Lino Faratro, PMP

Directly manage and coordinate complex global infrastructure projects, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals and operational requirements.

Implement robust project management methodologies to optimize resource allocation, budget adherence, and timely delivery across international teams.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives within project frameworks to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of infrastructure deployments.

Collaborate with cross-functional global stakeholders to define project scope, manage expectations, and ensure successful project outcomes.

Generated comprehensive PMO dashboards and project control reports, ensuring transparent communication of project status to stakeholders.

Conducted in-depth data analysis on project KPIs, revenue, budget, and resource allocations to identify trends and inform strategic decision-making.

Monitored and communicated project progress against objectives, profitability, timelines, and budget, ensuring adherence to targets.

Collaborated with project leaders to develop detailed project plans, schedules, and resource allocation strategies, optimizing project timelines.

Proactively identified and mitigated potential project risks and issues, developing robust response plans in collaboration with project teams.

Cultivated strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, effectively managing expectations and concerns for project success.

Supported Project Managers in monitoring and controlling project progress, performance, scope, time, cost, quality, and risk for IT projects across the Americas region.

Developed and maintained detailed project plans, tracking progress and updating completion percentages and timelines to ensure project alignment.

Audited PMO control reports and analyzed project progress against KPIs, ensuring adherence to objectives, profitability, timelines, and budget.

Authored and presented comprehensive project status reports to stakeholders, outlining progress, identifying problems, and proposing solutions.

Proactively tracked project schedules and budgets, implementing corrective actions to maintain project timelines and financial health.

Ensured timesheet accuracy and compliance with Quality Management System gates for all project activities.

Contributed to project initiation, including business plan development, financial justifications, timelines, and budget for a $66M SAP implementation program.

Monitored and controlled project delivery for the $66M SAP program, tracking work plans, progress reports, and financial performance, including contract administration and invoice processing.

Managed and controlled Project Change Requests, maintaining comprehensive change logs to ensure program integrity and minimize scope creep.

Ensured strict adherence to monthly project financial management cycles, accurately managing accruals and forecasts.

Provided expert advisory to project and program managers on project management standards, methodologies, templates, and tools, enhancing operational efficiency.

Contributed to project completion activities, including archiving reports, resolving outstanding issues, and documenting lessons learned.

Managed the full lifecycle of multiple parallel data migration ERP System Dynamics AX implementation projects for diverse clients.

Secured critical project resources through efficient internal scheduling and external hiring, ensuring timely project goal achievement.

Developed and delivered comprehensive progress reports, proposals, and presentations to project teams and upper management.

Proactively managed changes in project scope, identified potential crises, and led the development and execution of contingency plans.

Led cross-functional process improvement initiatives involving multiple IT teams, enhancing project delivery efficiency.

Defined project success criteria and disseminated them to involved parties throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring clear objectives.

Supported the establishment and ensured the execution of PMO processes and procedures for the Engineering Project Office.

Developed and maintained effort-driven, resource-balanced project schedules, optimizing project timelines and resource utilization.

Managed project financials, assisting with budget development and tracking actuals to maintain fiscal control.

Consolidated and distributed project status dashboards, providing transparent updates to stakeholders.

Tracked status and completion of all deliverables, signoffs, milestones, and action items, ensuring project accountability.

Conducted process improvement initiatives and updated project office documentation to enhance operational efficiency.

Tracked and reported on project budgets and financials, ensuring fiscal transparency and control across multiple programs.

Managed full project lifecycle phases (planning, execution, control, closure) within the PMO, contributing to strategic and tactical planning.

Developed dependency diagrams, key milestone tracking charts, and high-level timelines to visualize project progress and interdependencies.

Documented PM Logs and actionable items, ensuring timely follow-up and resolution of critical project elements.

Coordinated activities across multiple project teams, ensuring seamless collaboration and project alignment.

Managed projects using MS Project Server, optimizing project tracking and reporting capabilities.

Developed comprehensive Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) to define project scope and tasks, ensuring clarity and accountability.

Tracked and reported on project budgets and financials, maintaining fiscal transparency for program stakeholders.

Managed and validated financial forecasts, performing ongoing reconciliation of resources and project expenditures.

Assisted in planning, preparing, and maintaining project team schedules and work plan updates, escalating early warnings as needed.

Maintained robust project documentation repositories, ensuring accessibility and compliance with enterprise standards.

Provided support to clients in business case preparation and problem resolution, focusing on overall business solutions.

Validated resource forecasting and performed reconciliation for a $17M Wealth Management program, optimizing resource utilization.

Validated project budget allocations and conducted financial reconciliation for the $17M program, ensuring fiscal accuracy.

Ensured project documentation adherence to firm-wide SDLC guidelines and established processes, maintaining quality standards.

Developed and maintained critical project artifacts, including timelines, status reports, and documentation repositories, for the duration of the program.

Identified and tracked project issues, facilitating timely resolution and minimizing project disruptions.

Coordinated service delivery for production and service improvements, ensuring seamless operational transitions.

Produced weekly and monthly capital expenditure forecasts for the PMO for a $20M+ program, ensuring accurate financial planning.

Documented and tracked all project risks, issues, change requests (CRs), and action items, maintaining comprehensive project oversight.

Monitored, reconciled, and processed invoices, accurately tracking actual project costs to ensure budget adherence.

Analyzed and explained budget and forecast variances, providing insights for financial adjustments and strategic decision-making.

Assisted project teams in delivering project scope on-time and within budget, contributing to successful project completion.

Utilized project management methodologies to provide consistent and reusable documentation across all projects.

Developed scope and managed the planning, implementation, and delivery of complex projects (over $1.5M) to meet client requirements.

Tracked all project risks, issues, change requests, and action items, ensuring comprehensive project oversight.

Developed and managed project budgets, ensuring financial control and adherence to targets.

Managed project teams to deliver project scope on-time and within budget, contributing to successful project completion.

Responded to issues and managed customer expectations regarding changes throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring client satisfaction.

Utilized project management methodologies to provide consistent and reusable documentation across all client projects.

Supported project managers in tracking project progress and maintaining comprehensive project documentation.

Coordinated project activities and communications to ensure smooth execution and stakeholder alignment.

Monitored project timelines and budgets, identifying potential deviations and recommending corrective actions.

Assisted Project Managers in planning and tracking project schedules and deliverables.

Maintained project documentation, including status reports and meeting minutes.

Facilitated communication between project teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment.

Managed project scope, budget, and timelines, ensuring successful project delivery.

Coordinated project resources and activities to achieve project objectives.

Communicated project status and progress to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment.