SUMMARY:

• Work - 17 years IT project management experience 8-10 years Infrastructure and security related projects including infrastructure currency upgrades and clouds migrations . Several years’ experience managing Disaster Recovery and Business Resilience efforts. Managed Cloud AD Migration efforts. Managed Single Sign on projects including the setup of a delegation model. 17 years of Risk Management efforts related to projects.
• Several years experience with set up and maintenance of ITIL Configuration, Change and Incident Management. Piloted and helped set up support model for PII Data De-identification tool. Regularly work with Technology Security Officers, Risk Managers and other security team members on project efforts.
• Exposed to Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, and other compliance regulations on several projects. Classically trained IT and Security project manager. Several years experience with full system development life cycle waterfall, crashed waterfall, and Agile approaches . Detail oriented. 16 years’ experience within Insurance and Financial industry. Typically manage $2-4M budgets per year up to 40 FTEs.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Windsor, CT

IT and Security Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managing portfolio of projects with 300 IT staff Implementation of Single Sign On project AD Migration security related to Cloud Solution for Retirement Department staff Tax Exempt Framework Initiative - impacts 48 applications

Confidential - Deerfield, MA

Infrastructure and Security PM Consultant

Responsibilities:

• AD Migration security related to Cloud Solution for 2600 staff internationally MS Outlook Cloud migration and upgrade for 2600 staff internationally Assisted with setting up relationship with Sungard Availability Services Analyzed options for BYOD solutions for 2,000 employees.

Confidential - Worcester, MA

Business Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Automation of Manual Policy Process - project cancelled at end of design phase due to cost to implement and maintain solution

Confidential - Springfield, MA

Infrastructure Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of ITIL Change and Configuration Management Modules - project cancelled at end of design phase due to cost to implement and maintain solution

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Infrastructure Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported the requirements, design and implementation of base core infrastructure and security for new application projects including physical and VM servers, databases, storage, backup and DR solutions, alerting and monitoring, etc. Completed cost estimates and plans for implementation. Assisted with set up of ITIL CMDB Change Management module

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Infrastructure Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported the build out and currency upgrade of Oracle 11.2 farm on Linux from Oracle 9 on Solaris 9 . Implementation of P&C line application upgrades to new farms

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Senior Project Director Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reinsurance Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable system replacement project - system for a book of business of over $1B a year used by hundreds of internal employees. Managed the creation of department SharePoint site, set up security RBAC model.

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Senior Project Manager Internal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• 3 years’ experience building Disaster Recovery IT solutions. Helped support the Business Resilience office
• Supported the development and support model of an internal tool that scans for and de-identifies non prod data.
• Automating the upgrade processes using currently supported Hartford Change Management tools Remedy
• Upgraded a major corporate single sign-on application used by several key applications STARS .
• IT Project Manager on several assignments throughout all lines of business including P&C, LIFE, Infrastructure and Corporate.
• Managed IT projects 60-person multi-year, multi-million-dollar effort co-managed . I have also managed several small projects at one time, at one point, 5 small projects simultaneously.
• Project leader for several IT projects throughout their entire system development life cycles mainly waterfall approach but also Agile development on 3 projects .

Confidential - Bloomfield, CT

ECommerce Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed staff of developers and system analysts on projects of over $2M
• Project manager for full system development life cycle for 2 projects, each with a staff of between 5 and 15 coders as well as several business analysts. Implemented CIGNA’s first Consumer based website. Updated CIGNA’s Single Sign-On Security Model to accommodate financial services web portal for consumer customers.
• Developed and was responsible for budget and time line for entire development life cycle of large projects starting with design and analysis through functional and technical specifications, construction, testing and roll out.
• Managed the creation of a SSO delegation model for CIGNA s Provider portal
• Communicated, escalated, and resolved issues and matters between senior management and staff both on the business and technical departments.
• Developed and maintained project and staffing plans with milestones and budgets for initiatives.
• Provided effective direction, coaching, and mentoring to project staff