Kellee L. Frazier

 

SUMMARY:  A highly motivated project manager professional with strong management, interpersonal, communications and analysis skills.  Highlights include:

 

·         Senior level project management and planning

·         Strategic planning and implementation

·         Business analysis, including process development/improvement and requirements definition

·         Software quality management, test planning and execution

·         Excellent multi-tasking capabilities and time management skills

·         Extensive experience working with new initiatives and industries throughout the United States and United Kingdom

 

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

Optimal Systems Design, Dassel, MN                                                                  2005 - Current

Strategic Ventures Project Manager

 

As a Senior Project Manager for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, responsibilities include:

·         Strategic planning and implementation

·         Evaluating emerging technologies for possible business application and capabilities

·         Project managing both software and business/strategic projects

·         Conceptualizing and proposing business initiatives

·         Identifying areas for increased profit

·         Managing daily and overall project goals

·         Communicating project status, outcomes and successes to stakeholders

 

United Health Group, Eden Prairie, MN                                                                 2003 - 2005

IS Project Consultant

 

As a Project Manager and Managing Business Analyst for United Health Group, responsibilities included:

·         Successfully managing multiple implementations of care management system, resulting in high level of customer satisfaction and increased customer productivity

·         Maintaining project management documentation (e.g. project plans utilizing MS Project, issues lists, status reports, critical success factors)

·         Presenting care management software to prospective customers and senior management, resulting in new implementations of software

·         Evaluating technology processes to determine best practices and possible cost savings

·         Estimating resource needs for projects

·         Identifying areas to enhance processes and  reduce costs and time in projects

·         Managing a team of business analysts including hiring, training and overall support for staff

·         Developing use cases and system designs utilizing Rational Requisite Pro

·         Developing processes and business workflows for systems implementation

·         Configuring system requirements in clinical applications utilizing PL/SQL

·         Participating in a SDLC steering committee to define roles and processes

·         Designing a new software module, resulting in increased customer productivity and quality of care management

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Emerson Process Management, Eden Prairie, MN                                                  2000 - 2003

Lead Software Quality Analyst

 

As a Managing Software Quality Analyst for the technologies division of Emerson Process Management, responsibilities included:

·         Managing multiple projects simultaneously (up to 9 people per project)

·         Managing and developing project plans, schedules, resource planning

·         Managing daily and overall project goals

·         Managing work direction and performance of team members

·         Enhancing accuracy of project estimates by contributing in the creation of a project estimation procedure

·         Managing external test efforts and communications with partners in other divisions

·         Participating in software evaluation team to determine release critical issues, error diagnosis and system enhancements

·         Providing strategic planning and risk analysis to division managers

·         Enhancing application architecture by providing system analysis and identifying inconsistencies in product design and technical requirements

·         Developing processes for improving work effectiveness and efficiency

·         Developing a methodology for creating system baseline performance test plans

·         Designing an engineering test fixture for application performance and stress testing

·         Developing test clients to test application interfaces, utilizing MS Visual Basic and XML

·         Interviewing job applicants for positions in division test team

·         Creating team synergy by fostering open communications of ideas, analysis and opinions

 

 

SPHERION, Technology Consulting Division, Minneapolis, MN                                 1998 – 2002

IT Consultant

 

As a Business Analyst for US Bank, responsibilities included:

·         Facilitating meetings with international banking business groups to develop business models and procedures for multiple systems

·         Documenting business functions and processes to be used for training, process improvement, and risk assessment

·         Defining systems scope through research and analysis of business models and processes

·         Recommending process changes and determining systems risk

 

As a Structured Software Quality Test Analyst and Test Lead for Guidant, responsibilities included:

·         Coordinating execution of test cases developed under Quality Assurance Institute standards

·         Developing test plans and detailed test cases utilizing structured testing methodologies

·         Preparing and executing test cases; utilizing MS SQL Server for gathering data and results

·         Identifying system defects utilizing PVCS Tracker

·         Executing record/playback automated tests utilizing Rational Rose Robot

·         Resolving system issues with project managers and developers

 

As an Asset Management Coordinator for GMAC-RFC, responsibilities included:

·         Developing, analyzing and proposing new processes for software purchasing

·         Implementing new asset request process that  increased productivity by 100%

·         Establishing and tracking vendor relationships and licensing

·         Organizing and proposing development changes for asset management request applications

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As a Y2K Project Office Coordinator for GMAC-RFC, responsibilities included:

·         Supporting Y2K Project Office and coordinating test efforts for Y2K migration

·         Maintaining and creating Y2K budget matrices and reporting

·         Developing and maintaining the organization’sY2K project office web site

·         Establishing, developing and improving working relationships between the test group and various business teams

·         Developing multiple databases utilizing MS Access

·         Organizing various application conversions and migrations from business/production environment

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Minnesota; BA in Psychology; Pre-Med

University of Wisconsin; Pre-Med

Minneapolis Community College; Business Management

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Management Workshop	Structured Testing Methodology Training
MS Visual Basic Training	Employee Management Workshop
Rational Requisite Pro Training	Workplace Conflict Resolution Workshop

 

SKILLS AND TOOLS

MS Access	Rational Rose Robot
MS SQL Server	Rational Requisite Pro
MS Visual SourceSafe	PVCS Tracker
MS Visual Basic	XML
MS Project	Oracle PL/SQL
MS Visio