DANIEL BROOKS
IT Project Manager
Minneapolis, MN · d.brooks@email.com · (555) 674-2039
Summary
PMP-certified IT project manager with 8 years delivering enterprise software and infrastructure projects on time and under budget. Managed a $4.2M ERP rollout across 6 business units and improved on-time delivery rate from 68% to 94%.
Experience
IT Project Manager · Target
2020 - Present
- Led a $4.2M ERP implementation across 6 business units, delivering on schedule and 8% under budget
- Managed a portfolio of 15 concurrent IT projects using Agile/Scrum, improving on-time delivery rate from 68% to 94%
- Coordinated 30+ stakeholders across engineering, finance, and operations to resolve scope conflicts within 48 hours
- Introduced a risk register and RAID log in Confluence, cutting late-stage change requests 22%
- Negotiated 4 vendor contracts totaling $1.8M, securing 11% savings against initial quotes
Project Coordinator · UnitedHealth Group
2017 - 2020
- Supported delivery of a claims-processing system migration affecting 2,000 users, completed 3 weeks ahead of schedule
- Built Jira/Confluence workflows adopted by 8 project teams, cutting status-reporting time by 5 hours/week
- Tracked a $900K project budget in MS Project, closing the year within 2% of forecast
- Ran 60+ sprint ceremonies for two Scrum teams, raising sprint commitment accuracy to 91%
IT Business Analyst · Ecolab
2016 - 2017
- Documented 120+ functional requirements for a warehouse inventory system replacement
- Produced weekly status dashboards in Excel and SharePoint for a 12-person delivery team
- Tested 40 user stories per release cycle, logging defects in Jira and cutting rework by 15%
Education
B.A. Business Information Systems — University of Minnesota · 2016
Skills
Agile, Scrum, PMP, Jira, Confluence, SDLC, Stakeholder Management, Budget Management, Risk Management, MS Project, Vendor Management
Certifications
PMP, Project Management Institute
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Scrum Alliance
ITIL 4 Foundation, PeopleCert
Key Achievements
Named Delivery Lead of the Year for the 2022 ERP program at Target
Presented ERP lessons learned to 200 attendees at a PMI Minnesota chapter summit
Selected to mentor 6 junior project coordinators through an internal PM academy
Languages
English (Native), Spanish (Conversational)
Interests
Process improvement, Long-distance cycling, Chess, Volunteer IT support
