PROFILE:

• Senior project / program manager responsible for the scheduling and management of significant, complex, strategic and technical programs and projects.
• I possess nineteen years of project management experience and have developed into an expert in project management methodologies both Agile and SCRUM utilizing Microsoft tools integration.
• Having worked twenty years as a chief information officer in technology infrastructure, software, systems and communications development my breadth of experience has exposed me to diverse, enterprise level information systems and projects many involving the replacement or upgrade of diverse legacy environments and infrastructures.
• Instrumental in the creation of Confidential ’s first Program Management Office and its integration into the project and program communities.
• This while managing both portfolio and program level deployments and schedules from conception to completion.
• These experiences have provided me with a strong working knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure, Process / Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Business Analysis, Networking / Communications, Integrated Systems Libraries, Content Types, Document Sets and Meta Data.
• I truly believe that responsibility is a mark of distinction and has made me a much more focused, intellectual and productive individual.

KEY SKILLS:

• Portfolio Management Methodologies
• SDLC
• Business Case Development
• Agile
• Macroscope
• SCRUM
• Project Framework
• Customer Reviews
• Issue Escalation
• Negotiation / Resolution
• Client / Vendor Relations
• Forecasting
• Risk Analysis
• Cost Mitigation
• Information Technology Integration
• Systems Upgrade and Migration
• Requirements Gathering
• Internal / External Audit
• Program Launch/Closure
• Lean Business Process Documentation
• Data Mapping and Quality Assurance
• Broadband Technologies
• Customer Relationship
• Systems Operations Management
• Data Networking
• Mobile Communications
• Internet / Protocols
• UX Design
• Platform Systems Compatibility and Confirmation
• Systems Implementation, Development and Maintenance
• Documentation Verification of Business Case Use
• Virtual and International Project Management
• Purchasing, Procurement and Resource Management
• Classified / Unclassified Software and Hardware Systems Design
• Utilization of Historical and Forecast data to perform Variance Analysis and Risk Analysis / Review thus insuring a continuous Return on Investment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Project
• MS SharePoint
• MS Excel (Pivot Tables)
• Access
• Mac OS
• Emacspeak
• AutoCAD
• Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Dynamics CRM
• Lync / Unix
• OneNote
• AWS
• OPP
• MySQL
• Open Plan View
• Primavera / P3e
• Open Source Software
• SDLC
• ITIL
• ITSM
• EMC
• ALM Tools
• .NET Development
• Dynamic CRM
• Network Design / Security
• VOIP
• Data Emcryption / Decryption
• Cloud Technologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Analyst, WA

Responsibilities:

• Performed as project manager with Confidential to transform the wholesale vehicle buying and selling experience through investments and upgrades in technology, innovative products and services.
• Dynamics and other respected tools to the remarketing industry in eleven countries.
• Met with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements for each project.
• Developed comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members.
• I tracked project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short - and long-term goals and customer satisfaction..

Confidential

Project Analyst, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Participation in capital project funding coordination teams to develop the documentation required for work order authorization and capital project change management requests.
• Receiving and reviewing requests for work order authorizations and revisions of capital project budgets to validate that the proposed actions meet the requirements of state law, legislative appropriations acts, Office of Financial Management instructions, departmental / division policies, best practices and prudent financial management.
• Determining that secured funding is available; requests are consistent with approved capital project scope, budget and schedule found in the Last Approved Project List (LAPR) or operating budget allocations, adequate information is included to provide visibility, transparency and submittals are accurate and complete.
• Preparing and entering formal work order authorization and capital change management requests into WSDOT electronic systems.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager, Auburn, WA

Responsibilities:

• Scheduled and replaced mechanized systems in eight different buildings including the acquisition and installation of all systems mechanisms for air filtration housings, discharge air silencers, cooling towers, piping systems and control panels.
• I was also responsible for preparation of milestone charts and reports while interfacing with multiple cross functional teams and initiatives to determine risk, collect key schedule data, provide, process current data and close out documentation.
• Prepared and entered all formal work order authorization and capital change management requests.
• All systems evaluated were legacy end of life and in pending risk of complete failure, shutting down and imminently damaging many of the manufacturing production line systems and other machinery in the buildings.

Confidential

Site Manager, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Served as Project / Site Manager responsible for working with Veterans Administration hospital staff and contractors to design, install and implement a Confidential Enterprise Real Time Logistics System (RTLS) at the Veterans Administration American Lake and Seattle Hospital sites.
• Managed the installation, relocated, and upgrade of the onsite Cisco switches, and routers.
• Determined connection of T1 circuits, configuration and setup of routers and switches for all clients.
• Built development lab for pre-development and deployment of client configuration routing scripts.
• This along with other assistive technologies such as command line test screen readers, graphical screen readers and accessibility API’s.
• Participated with all capital project funding coordination teams to develop and authenticate all road mapping, requirements gathering, backlog grooming, scoping and visioning required.
• I was responsible for all subcontract bidding and eventual determination of contractors.
• I was also in charge of scrum teams, website debugging and all requirements to insure complete customer satisfaction and approval at each site.
• In addition I also performed as backup and consultant for the Portland and Vancouver site installations.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Primary project manager accountable for the implementation of Confidential Asset Management web based inventory tracking system that consolidated five existing legacy systems which were at end of life cycle, difficult to support and unable to share data.
• Established a lightweight Scrum project management and change management process utilizing information technology infrastructure organization and worked as team lead to meet sprint goals.
• Collaborated with marketing, acquisition, researcher’s development team partners and internal/external stakeholders to prepare maintain, promote product road map and drive new product adoption.
• Project was instrumental in reducing operational risks, increasing operating efficiencies and available features while achieving considerable costs savings.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Proposed and implemented legacy information systems upgrade projects which involved updating multiple systems throughout the Confidential .
• Oversaw asset deployment functionality ensuring smooth transition of Cisco network inventory, aggregation, and auditing and database part catalog utilizing CRM Dynamics.
• Managed projects which converted databases of various configurations and sizes from obsolete legacy IBM JCL 3270 mainframe systems to ACCESS, Oracle, and Outlook thin client environments.
• All projects completed ahead of schedule and met or were below budget estimates. Many projects achieving a 50% or more life cycle cost savings over previous environments.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager, Anaheim, CA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented multiple update projects which transferred over three hundred legacy out of date courses to new courseware subcontractors throughout the Puget Sound area.
• I also served as primary interface for requests and responses to vendor requirements, inquiries and concerns.
• These projects utilized agile and were comprised of various types and sizes ranging from manufacturing to internet, website and programming courseware.

Confidential

Student, Seattle, WA

Responsibilities:

• Attended Confidential completing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology with specialties in Systems Development and Management Program Planning.
• My grades placed me on the Dean’s List all four consecutive semesters achieving a Grade Point Average of 3.6 while completing the four year degree in an eighteen month period.