PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Project Management Professional with over many years of diverse information technology experience in both Federal and commercial sectors.
• Experience in project management that includes budgeting, resource planning, risk, milestone achievement and deliverables. Additionally, was responsible for team building, documentation, policies, user acceptance testing (UAT) and documentation, procedures and scheduling of various project initiatives. Played a key factor on proposal support that included technical scoping, pricing, planning, and more.
• Successfully closed several Ft. Belvoir Community Hospital projects that were in jeopardy prior to my arrival. Project’s varied in condition that included; behind schedule, over allocated resources and at risk for various reasons.
• Served as a MS Share Point administrator for the Department of Veterans Administration (VA) where I was part of a team that successfully completed a two year contract consisting of several software development projects.
• Provided network engineering, administration, project management and technical leadership in both government and commercial sectors.
• Served as a Technical Lead, on various system development, maintenance, and support projects. These projects included both government and private sector contracts that focused on PC and server upgrades and replacements as well as new application implementation.
• As a Project Manager, I have expertise in program control, subcontractor management and program administration with a primary focus in scoping, requirements analysis, infrastructure design and technical project management. This experience was with projects for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as well as the General Services Administration (GSA).
• Served a dual role as Release and Configuration Manager on multiple projects for the federal government and the World Bank (IFC).
• Provided project oversight for many of Confidential ’s corporate initiatives including the new releases of the company’s public web site, time reporting, corporate calendaring, and the corporate SharePoint knowledge management systems. Personally responsible for the installation and configuration of the internet and intranet sites for the company.
• Successfully installed, configured and administered a SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 farm for hundreds of users. This private sector environment consisted of a two tier server system utilizing IIS6, SQL 2005, and MS 2003/2008 server.
• Strong understanding of emerging technologies and proven expertise assisting customers in bridging the gap between existing and emerging technologies. Spearheaded the conversion of the email system for three small businesses from in - house MS Exchange to online systems using Rackspace and Megapath systems.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Simultaneously manage approximately 8 - 10 projects that range in size, value, and time at Ft. Belvoir Community Hospital. The projects in corporate several moving resources that include military, civilian, and contractor support in addition to vendors.
• Oversee several small in scope MS SharePoint projects that are internal to the hospital. Tasks mainly consist of requirements gathering and documentation, high level project planning, Q/A, and tracking of development activities.
• Work closely with Information Assurance to ensure systems obtain accreditation via RMF/DIACAP. This includes proper documentation, vendor interaction, and proper scheduling of the processes.
• Responsible for creating and updating various documents including, project schedules, Governance, D/R, Vendor Questionnaires, RFCs, RFPs, and more.
• Work with various departments within the hospital obtaining requirements and planning upgrades and or technological improvements to their respective infrastructure. This also includes several of the hospital’s pharmacies and outlying clinics.
• Organizer of the IT department’s Confidential meetings and its respective documentation.
• Implements negotiation tactics between vendors, resources, and procurement to assist in expediting project processes.

Confidential

Project Manager/SharePoint Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Served as the PM for the OAS Department at the Veterans Administration in Washington, DC. Custodian and Administrator for the development environment of servers. Additionally, served as a consultant for the pre-production and production environments of the same. Servers consist of a MS Windows platform running several services and applications that include; MS SQL, IIS, Reporting services, SharePoint 2010, and more.
• Support web application and site collection creation and management. Manage services such as Search, User Profile/People Picker, Performance Point, Project Server, and InfoPath. Perform application backups through the Central Administration and assist the DBA, and Site Collection Administrators with any feature or function necessary to maintain the SharePoint portal.
• Served as the Configuration and Release Manager for all code updates and deployments to the pre-production and production environments.
• Point of contact and Co-PM on the contract on all aspects of the SDLC process for all of the projects during the period of performance.
• Managed the development process using an Agile approach, and provide status reports to stakeholders according to schedule.
• As an SME for the contract team and client, I provided technical assistance to resolve issues which arise in the course of the day-to-day operations relating to MS SharePoint in the Development, Pre-Production and Production environments.
• Successfully created and supported a service desk ticketing system that automates several processes to quickly and effectively handle customer concerns, change requests, and reporting.
• Provided support for Quality Assurance by utilizing MS Visual Studio/Team Foundation Server and Confidential Rational Tools.
• Provided support to the Development Team by performing d Confidential migrations for the various work packages and coordinating with AITC (Server / Environment Management Team) to ensure successful deployment of software releases and server updates.
• Introduced and successfully used Dell Migration Suite to quickly migrate from legacy MS SharePoint systems to MS SharePoint 2010.
• Configured, and managed all projects in MS Team Foundation Server. Utilized Teamwork Online and MS Team Foundation Server to assist the PM in managing the project’s schedules, activities, Sprints, code and user stories.
• Custodian of project documentation applicable to the project’s schedule, milestones, and deliverables.
• Chair of the Confidential for all projects
• Tier III point of contact for the service desk

