SUMMARY:

• A proven executive with over twenty years experience in Project and Program Management, currently in Information Technology but I excel in other corporate disciplines as well, such as Real Estate, End User Technology, Asset Management and Service Delivery divisions. I have developed successful methodologies for technology projects involving
• IT refresh programs, such as Divestiture & Systems Integrations, Desktop Hardware & Image Upgrades, Asset Management and various technology rollouts & upgrades in small & large scale corporate environments. With a successful track record in delivering national and global initiatives as well as small scale IT related projects for high profile and “Fortune 500” clients. I am an executive who not only specializes in technology development plans. But also demonstrates business smarts by managing multidisciplinary assignments with other lines of and non - technology related corporate services towers. Expertise with the following:
• IT and technical project planning and Leadership, communication, coaching, influencing, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Strong leadership skills including people management, process organization & planning, negotiating and issue resolution capabilities.
• Clear knowledge of desktop IT related technologies such as SMS, CITRIX, SLA’s, and infrastructure systems.
• Technology Migration / Relocation & Divesting. Defining company & business units’ requirements. Risk management.
• Broad understanding of the divestiture & integration process, desktop networking, application distribution, market data services, and distributed systems.
• Ability to understand information and grasp new concepts quickly, enabling understanding of the adoption tools and techniques to be deployed

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Advanced systems knowledge of the following; IT migration and update planning, specifically for large companies merging or divesting business units or entire divisions. Clear understanding of business best practices methodologies. Project Estimating, PMI Project Management Methodology. Desktop network infrastructure and desktop image upgrades. Asset Management tracking & implementation. Program management of multiple facilities builds and expansions, specializing in planning and migration of assets, employees or consultants. All Microsoft Office Applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Livingston, New Jersey

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• I currently manage multiple IT related projects for Confidential, specifically in the Open Systems division. My primary responsibility is as a Senior Program Manager, I’m responsible for driving to completion multiple initiatives. These include global initiatives, typically ranging from complex hardware & software upgrades, to tools management implementations such as I-Quate. I’m currently involved in managing the installation of Trend Deep Penetration AV for the entire Confidential server infrastructure. I’m responsible for: coordinating, defining, staffing, and managing multiple points in the project initiatives. I manage the reporting for the teams, and work streams that work across many business lines, and Information Systems teams.
• As the Sr. Program Manager, I am the point of contact with management and various regional directors on the project(s) from inception. I have developed the project schedules, and coordinate project status meetings; manage multiple resources in all phases of the project lifecycle. I work with the project business owner(s) to oversee on time delivery of the project(s) and report schedule, cost, and execution performance.

Confidential, New York, New York

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• My primary responsibility is to conduct medium to large - scale, renew or rebuild projects. Once a project is identified, budgeted and approved, I would manage a group of staff using the PMI planning methodology. For all projects I would conduct meetings with contractors, relevant PM s, asset owners, management oversight and move teams to ensure deadlines were met.
• Manage and execute all aspects of the projects. Identify, plan, check risks, budgets, and deployment, follow up.
• Create a highly organized team with ability to multi-task.
• Establish excellent communication at all levels of the project.
• Identify and quantify issues then execute plans to obtain desired results.

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the regional testing of Confidential business applications with new Dell Hardware for the North and South Americas region.
• Tested and deployed the new desktop image (Ivory) throughout the AMERS regions.
• Prior to Ivory, I was the Sr. Project Manager supporting the desktop migration of the combined companies of Thompson Financial & Reuters in New York City and the Americas.
• Divested and integrated multiple business units from Reuters to Thompson Financial.
• Coordination/facilitation of all move related IT activities. This included 4,500 user migrations throughout America. I developed the move related issues logs and technical support documents, and was the key representative for issues related to moves in the America’s for the legacy Reuters users
• Managed and executed the project plans and developed the milestones and timelines that impact on the current different desktop environments.
• During the merger I was the Sr. IT Project Manager for many facility consolidations nationwide, including Atlanta, Chicago and New York offices.
• I facilitated project meetings between different organizational IT towers, and the local business units. I also coordinated budget reviews and actively managed the projects to completion.
• I actively managed the business unit’s expectations, as well as my management’s expectations so they could do reporting in earnest. Issues that were discovered during the pre-move testing were resolved using the core technology support teams at both legacy companies.

