PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential has about 15 years of progressive IT business and project management experience, constantly pushing the limits of what technology can do and has a passion for harnessing technology and information systems to improve efficiency and organizational effectiveness.
• He is someone who can quickly become a key figure in any project by hitting the ground running and having an immediate effect on his surroundings.
• On a personal level he is ready to take on challenging and complex roles where initiative, hard - work and dedication are required to succeed.
• He demonstrates sufficient knowledge and experience to apply appropriate traditional waterfall and/or agile scrum methodology to projects to deliver projects within the constraints of schedule, budget, scope, time and quality.
• Direct IT projects and technical activities across multiple project sites in support of multibillion-dollar project initiatives.
• Assemble and lead high-performing technical teams of Software & System Engineers, Security Engineers, plan and optimize resources, improve throughputs, and enhance system performance parameters.
• Served as Project Manager and Lead Systems Architect for multiple high-profile, large-scale network and IT infrastructure projects, systems integration, server migration data center consolidation and projects.
• Manage project budget, resource allocation, Plan and schedule project timelines and track deliverables using appropriate tools
• Provide direction and support to project team

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile, Waterfall, Business processes improvement, System Migrations/Integrations, Enterprise Implementations, Vendor Management, Business strategy.
• Infrastructure integrations, customer relations, functional IT management, negotiations, network, Project management, proposals, research, change management, budget & resource management,Cloud.
• MS Dynamics, VMware, SharePoint, SaaS, UML, Java, C++, SQL. JIRA, MS Project, Requisite Pro, IBM Jazz, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Sr. IT Project Manager

Technology: Tri-mode IEEE 802.11a,b,g, n PAL Bluetooth v4.1, L2CAP.

Responsibilities:

• Performed enterprise wide horizontal integration planning and interfaces to other functional systems, including the development of conceptual systems requirements; systems integration requirements; systems phasing plan; business application consultation; problem tracking/management; and preparation and delivery of presentations to management.
• Provide daily supervision and direction to support staff.
• Monitors project status, budget expenditures, and identifies problems and recommends solutions.
• Identifies critical project success factors for tracking, analysis and reporting.
• Collaborates with Sr. Director, Clinical Development, Directors, Business Development, Information Technology and the Project Management Office in the preparation/presentation of Development Innovations capabilities/proposal defenses.

Confidential

Technology: Oracle Suite for Authentication (OID, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), ADF, Spring framework, Stored Procedure, Web Services, Web Gate, SAML, Oracle SQL, HTML5, J2EE, Java script.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple integration projects - Created Integration project plans, coordinated, directed and managed integration project, document project risks & performance information.
• Report project milestones and provide status reports to project sponsors and senior management.
• Report project milestones and provide status reports to project sponsors and senior management.
• Monitored the status of all identified risks, identify any new risks, take corrective actions and update the risk response plan
• Lead, coach, and motivate project team. Proactively recognize and resolve technical and people resource constraints with respect to timelines/deliverables.
• Identified system enhancements that will bring the project objectives to realization.
• Proactive and effective communication with all key stakeholders
• Facilitated project meetings, including kick off meetings, with internal and external stakeholders, SMEs and functional managers.

Confidential

Technology: IEEE 802.11a, b,g,n., NIST Sp 800-41

Responsibilities:

• Accountabilities included tracking activities of multiple project teams, ensuring those activities are completed on schedule, managing cloud vendor relationships, coordinating and communicating testing results, obtaining security approvals, tracking issues and remediation plans, conducting operational readiness reviews and reporting progress regularly to management.
• Identified critical business applications, created migration test plans and liaised with the business SMEs to validate their applications and obtain sign off for each business area.
• Liaised with application vendors to obtain licensing costs, installation procedures, training materials, software and devising suitable functional and non-functional test criteria for each application. Creating & managing department specific sub projects.

Confidential

Technology:VMware vCenter, vSphere, VMware Horizon view(VDI), Windows Servers 2012/2008/, IIS, SQL Server 2008/2005, MS System Center, Windows XP/Win 7, SAN/NAS, HP Proliant Blade Servers, Cisco 29xx,39xx switches/26xx,36xx routers

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment. server and storage installations, environment upgrades and data center migrations. Program manager for co-location infrastructure projects and activities. Managed Call Center network projects, vendor relationship and pipeline activities.
• Responsibilities include; managing technical resources, hosting meetings, assisting with budget, creating and managing project plans. Coordinating with business on scheduling project and change management activities.

