Candidate Cover Sheet - Microsoft Dynamic AX - Senior Functional Consultant | Project Manager #213483

This candidate is a Seasoned professional executive and manager with over twenty-five years of ERP, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain project involvement seeking opportunities for continued success in Project Management, Professional Services Management, and PMO Management settings. This candidate is consistently successful in both corporate end-user and channel partner environments. Also, a proven, results-oriented professional who never loses sight of the imperatives of project success and client satisfaction, and to whom each project involvement embraces a unique set of requirements and expectations to be satisfied.

In a previous role, this candidate added two ERP solutions (AX and NAV) to the firm’s product offerings, directing a team of three practice managers and (indirectly) 18 consultants, developers, business analysts, subject matter experts, accounting and administrative support professionals, and contractors. The candidate was Directly involved in presales efforts, commercial and contract negotiations, scope definition, and process re-engineering and retrofit. This candidate Introduced multiple areas of policy and procedure, each of which yielded positive improvements to the firm’s operations. Created course materials and conducted company-wide initiatives on project accountability, improved profitability through efficiency, client services excellence, and continuous process improvement campaigns. Responsible for the build-out of several stratified vertical industry solution offerings across multiple ERP solutions. Actively involved in identifying and conducting early-round discussions with several industry affiliation candidates and merger/acquisition suitors. Managed all  facets of Microsoft partner compliance. Directed client satisfaction and quality assessment objectives to a high level of attainment, including twice-monthly scheduled interface with key client executives, ad hoc issue escalation, and resolution.

In a recent role, this candidate has had multi-faceted, combining project and services delivery management with key elements of planning, commercial management, and client relationship management as the principal point of interface between client executives, stakeholders, and the Avanade organization. Involved in presales activities and self-initiated both substantial supplemental training and active participation in a global mentoring organization (Aspire Foundation) in the periods between project assignments. Joined a heavily compromised nineteen-month project in its fifteenth month, immediately rebuilding client confidence and the project team. Instilled first objective project measurement and control, an effective agenda of daily and weekly coordinating sessions, and revised budget approval. Brought the updated project to its final classroom training and (third-round) user acceptance testing on time, on budget, and with fully upgraded functional scope content

This candidate has certifications in:

• Project Management Institute® (PMI)-Certified as Project Management Professional® (PMP®) (2005; No. 241110).
• Completed over forty professional training courses and classes in various Agile Project Management, Professional Services Delivery Management, Advanced Tools and Techniques, Project Controls and Metrics Reporting, Business Management, and Ethics and Corporate Responsibility topics.