George Kerollos
Program Office Consultant

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication)
PMP Certified
ITIL Foundation Certified

Core Skills     

• Highly skilled and experienced MS Project & MS Office user.
• Experiences with PMBOK project management methodologies and work related to initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling to project closure
• Successfully implemented tailored project controls methodologies, procedures and tools into several PMOs.
• Experienced in project planning and development activities including inter project dependencies management.
• Skilled in project analysis activities associated to schedule, Critical Path analysis, Earned Value analysis, lesson learned and overall project/program delivery.
• Experienced in conducting project health checks and audits.
• Outstanding communications and negotiation skills that help build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with program stakeholders at multiple levels
• High technical background in various fields including Telecommunications, Network Engineering, Software and ERP.

Key Clients            

• Telstra
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• Nokia
• VHA

 Key Achievements

• Implemented deep health check analysis on project schedules and provided a detailed plan to senior management in order to bring the schedules to required level of quality and logic integrity.
• Enforced PMO reporting cycle that helps providing accurate and realistic view of program status for different stakeholders using various reports.
• Worked collaboratively with program and project managers at Nokia Core Consolidation Program to develop, maintain and update program schedules and ensure input validity.
• Implementation of Earned Value Management and analysis to provide schedule variance against planned progress values.
• Integrated Inter Programs dependencies between Nokia/VHA that are managed automatically and successfully replaced a sophisticated process of dependency files exchange.
• Worked collaboratively with project managers at Telstra’s CBA Transition & Transformation Program to develop, maintain and update program schedules and ensure input validity.
• Developed and enhanced various types of reports for different management audience including Run Rate Graphs, Major milestones reports and High Level Timelines.
• Developed schedule transition plan from scheduling team to Telstra PMs in the process of decreasing team headcount by end of program. Plan involved developing schedule handbook, PM handbook, QA process workflow, reporting cycle workflow; MPP files filters to validate PMs Input.
• Participated in developing a sophisticated resource contention report that estimates required resources from Telstra, CBA and third parties to achieve critical milestones for the program.
• Supporting and mentoring program and project managers in project management methodologies, risk and issues management, change request, schedule fast tracking analysis and scope management.
• Supporting, coaching and mentoring scheduling team members in project management methodologies and scheduling best practice.