Lead Project Manager - Lumen Technologies - Remote
(2025-07 - 2026-07)
Lead enterprise strategic initiatives supporting Finance, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Commercial Strategy, and Operations while driving governance, stakeholder alignment, and execution across multiple high-impact programs.
- Lead 4–5 concurrent enterprise data center modernization and strategic infrastructure programs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and successful delivery across multiple business units.
- Coordinate 5–6 cross-functional workstreams and collaborate with 20–30 stakeholders, including Engineering, Finance, Product, Marketing, Commercial Strategy, Operations, vendors, and executive leadership.
- Facilitate 2–3 governance, planning, and executive stakeholder meetings each week to review program health, resolve risks, remove roadblocks, and drive accountability across workstreams.
- Develop and maintain integrated program roadmaps, governance frameworks, RAID logs, executive dashboards, milestone tracking, and KPI reporting to provide leadership with real-time visibility into program performance.
- Successfully manage delivery across multiple milestone phases (H1–H3), ensuring critical deliverables remain on schedule and aligned with organizational priorities.
- Translate executive strategy into actionable project plans while proactively identifying risks, managing dependencies, and balancing competing priorities across enterprise initiatives.
- Build trusted partnerships with senior leadership by delivering executive-ready communications, status reporting, and data-driven recommendations that support strategic decision-making.
- Standardize project management processes and governance practices to improve cross-functional collaboration, execution consistency, and operational efficiency.
Technical Project Manager I - Lumen Technologies - Remote
(2024-02 - 2025-07)
Managed a high-volume portfolio of enterprise networking and digital infrastructure projects, driving technical implementations from initiation through completion while partnering with engineering, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
- Led a high-volume portfolio of 70–100 concurrent projects, accelerating technical completion (TECO) and project closeout to improve operational efficiency and portfolio performance.
- Prioritized project portfolios to reduce aging work, improve delivery timelines, and increase operational efficiency across enterprise networking initiatives.
- Directed project scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution while ensuring projects remained on track and aligned with business objectives.
- Partnered with engineering teams, vendors, and executive stakeholders to coordinate implementation activities, resolve roadblocks, and maintain delivery milestones.
- Conducted root cause analyses that identified process improvement opportunities, streamlining workflows and improving project execution.
- Produced executive-ready project status reports, dashboards, and documentation that provided leadership with clear visibility into portfolio health and delivery progress.
- Collaborated across cross-functional teams to ensure technical deliverables met quality standards, customer requirements, and organizational objectives.
Network Implementation Engineer II - Lumen Technologies - Remote
(2021-10 - 2024-02)
Managed enterprise network infrastructure implementation projects, coordinating technical deployments across cross-functional teams while ensuring successful delivery, quality, and customer satisfaction.
- Reduced the aging project backlog by over 60%, significantly improving operational efficiency and accelerating customer project delivery.
- Led end-to-end implementation of enterprise network infrastructure projects, ensuring adherence to project scope, schedules, quality standards, and budget requirements.
- Partnered with engineering, product management, project managers, vendors, and customers to coordinate technical deployments and resolve implementation challenges.
- Supported capital planning and investment decisions by providing technical cost analysis, project forecasting, and implementation recommendations.
- Maintained project documentation, monitored implementation milestones, and proactively addressed risks to ensure successful project execution.
- Mentored team members by sharing technical knowledge, promoting collaboration, and supporting continuous process improvement initiatives.
- Served as the primary technical point of coordination during implementation, partnering with customers and internal teams to ensure successful deployment and issue resolution.
