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LAMON FLOWERS

San Pedro,CA

Summary

Dynamic Project Manager with a proven track record at AMTEK Inc., excelling in project scope and planning. Adept at cross-functional collaboration and budget planning, I drive successful project delivery while ensuring compliance with industry standards. My expertise in JIRA and strong analytical thinking have consistently led to improved project outcomes.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager

AMTEK Inc.
Dallas, Tx
11.2022 - Current
  • Assigned as a Hybrid PM / BA to manage and support the construction, implementation and successful delivery of Health Care System-of- System application to provide Patient Self-Service, Data Management and Central Admin.
  • Develops project charter, communication plan, risk management plan, and other plans/artifacts as appropriate to manage the project throughout the SDLC.
  • Creates and maintains detailed project schedules for accurate schedule tracking and progress reporting.
  • Reconciles project team time cards with planned hours in project plan; investigates and resolves variances between planned and actual time captured in time cards.
  • Adjusts project tasks effort/duration with the project plan as necessary to maintain correct forecast of estimate to completion (ETC).
  • Maintains and reconciles project financial forecasts within the project’s financial accounting tool; investigates and resolves variances between forecast and actual project costs.
  • Releases unused project funds, or requests additional funding when necessary due to requested baseline changes.
  • Identifies and manages project risks, issues, assumptions, decisions; and escalates when appropriate.
  • Prepares monthly project status reports for each assigned project, and meets regularly with project team(s), business sponsors/stakeholders, portfolio manager(s), and other key stakeholders to review progress.
  • Facilitates the completion, approval and storage of project artifacts including approval documents upon project closeout.
  • Performs the following BA tasks to support project implementation efforts: Lead analysis and information gathering sessions (i.e., Cross functional teams, SMEs, Business Units, Operations) using JAD sessions, workflow/process review to capture and document business needs and high-level requirements to support to the organizations’ Medicare/ Medicare and provider initiatives via the use of Hybrid (AGILE, and/or Waterfall) development methodologies.
  • Creates and/or updates 'As-is' and 'Future state' business workflows to enable the documentation of business process needs, and requirements generation for the organizations’ Medicare/ Medicare and provider initiatives.
  • Adheres to medical compliance regulations, reporting, guidelines and generates detailed business rules, and requirements specifications.
  • Generates functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring concise, unambiguous, testable, independent, and traceable requirements that align with business goals-overall business architecture.
  • Makes recommendations, and/or suggestions for solutions or improvements that can be accomplished through new processes or technology, or alternative uses of existing processes or technology.
  • Supports the PM efforts by providing more detailed project objectives; clear structured, and useable requirements; tradeoff analysis; requirement feasibility; and risk analysis to improve the execution of the project plan.
  • Mentors junior Business Analysts to strengthen the organization’s solution and business analysis capability.
  • Collaborates with QA/test team to finalize test plan details to conduct UAT, and correct product defects.
  • Follows best practices for the organization based on BABOK or other authoritative bodies of knowledge.
  • Utilizes JIRA to create and manage user stories, EPICS and features to support product development efforts.
  • Generates reports (JIRA, Database, etc.) as needed to conduct and support data analysis efforts.
  • Creates and issues SQL queries to extract data, create visualizations, dashboards.
  • Collaborates with cross functional teams, SMEs and DBAs to analyze data via specialized tools / features (e.g., DBRICKS, M360, Power BI, Power Pivot, etc.)
  • Tools: Visio, MS Office, JIRA, Share Point, MS Project, Project Server

