SUMMARY:

• A Senior Program/Project Manager with experience managing team of 10 to 200 people, working with offshore, onshore and outsourced teams on infrastructure deployment, experience in delivering technology solutions to Global corporations, Supported upgrades of Security platform, Microsoft, - IE, Ariba, Oracle, Hyperion, People soft, Strengths in managing full life cycle technical SDLC projects from initiation through implementation, Strong technical background with proven experience in
• Response Management, Vendor Management, Responsible for Performance Reviews, Schedule, Timelines, Project Report, PMO, Budget and Cost ($500k to $30 M budgets), coordinating resources, WBS, equipment, vendors and consultants across multiple projects, Developing and monitoring project plans, risk/issue,

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: Microsoft product deployment/migration- (Win7, Communicator, Exchange, Internet Explorer, Office), Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris), Wintel Servers, Virtualization Technology Skills (VMware), Windows Operating Systems, Networking/Telecomm) (Cisco-Juniper), Citrix, Voice data collection systems ( Confidential corp. com) VoIP-SIP, IMS, IPT, IVR VPN, MPLS, DWDM, Storage-SAN/NAS (EMC,Hitachi, NetApps), MQ, SOA, Cloud Computing, Directory Services (LDAP, Active Directory), Call centers, Window 7, SharePoint Data manipulation, Desktop refresh and roll out, Hyperion, Oracle apps, Cognos, Computron, Ariba, People soft, SDN (Security) Web design, ecommerce etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage separation project of data center Infrastructure as a result of split of business units and financial Business units of Confidential . The major task is production and QA data and voice servers migration-with team of 50+ technical resources, Trained other Release Managers for ATS Tooling systems such as SDM12, GOOGLE dash board etc to ensure that the services delivered to customers meet the established Service Level Agreements and quality standards.
• To support corporate securities, prepared secure access rules spreadsheet to provide secure access to application and resources. Worked with Cisco engineers to extract Voice, IVR and network, Firewall, application data for existing network and help design the new network infrastructure, prepare budget for equipment, labor cost and time frame. Raised change tickets and managed the implementation for Firewalls, FW Spelunk, LB, GLB, P2P, P2V,V2V,Cloning, Storage, Monitoring, KVM, LDOM, Routing, IP, Backup, Applications, Implementation, and Testing plan, Manage very aggressive migration events that runs 7/24

Confidential

IT Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked under governance program for an infrastructure tools optimization project evaluating 300 tools, identified within infrastructure.
• Identified what tools can be retired, which are still being used, etc. categorized each tool into the ITIL categories.
• Collaborated with corporate compliance team to make sure that the retained tools are approved by the corporate compliances management
• Worked with Business units on retained tools to consolidate based on ITIL category, migrate the managed devices and retire the unused tools,
• Coordinated with Accenture and other on and offshore teamUpgraded end of life tool (SMARTS and eHealth
• Managed SMARTS upgrades, Evaluated the Upgrade of eHealth- Prepared requirements documents, evaluated replacement tool, test network/application and prepared project plan to migrate entire network.
• Managed budget, forecast and variances for each project and phases.

Confidential

Technical Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• As a PM - worked under governance program to eliminate duplicate services due to merger and work on program to build new platform to bring all external vendor under one managed network.
• Managed the overall responsibility, Relationship Management - Partners with Technology Information Services, project Budget and scope, including Documentation,- processes- as built, finance and variances,
• Managed multiple projects for production data center migration of applications and servers at several data centers with on shore and off shore HP resources
• Migrated 10, 000 FW access rules from Check point FW to Juniper FW to support secured access to external vendor and business partners.
• Worked with Prod and QA application owners, deployment team network and storage engineers, facility, transport, on and off shore Storage, network, DNS, Firewall, Application team to initiate and managed set of VM based server farm migration to new infrastructure.
• Supported VOR clients by confirmed application inventory, issue, pre and post testing and acceptance, function as the primary point of contact between Technology and the Lines of Business (LOB) partners.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a large HP migration of data center servers from 11 data centers to 2 data Centers, including the replication of storage for each server group
• Experienced on VMAX (enterprise storage) and VNX ( mid-tier) for replication of high availability, to support lots of drives, many ports, etc
• Worked with application owners, deployment team network, storage engineers, facility, transport, on and off shore team, Application team to initiate and manage set of servers for the migration during a given window,
• Prepared and validated application inventory and prepared and addressed risk/issue list, pre and post migration testing and acceptance, Prepared migration close out document for EMC and Confidential

Confidential

IT Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Accenture offshore and on shore team
• Worked on Internal Cloud platform-Upgraded 200+ websites to IE8 for marketing for Confidential ’s sales force Globally,
• Acted as a conduit between technology and multiple business areas on both projects and production support to analyze issues and potential solutions Troubleshoot and triage infrastructure issues and escalate to appropriate groups.
• Perform checkouts post OS/application/firmware upgrades
• Collaborated closely with decision makers in other departments in order to identify, recommend, implement and support cost-effective technology solutions for all BCP solutions.
• Strong hands on experience network troubleshooting, high availability (Oracle RAC, Unix Clustering, VERITAS,)
• Managed Oracle application migration to Oracle Cloud and deployed third party oracle applications at primary and back up Data centers.
• Learned and worked with EMEA team who were using PRINCE2 -PM tool.A widely recognized and used in the private sector, both in the UK and internationally.
• Managed database migrations from existing Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and UDB platforms to new infrastructure leveraging high-density virtualization, CPU sharing, clustering, and other replication technologies. Supported the Oracle applications outsourcing project.
• Migrated Oracle applications to Oracle and other 3rd party Oracle applications to new VM based servers.
• Handled the storage reclaims following the application migration and saved $2Mil in storage cost annually. Managed the production applications migration by ensuring Confidential ’s security compliances
• Worked with applications vendor such as Microsoft, Ariba, Oracle, Hyperion, People soft, Computron etc to resolve migration issues.

