Caroline Nyalala, PMP, SMC-, Edmond, OK 73013- www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-nyalala/
Accomplished Project Manager, who excels in fast-paced and dynamic environments, with experience in defining, implementing and delivering successful, fit for purpose enterprise solutions to meet business needs, establish an effective, proactive and repeatable service delivery process that improves customer experience.
Core Competencies: Continuous Process Improvement | Project Management| Contract Negotiations | Strategic Business Planning | Vendor Management | Change Management | Process Engineering |Customer Service | Relationship and Risk Management | Data and Application Governance| Quantitative Analysis| Data Visualization
Technical Skills: CI/CD DevOps (Azure), Architecture: (EDA & SOA), Databases: RDBMS, NoSQL, Applications: Microsoft (O365, Project, Visio), Jira
Work Experience
Enable Midstream Partners, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 7/2018 – 6/2019
Project Management Consultant
Plan and execute concrete steps to deliver on company’s Enterprise Content Management vision, by developing and implementing records information strategy to meet company objectives, guiding creation, delivery, change management, disaster recovery and governance.
Guide project scope and objectives definitions, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring feasibility of technical team: receiving the requirements, estimating, and monitor the project status, design architecture; worked and helped team members to resolve problems, technical issues, coding and development processes.
Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.
Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.
Guide Statement Of Work development and review to ensure delivery of project objectives
Oversee cross-functional team of 15 and 3 vendors to configure SharePoint O365 Enterprise Content Management Platform
Identify and resolve transition to operations activities including Staff Training and Disaster Recovery plans and procedures
Key Contributions:
In 6 months, rallied executive management and colleagues to create traction on a project which had been lagging since 2015.
Designed and implemented Construction Documentation Process which traces document movement in the construction lifecycle
Designed Content Ownership Community Of Practice to encourage best practices and sustain content governance in the organization
Devon Energy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 9/ 2011 – 5/2018
Senior Project Manager
Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams’ on-task and achieve schedule targets.
Produced weekly Business Unit Cost and Duration reports, and monthly rollups, updating senior leaders on progress and roadblocks for oil and gas well drilling and completions projects.
Developed and managed the project plan, including project scope, development/delivery schedule, resource requirements, integration efforts and budgets ensuring successful product implementation
Identified and corrected efficiency upstream and downstream process design bottlenecks, which increased intra-discipline communication by 50% and resulted in a more stable well drilling and completion development schedule for business operations.
Implemented cross-project dependency process to streamline activities and ensure all teams were notified of project tasks and impacts to other projects, completing all 43 drilling projects on time with variance of less than 8% across a $413M program.
Reduced project costs and duration by 28% over the course of 8 months by identifying key projects that would benefit from Kaizen principles
Key Contributions:
Look back process: engaging engineers to discuss successes and challenges encountered during oil/gas well execution.
Project Baseline verification process: a quarterly detailed review into the cost and duration of current wells being drilled. Allowing for adjustment of the cost and duration model to reflect current economic climate.
Design, integration and implementation of TIBCO OpenSpirit/BusinessWorks and IHS Petra to update well data (Well header, deviation survey and locations data) in real time, resulting in 95% accuracy in well records.
Engaged software vendors to develop new product features based on use cases developed from business requirements
Data profiling using Schlumberger software (InnerLogix) reducing the variability of source systems data by 85%
Geological Data Integration Core Data Management with Perigon solutions (iPoint)
Enterprise Content Management: successfully evaluating a tool to dynamically deliver content to key users.
Oklahoma Natural Gas, Coordinator Gas Systems, Oklahoma City, OK 4/2009- 9/2011
Lead in the design and delivery of functional, technology-enabled solutions that enhance business value.
Collaborated with vendor to migrate proprietary GIS platform to Industry recognized ArcGIS Pipeline Data Model (APDM).
Through research, streamlined data entry process to the ArcGIS Pipeline Data Model (APDM) database by designing and developing database data entry Templates, establishing best practices and enhancing data quality by 95%
Minimized firm’s tax exposure by eliciting requirements to develop software model that measured length of pipeline, and facility locations within tax and fire districts, increasing accurate appropriation of taxes to municipalities. Reducing tax appropriation errors by 25%.
Education
MBA, Computer Information Science, Baker College, Flint, Michigan (2006)
BS, Computer Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma (2004)
PMI PMP Certification, Oklahoma City University, Meinders School of Business (2011)
SMC Scrum Master Certified Scrumstudy (2019)
