SUMMARY

• Pro - active Technology Professional partnering with business leaders/colleagues translating business requirements into well defined plans that have clarity achieving goals.
• Business acumen, strategic planning, & finance perspective.
• Credible, assertive communicator operating with a "no surprise" approach.
• Unique ability translating business/technical terminology to simple, non-industry specific language.
• Broad knowledge of technology with solid technical skills.
• Unflappable, works well under pressure, excellent/consistent communication.
• Successful track record of leading high-performing teams utilizing best practices providing high level team performance.
• Record of successful, large scale enterprise level implementations with extensive experience architecting/engineering the design/building of data center(s) and IT Infrastructure for servers (physical/virtual), DB builds, storage, DR, and BCP.
• Extensive IT experience in Systems Engineering/Design, Project/Portfolio Management, & Operations Support.
• Well experienced with Network integrations overseeing building/migrating DMZ’s/Firewalls (ports/IP’s/DNS).
• Extensive exposure to Cloud implementations and Virtualization (VMware) during several recent engagements.
• Excellent, in-depth experience in assessing, building, and managing all aspects/phases of a project initiative.
• Extensive exposure/experience with applications environment build-outs and data migrations.
• Strong Project Manager that follows formal project management practices utilizing mature, proven methods.
• Active project/portfolio management experience providing guidance/leadership for full life cycle (SDLC) initiatives.
• Extensive exposure to Waterfall and Agile/Scrum Project methodologies/processes.
• Corporate/Enterprise PMO experience with considerable exposure to IDLC/SDLC lifecycles & processes:
• Initiate, plan, coordinate & deliver high-visibility technical projects.
• Exposure/use of Project Management/Collaboration Software (i.e. Clarity, Remedy, RedMine, BaseCamp).
• Expert in MS Office Suite (Word/Excel/Outlook/Visio/Project/PowerPoint).
• Managed numerous project portfolio maintaining clear project prioritization & resource allocation.
• Develop/maintain detailed project charters, plans, schedules, resources, budgets, track expenditures, and manage project financials.
• Develop/Execute project communication plan(s), set/continually manage project expectations with team members and stakeholders.
• Coordinate deliverables with dependent teams, 3rd parties, on and off shore Confidential .
• Risk evaluation/mitigation, eliminate team hurdles & facilitate issue resolution.
• Report on project success metrics, track project status against plan (baseline).
• Develop and lead periodic work stream team meetings, meeting minutes, IT Advisory Committee, and Steering Committee(s).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• CISCO CATLYST 65XX
• 40XX
• NEXUS 7000 SWITCHES
• VMware 4.X
• VSphere
• MS Server 2003/2008
• MS Exchange 2003/2007/2010
• BES/GOOD
• UCS Chassis/Blade Servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, East Brunswick, NJ

Financial Counselor

Responsibilities:

• Provide Financial Counseling to Brother Knights and their families to support achievement of their future financial goals while also protecting their families and assets.

Confidential, Trevose, PA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead project team re-defining roles, responsibilities for charter client account.
• Developed/reset resource planning for Development/QA/Op’s teams, implemented portfolio of initiatives.
• Defined process setting priority workflow for recovery of client initiatives.
• Refined ~100 initiatives on Project Server with Master schedule meeting new schedule deadlines.

Confidential, Iselin, NJ

Sr. Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage Infrastructure engineering team with focus on delivering hi profile, strategic initiatives with short, aggressive schedule(s).
• Refine/develop infrastructure project portfolio initiative(s) inter-dependencies defining schedules, resources, and budgets.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project leader for Scoring Unification application development implementation & readiness.
• Refined implementation process, interfacing with Statistical & Assessment business groups tracking development between them and IT application development teams.

