Brian Wilder, PMP

Experience

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  Sprint

  Jun 1997 - Mar 2009

  Managed small to large projects (1,000 – 65,000 hours) utilizing PMBOK methodology. • Managed project for development of conversion software which produced successful conversion of 4 million customers to new order entry platform resulting in cost savings of over $500,000 per month• Created revenue growth of $13 million from managing development and implementation of projects which added over 850,000 customers• Directed development of new product offering which led to $5 million in new revenue• Led Project Teams ranging from 10 to 80+ resources in full end to end Systems Development Life Cycle aligned tasks and milestones• Responsible for effective communication to all project stakeholders including upper management• Recognized for personal initiative in maintaining proactive management style which delivered management-recognized results, consistent control of scope, schedule, risk, and cost• Engaged directly with business units and IT-supporting entities to facilitate requirements-gathering/documenting engagements, ensuring solid estimates, plans, tasks and resource loading were developed and utilized throughout projects Show less Developed and managed execution of both simple and complex test plans working with both business and IT groups.• Conducted lead role efforts in planning and management of testing for two complex projects, successfully delivered, with over 200,000 concurrent hours of combined resource effort• Planned and managed testing for application which decreased costs by 10%, provided for reduced cycle time and increased customer satisfaction • Performed Lead Test Analyst role for two corporate-wide releases of major business applications. Success on these two releases was due, in part, to my being responsible for coordinating cross-project scheduling, planning team assignments and providing bi-weekly testing status reports to executive management• Planned and Developed department procedures for adhering to SOX compliance for application testing• Recognized for rapidly achieving working-level knowledge of various technical disciplines, given responsibility for formal training of 15 new team members on industry-recognized testing processes and procedures• Developed and maintained test progress reporting website, gathering data from Mercury Test Director utilizing SQL queries and displaying information on department website Show less

  • Systems Integrator / IT Project Manager

    Mar 2005 - Mar 2009

  • Test Manager

    Mar 2002 - Feb 2005

  • Software Engineer

    Jun 1997 - Mar 2002
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  JP Morgan Chase

  Oct 2009 - Nov 2011

  Project Manager
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  Sabre Corporation

  Nov 2011 - now

  • Program Director

    Jul 2020 - now

  • Principal IT Project Manager

    Oct 2017 - Jul 2020

  • e-Commerce Delivery - Sr. IT Project Manager

    Nov 2011 - Oct 2017