Lionel Nkongho
Dallas,TX
Summary
Accomplished professional and manager with extensive experience overseeing complex projects and ensuring timely delivery. Skilled in strategic planning, budget management, and risk assessment. Strong focus on team collaboration and fostering a results-driven environment while adapting to changing needs. Recognized for reliability, leadership, and effective communication. Experienced in planning and executing comprehensive project plans, utilizing strong leadership and organizational skills to guide teams and ensure project milestones are met. Proven track record of implementing efficient processes and achieving project goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior IAM Project Manager
RTX Raytheon
Dallas, Texas, United States
11.2023 - Current
- Plan the overall program, define projects and oversee multiple Identity project teams
- Communicate with PMO, TMO and Leaders weekly regarding status updates and strategies.
- Work with product owners to develop project roadmaps
- Develop and deliver guiding principles for internal programmatic and governance standards for Infrastructure Services.
- Responsible for communication including status of project health and ensures project is delivered within schedule and scope.
- Responsible for risk management and escalation of issues that cannot be resolved in the team.
- Prepare effective project initiation and approval documents; manage routing and customer approval processes.
- Organize and lead project kickoff and closeout meetings with the client and contractors.
- Perform timely and accurate project management administrative activities including issuing meeting minutes, purchase and change orders, and verifying work, processing invoices, and updating project status.
- Updates and modifications based on customers input and feedback on proposed designs. Preparation of bid documents to perform required work based on final designs and procurement of equipment, and material.
- Bidders walk-thru, review and reply of any requests for information or clarifications.
- Pre-construction planning and meeting with selected bidder to include review of safety requirements, contractor access to site, and scheduling.
- Daily reviews of project construction to assure quality, EHS, schedule, and general compliance verification of project work by contractor.
- Create project executive summary (using PW approved format) and provide updates every two weeks.
- Review contractor and supplier invoices related to project costs for accuracy, completion, and compliance to contract and/or purchase order.
- Ensure final as built changes are made to site Auto-cad files, seating management programs, and final Documented files are completed per PW requirements.
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
Senior Project Manager
Samsung
United States
10.2022 - 09.2023
- Assess the needs, develop the architecture and manage the upkeep of a new Project management system on Microsoft Project, Jira, Epic and Confluence for the entire Retail Training team.
- Train the Training Strategy Architecture team on this new project management system, after testing for bugs and continue to refine system for improvements.
- Managed the entire project life cycle, from the initiation, which is gathering the required scoop, using that to create an effective project plan which me and my team proceed to now execute the project then I monitor the process to make sure everything is according to scoop, if it is then we finalize the project also making sure we have lessons learned on the information I have on the risk log.
- Develop and manage project budgets, charters and timelines and attain sign-off from all key stakeholders.
- Handle risk management of major projects, events and launches by creating a SWOT analysis and report to Senior Managers on potential solutions to mitigate risks, monthly.
- Communicate daily with internal key stakeholders inside RTT to provide accountability on tasks assigned stay on track and update the project management system accordingly on task progress.
- Responsible for solving routine or standard technical problems and responds to training requests from internal and external partners.
- Serves as a key leader for the business in driving project activity and managing expectations with key stakeholders and is accountable for the contributions of the project management team of Retail
- Maintained schedules to meet key milestones at every project phase.
- Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.
SENIOR Information Technology Project Manager
UnitedHealth Group
United States
06.2020 - 09.2022
- In charge of overseeing Healthcare projects from start to finish, monitoring and reporting on the progress throughout the process.
- Managed LIMS to handle the entire product lifecycle with the Laboratory Information Management System to provide a powerful data management software solution, Cloud services, Mobile Application and Advance Analytics for Government and Healthcare Corporation.
- Responsible to help design, build, deploy, evaluate and maintaining IT infrastructure using latest technology and ensuring all IT systems that support the business function efficiently and seamlessly.
- Plan, monitor and control multiple large-scale cloud migration projects through all phases of the project lifecycle.
- Manage Oracle cloud infrastructure to run healthcare workload, from legacy application system to datascience driven and modern machine-learning enabled services to deliver more informed care choices, to help predict patient risk factors
- Manage cloud migration projects which allowed our organization to centralize and standardize their data ensuring consistency systems and locations which leads to improved data quality I, increased operational efficiency and enhanced patient care.
