PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Senior Project Manager with 20 years of Information Technology and business management experience focusing on cross - functional, large scale projects, primarily within Agile-based frameworks. He has managed projects from inception to close-out, developing hundreds of RFI/RFQs, proposals, vision statements, work statements.
• Confidential is adept at managing vendors and product backlogs, conducting daily stand-ups, leading sprint reviews, performing cost estimations, providing quarterly executive level updates, facilitating lessons learned and more. He performs resource needs assessments, allocation and cross-functional team management, as well as, project risk analysis and mitigation. Confidential excels at team building and empowerment while effectively managing technical debt and work assignments. He creates, manages and archives project artifacts inline with project budgets, schedules and scope.
• He has worked on project budgets exceeding $2 million, project portfolios exceeding $12 million and has managed up to 42 project managers and staff. He is familiar with local, state and federal project environments, having worked as a government contractor since 1996. Confidential ’s Agile Project Management and Information Security background, combined with his strong communication and organizational skills, make him a well-rounded candidate for any Project Manager role.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Project Manager (Information Security Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Ensure all Information Security related project outcomes meet client business, functional, technical, and quality requirements by following internal PMO, PMBOK and ITIL guidelines.
• Worked in an Agile methodology- managed and maintained project backlog and user stories, led daily stand up meetings, led sprint reviews, allocated resources and performed estimations, led quarterly steering committee meetings with executive level stakeholders, etc.
• Responsible for developing project business cases, resource planning and budgets for financial and senior leadership team capital and opex review.
• Charged with facilitating and/or conducting solution discovery research and analysis for proposed initiatives.
• Developed and presented project solution briefs for Sr. leadership approval at project review board meetings.
• Coordinated project resource needs with other IS and business departments.
• Responsible for development of project resource plans, budgets and project plans using Primavera ProSight, MS Project, EPM Live (PPM), EPK and Excel worksheets.
• Responsible for development of Requests for Proposal, Request for Quote, Statements of Work and vendor contract review and input.
• Responsible for management and oversight of security-related projects, assignment of resource tasking, collection and archiving of project artifacts and documentation through each phase of the Hershey project life cycle based on PMBOK and ITIL.
• Developed monthly, quarterly and yearly spend forecasts.
• Conducted weekly and monthly project status meetings and reporting at all organizational levels.
• Developed and facilitated Management Board Review and Steering Committee updates and decision-making sessions for Senior Leadership teams.
• Coordinated and monitored QA Testing activities, using HP Quality Center, organized user and Organizational Change Management tasks with responsible IS organizations.
• Coordinated project close-out and conducted lessons learned sessions.
• Ensured timely closure of projects, proper disposition of assets to meet predicted depreciation schedules.
• Successfully managed a $1.88 million/yr. Information Security project portfolio within 10% of monthly outlooks and overall budget.

Confidential

JNET Agreement Manager (Sr. Security Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Assists Confidential clients to accomplish mission and project goals.
• Ensure project outcomes meet client business, functional, technical, and quality requirements with an Agile environment.
• Managed and maintained product backlog and user stories.
• Led daily scrum meetings and sprint reviews.
• Oversee 14 Developers and Application Support Specialists.
• Manage, coordinate, and establish priorities for the complete life-cycle of client IT projects including; initiation, planning, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance.
• As Sr. Security Consultant, developed Practice Statement, PKI Policy, and JNET Information Security and Acceptable Use Policies. Updated all existing security policies to integrate information security, identity management and PKI policies and procedures.
• Prepare project charters and scope statements, develop project work plans and schedules based on scope, resources, budget and time constraints.
• Provide contract administrative support, contract problem resolution, change management and contract resource staffing.
• Responsible for the review and approval of project deliverables and change requests and monitor risk and project performance and develop corrective action plans.
• Provide day-to-day supervision and performance monitoring of DTC employees and subcontractors at OA/OIT JNET.
• Ensure quality and timeliness of contract deliverables while adhering to budgetary constraints.
• Provide clients with weekly, bi-weekly and monthly project status, financials and performance reports.
• Conduct project status, lessons-learned and project close-out meetings.
• Facilitate the evaluation and improvement program policy, process and procedures.
• Maintain business, functional and technical documentation libraries.
• Assist clients in the development of standard operating procedures and operations manuals.