Confidential, South Brunswick, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintained multi-site project plans to report on milestones, deliverables, weekly status, scheduled completion dates, gap analysis and critical path issues to management and business unit representatives.
• Facilitated the communication of issues between internal IT groups and out sources vendor though weekly and ad-hoc meetings
• Worked on DS3, OC3, OC12, OC48 DWDM, Frame relay and MPLS
• Conducted high-level meetings with business unit managers from various Publications Services to gather requirements and discuss challenges associated with sites targeted for deployment of their respective units.
• Managed and tested Microsoft Exchange migrations for pilot users before start of Global deployment.
• Managed and deployed Infrastructure technologies (VM based wireless server, messaging, SDN, Blackberry, remote access, Oracle, Cisco, NT, HP-Unix, SAN, WAN, ecommerce, People soft, Citrix,, VoIP, Window 7
• Managed the setupof AD - Active Directory in Forest environment to support new division with staff of 200+ employees at New York office forDow Jones. Added Wireless, Blackberry, messaging/exchange, FTP, MAC servers to domain, deploying anti-virus solution and Varonis for the corporate NAS and Upgrades of the Firewalls in PACRIM and EMEA
• Managed an infrastructure supporting Servers and Application deployments to Win7-desktop environment, Infrastructure Management, Resource Planning, Project Management. New Desktop hardware and Operating System upgrades.
• Maintained information on Share Point for contract documents, amendments, changes, acceptance signoff, etc.
• Performed Process and procedures improvements to help reduce cost for Data Center Operations.
• Worked with Storage, servers, firewall, network engineering, security services, voice and mail support team to deploy projects for Global business units,
• Worked with internal and external vendors required to complete the implementations and produce a project plan, timelines and resource requirements for new infrastructure and VM server platform.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed RFI/RFP, evaluation of vendor response, evaluation of solutions and in selecting the technology vendor. (CSFB) 6 Months
• UBS VOIP Project - Handled primarily deployment of VOIP at selected sites: - One Month
• Managed client interview, system support such as space, power, access, equipment procurement and decommissioning old PBXs, prepared site survey templates, site preparation document, vendor access coordination process and cut-over plans.
• Bear Sterns: Supported NT Servers, Cisco/Nortel IP based Networks as well as Wide Area, Local Area, and IP routed Networks, significant experience in monitoring software with development, supporting TCP/IP, Internet routing, UNIX security, system administration, providing concise procedures and documentation of operational procedures.-4 Months)

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Prepared detailed network site books/ trouble shooting manual for day to day operations and support for the Operations team
• Managed the operations assessment and documentation of the existing Cisco based network infrastructure to support the Disaster Recovery effort,
• Was the primary consultant in the management, design and implementation of new broadband high-capacity high-speed Metropolitan area Network (MAN) consisting SPR, RPR and TDM networks riding over a high-speed, self-healing SONET fiber optic network using open and flexible system architect for the Confidential Trans-Hudson (PATH).·
• Supported applications and operations for LENEL-The On Guard’s Total Security Knowledge Management Application; Seamlessly delivered a single integrated solution: Fair Collection System, Devices Management System and a Video Security System
• Organized and co-coordinated network service integration, such as automated fare collection systems, access control system, security system, multicast digital video (CCTV), digital video archiving (DVR) and SCADA System from legacy asynchronous network to new Synchronous Optical Network (SONET),

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed projects by working without sourcing vendor- AT&T to develop and implement Network infrastructure solutions, Developed detailed project plans for the various initiatives, including details of who, when, what & interdependencies,. Managed each task to ensure deadlines were met and dealt with escalated issues when deadlines were in jeopardy; recapped progress weekly reports with scorecard. Project managed large scale enterprise application deployments such as: share point, blue coat, remedy for change control, consolidation for secure ID servers and its global deployment.
• Led Project Manager for global projects such as:
• SAN/NAS, Virtual work station platform
• Streaming Video, VOIP for major sites
• Active Directory - Remote Access Deployment
• Proxy Arp, Firewalls, DNS, Logging servers, End of life project
• Procurements, Vendor Management, SLA
• Managed enterprise applications such as intrusion detection, Exchange Proxy, FTP Servers, DR facility, Web Sense, Remote Access, Streaming Video, Wireless Point, compression technology such as Peribit by Juniper.
• Worked with Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, Sun and other equipment.

Confidential, Hightstown, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Server Migration- Prepared documents for a physical inventory for Sun Fire, Netra, SPARC and Blade servers; managed the detailed equipment list such as vender, model, card, port, serial number, and circuit in spreadsheet process.
• Managed the validation of data with owners, for the systems, network equipment and customer connections, Visio diagrams with picture, the inventory information through rigorous cross-referencing of data with physical and logical audits
• Managed the process to enter the data in the centralized database for data center clean up and migration to another data center and asset Management

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed upgrades from 1Gbs Ethernet core to 10Gbs Ethernet core on above net DWDM platform and assessment of Voice and Data network infrastructure for their 4 Data centers in the Washington area.
• Performed evaluation of deployment of low latency fiber between the East coast and the Midwest.