Novella M Springette
1945 Pharrs Rd, Snellville, GA, 30078

Project Manager / IT Advisor

Career Summary:

 * Project Manager / IT Advisor with over twenty (20) year's experience with
industry-leading organizations, who routinely translates business requirements
into actual production systems while working in a team environment.
 * Experience in planning and organizing online and "paper" publications,
virtual networks, web content management, PR events and seminars.
 * Experience in cooperation with media, ministries and other partners in
outreach and public relations.
 * Experience in the preparation of case studies and researches.
 * Possesses strong technical, communicative and interpersonal skills.
 * Experience in producing media events, video based infomercials, documentaries
and ads to market a company's activities.
 * Experiencing in creating online media events to showcase local activities to
a worldwide audience.
 * Self-starter who approaches every project in a detailed, analytical manner
and thrives on challenges. Especially strong at taking financial, accounting and
business needs and converting them to the language of the developer.

Experience:

Global Solutions Services
Project Manager
2006 to Present

Project Manager

 * Writing Project Proposals in response to RFPs for IT and Finance based
projects,
 * Creating action plans, workflows and budgets.
 * Developing and driving the project work plan, supervising project team
members and ensuring adherence to time, budget, key deliverables and project
milestones
 * Participating in the proposal development process by providing expertise in
project approach, risk management, cost estimation, scope definition and staffing
requirements.
 * Maintaining project management standards and ensuring team adherence to the
project management methodology.
 * Training and mentoring the project team members to improve skills and
performance
 * Providing technical assistance when necessary and leadership during the
project lifecycle
 * Monitoring and controlling the progress of the project at an operational
level
 * Defining project schedules, deliverables, tasks and milestones
 * Conducting regular internal (team) and external (client) status meetings to
keep project stakeholders informed
 * Managing project risks and issues
 * Managing change control process
 * Verifying completion of deliverables and obtaining client sign-off

IT-based Media Consultant

 * Running successful video based business that produces Ads, Documentaries and
does Special Events.
 * Work along with Senior Vice President of Marketing at multi-billion dollar
companies such as Cable and Wireless to plan media events, produce infomercials
and document year to date activities through Year in Review video based
documentary presentations.
 * Creating and managing web-based applications. Creating an online presence to
market company's information. Work along with the Press Secretary of the Prime
Minister to market the Government's activities to nationals overseas through
video based web-site www.feelthevybes.com and also present other ongoing news
related activities of the Federation. Utilized Joomla templates in creation of
websites.
 * Creating multi-media portal for video, music and photos so that the resident
artistes and photographers could have a portal to launch their work and their
music. www.musicvybes.com, www.sknphotos.com.

Government of St Kitts and Nevis
2006 to 2007

Advisor to the Minister of Information and Technology

 * Authoring and publishing the National Information Communications Technology
Strategic Plan which was presented to the World Bank, IMF and United Nations as
required of the Government of St Kitts and Nevis
 * Acting as a Liaison between the Ministry of Information and Technology and
the Embassy of the Republic of China
 * Working with Ministry of Finance to negotiate rates with Crown Agents
regarding Customs web-based project
 * Creating Action Plans and Work Plans to manage National IT Centre when it
came on stream

