Sara Quinones

About Sara Quinones

I’m a Project Manager with 15+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams…

Experience

1. Project Manager

   Optiv

   May 2022 — Present

   Lead and direct multiple projects under the guidance of Project Management Office (PMO) leadership. • Aggressively drive projects from inception to completion, identify and document project requirements, support clients on various information security initiatives, keep all stakeholders apprised of project and budget status, and manage issues to resolution. • Responsible for all aspects of the project over its entire life (initiation, plan, execute, control, close) with a focus on the management of project risk and forecasting challenges, and devising strategies to overcome and compensate. • Responsible for driving engagements forward and ensuring projects progress as planned and uninterrupted by comprehensive oversight and control of project activities and timelines • Accountable for the execution and delivery of customer-focused security solution projects ensuring uninterrupted progress or delays. • Drive project progress across multiple stakeholders and levels of oversight with assurance on maintaining progress, timeliness, and effective resource utilization ensuring a minimum of 40 hrs billed per week be each delivery resource. • Develop strategic project delivery plans, detailed schedules, compensating project controls, cost forecasting, risk management, issues forecast and resolution planning, resource burn-rate analysis, forecasting, and reporting, and daily task management. • Accountable for the progress of the project; and drives timelines by creating and maintaining schedules (including key deliverables, milestones, and dependencies), understanding the deliverables and the progress toward each milestone, identifying and managing issues, risks, and other potential delays ahead of time, and identifying and driving resolution of all project related risks and issues.