- Identified issues, provide solutions, delegate tasks and monitor progress to stay on schedule and on budget, change logs, manage healthcare resources, staff time and tasks
- Help build, deploy integrate applications in the cloud using Oracle (DBMS) or SAS implementation to manipulate, organize, retrieve data as well as statistical analysis.
- Responsible for all aspects of project management: the direction, planning and budgeting, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of specific projects while ensuring consistency with SAS overall strategy, commitments, and goals.
- Utilize Resource Regulatory for oversight and management of various resources within the Healthcare sector like human resources, financial resources and medical equipment.
- FHIR and EHR Proficiency.
Azure Project Manager
Microsoft
United States
01.2017 - 04.2020
- Understand and effectively manage projects involving Data engineering, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lakes Data science, data analytics, Cloud infrastructure.
- Use IAM protocols on project like SAML, Okta, Ping, ForgeRock for authentication and authorization services (Single Sign On)
- Utilize and be efficient with tools like Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lakes, MS Project, Asana, Jira and confluence to execute projects
- Drive the run arena - sys admin, storage and backup service towers
- Develop high-level and detailed cross-team project plans
- Ensure scope and approach are fully understood by all stakeholders; Responsible to thoroughly understand and communicate stakeholder requirements.
- Identify and track key project milestones and baseline the critical path
- Monitor and communicate the progress of project delivery and ensure timely and effective communication of project status in terms of scope, resources, schedule and cost.
- Primary POC for all project related activities, risk, issues, dependencies and deliverables.
- Track and manage critical project risks, issues, decisions, constraints and dependencies
- Proactively anticipates project risks and issues and ensure adequate response strategies are put in place to ensure delivery is not compromised.
- Ensure all systems of record for project reporting are kept current
- Ensure effective change control procedures and processes are efficiently used to maintain control of scope, resources, schedule and budget.
- Responsible for all aspects of project management: the direction, planning and budgeting, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of specific projects while ensuring consistency with SAS overall strategy, commitments, and goals.
- Utilize Project management tools like MS Project, Asana, Jira and Confluence to execute third party projects when necessary
- In charge of relationship development with senior customers stakeholders to drive high customer satisfaction.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
AWS Cloud Project Manager
Amazon
United States
02.2014 - 02.2017
- Manage Projects on all 6 levels of Cloud computing which are: Security management, cloud management, cost management, governance and compliance, cloud automation, and cloud monitoring
- Lead AWS Cloud process improvement initiatives such as cloud customer onboarding, change management, configuration management, AWS self solutions.
- Develops technical AWS project plans, proposals, reports, and task order and administrative reporting.
- Serve as primary Primary point of contact in customer meetings for assigned AWS cloud projects
- Develops and manages projects to track the onboarding of new AWS cloud adopters and the progress and status of projects for current AWS users.
- Conducts planning and provides recommendations to client on task workload.
- Attends and leads customer meetings and serves as primary client liaison for assigned AWS cloud projects/tasks.
- Interacts with vendors, other agencies, and other client staff on behalf of the client.
- Coordinates development of deliverables and products.
- Ensures quality assurance of AWS project deliverables.
- Maintains current knowledge of AWS cloud technology and solutions.
- Manage project migration from physical organizational infrastructure into public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure resources and services.
- Manage stakeholders involved in projects, ensuring the projects meet their requirements, monitoring ongoing threats and evaluating risk of potential breaches, coordinating with other teams to ensure successful implementation of cloud security measures.
- Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
- Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules and resources as needed to keep projects on track.
Project Manager
McAfee
United States
04.2012 - 01.2014
- Manages projects from planning through delivery.
- Liaises between project members, cross-functional teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure deliverables, requirements, schedules, cost, and meeting plans are communicated.
- Utilizes appropriate tools to plan project timelines, tasks, milestones, and deadlines.
- Communicates schedule and changes to all stakeholders.
- Facilitates project meetings to align the project team to methods and goals and to track project tasks.
- Prepares agendas, meeting notes, and project summaries.
- Monitors task completion status to identify at risk project tasks and to develop mitigation plans.
