Kathleen A Shedron, PMP
5861 Blackberry Dr.
Imperial, MO 63052
 [Send email to request phone number] 67-9801
314-960-8338
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Professional Summary

A highly organized professional with expertise in developing, implementing, and
managing technical projects, conceptualizing solutions, and utilizing business
intelligence.  Demonstrated ability to present information to key influencers,
train new technologies, manage technical staff, and provide outstanding internal
and external customer services.  Experienced in analyzing data and
infrastructure, developing and controlling budgets, and managing costs and return
on investment.   Self-motivated leader with ability to set and exceed goals.  

Project – Program Management ● Client Relations ● Program
Development ● Process Improvement
Budget Planning ● Team Building ● Strategic Planning ●
Negotiations ● Vendor Relations
Monitoring and Tracking ● Performance Improvement ● Interface and
Client Server Applications

Professional Experience
Savvis Communications	January 2009 to December 2009
Enterprise Systems Project Manager
Project Manager
	Application Release Management
o	Create deployment plans for application release into Development, Staging and
Production environments for Envision (Quoting System) and Vantive (Enterprise
System)
	Including bug fix, maintenance and scheduled application releases
	Emergency and scheduled support including Highly Available systems
o	Coordinate teams for support and release tasks
o	Facilitate meetings, planning, resource allocations and execution of code. 
o	Created process for enhancement and bug fixes for exisiting systems 
o	Worked closely with IT infrastructure team
o	Unit testing coordination and execution
o	HP Quality Center for testing

	Project Manager  Quoting Improvement Project - Development
o	Project Manager for Quoting Improvement Process with Stake holders in the
business
o	Created and Managed Microsoft Project Plans, Resource allocations, Budget and
reporting.
o	Created and Maintained Internet Share Point sites for each Project. 
o	Held and reported meetings to facilitate requests, planning, execution and
Lessons Learned.
o	Assisted in setting up the process stream for Benchmark projects and requests
including template documentation
o	Developed development team responsibility matrix and role definitions
o	Used Agile method for rapid development
o	Working with the business owners developed use cases and testing materials
o	Work in conjunction with the business to document and provide system training
Developed High level design and Functional Design documents working and managing 
the development teams 

	Project Manager SAP Phase 3 
o	Led Blueprinting sessions with extended business teams
o	Documented requirements and use cases to provide detail to the Business
Requirement documents
o	Created Capital Business Case for project excess of $1,000,000 budget
o	Hired and managed contract workers
o	Created and Managed Microsoft Project Plans, Resource allocations, Budget and
reporting.
o	Created and Maintained Internet Share Point sites for each Project. 
o	Held and reported meetings to facilitate requests, planning, execution and
Lessons Learned.
o	Assisted in setting up the process stream for Benchmark projects and requests
including template documentation
o	Developed core team responsibility matrix and role definitions
o	Developed High level design and Functional Design documents working and
managing  the development teams 
o	Presented Playback sessions for Executive sponsor and team members
o	Developed core team responsibility matrix and role definitions
o	Developed Use cases and testing materials
o	Work in conjunction with the business to document and provide system training
o	Budget and resource tracking and management 
o	KPI/ROI creation and tracking

Other Responsibilities:
•	Communicated status to management, resource management and team members
•	Team Building 
•	Documentation process and flow
•	Risk assessments
•	Feasibility studies
•	Coordination of extended teams consisting of members up to 50 in number
•	Prepared Microsoft Project 2007 plans and snap in MSP plans for overall
project management
•	Worked with other Project Managers within their projects to deliver a quality
product
•	Weekly status reports on all project activity
•	Delivered all Projects on time and within resource allocations/budget
•	Business as usual development and release management 
•	Managed remote teams

