JAMES BROWN

• Facilitate the definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements; resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas; develop methods to monitor project or area progress; and provide corrective supervision if necessary
• Conduct kick-off meetings prior to the start of projects to discuss SOW
• Communicate with stakeholders, general contractors and vendors and provide updates throughout the project lifecycle
• Coordinate with clients and team for scheduling of all projects
• Track budget, change requests, risks, issues, and resolutions
• Schedule project timelines, assign techs, communicates with customers daily
• Draw up detailed plan for how to achieve each stage of a project.
• Produced thorough, accurate and timely reports of project activities.
• Outlined work plans, assessed resources and determined timelines for projects.
• Analyzed data from completed projects in order to identify areas for improvement.

• Lead and manage multiple IT, Compliance, Regulatory and Business project upgrades for new company-wide installations that provide more robust systems to allow for more efficient management

Overall responsibilities include:

• Project Planning
• Create Charter
• Monitor and control project timelines
• Lead weekly Team meetings along with monthly Stakeholder Meetings
• Weekly Status Reporting
• Finalize Business Requirements with Clients
• Worked with cross functional teams (DBA’s, ITE, Developers, Help Desk, Production Support/Field Techs, Network Administrators
• Document Lessons Learned for future projects
• Monitored internal financial budgets to measure against projections.
• Streamline Operations (Create processes that eliminate unnecessary cost
• Create processes that significantly reduce the time it takes for equipment to be received by users
• Ensure effective routines and department protocols are in place.
• Produced thorough, accurate and timely reports of project activities.
• Ensured compliance with relevant regulations during all stages of a project's lifecycle.
• Communicated with key stakeholders on milestones
• Managed project scope, timeline and budget in alignment with company objectives.
• Provided guidance to team members on how to overcome obstacles during the course of a project.
• Developed comprehensive project plans to be shared with stakeholders.
• Implemented change management processes when issues arose to keep project moving forward and adjust to shifted priorities.
• Evaluated performance metrics for ongoing projects in order to assess progress towards goals.
• Reviewed final results of each project before delivery.
• Completed thorough risk assessments and deployed management and response strategies to prevent roadblocks.
• Analyzed data from completed projects in order to identify areas for improvement.
• Outlined work plans, assessed resources and determined timelines for projects.

• Led and managed multiple IT project upgrades for new company-wide installations that provide more robust systems to allow for more efficient management and reporting (workstations/laptop, servers, switches, routers, access points, printers, scanners, network drops, all peripheral equipment)
• Overall responsibilities include
• Project Planning, Development and Implementation of Inventory Policy and Procedures
• Led weekly Team meetings along with monthly Stakeholder Meetings
• Weekly Status Reporting, Issues/Risks Management
• Finalize Business Requirements with Clients
• Manage cross functional teams (DBA’s, Help Desk, Production Support/Field Techs, Network Administrators)
• Lessons Learned
• Budget Management
• Responsible for reducing overall Operating Costs
• Create Purchase Orders, Quotes, Invoices, and RFP’s in MUNIS System
• Ensure effective routines and department protocols are in place