SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced IT Program / Project Manager / Architect with over 20 years of implementing IT, Cyber Security, Risk Management and Infrastructure projects, including 7 years of large data center and Azure Cloud migrations.
• I bring to the table the following key abilities, in addition to my infrastructure and enterprise software skills:
• Proven experience in creating and leading an enterprise scale practice, including setting up a Center of Excellence
• Deep experience in production management, sales management and marketing management. This will be invaluable in building up a practice that is process oriented, scalable and maintains the highest standards of quality and performance.
• Proven ability to assist the business management team to bid successfully for large projects and close sales
• Successfully led and managed multiple enterprise programs and projects with an outstanding track record of completing projects on time, within budget and to specification.
• Azure Cloud implementations and migrations for a leading Microsoft partner. Responsibilities include designing and implementing a Factory model for Azure Cloud migrations, managing complex migrations to the Azure Cloud and standardizing processes.
• Project Manager for top three security projects at Confidential Services, the infrastructure managed services division of Tokio Marine North America.
• Project Manager for Confidential for their Cybersecurity Program covering infrastructure cybersecurity and recovery from extreme loss scenarios
• Project Manager for Confidential Data Center Migration for their EIS Division. Managed all the complex and sensitive applications and client .
• Project Manager for Confidential Data Center Migration for their Global Functions Business Unit. In addition, went on to manage their End User Technology projects for Active Directory Consolidation and global deployment of Microsoft SCCM 2012.
• Lead Project Manager for the migration of AXA - Canada’s Data Center from Canada to Atlanta, GA, involving over 400 servers and over 200 applications.
• Key member of the Project Management team that successfully led and implemented the migration of AXA Equitable’s Data Center from New Jersey to Atlanta, GA. This was a project with a total budget of over $ 40 million. One mainframe and 1,100 servers were migrated to a brand new data center with superior redundancy, disaster recovery and infrastructural capabilities. The project involved the coordination of over 500 members across IT, business and technology. We worked for almost 6 months without a break (including weekends and week nights).
• Over 5 years of experience in managing programs and initiatives dealing with various elements of IT Risk Management, including Operational Risk, IT Risk, Regulatory Risk, etc. Developed a sophisticated framework for Risks, Controls and Compliance.
• Highly experienced in dealing with global teams. Several years of experience managing off-shore and on-shore teams, including USA, Canada, India, London, Far East and Continental Europe.
• Architectural experience in IT includes over 7 years of enterprise architecture, integration and Web based solutions.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to manage and run meetings; make effective presentations to senior management, steering committees; document formal processes, workflows, functional and business requirements, etc. Over 20 years of experience in creating sophisticated PowerPoint presentations, Visio diagrams and MS Project plans.
• Over twenty years of experience in vendor evaluation, selection, and management, including off-shore and near-shore situations.
• I have been using agile and lean methodologies in all my projects - in many cases I successfully developed and implemented simple agile approaches to streamline the management of several large and complex projects within a tight time frame. This was the only practical way to deliver on such projects that ran concurrently, required coordination across large global teams of varying cultural diversities (with teams located in the US, France, Canada, London, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India and Japan) and had complex technical and architectural challenges to be overcome simultaneously.
• All infrastructure projects that I handled included the successful documentation and hand over of operational SOPs, BCP and DR documentation, process control tools to track changes to run-time scripts, jobs and workflows.
• I have been involved in quality management and lean methodologies since my earliest days in production management, planning, inventory control and manufacturing. I have applied simple statistical techniques to resolve complex demand forecasting and capacity management problems in batch manufacturing plants; used a lean approach to devise effective quality testing regimens for large infrastructure migration projects. At Confidential, for example, I developed a performance testing process that cut down testing lead times from 12 weeks to less than 5 days with greater rigor than the original process.

MANAGERIAL SKILLS:

Leadership: I managed and mentored teams of up to 40 consultants as Practice Manager. I am well-versed in leading large cross-functional teams in matrix project organizations across multiple regions and cultures.

Coordination and Facilitation: Proven ability to coordinate between different user groups effectively to facilitate success of projects and processes.

Technology Strategy Development: Extensive experience in analyzing user requirements and the business objectives that they encapsulate; using these to develop systems requirements from an architectural level down to a detailed component wise break-up and mapping the final technical design to the original business goals and objectives.

Methodologies: Sound understanding of various methodologies, including waterfall, RUP and agile methodologies. Helped create and successfully adopt an implementation methodology for large complex projects that was an agile methodology for ERP systems.

