SUMMARY:

• Senior IT Program Manager / Development Program Manager / Senior Project Engineer has Dual skill - sets: the Program & Project Manager skill-sets necessary to develop and drive project and program schedules to achieve target launch dates, and the Senior Engineer skill-set necessary to design, implement and debug the technical components of a product combining both to achieve significant development expense reduction and enhanced product features to ensure maximum revenue growth and market penetration
• Extraordinary Success in launching over 30 IBM products, 20 Confidential products, 10 Large Scale Datacenter Installations, including Application Development and Government / Public Sector. Products developed ranged from low level CDROM / Tape / Disk devices, to JBOD Disk subsystems, Raid Storage Subsystems, IO Adapters, IO Subsystems, SAS subsystems, and Server products. Datacenter Migrations included Platform and Infrastructure migration, upgrades, with Confidential Warehouse, Security and Disaster Recovery enhancements, including Oil & Gas Customers. Government Application Development included City of Houston Utilities. Business Experience includes Utility Billing, Collections, Call Center, Meter Management, Permitting, Inspections, and Finance.
• IT Infrastructure Datacenter Design and Migration experience to cover Server, Storage, Application, and Confidential Migrations, including Migration from Application to Application, Unix to Linux, and Unix to Windows. Experienced with physical Infrastructure / Telecom / Networking decommissioning / movement to Cloud Datacenters. Experienced with Migrations from proprietary Midrange platforms to Intel Servers. Experienced with Sharepoint & SQL / Oracle 11 / DB2 / Oracle & SAP ERP installations, upgrades, and migrations. Experienced in Confidential Migration from proprietary Storage to Intel Server Confidential / Dell / IBM / Hitachi / EMC Server Storage. Including Confidential Warehousing Confidential Migration, SOA.
• Achieved Dual Responsibility for subsystem design, implementation, debug and launch, while concurrently developing a master schedule, with project and program responsibilities to manage matrixed Project Managers with deliverables necessary for Product Launch, while ensuring Program Resources were reprioritized to handle Project Issues as necessary. Products included Intel iX, P6 Pentium & Celeron, AMD KX Athlon, Opteron processors. Experienced with Waterfall & Agile Methodologies, and performed as Scrum Master at IBM / Confidential . Experienced with CA Clarity© Project Management systems using Stage Gate Methodology and MS Project. Experienced with C++, Java, HTML5, and CSS3 Application Development during Application Migration projects for ITCS and ATT / Confidential . Experienced with .NET Framework V4.5, and Visual Studio 2013 IDE. Worked in C Environment as Sustaining SW Project Manager for all Confidential ProLiant storage products. Supported Windows, Linux, VMware device drivers. Performed as Project Manager for Application Development teams. Project experience includes Mobility Projects for ATT Navigator GPS product and ADP Mobile Application development. Experienced with Confidential Merger and Acquisitions of Legacy systems to Confidential SAP systems.
• Certified Project Manager experienced with Scope Management with Stakeholders to create a Project Charter and Project Scope documentation. Experienced with the Schedule, Cost and Quality Triangle to create a WBS and Master Schedule, with buy in from Stakeholders through extensive interviews and feedback closure prior to Project Kickoff. Experienced with Resource Management & Communications Management with Director level resource owners to allocate and assign specific headcount, with organized and timely feedback to stakeholders and Resource Owners. Experienced with Risk Analysis, Quantification, and Mitigation to plan for risk factors, and in corporate mitigation. Experienced with Procurement Management to handle internal and external vendors via SOW, monitoring, control, and contract close out.
• Multitalented Technical and Project Leader combines degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and PMI PMP with excellent communication and presentation skills, organizational skills, a hard working ethic, team building and leadership skills to inspire buy-in from both technical and management communities to design and drive new products to launch on time. Proven Leadership in driving Scope Definition, Documentation, Schedule, with organized Communication procedures and meeting documentation to ensure monitoring, control, and feedback from team members is assured, and problems resolved, from pilot through production, and product launch.
• Deep Program & Project Skills experience working in IBM PMO division reporting to VP of Program Management for IBM p series Server Division. Experienced in all phases of Program and Project development, from initial Icon Roadmap wish-list planning to preliminary Fall Plan Release, Line Item Loading, Resource Loading, Fall Plan Booking, and Individual Project Release. Deep experience with Project Management from Architectural Design to Project Plan development and execution, including implementation, test, debug, product issue resolution, Product Launch, Support and EOL. Performed as a System / Business Analyst, working with Marketing, Development, and Finance to develop Product Roadmap plans aligned with Corporate Initiatives and the Budget provided by Corporate Finance. Aligned System / Product development plans within the budget, and allocated Human Resources and Model Allocations within budget. Monitored and controlled product development expenses.
