Wendyam Kere
Project Manager
Forney,TX
Summary
Focused Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Experienced in directing manufacturing employees and keeping efficient production in accordance with quality standards. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Engineering Agile Project Manager
Signature Automation
Addison, TX
01.2022 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload. Closed project one month before deadline
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Managing global cross functional team to ensure project meets scope, time, budget, and quality expectations.
- Independently managing corporate and third-party vendor efforts to plan, build and implement solutions to internal problems and issues.
- Creating and delivering Project Management deliverables in all phases of project lifecycle such as Project Plan, Stakeholder Analysis, Project Charter, RACI, weekly Status Reports, Milestones.
Project Manager
Flex-N-Gate
Grand Prairie, TX
08.2020 - 01.2022
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Facilitated communication between internal personnel, contractors and vendors for project cohesion.
- Maintained relationships with material vendors to lower costs and diversify capabilities.
- Partner with finance and operation leaderships to develop and maintain annual budgeting, recurring forecast, and long- range planning for capital expenditures.
- Led project teams through design, construction and launch process.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
- Developed project management roadmap to define project objectives, timelines and milestones.
- Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
- Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.
Industrial Automation Engineer
Android Industries
Arlington, TX
06.2019 - 08.2020
- Maintained, debugged and optimized automation programs.
- Collaborated with systems engineers and customers to determine machine requirements and develop specifications for user interface, machine functions and quality control to deliver reliable automation systems.
- Assisted maintenance personnel with complex troubleshooting.
- Troubleshot, fixed and improved electrical controls.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Collaborated with systems engineers and customers to determine machine requirements and develop specifications for user interface, machine functions and quality control to deliver reliable automation systems.
- Working knowledge of automated assembly systems; Good understanding of theory of industrial control systems applications, design, and operation including concepts of power distribution
Education
Master of Science - Project Management
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Fayetteville, AR 09.2020 - 12.2021
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Automation
Bakersfield College
Bakersfield, CA 09.2016 - 06.2019
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
HEC Paris
Paris, Europe 10.2012 - 12.2014
Skills
Project planning and development
Scrum, Waterfall, Agile, Kanban, Lean project management
Time Management, Leadership, Conflict management
Change Control Processes, Lean manufacturing and design,
Startups and turnarounds background
Business process re-engineering, Advanced problem solving
Software Development Lifecycle
Certification
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Timeline
PMI Agile Certificate Practitioner (In Progress) PMI Risk Management (In Progress)
10-2022
Project Management Professional (PMP)
09-2022
Google Project Management Certificate
04-2022
Engineering Agile Project Manager
Signature Automation
01.2022 - Current
Master of Science - Project Management
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
09.2020 - 12.2021
Project Manager
Flex-N-Gate
08.2020 - 01.2022
Industrial Automation Engineer
Android Industries
06.2019 - 08.2020
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Automation
Bakersfield College
09.2016 - 06.2019
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
HEC Paris
10.2012 - 12.2014