Project Manager

TCS/GT Inc.
Sacramento, Ca
02.2020 - 08.2022
  • Works with the IT PMO to lead and deliver IT projects (Healthcare, Pharma and Assessment POC System-of-Systems) involving a mix of technical domains: Web Applications, Infrastructure, Security, etc.
  • Facilitates and assists in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders.
  • Manages relationships with stakeholders to ascertain expectations, capture specific project requirements, and business objectives.
  • Develops project plans (including communications, training, supporting artifacts, etc.) to monitor and track progress throughout the SDLC.
  • Coordinates with internal resources (project team) and third-party vendors for the development of project-related artifacts, and the execution-delivery of IT Projects.
  • Ensures projects are delivered on-time, within scope and budget, per PM best practices.
  • Manages changes to the project: scope, schedule and costs using the appropriate techniques and tools.
  • Measures project performance using the appropriate techniques and tools (internal assets).
  • Performs risk management to minimize impacts to the project (e.g., schedule, cost and /or scope) and initiates risk mitigation as necessary.
  • Supports the development of the IT PMO process and project template development.
  • Provides regular updates: weekly to monthly, on project status / progress using the IT PMO reporting cadence.
  • Reports and escalates issues to IT leadership as needed to minimize impact to: scope, budget or schedule.
  • Creates and maintains project documentation, historical records, notes, and communications to update lessons learned archives.

IT Project Manager

Vets. Engineering Inc.
Deerwood, Md
10.2018 - 10.2019
  • Tasked as both Project Manager to lead the Veterans Administrations’ Cloud System Project throughout its’ life cycle; which includes delegating defined work packages, providing technical solutions, systems of systems integration, managing acceptance tests and final project handover.
  • Initiates the project(s) through required formalities, and internal/external kickoff meetings.
  • Manages projects’ budget(s), tracks work in progress, collaborates with stakeholders, monitors risks, and ensures projects are completed per approved schedule.
  • Manages variable scale, multi-faceted, and multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Takes full ownership of the scope, budget, and schedule for assigned projects, and leads constraints after project approval.
  • Develops project plans as vital roadmaps to successfully deliver cloud project(s).
  • Liaise with clients, subcontractors, and management to develop relationships conducive to the successful completion of project(s).
  • Monitors and maintains master project schedule including identification of the critical path and near critical path items to maintain delivery and cost objectives.
  • Reports progress and status of the project to management and project stakeholders.
  • Develops project-specific risk management plans and proactively manage technical and commercial risks throughout project execution, and up to delivery.
  • Manages and maintains the project budget, initiate and facilitate corrective actions to maintain financial objectives and revenue recognition.
  • Conducts Lessons Learned meetings for all projects; identify corrective actions and solicit customer satisfaction details as part of the contract closure process.
  • Supports project delivery through the maintenance phase, working with the cross functional team members to address installation, startup, and/ or warranty issues.

Project Scheduler

Spectra-Force Consulting
San Diego, Ca
10.2018 - 10.2019
  • Provided integrated project scheduling support services for GSI’s consolidated business partner initiatives.
  • Created and Managed the Integrated Master Schedule for DOD modernization projects.
  • Collaborated with project team(s), vendors, operational staff to develop the work breakdown structure, identify tasks, durations, and resources.
  • Integrated sub – project schedules into master schedule; including identifying dependencies.
  • Collaborated with project team(s) to collect tasks progress, update/maintain schedule, and generate progress reports.

IT Project Manager/BA

LA CARE
Los Angeles, Ca
04.2017 - 10.2018
  • Assigned to lead and manage Healthcare / IT and business projects, with a primary focus on infrastructure, as both Project management (PM) and Business analysis (BA/BSA) across technical and operational initiatives.
  • Conducts requirements gathering tasks as a Project Manager and Business Analyst to align business needs with technology solutions.
  • Collaborates with project sponsor, project team members, business, and clinical stakeholders to drive successful project delivery.
  • Conducts project planning: project execution, scheduling, budgeting, and risk management.
  • Develops and executes enterprise level communication plans to establish consistent transparency mechanism.
  • Facilitates technical design and build process with stakeholders, to ensure business outcomes will meet the clients’ expectations.
  • Identifies, manages, addresses change management, and engages CRB when necessary.
  • Drives day-to-day project operations, and activities to update status/progress reporting logs.
  • Applies PM best practices and consistency across all project deliverables and the business units, while adhering to eMPO standards for project management.
  • Ensures compliance with healthcare industry standards and regulations.
  • Adapts to shifting priorities while managing multiple projects.
  • Ensures proper testing and acceptance of any solution with internal, business, and/or clinical partners, as appropriate.
  • Leads the cross functional teams in operational readiness, including transition plans, standard operating procedures as product/solution transitions to production.