• Extensive Management Skills with experience in Director Program Reviews with over 100 projects in a Biannual Release Cycle, Executive Focus Reviews to handle Program / Project issues, Decision Matrices, Resource Reprioritization, and Schedule Compression, along with Scope Change, Schedule Change (move to the right), Project Postponement, and Project Cancellation.
• Highly Successful Project Management Skills with experience in managing budgets over 250M$, with more than 100 contributors across over 35 global product organizations. Excellent Milestone and Schedule Tracking skills, including detailed project status, RYG color charts, Issue and Concern tracking, Current Challenges, and Risk Mitigation.
• Highly Competent at leveraging Matrixed Global Organizations including individual contributors, Project Managers, Program Managers, 1st, 2nd, 3rd line Resource Managers, and Executive Management to achieve Project Objectives.
• Dynamic Achiever with proven track record of partnering Confidential, IBM & Vendor technology to align with strategic corporate goals and capture significant server market share.
• Released Infor™ Billing, Asset Management, and Work Order Management Modules for the City of Houston.
• Managed Software, Firmware, and FPGA development, from Architectural Definition to debug, for an Confidential Persistent Memory Storage Cache product. Managed end to end project execution, with multiple deliverable Project Managers.
• Managed Software Product Engineering for Confidential Server Storage product line of Confidential & Vendor IO Adapters, Raid Subsystems, and Disk Subsystems. Managed over 50 SW releases per year, across multiple OS and platforms on schedule.
• Delivered IBM server and storage program products generating increasing revenue to IBM Server group by over $1B in a single Biannual Release. Managed IO Subsystem end to end project development, with over 15 deliverable Project Managers, and off shore teams resulting in Product Launch on schedule.
• Reduced cost by aggressively scrubbing model budgets iteratively, cutting back model allocations, and reducing total development expenditures by over $1M.
• Improved test cycle processes by combining development and mfg. test cycles when critical milestones were achieved ahead of schedule, and the defect rate justified schedule compression.
• Improved productivity by incorporating Linux based test tools earlier in the development cycle, reducing manual testing, and reducing defects in development verification cycles.
• Turned around stalled projects due to schedule or deliverable decommit by internal IBM sources or vendors by aggressively compressing development and test schedules, with day-day urgency focus, without reducing program scope or loss of product quality.
• Program Interface to external suppliers EMC, LSI, Hitachi, Compaq, Emulex, Engenio, Brocade, McData, etc., senior management to develop SOW, Licensing Agreements, procurement schedules, integration and test schedules, in support of IBM integrated server programs.
• Managed Storage Product releases with EMC, LSI, Hitachi, Compaq, Emulex, Engenio, Brocade, McData, and etc. using Project Management methodology, planning, execution, and launch.
• Confidential, Financial Systems
• City of Houston, IT Project Manager for Infor Public Sector Billing, Asset and Work Order Management SW Implementation
• 2 ½ years in Confidential SW Project Management, Storage Product Development & Program Management
• 14 years in IBM Program & Project Management
• 6 years in IBM PMO Office, p series, i series (AS400) Server Project Management, including 32 and 64 way server releases
• 6 years Server Storage IO Drawer (PCI expansion slots and RAID) development, connected via Infiniband ®, and RIO, managed development from start to finish, chips to finished product, including card design and debug.
• 2 years SAS Storage Disk Drawer development
• 5 years Fiber Channel HBA development, including integration with IBM Shark, EMC, Hitachi, LSI FAStT RAID storage subsystems
• 3 years, Server Storage RAID subsystem development
• 4 years Server Storage Disk, Tape development, integration and qualification
• 5 years Unix n way Server development, including processor card & ASIC dev
• 7 years Unix OS dev, including device driver, utilities, tools, and Mfg test tool dev
• 4 years Manufacturing Test, Product Engineering, Software Test, Software Support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Program/Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• IT Project Manager for Financial Systems. SW Development and Delivery of Retail & Commercial Financial Systems.
• IT Project Manager for Collections & Recovery Financial Systems.
• Experienced with Confidential Migration from Legacy Systems, including Confidential Cleansing, Confidential Validation, and Final User Acceptance.

