JARYL ANDREW CRUZ, CSM

• Leadership and Team Management: Act as the interim leader for the PMO, guiding Project Managers, addressing challenges, and ensuring smooth project execution while maintaining team morale and productivity.
  
• Strategic Alignment and Oversight: Oversee the project portfolio to align with organizational goals, prioritize initiatives, allocate resources effectively, and ensure compliance with governance and quality standards.
  
• Process Improvement and Risk Management: Evaluate and enhance project management processes, tools, and methodologies while proactively identifying and mitigating risks across projects.
  
• Reporting and Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate project status, risks, and accomplishments to senior management and stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment with expectations.
  

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

As a Program Manager and Senior Project Manager, I successfully delivered complex cloud migration, data solutions, and SAP initiatives while driving process improvements and setting operational standards. I applied a tailored project management approach to ensure efficiency and success across various project types.

• Program Management for Data Solutions: Managed large-scale data analytics programs using a hybrid project management approach, combining Waterfall for long-term planning with Agile elements for flexibility:
• Data Lakehouse Implementation: Led the design and execution of end-to-end data solutions, empowering real-time insights and data-driven decision-making.
• Process Improvement & Standards: Established best practices for data governance and ETL pipelines, enhancing the quality and consistency of data solutions.
• AWS Cloud Migration Projects: Led the full migration lifecycle to AWS using the Waterfall methodology, ensuring structured, phased delivery:
• AWS Backup and Disaster Recovery: Designed and implemented backup and DR strategies, improving infrastructure resilience and data protection.
• Risk Management & Compliance: Conducted risk assessments to ensure compliance with business continuity and regulatory standards.
• SAP Migration to CloudLeveraged a hybrid project management approach for SAP migration, balancing the structure of Waterfall with Agile adaptability:
• SAP S/4HANA Migration: Managed the transition of SAP systems to cloud environments, optimizing infrastructure for performance and scalability.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Coordinated across internal teams and external partners to deliver projects aligned with business objectives.
• Development Projects (Web and Application Development)Managed development projects using the Scrum framework, fostering rapid iteration and continuous feedback loops
• Agile Team Leadership: Directed developers, testers, and designers to ensure the on-time delivery of web and mobile applications that met client needs.
• Client-Centered Development: Led sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure adaptive solutions in response to evolving client requirements.
• Client and Stakeholder Management: Maintained strong relationships with key stakeholders, providing regular updates on project milestones, risks, and KPIs, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy.

• A leading provider of integrated security, networking solutions and value-added services
• Successfully initiated, planned, executed, monitored, controlled and closed projects involving multiple complex Network Infrastructure & security projects
• Manage Internal network infrastructure and ensure the availability & stability of the services
• Do proper project scoping & costing for every proposal
• Single point of contact for every project bid & ensures all needed documents and details were provided
• Provides weekly project reports to the management on the project status, risks& challenges
• Establishes, maintains and manages customer requirements and expectations regarding the project performance
• Manage the allocated budget for the project
• Ensure that there will be no loss per project
• Communicates all aspects of the project across all key stakeholders to ensure consistency and clarity throughout the project life cycle
• Facilitated Project Planning and Meetings, creates and distributes Project Plan, configuration plan and Minutes of the Meeting to project stakeholders
• Monitored the progress of the project, provided regular Project Status Report to project stakeholders and informed the Account Team of the release of Invoices for project milestone payment
• Provided leadership and direction to project teams to ensure work plans are followed and deliverables are successfully provided in accordance to standard project management methodologies
• Manage and lead all the professional services rendered to the customer
• Promotes, present & position solution for customer's pain points
• Pre-selling network and security products to the customer
• Plan and schedule all preventive maintenance for the post sales team and provide recommendations to the customer.

• Handled Engineering Subjects
• Delivered lectures to students
• Ensured student progress and adherence to regulations
• Discussed difficult topics with students
• Worked for the overall development of students.

• Initiated, planned, executed, monitored, controlled, and closed projects involving PABX and multiple complex Network Infrastructure projects
• Facilitated project planning and meetings
• Monitored project progress
• Provided leadership and direction to project teams
• Conducted kick-off meetings with clients.

• Managed technical specifications, engineering designs, and cost estimates for customized projects
• Provided project management for installation, commissioning, testing, and acceptance of access network projects
• Prepared engineering plans and designs for FITL projects
• Secured right-of-way and work permits
• Ensured document validation and progress billing
• Reviewed as-built plans and performed close-out activities.