Candidates About

 

William T. Neill

SummarY:

• Seasoned professional with 20+ years of Project Management, Process Planning, Business Analysis and improvement, with extensive experience in systems implementations, integrations, conversions and workflow improvements. 
• Earned his Certification in Project Management, PMBOK, from Boston University.

• I served as the Project Manager for several Large Scale IT Projects for Alba Waldensian, Belden Wire and Cable, Wastequip, Wells Fargo and others.
• Extensive work as PM/BSC in both Manufacturing and Finance industries. Responsible to insure effective change management and transitions.

 

Skills	Description
Project Management	Developed Scope, Work Breakdown Structures, Milestone/Tollgate, Management reporting, Waterfall, Agile with Roadmap. Responsible to insure effective change management throughout.
Business Analysis	Developed Workflows, use cases, business requirement elicitation, business processes documentation and GAP analysis.
Database Analysis	Collect, Organizing, and Analyzing data from various resources, Define relationships.
Business Process integration	Data Mapping, ETL requirements. Worked in a distributed computing environment.
Business Requirements Elicitation	I employ brainstorming, interviewing, prototyping, JAD sessions, and test case development.
Documentation	Business requirements, functional design documentation, technical requirements documents and test case documents. Project plan and performance reporting.
Communications	Customized communication plan and status reporting to stakeholders by interest level and area of responsibility, from high level to detailed content. Incorporated E-mail, SharePoint and status meetings as appropriate.
Team Leadership	Served as SME and team coordinator, trainer and mentor. Have coordinated environments using subcontractors, on-site, off-shore, and virtual teams across multiple time zones.
Readiness management	Have created and presented customized training for both technical and end users utilizing virtual meetings and class room approaches.
Technical Delivery Lead	Coordination of Technical resources, Vendor agents, Analysts and end users. Provide scheduled updates to team management. Expedite Roadblock resolution, anomalies remediation, insure timely systems development and delivery.
Readiness management	Have created and presented customized training for both technical and end users utilizing virtual meetings and class room approaches.

 

 

Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Office, Windows, DB2, ERP, EDI, SDLC/IT

Manufacturing, Banking, Business consulting, DWH/Reporting, Inventory and Warehousing.

 

 

 

 

 

PM/ BSC  Risk remediation, process improvement   Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC          01/2016 – 07/2017

 

·         Collaborating with User community and leadership, identify required needs (systems processes and procedures) to establish a singular Operating Model to implement centralization of all Asset Management within Supply Chain Management (SCM).

·         Establish the Plan for transfer of all Software Enterprise IT access management to the Enterprise Access Management (EAM) team.

·         Development of Target Operating Model (TOM) for the Corporate Properties Group (CPG) to expand and advance its IT Asset management (ITAM) capabilities, present state to future state.

·         Define the conceptual ITAM target process and technical architecture.

·         Define target System requirements to support of metrics and reporting framework.

·         Track Project progress, remediate roadblocks, status reporting to PMO.

 

 

PM/BSA Enterprise Privacy Choices                Bank of America, Charlotte, NC            05/2015- 12/2015

·         Manage change management to effect individuals, the team in making and managing organizational change in business process and operation to realize the below deliverables (Agile). 

·         FED and OCC Regulatory mandates on Privacy Data controls remediation.

·         Work with Team of 11 employing Agile (Scrum) from Goals, Epics, and Stories to Tasks.

·         Conducted grooming sessions, developed durations and Value points for backlog evaluation.

·         Remediation of Privacy Choice application for certification Application Data Source (ADS) System of record.

·         Insure Project Artifacts conformed to Enterprise Data Management Standards.

·         Responsible for meeting Milestone/Timebox objectives, Clarity for Time entry, burn down reporting.

·         Assure conformity and documentation of adherence Enterprise Standards.

 

 

BSA/PM Implementation Consultant                Wells Fargo.                                         10/2014 – 01/2015

·         Contract project focused on validating ETL Data feeds from System of Record to destination DB for Federal Reserve and Office of the Controller of the Currency, Bank Stress Test reporting. 

·         Data Lineage trace and documentation.

·         ETL error remediation.

·         Policy and procedure documentation.

·         Process User training development.

 

 

 

PM       Manufacturing System Lead                                         Wastequip, Toter Div.                           01/2013 - 10/2014

• Lead Wells Fargo Bank / Lockbox conversion for all 11 Divisions inclusive of Payments, Receipts, Invoice and Statements print services and integration to the ERP (Agile).
• Performed the Analysis for the ERP replacement project Gap and requirements gathering.
• PM/BA responsible for ERP Imolimentation/conversion from Jomar to Exact Macola ES.
• Implementation of iTera High availability data replication utility.
• Coordinated internal and Vendor efforts to convert the Webdocs online document storage system from iSeries to Windows 2008 R2 Server.
• Responsible for the consultants maintaining the EDI functionality and integration.
• JAR, JAD, BRD Storyboard for all projects related to Business system implementation and integration.
• Prepare Status presentation for weekly Staff Meeting and Division President / Management.
• Manage offsite Technical resources.
• Serving as PM/BA for the transition to a new EDI Translator and VAR for 11 Trading Partners and one 3PL.

