SUMMARY:

• Senior Project Manager/ Portfolio Manager with an exemplary record of streamlining processes and providing solutions that optimize performance and turn around underperforming organizations.
• A visionary entrepreneur with demonstrated ability to build technology capabilities from the ground up.
• Skilled in assessing organizational needs within infrastructure/network design and forming solutions that reverse negative trends and maximize efficiency.
• Experience managing complex multimillion - dollar projects from inception to completion across multiple sites including leading large-scale, visible IT programs, cable installations, switches, and wireless designs. Select accomplishments:
• Achieved career pinnacle for the successful project management of the technology integration of the 1996 Olympic Games/ACOG, Avaya, and IBM Confidential .
• Installed over 1.5 million feet of cable, 1500 IT devices, and over 18 switches in a 3 month time period.
• Provided tutorial services for over 6,000 students and donated the laptops to these children increasing their educational experience Confidential no charge to their parents.
• Grossed over 6.8 million dollars while achieving 28% average increase in their grade for 4,500 students.
• Successfully completed over 68 projects within budget during the 25 years of program management.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Budgets | P&L | Cost Containment
• Strategic Planning
• Policy and Procedures Development | Implementation
• Vendor Relations
• Process Improvement
• Network Design | Engineering
• Server Inventory Tracking & Decommissioning
• Fiber Fusion Splicing and Termination
• Database Management
• Project and Delivery Methodologies
• System Solution Architectures
• Systems | Security Testing
• End User Training

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Software: Email, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Share Point, Citrix, Remote access, Websense, SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel, Lotus Notes MS Project, Project KickStart, CRM, Salesforce, Clarity, WebXng, Desktop Migration

Project Vertabase.:

Systems: Avaya and Cisco Wireless Certified. Nortel Certification. Systimax Certification.

Other: Java, HTML, Jpegs, Gifs, SQL, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe, Illustrator CS4, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.

Proficient: -All cabling systems CAT >=5; Fiber Optics, All Anti-virus software, Windows Server 2008, Wireless, Break fix, Network Design, Hardware, Raid, and Switches, Deep, rich knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum Methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Mount Vernon, NY

CEO

Responsibilities:

• Managed a company that provides web sites hosting and corporate infrastructure.
• Reviewed and distribute meeting minutes, document and track resolution of action items
• Maintain and update project plans in standard PPM Tool,
• Add and update tasks, resources and milestones related to work breakdown structure
• Performed financial forecast including: P/L, WIP, PPD bid and proposal, overhead
• Manage the transfer of cost data from/to financial, accounting, procurement systems
• Manage the transfer of project data from PPM, Agile and other project tracking tools
• Identify and manage completion of governance controls.
• Installed switches, cable MSO, file servers and provided end user training
• Hired COO who managed companies websites using HTML and JAVA
• Monitor, record and complete project governance requirements when necessary
• Work with Governance Administration to ensure SDLC compliance is satisfactory
• Tracked task by group and process for over 7 teams and managers.
• Established budgeted from relevant information from the RFP/Contract.
• Designed a Project Charter and Scope in collaboration with the customer’s management and sponsor.
• Performed integrated change control and updated all change request
• Closed out all phases of the project and created a new lessons learned which was tracked weekly.
• Experience utilizing CRM (Customer Relations Management systems.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a highly visible technology project manager in a PMO Global IT Organization managing various IT, UAT, and development resource teams
• Managed 5 projects valued over 2 million dollars, with 17 team members across IBM, Wipro, ITE, and Verizon.
• Migrated and transitioned over 350 servers consisting of 1650 applications.
• Decommissioned or transferred over 90 servers across 5 data centers.
• Performed analysis of business processes, business and system requirements and system design for the development and configuration of software applications that support client business requirements.
• Archived to datacenter all servers scheduled for decommission prior to removal from datacenter.
• Managed the creation and maintenance of server DMZ/DMX.
• Conducted weekly meeting with the JAVA and HTML engineers.
• Managed Planet with quick management to cable infrastructure
• Worked closely with the PMO and maintained weekly updates
• Provided technology driven leadership with best practices and with high customer focused initiatives
• Ensured all operational issues of the PMO was managed, focusing on the project interface with other project leaders and project teams
• Helped determine project budgets and cost assessments per project, and ascertained that payment collections were performed efficiently and timely.
• Provided resource, organizational, and work breakdown structures.
• Schedule and maintain calendars, Prepare meeting presentations, Attend project meetings, record notes during meetings
• Provided financial reporting to PMO. The actual and planned values included: SV, CV, SVI, TCPI, etc. data Migrated application and operating systems to over 1,500 computers

