SUMMARY:

• 25 years information technology experience in privately held $40 million to $30 billion global organizations with critical dependency on technology for strategic competitive advantage. Professional experience as Network Engineer and Technical Manager translating business requirements to technological specifications to help deliver sustainable systems utilizing heterogeneous information sources to provide competitive advantage
• .Experience working with business and technology to act as technical liaison to define business requirements, develop technical specifications, implement technology solution and ensure write test plans and perform quality assurance and business validation to ensure business needs are met.
• Direct management responsibilities; managing all aspects of technical resources, recruitment, retention, application development, infrastructure enhancement, establishing estimates and remaining under budget, setting up project plans, timelines, and reporting progress to ensure delivery of business expectations on time and on budget.
• Enthusiastic communicator, focusing on building proactive report with business and technical resources to establish respect and trust across functions to ensure technical success.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows XP
• OLE
• ODBC ASP Citrix, Meta - frame
• Thin Clients
• OpenVMS
• SDLC
• VB & .Net
• Confidential
• PBX
• Progress
• P650
• Backup-Exec Arcserve
• IDS
• Foundry
• HP servers
• Windows Vista
• Mainframe Management
• Active Directory
• Disaster Recovery
• Microsoft Office
• Helpdesk Management
• Career Development
• AS400 Management
• Rapid Development
• Microsoft SQL Server
• OO Methodologies
• IP Telephony
• AIX Clustering
• Microsoft CRM
• OS/390
• Managed Security Desktop
• Cisco
• Windows 2000 Pro
• Exchange Server
• Confidential
• Firewall Router
• VLAN
• WINS
• DNS
• RUP
• Lotus Notes n-tier Architecture
• MTS Server
• BGP VPN
• MRP
• Confidential
• SAN/NAS
• Windows XP Windows NT
• Emotional Intelligence
• Microsoft Project
• Visio
• Data Warehousing
• Sniffer Pro
• Whats-Up Gold
• Remote Desktop
• SMS
• IIS
• Unix Clustering
• SQL
• Progress
• Unix
• Microsoft Clustering
• Business Continuity
• Tivoli
• Crystal Reports Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager/Director

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager implementing strategic Infrastructure Projects for Global Manufacturing company.
• Act as liaison to Business and deliver IT projects following Confidential practices policies and processes.
• Manage IT infrastructure projects to ensure Technical business needs are delivered.
• Standardize and manage Confidential financial reporting systems across Confidential including integration with Panasonic.
• Implement Microsoft Multi - Factor Authentication to protect Confidential employees and assets from unauthorized access.
• Manage delivery of MRP/ Confidential enhancements to allow customers to modify orders until completion on factory floor.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager Assigned to Regulatory Projects to deliver technological solutions to comply with Regulations around Financial Advisors acting as Fiduciary.
• Act as liaison to Business and deliver IT projects following Confidential practices policies and processes.
• Manage Products and Pricing workstream to ensure all Technical deliverable under the Confidential program are delivered.
• Deliver Technology to allow Confidential to consolidate Bank Deposit Sweeps programs in support of Confidential ruling.
• Deliver Technology to allow Confidential to deliver level compensation on mutual funds and other financial products on retirement accounts.
• Deliver Technology to allow Confidential to restrict Life Insurance products within Retirement accounts.
• Manage technical projects and packages as needed by the business under the Confidential project.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager assigned to two Projects in 338,000 hour Program to change Confidential to Financial Application Service Provider.
• Manage critical foundational infrastructure project to stand up QA and UAT environments with fully integrated and functioning Confidential and vendor applications.
• This is technically the most challenging project in Program with 76 assigned resources and multiple vendor connections.
• This includes all network, firewall and server setup and configuration for three fully functional Back office Trading environments. Including Performance testing environment.
• Manage Large Trader ID project to ensure regulatory reporting will be available once we migrate to vendor’s Back Office solution.
• Manage projects following Confidential office strategies, policies and methodologies.
• Communicate to Stakeholders following the Project Communication Plan. Document phase milestones, Gate reviews and Governance activities to ensure Project follows Confidential office standards.
• Manage project activities through Visioning, Design, Construction, Implementation, and Production Support phases of projects.
• Represent Confidential office and serve the business to ensure that global processes are followed, manage and report on project Schedule, Scope, Budget and Resource status.
• Serve as technical domain expert to ensure technical teams have resources to resolve any technical issue related to Infrastructure, Servers, or applications, including Firewall security.

Project Manager

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Global Project Manager assigned to enterprise Soybean application, delivering improvements for Brazil and Argentina.
• Manage project following Confidential office strategies policies and methodologies.
• Manage budget, following forecasts, distributions, estimates and tracking and reporting actuals as part of project management.
• Coordinate development of Java application across multiple countries and regions. Ensure business requirements, design specifications, development and testing are performed on schedule in order to deliver business requirements on schedule.
• Participate in design meetings and Specification Development sessions to ensure consistent quality of technical specifications and perform quality reviews with code deliverables to ensure the resulting code meets the requirements.
• Represent Confidential office and serve the business to ensure that global processes are followed and financial budget constraints are followed and forecast in order to meet fiscal projections and depreciation requirements for capital projects and that, expenses are managed correctly.
• Support Global Application including support of existing infrastructure and road map and design of future Global infrastructure including determining locations of Data Centers and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity panning.

Project Manager

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Analyst to evaluate backend data and user impact of Confidential in SmartStation.
• Technical design lead for bringing a vendor hosted application inside Confidential 's network securely and with performance capacity. This included all Firewall and security policy's and rules for vendor to access and manage internally hosted application servers.
• Sr. Analyst to troubleshoot production issues; act as liaison for business to IT and vendor.
• Work with business and application owners to specify new enhancements to a 25,000 user Contact Management System.
• Work with business to prioritize defects and production work-arounds for business.
• Sr. Analyst to support Financial Advisors with application issues.
• Work with deployment team to deliver Business Acceptance (BA) testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) during pilot and provide production roll-out technical support of Contact Management of application.

