SUMMARY

• Develop strategies, provide leadership, and plan IT projects to meet business and end - user needs and add business value.
• Senior Technical Project Manager with over 15 years of industry success in a diversity of corporations.
• Demonstrated ability in managing large-scale enterprise-wide cross-functional, complex IT initiatives, including strategic infrastructure initiatives, data center relocations & consolidations, application migrations, cloud implementations, and legacy system transformations and upgrades.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and senior leaders across the enterprise to ensure high-quality, high-value project outcomes.
• Strong diplomatic communication skills and forms effective interpersonal business relationships.
• Knowledgeable in project management office (PMO) functions and workflows.
• Develops cost-effective new approaches and processes to optimize systems efficiency while moderating risk.
• Works effectively with minimal supervision.
• Trains and leads onshore and offshore matrix teams end-to-end through projects from budget planning and risk identification through delivery and integration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical team in identifying over 30 business-critical applications requiring encryption.
• Collaborated with over 300 cross-functional team members in over 30 teams to document hundreds of data asset encryption needs.
• Successfully delivered hundreds of encrypted critical data assets for over 30 business-critical applications.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervised and directed the technical team in the database upgrade from legacy to new hardware across 400 health care centers, 39 hospitals, and three states.
• Collaborated with end-users and senior management to execute the migration schedules for over 800 mission-critical data assets.
• Successfully upgraded 856+ databases, files, and directories for the NetApp Filer integration.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and led more than 12 projects with multiple cross-functional technical team members and leadership.
• Assessed and mitigated project risks for more than 12 business-critical projects.
• Prepared & administered project budgets totaling more than $1.2 million and submitted regular reports and updates to senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Utilized Confidential Project to plan, track, and manage more than 12 projects totaling more than $1.2 million in budgets.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed more than thirty high-performance matrix teams in client system transformations and upgrades to cloud-based Confidential data center solutions. Served as key liaison to executive leaders and stakeholders, managed communications, and delivered project updates and reports.
• Managed a portfolio of more than twenty large, end-to-end, cross-functional, onshore and offshore high-performance matrix teams including developing scope, resources, costs, risk assessments, and schedules.
• Successfully managed multiple large infrastructure projects for dozens of clients such as Confidential, Confidential Refreshments, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, PHH Mortgage, United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, and many others.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned and managed six concurrent projects including risk management, budgeting, resource allocation, and scheduling.
• Delivered the implementation of a $500K enterprise data warehouse (EDW) for a high-profile client built on SQL Server 2012 and integrated with Confidential R12 data sources in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Deployed a key $330K BI project for Ports America, a leading U.S. port terminal operator.
• Managed the successful upgrade at Arizona University from legacy systems and software to Confidential Exchange and Outlook supporting 40,000+ end-users.
• Developed and Implemented PMO processes, policies, standards, forms, documents, tools, and reporting in Confidential SharePoint for more than 40 project managers.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined and established an Infrastructure PMO based on project scope, risk, and dollar value for projects being managed by more than a dozen technology towers.
• Developed and implemented management reporting on progress of over a dozen technology towers.
• Conducted a readiness assessment of the IT Service Desk based on ITIL V3 foundations and processes, identified areas in need of improvement, and recommended effective solutions.
• Defined, delivered, and conducted the internal Project Management Professional (PMP) boot camp program from scratch including requirements definition, vendor selection & contracting, provided for 400+ Project Managers and resulted in $940K in savings.
• Expanded and administered the global internal course on Project Management Maturity Evaluation (PMME) for 1,500+ Project Managers.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a portfolio of over 2,000 WinTel, UNIX, Linux, and AIX servers consisting of over $25M in mission critical applications for enterprise-wide VMWare implementation and migrated hundreds of the servers within and across Continental US data centers.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided the project strategy and direction for hardware systems and software modifications and upgrades for dozens of applications.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led the $7M re-platforming of Confidential ’ online brokerage system with zero interruptions to service.
• Managed a $7M portfolio of over 75 mission-critical applications related to the online brokerage system, successfully implementing them within the designated timelines and under budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems: VMWare, UNIX, Linux, WinTel, AIX

Storage Hardware: Confidential SVCs, XIV Cloud Storage, DS8000, Flash Systems, V7000, V5000, 2498 Switches, 2499 Directors, Brocade Routers, FCOE/FCIP, EMC VMX, Isilon, Confidential SAN Arrays, and McData Switching Units

Software: Confidential Project Server, MS Project, Confidential Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, Visio), SharePoint, Confluence, JIRA, InfoPath, Confidential Notes, Rational Portfolio Manager, Clarity Portfolio Manager

Programming: HTML, HTTP, Java Applet and Servlet, J2EE, XML, Visual Page, Visual Basic, Shell Scripting

Tools: & Processes: JIRA, Confidential, UDB, Sybase, SQL Server, SSL/SET, Vormetric, Voltage, nCipher Key Management and Encryption, Digital s, Smart Cards

Methods: Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Critical Path Method (CPM), CMM Level 2/3, Six Sigma, METHOD/1 Structured Methodology