Errol Cantada
Errol Cantada
Errol Cantada
Summary:
Effective, technically savvy Senior IT Project Management Professional with a background of success
leading high-profile enterprise technology projects.
Expertise in leading the design and implementation of database and CRM solutions that sustainably
improve business functions.
Consistently deliver high visibility projects on-time within budget.
Experience working with culturally diverse virtual, offshore, and onsite teams remotely.
Extensive knowledge in Agile and waterfall methodology.
Strong Data Warehouse concepts and the deliverables associated with Data Warehouse and Reporting
projects.
Experience working on project for Implementing and deploying cloud-based solutions.
Experienced in all phases of business-critical project implementation, from requirements definition to post
implementation support.
Expert at clarifying business requirements and performing gap analyses between goals and existing
procedures.
Effectively design/improve process and system improvements that improve automation, increase
performance, and positively affect the bottom line.
Developed and managed scope changes by revalidating stakeholder expectations and needs, determining
impact to cost and schedule, and communicating the change and associated impacts to the Director for
subsequent scope change approval.
Organized, attention to detail, self-motivation, multi-focused, ability to meet project milestone, Schedule
maintenance and deliverable dates.
Developed policies, plans, processes, and procedures in need to resolve any process transformation/
business transformation, processes that needs to be in improved on, on technology level or the way they
do their work and implemented software development lifecycle and project management principles and
methodologies in enterprise levels.
Ability to work out any issues with team and drive the team to be successful.
Education:
Bachelor of Science in chemistry York College Queens New York, NY
Enrolled in Master’s in computer science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Certification:
PMP license number: 3152306
AWS Solution Architect Associate: RG2W9DRB3BFQ1XW3
Skills:
Project Management ETL processes Backlog Grooming
Estimate and Budget AWS Microservices Quality Assurance
Troubleshooting Build and Testing tools Process Improvement
Stakeholders Management Documentation
Training and Development Change Management
Bigdata/Data Warehouse User Acceptance Testing
Professional Experience:
Accenture, Arlington, VA Jan 2019 - present
Senior Project IT Manager
At Accenture worked remotely with three different clients and addressed to their project management
needs
Fiserv, Brookfield, WI May 2022- Present
Project Manager
Key member of the project team working on a project upgrade to feed data, design and build a Data
Warehouse, and associated multiple reporting needs.
Handing three projects on Enterprise Payment Platform (EPP) that utilizes ACH and SWIFT payment by
engaging client and internal resources and drive the delivery of the acquired service within agreed scope
and budget.
Directed data migration and mapping of legacy system. Managed complete customer data cleansing to
ensure data integrity.
Conducted large scale data analysis to support business decision making.
Engage in project planning activities, including but not limited to: Defining the overall scope of the project;
create Project Charter, Creating and maintaining a consolidated timeline highlighting the major milestones
and associated dates for project activities; Identifying and communicating project dependencies and
impacts; Putting mechanisms in place to ensure on- going control of the project.
Collaborated with different teams Virtually in different regions of the world.
Presented project updates at monthly steering committee meeting to executive board members.
Working in agile environment with two weeks sprints. Prioritized each work item from backlog, include fully
formed user stories with acceptance criteria, update estimate for each work item.
Ensure success criteria is defined to promote alignment and actively manage a successful client experience.
Keep all stakeholders (internal & external) engaged in the project, aligned on expected outcomes, and
informed about what is occurring throughout project.
Proactively communicate the project’s progress on an on-going basis, ensuring transparency throughout
project lifecycle. Provide leadership and key stakeholders with the information and venues to make
effective, timely decisions.
Provides leadership, accountability, and ownership for all aspects of the project life cycle.
Execute and adhere to critical business processes to deliver and manage project deliverables.
Environment/Tools used: Agile, Microsoft project Management, Jenkins, Informatica, Redshift,
SQLdeveloper, Jira, SWIFT, ACH, Wires, Tableau, Compass, Service Now.
Southern Glazers Wine and Spirits, Miami, Florida May 2021-Mar 2022
Senior IT Project Manager
SGWS is a prime distributor of Wine and Spirits across 51 US states, spreading branches to Canada.
Managed three projects with budget more than 6 million where SGWS expanded in a new location, Data
Gaps fulfillment to OneSource/ODS/Redshift for a Legacy application decommission, New Sales and
Inventory data gaps for various business needs, and Tableau Upgrade.
Provided cost allocation for 2022 Q1 with upper management. Also, created automation process
improvement plan on regression suite that will lower execution time to 40% as a pro bono.
Implemented extensively SAP/Sapphire/Upstream systems to OneSource, then OneSource to Business
Objects/downstream feeds.
Worked on a HANA project for SAP OTC to track transaction from order through payment and completion.
Created and delivered standardized reports for sales, marketing, inventory, and finance.
Authored comprehensive end-user training documentation.
Managed project for Tableau application upgrade. Created extensive UAT document that is used by
Tableau team as a training material for a new module.
Collaboration with various stakeholders, touched many upstream and downstream applications, delta
changes since last upgrade for Tableau Upgrade.
Proactively identified issues in sandbox, fix the issue during UAT testing, collaborated with cross functional
teams to deliver project on time.
Managed a Time sensitive data gaps implementation for a legacy application retirement that needed
continuous change and upper management visibility with sensitive timeline. Successfully finished the
project on time within budget
Did a process improvement where the execution time will be lowered 40% and won a Accenture proposal
where the whole OneSource Automation will be automated for regression testing. It was totally done pro
bono
Worked as a key Technical Project Manager remotely to implement for a brand-new site in Canada.
Capture financial data and perform financial analysis on project actuals vs. budgeted costs and savings.
Improved overall processes by developing end user training strategy, documentation, and roll out plans.
Run Excel analysis on spend categories, budget for an enormous OneSource project with upper
management.
Presentation development and coordination for senior leadership.
Identified, addressed, and adequately escalated project risks and issues in a timely manner.
Identified and implemented Standards and Guidelines and evaluated Software Tools, Facilities, Software
Products Review Process.
Developed and executed activities related to end-to-end project management, including project plans and
estimates, scoping and requirements through implementation and deployment,
Supported UAT testing, created user friendly use cases in gherkin, acceptance criteria.
Managed three/four projects at a time; each project consists of 10-12 team members from cross functional
teams remotely
Environment/Tools used: Waterfall, AWS, Informatica, Microsoft project, SAP, Sapphire, OneSource/ODS,
Redshift, Tableau, Compass, MS Project management, Service Now
Small Business Association, Paycheck Protection Program, DC Mar 2020 -May 2020
Project Manager/Team Leader
Most dynamic and short project to meet the crisis of pandemic at its highest peak. To Accommodate
thousands of loan applications for small businesses across three projects was created that dealt with
production issues from Loan Origination to disbursement. Worked with the Organization Project where had
to manage 57 team members and assign their tasks.
Assigned and group team members with Production Support Service Now tickets with volume of more than
600 incidents and among 57 team members
Categorized total issue reported for loan application for different banks (Comerica, Santander, Capital One,
Iberia) and created documents where in one glance Assignment group, caller, description, work note,
priority, state can be visible to team members
Constantly worked with third party vendor for production issues they are facing and create a Service Now
ticket
Bundled Service Now incident into a Task and triaged to appropriate team.
Worked with teams that worked around the clock 24 hours to overcome the pandemic crisis
Dynamic work schedule including weekends and nights, with different roles such as Project Manager, Team
Lead, production support, resource allocation etc.
Defined and executed project plan while meeting milestones.
Environment/Tools used: Production Support, Savanna, Finxact, Service Now, Teams, Oracle, 31 inhouse
applications