 

 

PM/BA HR Compensation System                                                        Bank of America, Charlotte, NC            10/2012- 12/2012

• Compensation and Incentive Tracking and Reporting systems for domestic associate Consumer and Small Business Banking units.
• Generated requirements definition and Dataflow documentation for development and implementation of incentivized compensation at the business units and all stores.
• Develop process Story, HLD/LLD documentation, Agile.
• Compose and conduct CIT tests to certify deployment readiness.

 

PM/BA Systems Development                                                  Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC                    06/2012-10/2012

• Global Banking Risk Management, Global Financial Systems reporting systems consolidation and automation.
• Business process documentation, System of Record sourcing determination, Data Mapping, SQL Query interrogation.
• Project Planning, resource scheduling, Status reporting.
• Business process mapping, Process Flows

  

BSA     Systems Development                                      Bank of America, Charlotte, NC             07/2011-04/2012

• Corporate Risk Management, Line of Business applications remediation project and User requirements gathering.
• Determine and execute remediation process, GAP analysis and interfacing with Global Technology as required.
• Manage projects to onboard lines of business applications into corporate compliance from initiation to implementation.
• Interface with Development leads for HLD development, DB2 and Mainframe SQL look-ups.
• Review and approval of QA Test Plan and acceptance.
• Disaster Recover and Archival project for Consumer Credit Business Reporting system.
• Credit Risk analysis FICO 08 reporting conversion for 11 lines of business to reside on Teradata System.
• TransUnion feed (middleware) management, Archival Strategy, Quarterly account reconciliation and LOB process improvement. This effort included Data Mapping and ETL specifications utilizing SQL investigation.
• Utilize Project, Visio, created BRD in JAD with users, HLD in coordination with development on projects in a distributed computing environment.

 

 

PM       Systems Development                          Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC                   12/2009 – 04/2011

 

• Technical lead for JIRA Software (Project and issue tracking) implementation for eight lines of business covering 16 applications, and SharePoint collaborative tool.
• Served as PM for start-up phase, BA for development and implementation.
• JIRA integration with Quality Center for Service Request and defect tracking and associated data mapping.
• Working as a lead IT point of contact and SME for JIRA implementation.
• Principle Trainer to Business units and Technical resources.
• Generated requirements definition by leading JAD sessions and developed Workflow documentation for each of the business lines.
• ETL and Data Mapping employing SQL for conversion of ‘from’ systems to ‘go-to’ system for each business line.
• Conducted user education sessions for both Line of Business and IT personnel, domestically and off-shore.
• BRD Requirements definition development and consolidation for Merger.
• Integration with lower level Reporting and Issue Tracking system.
• Monthly MBO reporting to upstream management for group of 11 managers.
• Corporate and Investment Banking group, foreign exchange trading systems merger requirements and integration testing.
• QTP (Quick Test Professional) and QC (Quality Center) test implementation for the WellsFargo Banking unit.
• Systems interface test design and development, and defect reporting.
•  FSD, policy and procedure documentation.
• SharePoint documentation for Automation project
• Status meetings and problem investigation and resolution.

 

 

 

Associate                     Walmart Inc, Lenoir, NC                                                                       05/2009 – 12/2009

 

§   Retail sales and merchandising.

 

 

IT/PM   Manufacturing             CoxLittle, Charlotte, NC                                                03/2008 – 11/2008

 

·         Client included ITG (International Textile Group): requirements definition for consolidation of disparate systems into a unified environment (SAP): requirements gathering, technical specifications, programming requirements, and testing.

·         Client included Infor, (for Red Gold Inc.): ERP technical lead for the implementation and support of integration of Infor ERP LX to WMS Warehousing system middleware. SOA initiative including ETL specs, system to system Data delivery.  Develop Synchronization from the WMS to custom subsystems.

·         Served as Technical Delivery POC.

·         Conducted JAD sessions, developed BRD documents and FDD specs, technical requirements documentation.

·         Provide requirements input for Technical Design Specifications.

 

 

BSC     Manufacturing                          Hanes Brands Inc, Winston Salem, NC             05/2007 – 12/2007

 

·         EDI implementation and support on 4 separate divisions and AS/400 servers, for conversion from Gentran and Trustedlink to SAP ERP system. Converted 4 manufacturing systems to 1 system, SAP.