IT Consultant

Confidential, Great Barrington, Ma

Responsibilities:

• Analyze/Design/enhance network resources for optimal efficiency.
• Implement scalable DataWarehouse with Crystal Reports Server for seamless integration to provide Confidential information to Microsoft CRM users with Single-Sign-ON.
• Analyze mobile business needs and implement technology solutions to meet those needs. Manage vendor relationships and software development both internally and externally.
• Develop methodology to train internal resources to meet the business’s high availability requirements.

Confidential, Little Falls, NJ

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Develop Project plans for client engagements for software development and manufacturing
• Confidential integration consulting company.
• Responsible for defining scope of work and bidding all services work.
• Responsible for project management of all engagements and delivery of quality service.
• Develop and implement meticulous project plans and communicate to customers throughout the project life cycle to ensure business goals are met and project management methodology is followed to consistently deliver the highest service levels and maintain relationship with customers.
• Responsible for procurement, retention and career development of all technical resources.
• Manage project resources for optimum delivery of services and meeting customer’s business needs including management of client’s resources and offshore development.
• Acted as technical architect and senior developer for complex integration of MSCRM into many Confidential and Manufacturing systems.

Senior Engineering Analyst

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Infrastructure requirements to implement enterprise Municipal Bond Syndicate trading system across two vendors to replace legacy mainframe applications and increase technological advantage and customer service.
• Served as technical expert to evaluate technical secure integration with critical ASP vendor in order to decommission aging Mainframe systems.
• Interpret business requirements and serve as liaison between business units, IT engineering, support and external vendors.

Confidential, Peoria, IL

IT Director

Responsibilities:

• Manage Information Technology and staff to optimize ROI and efficiency.
• Implemented enhancement of Enterprise MMS system to support ATS business strategy.
• Enterprise AD Implementation.
• Enterprise Black Berry Implementation
• Call Center Vector and Routing Redesign
• Redundant Internet Implementation
• Migration of Enterprise System to Confidential Data Center.
• Enterprise Spam Solution.
• Implement enterprise architecture with redundant, globally disperse application delivery system with critical availability.
• Stabilization of clustered Confidential 650 clustered Unix environment.
• Enterprise network monitoring with custom applications.
• Managed Enterprise Application Enhancements to provide new services to internal and external Customers.
• Manage internal development resources as well as overseas development team.

Confidential, Columbia, MO

Systems Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed System Engineers to ensure a high level of customer service and satisfaction.
• Developed and implemented innovative, new service offerings - Disaster Recovery, Managed Security, etc.
• Managed Information Systems and staff to optimize ROI and efficiency.
• Managed P/L for engineering support group.
• Implemented Strategic Billing Alignment and reward program.
• Implemented Customer Feedback System and increased Customer Satisfaction.
• Managed Disaster Recovery Data Center Implementation at underground storage facility.
• Planned Disaster Recovery for many heterogeneous enterprises.

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

IT Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated business requirements and quickly delivered solutions aligned with strategic business plan.
• Organized, cultured, coached and developed IT support team.
• Aligned team and individual goals through comprehensive career development.
• Empowered team IT support for 7x24, $220 million manufacturing plant.
• Established formal Knowledge Management system to preserve unique systems expertise.
• Managed IT budget expenditures and negotiated contracts for new and existing services.
• Developed cohesion of heterogeneous networking staff including Mainframe and distributed systems.
• Automated operations staff processes and eliminated obsolete activities.
• Implemented Tivoli to reduce operator errors and increase uptime on Mainframe Confidential System.
• Implemented AD in $one Billion Confidential PT division.
• $6 Million dollar IT Budget.
• Managed Lotus Notes application and communication system for Confidential .

Global Network Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated Global IT infrastructure projects and implementation interdependencies.
• Defined and Implemented standard infrastructure client for global Confidential for 100,000 PC network.
• Collaborated with Compaq and Microsoft to define global active directory and implementation schema.
• Traveled Internationally and presented standards to Global IT steering committee.

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented State-of-the-art Confidential system to interface Confidential, MRP and Engineering systems.
• Implemented Manufacturing Execution System ( Confidential ) $6million dollar Y2K project.
• Supported network infrastructure. Including servers, routers, switches, network backbone and support of manufacturing and automation clients.
• Implemented formal disaster recovery process for all critical business and manufacturing systems.
• Supported each unique work cell and OS and communication t/f Co= October 1998 - July 1999

Confidential

Information Technology Manager

Responsibilities:

• Advised, evaluated and coordinated IS technology integration with elected County officials
• Delivered technology solutions, which leveraged existing IS technology.
• Managed support of all network systems, Confidential and end users.
• Upgraded Confidential LAN/WAN backbone, servers, routers, switches, mail, clients and firewall.
• Supported AS400 and critical business systems.
• Implemented $300,000 Imaging system for Country records archiving.

Confidential, Columbia, MO

Network Administration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed network support staff for 100 PC users, 250 Confidential and nine servers.
• Implemented modern network backbone and LAN environment.
• Managed upgrade of network operating system -- Confidential migration to NT and implemented SQL Server.
• Supported PBX in $40 million retail call center.

Confidential, Columbia, MO

Information Technology Supervisor, Technician

Responsibilities:

• Managed Implementation and support of UPS LAN/WAN for extended 1/2 of Missouri District.
• Established logistical partnership and support of external UPS Customers.
• Maintained, upgraded and supported all UPS computer systems, devices and users.
• Performed upgrades and developed disaster recovery plan of UPS LAN/WAN.