COLLINS OSA UHUANGHO
Alpharetta
Summary
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) with a proven track record of successfully managing all phases of complex projects on a local and international basis for corporate and global government organizations. Drive seamless project turnarounds, spearheading strategic and technical planning and implementations. Create models of excellence in the leading-edge industry, building, developing, and leading high-performance teams. Optimize financial and technological performance, maintaining up to date on the latest best practices and trends. Tackle complex obstacles and challenges, creating value-added solutions and alternative approaches. Translate difficult concepts to audiences on all levels, providing detailed reports and presentations. Complete projects within budgets and timelines, uniting all parties involved on common missions and goals. Agile/Scrum project management experience and agile coaching. SAP Implementation, Legacy systems knowledge, and strong vendor collaboration and engagement. Strategic Analysis & Planning Vendor Engagement Team Building & Development Best Practices Forecasting Estimating Bidding Negotiations Continuous Improvements Budgeting Cost Control Reporting Risk Assessment & Mitigation Relationship Building Alliances & Partnerships Presentations
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Sr. Manager
COLLINS OSA UHUANGHO
- I am responsible for driving alignment across multiple, high complexity, high visibility projects and managing strategic vendor partnerships
- Major Contributions:
- Attract, retain, and develop top talent and conduct annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback, as well as act as a proponent of strategic project management practices
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Project Managers and Managers, Project Management
- Contribute to and make recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
- Partner with leadership to select and onboard strategic vendor partners based on the organization's strategic needs
- Support and nurture strategic vendor relationships; recommend ways to influence vendors that align to the domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
- Proactively manage, mitigate, and communicate vendor-related risks and capture and drive issues to resolution
- Foster and maintain strategic vendor relationships and partner with leadership to negotiate pricing, SLAs, resource plans
- Provide guidance on overarching program scoping and effectively manage scope across projects
- Document, review, and ensure that all quality and change control standards are met
- Monitor, track, and adjust program plans based on critical milestones across projects
- Conduct budget planning and manages budgets across projects
- Reconcile status updates across projects to account for and mitigate schedule, resource, cost issues, and risks
- Accurately forecasts timelines, budget needs, and resource needs
- Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics, gmail.com Major Contributions :
- Worked with cross-functional teams to develop and execute business requirements on secondary fiber, external paperboard corrugated, and virgin fiber spend and deliver savings of more than 8% or $60MM at project close
- Led team effort to utilize SRM with a developed strategy to drive consistent buying, sourcing, and savings across the organization, and provided monthly reports on project progress
- Leveraged SAP to drive best practices for procuring materials and reducing transactional waste, and utilized Qlikview to develop management scorecards on spend, inventory, utilization of SRM, and savings
- Directly responsible for overseeing the management of the Vendor Master project – approximately 80,000 vendors across the system
- Provided timely, accurate, and responsive project status for both internal and external stakeholders
Coordination Manager
COLLINS OSA
- I am responsible for supporting teams through project management activities of very high complex projects in a vendor-facing capacity
- Also responsible for managing, guiding, and developing more junior team members
- Charged with playing a strategic role in the engagement of 3rd party vendors and the management of those relationships
- Major Contributions:
- Conduct annual and mid-year reviews, review individual development plans and provide performance feedback
- Lead my team in maintaining an accurate forecast, of +/- 5% accuracy for One Finance and Finance portfolios respectively
- Provided needed leadership in project management that helped major deployments in Tax management, ensuring MPIV MC1 and MC2 met all exit criteria and general Finance department project support activities
- Turned around the Product Management department financials reporting structure and implemented processes that have now positioned that department for continued financial accuracy and success
- Maintaining regular cadence to connect with peers
- Find a better reporting tool and work more with Beeline to close existing gap of resource system access issues
- Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
- Provide leadership to PMs in creating, monitoring, tracking, and adjusting project plans based on critical milestones
- Conducts budget planning and manages department budget to the tune of $100 million dollars
- Documents and applies lessons learned to subsequent projects, UHUANGHO Page 2 collinsuhuangho@gmail.com
- Forecasts timelines, budget needs, and resource needs with accuracy
- Regularly and actively contributes to alignment activities across projects
- Understands organizational goals to apply to project work
- Manages projects in adherence with The Home Depot's compliance regulations
