Sony Pictures EntertainmentProject Manager / Sr. Applications Lead
Jun. 2005 - Jun. 2014Culver City, CaliforniaHead 25 Enterprise wide ADM (Application Development & Maintenance) teams supporting Corporate Applications ranging from SAP, ServiceNow, PPM, Pinnacle, Gateworks, VMS, BO. Responsible for managing onsite, near shore and offshore resources on 24/7 basis supporting global applications. Deliver innovative services using cost effective solutions throughout product life cycle including; New Products, day-to-day support & maintenance, adherence to compliance, operational efficiency in a secure and risk free environment. Manage contractual agreements, budgets, resourcing while getting involved in PM capacity for capital projects. Acted as technical/strategic advisor to BRM’s (Business Relationship Managers), IT Leadership teams, member of multiple steering and operating committees. Led and managed delivery of several large global SAP projects (4.0B to ECC). Managed the execution and verified output of blueprint activities including SAP high level solution design, custom development, fit gap analysis and RICEF inventory creation. Experience with complex project circumstances including multiple vendors, high degree custom development and onsite-offshore delivery model. Chaperoned implementations, upgrades and maintenance of SONY’s SAP instance. Represented technical team in high level business requirements and future growth plan with key stakeholders. ITIL Foundation Certified PM responsible for overall management and technical delivery at SONY Pictures for the following disciplines within ITIL framework: Incident Mgmt., Problem Mgmt., Demand Mgmt., Change Mgmt., KMDB, KEDB, SDLC, Service Catalog, CMS, CMDB. Adherence to compliance for all applications per GISS and GISP (Global Information Security Procedure) stemming from iTEC (Information Technology Enterprise Compliance). Head Technical Team responsible for enhancing and supporting HP’s PPM application at SPE in areas of Project, Time, Proposal, Financial, Resource & Scope Management.