Confidential

Technology:Windows Servers 2008/2003/2000/ NT4.0, IIS, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008/2005, vLAN, VPNs.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Projects include; hardware/software procurement, server and storage installations, environment upgrades and data center migrations.
• Program manager for co-location infrastructure projects and activities.
• Managed Call Center network projects, vendor relationship and pipeline activities.
• Responsibilities include; managing technical resources, hosting meetings, assisting with budget, creating and managing project plans.
• Coordinating with business on scheduling project and change management activities.

Confidential, MD

Technical Consultant PM

Technology: LDAP, Active Directory, Linux, MS Servers 200/2008, VoIP, Web Services, SOAP, MS SQL Server

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and managed project plans to plan and coordinate project activity, managed stakeholders expectations while managing multiple projects and resources.
• Coordinated internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.
• Ensure all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
• Build professional rapport with vendors and customers while representing in a positive, professional, and ethical manner.
• Doubled as a SME for network and systems analysis and administration.

Confidential, MD

Project Coordinator/ Systems Analyst

Technology: Radio Frequency (RF), Active Directory, MS Exchange

Responsibilities:

• Project management liaison with vendors for contractual negotiations and milestone tracking.
• Consulted with functional unit management to identify, define and document business needs.
• Analyzed feasibility of, and developed requirements for new systems and enhancements to existing systems.
• Conducted change impact analysis to assess the potential implications of change.
• Acted as a liaison between departmental end-users, technical analysts, IT analysts, consultants in the analysis, design, configuration, testing and maintenance of case management systems to ensure optimal performance.
• Identified business processes improvement opportunities; assists in the preparation of proposals to develop new systems and/or operational changes.
• Provided on-call technical support. Recommended and implemented new/improved procedures and processes.

Confidential, MD

Graduate Research Assistant

Technology:XServe G5 2GHz, Myrinet(448 cores), LDAP, Active Directory, Exchange

Responsibilities:

• Research on the process of scheduling multiprocessor systems in distributed environments.
• Structured serial programming codes to parallel processes to run on available number of processors with the use of C message passing interface (MPI).
• Built a Globus-based Grid network of six nodes to serve as servers and clients on the network.
• Built FIPA-compliant Agents.
• Coupled the Grid and the Agent environments to facilitate interoperability of the Agent behaviors across the grid network.
• Performed desktop maintenance, system upgrade proposals and computer repairs .
• Performed hardware installations, test newly installed components and generated reports
• Procured, received, documented tracked inventory of all computer equipment and software licenses.
• Set up, monitor and troubleshoot LAN, install and configure Cisco routers and switches.
• Assisted in help desk issue resolution and trouble ticket management.
• Installed, configured (using imaging software), maintained and troubleshoot applications.

Confidential

Business Application Analyst/Network Consultant

Technology:Radio Frequency (RF), Active Directory, MS Exchange, VPN, LDAP.

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with clients to understand their network/infrastructure needs.
• Translated customer business needs into application and operational requirements.
• Translated business requirements into functional specifications. Developed use cases, data and process flows.
• Played Key role in planning, testing, implementation of business enhancements or changes
• Provided functional and technical system support.
• Trained end users on new and existing business application.
• Configured Switches, Routers, firewalls, other network devices, business operation.
• Managed business data center.
• Ensure secure authentication on the network
• Performed troubleshooting and generated report for management.

Confidential, Lagos

IT Systems Analyst

Technology: Java, payment gateway API, ATM, POS

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Program/Project Manager through phases of the project life cycle by helping in the development of comprehensive project plans to include both long and short term goals and milestones.
• Provided analytical support for critical corporate initiatives including business function support for system development, migrations and consolidations, significant business area process improvement projects and complex product roll outs.
• Participated in the design, implementation, monitoring, training and use of electronic banking system (EBS) for revenue collection.
• Ensured that validated codes meet performance goals and (SLA) before migrating to production.