- Allocates resources, budgets, and hours to the project and adjusts allocations when necessary.
- Works on projects/matters of limited complexity in a support role.
- Full understanding of Application security, Critical infrastructure security, Data security, End point security and Network security
- Delivered exceptional customer satisfaction by proactively addressing client concerns and meeting or exceeding expectations throughout the engagement process.
- Developed comprehensive project plans with clear timelines, milestones, and budget requirements, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
Education
Bachelor's degree - Computer Science
University of Buea
08.2010
Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologies
- Change Control
- Atlassian JIRA
- Product Lifecycle
- Scrum Project Management and Software Development
- Authentication
- Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Change Management
- Budgeting
- Risk Management
- Organizational Skills
- Project Tracking
- Project Lifecycle
- Retail Management
- Budget Management
- Communication Skills
- Risk
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Mobile Applications
- Machine Learning
- Quality Management
- Progress Reports
- Business Support
- Healthcare Management
- Resource Management
- Cloud Applications
- Statistical Analysis System (SAS)
- Microsoft Windows Azure
- Customer Relations
- Critical Path Method
- Customer Satisfaction
- Project Engineering
- Security Monitoring
- Automation
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Product Development
- Hybrid Cloud
- Risk Analysis
- Private Cloud
- Endpoint Security
- Applications Security
- Security Infrastructure
- Certified ScrumMaster
- Waterfall Model of Software Development
- Leadership
- Sales
- Marketing
- Negotiation Skills
- Conflict Resolution
- Project management
- Project planning
- Project planning and development
- Project scheduling
- Team collaboration
- Project tracking
- Relationship building
- Strategic planning
- Schedule management
- Client relations
- Customer relations
- Stakeholder communications
- Staff management
- Work flow planning
- Advanced problem solving
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Risk management
- Document management
- Scope management
- Project estimation and bidding
- Project scope
- Budget control
- Processes and procedures
- Cost control
- Coaching and mentoring
- Project scope analysis
- Contract management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Conflict management
- Data analysis
- Project closure
- Team bonding
- Purchasing and procurement
- Productivity improvement
- Agile methodology
- Data review
- Presentations
- Inventory control
- Performance improvements
- Technical support
- Construction management
- Logistics management
- Budget preparation
- Meeting facilitation
- Compliance monitoring
- Client rapport
- Budget administration
- Customer relations specialist
- Resource allocation
- Performance evaluations
- Project regulations
- Forecasting
- Vendor sourcing
- Influencing skills
- Residential construction
- Commercial construction experience
- Contract development
- Business analysis
- Critical design review
- Root-cause analysis
- Procedure development
- Software development lifecycle
- Systems installation, configuration, and upgrading
- Financial administration
- Requirements gathering
- Change control processes
- Expense reports
- Permit processing
- Cost reduction and containment
- Functional & business requirements
- New product introductions strategies
- Advanced understanding of [software name]
- Project recovery
- Lean manufacturing and design
- HVAC systems
- Project framework engineering
- Business process re-engineering
- Startup turnaround strategies
- Disaster recovery methodologies
- Microsoft active directory
- Systems design documentation
- Roofing
- Drywalling
- Non-conforming material reports
- Computer architecture
- Programming languages
- VmWare virtualization
- SAN storage administrator
- Planning and scheduling
- Verbal and written communication
- Task prioritization
- Deliverable tracking
- Progress reporting
- Vendor management
- Mergers and acquisitions
- CMS expertise
- Safety protocol
- Project feedback data
- Site safety coordinator
- Multi-stakeholder asset management
Accomplishments
- Presented with the Project Manager of the year Award for Samsung.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Microsoft Certified
- PMI Certification
- PMP
LANGUAGES
English - Fluent
Timeline
Senior IAM Project Manager
RTX Raytheon
11.2023 - Current
Senior Project Manager
Samsung
10.2022 - 09.2023
SENIOR Information Technology Project Manager
UnitedHealth Group
06.2020 - 09.2022
Azure Project Manager
Microsoft
01.2017 - 04.2020
AWS Cloud Project Manager
Amazon
02.2014 - 02.2017
Project Manager
McAfee
04.2012 - 01.2014
Bachelor's degree - Computer Science
University of Buea