Headline

Project Management | Certified SAFe® 6 Scrum Master

Location

Atlanta

Work experience

Project Manager, PMO Planner at The Coca-Cola Company, Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Atlanta, GA, • Manage the health of the overall portfolio of projects and products through reporting & analytics and value delivery articulation. • Partner with finance and procurement and other key stakeholders as needed. • Track key performance indicators related to accountability and performance of initiatives by maintaining the tools and tracking the key performance indicators upfront. • Support the lead to develop the strategic approach, and project plan, while managing and executing all components of the project plan, including budget and timeline. • Assist leaders and teams in delivering key business priorities through hands-on application of process and experience improvement tools and concepts with emphasis on Agile processes. • Help track and control the operating and capital budgets for the Technology and Digital Services Portfolio. • Review Month-End Close process including validating accounting entries and completing supporting documentation to properly record business and financial transactions. • Perform monthly rolling estimate activities including preparing and analyzing RE adjustments, reconciliation, and correction of monthly actuals. • Support monthly IT Leadership Team reporting routines; perform financial analysis to understand and communicate variances, issues, and any risks of exposure. • Will ensure that PMO processes, tools, systems, reports, and dashboards are efficient, effective, embedded, and delivering value to all stakeholders. • Provides Project Management Guidance (i.e., Risk & Issue Management, Project Methodology/Delivery Advice, Troubleshooting & Best Practice Knowledge Sharing within Regions • Prepare communications and reports to support the project plans. Coordinate, plan, and deliver transformation and change management activities and associated communication. • Execute the IT communication strategy, providing detailed, accurate, and timely updates on IT Operations to the Executive stakeholders. • Support operating routines

Analyst at The Coca-Cola Company, Dec 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, • Support Product Leads and Director of Governance in the execution of routines and communication to ensure the organization is running effectively and efficiently to meet agreed objectives. • Collaborate with PMO and Finance Services team to align on project budget, and operating routines across the organization. • Maintain and track $12m budget on a monthly basis, consisting of IT software renewals, and professional services for various projects. • Prepare and Plan Year End Execution with coordination of key dates from PMO and Finance, creation of calendar event with respective communication and required template. Smooth execution resulted in no charges hitting new year budget. • Implemented digital training plan for associates and track progress on a regular basis, keeping organization learning and skillset up to date. • Coordinate, plan, and deliver transformation and change management activities and related communication. • Lead Culture and Employee Engagement initiatives and all communication to ensure information is cascaded and well understood across the organization. • Leverage different channels to showcase organizational progress and accomplishments to create a feeling of empowerment across the organization. • Analyze contingent worker reports, ensuring budget objectives and guidelines are being met across the business. • Organize and create Powerpoint presentations for critical, high-level events such as Town Halls, and leadership meetings. • Participate actively in 2023 Global Tech Summit as an ambassador and coordinator for NAOU and CONA bottlers. • Light management of short-term projects to ensure Strategic Partner sprints stay on track and on budget. • Produce weekly scorecard report for the Vice President highlighting weekly progress across 15+ major initiatives. • Liaison with internal teams to stay informed of digital and IT changes coming via communication through various channels such as Microsoft Teams, Sway, Forms, PowerApps, and Power BI

Project Coordinator at The Coca-Cola Company, Nov 2019 - Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, • Support the office of Coca-Cola North America CIO, exercising the utmost degree of discretion and confidentiality. • Prepare and execute high-level communications on behalf of the CIO. • Calendar management, scheduling internal and external meetings with colleagues and business partners. • Booking and arranging national and international travel, including hotel, car service, and dining reservations. • Arrange and plan for all meetings: book conference rooms and prepare meeting materials, ensuring accuracy and completion. • Organize team, including coordinating team events, special projects and initiatives that involve challenging timelines. • Ensure urgent and priority correspondence, are communicated in a timely and effective manner. • Work with Project Managers on the submission of new project contracts, PO creation, and invoice tracking • Oversee new hire and exiting employee on-boarding/off-boarding process.

Executive Assistant at Interface, May 2015 - Nov 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Atlanta, • Provide high-level administrative support to CIO and 5 IT Directors, managing day-to day appointments and meetings. • Consistently meet deadlines for special projects, reports, events and meeting presentations • Arrange and reconcile all expenses and travel in SAP Concur expense and travel management system. • Work with internal and external recruiters on scheduling and following up on candidate interviews. • Ensure new hires receive proper onboarding and necessary equipment (laptop, phone, system and program access) on first day of employment. • Manage and reconcile employee headcounts on a monthly basis. • Negotiate and coordinate domestic and international travel - including flights, hotels, ground and rail transportation.

Supplier Onboarding Analyst at The Home Depot, Sep 2010 - May 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Atlanta, • Perform data and business analysis for e-commerce displays and online content. • Assist qualified, pre-screened vendors and manufacturers with drafting HomeDepot.com web content (company-compliant names, descriptions, marketing photos) of products for dropship sales, ensuring high consumer visibility and end delivery satisfaction. • Accelerated SKU merchandising process by conducting weekly meetings with each supplier to ensure online product set-up, B2B, and UPS platforms were in place for prompt shipment to the HomeDepot.com customer - resulting in 80% faster digital “go-live” time. • Assisted onboarding managers with online SKU placement, out of stock monitoring, and ad-hod tasks as needed. • Liaison with online merchants to accelerate dropship relationships with approved vendors.

Executive Assistant at American Honda Motor Company, Inc., Feb 2009 - Sep 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos, Alpharetta, GA, • Assistant to Senior Vice President and Senior Advertising Manager of Honda Power Equipment Division supporting day-to-day appointments and meetings • Approved and reconciled Honda Power Equipment, Marine, and Automotive dealership requests for signage and marketing reimbursements based upon American Honda Advertising Co-Op program requirements: signage placement, sizing, and verbiage of publicly visible Honda branded marketing. • Assisted in the creation of a new employee cultural sensitivity and training document to help American employees bridge the business cultural climate differences of working for a Japanese company • Handled incoming and outgoing correspondence, arranged international travel, personal and business calendars, created monthly meeting presentations on behalf of Senior Vice President