ENTERPRISE RENT A CAR	March 2008 to November 2008
Release Testing and Acceptance Project Manager
Project Manager
	Application Release Management
o	Create deployment plans for application release into Development, SIT,
PreProduction and Production environments. 
	Including bug fix, maintenance and scheduled application releases
	Emergency and scheduled support including Highly Available systems
o	Coordinate teams for support and release tasks
o	Facilitate meetings, planning, resource allocations and execution of code. 
	Project Manager Application Release Benchmark Testing
o	Project Manager for Benchmark Testing of Application and Hardware upgrades
Releases using SIT environments
	Lead for Application Security Release, national Reservations and
Enterprise.com
o	Created and Managed Microsoft Project Plans, Resource allocations, Budget and
reporting.
o	Created and Maintained Internet Share Point sites for each Project. 
o	Held and reported meetings to facilitate requests, planning, execution and
Lessons Learned.
o	Assisted in setting up the process stream for Benchmark projects and requests
including template documentation

Other Responsibilities:
•	Communicated status to management, resource management and team members
•	Team Building 
•	Documentation process and flow
•	Risk assessments
•	Feasibility studies
•	Coordination of teams consisting of members up to 50 in number
•	Prepared Microsoft Project 2007 plans and snap in MSP plans for overall
project management
•	Worked with other Project Managers within their projects to deliver a quality
product
•	Weekly status reports on all project activity
•	Delivered all Projects on time and within resource allocations/budget
•	9 simultaneous benchmark projects while managing application release.
•	Managed remote teams
KELLWOOD COMPANY	October 2007 to March 2008

Enterprise Business Applications Project Manager
Project/Program Manager
	Manage assigned Projects:
o	Create Project Plans in MS Project, Assign resources and allocations, create
and mange to budget, Go-live conversion planning, reporting responsibilities of
progress to PMO (Project Management Office) including resource scheduling,
budgeting and planning
o	Create and Manage project teams with oversight to project leads and project
managers. 
o	Create and manage teams of Business User Management and Information Technology
Management for IT and Operational Steering committees.
o	Manage Command Center process during go-live and conversion activities
including responsibility matrix planning, project plan and updates, task
assignments, issue resolution, security and tracking and progress reporting to
Business Units and management. 
	Program Manager Alliance Conversion Project Phase 1
o	Create Project Plans in MS Project, Assign resources and allocations, create
and mange to budget, Go-live conversion planning, reporting responsibilities of
plan to PMO (Project Management Office) including resource scheduling, budgeting
and planning
o	Budgetary responsibilities, Project budget not including soft cost of EDS base
Consultants and Kellwood personnel.
	Alliance consolation project, combine 22 labels into one Business unit
segment. Budget $2,4000,000
	Phase 1 completed on time, under budget and minimal issues.
o	Manage 6 sub projects under the alliance Umbrellas including WedPDM
consolidations, 7th online Financial rollup, Oracle Financial reporting and
consolidation, Business Intelligence Reporting, Standardization in EEnterprise
system across all business units, and the consolidations of both the Designer
Alliance business units and Lifestyle Alliance with the enterprise systems.
	Briggs New York system integration project $1,1000,000 budget
oversight
	Briggs New York conversion EDI planning and Go-live planning

Other responsibilities:
	Suggest ways to dramatically improve Kellwood business processes
	Suggest ways to save Kellwood money and reduce cycle time
	Provide clarification to development and Quality Assurance teams
	Measure/Analyze 1st level support and provide ways to improve the
quality of service
	Prepare for and run EBA steering team meetings with senior
representatives from each Business Unit
	Prepare for and run Conference Room Pilots to establish Gaps for Units
not already on EBA
	Assist in Business divestiture and acquisition activities 
	Communicate effectively with all levels of Information Technology and
end user management.
	Jointly develop, with end user management and ITS leadership, business
goals for ITS projects. 
	Develop communication and business reengineering (change) strategies to
achieve the desired outcomes.
	Work with End User management and Division leaders to identify areas in
which the application of information technology will have a significant positive
affect on the Division, Corporate Department of logical business function in
question.  Jointly determine project priorities based on business value.
	Take necessary steps such that ITS can measure the benefits to the
business of our systems improvements.
	Build, develop and maintain a professional development and support
processes capable of meeting ITS projects and objectives with the ability to
evolve. Participate in development and evolution of ITS policy and best
practices.
	Continuously evolve the skills and knowledge of self by finding and
scheduling training such that the very best techniques are consistently being
introduced at Kellwood.  
	Continuously evolve the skills of teammates by organizing formal and
informal learning opportunities such that there is always backup capability in
place and a succession plan if / when needed.