Town Sports International, NY, NY
2001 to 2005

Senior Manager, Application Development

 * Responsible for day to day operations of IT Application Development Unit that
supports Web-Based, XML, HTML, Visual Basic, SQL, Microsoft Access based in-house
developed systems for a company that spans five states with over one-hundred and
thirty (130) disparate locations. This involved dealing with payroll issues,
producing data to fulfill SEC reporting requirements and creating reports to
satisfy ad-hoc financial and accounting requests.
 * Responsible for overseeing the maintaining, enhancing and re-working of
legacy systems utilizing Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, SQL 2000, Crystal
Reports in a Windows NT/ Windows 2000 / UNIX environment. This involved
incorporating changes in contract laws, re-enacting of Sales Tax laws such as the
Connecticut 6% law in short-time frames and with the prospect that failing to
meet deadlines would mean the company would be forced to pay thousands of dollars
daily to the respective State for being in breach of these laws.
 * Acting as Project Manager for crucial aspects of multi-million dollar project
that would convert hodgepodge of legacy based systems to n-tier, web-based
application with SQL backend to fulfill point-of-sale, accounting and revenue
demands for entire company. This included:
 * Working with the users of the system to specify reporting requirements,
distribution, security profiles and rights of access to said reports. Defining
frequency and range of distribution.
 * Overseeing the converting of the data from legacy systems. Defined the
methodology whereby information could be ported from Progress database to SQL
2000, massaged into the appropriate format, placed on staging tables and
transferred to new application. At the same time ensured that the profiles of the
members remained the same, maintained the integrity of the billing system and
also the accuracy of the accounting numbers.
 * Responsible for developing methodology for merging data from multiple systems
as the new software is rolled-out across five states in one hundred and thirty
(130) locations over a six month timeframe so that Senior Management could
continue to have a seamless view of the company's performance during rollout.
 * Responsible for defining the requirements based on end-users input, setting
the project deadlines, establishing milestones, coordinating testing and user
acceptance of an on-line web-based system which would process compensation for
sales consultants, massage therapists and fitness trainers from new point-of-sale
web-based application and pass csv payfiles to KRONOS/ADP. Data included
commissions and bonuses when sales quotas are met.
 * Establishing process that will take data from new system on a nightly basis
and integrate directly with Epicor to update the company's general ledger and
accounts payable information.
 * Worked closely with Finance Department on the implementation of COGNOS
Finance. Oversaw the creation of in-house systems that passed budgetary
information from COGNOS to Epicor and transactions from Epicor to COGNOS.
 * Worked closely with Strategic Planning on the implementation of COGNOS
PowerPlay and ReportNet, defining data requirements with the aim of providing
management on a daily basis with a snapshot of sales, cancellations, cash and
revenue flows. Configured servers and defined database tables to facilitate daily
reports to Senior Management for the abovementioned company figures.

1999 to 2000

Senior Developer

 * Responsible for writing code to maintain legacy systems utilizing Visual
Basic, Microsoft Access, SQL 2000, Crystal Reports in a Windows NT/ Windows 2000
/ UNIX environment.

Teldata Control Inc., East Rutherford, NJ
2000 to 2001

I S Manager

 * Managed team of developers who maintained and tailored in-house
telecommunications specific software utilizing mainly Access VBA front-end linked
to SQL 7 backend. Dealt with routine requests from in-house account executives
for data.
 * Managed development of EDI system that accepted telecommunications data from
vendor on behalf of clients for in-house processing.
 * Managed out-sourced development of customized software. Worked with company
off-site to lend a web-front-end to company's existing Access-based software and
convert Access backend to a SQL backend.
 * Met with clients on a regular basis and based on information gathered would
develop requirements and pass such on to developers so that they could code
changes. Based on the client's requests would customize the reports to display
the data they needed.
 * Upgraded existing clients to new releases, coordinated clients requests and
made sure deliverables were well defined and that projects were finished on time
and within budget

CasioSoft Inc., Bridgewater, NJ
(dot-com Company that lost funding, no longer in existence)

03/2000 - 06/2000

Technical Consultant

 * Established Windows 2000 network that used VPN to tunnel over Internet to
access and transfer remote data. Enabled Salesmen who were in the field to dial
in and collect data.
 * Provided Technical Support to Salesmen who were located in Connecticut,
Philadelphia and New Jersey and who were running Windows 2000 Server on
standalone laptops.
 * Installed Proprietary Software (MobileLink) which involved configuring and
installing SQL Server 7.0 and transferring data between SQL databases and
establishing ODBC connections over a WAN so that Sales Team could demo software
while visiting prospective clients.
 * Configured IIS Admin to allow viewing of Crystal Reports running over local
Intranet.
 * Prepared Customized Training Manual on proprietary software CSI MobileLink to
instruct brand new users on how to utilize this software in the field. Manual
showed not only how to use the software but how to connect the hardware t