MIHAELA URSACHE is a Project Management Professional with over 20 years of experience in business analysis, project management, application development using Lotus Notes/Domino, and managing the SDLC. She has experience leading teams, developing applications, and managing projects in various industries across the US, South Africa, and Romania. She holds certifications in project management and is pursuing a B.S. in Information Technology.
1. MIHAELA URSACHE, PMP
PMI Certified Project Management Professional IBM Certified Advanced
Application Developer – Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
Rockaway, NJ 07866 (h)862 397 4248 (cell)609 240 3912
email:mursache@hotmail.com
Offering over 20yrs of global IT experience with high understanding of cultural diversity, and a
unique set of skills in Business Analysis, Project Management, Lotus Notes/Domino application
development, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) management.
SUMMARY OF SKILLS
BA Skills
- Conduct the feasibility study of the current systems, in order to define and evaluate
different solutions and arrive at the optimal one.
- Work with Business Customers to document project scope and functional requirements
for IT initiatives.
- Document business processes to identify inefficiencies in the current workflow and
develop new, more efficient, cost effective processes.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze
information needs and functional requirements and deliver Functional Requirements,
Business Requirements, Use Cases, GUI, Screen and Interface designs.
- Define user acceptance tests and assist with the testing process.
- Develop user documentation and provide application functional training as needed.
PM Skills
- Coordinated cross-functional teams (content authors, software developers, network
operations, vendors and business stakeholders) across multiple projects.
- Ensure the project remains focused on key objectives and goals and comply with
established methodologies.
- Creating and maintaining the project schedule for more than 100 medium size projects by
identifying and monitoring overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, resources,
task dependencies, and critical paths.
- Anticipate and identify Risks and Issues that may impact deliverables and develops and
implement mitigation and corrective actions.
- Performed communications requirements analysis for 5-50 stakeholders, and planned the
Information distribution to internal, external clients and vendors.
- Monitor and communicate the status of project efforts (including weekly time reporting,
monthly resource forecasting, monthly executive reporting, issue management and risk
prevention/mitigation).
- Manage vendor relations and improve relationships (IBM, Paisley,etc).
- Promote continuous improvement by conducting, documenting, and communicating
lessons learned.
- Experience with both Waterfall and Agile Project Management Methodologies.
Application Development Skills
2. - Designed, Developed and Implemented approx. 50 Lotus Notes and Domino custom
applications.
- Data integration and interoperability experience through LotusScript agents.
- Reverse engineering applications, from various platforms to Lotus Notes/Domino.
- Managed SDLC from conceptualization, through requirements, design, programming,
testing, user and technical training and maintenance.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Windows 3.X/95/98/NT/2000/XP Microsoft Office Products: Access, Excel, Word, MS
Project, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project 2007 Relational Databases: Oracle, Sybase, SQL,
DB2 Web technologies: JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS Data migration tools:
DECS, LEI, ReplicAction Collaboration Tools: TeamStudio Domino Administrator,
Domino Designer, Lotus Notes 8, 6.x, 5.x, LotusScript Reporting Tools: SnapReporter
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
WALDEN University, USA – B.S. in Information Technology - expected 2012
SPECIALIZATION: Application Development, Testing & Quality Assurance
Project Management Institute, USA - PMP certification - 2010
Rutgers University, USA – Certificates in Project Management and Quality Management, 2009
IBM, USA - Certified Advanced Application Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5,
1997 - 2005
DAMELIN Computer School, South Africa – Diploma in Computer Graphics, 1995
University “Petre Andrei”, Romania - BS in Trade and Tourism (completed 2 yrs), 1993
WORK EXPERIENCE
10/09 – 01/10 Project Management Certification (PMI)
Studied and completed the PMP Certification
08/08 – 10/09 C.M.T. Packaging & Design Inc., NJ – USA
Project Manager/Lotus Notes Developer (ver.7)
- Lotus Notes Design Enhancements to the CMS application’s workflow, tracking
and managing of multiple document versions.
- Managed the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of the project
- Planned and coordinated the phase reviews to ensure that the deliverables are in
alignment with the project Scope and obtained formal acceptance.
01/08 – 07/08 Binary Tree Inc., NJ – USA
Lotus Notes Developer (ver.7, 8)/Consultant
- On Site support for one of the company’s clients – implementing and running an
existing BT tool that migrated data from 600 QuickPlace sites to SharePoint,
developed and maintained a Lotus Notes database for the Project Manager.
- Participated in the development of a new Lotus Notes Application, that imports
QuickPlace sites from the Notes Catalog and QuickPlace directory.
03/05 – 01/08 American Express – Enterprise Risk and Assurance Services, NYC
Project Manager/Lotus Notes Developer (ver.6.5, 7)
3. - Managed SDLC of new and enhanced systems by adhering to Method1
methodology.
- Responsible for all ERAS Notes databases' system improvement, design,
programming, testing, implementation, documentation of changes, support and
enhancements and for resolving system issues and assure continuous availability
and data integrity.
- Reverse engineering and Data integration (Sybase, SQL) experience, through
LotusScript.
- Project leader for the transition of ERAS Lotus Notes Applications from
American Express to AmeriPrice
- Coordinated the migration of 2000 Users and 20,000 documents from Magique to
Risk Navigator
- Created documentation and technical guides for end users and facilitated User
Acceptance Testing for at least 50 applications
- Acted as single point of contact for multiple vendors, business units, and IT
partners during migration of Lotus Notes Applications to other platforms,
administering schedules and communicating risks.
- Supporting the Audit Team with Lotus Notes related issues.
12/03 – 12/04 Globecon Group, NYC – USA
Domino Developer (ver.6.5)/Project Management
- Managed a complex 15 Domino databases application upgrade project from
initiation to closing and coordinated the Domino server partitioning and the
application setup
- Administration, Backup, Maintenance, Support, Enhancements of a Lotus Notes/
Domino application that offers online training to banks and financial institutions
employees.
- Developed new modules: content links to additional resources, feedback on
content and exams, usage reports, etc, using Domino programming, HTML, CSS,
JavaScript and LotusScript agents.
08/02 – 11/03 Thinkcentric Inc., NJ – USA
Lotus Notes Developer (ver.5, 6)/Project Management
- Planned and coordinated the Lotus Notes development and deployment of a
Resume Repository application
- Managed a Lotus Notes Client/Server version Upgrade
- Migration from Domino R5 to Domino R6, workflow automation , support and
enhancements on an existing Requirements
06/00 – 08/02 PricewaterhouseCoopers, NJ – USA
Lotus Notes Developer (ver.5)/Project Management
- Planned and coordinated the development of two data storage and workflow
applications for HR and L&E business units, defined the scope, identified the
stakeholders and created the project documentation, managed creation and
distribution of performance and project status reports
4. - Performed support, maintenance and implemented enhancements to the existing
Lotus Notes applications and developed new data storage and workflow Lotus
Notes applications, implemented and provided technical documentation
- Created ReplicAction jobs with LotusScript for the weekly upload of Oracle data
10/97 – 05/00 Complete Software Solutions, JHB – SOUTH AFRICA
Lotus Notes Developer (ver.4, 5)
- Support, maintenance, enhancements of internal Lotus Notes Applications.
- Consultant to various company financial, trading and educational clients.
01/80 – 10/93 Contactors, Manufacturing Co – ROMANIA
Business Analyst/Programmer in the IT Department
- Liaise with the business units and provide IT solutions.
- Maintain the company’s Stock and Inventory, Labor, and Payroll mainframe
systems.