OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a position within Cyber - security, Network, Enterprise Infrastructure, and Data Center Migration Project Management leveraging my combined managerial, technical, and program / project process methodology and technical writing skills within the Financial Services sector.

SUMMARY:

• Over fifteen years of experience in project managing large-scale, global and US-based applications, market data, networking, and datacenter collocation and migration projects for several key US and European banks (one with 450+ US-based branch offices).
• Program and Project Management experience includes total ownership of project budget determination and accountability in delivering successful projects that meet project scope and are delivered on time and at or below budget.
• Proficient in MS Office, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and MS Project
• Proficient in Confluence, SharePoint, and PPM (Program & Project Management tool)
• Over fourteen years of experience in directing technical planning, operations, and market data administration for a multi-grouping of based commodity exchanges. Strong emphasis in managing a service organization with cost effective organizational skills, excellent client relations, and low employee turnover.
• Experienced in the conceptualization and planning design, layout, and implementation of exchange market data policies aimed at providers of quotations data. Highly skilled in the discrete planning and execution of market data negotiations with a broad grouping of domestic and international data vendors and exchanges.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consulting Senior Security IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and oversee the recruiting of required technical resources domestically and internationally
• Assist implementation teams to navigate through the firm’s security policies and requirements
• Supervise and gather the weekly summary reports for all projects
• Prepare the bi- weekly stakeholders’ Operations Committee reports and minutes
• Assist in the preparation of multiple reports for senior mgrs. across the firm’s divisions
• Prepare and tabulate control objectives for the projects’ procedures and plans

Confidential

Consulting Senior Security IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and assist in planning the Applications schedule across five (5) Chief Information Office (CIO) Towers
• Plan the Project Schedule with the Infrastructure deployment teams
• Manage post-migration validation issues
• Assist in the collection of the weekly scan KPI numbers
• Prepare the weekly Project Delivery senior management and stakeholder remediation statistics
• Assisting in the preparation of the key regulatory reports and documentation documents

Confidential

Consulting Senior Security IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage the Project Schedule
• Manage the European-based Deployment managers and Client managers pre- and post-migration
• Assist in the updating of the weekly KPI numbers
• Prepare the monthly/bimonthly Steering Committee presentations for senior mgmt. and key stakeholders
• Working with the Architecture and Engineering teams in removing issues
• Updating the Project Requirements and Key documents

Confidential

Consulting Senior Security IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in the definition of the design and deployment management process (card production, deployment scheduling and delivery process)
• Planning issuing capacity to 7 Campus and over 500 Branch locations across the US
• Design and implementation of a multi-method end-user communications and briefs.
• Maintaining a comprehensive tracking database to manage deployment phases
• Determining suitable 2FA compliant target solutions for approx. 120 critical applications
• The majority of Applications deemed in scope consisted of home-grown applications with customized authentication systems.
• Devising non-standard and non-trivial individual and platform-based target solutions on varied systems (i.e, mainframe, midsized systems)
• Coordinating and socializing selected target solutions with applications’ business and technical stakeholders.
• Managing the required effort resources and program budget
• Determining the required application end-results needed as “evidence” of a successful migration to US Regulators

Confidential

Consulting Knowledge Management Resource / Technical Writer

Responsibilities:

• Defining process management documentation standards for the new site’s technology operations.
• Reviewing and upgrading existing process documentation to the level required by the newly established standards
• Creating a process management repository in Confluence for the storage and maintenance of the created processes
• Defining documentation standards and best practices relating to technology operations.
• Designing key knowledge management documents, such as runbooks, installation, troubleshooting, and how to guides as a coordinated means of storing pertinent information about the organization.
• Project-planning and coordinating technical teams in the identification, capture, and formalization of pertinent data to be maintained. This effort included guiding the technical and business teams in extracting relevant and detailed technical and operational data about their systems, applications and their respective support processes,

Confidential

Consulting Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordination, planning and determination of cost savings within the 7 component towers of the firm, with special emphasis on identifying their cost savings possibilities, identifying all possible risks and managing their mitigation, planning the viable methodologies to be used as well as negotiating the end outcome.
• Coordination and capture of cost efficiency financial metrics
• Preparation of requirements documentation
• Evaluation and selection of 10 Cloud Computing Vendors matching needed requirements.
• Preparation of a formal request for proposal (RFP) for the conversion
• Development of the Selection Matrix for the evaluation and selection of the final Vendor(s)
• Assisting in the preparation of the final contractual language necessary for such a conversion.
• Coordination and interaction with the program teams
• Assist the program teams in the preparation of the monthly reports
• Consolidate and complete the monthly reports into a single, unified report
• Prepare a monthly critique of the team reports and review results with respective team heads.
• Follow-up to ensure remediation steps have been implemented by the project teams.

Confidential

Consulting Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordination and Technical Planning finalization with the architectural, technical development, and business teams to prepare an effective and viable CoB Testing methodology for the newly created replacement distributed applications.
• Creation of standards and Application Recovery Plans (ARPs) for the newly created replacement applications..
• Creation and maintenance of an on-line Environment Matrices Library for 20+ environments to support the Infrastructure and Operations Delivery teams (includes Conversion, Proof of Concept, Development, Integrated Systems Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Stress, and Production),.
• Preparation and dissemination of a daily Activities Status Report (ASR) tracking the status of all distributed infrastructure software and hardware activities to ensure successful completion.. .

Confidential

Consulting Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordination and Technical Planning finalization with the UK-based architectural and technical teams as to the means of incorporating recently acquired US hardware.
• Infrastructure and support systems acquisition and deployment of new US hardware.
• Coordination with US application owners as to methodology of modifying applications for global implementation.
• Extensive interaction with US applications business and development teams to streamline the application migration process, including resource analysis and procurement.
• Coordination and planning, design, ordering of circuits, installation and checkout of the new network infrastructure to two US data centers, including links to the UK and Hong Kong datacenters.
• Planning design, repurposing and acquisition of new hardware, installation and operational acceptance of 30 new servers within the new perimeter.
• Coordination, planning and migration of 50+ client links to the new perimeter on an external Vendor network.
• Mapping and inventorying of existing circuits, links, servers and applications within the acquired firm’s data center.
• Coordinating with application owners and assisting in the migration remapping effort.
• Supervising the server decommissioning, circuit terminations, shutdown, disposal of hardware and evacuation of the data center

Confidential

Senior Project Manager - Associate Director, IT Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Coordination and Technical Planning finalization with the architectural and technical teams as to new process changes and policies.
• Infrastructure and support systems acquisition, deployment, and review of conversion impact policies
• Interaction with applications’ business and development teams to socialize impending changes.
• Planning and layout of new datacenter space and infrastructure support specifications.
• Acquisition and deployment of required hardware and support systems at new site.
• Development and coordination of migration processes to un-rack, transport, install and test applications and servers at new site within the same evening, thereby minimizing or eliminating any business impacts.
• Migration deployment of applications and affected servers to new site.
• Full control of budget spend and cost tracking.
• Development of the Communications Carrier Bid requirements and selection processes.
• Planning and layout of a non-redundant, dual-networked communications path to each branch office.
• Finalization of the architectural network hardware specifications and project planning.
• Acquisition and deployment of required distribution head and branch hardware.
• Negotiation of the network path requirements and costs with the two selected Communications Carriers.
• Implementation of pilot branch setup, full process review and testing, and final deployment.
• Budget management and cost tracking.