- Captures and drives issues to resolution
- Maintains vendor relationships
- Partners with other leaders to make suggestions on pricing negotiations, SLAs, resource plans, etc
- Proactively manages, mitigates, and communicates vendor-related risks
- Manages the purchase order and invoicing process with 3rd party vendors
- Proactively plans for and identifies trends and common roadblocks within and across projects
- Collaborates with peers and Sr
- Managers to create standards and processes that mitigate the negative impact
- Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Project Managers
- Attracts, retains, and develops top talent
Technology Coordination Senior Manager
Financial Systems, The Home Depot
12.2021 - Current
Technology Coordination Manager
Financial Systems, The Home Depot
06.2018 - 11.2021
IT Project Manager
Financial Systems, The Home Depot
02.2015 - 06.2018
- As a key member of the Project team, I ensure we meet end-user requirements, cost, and quality objectives through timely development and execution of information system functions, operations, and delivery
- Major Contributions Strategic Planning Process (SPP):
- Participates in ITFS strategic planning sessions to determine key yearly initiatives with both the Business and IT Financial Systems Leadership
- Led financial planning session on resource needs, allocation, and alignment
- Develop resource plans to determine initiative cost and timelines
- Provide project management during and after planning sessions to ensure successful process integrity Major Contributions SAP Team:
- Assumed leadership of a struggling THD Home Services project
- Took steps to refresh the project team and worked closely with the customer and team
- The project was completed on schedule
- Led project effort to consolidate financials for Services subsidiaries (HDI, HDE, HRS, and HMS) to THD core EFI SAP financial platform and retired the GL functionality in Solomon and AccPac
- Built cross-departmental relationships to manage project/support objectives, led design application solutions, prioritized deliverables, determined implementation strategy, and coordinated assignment of resources to ensure on-time delivery
- Interfaced with scores of Business customers and the SAP team to analyze and create implementation strategies
- Implemented Ariba to process non-merchandise procurement and miscellaneous payment requests for Home Services
- Implemented Management Reporting of lines of business, Product, and Job profitability and streamlined accounting and reporting
- Led effort to improve the Home Services businesses to report in current period instead of one month in arrears
- Project eliminated manual accounting entries by automating postings into the Financial System (EFI SAP) from the Operating Systems (Lead Management System and Enterprise)
- Achieved project objective to set up Ariba for purchasing of non-merchandise products
- Project provided functionality that allowed data/information back to customer and store facing applications for business operations
- Managed vendor engagement, financials, including forecasting and ensuring resource allocation accurately reflected project efforts
- Major Contributions Legacy Team:
- Led development team using the agile framework on Changes to Allocation Engine HD.com for operating and delivery expenses modules to eliminate negative impact on SKU allocations
- This delivery directly impacts a Monthly average for Operating Expenses of $11M and Delivery Expenses of $10M
- Provided leadership to agile team on Finance Shipment Run to Run controls audit with Distribution to ensure no operational shipment transactions are missed, eliminating shrink/swell situation
- This feature resulted both in substantial time savings on accounting research, as well as safeguarding a DF network of shipments averaging $4.4M in COGS daily
- Led team using an agile approach to deliver a – No Match Found and Matched Out of Tolerance functionality to Acorde report
- This automated solution allows Mincron Bypass orders to process successfully through the Acorde workflow with no manual data reconciliation required
- Provided leadership to agile Legacy and SAP teams in collaboration with a Third party to deploy an Integrated Work Management System capable of managing THD real estate portfolio
- System features will enable construction management, lease administration, rent accounting, and reporting through a third-party Contracts and Retail modules
- Provided leadership to agile team on Finance Shipment Run to Run controls audit with Distribution to ensure no operational shipment transactions are missed, eliminating shrink/swell situation
- This feature resulted both in substantial time savings on accounting research, as well as safeguarding a DF network of shipments averaging $4.4M in COGS daily
Sr. Project Manager
COLLINS OSA UHUANGHO, Graphic Packaging Inc
01.2014 - 12.2014
- The project objective was to grow GPI Business through an improved Sales process by increasing the adoption of tools and technology to promote a collaborative approach and efficient Sales process
- To provide enhanced tools for GPI Sales resources to be successful and provide the increased ability for GPI business unit cross-collaboration
- Major Contributions:
- Led team to streamline with technology the process of ensuring that the GPI Sales process has the proper integration and collaboration to meet the goals to increase new business
- Integration addressed and corrected the $10M+ in profit leakage due to gaps in our business quote/order/closeout process
- Project addressed Salesforce.com’s critical component that will facilitate control and document procedures more effectively
