Mihaela Ursache Resume
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MIHAELA URSACHE, PMP PMI Certified Project Management Professional IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer – Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5 Rockaway, NJ 07866 (h)862 397 4248 (cell)609 240 3912 email:[email protected] Offering over 20yrs of global IT experience with high understanding of cultural diversity, and a unique set of skills in Business Analysis, Project Management, Lotus Notes/Domino application development, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) management. SUMMARY OF SKILLS BA Skills - Conduct the feasibility study of the current systems, in order to define and evaluate different solutions and arrive at the optimal one. - Work with Business Customers to document project scope and functional requirements for IT initiatives. - Document business processes to identify inefficiencies in the current workflow and develop new, more efficient, cost effective processes. - Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver Functional Requirements, Business Requirements, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs. - Define user acceptance tests and assist with the testing process. - Develop user documentation and provide application functional training as needed. PM Skills - Coordinated cross-functional teams (content authors, software developers, network operations, vendors and business stakeholders) across multiple projects. - Ensure the project remains focused on key objectives and goals and comply with established methodologies.
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MIHAELA URSACHE, PMP
PMI Certified Project Management Professional IBM Certified Advanced Application Developer – Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
Rockaway, NJ 07866 (h)862 397 4248 (cell)609 240 3912 email:[email protected]
Offering over 20yrs of global IT experience with high understanding of cultural diversity, and a unique set of skills in Business Analysis, Project Management, Lotus Notes/Domino application
development, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) management.
SUMMARY OF SKILLSBA Skills- Conduct the feasibility study of the current systems, in order to define and evaluate
different solutions and arrive at the optimal one.- Work with Business Customers to document project scope and functional requirements
for IT initiatives.- Document business processes to identify inefficiencies in the current workflow and
develop new, more efficient, cost effective processes.- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze
information needs and functional requirements and deliver Functional Requirements, Business Requirements, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs.
- Define user acceptance tests and assist with the testing process.- Develop user documentation and provide application functional training as needed.PM Skills- Coordinated cross-functional teams (content authors, software developers, network
operations, vendors and business stakeholders) across multiple projects.- Ensure the project remains focused on key objectives and goals and comply with
established methodologies. - Creating and maintaining the project schedule for more than 100 medium size projects by
identifying and monitoring overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, resources, task dependencies, and critical paths.
- Anticipate and identify Risks and Issues that may impact deliverables and develops and implement mitigation and corrective actions.
- Performed communications requirements analysis for 5-50 stakeholders, and planned the Information distribution to internal, external clients and vendors.
- Monitor and communicate the status of project efforts (including weekly time reporting, monthly resource forecasting, monthly executive reporting, issue management and risk prevention/mitigation).
- Manage vendor relations and improve relationships (IBM, Paisley,etc).- Promote continuous improvement by conducting, documenting, and communicating
lessons learned.- Experience with both Waterfall and Agile Project Management Methodologies. Application Development Skills- Designed, Developed and Implemented approx. 50 Lotus Notes and Domino custom
applications.
- Data integration and interoperability experience through LotusScript agents.- Reverse engineering applications, from various platforms to Lotus Notes/Domino.- Managed SDLC from conceptualization, through requirements, design, programming,
testing, user and technical training and maintenance.
TECHNICAL SKILLSWindows 3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP Microsoft Office Products: Access, Excel, Word, MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project 2007 Relational Databases: Oracle, Sybase, SQL, DB2
Web technologies: JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS Data migration tools: DECS, LEI, ReplicAction Collaboration Tools: TeamStudio Domino Administrator, Domino Designer, Lotus Notes 8, 6.x, 5.x, LotusScript Reporting Tools: SnapReporter
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONSWALDEN University, USA – B.S. in Information Technology - expected 2012
SPECIALIZATION: Application Development, Testing & Quality Assurance Project Management Institute, USA - PMP certification - 2010Rutgers University, USA – Certificates in Project Management and Quality Management, 2009IBM, USA - Certified Advanced Application Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5,
1997 - 2005DAMELIN Computer School, South Africa – Diploma in Computer Graphics, 1995University “Petre Andrei”, Romania - BS in Trade and Tourism (completed 2 yrs), 1993
WORK EXPERIENCE10/09 – 01/10 Project Management Certification (PMI)
Studied and completed the PMP Certification
08/08 – 10/09 C.M.T. Packaging & Design Inc., NJ – USAProject Manager/Lotus Notes Developer ( ver.7)
- Lotus Notes Design Enhancements to the CMS application’s workflow, tracking and managing of multiple document versions.