Confidential

IT Manager and Senior Analyst (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecture design specifications and development of key components and features of core business enabling products and services.
• Worked in heavy RUP and Agile environments.
• Prepared and presented technical proposals for clients.
• Conducted research on current and emerging technologies, standards, government regulations and issues in support of development efforts.
• Conducted an on-site analysis and developed a PMO assessment with guidelines and recommendations for process improvement in support of a national vendor/developer of electronic fish and game licensing applications.
• Designed strategic plans for development practices to support future projects.
• Developed work-flow charts and diagrams to ensure development team compliance with client deadlines.
• Wrote requirements and business rules for credential and licensing process which succeeded in development of a prototype application product for future marketing.
• Supervised and provided project direction to four technical direct reports regarding software product development activities.
• Assigned tasks to associates, assisted in staffing projects, tracked progress and updated managers, partners and clients.
• Managed team of four direct reports responsible for on-going product optimization in Massachusetts.
• Evaluated emerging technologies and reported findings to project teams and management.
• Developed and managed project plans while providing status updates to management and clients.
• Performed effort estimation for development of technical projects.
• Performed information security assessments and penetration testing for clients on a contract basis.
• Conducted network and application security assessment and remediation projects for the Community Action Commission, PA Department of Health and State Employees Retirement System.
• Developed, implemented and maintain three Internet websites with component applications on Linux hosted platforms.
• Developed a 5-year IT Strategic Plan for Silver Springs Township.
• Developed, managed and executed Business Process Re-engineering of the PA Department of Health’s, Strategic National Stockpile program.
• Conducted an IT Security and HIPAA compliance Security Review for the Community Action Commission
• Served as Lead Security Consultant (P/T) on the IV&V team led by Maximus for the PA Department of Labor and Industry’s, web-based, Unemployment Compensation Management System (UCMS), reviewed, analyzed, evaluated and reported on project deliverable compliance with industry standards, the contractor proposal and project goals and objectives of the Commonwealth solicitation.
• Planned, developed and executed a detailed mission critical application and network vulnerability and security assessments (FY ) to the PA Department of Health, in accordance with PHIN V2 and NIST Guidelines.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• In a lead PMO capacity, managed a team of 42 information technology professionals and 2 project managers working on 200+ CoPA agency software development, network design/implementation and telecommunications projects in an Agile environment.
• Implemented division policies, processes, technical procedures and standards for preserving the integrity and corporate data, reports and access.
• Strengthened company's business by leading implementation of the Information Security business unit.
• Planned and executed network and application security assessment and remediation projects for CoPA agencies including OA/OIT, DoH, DPW and PA Turnpike.
• Streamlined project reporting requirements and project specifications to disseminate across multiple business lines and IT support teams.
• Directed strategic initiatives to achieve expected revenue growth by expansion into other state government markets.
• Provided daily managerial support to ensure administrative and technical staff had the necessary tools to perform tasks efficiently.
• Served as Project Manager on high visibility, high dollar, and high risk CoPA projects.
• Supported corporate efforts in due diligence during two acquisitions, by Anteon and General Dynamics.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed strategic plans for software development practices to support future projects.
• Developed work-flows, Gantt charts and network diagrams to ensure team compliance with client deadlines.
• Developed and managed project plans while providing status updates to CoPA clients and upper management.
• Prepared and presented technical proposals and statements of work for state and federal government clients.
• Managed development and implementation efforts of complex enterprise Internet and Intranet applications on Microsoft and Novell platforms.
• Coordinated with systems partners and stakeholders to finalize designs and confirm functional and technical requirements and designs.
• Conducted research on current and emerging technologies and issues in support of web application development efforts.
• Served as mentor to CoPA task leaders and project team members.
• Supervised and provided direction for technical direct reports regarding network and software development activities.
• Actively worked with technical architects and team members during inception and elaboration phases to develop general application architecture and best practices for separation of presentation and business logic.
• Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical objects.

Confidential

IT Task Manager/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hired as a Network Engineer and promoted to Task Manager within 6 months.
• Worked with clients to analyze and design telecommunication, computing and network needs, and implemented appropriate solutions within each organization's budget.
• Organized and created schedules for network design teams, supervising the progress of design projects from initiation to closeout.
• Efficiently managed and coordinated at least six nationwide telecommunications survey and design projects at a time, from project initiation through project closeout.
• Consistently met deadlines and requirements for all task orders and projects.
• Wrote technical proposals and verified project cost estimates and resource needs.
• Developed work-flows, Gantt charts and network diagrams to ensure team compliance with client deadlines.
• Developed and managed project plans while providing status updates to CoPA and federal clients and management.
• Performed effort estimation for development of technical projects.
• Prepared technical architecture proposals for enterprise system enhancements and integration of existing third party software systems.