LIGUORI PUBLICATIONS 	March 2001 to July 2007

Manager Information Systems, 2005 to 2007

	Manage the Information Systems team of Senior Network Administrators,
Senior System Administrators and PC support. Managed consultants as needed.
	Business process review/reengineering team leader
	Acquisition strategy team member
o	Reviewed new fulfillment client contracts and cost structures including data
conversions.
	Manage PIT (Process Improvement Team) and facilitate process changes
and documentation within the departments.
	ERP Implementation Project Manager – Upgrade to new Enterprise system –
Acumen Books from Advantage Computing Systems. SQL 2000 to 4D
o	Budgetary responsibilities over $150,000
o	Database conversion of data including data integrity, tie out verification and
actual conversion.
o	Managed project team of 21 Liguori employees on a cross functional team and
included the vendor project team 
o	Documented process, reported to key influencers and initiated change
management
	Circulation Fulfillment Program/Project Manager
o	Managed vendor and in-house team of 7 employees, 2 consultants and multiple
vendor team members. 
o	Created all reports and data dumps for actual data conversion.
o	Data conversion and verification responsibilities.
o	Created and developed marketing plan for circulation modeling
o	Computed ROI and analytical reports
o	Managed development projects at vendor location remotely and onsite.
	Database programming in SQL (light) including Enterprise manager and
query analyzer.
	Annual Budget preparation and review
o	Annual budgets of over $400,000 including capital expenditures
o	Reduced spending to 60% of budget for fiscal 2006
	Monthly cost analysis for current projects
	Vendor relations for all IS infrastructure 
o	Created relationship and negotiated non-profit rates with CDW and Dell
	Board of Directors presenter for all major systems projects
	Most of the tasks included in the Senior Systems Analysis position
listed below.
	Microsoft Office 2003 end user training including Word, Excel and
Access
	Developed user interface to previous enterprise system
o	MS Access created invoices, sales functions, reports and returns access.
	Vendor negotiations and contracts including: 
o	AT&T: Managed Internet and long distance service
o	NuVox Communications: Long Distance and T-1 internet services with redundancy
systems.
o	Ron Halbrook Co.: Wiring of three buildings including fiber optics for
telecommunications between campuses buildings for network and telephones
systems.
o	Advantage Computing Systems: ERP project upgrades and implementations
including customer programming and additional modules.
o	Palm Coast Data: Fulfillment outsourced conversion and maintenance  contract
o	Cyberwolf: ERP software installations, implementation, and negotiations of
three year terms including customer programming, support and additional modules.

	
Senior Systems Analyst, 2001 to 2005

	Manage, negotiate, and oversee all vendor provided maintenance and
software contracts for all areas of the business including licensing and
appropriation. Contracts in excess of $250,000.
	Project Manager for all systems related projects including both
infrastructure and business processes. 
	Advantage Computing System conversion/upgrade. I was the Project
Manager for the conversion that took the system from Version 6 in VMS on a DEC
server to Version 7 which was SQL based on a Windows 2000 platform (3 release
upgrade). I managed a team of 16 within the company and worked with the vendor
exclusively during the conversion. 
	Process Flow Management
	Disaster Recovery Plan Execution
	Actively involved in PIT (Process Improvement Team) and facilitate
process changes and documentation within the departments.
	Maintain training on current systems and technology as needed.
	Research and propose new system projects and solutions
	Back up Administrator for Advantage (ACS product) Enterprise system
running on a Windows platform. This includes daily, weekly and monthly
processes.
	ACT! Database Administrator
	PC and printer support/repair including the LAN and WAN
	Light programming duties with Visual Basic, office Products, and
Advantage System including report writing
	Telephone system administrator and maintenance operator
	Identify and implement technology for overall cost savings while adding
increased productivity.
	OCR scan lines and print formats for Electronic Change of Address
Service
	Credit Card CVV2 and address verification conversion for compliance
with current Data First/Banking Regulations
	List products and processes for resale
	Implemented and maintain Fax Server Solution 
	Supervise Information Systems department under Manager