SUMMARY:

• Senior professional with over 18 years of experience in IT and in Project Management, in multinational / multilingual corporate environments.
• Managed projects or programs and cross - functional teams in different geographical locations (USA, Latin-America & Africa) for large global companies like
• Confidential, Confidential, FMC, Shell, Anadarko, Chevron-Texaco, Repsol, Weatherford, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and CEMEX.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile Central (Rally)
• ITIL
• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• .NET
• PWA
• SQL
• SharePoint
• Office 365
• Office Suite
• Project, Visio, Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint
• MS Access
• AutoCAD
• Photoshop
• Public Speaking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gather and review business or sponsor requirements, develop and propose a solution design, define the project scope, develop budget (SOW/BOM) for approval and also develop a project plan/schedule.
• Provided weekly status reports to project sponsors, managers, the PMO and C-level stakeholders.
• Conformed to PMO guidelines/requirements and kept the PMO SharePoint repository site up to date.
• Organized, scheduled and managed team meetings, teleconferences, site survey & other related events.
• Develop/prepare project related documents: diagrams/designs, status reports, budgets and schedules.
• Managed the planning and deployment of a call-center Voice Analytics (NICE/Nexidia) solution.
• Developed IT solution for disaster recovery, to support present and future business continuity plans.
• Manage the sizing and deployment of required VMs and other internal / private cloud resources.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Prepared budgets, plans, estimates, risk assessments and cost/benefit analysis for C-level audiences.
• Managed the development/deployment of home-grown airport/airline related custom applications & solutions, using Agile / Scrum project management methodologies (using PWA and Rally as PM tools).
• Managed relocation / migration of legacy application(s) & hosts form an old datacenter to the new one.
• Investigated and determined the infrastructure requirements for multiple UA applications or platforms like UA’s mobile app (messaging & customer notifications), Airport Kiosks upgrade, add commercial ads to the Gate Information Displays System (GIDS), Aircraft Wi-Fi, Seat Re-accommodation & other.
• Managed the deployment of IT infrastructure needed by home-grown / custom applications that had dependencies or interactions with database platforms (SQL) and mainframe-based legacy systems.
• Reviewed and tested cloud solutions from Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure) and other providers.
• Managed IT staff, other PMs, contractors, service providers, plus related procurement and contracts.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. IT Project / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed IT project budget estimates of up to $3.8 Million dollars, performed benefit / risk analysis and provided weekly status reports to sponsors, managers, key stakeholders and C-level executives.
• Performed cost/benefit and risk analysis, also prepared presentations, reports, prepared Gantt charts, schedules and project related expenditure reports for sponsors, stakeholders and C-level executives.
• Utilized MS PWA / Project, Clarity and enterprise query, reporting and analysis tools (like Oracle BI).
• Maintained and improved the SharePoint (2013) project repository / site where all project related materials, information and meeting recordings were stored (and the related SQL back-end database).
• Organized and moderated/conducted physical and virtual/remote project team conferences/meetings.
• Reviewed / created PMO related documentation (process diagrams, documentation and templates). On average managed about 20 concurrent projects of all sizes and at different stages / phases.
• Managed IT infrastructure projects that included servers, network equipment, wireless technology, copper/fiber cabling, UPS, electrical wiring & grounding, racks/cabinets, A/V systems/solutions, Cisco CM / VoIP, security/surveillance systems, as well as gas plant automation and monitoring systems.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Global IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Presented / reported project status / progress (dashboards) for team level and C-suit audiences.
• Organized and conducted physical and virtual/remote project team meetings and teleconferences.
• Worked with Architects (GC), Facilities Managers and Regional Directors in Latin America.
• Managed IT infrastructure (Waterfall) diverse IT projects, with budgets up to $2.5 Million dollars.
• Managed the design and build-out of Data-Centers, IT-rooms, MDFs, IDFs, AV and control Rooms.
• Managed the design/upgrade/deploy of IT infrastructure in industrial sites, camps and office facilities including: servers, network gear & cabling, UPS & electrical wiring/grounding, voice/data, circuits, phones/communications, precision A/C systems, raised floors and security/surveillance systems.
• Saved the Confidential over $500,000 by carefully validating project requirements, re-defining the project scope to better match business needs and by carefully auditing vendor proposals and invoices.
• Reviewed business requirements, proposed solution, developed project budgets for AFE approval.
• On average managed about 18 concurrent projects of all sizes, at different stages or phases.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Program / Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed programs/projects and 14 Project Managers for Unitex Global’s Clients in Latin-America.
• Communicated with and sent weekly status reports to project sponsor and other C-level stakeholders.
• Managed ERP / SAP / Oracle / .NET related projects (SDLC) using Agile / Scrum methodologies.
• Requested vendor proposals (RFP), conducted bid processes and determined the best options or bid.

Confidential

Construction Program / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed/managed the “Malibu” project, to build energy efficient family homes in South America.
• Evaluated home designs and infrastructure plans with architects, city planners and builders.
• Managed contractors, suppliers, service providers, coordinators and two other project managers.
• Managed the design and deployment of the projects web-site and internal Share-Point repository.

Confidential

IT Operations, Help Desk and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT staff and PMs, as well as contractors, service providers, and their related contracts.
• Managed support technicians, migrations and upgrades/decommissions of servers or related systems.
• Managed IT infrastructure projects that covered servers, network, telecom, and security systems.
• Managed Windows/UNIX server & operating system deployments/upgrades and related applications.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed IT infrastructure (Waterfall) projects (networking, cabling, communications, security, server and other) for Confidential, Chevron-Texaco (network integration) and Continental Airlines.
• Successfully managed Data-Center relocation, migration and decommission projects at different sites.
• Managed projects to develop or upgrade ERP and CRM solutions, as well as home-grown applications (SDLC), with back-end database systems like SQL, Oracle and legacy UNIX based systems).

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Regional & global project management (reviewing requirements, budgeting, planning, implementing).
• Member of the Y2K commission, tasked with eliminating Y2K vulnerabilities in different IT systems.