Confidential, New York, New York

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• I was the IT Program Manager for the national rollout of a vehicle identification program for the country of Costa Rica. Working with BTI Costa Rica and the Ministry of vehicle registration and Ministry of Auto Insurance this 35 million dollar project developed a secure vehicle identification program to combat car theft in Central America.
• The Sr. Program Manager for the development of IT and Infrastructure project plans for a Bio-Diesel project under development for a private company in Costa Rica CA.

Confidential, New York, New York

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted the project management functions for the Global Desktop Support (GDS) desktop Integration project, specifically to bring the the Bank of New York functions into the JPMorgan division of Chase Bank. I performed all the coordination and facilitation of all IT activities including moving personal and corporate files, home and share data, as well as application integration required for the end user desktop support for all users migrating to the bank.
• Managed and executed the project plans that provided CITRIX and other desktop services to the overall organizations’ Line of Business (LOB) while developing milestones and timelines that impact on the current different desktop environments. I was also responsible for divesting business units not migrating.
• I was the Sr. Project Manager supporting many facility consolidations nationwide for the Project Management Office. Once business units were listed as being integrated or divested, I facilitated the project meetings between different organizational and IT towers, as well as the local business units. I also coordinated budget reviews and actively managed the projects to completion. Working with other (GDS) towers, I managed, the migration or divestiture of multiple business units from different desktop environments to the bank standard OneDesk.
• Finally a smaller secondary project was established and I was assigned the Sr. Project Manager role for CHF HQ division relocation in Edison, New Jersey. This project estimated IT specific budget 5.3M consisting of 710 FTE’s and contractors.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated interim re-stacks and post move re-organizations as well as IT support schedules for dynamic groups on weekends and nights.
• Coordinated and directed the relocation of 500+ employees. Developed the technical specification of the support process including; risk management, move schedules, equipment tracking specifications, and instructional reporting guides.
• Facilitated meetings with technicians, various business units, and subcontractors.. Created project plans, mover & real estate specifications and time tables.

Confidential, New York, New York

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Relocated all of the Confidential employees (4000+) and its IT equipment, back to the 200 Vessey Street Tower at the World Financial Center at Ground Zero. This project managed a staff of 20 and a $5.5 million dollar budget, it was fast tracked and completed in just months instead of years.
• I coordinated and directed the relocation of IT related equipment and employees from five different locations throughout the metropolitan New York City and New Jersey area.
• Developed the technical specification of the support process including; risk management, move schedules, equipment tracking specifications, and instructional reporting guides.

Confidential, Hoboken, New Jersey

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed, managed and executed the IT design of a 100,000 sq.ft, facility.
• Directed the IT voice and cable installation with architects, vendors and client representatives.
• Negotiated the bid process and ed several Information Technology related infrastructure contracts, which included cable, audiovisual and security contractors.
• Responsible for a $1.2 million dollar Information Technology budget.
• Developed infrastructure plan for an 80,000 sq. ft. facility on two floors, including support for a 200-position trading floor facility, with a 2,500 sq. ft. data center and 400 back office personnel at 1633 Broadway NYC.
• Prepared a $3.6 million dollar capital and expense budget.
• Facilitated design and implementation meetings with Robertson Stephens IT department and project teams in San Francisco, Boston and New York.
• Coordinated and directed HBO’s IT related infrastructure upgrade design team, consisting of a 25,000 sq.ft. data center and 12 floors of office space.
• Prepared a $1.8 million dollar upgrade strategy for HBO’s existing cable, data center and infrastructure of IT operations.
• Provided a “Risk Management” specification for potential move scenarios.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and facilitated meetings with the telecommunications consultant and client project teams in Chicago, Stamford, Boston and Atlanta.
• Negotiated and ed several telecommunications contracts with various telecommunication vendors.
• Initiated complete telecommunications proposals for all company locations.

Confidential, Carrollton, Texas

District Manager

Responsibilities:

• Upon acquisition, coordinated the operations integration of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner into Confidential . Managed staff of 150, including sales, marketing, operations and management personnel.

Confidential, Hoboken, New Jersey

Manager of Information Systems

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented a digital PBX telephone system and multiple point-to-point T-1 connections to remote sites. Designed and produced a proprietary software package to operate a restaurant delivery company. Evaluated proposed data processing projects to assess adequacy of existing hardware and recommended purchase of equipment.

Confidential, Garden City, New York

Business Administration

Responsibilities:

• Publications:Co-author of an Information Technology related design article, “New Technology for Trading Floors.” Archi-Tech Magazine (Nov/Dec 2001)