Houman Alayan

About Houman Alayan

Over twenty years of experience managing highly complex, multi-million dollar projects including software development, technical, infrastructure, and operations programs and projects of strategic significance with the highest priority.Proven leadership skills with keen ability to prioritize and make sound business decisions quickly in highly regulated environments and large enterprises with global reach, while maintaining focus on strategic and tactical objectives.Skills Summary:• Program/Project Management: Program Mgmt, Project Planning, Strategy, Stakeholder/Resource Mgmt, Budget Mgmt, Scope Mgmt, Requirements Mgmt, Schedule Development/Mgmt, Change Mgmt, Risk Identification and Mitigation Planning, Communications Mgmt, Team Building, Mentoring, Vendor Management, Conflict Resolution, Integrations, Release Planning, Storyboarding, Training Development, Deliverables Validation, Maintaining Issues/Action Item Logs, Project Transitioning, Lessons Learned/Best Practices, Project Closure • Project Management Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Hybrid Waterfall/Agile• Business Analysis – Requirements Gathering/Mgmt, Needs Analysis, Risk Identification/Mgmt, Use Cases, User Stories, Process Development and Documentation, Gap Analysis (As-Is/To-Be), SWOT Analysis• Process/Change Management: Business Process Development and Design, Business Process Optimization/Re-engineering, Resource Mgmt, Transition Mgmt, Application and Business Process Mapping• Documentation: Project Charter, Requirements, Business Case, Process Mapping, Features/User Stories, Deployment Plan, Dashboards, KPIs, Work Flow Diagrams• Standards: PMBOK, Agile/Scrum, ITSM, Six Sigma, PCI-DSS, SOX, Lean• Applications: MS Office (Excel, Word, Sharepoint, PowerPoint), MS Project, MS TFS (Team Foundation Server), MS Visio, MS Project Server, JIRA, Confluence

Experience

1. Senior Information Technology Project Manager

   Kaiser Permanente

   Jan 2021 — Present · WA, US

   Manages projects of small, medium and large size or complexity. • Develops and executes project plans which include schedule and resource forecast. • Manages project financials for medium size projects. • Manages project performance (e.g, on time, on budget, within scope and with quality) and provides input and justification for costs and budget impact. • Manages project activities related to organizational change management (e.g, development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project. • Ensures adherence to established processes and policies (e.g. SDLC including domain standards, Kaiser standards). • Leads the allocation of resources, scheduling and tasks assignments by following proper project management practices. • Assembles internal or external resources which ensure the alignment of team member skills and strengths with project demands. • Promotes project vision and objectives with project team. • Monitors project risks and escalates when appropriate. • Monitors the compliance of project plans by ensuring team members follow policies and procedures. • Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse project stakeholders by building rapport with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management. • Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders. • Provides insight to key stakeholders and project sponsors by developing project goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for project delivery. • Communicates tough issues to stakeholders and keeps an independent opinion. • Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met. • Supports the contract negotiation process with service vendors and reviews project invoices submitted by vendors for accuracy.

Education

• Portland State University

  Business Administration and Management, General