BA/ Requirements Lead

US Navy
Point MUGU, Ca
02.2015 - 10.2016
  • Provided BA support to implement, and deliver a Financial/Accounting Support system that provided the following capabilities: Self Service Expense Management System, Automated Accounts Receivable/Payable, Account Management, Payment Dispensing/Expense reporting, Auditing, Expense Approval / Disapproval Workflow, and Notification.
  • Utilized an AGILE Development Methodology to accomplish the following tasks: Facilitated meetings with clients/stakeholders to gather requirements, objectives, and other details to develop EPICS / Features.
  • Derived user stories from top level epics/features via decomposition of cross functional flow charts, UML diagrams, sequence diagrams.
  • Managed product backlog items: user stories, requirements, d traceability of PBIs (user stories-to-epics) to facilitate design and implementation.
  • Collaborated with the development team to conduct product grooming/refinement of backlog items, assign story points, and determine PBI estimates in lieu of sprint planning.
  • Reviewed, prioritized, and reprioritized user stories in the product backlog based on feedback per the stakeholders, and/or the product sponsor.
  • Tools: Visio, JIRA/ATLASSIAN, MS Office, and SharePoint

Assoc. Project Manager/BA

Toyota
Torrance, Ca
09.2013 - 09.2014
  • Assigned to the PMO to coordinate Automotive Sales projects across different domains and drive them to completion.
  • Managed projects from inception through to delivery by creating project milestones, projected delivery dates, Gantt charts and other tools and visualizations.
  • Prepared schedules, documents meeting details, and follows -up with stakeholders.
  • Conducts project tracking, planning, documentation generation, including calculating ROI.
  • Developed standard operating procedures, process maps, and new product training materials.
  • Coordinated systems implementation and optimization across all business departments (e.g., Sales, Logistics, Parts, Finance, etc.).
  • Drives continuous improvement of processes, systems, and documentation.

Business Analyst

SSB Inc.
Fairfax, Va
10.2010 - 09.2013
  • Installed as Business Analyst to support design, test, and implementation of a Universal Web Management system-of-systems for military applications.
  • Facilitated JAD sessions to gather detailed information: business processes, business challenges, current- future processes, specific requirements, incumbent system documents, etc.
  • Converted 'As-is' processes to 'To-Be' processes utilizing Gaps analysis matrix.
  • Developed execution flows, user scenarios, and use case /UML diagrams to derive functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Developed and managed the business system requirements document (BSRD); including current /future state 'swim lane' diagrams, use cases, functional/non-functional requirements, user interface requirements, data requirements, reporting requirements and mock-ups.
  • Managed the traceability of the projects’ requirements / artifacts.
  • Collaborated with the test team to develop test cases to verify and validate UWAMS.
  • Documented, tracked, and retested defects discovered during product testing.
  • Tools: Visio, MS Office, and HP Quality Center-ALM

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

University of Maryland – GC
01.2007

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL
01.1998

Skills

  • Project scope and planning
  • Prioritization and scheduling
  • Resource management
  • Requirements analysis
  • Oral and written communication
  • Milestone tracking
  • Team leadership
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Budget planning
  • Project administration
  • Best practices in project management
  • Analytical thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Attention to detail
  • Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
  • JIRA expertise

Timeline

Project Manager

AMTEK Inc.
11.2022 - Current

Project Manager

TCS/GT Inc.
02.2020 - 08.2022

IT Project Manager

Vets. Engineering Inc.
10.2018 - 10.2019

Project Scheduler

Spectra-Force Consulting
10.2018 - 10.2019

IT Project Manager/BA

LA CARE
04.2017 - 10.2018

BA/ Requirements Lead

US Navy
02.2015 - 10.2016

Assoc. Project Manager/BA

Toyota
09.2013 - 09.2014

Business Analyst

SSB Inc.
10.2010 - 09.2013

Master of Science - Information Technology

University of Maryland – GC

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville

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