SUMMARY:

• 15 years of experience in management and project management of IT application development and support teams of up to 64 globally distributed project managers, architects leads, business analysts and developers
• Experience complimented by an MBA and 100 hours invested in PMP exam
• 12 years as an IT Project Lead, 11 years leading client - facing, consulting engagements with budgets up to $7.5M and 10 years leading Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Analytics teams
• Deep experience interacting with business leaders and executives, leading large multi-media presentations and conference calls, contributing on account sales and proposal teams and resource management
• Experience in insurance, financial, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, utilities and government industries
• Leadership/coaching/mentoring of high performance application development teams, contract financial/ budget management, creating/presenting Statements of Work (SOW), vendor negotiation and management, SLA management, outsourcing management, client relationship management, providing solutions and infrastructure for business intelligence and analytics, management consulting and creative problem - solving

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Data Management PMO Project Manager, VP

Responsibilities:

• As Change Control Administrator, initiated/coordinated ongoing change control governance for all platforms
• Created a SharePoint Repository for retaining documentation for potential future audits
• Promoted to organizational title of Vice President
• Advised on impacts associated with corporate initiatives, government regulations and business/technical issues, conceived system improvements, developed business requirements documentation and initiated projects improving functionality and data quality on the RPC system
• Managed the UAT testing team migrating the ICDW Right Party Contact (RPC) System from DB2 to Teradata
• Implemented a SharePoint collaboration portal to increase team productivity and intellectual capital retention
• Participated in the early development of the next generation ICDW Teradata data warehouse
• Expedited a troubled project to establish Chase network connectivity to developers in Hyderabad, India
• Managed start-up of a Workplace Logistics function, determined strategy, policy, process and controls for provisioning computing assets, workspace and access for 350 resources being added to the department
• Developed a business case for purchasing 200+ laptops in order to stock an inventory of equipment which reduced provisioning time and increased productivity associated with the on-boarding process
• Authored a job description, screened resumes, interviewed and hired a replacement

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Authored business cases / project requests and led projects improving the operational stability of both an Oracle and DB2 data warehouse. Projects include availability dashboards, server and test environment implementation, standardizing load processes, implementing an Informatica Metadata Management tool, coding/sourcing standards, software evaluation and improving the backup/recovery/DR process.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed client relationship/resource management, communication, issue escalation and status presentations

Confidential

Business Area Manager, Business Consulting Services (BCS)

Responsibilities:

• Replaced a Director, and led 64 persons, managed customer information, gas management, payment, billing and deposit systems, including budget management and meeting progressive improvement SLAs
• Delivery Engagement Manager for 10 person Business Intelligence team for the State of Ohio, producing a $30 MM annual cost avoidance from fraud analysis on a zOS/DB2/Hyperion data warehouse. Project management and customer satisfaction reviews consistently top rated over the 5 year engagement.
• Managed Electronic Data Interface (EDI), Data Warehouse (DW) and Database Administration (DBA) areas
• Chosen for IBM Management Development Programs due to recognized performance; achieved 100% Club (IBM's Top 5% performers) andIBM Bravo for sales of $2M yearly for 4 years in a non-sales role

Confidential

Project/Engagement Manager, Business Innovation Services (BIS)

Responsibilities:

• Delivered customer relationship management, contract/budget management, engagement team leadership, deliverable approval, project issue resolution, “Critical Situation” management, subcontractor management, thought leadership, planning, overall direction, meeting leadership, status/issue tracking

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Project Lead / Senior System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Key liaison for divisional/plant users and vendors within 6 warehouses on a Warehouse Management System
• Chief advocate and department liaison for security awareness/policies, led the Ross Executive Information Security Committee, CICS application security review and McAfee virus software rollout, coordinated Annual Access Re and the Divisional Virus Response Team, created project proposal for a unified test environment, consulted with Corporate Security on divisional policy revisions, received 2 President’s s
• Project Lead for implementation client-server Warehouse Management System (CAMBAR), CICS based Freight Payment package (Match-Pay), and processing of bar-coded SSCC labels and 856 EDI transactions
• Drafted the cost benefit analysis and project proposals for a Financial Sales Reporting System and performed requirements/analysis/design for the Sales Information Database and Personnel Headcount System