Program/Project Manager

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• IT Project Manager for Utility Call Center Automation, including Voxeo IVR and Avaya Call Routing.
• Experienced with Confidential Migration from existing Cobol Systems to INFOR Business Systems, including Confidential Cleansing and Validation.

Program/Project Manager

Confidential - Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• 1 ½ years’ experience with Confidential PPM Portfolio management, Confidential ALM SDLC management and knowledgeable of Confidential Agile Manager.
• Application Project Manager for the integration of Confidential Company Acquisitions Autonomy ® and Vertica ® Legacy Order Management Systems into HPSW Order Management and Quote to Cash systems including SAP. Managed migration of Legacy Customer and Transaction Confidential and applications into Confidential SW Systems using SQL, MS SSAS OLAP, SSIS, and SSRS reporting services.
• Development Project Manager for Software, Device Driver, Firmware, FPGA, Diagnostics and Tools for a Persistent Memory Server Storage Cache Memory product.
• Sustaining Program Manager for Software, Device Driver, and Firmware for the Confidential Proliant Server Storage Product line, including BIOS, embedded controller IO Adapters, Raid Subsystems, and Disk subsystems for Windows, Linux and VMware. Utilized ITIL Methodologies for Customer IT Service calls to Level 3-1 Support for Storage SW.
• Managed Software and Firmware development in a C environment, test, configuration management release, web publishing, and customer support / field issue debug, resolution, regression test, release, and publishing, working with customers, development, and marketing teams.
• Application Project Manager for migration and Application Development for Customer AT&T Navigator ® GPS Mobile applications from HPUX Systems to Linux. Experienced with .NET Framework V4.5, and Visual Studio 2013 IDE.

Program Manager

Confidential - Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager for Oil & Gas Datacenter Migrations and Web Site Development. Moved Legacy Datacenters hardware, Applications & Confidential . Customers included Exxon / Mobil and Chevron.
• Experienced with Power & Cooling Estimates for Server Consolidations from 2000+ servers to 500 High Density VM servers in a Tier 3 facility.
• Experienced with OS & Application Consolidation including Legacy Migration and Sunset.
• Experienced with Pre-Consolidation Baseline of existing systems required for new facility consolidated design.
• Application Development Project Manager for Confidential Warehouse solutions for Confidential and Ercot Energy.
• Utilized ITIL Methodologies for Service Desk, Application Management, IT Operations and IT Technical Management.
• Program Manager for the design, and implementation of complex hierarchical IT infrastructures from regional Datacenters to local Retail Outlets using Dell, Sun, and IBM servers, storage and connectivity.
• Design and implement Dell based datacenters using Dell M Blade centers, R Rack servers, T Towers, Powervault NF & NX1950 expansion storage enclosures with Powerconnect switches and OptiPlex POS desktops.
• Design and implement IBM based datacenters using IBM servers, DS storage, SAN24B-768B switches, and IBM SurePOS desktops.
• Design and implement Confidential based datacenters using Confidential Bladesystem c, Confidential Proliant Gen 8 Blades, Confidential Proliant Gen 8 Servers, Confidential 3Par, StoreServ Storage, Confidential FlexFabric 12900 Switches series switches.
• Implemented Virtualization solutions using VMware ESXi, Citrix Zen, IBM Storage Director and Tivoli, Sun xVM.
• Specializing in IBM IT Solutions - design and debug
• Application Development Project Manager for ADP Mobile Application using C++, Java, HTLM5, CSS3.
• Application Development with .NET Framework, ASP.NET, and Visual Studio.
• Datacenter Services clients including Home Depot, Lowes, Chevron.

