1. Jennifer Colie
Frisco, TX
(469) 400-7361
SUMMARY
Extremely disciplined, organized IT project manager with 20+ years of national IT
deployment/implementation experience in a fast-paced environment
Proven leader with precise attention to detail and talent for logically identifying and resolving
unexpected challenges
Extensive experience with project logistics such as planning, coordinating and execution.
Professional and adaptable manager of local, remote, and vendor teams
Exceeds goals and achieves success on "troubled" project initiatives
Provides customer service above expectations, resulting in wins against other vendors
CERTIFICATION
Six Sigma Green Belt – Certification ID 65835
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Apex Technologies/Dell Inc. 2015 – Present
Project Leader
Manage projects and subprojects. Develop project deliverables including project plans, schedules,
and status reports; facilitates meetings and follow-up on action items; gathering, organizing and
distributing project related documentation.
Serve as peer coach; offering input and guidance on project management standards and best
practices; provides leadership and support for delivery teams and staff
Manage customer financials including program forecasts,financial audits and reporting. Manage
project reporting, creating and maintaining project status updates, maintain master project
schedules and facilitating project status meetings as needed.
Randstad Technologies Frisco, TX 2007 – 2015
Project Manager
Managed full project life cycle from conception/initiation through project close
Owned complete responsibility for closely and accurately tracking project financials and forecasts
Managed project risks to resolve conditions that could have adversely affected on-time
performance,profitability and/or customer satisfaction
Collaborated with solutions and sales team on pricing, request for proposals, statements of work,
and client meetings for project proposals
Focused on delivering excellent customer experience through team training
2. Successfully increased accuracy of client invoicing and margin after assuming control of projects
mid-stream
Facilitate project logistic and planning
Communicated project status and managed expectations for stakeholders at all levels of the
organization
Oversaw a portfolio of 10-25 projects/teams concurrently with revenues/budgets over $1 million,
including:
Golfsmith International - All low-voltage installation work for Golfsmith new and remodeled
stores, with annual revenues of $1.4+ million, exceeding target margin by 20% in adverse new
construction environment. Awarded sole vendor status severalmonths after taking over project.
Fuji/Walgreens - $1.2 million, 3,000+ location photo book/poster printer rollout over 3 months.
Fuji awarded the project to Randstad Technologies based on my previous successful Walgreens
projects.
Bank of America - VoIP Conversion on “Consumer Readiness” and “Small Enterprise” projects,
with 5000 branches converted and 115,000 Cisco VoIP telephones installed across the U.S.
Fuji/Walmart - Proactive replacement of 600 large photo lab printers over a 2 month period. This
ensured little downtime for Walmart during the critical holiday season and reduced Fuji's costs.
Hess/Speedway Gas Stations – 850 Store Pin Pad replacement project. POS De-Install and Re-
Installation project at 170 Stores after conversion from Hess to Speedway.
Portfolio of projects included point of sale (POS) installation/upgrades, circuit turn-ups, Cisco
router/switch installs, network/telco dispatch work, data inventories, and site surveys
Maintech @ Agere Systems Allentown, PA 2005 – 2006
Assistant Project Manager
Responsible for ordering equipment/services for all of Agere System’s IT organization and Global
business partners
Processing of capital and expense purchase requisitions in Oracle Database
Prepare forms and obtain necessary approvals by CFO for global capital expenditures in order to
execute in a timely manner
Provide up-to-date status reporting of all issued requisitions
Manage invoice reconciliation process
Review and validate invoices prior to submission to Accounts Payable
Investigate and Correct financial discrepancies
Cost Savings analysis and implementation
Assist in Execution and management of monthly book-closing activities
Management of Oracle Accounts Payable/GPO Inquiry Systems
Review and manage business partnership issues related to global procurement / accounts payable
Daily interactions with Global Procurement Officers,Accounts Payable and Finance
AT&T Bridgewater, NJ 1995 –
2005
Project Coordinator
3. Ensure the efficiency of internal and externalbilling procedures for Sales Organization
Audit internal clients and external vendors daily, to ensure proper billing protocol is followed
Spreadsheet based data management system creation; implementation, and management
Investigate and substantiate the validity of charges to our organization to prevent and alleviate
human and/or system error
Daily budgeting responsibilities include managing and prioritizing the dispersion of AT&T’s 14
million dollar training budget
Monitoring and reporting of monthly expenses and monthly/yearly budget projections.
Work closely with Internal and External vendors to ensure invoicing and payment schedules are
enforced
Work on the reconciliation and collection of past due accounts
Managed training activities for internal employees and external clients
Scheduled training courses,assigned instructors
Materials Management
Responsible for all Pre-Session Communication
Scheduling of Travel arrangements for employees and external clients
Input training class information into the online Learning Management System.
Track and monitor the cost effectiveness of classes,their locations and the size
Creation of custom spreadsheets for the purpose of tracking all people (lodging, transportation,
textbooks and materials) and facility (providing food, LAN connections, etc.) needs are addressed
Coordination/registration processes for numerous global training events
Managed 43 individual training courses, and scheduled 17 large corporate Event Planning support
including hotel and travel accommodations, vendor/employee registration and management
Work to identify office and training space that is not being used or is under-utilized and returning
this space back to our Global Real estate department for significant organizational cost savings
2004 space management efforts resulted in a return to the organization of over $2 million