Jennifer Muise

I am a Project Manager with 9 years experience. 

• Manages various projects within budget, schedule, scope, and quality objectives, in accordance with applicable project management methodologies and standards.
• Represents the first escalation point for the Information Systems and Business project teams.
• Manage conflict within the team and project team, ensuring that issues are resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. 
• Ensures the timely preparation and distribution of project documentation, communications, and status updates to the Business Sponsor, IS Delivery leader, Stakeholders, and project team members.
• Creates, updates, validates, and manages the project plan, including Identifying and managing inter-project dependencies and their related issues, and risks
• Ability to work in both Agile and Waterfall environments
• Ensures issues/risks are resolved in a timely manner or mitigation strategies are in place.
• Manages and provides leadership to the project team. Provides regular and timely project updates to the Sponsor, and Project and Steering Committee, when necessary, including risks and mitigation strategies, decision requests, issues and impacts, scope changes, and scheduling and budgeting variances.
• Implementation of various project phases such as defining the project, planning, initiation, monitoring and closeout. 
• Organizes and facilitates meetings.
• Manages stakeholder relationships and expectations.
• Manages vendor relationships, including negotiating work orders, change requests, etc.
• Provide feedback/input to leadership on performance, development, and resource assignments on the team 
• Performs risk planning and analysis (qualitative & quantitative), including risk identification and risk response planning 
• Successfully operationalize / transition project to production and maintenance.

• Develop and maintain all associated project documentation.
• Participate in establishing Project Management best practices, templates, policies, and tools.
• Manages day-to-day project activities and resources. Provides regular status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues.
• Manage and ensure projects are proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards. 
• Monitor, track, and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies.
• Created a strong working relationship with the multiple project teams I simultaneously manage. As well as other departments within the organization.
• Set and maintain expectations to ensure a common understanding across stakeholders and project team