Areas Of Expertise:

• Project Management

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Management Accounting
• Diploma in Project Management
• Completed Coursework:
  • Fundamentals of Project Management
  • Project Planning and Scheduling
  • Project Risk and Issue Management

About Ellen Misador

Ellen has a Bachelor of Science in Management Accounting (Cum Laude) and has completed three of six courses in a Diploma Program for Project Management. She is a lifelong learner eager to expand her knowledge and experiences in the different fields of Project Management. She is a responsible professional committed to delivering successful endeavours. 

What Ellen brings

• Rigorous Analytical ability to synthesize complex information.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others to form strong positive working relationships.
• Resourcefulness to find efficient and innovative ways to overcome challenges.
• Skills and experience in various industries – retail, food logistics, banking, general accounting, and foreign exchange trading.

Key Clients:

• NSW Government – Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water 
• Woolworths Group – Cyber Domain 
• Invocare
• Seven Consulting
• GrabFood Cebu
• De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde (S.P.A.C.E)
• Youth for Christ

Key Achievements:

As a PMO Consultant at NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Ellen played a key role in uplifting PMO tools and reporting for the NSW DCCEEW to pass their next round of ICT Assurance Health Check. The team was involved in developing key deliverables such as the stakeholder matrix, RAID logs, change controls, optimising tools, and more. Ellen’s key contributions were focused on the creation of report templates to support their governance, providing inputs in the Project Management Plan (PMP), and assisting in defining a proposed governance structure and cadences. She also aided in improving and streamlining processes, documenting them in Confluence to ensure consistency and efficiency even after the Seven Consulting team rolls off the engagement. Additionally, Ellen maintained the internal team’s project schedule, ensuring all key deliverables were met on time. She was also extended for an additional piece of work on financials, where she created a Program financial tracker, which includes program-to-project level reports and dashboards. 

As a PMO Consultant at Woolworths Group’s Cyber Security Domain, Ellen’s continued assistance to two project managers for FY25 led to continuous management and improvements in end-to-end financials and resource allocation management. With the lessons learned from FY24, she took part in the successful setup of the Scope Masterfile for Compliance FY25 project. She also successfully identified and raised the funding gap for the BAU Onboarding and Compliance Squad before end of Q1 and prepared the data and presentation that justified the gap which aided the Delivery Sponsor in securing the necessary funds by Q2. Later in the role, Ellen took on actively checking and assisting with Jira compliance and sprint health, timely raised vendor POs, and processed goods receipts and still continued to assist in the cross charges for each project manager’s team. She also proactively validated the People Systems Squad’s forecasts to ensure they remained within the approved budgets, enabling the project manager to address funding gaps and availability. In addition to her role, she created a working Resource Management template upon the Program Manager’s request. 

As an Associate working at Woolworths Group’s Cyber Security Domain, Ellen supported the Identity Access Management team by assisting two project managers. Her responsibilities included managing end-to-end financials, resource allocation for two squads and assisting PMs in scheduling resources and their squad engagements. Additionally, she created and maintained relevant trackers and worksheets for a compliance project and also played a key role in improving process documentation related to financials. She also successfully collected and reviewed 12 months’ worth of information from multiple sources for approximately 500+ service applications of scope items and was able to set up the project’s scope Masterfile for timely FY24 project closure and reporting. 

As Graduate Associate rendering bench support at Invocare, Ellen supported projects for CemCrem and the discovery piece for Fleet Telematics. In supporting the projects of CemCrem – Ellen helped in monitoring actions and emails; she assisted in updating and reconciling the financial management tracker; she also assisted in uploading Jira Epics and User Stories; and a month after her onboarding at Invocare, she started helping in updating the fortnightly status report and any other Ad-hoc tasks assigned to her by the project manager. As she also supported the discovery piece to develop a business case for Fleet Telematics – Ellen recorded and monitored RAID and Action items; uploaded key deliverables/tasks in Jira; assisted in developing the kick-off pack for the working group; set up meetings with the working group; and worked on other tasks as assigned by the project manager.

As Graduate at Seven Consulting, Ellen completed the Graduate program which is designed to enhance the core Project Management skills amongst the people who are experienced in their individual professional fields. During the Graduate program, she has gained theoretical and practical knowledge on different aspects of project management by going through different sessions and exercises with domain experts, as well as learning soft skills through discussions and role-play activities. This program has developed her skills and confidence level in using PM tools (like MS Project, JIRA, etc). Ellen also had the opportunity to work-shadow senior consultants in actual project environments where she has been exposed to risk, issues, and constraints on a project and better ways to manage them. She was able to apply in parallel the lessons she learned in the program to Project 7 where she helped organise events for 2023.

As Account Management Executive at GrabFood in Cebu, Ellen worked closely with the Project Lead, Regional Manager, and City Manager for Business and Strategy. She built and developed good working relationships with her assigned 75 merchant partners ranging from tier B to C for her to keep accurate and updated records, and to understand the account’s business need to be able to customize Grab product offerings and services to further create partnership value. She participated in various meetings, brainstorming and ideation with client, project lead and fellow account managers; and she also created reports and files relevant to both business reviews and weekly reports. In this role, she learned the value of observing industry trends, building good working relationships, and communicating effectively.

As a student at De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde, Ellen presented case studies during her synchronous classes where she applied what she learned during her asynchronous classes. In her case studies, she gained experience and learning in preparing a Work Breakdown Structure, updating a risk register, optimizing a schedule through Critical Path Method, designing a Resource Management Plan and analysing cases relating to Project Management. As a student and through her case studies, she learned the importance of proper Project Management and learning the fundamentals.

As the Music Ministry Assistant Head for USC “Take Heart” Praise Conference, Ellen coordinated with the Program Head, Music Ministry Head and Worship Leader on the meetings, practices, schedule, program flow, logistics, budget, and manpower for the Music Ministry. She actively communicated to the music ministry members and Program Committee on concerns, issues, event updates and progress updates. In this role, she also learned how to schedule and update practices and rehearsals considering all the class schedules and personal circumstances of each team member. She also helped monitor practices to ensure the quality of music for the event and motivated team members when needed.

As the Competitions Committee Assistant Head for YFC South 1 “God Pro: Be a Witness” Sector Youth Conference, Ellen was assigned to delegate roles; determine and define each competition activities and regulations; appoint judges; prepare and deliver the competitions within the budget; and procure trophies and certificates. She reports to the Competitions Committee Head and Overall Program Committee on progress updates, concerns and help needed. She also coordinated and communicated with Cluster Heads on finalising participants list and cascading competition rules and schedules. In this role, she learned the value of trust, transparency, teamwork, delegation and monitoring to ensure event success.

As the Assistant Team Leader for a YFC Cluster 4 “Destined” Youth Camp, Ellen worked closely with the Team Leader, Cluster Head, and Couple coordinators in progress updates, schedules, budget needed, other concerns and foreseen issues. She coordinated with logistics head, documentation head, and other function heads and made sure materials needed, paperwork, documents and manpower were prepared, complete and accounted for. In this role she learned the value of preparing activities that align to the purpose of the event as a whole. She also learned the importance of 1:1 to sessions of key members that are significant to the success of the event.