SUMMARY:

• Results - driven senior IT project manager, accomplished with a proven record of achievements in medium to large-scale projects in software development and infrastructure.
• An approachable individual with outstanding interpersonal and communications skills to senior level management, the technical teams, and is client-centric.
• A Problem solver, multitasker, self-starter with a constant sense of urgency through all levels of the project life cycle.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Project Mgmt. Frameworks
• ITIL V3 (pre-cert)
• Budgeting and Scheduling
• Change Management
• Reporting/Presentations Team Building
• Procurement
• Strategic Planning
• Process Flow Development
• Cross-cultural communications
• Business and Systems Analysis
• Software Development
• Infrastructure Development
• Networking Architecture
• QA Methodology/CMMI
• SDLC
• Technical Team Development
• Continuous Improvement
• Performance Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management: MS Project and MS Office Suite * EPMO * Frameworks (Waterfall/Agile/Global) * GPM Problem Management/Remedy * ITIL V3 * CMMI

Application: JAVA * Oracle/PL/SQL * UNIX * Middleware (IBM MQSERIES) * Web Services/BPEL/HTML/XML/SOAP .NET * E-commerce * E-business * B2B/BI * EDI * SAP * ERP * Messaging * J2EE Enterprise * TERADATA Cloud * Mainframe (COBOLII, JCL, FTP, DB2, IMS, CICS) * Scripting * C++ * Desktop migrations and configuration, Data warehousing

Infrastructure: Networks (WAN/LAN/Switching/Routing/Internet/Intranet/Security/ISP/Proxy/VPN/SOC) Wintel * AIX/Linux * VMware * SAN/Storage/BKUP * Clustering * Monitoring * Decommissioning * Transition

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided time and costs, resource requirements and scheduling timelines
• Created documentation for system requirements, interface agreement and system test plan
• Led design with group of 10 team members, learned JAVA language quickly and brought inexperienced team members (skilled in mainframe) on board through ambitious daily training in a short period of time
• Wrote portion of application that interfaced with an Oracle Database through JDBC thin-client
• Coordinated activities with IBM Middle-ware and wrote JAVA Classes associated with deploying
• MQSERIES message queuing for online transaction queue capability
• Closely monitored and performed analysis of system product using Oracle Forms and Reports for verification
• Deployed connection pooling and database exception handling through analysis of performance test for meeting response time requirements
• Instilled team motivation to persevere through obstacles associated with creating new architecture with leading edge technology and software acquisition while ensuring adherence to defined model
• Facilitated Project Management duties, communicated effectively with all stakeholders, ensured quality gates were met, coordinated all inspections and ultimately deployed a product into production with zero defects
• Convinced senior management through detailed proposal to accept the undertaking of new technology with a highly motivated team in discovery mode and managed the risks accordingly
• Performed Cost/Benefit analysis for projects that contributed to the client’s overall initiative for cost savings.

Technical Project Manager/Application Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed successful deployment of software development projects with little to no defects. Performed administrative duties tied to process frameworks, reviewed system proposals, and managed scope, estimation of time and costs and schedule with justification tied to metrics. Performed Root Cause Analysis. Provided technical guidance to staff and maintained excellent problem solving, written and communication skills
• Performed the role of Systems Analyst/SME in design, development, and testing with in-house/offshore personnel
• Provided technical expertise, developed test plans, and analyzed multiple systems for the migration and remediation of application to new locations.

Confidential, East Brunswick, New Jersey

Senior Technical Staff Member

Responsibilities:

• Devised Rate Sampling architecture to improve tariff verification process utilizing DB2 solution and created homegrown compression algorithm to address table size constraints
• Designed and coded Oracle-based solutions for internal users using UNIX and Pro C language
• In addition to the responsibilities listed under Technical Staff Member:
• Documented requirements, risk assessments, size and cost estimates, code inspections and system test plans
• Provided impact and risk forecasts for all software projects and status reports
• Actively involved in exercising quality assurance and CMM procedures within organization
• Technical Staff Member, Consumer Services, Message Processing Division

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Performed business and systems analyst role on large technically-oriented projects, support test environments
• Conducted technical interviews to screen prospective developer candidates and provided appraisal input
• Senior Technical Associate II, Consumer Services, Message Processing Division
• Participation in Rating Restructure project, which converted a purely code driven environment into a quick turnaround table-driven environment
• Created IMS program for Rate Quote conversion to on-line region platform
• Created new DB2 infrastructure to produce global fraud and uncollectable reports for numerous clients that proved to be 96 - 98% accurate
• Established an interface to report cellular uncollectables

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• In addition to the responsibilities listed under Lead Developer:
• Coached team members on job function and system orientation
• Provided constant support of production and release environments
• Performed project impacting, scheduling and assigning of workload

Confidential

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed a variety of system development responsibilities including analysis, design, code, test and implementation of several projects in DB2 SQL, COBOL II, Syncsort and File Aid, ranging from simple enhancements to complex new releases
• Supported clients with access to an on-line IMS system
• Technical Associate, Consumer Services, Message Processing Division

Confidential

Developer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and improved designs using analytical tools
• Coded structured COBOL II solutions to relatively complex multi-module, multi-step processes