KIMBERLEY WHEATON-FUERST
KIMBERLEY WHEATON-FUERST Newmarket ON
905.853.7179
[email protected]
linkedin.com/in/kimberleywheaton-fuerst
PROJECT MANAGER Meet Deadlines | Prioritize & Maintain Flexibility in Fast-Paced Environments Accomplished leader with experience in agile and waterfall methods. Achieve client expectations by establishing cost, timing, and scope objectives and deliverables. Proficiently manage large or small budgets for internal and external clients. Committed to continuous improvement. Encourage and motivate individuals in classroom and office settings. Influential leader who directs, manages, and coordinates team member activities and expectations. Enhance customer service by collaborating effectively with all project stakeholders, from business areas, internal / external consultants, contractors, and vendors. Utilize superior interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills, to development program to increase employee engagement. Expertise in: Supply Chain Management | Financial & Project Reporting | Team Building | Business Process Classroom Facilitation | SAP | Blackboard | MS Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Project
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TELUS CORPORATION, Scarborough, ON IT Project Manager 2 2013 - 2016 Delivered digital clients back-end application and service changes to support wireline business accounts. Oversaw integration of wireless and wireline services for digital front-end applications. Drove infrastructure upgrades by efficiently purchasing new servers and software for wireline infrastructure within tight timeline. Monitored project health and provided reporting tailored for various audiences, delivering on complexity, risk and stakeholder reporting requirements. Developed project scope, defined deliverables, obtained consensus, and managed stakeholder expectations, providing organized roadmap for team / management and measuring accomplishments. Designed and created training depository of project manager courses and integrating training sessions across multiple project management offices (PMO), reducing training budget 15% without compromising skills. IT Project Manager 1 2010 - 2013 Represented IT application development teams to improve business processes. Worked with a team of senior project managers on large retail clients’ programs to support sales and distribution business units. Resolved complex issues, reducing nonproduction testing windows. Increased stability in nonproduction environment during assembly testing 25%. Reduced defect resolution period from 6 to 2 days by altering defect reporting and resolution process. Designed automation tool, decreasing assembly testing cycle from 15 days to 5 days. Facilitated 4-hour workshops, each quarter, with team of approximately 60 participants, developing and creating environment of trusting relationships while improving communication. Project Coordinator 2006 - 2010 Organized project management office reporting to upper management on team portfolio, covering financials status, timeline, and scope. Created and monitored purchase order of IT services agreements. Oversaw project governance; established, monitored, and enforced project standards by completing audits and publishing results. Arranged meetings and training for 16 project teams, within same program, that resulted in centralizing and combining training sessions to shrink the training budget by 10%.
KIMBERLEY WHEATON- FUERST
[email protected]
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TELUS CORPORATION (continued)
Utilized negotiation and facilitation skills to perform IT service agreements and resolutions between divisions, furthering project success.
Senior Purchasing Analyst 2000 - 2006 Purchased site tower equipment (antennas / power supplies). Managed IT service purchase orders for consulting services. Reduced number of site tower equipment suppliers from 6 to 2, saving administration costs and increasing volume discounts. Coached and mentored purchasing team members on wide variety of tools and provided regular performance assessments, improving efficiency by creating highly skilled purchasing team. Collaborated with vendors, driving improvements in purchase and total supply chain costs, vendor fill rates, order lead time, and minimum purchasing quantities.
INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE | PART-TIME SENECA College, Markham, ON Educated classes of 10 - 20 students (SCMP Designation Program, 5 courses).
2015 - 2016
HUMBER College, Etobicoke, ON 2010 - 2016 Led Introduction to Transportation, online course using Blackboard, for classes of 12 - 20 students. CENTENNIAL College, Scarborough, ON 2004 - 2015 Taught Courses Operations Management and Inventory Control for classes of 10 -15 students. Received “Teaching Excellence Award” in 2015 (100% of students were highly satisfied with quality of teaching instruction from Operations Management course).
ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE LEITCH TECHNOLOGY, Toronto, ON Purchasing Analyst | Facilitator | Production Planner
EDUCATION -
Business Management (BCom), Business Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON Business Diploma, Operations and Production, Centennial College, Scarborough, ON
CERTIFICATIONS / ASSOCIATIONS / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified Supply Chain Management Professional (CSCMP) Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Member, Project Management Institute (PMI) Member, Supply Chain Management Association Adopting an Agile Approach to Project Management | Managing Stakeholder Engagement on an Agile Project | Continuous Improvement, Quality, Skillsoft (online courses)
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT -
Coach, IEM Basketball League, Newmarket, ON
905.853.7179
[email protected]
linkedin.com/in/kimberleywheaton-fuerst
PROJECT MANAGER Meet Deadlines | Prioritize & Maintain Flexibility in Fast-Paced Environments Accomplished leader with experience in agile and waterfall methods. Achieve client expectations by establishing cost, timing, and scope objectives and deliverables. Proficiently manage large or small budgets for internal and external clients. Committed to continuous improvement. Encourage and motivate individuals in classroom and office settings. Influential leader who directs, manages, and coordinates team member activities and expectations. Enhance customer service by collaborating effectively with all project stakeholders, from business areas, internal / external consultants, contractors, and vendors. Utilize superior interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills, to development program to increase employee engagement. Expertise in: Supply Chain Management | Financial & Project Reporting | Team Building | Business Process Classroom Facilitation | SAP | Blackboard | MS Word, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Project
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TELUS CORPORATION, Scarborough, ON IT Project Manager 2 2013 - 2016 Delivered digital clients back-end application and service changes to support wireline business accounts. Oversaw integration of wireless and wireline services for digital front-end applications. Drove infrastructure upgrades by efficiently purchasing new servers and software for wireline infrastructure within tight timeline. Monitored project health and provided reporting tailored for various audiences, delivering on complexity, risk and stakeholder reporting requirements. Developed project scope, defined deliverables, obtained consensus, and managed stakeholder expectations, providing organized roadmap for team / management and measuring accomplishments. Designed and created training depository of project manager courses and integrating training sessions across multiple project management offices (PMO), reducing training budget 15% without compromising skills. IT Project Manager 1 2010 - 2013 Represented IT application development teams to improve business processes. Worked with a team of senior project managers on large retail clients’ programs to support sales and distribution business units. Resolved complex issues, reducing nonproduction testing windows. Increased stability in nonproduction environment during assembly testing 25%. Reduced defect resolution period from 6 to 2 days by altering defect reporting and resolution process. Designed automation tool, decreasing assembly testing cycle from 15 days to 5 days. Facilitated 4-hour workshops, each quarter, with team of approximately 60 participants, developing and creating environment of trusting relationships while improving communication. Project Coordinator 2006 - 2010 Organized project management office reporting to upper management on team portfolio, covering financials status, timeline, and scope. Created and monitored purchase order of IT services agreements. Oversaw project governance; established, monitored, and enforced project standards by completing audits and publishing results. Arranged meetings and training for 16 project teams, within same program, that resulted in centralizing and combining training sessions to shrink the training budget by 10%.
KIMBERLEY WHEATON- FUERST
[email protected]
PAGE TWO
TELUS CORPORATION (continued)
Utilized negotiation and facilitation skills to perform IT service agreements and resolutions between divisions, furthering project success.
Senior Purchasing Analyst 2000 - 2006 Purchased site tower equipment (antennas / power supplies). Managed IT service purchase orders for consulting services. Reduced number of site tower equipment suppliers from 6 to 2, saving administration costs and increasing volume discounts. Coached and mentored purchasing team members on wide variety of tools and provided regular performance assessments, improving efficiency by creating highly skilled purchasing team. Collaborated with vendors, driving improvements in purchase and total supply chain costs, vendor fill rates, order lead time, and minimum purchasing quantities.
INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE | PART-TIME SENECA College, Markham, ON Educated classes of 10 - 20 students (SCMP Designation Program, 5 courses).
2015 - 2016
HUMBER College, Etobicoke, ON 2010 - 2016 Led Introduction to Transportation, online course using Blackboard, for classes of 12 - 20 students. CENTENNIAL College, Scarborough, ON 2004 - 2015 Taught Courses Operations Management and Inventory Control for classes of 10 -15 students. Received “Teaching Excellence Award” in 2015 (100% of students were highly satisfied with quality of teaching instruction from Operations Management course).
ADDITIONAL RELATED EXPERIENCE LEITCH TECHNOLOGY, Toronto, ON Purchasing Analyst | Facilitator | Production Planner
EDUCATION -
Business Management (BCom), Business Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON Business Diploma, Operations and Production, Centennial College, Scarborough, ON
CERTIFICATIONS / ASSOCIATIONS / PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified Supply Chain Management Professional (CSCMP) Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Member, Project Management Institute (PMI) Member, Supply Chain Management Association Adopting an Agile Approach to Project Management | Managing Stakeholder Engagement on an Agile Project | Continuous Improvement, Quality, Skillsoft (online courses)
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT -
Coach, IEM Basketball League, Newmarket, ON
