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Education
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Certification
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Maria A. Delaz

Las Vegas,NV
Maria A. Delaz

Summary

Highly motivated and results-driven project manager with over 10 years of experience leading complex projects in diverse industries. Demonstrated success in managing cross-functional teams, developing project plans, and delivering projects on time and within budget. Skilled in risk management, stakeholder engagement, communication, and contracting. Proven ability to identify and mitigate project risks, manage scope creep, and optimize resources. Seeking a challenging project management role to leverage learned skills, drive business success and develop professional growth.

Overview

19
years of professional experience
4

Certifications

Work History

Demand Side, NV Energy

Project Manager
2014.12 - Current (8 years & 9 months)

Job overview

  • Manage energy efficiency programs with a total budget of over 10 million dollars and different sub-programs across the state of Nevada.
  • Collaborate with various internal departments to improve efficiency and increase customer satisfaction through various platforms.
  • Maintain contracts and contract modifications to ensure compliance with public commission fillings.
  • Produce metrics and orchestrate work-flows to better manage program productivity and align programs with strategic business objectives.
  • Manage team of employees, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure timely completion of projects.
  • Recommend alternate project timelines, plans, and budgets to stakeholders and establish credibility with them by maintaining effective communication.
  • Put out Request for Proposals for different projects under programs.
  • Maintain program budget through budget trackers, accruals, and cash flows.
  • Strategically prioritize project tasks and allocate resources to ensure timely project completion while staying within budget.
  • Facilitate integration between different programs, business units, stakeholders, and customers, while maintaining program budget, goals, timelines, and scope of work.
  • Define, initiate, and redesign projects to better manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, ensuring ultimate success and acceptance of the program being affected.

Noble Studios

Project Manager (Contractor)
2022.10 - 2023.05 (7 months)

Job overview

  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
  • Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
  • Reviewed project budgets and resolved discrepancies, requirements gathering, oversaw project teams and client deliverables.
  • Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and assisted in testing efforts.
  • Developed functional requirements documentation for digital projects to ensure final solutions mapped to identified business needs.
  • Led clients and internal teams on numerous website launches focusing on branding and e-commerce for Fortune 500 organizations.
  • Grew spend of existing assigned account base by 25% in one year, producing $520,000 in additional revenue.

KTGP, Inc

Project Manager
2012.08 - 2014.10 (2 years & 2 months)

Job overview

  • Oversee daily operations of Administration staff, hire new personnel, and apply disciplinary policy, implement and manage a training program for Administration staff
  • Conduct weekly office and team meetings
  • Manage cost vs
  • Budget
  • Financial - Closing of Month/Year-end financial, Compiled financial reports pertaining to cash receipts, expenditures and profit and loss
  • Assist with account payable, account receivable, billing, and collection matters
  • Manage and approve weekly timesheets for payroll reporting, verify hours, garnishments, and maintain employee file, calculate bonuses and commissions
  • Coach, mentor, and lead personnel.

South Coast Fitters

Associate Project Manager
2006.11 - 2012.08 (5 years & 9 months)

Job overview

  • Fostered customer loyalty by ensuring that customers fully utilize the value of our solutions and services
  • Report different projects and clients status to CEO
  • Managed various vendor staff
  • Increased company's growth by securing new partners, consulting engagements, and by delivering current projects effectively
  • Managed opening of Vegas and Chicago offices
  • Responsible for recruiting, management and career development of Vegas and Chicago offices staff
  • Provided expertise at customer sites with emphasis on regaining patient and staff confidence and satisfaction.

South Coast Fitters

Assistant
2004.01 - 2006.11 (2 years & 10 months)

Job overview

  • Assisting and supporting the CEO/President with day to day business activities, including scheduling meetings, appointments, air and land travel, hotel stays for both CEO and business partners
  • Acting as liaison between corporate and employees, and also corporate and business partners
  • Responsible for training new employees, and promoting a professional and happy working environment
  • Supervise that policies and procedures are followed at all times.

Education

Purdue Global University , Online

MBA from In Process
2024

Project Management Institute , PMI

PMP Certification from In Process
2023

Alhambra High School , Alhambra

High School Diploma
2006

Skills

Technical Skills:

  • 55-60 WPM.
  • Knowledge of MS Office and Google Applications.
  • Knowledge of NV Energy software.
  • Domo.
  • Salesforce.
  • Workamajig.
  • Wordpress.
  • Figma.
  • RingCentral.

Key Strengths:

  • Conflict, vendor and team management.
  • Utility fillings.
  • Contract Development (RFP Process and Contract Negotiation).
  • Business Process Re-Engineering.
  • Client Relations.

Certification

  • Lean Six Sigma-Yellow Belt - 2020
  • Google Project Management- 2022
  • Google Data Analytics-2022
  • UC Davis- Introduction to Google SEO-2022

Timeline

Project Manager (Contractor)

Noble Studios
2022.10 - 2023.05 (7 months)

Project Manager

Demand Side, NV Energy
2014.12 - Current (8 years & 9 months)

Project Manager

KTGP, Inc
2012.08 - 2014.10 (2 years & 2 months)

Associate Project Manager

South Coast Fitters
2006.11 - 2012.08 (5 years & 9 months)

Assistant

South Coast Fitters
2004.01 - 2006.11 (2 years & 10 months)

Purdue Global University

MBA from In Process

Project Management Institute

PMP Certification from In Process

Alhambra High School

High School Diploma
  • Lean Six Sigma-Yellow Belt - 2020
  • Google Project Management- 2022
  • Google Data Analytics-2022
  • UC Davis- Introduction to Google SEO-2022
Maria A. Delaz