Lisa Onyekwere

IT Project Coordinator

Summary:
A top performing Senior Project Coordinator with 5+ years of experience and a sound understanding of all processes
and process groups of Project Management. Credited with excellent planning skills, ability to manage and distribute
workloads, prioritize needs, establish, and attain realistic schedules. Strong expertise in grasping new concepts
quickly to allow for improvised profit and cost savings. Highly accomplished in building relationships, through
technical and interpersonal skills to effectively interface with all levels of staff, management, and customers to
achieve corporate customer service. Driven individual seeking to utilize my leadership, marketing, and organizational
skills to obtain a challenging position with a highly respected organization and assist them in achieving their goals
while continuing professional development and growth
Excellent planning skills: ability to manage and distribute workloads, establish, and attain realistic schedules
Master organizer; organize, implement, and maintain scheduling management system supporting identified projects
and their plans
Business Strategist: plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with quick analytical skills
and technology solutions.
Excellent Communicator: strong oral and written communication skills to effectively communicate with diverse
audience of varying degrees of expertise. Technical writing skills to developing reports, support documentation,
guidelines, templates, governance policies, forms, procedures, and workflow chart.

Skills Summary:
Project Management: Custom Software Development, Database Design (RDBMS), System Engineering, System
Migrations/Integrations, Enterprise-wide Implementations
IT Project Lifecycle: Requirement Analysis, Costing & Budgeting, Project Scheduling, Testing/QA/Support, Jira
Reporting, G-Suite
Value-Added Leadership: Cross-Functional Supervision, Team Building & Mentoring, Client Relations &
Presentations, Business & IT Planning, Vendor Management

Tools:
Project Management: Clarity, MS Office Suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Microsoft (MS) Projects,
and Team Foundation Server (TFS)
G-Suite: Gmail, Drive, Sheets
Collaboration: Microsoft SharePoint, ServiceNow

Professional Experience:
Renoxx (Lanham, MD)
Project Coordinator/Systems Engineer April 2016 – Present
Recruited by a leading community-based healthcare provider to provide reliable Project Management/Project
Coordination expertise. As part of the varying initiatives managed/coordinated, partnerships with case managers,
project managers and vendors were essential towards successful project delivery. Projects consist of the following
elements:
 Vendor Management - Led activities to ensure 3rd party offshore vendors remained true, honest, and
accountable. Reviewed project plans, timelines, estimates, and financials for accuracy to reduce unethical
padding. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were
completed on time, on budget and with the desired results
 Risk Management – Worked directly with Project Managers and vendors to carefully understand, document, and
track risks. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapid evolving global business environments
 Project Methodology – Assisted in defining processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between
waterfall to agile methodologies based on the company’s directional growth and client goals, created detailed
project road maps, plans, schedules, and work breakdown structures.
 Leadership and Communication - Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical
terms, and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones. Developed a standard means of
reporting weekly progress.
 Coordination – Assisted in the planning and execution of operational tests on systems and equipment to
reinforce proper processes and remedy malfunctions.
 Researched industry trends to uncover latest technologies to use in infrastructure deployments.
 Attend, and on occasion, facilitate Daily scrum meetings, Sprint Planning sessions, and Retrospectives
 Assist with the development of program plans which include Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Organization,
Communication, Staffing, Risk and Issue management
 Consolidate weekly status reports to summarize progress, issues, and risks
 Provide training for project team members as needed (templates, process, etc.)
 Gain approvals, sign offs and managing the repository for all program documentation
 Manage the integrated project schedules using Microsoft Project
 Develop program status reports, presentation, and documentation for various levels of leadership using multiple
application software
 Facilitate project communication among all project team members including network engineers and data center
 Monitor actual program hours and costs against the program estimates and actuals
 Facilitate and document program/project team meetings utilizing conference bridges and WebEx tools
 Overseeing preparation of meeting agendas and meeting minutes
 Support and assist with documentation and meetings supporting the project update
 Support the project close out and lesson learned activities

Certifications:
 ITIL v3 – Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3 Foundation, Anticipated Fall 2021
 PMP - Project Management Professional, Anticipated Fall 2021
 CompTIA Security+, September 2020

Education:
Bachelor of Science Degree – Psychology, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, December 2015