Resourceful and talented professional with 8 years of unique and wide-range of project management experience and strong interpersonal skills. Quick to learn, eager to succeed, and a desire to lead.
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Paige Stewart
St Louis,MO
Summary
Overview
8
years of professional experience
Work History
RGA
IT Project Manager
02.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Assigned, tracked, and managed employee and contractor/consultant budgeted resources for multiple multi-million dollar Global Product Technology team projects, through each respective project web application
- Built and maintained complex Excel spreadsheets to track GPT team projects' budget, forecasts, actuals, dollars and hours spent/remaining, individual projects task distribution (%), combined budget views (employee/contractors), and resource forecasting
- Developed powerpoint presentations for stakeholders reporting on IT hours and Consulting dollar budgets, monthly forecasting, and YTD expenses
- Planned and hosted quarterly GPT All-Hands meetings by securing guest speakers, special topics, and group games for team engagement and moral
- Monitored project progress to support timely completion on BI Financial Dashboards
- Agile experience - participated in Daily Stand-ups, grooming sessions, retrospectives, and other Scrum events
- Occasional QA, UAT and BA responsibilities
Edward Jones
Project Coordinator
07.2021 - 12.2022
Job overview
- Coordinated and planned Guiding Coalition stakeholder meetings each week, with 4 stakeholder groups rotating (Financial Advisors, General Partners, Branch Support team, and Associate and Leader)
- Held and participated in weekly planning meeting
- Responsible for scheduling internal “Real Talk” company video series with various FAs, GPs, BST, A&L members
- Suggested improvement to internal processes and possible solutions for being more efficient
- Created, reviewed, and distributed deliverables to stakeholders
- Kept notes from stakeholder meetings detailing updates, obstacles, solutions, and next steps
- Collected feedback from stakeholders and distributed to leaders
- Designed and maintained team SharePoint site
- Generated project timelines and project scope/plan documentation
Turnberry Crew at Bayer
Integration IT Analyst
10.2019 - 06.2021
Job overview
- Reconciled differences between Legacy Monsanto app registry and Legacy Bayer app registry, by updating SharePoint site linking both registries called Joint Application Registry
- Reached out to application owners to confirm ownership of applications, made appropriate changes to ownership if listed owner was incorrect
- Updated all registries so information is complete/matching, in hopes that Monsanto registry could officially retire
- Confirmed applications in both Planview and BEAT are "target state", meaning apps are in use and will migrate to Bayer authentication platform once AAE project begins
- Transitioned 700+ Legacy Monsanto applications from their current authentication platforms, over to Bayer authentication, Azure AD
- Worked with application owners to determine and communicate timelines, resources, processes, and directions for their applications migration
- Established groups of coordinators to delegate work to, in addition to successfully managing timely migrations of my own applications
- Shared processes of migration based on authentication platforms to all affected parties
- Met with assigned coordinators on a bi-weekly basis, to gather updates for leadership
- Managed a 'workstream' of applications and was responsible for scheduling/migrating
- Communicated to leadership updates of overall migration status, financials, and risks/concerns
Focus Pointe Global
Senior Project Manager
07.2015 - 08.2019
Job overview
- Met with clients to provide consultation and coordination on project plan and design
- Managed numerous (5-10) ongoing projects simultaneously, occurring nationally and locally
- Scheduled meetings with cross-functional team members to ensure study requirements are met
- Observed budget goals according to project bid, kept study on track and within budget
- Organized studies with multiple methodologies, including national product mail outs, focus groups, one-on-one interviews, online communities, webcam interviews, taste tests, in-home visits, and product placements simultaneously
- Completed thorough testing of questionnaires with IT team before sending for client approval and official online launch
- Developed project documents for facility directors, recruiting centers, programmers, and study participants
- Provided clients with daily updates on recruiting, programming progress, and panelist participation
- Remained main point of contact for study participants from study beginning to end, up to 1,500 respondents
- Prepared all data deliverables, including tabulations and summary reports
- Generated manual invoices for internal billing department and client distribution
Education
William Woods UniversityFulton, MO
Bachelor of Science from Communications
05.2015
University Overview
Skills
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Client Relations
- Excellent Communication
- Self-Motivated
- Team Bonding
- Project Planning
- Budget Administration
- Microsoft Office Suite Expertise
- Forecasting
- Quality Assurance
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Agile Methodology
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Timeline
IT Project Manager
RGA
02.2023 - Current
Project Coordinator
Edward Jones
07.2021 - 12.2022
Integration IT Analyst
Turnberry Crew at Bayer
10.2019 - 06.2021
Senior Project Manager
Focus Pointe Global
07.2015 - 08.2019
William Woods University
Bachelor of Science from Communications
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