SUMMARY:

• Technical Consultant with experience working on Confidential variety of Information Systems and hardware integration projects.
• Solid foundation of project management and business analysis methodologies.
• Ability to align business strategy & objectives with business requirements, define areas of integration, risk mitigation and gap analysis.
• Apply software engineering skillset and programming concepts to the planning and execution of new product development initiatives.
• Well experienced in software development life cycles, agile incremental sprint releases & testing principles.
• Applications range from hardware enforced security devices to customer relationship management and PMO process improvements.
• Sr. Technical Consultant - Enterprise Media Broadcast & Resource Management Solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Improved User workflows through interviews and observing day to day operations. Configured MediaPulse application to meet User needs, created custom layouts for resource allocation, work order transactions and asset management.
• Deployed integrated systems including WideOrbit (traffic manager) and Mediaflex Confidential physical and digital media content system.
• Conducted sprint release & testing cycles for an in-house developed “Bridge” application: Use Case creation and managed UAT resources and sign-off
• Technical support to Media Pulse User and resolve issues with staff development and Vendor resources.
• Utilize JIRA issue tracking and project management for the above mentions systems
• Team up with Developers creating SQL queries to address report and data needs
• Removed road blocks for Network Traffic Management engineers to fulfill their responsibilities for integration and automated file transfers of digital delivery content & services.
• Recognized as Confidential team player with excellent communication, analytical and management skills
• Effective communicator with executive level managers as well as cross functional team members

Sr. Technical Consultant - IT Software Engineer

Confidential, Shelton, CT

Responsibilities:

• Driver of process improvements for requirements gathering and refined specification templates
• Created project plans specific to product road maps and marketing objectives
• Collaborated with Product Owners, Due Diligence Legal Advisors, internationally located Development and Quality Assurance Teams
• Ran daily stand-ups for Agile product delivery adhering to Confidential two-week sprint release cycle
• Defined development effort during sprint poker planning and work effort point assessment
• Enabled user community consisting of Mortgage Data Analyst and Underwriters to understand new features and modification through my generated Release Notes
• Held peer review of Business and Functional requirements
• Enabled the stabilization of Confidential legacy application, for use as the bases of Confidential system redesign and modernization project
• JIRA defect and enhancement tracking used for project management and development

Consultant / Project Manager

Confidential, Wilton, CT

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Subject Matter Experts from IT, Finance, Security, Marketing, Compliance & Business in an Agile collaborative team environment
• Defined and tracked tasks, dependencies and milestones
• Removed road blocks to enable System Integrators, Solution Architects and client resources to steadily progress in meeting project delivery and timelines.
• Ensured smooth transition of CRM external systems’ data integration of sales contacts, lead generation, marketing opportunities and financial information flow into central location.
• Utilized “Sprint” release deployments, identified functional abnormalities and defects
• Authored configuration “Run Books” for QA, Integration, User Acceptance, Training, & Production environments.
• Utilized JIRA defect tracking system. Created data clean-up .sql requirements, minimized manual data manipulation of field mapping by applying dataloader.io tool for exports and deletions.
• Performed revenue reconciliation & root cause analysis for data discrepancies between totals in the original source system and the new salesforce datamart
• Google Drive file sharing & real-time edit collaboration of Smartsheet Project Plan, Google Docs, Sheets, Presentations & Forms

Technical Project Manager & Production Vendor Manager

Confidential, Ridgefield, CT

Responsibilities:

• Productized the Worlds Smallest Cross Domain Solution by taking Confidential concept design and moving it through first article manufacturing, test, production assembly & marketing. Device available for “Owl Day, Confidential company trade show geared toward government clientele.
• Project Manager worked with cross functional teams, delivered customized government focused solutions with security features defined through Redhat and SCAP policies. NIST-CSF framework determined security standards required. CentOS used for commercial products.
• Collaborated with University of Waterloo Research Professors & co-authored paper uncovering vulnerabilities using BASH scripting language
• Maintained “just-in-time” inventory levels, ensuring finished goods on hand to meet projected sales forecasts. Managed RFPs, RFQs, design reviews, PO submission, build scheduling and all-round vendor relations & management.
• Conducted weekly Production Meetings with CEO and key management personnel. Topics covered manufacturer of PCBs & production assembly of 1U Solutions.
• Managed special projects: Conflict Minerals policy adherence, preparation of quality management procedures for AS5553 audit covering chain of custody for the prevention of counterfeit parts entering the supply chain
• Initiated numerous process improvements policies and guidelines
• Attended Certified Information Security Management practices workshop

Consultant / Web Project Manager

Confidential, Shelton, CT

Responsibilities:

• Needs analysis and requirements gathering, including assessing the impact of general annuity projects on the annuity web sites.
• Developed project plans, Identified resources, project tracking and coordination
• Content entry/development within the Vignette content management system and Testing

Consultant / Sr. Business Analyst - PM / Project Integration Specialist

Confidential, Bristol, CT

Responsibilities:

• Created functional and design specifications for converting tape based systems to applications running on non-linear production servers. Included new product features and enhancements
• Conducted interviews with studio production personnel to gain insight of business and on-air process flows for defining application development requirements.
• Ensured Specification adherence through test cases creation & system integration of Java / Eclipse IDE code based applications
• Provided means for the Media Assets & Archiving Group to transfer material to Confidential digital archive
• Created transcoding work flows depicting the unification of media created by various vendors
• Assisted in project planning, testing & implementation of applications dealing with router controllers and ingesting multiple-program ASI (compressed) signals for extraction and archive
• Participated in the definition and development of Confidential networked DVR web application. Features included viewing previously aired programs for Content Producers and Nielsen ratings for Research and Analytics.