2000, Rational RequisitePro, Sybase PowerDesigner 7.0, Sybase Process Analyst 6.0 / Visio / MS Word / WBS Char Pro / Excel / Rational Portfolio Management (RPM), MS Project, Oracle 9i / SQL Server 2000 / My SQL
Training
- Financial and Investment Advisory Program (2022)
- Volunteer at the INCH Conference during the curriculum/books pre-sale and sale.
- Domestic Violence Advocacy Program (2022)
- How You Can Improve Client Satisfaction (2008)
- IBM Global Solution Delivery Framework (2008)
- IGSDF and Rational PM Awareness Training (2008)
- Introduction to SOA and Web Services (2008)
- Risk Management (2008)
Languages
English
Full Professional
Portuguese
Native or Bilingual
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Substitute Teacher
Johnston County Public Schools
04.2024 - CurrentRead More
Founder/President
Women of Decision LLC
09.2023 - CurrentRead More
Volunteer
Called to Peace Ministries
09.2023 - CurrentRead More
Homeschool Educator
Great Lakes Academy
07.2015 - 06.2023Read More
IT Project Manager
Open Service Ltda
01.2012 - 05.2012Read More
IT Project Management Consultant
United Nations
01.2008 - 03.2008Read More
IT Infrastructure Project Manager
IBM
06.2006 - 03.2011Read More
IT Security Consultant
Gennari Peartree
03.2006 - 06.2006Read More
Quality Assurance Consultant
Cobra Tecnologia
06.2005 - 03.2006Read More
Project Manager and PMO Consultant
Politec Tecnologia
08.1999 - 06.2005Read More
UNICEUB
Bachelor in Science from Economics
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UNICEUB
Associate Degree from System Analysis
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