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Confidential

Data Center Migration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing high value client migration projects (legacy data center to Azure Cloud), including Office 365 and SharePoint migrations.
• Implementation of a Cloud Factory model, including a standard way to set up Cloud networks, using Software Defined Network principles to implement Network As A Service delivery / implementations, costing models, rationalize and improve DR capabilities, etc.
• Standardization of processes across all functions to streamline costs, reduce implementation times and improve quality.
• Development of a Cloud Migration software system.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing 3 security projects in parallel.
• Implementation of Identity and Access Management solution using SailPoint. Includes upgrade to the latest version of the software as well as the underlying platforms (Windows Server 2016, MS SQL Server 2016 and JBoss Enterprise 7.x). In addition, implement certification and onboarding as well as automated provisioning for all JSOX applications and streamlining interfaces with PeopleSoft HR, SAP, Active Directory and Service Now. The project also includes the development of a RESTful interface to JSOX applications, making it scalable and standardized.
• Implementing Micro-segmentation to segment all production workloads to minimize East-West traffic within the data center. The project scope includes running a Proof of Concept bake-off between the two short-listed vendors, and then rolling out the solution to the entire production environment.
• Implementing File Integrity Monitoring for all JSOX applications and critical infrastructure such as Active Directory. The project scope includes running a Proof of Concept bake-off between the two short-listed vendors, and then rolling out the solution to the JSOX applications and critical infrastructure components such as Active Directory, network switches and devices, etc.
• As part of the Project Management Office’s Center of excellence team, I am also recommending several new approaches to improve effectiveness and eliminate cumbersome processes.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing infrastructure hardening projects within the high profile cyber security program. Currently working on a large, multi-year effort to provide resilience against data corruption and ability to recover from “bare metal”. Details can be discussed in person.
• I developed a process-oriented project management approach which helped simplify the work of coordinating work across several projects, teams, locations and resources. All project management tasks in the WBS were defined by processes that had standardized tasks with standardized durations based on availability of resources. This enabled me to quickly react to changes in schedules and resources and highlight potential issues and risks in time for preventive action to be taken.
• Defined a complete set of quality assurance and operational documents for use by multiple groups - this included details like test plans and scripts, success criteria, standard estimates for the duration of tests, and comparison with actuals (which provides a means to improve the process and refine the time estimates).

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the client relationships, vendor relationships and migration strategy / execution for all the complex and sensitive applications / business divisions. This included Confidential Show Time, Simon & Schuster, Confidential Local Media (IBS) as well as all the Messaging applications (Exchange, Lync, Active Directory, and Single Sign On).
• All applications and platforms were successfully migrated within an aggressive time span of 6 months, including data center build out

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the design and implementation of the target Active Directory architecture for all of Confidential globally. Over 47 disparate AD forests and domains are being consolidated into one forest / domain with over 70,000 users, 120,000 end user devices, 5,000 enterprise applications and 15,000 servers. Project budget is $ 11 million and project is expected to take 18 months to complete.
• Responsible for the global implementation and deployment of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 for the management of all end user workstations and laptops. Project budget of $ 9 million and scheduled for completion by June 2014

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the design and implementation of the target application architecture for all the applications within GFAT
• Acted as Site PM for the HR PeopleSoft Domestic as well as HR PeopleSoft Bermuda systems and successfully managed their migration on an aggressive schedule
• Responsible for managing the resolution of all technical issues related to application migrations
• Managed the weekend cutover activities for all GFAT applications to ensure a smooth transition from the Legacy to the NGDC environment
• Developed a comprehensive template and whiteboard session structure to walk through the Whiteboard sessions during which an application’s target state architecture was finalized. All applications were re-architected to ensure high performance, high availability and scalability.
• Designed and implemented a standard process to ensure that all target servers were fine-tuned for high performance. This was especially important for AIX servers where the OS level tuning parameters are complex and non-intuitive. This resulted in delivering target state environments that were able to provide substantial performance improvements for applications like PPM, PeopleSoft HR Domestic, SharePoint, Sailpoint, etc.
• Designed an easy-to-use Excel Template to document the set of activities leading up to the cutover weekend, the run book for the weekend migration, contact, roles and responsibilities, escalations, and rollback process
• Technical troubleshooting for all applications, that required pulling together SMEs from a broad range of disciplines quickly together and guiding their efforts to a successful conclusion

Confidential, Mellon, NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager in charge of a Data Center Migration project. Relocated servers and applications from California to two new Data Centers in Dallas, TX and Miami, FL
• Responsible for managing the various work streams such as client communications, application architecture, QA, Operational functionality, and server build-out
• Responsible for the entire plan scope including building a new data center, destruction of data, and disaster recovery
• Involved in the consolidation and management operations of Windows based servers
• Responsible for project planning, status reports, and communication with upper management

Confidential

Lead Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Present the project status on a weekly basis to the Governance Council, comprising the key executives from the US and Canadian IT and Infrastructure organizations.
• Manage the organizational challenges of working with multiple teams with distinct cultural and language differences and pulling them together to work as a cohesive unit.
• Provide leadership and issue resolution for the various managers managing the sub-projects.
• Create workable processes for issue management, scheduling, application architecture and cutover. A major feature of this migration is that it is not a migration “as-is” but a re-architecture of the applications to take advantage of the multi-tier secure enterprise network, redundancy, high availability and load balancing across multiple servers in two separate data centers.

Confidential, New York

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• I worked closely with senior executives from the business to maintain close contact with various user groups and ensure their full involvement and buy-in
• I orchestrated the mainframe migration - a process that took 72 hours, 120 IT executives and team leads and 60 technology members to complete.
• I developed a dynamic scheduling process based on batch manufacturing rather than project scheduling principles to successfully schedule and oversee the building of 1,100 servers (UNIX, Linux and Windows, including a high degree of virtualization). We were able to complete the server builds on time in spite of being chronically understaffed.
• The project was successfully completed on time (March 31st 2009). It involved the migration of the primary data center from New Jersey to Atlanta, GA. One main frame and 1,100 servers representing over 200 applications were successfully migrated.