$125

Hourly Consulting Rate

Karen Muhammad

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Alternative Medicine

Computer Hardware

Computer Networking

Computer/Network Security

Financial Services

Health/Fitness

Hospital/Health Care

Human Resources/HR

Individual/Family Services

Information Services

Information Technology/IT

Internet

Logistics/Pro

+ 9 More

Location Supported

Worldwide

Languages Supported

English

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Functional consultant
  • Project management
  • Application development
  • Managed services
  • Security/compliance governance
  • Database administration
  • Business intelligence
  • Analytics
  • Networking
  • Big data
  • Machine Learning
  • CRM
  • HRIS
  • HRMS
  • +11 more

Product Specialization

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Salesforce CRM
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM
  • Tableau Software
  • Microsoft Teams
  • DocuSign
  • RemotePC
  • +3 more

About

Senior Project Manager and certified PMP with experience in Finance, PMO, and healthcare services & systems and insurance information technology projects. My breadth and depth of knowledge are in managing large scale and high visibility projects utilizing frameworks from the Project Management Institute following system development lifecycle for infrastructure, application development and other technologies. Solid project manager with over 15 years of experience in SDLC methodology lifecycle projects, MS Office applications and highly experienced user of MS Project Professional and Microsoft products integration for project management. Ability to manage projects, teams, and budget on-site or in remote environments. Managing large budget projects averaging 4.6 million dollars. Led a large Notes to Outlook Migration and Windows XP to Window 7 OS Upgrade
project estimated at 12.6M from conception through go-live including communication change management, end user training, next day monitoring and lessons learned.

Bachelors of Science, Psychology

Master of Arts in Behavioral Science, Family Therapy

.Certified Project Management Professional with PMI, Certified IT Project Manager with CompTIA, Member
of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association and the Project Management Institute.
.Microsoft SharePoint, Project Server, Project Professional 2013, Advanced Excel
.Awarded as one of the top three winners of the March 2006 Microsoft Partner Solution
.Member of: The Project Management Institute (PMI), Biometrics Application Programming Interface
Consortium BioAPIâ„¢, The International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, The
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
.Expertise in: Applications/Systems Lifecycle (SDLC & PDLC); IT Governance; Healthcare IT projects, Technical
and Business Liaison; Strong Communicator, Operational Readiness, Resource Tracking, and Client Relationship Management

Top Project Highlights

Network Security

Leading multiple large-scale security information deployment projects:

  • Network security stack deployment across thirteen global data centers
  • Data loss prevention Symantec endpoint security products
  • Accountable for the design and executing proper project planning for seventeen security stack deployments
  • Maintain high-level of direct personal engagement in the day-to-day activity of the team
  • Responsible for the creation of project work breakdown structures and managing cross projects 
  • dependencies
  • Lead cross functional requirements working sessions to synthesizes functional plans critical 
  • interdependencies to drive successful execution of the project
  • Resource and time management to ensure effective and efficient regular formal and informal 
  • communications 
  • White glove USB awareness organization change management and training for research and development 
  • division

Employment

Independent Contractor

2004 - Present
  • I work on a 1099 /s-corp on a hourly basis. 

Education

Doctoral of Family Therapy
2019-Present

Master of Arts
2015-2019

Certification

Project Management Professional
2005-Present

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