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Co-Project Manager on a re-IP address project consisting of over 4000 devices throughout the World Bank that operated in multiple time zones across the globe.
• Worked with the PMO to coordinate and report on 12-15 simultaneous IT projects. These initiatives included; Capital, Operational, and IT upgrade/expansion projects that vary anywhere from 3 to 24 months.
• Work directly with technical leads and engineers to assist them with project management related activities, coordinate execution, and effectively communicate with all stakeholders. Due to so many projects, capacity planning was a key task on many of my activities.
• Create project plans that include the project schedule, functional requirements, RBS and WBS in addition to assisting the various teams with creating technical documentation, including architecture, design, test and support plans.
• Worked closely with IT staff to orchestrate release management procedures to implement new devices by ensuring development, test, stage, and production activities are followed correctly.
• Plan and coordinate Change Control Board reviews with stakeholders and create all relative documentation to support the projects.
• Hold team meetings to share information as it pertains to projects with both foreign and domestic stakeholders and support staff.
• Responsible for developing and instantiating project planning and management processes, documentation, schedules, and best practices for development initiatives.

Confidential

IT Manager/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided administration and customer support for all IT-related activities for the company’s 100+ employees and contractors both internally and externally.
• Engineered and maintained Confidential ’s corporate IT infrastructure that included, but was not limited to, Routers, Firewalls, Web (IIS, Apache, Tomcat) and File servers, design and maintenance, email system (Exchange 2005 and Rackspace), intranet configuration and maintenance (SharePoint 2007), IT security implementation and policies and Microsoft AD services.
• Successfully migrated a Sharepoint (SP) farm from SP2003 to MOSS 2007. This consisted of hundreds of users of which belonged to various security and site groups and all of the associated web parts (versions as well). In addition, I installed, configured and maintained the SQL backend server (2005) that SharePoint connected to. These systems were backed up with Acronis 10.
• Served as the administrator for SP supporting proposal sites, project sites, CMMi specific projects, calendaring and alert activities, security groups, and much more. Configured MS Outlook on user machines to synchronize with MOSS2007.
• Served as a hands-on System Engineer on a long-term project for the Department of Housing and Urban Development supporting a multi-tier system running SAS software. This assignment included support for the project’s secured site, production and test environments, Citrix connections, customer support, system builds and expansion, network monitoring, and more.
• Developed the backup and disaster recovery policy (Veritas Backup Exec. 10 and Acronis 10) for multiple LAN environments ( Confidential Corporate, HUD, and several small businesses).
• Responsible for developing and implementing corporate initiatives to improve both Confidential ’s internal and external operations and procedures. This included organizing and directing efforts to transition the company to operate from Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMMi) Level 1 based process environment to SEI CMMi Level 3.
• Monitored equipment inventory and audited vendor service contracts for opportunities to reduce cost and improve contract terms.
• Served as a project manager for Confidential projects at HUD and GSA. Projects included Federal housing as well as multi-housing financial systems and application development for a web-based reporting system and document repository. Ensured project deliverables including project documentation such as assessments, summaries, functional requirements, the WBS, risk mitigation, resource scheduling, project tasking, and milestone tracking and budgeting.
• Worked closely with Confidential corporate staff ensuring project success by following full-lifecycle development procedures, holding project status meetings, and ensuring that project milestones and deliverables were met according to project schedule. This included managing timeframes, performing quality assurance, testing, scheduling, and creating extensive documentation.
• Served as the Configuration Manager on a software development project for the Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC) where I also wrote the CM plan for the product we were creating and used it to minimize scope creep and risks.
• Supported project-specific configuration and change management including system upgrades, disaster planning, co-location, backup and recovery, and capacity planning.
• Served as a project consultant and deployment advisor for various company initiatives and project proposals. Wrote all of the technical portions on all proposals submitted for new business.