PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• An innovative Project Manager with 10+ years experience in implementing various multi - million dollar infrastructure projects ranging from server/VM, network, LAN/WAN/WLAN, telecommunications/Voice, and back-end data center implementations to end-user device field deployments all to support application development, remediation, and go live. I have in-depth experience working with application developers, infrastructure engineers and project stakeholders with a proven track record of being able to drive projects to successful completion using my ability to adapt quickly in rapidly changing fast paced environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network Software / LAN/WAN/ Back Up/End User Mobility Tools: LAN/WAN solutions utilizing Windows Servers, Citrix Workspace App, Virtual Host, Solaris Firewall, Palo Alto Firewall, Tape Backup Systems, VMWare Airwatch, Content Locker, Drop Box, NetMotion Diagnostics Mobility IQ, Open Flow SDN, Copper/Fiber to Top of Rack, Spine Leaf Technologies

Operating Systems: Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 Server, Active Directory, Unix(Solaris), Red Hat Linux, IBM S/360, IBM S370, Windows OS 32/64

Citrix Tools: Citrix Gateway, Citrix Access Control, Citrix ADC

Data Integration Platforms/DBMS: ApacheSpark, Hadoop MapReduce, R-Studio - Java, Scala, Phython, R Splunk, Spark,IBM WebSphere App Server, TIBCO, Apache 2.x, Tomcat 6.x, Oracle, Infosys, MS SQL Server, Aster Data TeraData, Interbase, IBM DB 2, Informatica-Data Explorer, High Availability Disaster Recovery Lift and Shift

Big Data Technology Stack: Splunk,, Cloudera, Horton/HDP, Spark, Hive,Kafka, Storm, R, HDFS Cassandra, Apache Solr,Amazon EC2 & S3 and Microsoft Azure, Architecting on AWS Cloud

Browser: Internet Explorer, Latest Google Chrome, Latest Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge

Methodologies / Techniques: Lean Agile Methodology-Scrum, Kanban, SEI CMMI Level 3, Waterfall SDLC, PMI Project Management Framework,JIRA

Desktop Tools: MS Office, MS Project (Server) Share Point, Primavera, PlanView, Lotus Notes, Plan Plus

Other: ServiceNow, PlanPlus Expert, Create Project Charter, SOW, Project Work plans including, WBS, Staffing Plan, Project Schedule, Project Budget, Communications Plan, Quality Plan, Change, Issue, Risk Management Plans

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Project Manager (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Managed project to purchase, refresh, and distribute 29,900 Flight Attendants iPhone 8+ and Sleds.
• Managed replacement of 1,575 iPads used for by airport mobility operations. Project included procurement, kitting, device enrollment, stage, manage, track, check in/checkout of refreshed inventory.
• Managed Crew Technology Platform Modernization Database server resiliency implementation. Project involved the delivery of new infrastructure services to include VM environments for Tibco, Couchbase, WAS, Tomcat, and other applicable components for High Availability Disaster Recovery.
• Manage Amazon Web Service Cloud infrastructure project that connected on-premise tools and applications to Micro Services and Vendor API services in the cloud. to enable improved experience for Agents and customers.
• Managed Network Operations Mobility Diagnostics project. This effort implemented a tool to monitor and report the connectivity state of end user devices.
• Managed project status reporting via Plan Plus and MS Project in accordance with corporate PMO standards.
• Request and tracked IT Services and resources via Service Now request.
• Manage projects as a single point of contact, and develop Project charters, detailed work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans and status reports. Facilitated project meetings. Provided Financial Planning and analysis services.

Confidential, Bloomington IL

Senior Project Manager (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Managed project to address End of Life Middleware component remediation, focused on Middleware and Java products server upgrades. Managed using Extended Spreadsheet Database and Pivot Tables for over 12,000 servers in US and Europe.
• Request and tracked IT Services and resources via Pac2000 Remedy for WebLogic, TomCat, Apache web/application servers., Advanced Excel Pivot Table Database Expertise.

Confidential, Bloomington IL

Senior Project Manager (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Managed Infrastructure upgrade projects that executed work plan to upgrade Aster nCluster, SAS Server, R-Studio, Cran Mirror, Megaputer Poly Analyst, Palo Alto Firewall, Veriant, text mining tool. Asset alignment enabled application segregation, improving stability, throughput and user satisfaction, repositioned code repository to comply with corporate legal standards for open source tools, resulting in lower costs for network usage, higher performance and security enhancements. Implemented Business Intelligence Analytics Big Data Target Platform Architecture and Disaster Recovery implementation
• Managed Infrastructure upgrade project that executed work to plan, test, and migrate to upgrade version of SQL Server. There were 160 applications to be migrated. Coordinated design, availability requirements, s, service windows. Servers were ordered, stood up and certified via Service Now Requests
• Request and tracked IT Services and resources via Service Now request.
• Manage projects as a single point of contact, and develop Project charters, detailed work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans and status reports. Facilitated project meetings. Provided Financial Planning and analysis services.