·         Performed Full Project Development Life-cycle.

·         Chaired JAD with Customer service and client, developed Business Requirements documentation, and specified technical program requirements.

 

 

PM       Manufacturing Systems            Belden Wire and Cable Inc, Fort Mill, SC                      04/2005 – 10/2006

 

·         Project Manager for several Large Scale IT Projects for the newly formed Networking Division -  four ERP server consolidation and implementations at 4 facilities in the USA and Canada.

·         Projects involved coordination of computing environments in multiple locations.

·         Responsible for BRD and FDD generation and maintenance through JAD sessions as team member lead (SSA / Infor).

·         ETL, Data Mapping and Transformation between Systems.

·         Database investigation using SQL inquiries.

·         Managed both internal resources and external- consulting services, with responsibility for customization, ongoing support issues, maintenance of Project Plan, Timelines and Work Breakdown structures.

·         Project Manager for a 3PL (third party logistics) Data Mart initiative, synchronizing data among a three server network (systems integration). Headed Conflict Resolution effort.

·         Data Center update and integration.

·         Coordinated efforts of internal, external, and outsourced resources, providers and vendors.  

·         Employed Microsoft Office and MS Project for resource allocation, Forecasting, Budget balancing and cost control for all phases of assigned projects.

·         Chaired weekly project Status Meetings and issues Management update reports. 

·         Responsibilities included Design Requirements, Process flow, GAP analysis and reporting of all issues and progress, Data Center redesign, upgrade and integration to corporate DC.

·         Headed Communications implementation, back-up and recovery facilitation, and WiFi initiative for central office.

·         Coordinated off-site and near shore resources for technical delivery.

 

 

Director/IT        Manufacturing Systems            Alba Waldensian, Valdese, NC 04/2000 – 04/2005

 

·         Worked on an initiative involving a management portal into our Data Mart for the Inventory and Manufacturing management groups.

·         Project Lead for the implementation of BPCS ERP, (SSA / Infor), for a large scale implementation, encompassing all departments in the organization. 

·         Responsible for contract infrastructure contract negociation.

·         Initiated design and implementation of a pilot BPCS Portal for the Sales Staff.  We developed a Data Warehouse / ETL from ERP System data, that was an SQL based data store and extract system

·         Implemented a Data Collection and Control System that reduced inventories, increased inventory accuracies, raised on-time shipments to 99.6%, and container content accuracy to 98.4%. Coordinated Data Mapping process for the effort.

·         Selection and on-boarding of consultant resources.

·         Developed an Inventory-on-the-Fly subsystem through JAD sessions that allowed a wall to wall inventory without disruption of operations, – two day shutdown avoidance per Physical Inventory.

·         Realigned the company’s communications infrastructure, resulting in a $163,000 cost avoidance per year.

·         Managed the Server consolidation project, SQL server install, Cisco network implementation, Outlook server install.

·         Data center infrastructure migration from IBM 370 to iSeries servers, Cisco network and WiFi.

·         Oversaw the Avia Switch upgrade and terminal install project for three locations.

·         Initiated and completed the RF communications effort between corporate and two plant locations.

·         Was charged with the AS2 server and software project.

 

 

Tech Engagement Mgr, Manufacturing             SSA Southeast, Greensboro, NC          12/1993 – 03/2000

 

·         Certified instructor for the Data Warehousing BI and reporting tool ‘Business Objects’, as well as ‘dcServ’.

·          Served as Technical Project Lead for both new software installations and integrations.

·         Technical Project Analysis -  responsible for formulating project proposals, requirements definitions, conceptual and detail definitions employing BRD and FDD methodologies developed through JAD sessions.. Project Plans, ETL framework, Data Mapping.

·         Conducted technical team formation, assignment and tracking.

·         Responsible for documentation leading to Technical Design Specifications.

·         Served as Technical Consultant Advisor to three corporate offices (SSA Chicago, SSA Hollister and SSA Dallas), now Infor.

·         Performed 7 successful conversions and integrations.

• Served as technical consultant, on loan,  for SSA Chicago, SSA Holisten and SSA Dallas offices, advising and devising infrastructure constraint relief, upgrades, installs, hardware sizing and configuration
• Served as infrastructure performance tuning and balancing consultant, on loan,  for SSA Chicago, SSA Holisten and SSA Dallas offices, advising and devising infrastructure constraint relief, upgrades, installs, hardware sizing and configuration
• Also served as technical consultant for SSA Chicago, SSA Holisten  and  SSA Dallas offices on  joint venture implementations and performance trouble-shooting projects. 

 

 

 

                            

 

B.S., Central University of Iowa

Certified Data Programmer, Grumman Data Institute, New York

Certified Project Manager, Boston Univ.