Steve
steveoakes57@gmail.com
205-223-8901
3153 Warrington Rd
Birmingham, AL 35223
Project Manager
36 years experience W2
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Summary

  • Senior Project Manager and Implementation Specialist with over 20 years of experience working in the Financial and Insurance, healthcare industries, and subscription services companies, as well as state and county governments.
  • Worked in all aspects of technology including program management, vendor management, infrastructure and security, telecommunication, database administration, analytics, and software development.
  • PMP Certified leveraging both waterfall and agile methodologies.
  • Managed and coordinated high budget ($30M) projects and off-shore development teams.
  • High-energy, goal-oriented leader, accustomed and comfortable with working in fast-paced and high-stress environment.


Strengths and Capabilities

  • Personnel management and team building focused on performance excellence
  • Executive relationship management focused on building collaborative business relationships
  • PMO, Portfolio and Project management leveraging both waterfall and agile methodologies
  • The research, selection, integration, and implementation of new technologies
  • Vendor management and contract negotiations
  • Management of off-site and off-shore development
  • Process redesign and performance improvement
  • Budget analysis and management
  • Disaster recovery planning and implementation
  • Mainframe, Web, and mobile based development
  • Strategic and tactical project planning and management

Project Management Tools

  • MS Project
  • MS Office
  • Visio
  • SharePoint

Certificates

PMP Certified, # 1386017, 01/2023
Certified SAFe 4 Agilest, # 81550998-8733
Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner, # 27276421-6928

Experience
Education
Bachelor's in Computer Science and Marketing
University of Alabama
Certifications
PMP Certified, # 1386017
Certified SAFe 4 Agilest, # 81550998-8733
Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner, # 27276421-6928
Skills
Project Management
2021
31
C-Level Management
2018
24
Budget Management
2016
21
Vendor Management
2022
18
Application Development
1998
10
Program Management
1998
10
System Analysis
1998
10
PMO
2021
9
Program Management
2022
8
MS Project
1998
1
MS SharePoint
1998
1
Process Improvement
2016
6
Audit
2008
5
Disaster Recovery
2008
5
Telecommunications
2008
5
VMWare
2008
5
Auditing
2008
4
Billing
2008
4
BSA
2008
4
Change Management
2003
4
Data Warehousing
2003
4
Database Reorganization
2003
4
MS Visio
2003
4
Oracle
2003
4
Peoplesoft
2003
4
Pharmaceutical
2003
4
Project Planning
2003
4
Risk Management
2008
4
Sales
2003
4
Systems Integration
2008
4
Agile Methodology
2021
1
Business Intelligence
2009
1
Account Management
2019
1
Budget Analysis
0
1
Contract Negotiations
0
1
Microsoft Excel
0
1
MS Excel
0
1
MS Office
0
1
SAP
2021
1
Stakeholder Engagement
2021
1
Waterfall
0
1