- The ability of Salesforce.com to link specific information from SAP and other systems to an opportunity to achieve the company’s savings targets (goal of $2.5M)
- Successfully managed project to improve tools to facilitate, optimize and expedite business growth
- Project developed and enhanced Sales solution that will reduce costs in the Sales process
- Decreased Sales and Design process time to create a faster process to win Sales opportunities
- Developed and implemented an integrated real-time Sale opportunity data solution for quicker decisions to win Sales opportunities
- Provided project leadership to teams that developed and implemented a 360-degree Sales opportunity, design, planning, forecasting, estimating, and manufacturing process
- Promoted a collaborative approach and efficient Sales process with enhanced tools for GPI Sales resources to be successful
Sr. Project Manager
Morehouse College
03.2012 - 12.2013
- ADP to Banner HR/Payroll Implementation, Directed, coordinated, implemented, and lead the completion of the ADP payroll migration project ensuring consistency with Morehouse College’s strategy, commitments, and goals
- Helped defined project scope, goals, and deliverables, as well as project tasks and resource requirements
- Prepared project evaluations and assessment of results
- Major Contributions:
- Championed all aspects of full-scale planning and implementation of HR/Payroll project
- Assembled and coordinated project staff, administered project budget, and managed project resource allocation
- Planned and scheduled project timelines, tracked project deliverables, and provided direction and support to the project team
- Monitored and reported on project progress to all stakeholders, including committee members, and divisional Vice Presidents
- Implemented and managed project change requests and interventions to achieve project outputs
- Assisted in developing processes that improved PMOs function and delivery
- Led effort in identifying and promoting tools that assisted project teams
- Worked with staff and senior management to identify, fund, and coordinate training needs for Morehouse college end users
Sr. Project Manager
FDIC/SB, State Bank and Trust Company
12.2011 - 02.2012
- Led team across broad financial and business requirements of +10 acquired banks
- Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget, and with the desired results
- Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data
- Anticipated and managed change effectively in a rapidly evolving banking business environment
- Major Contributions:
- Gathered and analyzed requirement data from clients to enhance effectiveness toward the business result and strategic intent
- Developed risk mitigation tools to help with changes to consolidation claims, including adjustments, re-claims, and invalidation of certain expenses claimed in error, and ensure data integrity for FDIC dues
- Prepared reports on key daily deliverables to the client in other to measure performance against deadlines and set a target
- Created a change implementation plan for reclaiming expenses due from and to the FDIC with recommendations that made it easier for the client to make a quick and informed decision
- Developed monitoring tools that assisted in tracking results from other real estate owned (OREO) by the client
- Prepared and distributed reports as directed
Sr. Project Manager/Finance Consultant
Supply, Chain Graphic Packaging Inc
06.2010 - 09.2010
- As a team lead in GPI’s, high-paced environment, successfully led the effort to complete a supply-chain project solution with the Procurement Group
- Collaborated with plant and warehouse personnel and key stakeholders on requirements, vendor and product performance, and savings.
Program Controller (SAP Program/Project Management)
The Coca, Company
Cola
11.2005 - 05.2010
- Coordinated and led all aspects of program development, consolidation, and reporting of monthly Projects Rolling Estimate for both North American SAP Group and Supply Chain Group
- Collected, analyzed, validated, and interpreted data from various sources
- Assessed risks, and opportunities, and determined impact on current project estimates
- Ensured 100% accuracy of monthly financial reporting and 100% compliance with accounting standards and policies
- Coordinated with staff subject matter experts (SMEs), technical employees, and internal and external stakeholders
- Managed vendor relationships with companies such as IBM, SAP, Deloitte, Intelligroup, Satyam, and Patni
- Oversaw, coached, mentored, and evaluated 4 direct reports
- Major Contributions:
- Managed full project management life cycle for the implementation of highly complex, large-scale, strategic IT and business initiatives for the Coca-Cola North America SAP Program
- Provided direction on Implementing established policies, system monitors, and controls to ensure the successful management and reporting of all corporate initiatives in the program
- Supervised and led the program and project staff to oversee the impacts and interdependencies between programs and worked to ensure initiatives met the goals and objectives of the executive leadership team
- Provided both verbal and written communications regarding project status, risks, and issues
- Developed strategic resource plan to maximize visibility into all resource allocations and expenses and provided immediate alerts for projects in dire need of funds, revamping reporting and providing 1-page executive summaries
- Played major role in driving strategic business and cross-organizational objectives, coordinating the management of numerous successful projects with the benefit of value-added Statements of Work (SOWs) and contracts
- Created high-level reports used as program decision-making tools for projects
