Michael G. Ferreira, PMP, MCP, B.Sc. |
2/22/2012 6:20:23 PM |
Professional Summary
- A diverse “hands on” leader with a progressively advancing 18 year career in developing, maintaining and expanding relationships by delivering result-based solutions to business challenges.
- As a Project Management Professional (PMP), Michael has over 13 years of widely diverse business and technology project portfolio management, product development, methodology introduction and service delivery experience.
- Lead numerous cross-functional project teams ($Multi-million ($5MM+); double-digit stakeholders (50+); multi-year) to deliver customized and practical package based enterprise to small business solutions tailored to individual client or organization needs.
- Keep abreast of new innovations within the project portfolio management and information technology sectors by actively following industry (e.g. Project Management Institute’s PMBOK, Agile/Scrum, CMM, ITIL, RUP) and technology vendor (e.g. Microsoft, Open Source) sponsored events and publications.
- Brings values to client engagements through his ability to foster relationships and agreement between project stakeholders: acting as a bridge in identifying solutions to unique challenges among technical (IT) and non-technical (Business) stakeholders, crafting solution architectures to address their needs and tackling the day to day project issues while driving toward success
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Strategy and Transformation
- Identify, develop and execute strategic and operational plans for organization frameworks to minimize operational costs while maximizing service/project delivery
- Process mapping, benchmarking, and analysis to identify savings opportunities or justify ROI.
- Research, propose and deliver presentations, procedures, and methods for information collection, project management, application development and support using best practices
- Developing strategies, business cases, RFI/RFPs, product design, market research, project charters, operational models, and organizational designs with clients, sponsors and executives.
- Research to provide direction on mature, new and emerging technologies for suitable solution selection
Project Portfolio Management
- Experience with all aspects of organizational project portfolio management
- Experience across all phases of project, product and software development life cycles
- Negotiate/manage project scope, deliverables, milestones, resources, and budget expectations
- Manage/coach day-to-day work of client and consultant teams while driving toward program/project goals
- Identify, manage and resolve issues, risks and challenges
- Create, communicate and present progress reports key stakeholders
- Development/Deployment of communication and training plans to facilitate change management
- Recruit, train, mentor and inspire confidence within project delivery team (local / offshore)
- Establish performance objectives, policies, standards and measurements
- Coordinate efforts between technical and non-technical team members for overall success
Implementation/Consulting
- Create/Understand/Analyze/Review functional specifications with business users and/or project team
- Model, design, architect and develop cross platform (client/server, web, PDA, wireless and IP-based) data-centric solutions using a variety of platforms, packages and languages
- Design/implementation of Service Delivery/CRM, eCommerce, Portal, Analytics, Enterprise Application Integration/Business Process Management, Data Analytics, Data Warehousing & Infrastructure solutions
- Develop/Execute/Optimize test strategy, policies, cases and performance
- Develop/Execute/Optimize test strategy, policies, cases and performance
- Insure deliverables meet requirements, design, architectural and quality standards
- Advise on capabilities/limitations, future trends and requests for modifications/additions
- Implement, train, support, troubleshoot and resolve process and technology systems