PMO Analyst

Senior PMO Analyst — Sterling Advisory Partners

Chicago, IL | January 2024 – Present

• Monitor weekly project status reports for a portfolio of 15 consulting engagements, identifying baseline schedule deviations to improve on-time milestone delivery by 18%.
• Design and implement 8 new Power BI dashboards to track resource utilization rates, reducing labor forecasting errors by 22% and optimizing resource allocation across client projects.
• Facilitate monthly governance reviews and compliance audits for project budgets totaling $3.5M, maintaining a 100% compliance rate with internal professional services standards.
• Streamline the PMO onboarding process for 12 incoming consultants by creating standardized templates in Confluence, reducing onboarding ramp-up times from 4 weeks to 2.5 weeks.

PMO Analyst — Beacon Business Consulting

Chicago, IL | July 2020 – December 2023

• Tracked and reported key performance indicators (KPIs) for 24 concurrent client projects, which reduced reporting cycle times by 30% through automation of Excel status trackers.
• Coordinated with 6 project teams to manage risk registers and blocker alerts, mitigating 14 major project bottlenecks before they impacted scheduled client deliverables.
• Administered the corporate SharePoint intranet repository for 300+ project artifacts, improving document retrieve efficiency by 25% and ensuring SOC 2 security compliance.
• Supported quarterly budget planning cycles for operational expenditures of $1.2M, identifying cost variances that saved $42,000 in unnecessary software subscription fees.

Project portfolio management, KPI tracking, Resource planning, Budget forecasting, Risk management, Change control, Power BI, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Microsoft Excel, SQL, Tableau, Project governance, Professional services delivery

Enterprise PMO Tool Migration

Role: Lead PMO Analyst

Tools: ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams

Directed migration of 40 active project plans to ServiceNow, completing the system integration 2 weeks early and improving tracking accuracy by 25%.

Resource Utilization Optimization

Role: PMO Analyst

Tools: Power BI, Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, SQL

Built a customized resource capacity forecasting dashboard, increasing resource utilization rates by 14% and saving $65,000 in vendor costs.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) (2024)
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) (2021)

• Professional Affiliations: Active Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Chicago Chapter
• Technical Proficiencies: Advanced SQL and Excel VBA for business process automation
• Availability: 2 weeks notice