SUMMARY:

• Senior Technical Project Manager with 15 years infrastructure and application deployment experience. End to end life cycle project and program management initiatives, delivered on schedule and within budget.
• Reputation for leading complex Infrastructure and Application projects, by coordinating project lifecycle phases involving design, testing, applications and infrastructure implementation, through operations launch
• Proficiency managing matrixed cross functional project teams, including service management of vendor contracts through: Forecasting, Budgeting, Purchasing, Invoicing and Auditing
• Self motivated, detailed - oriented professional, with excellent verbal, written, analytical and problem solving skills, proven ability to cultivate team collaboration, with exceptional commitment to stakeholder engagement.
• Talent to persuade, influence and negotiate, balance priorities, utilizing time management and organization skills, while navigating change in fast paced, complex and demanding environments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered NFL 2015 broadcast infrastructure and application deployments ahead of Season Start
• Transitioned and integrated Live Clips physical and logical platform from Stamford, CT to Los Angeles Broadcast Center in time for NFL Season Launch
• Completed and handed off high profile and complex Application projects including Evolve, Adobe Primetime, C3 Mobile and Cross Platform Content Management System
• Coordinated on-site vendors and third party teams to complete the Integration and Cabling of Network and Systems equipment for the CAMC Redundancy initiative
• Vetted designs by correcting and validating Network, Systems and Storage Architecture documentation
• Collaborated with Broadcast Operations to drive maintenance window schedules, ensured they followed Global Approval Board procedures for operations project delivery
• Conducted Scrum meetings and ensured all impediments were addressed based on priority and timescales
• Presented periodic updates via DAIR logs and dashboards to all senior management and executives

Confidential

Network Closure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engineered the strategic migration of backbone traffic off the Infonet optical platform onto BT’s network
• Built eight Infonet-BT interconnects and completed dial internet backbone traffic migrations
• Delivered 100 global site infrastructure equipment decommission, pick-up and disposal requirements
• Managed internal and external technical teams and communicated progress via executive level presentations
• Escalated and resolved issues associated with limited resources and tight maintenance windows
• Aligned with internal operation teams, ensuring minimal migration impact to workflows and customers
• Communicated risks and changes effectively through leading weekly project meetings and action plans
• Provided team progress reports interacting with all levels of the organization throughout the life of the project

Vendor Service Manager

Responsibilities:

• Regulated and arbitrated the supplier performance in meeting SLA’s and key contractual indicators
• Prepared and presented reports defining project progress, issues, problems and resolutions
• Managed project resource allocation, performed risk management and drove process improvements
• Validated financial forecasts and provided ongoing cost-benefits analysis for the program
• Implemented and managed project changes and interventions to achieve project goals
• Tracked project deliverables using MS project, dashboards and RAG reports
• Managed supplier performance through weekly and monthly meeting forums
• Multitasked by resolving issues between supplier and stakeholders, documenting lessons learned

Senior Implementation Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for deployment and network implementation of routers switches and networks
• Pioneered change control by simplifying and standardizing in-house processes and tools
• Hired and integrated new personnel, providing hands-on and documented processes and procedures.
• Communicated effectively with internal management, development, testing and operation teams
• Produced statistics surrounding node migration, upgrades and network capacity planning and management
• Collaborated with site technicians as they conducted physical site surveys in Northern California

Confidential

Infrastructure Build Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed the network build of Optical, ATM, Frame Relay, Remote Access, IP, VoIP infrastructure projects
• Project managed the analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and capacity planning phases
• Defined and mapped project scope, goals, tasks, deliverables and resource requirements for rollouts
• Produced periodic problem and solution reports, to ensure stakeholders were kept engaged and informed
• Resolved issues associated with project risk, challenges and dependencies via process improvements
• Managed multiple projects varying in size and wide range of disciplines, including networking and software
• Resolved project conflicts effectively with engineering teams including development and operations teams
• Saved Infonet $600,000 by auditing vendor maintenance quotes and highlighting discrepancies