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Kanessa Cooper

Atlanta

Summary

Experienced project manager with a successful history of leading cross-functional teams, meeting business objectives, and nurturing stakeholder partnerships. Seeking to utilize leadership, communication, and innovative thinking skills to facilitate organizational advancement.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior SAP PMO

NTT Data
04.2024 - Current

Suzuki USA Global Template Project


  • Onboarding all teams members to make sure they're acclimated to the project and meet performance expectations
  • Support and lead cross functional teams to plan and execute project deliverables
  • Communicate the weekly project status to leaders and stakeholders
  • Track and manage RAID log to effectively communicate with each team and help eliminate risk before escalation
  • Provide analytical and innovative ideas to the client to help them better understand the functionality of SAP
  • Manage and track the projects progress in Jira, allowing the clients to see each SAP modules progress
  • Build out trackers for all modules to use during the Explore phase ( PDD, WRICEF, Fit and Gap)
  • Coordinate with consultants to book all travel to client sites
  • Managed and reported all expenses to management for our team

Fulfillment Project Coordinator

Sunnova Energy
10.2023 - 01.2024
  • Provides daily support to assigned Sunnova Account Managers and Dealers
  • Coordinates with dealers to submit and receive PTO from numerous utility companies
  • Monitor and verify multiple projects system production in Salesforce
  • Review and transfer SREC contracts into Salesforce for approvals
  • Plans, implements, coordinates, and tracks to completion each project with engineers to start billing Sunnova clients
  • Serves as the main point of contact for the entire Southeastern region

Senior Project Management Analyst

Ernst & Young
09.2021 - 09.2022


Huntington Bank

  • Assign alerts to quality control team to meet weekly goals
  • Drive team productivity by optimizing issue trackers/ RAID log to help the QC’s identify solutions
  • Extracted data from Actimize to create End of Day progress reports
  • Managed forecasted and actuals financial plan in excel and status deck to present to clients weekly
  • Ensure that the project deliverable are met according to the SOW


Northern Trust

  • Maintained and helped build out the project plan’s action items for PMO, 5 workstreams, and BU support
  • Organized the pricing plan for Phase 3 and 4 of the engagement
  • Accelerated the report production time by creating a PowerPoint deck linked to an excel template which optimizes periodic data updating
  • Status report deck summarizing each workstreams weekly achievements
  • Identified potential risk and helped implement strategies to stay within federal guidelines


Project Manager Assistant

IBM
01.2019 - 09.2021

Gulf of States Toyota

  • Helped build out the project scope based on client needs and deadlines
  • Handled onboarding and offboarding resources from NA and India
  • Tracked technicians progress using Jira dashboards and transferred into weekly status deck to highlight achievements
  • Managed the financial forecast to maintain the $3M budget
  • Managed RAID log and worked with technician to eliminate risk and client changes


IMPACT Solutions (IBM Internal Project)
● Managed financials to make sure the project stayed under the $2M budget
● Managed Azure Devops to keep track of PM’s weekly task
● Updated international programs and cost tracker for Governance Board meetings
● Updated presentation material to reflect new international programs won for the Impact
program
● Scheduled team meetings
● Scribe for daily meetings


Wells Fargo
● Managed the financial forecast for NA team
● Developed and tracked progress plan using Microsoft Project
● Tracked and managed tickets in ServiceNow to send of to technical team
● Scheduled team meetings
● Scribe for daily meetings

SAP Solution Consultant

IBM
01.2019 - 07.2020
  • Assist clients in the selection, implementation, and production support of application packaged solutions.
  • Analyze complex SAP business problems and then develop solutions within SAP using available tools and technologies
  • Fulfill future demand profitably with real-time supply chain management using SAP IBP

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration - Information Systems

Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA
12.2018

Skills

  • Team leadership
  • Excellent communication skills and client facing
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to analyze data/patterns and solve problems
  • Works well under pressure/ rapid paced environments
  • Commitment to fostering creative solutions

Certification

  • SAP Integrated Business Planning (1711)
  • SAP S/4 HANA Sourcing and Procurement (1709)

Affiliations

  • IBM Cy-Tech Mentoring Program
  • Eagles SAP User’s Group (Executive Board Recruiter)
  • Habitat for Humanity (Service)
  • Pushing for Success (Mentoring)

Timeline

Senior SAP PMO

NTT Data
04.2024 - Current

Fulfillment Project Coordinator

Sunnova Energy
10.2023 - 01.2024

Senior Project Management Analyst

Ernst & Young
09.2021 - 09.2022

Project Manager Assistant

IBM
01.2019 - 09.2021

SAP Solution Consultant

IBM
01.2019 - 07.2020

Bachelor of Business Administration - Information Systems

Georgia Southern University
Kanessa Cooper