Laura D. Brown
Senior IT Project Manager, MBA, PMP, CSM
United States
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Brown Management Consultants, Inc., President and CEO
Goals: Continue to build a successful track record as a Senior Program Manager and Senior Project Manager.
• PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner - 2015), CSM (Certified Scrum Master), PMP
• Program Manager and Senior Project Management leader with 20+ year’s experience.
• Proven track record of consistently and successfully delivering complex, corporate critical, high
profile IT (technical/platform/database), and functional projects in e-commerce companies and
financial institutions.
•Successfully implemented business and corporate projects on time and within budget, while
ensuring alliance with enterprise goals
•Expertise in the Financial Services, (Banking), Insurance, Healthcare.
Specialties: Program and Project Management, Social Media, Business and Financial ERP Systems, e-commerce, Supply Chain Retail, Financial Institutions, Insurance, Healthcare
Goals: Continue to build a successful track record as a Senior Program Manager and Senior Project Manager.
• PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner - 2015), CSM (Certified Scrum Master), PMP
• Program Manager and Senior Project Management leader with 20+ year’s experience.
• Proven track record of consistently and successfully delivering complex, corporate critical, high
profile IT (technical/platform/database), and functional projects in e-commerce companies and
financial institutions.
•Successfully implemented business and corporate projects on time and within budget, while
ensuring alliance with enterprise goals
•Expertise in the Financial Services, (Banking), Insurance, Healthcare.
Specialties: Program and Project Management, Social Media, Business and Financial ERP Systems, e-commerce, Supply Chain Retail, Financial Institutions, Insurance, Healthcare
Senior Agile Project/Program Manager
Macy's
February 2014
to July 2014
- Mitigate Risks: Ensure risk and issue process is executed to achieve project success. Reviews project risks and action plans, and escalates to appropriate level of management.
- Project Leadership: As Provides leadership to the project team for the Q4M standards and processes throughout the life cycle of the project. As the designated PM
- Communication Facilitation: Facilitates communication and negotiation within and across the project team(s). Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Project Plan, in order to align the stakeholders and team members.
- Define Requirements: Oversee Product Manager(s) to define and manage business partner requirements.
- Manage Project Work: Ensures deadlines are met by facilitating resource planning, organizing, and prioritizing. Keeps management and key stakeholders well informed on a timely basis on project progress, status and/or concerns for each assignment. Make sure regular project status/quality meetings are conducted and development of project metrics and project scorecard is accomplished.
- Manage Project Scope: Oversee process to define scope of the project based on the business need in order to meet the customer's project expectations. Direct project plan approval process from the customer in order to formalize the project management approach. Develops and manages project schedules status, resources, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines throughout the project with input from the application managers, business partners and project team. Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, reflective of authorized project changes as defined in the change management plan, and facilitate customer acceptance.
- Project Execution: Manages all project and possibly program related activities and has responsibility for execution and final delivery and release of the product.
