PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Certified (PMP) Project Manager with:

• 18+ years of verifiable project management experience meeting and exceeding ROI expectations, with individual project budgets reaching $35M.
• Complete project life-cycle responsibility in a wide array of project-types: from IT projects in infrastructure design/development, integrations, migrations, deployments; through high tech capital equipment design, development and integration projects; to corporate real estate construction projects.
• Experienced with linear and iterative processes/methodologies, i.e.; Waterfall, Quantum (RUP-like), Agile, PMM, PMBOK, and Six Sigma.
• Managing on-shore (local and remote), and off-shore project teams (NCC. Infiniti, Pressco).
• Effectively managed projects in functional and matrix environments, and providing coaching and mentoring to junior PM’s.
• Experienced in successfully establishing project management offices (PMO’s), incorporating project management best practices at local and regional levels.
• Certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt, formally trained in corporate environment by GE certified Master Black Belt.
• Effectively communicating highly technical concepts and designs to all levels of organizations, internally and externally, domestically and in the international arena.
• Responsible for performing formal contract reviews, requirements gathering, on-site technical evaluations, training, and assisting in executive sales presentations.
• Highly proficient in: MS Office, MS Access, MS Project, and MS Visio, to include the customization of forms, reports and document automation. Have familiarity with AutoCAD, Adobe, Ariba, Clarity, Lotus Notes, Minitab , and a number of proprietary and/or mainframe applications.

EMPLOYMENT:
Confidential – Independence, OH 
Client: Confidential 
Mission: Setup PMO, manage divesture, and other assigned projects.
Notable Accomplishments as Project Manager:

• Successfully providing on-time all of required deliverables for the McDonald Investments Divestiture project.
• Successfully completing eighteen assigned 2008 branch modernization projects within time and budgetary constraints.
• Conceived, developed and facilitated the automation of the status reporting for all 68 branch modernization projects.
• Assigned the largest RES project in almost 20 years.
• Advised and supported the successful formation and formalization of the RES Project Management Office (PMO).

Confidential – Seven Hills, OH 
Client: Confidential 
Mission: Develop FY 2007 Legal Information Systems’ (LIS) technology budget. 
Notable Accomplishments as Project Manager:

• Provided a viable budget strategy ahead of schedule for which the Director of the LIS Group commented at completion that this budget was the most detailed they had ever produced and felt that it was going to be their most accurate, as well.

Confidential – Strongsville, OH 
Client: Confidential 
Mission: Manage enterprise-wide project implementations, setup and run command centers, and apply Six Sigma best practices. 
Notable Accomplishments as Project Manager:

• Instrumental in the overseeing the successful conversion from ARP DISC to ARP SMS at National City Corporation.
• Applied Six Sigma methodology and rigor, i.e.: conducting voice of the customer (VOC) sessions, leading customers through the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), current state documentation (SIPOC) and workflow development towards the successful implementation of the Single Charter Project.
• Automated an otherwise mostly manual report generation process, freeing resources for other activities.

Confidential – Cleveland, OH 
Client: Confidential 
Mission: Consult and manage deployment of electronic voting machines, and help develop PMO for national deployment.
Notable Accomplishments as Project Manager:

• Diebold Elections Systems formally acknowledged that the primary election in Lucas County was, "the best election they have had in 17 years."
• Successfully developed and nurtured a positive work environment in an extremely political situation.
• Instrumental in establishing a state-wide project management office (PMO).

Confidential – Brecksville, OH 
Clients: Confidential 
Mission: Consult and manage projects for the CAFM Practice. 
Notable Accomplishments as Sr. Project Manager:

• Managed major elements of a very successful 2-year, large-scale ($4.5M), Oracle-based, ERP-type, computer-aided facilities management (CAFM) implementation project (enterprise-wide) for the Ford Motor Company. As a direct result of the success at Ford, Infiniti Systems Group was placed on the preferred vendor list and became a member of Ford’s “Valued Partner” program.
• Managed a successful Oracle-based, ERP-type CAFM implementation project for the Mission Systems Division of BAE, a major international aerospace manufacturer.

Confidential – Cleveland, OH 
Clients: Confidential, ICI Paints, Beverly Healthcare, Legacy Healthcare & KeyBank Corp
Mission: Consult and manage various IT projects, eg; deployments, infrastructure, web development, workflow analysis, process improvement and establish regional PMO. 
Notable Accomplishments as Sr. Project Manager:

• Responsible for growing an initial $24K project coordination engagement into a $600K Y2K deployment & NOS migration and recognized as “Employee of the Month” from the President of Xerox Connect.
• Instrumental in the launching of a local and regional project management office (PMO).
• Conceived and/or created various project management tools using MS Excel, MS Access and MS Project for the Project Management Practice. Successfully implemented MS Project Central for the regional PMO.

Confidential – Solon, OH 
Clients: Confidential, ie; ANC, Continental Can, Ball, Silgan, Schmalbach-lubeca, Reynolds Metals, Anchor Hocking, Rheem, Al-Zamil, Mitsubishi, Alusud Aluminio, SGCC, etc.
Mission: Manage department and complete project life-cycle activities in the production and integration of custom process control equipment, ie; high-speed machine vision.
Notable Accomplishments as Supervisor of Applications/Project Engineering

• Resulting from timely contributions in the creative application of product, and in process improvements, was given complete departmental responsibility and accountability for the Applications/Engineering Group, consisting of: three Project Managers, a Document Control Administrator and one each Application, Mechanical, Electronic and Software Engineer.
• A technical liaison trip to the new market area of South Africa resulted in over $6MM of sales the following two years.
• Successfully turned a negative client relationship into a positive partnership significantly contributing to over $600K in the sales of new systems within six months.

Notable Accomplishments as Project Manager

• Successfully conceived, developed and implemented several MS Access-based departmental/enterprise-wide databases for increased efficiency and productivity, eg: one database implemented reduced direct labor by over 3,000 hrs/yr.
• Successfully conveyed technical information and designs, problem-solving and addressing technical and commercial issues with customers in an international arena in verbal and written formats.

EDUCATION:

• Certified by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Trained and certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt by GE-certified Master Black Belt.
• Associate Degrees in Business and in Technology from Pierce College, Tacoma, WA.
• Attended Ashland University, Ashland, OH and Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ.
• Graduated with honors from two of the top ten technical MOS\'s in the US Army (34Y & 45G).
• Attended numerous professional and business skills enhancement-training seminars.