Confidential, Fort Washington, PA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led project teams for Data Center, Network, Security, & Hosting tracks of program.
• Refined Project scope/charters, schedules, managing technical teams, defined resources & financials/budgets ($9.6m), and regular reporting status to Program Manager/Executives.
• Brought onboard filling vacant position Confidential a critical juncture in program with aggressive scheduled deadline.
• Successfully defined and set deadlines meeting Application Migration, End User Computing, Technology Operations, and Telephony schedules meeting enterprise divesture dates.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Senior Portfolio/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided full project life cycle processes developing project charter(s), scope, financial/budget oversight, team resource management Confidential technical design/architecture, implementation scheduling, team meetings, status reporting/leadership presentations, and closure processes.
• Focal point for all project related activities.
• Worked closely with Compliance group assuring all regulations met/adhered to as well as fully documented.

Confidential, Hightstown, NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure build-out & cutover support of global ERP financial system initiative (Oracle) replacing existing Lawson environments.
• Lead GO&I team interfacing with applications development and business side (GES).
• Worked closely with EMC Backup Team, Dedup on DD3600 Data Domain.

Confidential, Rutherford, NJ IT

Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project leader re-energizing global strategic data center (NEXUS 7000, NetAps ~64Tb, Exchange 2007 cluster, VMware 4.x, Symantec) initiative for design, project oversight, implementation, & migrations to regional collocation center, thus providing a stable, robust environment meeting future growth for organization.
• Regional Project Manager for SharePoint Enterprise deployment.
• Accountable for infrastructure, capacity planning, servers, networks, resource planning, and data center operations.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technology consulting and Project Management oversight for mission critical implementations, various clients.
• Implemented new regional business network/POS systems for regional food service provider thus increasing business performance and management oversight of costs/expenses.

Confidential, Hoboken, NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project leader successfully completing large scale staff/technology collocation projects spanning multiple operating companies, resulting in an average 30% decrease (> $4m) in annual real estate costs within the business district.
• Downsized numerous operating company sites on very short time frames without any disruption to business operations, resulting in a smaller technology footprint and significant annual decrease in costs.
• Implemented messaging systems infrastructure (MS Exchange 2007 cluster) in 6 global strategic data centers consolidation of corporate email/instant messaging systems, allowing unified/streamlined support, standardization, and operation.
• Managed creation of RFP’s, SLA’s, bid leveling/conferences, and contract development for Service Desk agreement(s).

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Business Account Manager/Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for new & existing client accounts encompassing sales, consulting, design, project management, and customer support related to technology and infrastructure (voice, data, video, LAN/WAN/Web, Trading floors, Data/Communication Centers).
• Led project team(s) in evaluations, conceptual design, development, and presentations, to produce a final product in conjunction with the work of other architects, engineers, and project staff.
• Assessed and monitored work force resources, budget and fee estimates, and scheduling.
• Managed numerous critical client Confidential projects in diverse industries successfully delivering on-time, within budget, with minimal impact to environments.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Director, Technology & Facilities Management

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed all subsidiary Confidential company proposals (technical & cost approval) resulting in streamlined presentations to Board of Directors for Senior Executives.
• Initiated integrated Legal/Compliance review process providing streamlined responses to inquiries/investigations.
• Initiated/project managed systems development/integration, State-of-the-Art trading system, onsite SONET ring, denser tech room(s) footprints & technology related areas, leading to streamlined technology response & improved systems.
• Implemented group expense tracking (billing & invoices), providing initial group budget forecasting.
• Project leader for build-out of new corporate headquarters in Jersey City, NJ and refresh/build-out of domestic offices in Los Angeles, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, and new office in Boston.
• Implemented extensive project management methodologies, improving staff understanding of requirements to complete initiatives and provide future planning/forecasting to Senior Executives.
• Initiated and implemented UPS/2000 KVA Generator backup power, decreased cost exposure during power outages.

Confidential, NY, NY

Technical Specialist/Equipment Switch Room Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical leadership in the planning, implementation, operation, and maintenance related to switched telecommunications equipment/services & supporting mechanical systems for university staff & students.
• Responsible for supervision of staff (technicians/engineers), general switched communications maintenance, project upgrades, and control of all switched communication inventory.