- Maintained 100% compliance of customer and vendor contracts with terms of the agreement, analyzing and communicating performance levels, and recommending alternatives to address variances
- Successfully managed several SAP Projects and workstreams under the North American program to completion; SAP Billing, SAP AR (Account Receivable) SAP MCP (Manufacturing Cost Planning) SharePoint, Streams; OTC (Order-to-Cash) FTS (Forecast-to-Stock) RTR (Record-to-Report) SAP SCM (Supply-Chain Metrics Project)
- Worked with vendors to ensure successful overall project delivery
Project Manager
Cumulus Broadcasting, Inc
09.2004 - 11.2005
- Performed in-depth audits and testing of key financial controls established by corporate to help mitigate high financial risk throughout Southeast and Northwest US for 2nd largest radio owners in the nation
- Utilized Committee of Sponsoring Organization (COSO) framework for internal control
- Reviewed multidisciplinary business processes
- Developed and executed test plans including determining sample items and sizes
- Pinpointed and proposed remediation tactics for control gaps
- Major Contributions:
- Strengthened leadership capabilities of business and marketing managers, developed, and trained on value-added processes
- Identified level of cost-effectiveness and opportunities for operational improvements, performing documentation review and flowcharting of existing processes and internal controls
- Uncovered and assessed risks across each business unit, and identified then-current and future mitigation requirements, evaluating the consistency of procedures and their applicability across each unit
- Co-defined and implemented optimal controls for risk management with business and marketing managers, using the latest project management principles
Project Consultant
COLLINS OSA UHUANGHO, WellPoint, Inc
01.2003 - 08.2004
- Examined minimum premium agreement settlement statements for +50 client accounts to ensure claims’ liability reflected true and accurate client expectations for overall business efficiency
- Provided strategic, financial, technical, and managerial aid
- Determined group’s liability threshold
- Major Contributions:
- Cultivated relationships and acted as primary liaison with key customers including state and county governments, medical groups, and ancillary providers
- Allowed resolution of discrepancies prior to invoicing while facilitating the establishment of objectives, deliverables, and conditions of satisfaction, creating claims systems report and validation process
- Resolved outstanding issues of claims, payments, and compliance, working closely across all teams and levels of management
- Improved cost-effectiveness and operations, developing client objective processes
Project Consultant
UNITED NATIONS / INT’L ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
Vienna
08.2000 - 12.2002
- Collaborated with senior management to support the management of a $100M portfolio of international energy projects addressing structural and technological implementation issues in developing countries
- Performed project feasibility studies and team member evaluations with Desalination Advisory Group
- Facilitated expert peer review meetings
- Performed various value-added roles with IAEA, especially with Management, Technical, & General Services (MTGS) and Records & Communications divisions
- Major Contributions:
- Provided value-added recommendations on international energy expansions throughout Eastern Europe and Africa, conducting in-depth project assessments
- Aided financial justifications for special projects related to strategic options in global development
- Assisted identification and selection of projects focusing on desalination technology deployment, and ensured project designs were consistent with country-specific energy policies
- Monitored and evaluated the impact of anticipated deployment activities across member countries, coordinating with Advisory Group Program Manager and cross-functional IAEA staff
- Defined best practices on desalination technology deployment, preparing case studies from research, authoring briefing notes, and uploading new documentation for advisory board review
MD/CEO
Education
PhD - Public Policy and Administration: Global
Walden University
Master of Business Administration - undefined
Webster University
Bachelor of Science - Economics & Statistics
University of Benin
Skills
Proven expertise using Project Management Methodsundefined
Certification
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
Timeline
Technology Coordination Senior Manager
Financial Systems, The Home Depot
12.2021 - Current
Technology Coordination Manager
Financial Systems, The Home Depot
06.2018 - 11.2021
IT Project Manager
Financial Systems, The Home Depot
02.2015 - 06.2018
Sr. Project Manager
COLLINS OSA UHUANGHO, Graphic Packaging Inc
01.2014 - 12.2014
Sr. Project Manager
Morehouse College
03.2012 - 12.2013
Sr. Project Manager
FDIC/SB, State Bank and Trust Company
12.2011 - 02.2012
Sr. Project Manager/Finance Consultant
Supply, Chain Graphic Packaging Inc
06.2010 - 09.2010
Program Controller (SAP Program/Project Management)
The Coca, Company
11.2005 - 05.2010
Project Manager
Cumulus Broadcasting, Inc
09.2004 - 11.2005
Project Consultant
COLLINS OSA UHUANGHO, WellPoint, Inc
01.2003 - 08.2004
Project Consultant
UNITED NATIONS / INT’L ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
08.2000 - 12.2002
Sr. Manager
COLLINS OSA UHUANGHO
Coordination Manager
COLLINS OSA
MD/CEO
PhD - Public Policy and Administration: Global
Walden University
Master of Business Administration - undefined
Webster University
Bachelor of Science - Economics & Statistics
University of Benin
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