- Managed the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of the project- Planned and coordinated the phase reviews to ensure that the deliverables are in
alignment with the project Scope and obtained formal acceptance.
01/08 – 07/08 Binary Tree Inc., NJ – USALotus Notes Developer (ver.7, 8)/Consultant
- On Site support for one of the company’s clients – implementing and running an existing BT tool that migrated data from 600 QuickPlace sites to SharePoint, developed and maintained a Lotus Notes database for the Project Manager.
- Participated in the development of a new Lotus Notes Application, that imports QuickPlace sites from the Notes Catalog and QuickPlace directory.
03/05 – 01/08 American Express – Enterprise Risk and Assurance Services, NYCProject Manager/Lotus Notes Developer ( ver.6.5, 7)
- Managed SDLC of new and enhanced systems by adhering to Method1 methodology.
- Responsible for all ERAS Notes databases' system improvement, design, programming, testing, implementation, documentation of changes, support and enhancements and for resolving system issues and assure continuous availability and data integrity.
- Reverse engineering and Data integration (Sybase, SQL) experience, through LotusScript.
- Project leader for the transition of ERAS Lotus Notes Applications from American Express to AmeriPrice
- Coordinated the migration of 2000 Users and 20,000 documents from Magique to Risk Navigator
- Created documentation and technical guides for end users and facilitated User Acceptance Testing for at least 50 applications
- Acted as single point of contact for multiple vendors, business units, and IT partners during migration of Lotus Notes Applications to other platforms, administering schedules and communicating risks.
- Supporting the Audit Team with Lotus Notes related issues.
12/03 – 12/04 Globecon Group, NYC – USADomino Developer (ver.6.5)/Project Management
- Managed a complex 15 Domino databases application upgrade project from initiation to closing and coordinated the Domino server partitioning and the application setup
- Administration, Backup, Maintenance, Support, Enhancements of a Lotus Notes/Domino application that offers online training to banks and financial institutions employees.
- Developed new modules: content links to additional resources, feedback on content and exams, usage reports, etc, using Domino programming, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and LotusScript agents.
08/02 – 11/03 Thinkcentric Inc., NJ – USALotus Notes Developer (ver.5, 6)/Project Management
- Planned and coordinated the Lotus Notes development and deployment of a Resume Repository application
- Managed a Lotus Notes Client/Server version Upgrade- Migration from Domino R5 to Domino R6, workflow automation , support and
enhancements on an existing Requirements
06/00 – 08/02 PricewaterhouseCoopers, NJ – USALotus Notes Developer (ver.5)/Project Management
- Planned and coordinated the development of two data storage and workflow applications for HR and L&E business units, defined the scope, identified the stakeholders and created the project documentation, managed creation and distribution of performance and project status reports
- Performed support, maintenance and implemented enhancements to the existing Lotus Notes applications and developed new data storage and workflow Lotus Notes applications, implemented and provided technical documentation
- Created ReplicAction jobs with LotusScript for the weekly upload of Oracle data
10/97 – 05/00 Complete Software Solutions, JHB – SOUTH AFRICALotus Notes Developer (ver.4, 5)
- Support, maintenance, enhancements of internal Lotus Notes Applications.- Consultant to various company financial, trading and educational clients.
01/80 – 10/93 Contactors, Manufacturing Co – ROMANIABusiness Analyst/Programmer in the IT Department
- Liaise with the business units and provide IT solutions.- Maintain the company’s Stock and Inventory, Labor, and Payroll mainframe
systems.