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Synthesize and aggregated large amounts of information; derive strategic metrics, focused on empowering the organization with decision-enabling analytics and insights for thoughtful, articulate point-of-views and executive-level presentations.
• Created project charter and identified key stakeholders.
• Utilized important data and process through Salesforce, Clarity, Granite, WebXng, and Microsoft Project. Identified root causes for all escalated service requests. Information utilized to continuously improve service within the delivery teams.
• Utilized Clarity for portfolio management
• Defined all activities, estimated activity resources, and developed the human resource plan.
• Directed and managed all phases of the projects execution.
• Managed the results of the quality audit and implemented changes while controlling quality.
• Obtained final sign off on all deliverables and closed all phases of the project.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led six project managers and a fleet of 20 employees in rectifying capacity issues in the central offices. Supervised engineers that resolved numerous issues for the southeast region. Managed and engineered the process of expanding the Central Offices by designing orders for the 6500 Cisco series switch.
• Ability to successfully drive programs from inception through to execution, including the development of business requirements, strategic solutions/recommendations, RFPs and vendor selection, business case development, and project plan and deliverables.
• Gathered requirements, defined deliverables, created work breakdown structure, check completeness of scope and managed changes.
• Experienced in a projectized organization capable of leading, communicating, negotiating, problem solving, Influencing all stakeholders during a project life cycle.

Confidential, Dallas, GA

Sr Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated entrepreneurial and visionary skills in conceiving and building this technology business from the ground up. Led 2 65 employees and six managers. Developed business model, spearheaded product development, secured investors, managed multimillion-dollar budgets, and purchased all software. Held oversight responsibility for marketing and sales.
• Built software system from the ground up that educates children bringing them to their grade level.
• Created two Standard Operational and Technical Manuals for the states of TX, CA, MS, FL, and MD regions.
• Initiated/managed cross-functional teams and multidisciplinary projects, and delivered cost reductions of up to 38% using dedicated processes. Saved the company over 2 million dollars.
• Managed new product development using Fast Cycle Time.
• Developed relationships with Board of Directors, Investors, and Stakeholders.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led 35 managers and over 200 indirect reports. Managed internal and external IT Infrastructure, network administration, and telecommunications (Avaya and Cisco). Created and managed $15M per year budget to cover operational, staff, maintenance, and educational sessions with our vendors. (i.e. Cisco, Avaya, etc.). Directed all areas of this company from negotiating discounted prices, maintaining vendor channels, vendor sourcing, and a working with accounting to determine proper markup, and led team to respond.
• Managed, implemented, and designed new networks for First Union, Bank of America, and IBM.
• Championed the installation of all IT and communications for the 1996 Summer Olympic games. Received awards from ACOG (Atlanta Committee of the Olympic Games).
• Introduced Planet for asset management. Obtained certification and roll-out of a heavy cross-training program to get the staff educated.
• Worked with Atlanta Public Schools utilizing Customer Relations Management.
• Worked with Netcom to install cable plant and IT for 34 APS schools and 15 DeKalb Public Schools. Designed, installed, and managed three new Data Centers.
• Spearheaded the design of “raised flooring” for the data center and 10 APS schools.
• Engineered three years of E-rate response for a company client. Consulted with APS and managed to guide them in obtaining over $36M of E-rate funding by providing technical write ups.
• Worked with Project Managers for new construction for APS, DeKalb, Cobb, and Decatur School System to install cable and IT.
• Implemented automated recording hardware for the Court House in Spartanburg.
• Installed cable MSO for over 75 sites. All sites contained MDF’s, IDF’s implementation
• Orchestrated the creation of an ‘off-site’ (mirrored) disaster recovery plan. Tested six times each year.