Accomplished IT Project Manager with over 10 years of experience in steering complex project across the globe. Expert in Agile methodologies, end to end project delivery, and fostering collaboration among stakeholders.

test management IT project management estimation planning Payroll testing ERP  

Updated 06. oktober 2023
My education
2008 - 2012

Diplomingeniør, Elektronik

Anden uddannelsesinstitution i udlandet

Educational area: Teknik & Teknologi
Period: oktober 2008 - oktober 2012
My work experience
2016 - 2023

Senior Associate

Cognizant Worldwide Limited

Project- Prudential Financial
Integration Lead for Compensation implementation Dec 2022- Apr 2023
• Collaborated with cross-functional implementation teams, orchestrating workshops to optimize project delivery.
• Led end-to-end project delivery, coordination, and execution, ensuring alignment with project management governance, and achieving seamless implementation within 3 months.
• Mentored and guided the business team, imparting solution-oriented integration approaches and strategic project planning.
Key Achievements:
? Phase 1 implementation of 14 mission-critical integrations, flawlessly adhering to milestone schedules without encountering major disruptions.
? Led the team for pre-sales on estimation planning, SOW for over four proposals in 2022 that translated to high revenue ($360k) successful engagements.

Workday Program Manager - Learning Management Solution Jan-Dec 2022
• Assisted pre-sales team to successfully convert active opportunities into service offerings by providing content and forming responses to bids.
• Directed the entire project lifecycle, from project intake to facilitating project flow, ensuring punctual delivery of high-quality results, adhering to best practices, elevating internal team efficiency and providing added value to clients.
• Conducted and led over 200 defect management workshops, skillfully orchestrating Daily Defect Triage, and delivering regular status updates to stakeholders.
• Managed and nurtured an eight-member team, effectively overseeing personnel growth, goal-setting, and performance enhancement.
• Orchestrated the seamless Go-Live cutover strategy for Workday and Integrations implementations.
Key Achievements:
? Attained an exceptional customer satisfaction rating of 5/5.
? Successfully navigated the rollout of Workday Learning Management System across 20 countries, impacting a user base of 80,000 leading to the obsolescence of legacy applications and significant cost savings.
? Pioneered and executed pre-sales activities, translating into over $1M in revenue through successful engagement conversions.
? Built knowledge repository for Workday LMS implementation artifacts, augmenting the company's knowledge-sharing capabilities.

Project - IRIS Financial
Finance Delivery Lead Sep-Dec 2021
• Spearheaded the formulation of project scope, comprehensive plans, and meticulous execution strategies, ensuring efficient processing of sales orders from Salesforce CRM to Finance and Operations during monthly releases.
• Pioneered the design and successful execution of intricate business use cases within the finance processing domain, encompassing key modules in Finance and Operations.
Key Achievements
? Proficiently facilitated the rollout of Order to Cash enhancements, successfully implementing approximately 10 releases even during peak seasons ensuring zero defect leakage.

Project - John Lewis Partnership plc, UK
Functional Lead - Workday Implementation Program 2018 –2021
• Devised a comprehensive project strategy, plan, and resource allocation for key phases of the Workday implementation program.
• Drove several requirement gathering workshops and translated them in business scenarios and user journeys.
• Trained and managed a 12 - member offshore team on Workday, ensuring streamlined delivery and result validation.
• Coached the change management team on the creation of training documents and knowledge aids for over 50 end user teams.
• Collaborated closely with functional teams to configure complex recruiting workflows, ensuring seamless data transfer and accurate reception by vendor companies.
• Worked on initial phase of RFP by driving the estimation planning for project bidding, increasing revenue growth for existing clients.
Key Achievements:
? Orchestrated the successful go-live of Workday as the HR platform for 86,000 employees, even amidst the challenges the COVID pandemic.
? Built knowledge repository to serve as Workday knowledge base, enhancing best practices and facilitating ongoing enhancements.
? Won the ‘Excellence in Team Performance’ award for the digital transformation in UK and Ireland.
? Achieved a swift and successful go-live for an MVP project within a tight six-month timeframe during Phase 2 with zero major issues.

Project Name: Pharmacyclics
Integrations Module Lead 2017 – 2018
• Spearheaded and directed integrations for a prominent life science client's HR monthly release by devising comprehensive project strategies and meticulously planned monthly releases, crafting critical business scenarios for validation.
Key Achievements:
? Ensured timely delivery over different phases, adhering to best standards and resulted ultimately in decommissioning of legacy system. Thus, ensuring cost saving of $ 500,000

Project Name: Gilead Sciences
Functional Implementation Lead 2016 – 2017
• Delivered and executed test scenarios and test cases for PECI integrations for 36 countries for global payroll testing
• Collaborated with payroll vendors like SafeGuard and ADP alongside provided extended support for remediation and UAT.
Key Achievements:
? Successfully accomplished the implementation of Workday with employee strength 11,000 across 36 countries.
Work area: IT - Software
Period: august 2016 - april 2023
2012 - 2016

Software Engineer

Hexaware Technologies

Software Engineer
Workday QA Analyst for AIG
• Managed the test delivery for modules that incorporated more than 3 systems such as PeopleSoft EPM and HCM, Workday and Data Stage.
• Championed Test Requirement Analysis, Test Planning & Scheduling, consistently ensuring meticulous execution.
• Functioned as a proficient functional consultant for ERP applications, offering expertise to diverse projects across various business domains.
Key Achievements:
? ACE award winner
? Successfully accomplished the implementation of Workday in US and Canada and smooth rollout of PeopleSoft HRMS for employee strength of 40,000.
Work area: IT - Software
Period: oktober 2012 - juli 2016
My skills and abilities
Skills
estimation planning it project management stakeholder management testing
Skills at working proficiency
english
My preferences
Job type
Deltidsjob Freelance Fuldtidsjob
Work areas
Bank & Forsikring Human Resources Indkøb IT - Software
Location
Nordsjælland Østsjælland
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