Project/Program Manager

Confidential - Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager, SAS IO Drawer, Infiniband IO Drawer, RIO IO drawer, on 64/32/16/8/4 way servers.
• Worked with system z, I, p servers to deliver storage products.
• Worked with system z10,9 servers running zOS v1.10, zVM V5.4, with min and max configs of up to 64 processors, 1024 IO channels, and ESCON, FICON FCP, and Infiniband connectivity
• Worked with system I,p servers with up to 64 processors, running AIX and i5OS with ESCON, FICON FCP, and Infiniband connectivity.
• Worked on Yearly Fall Planning activities to manage Product Budget and Resource allocations.
• Managed Architecture meetings and delivery schedules for Architectural Product Specifications and detailed Design Workbooks for the design implementers.
• Product Designs included Intel iX, Pentium, Celeron, AMD KX Athlon, Opteron processors.
• Managed Card Development teams to develop Product Card designs.
• Managed Power and Packaging teams to develop Product Mechanical / Packaging / Cooling / Power designs.
• Managed GFW Global Firmware and PHYP Partition Hypervisor Firmware teams to develop preliminary firmware necessary for Product Bring up.
• Managed OS teams to develop preliminary test tools necessary for Product Bring up and OS test prior to formal OS device driver release, including Linux Test Tools.
• Managed Early manufacturing teams to release prototype card designs to Mfg vendors including Celestica, Jabil, Foxconn, etc., and provide prototype delivery schedules.
• Managed Mechanical teams to release designs to Fab vendors, Foxconn, Sanmina, etc. and Power Supply vendors such as Delta, Unifive.
• Managed Early Manufacturing teams to build prototypes for bring up.
• Managed Bring up and Integration teams to debug and test prototypes.
• Managed EC Releases of Card, Mechanical, and Power designs for Design Verification & Test (DVT) builds by the Early Manufacturing teams.
• Released and managed allocation of DVT units to the 35 various test labs, including Regulatory, Performance, Information Dev, Usability, and etc.
• Managed concerns, risks, and issues, including feature requirements and typically over a thousand defects over the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Participated in the Overall Server release GA Readiness meetings, and presented overall status to Director / VP level management. Finished Product Release.
• Program Manager, Fiber Channel HBA, 4, 2,1Gbs transfer rate, integrated with IBM Shark, EMC, Hitachi RAID subsystems.
• Performed many of the Activities listed in the prior section as necessary for an IBM product release.
• Worked as Program Manager for Fiber Channel HBA releases, integrating products from Emulex, Qlogic, and LSI into the various test labs.
• Worked with the test teams to integrate Fiber Channel HBA tests with Brocade, Cisco, McData, and Qlogic switches.
• Managed the OS / Configuration Management teams to develop preliminary drivers for HBA bring up.
• Participated in Overall Server Release Readiness meetings and achieved Product Release.
• Program Manager, Raid Subsystem Integration
• Managed LSI, EMC, Hitachi raid subsystem prototype releases to the test labs.
• Managed the OS teams to develop Raid device drivers to handle failover and multiple points of failure, including multiple disk, cable, subsystem failures.
• Managed vendors to provide OS testing as part of the Vendor Manufacturing tests.
• Program Manager, SCSI and Serial Disks, Tape, Optical devices.

Senior Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior Engineer - 8 way Intel based server development
• Project Manager - 20M bit PCI Networking HBA
• Software Development Engineer