SUMMARY:

• A trusted, self - directed and results oriented technical IT Professional - a recent 20 year Confidential 2016 retiree - IT Strategy Consultant and Sr. Technical Project Leader. A certified technical consultant with 20 years as an Confidential Consultant, certified technical project manager and manager of complex technical project teams through the SDLC lifecycle.
• Experience developing and managing Data Center migration strategies, Cloud ‘As A Service’ strategies, IT Resiliency strategies/designs and implementation. Big Data and Data Analytics platforms, IT Program Management best-practices.
• Experience and technical knowledge of the entire IT technical domain stack (i.e. storage domain, server domain, network domain, middleware domain, application domain). Knowledge of best-practice methodologies.
• Experience assessing and re-designing Systems Management Processes (ITIL), and assessing business requirements to IT functional capabilities. Teaming with Scrum PM Leaders to drive program oversight and governance.
• An innovator - credited with designing first of a kind industry solutions for Confidential 50 organizations, awarded an Confidential Arts award for patent submission (IoT wearable).
• Experienced leading diverse strategic projects for Confidential 500 financial services, manufacturing and banking sector

SKILLS:

• Managing SME across technology domains (storage, network, DMZ, middleware, and physical and virtual servers hosts)
• Mapping dependency to define affinity groups across technology domains
• Identifying risk and managing problem and issues
• Project Team Management - problem, issues, planning, execution, and financial management
• People Management skills - executive presentation and communications
• High Availability Resiliency Strategy Development, Assessment and Designs
• Disaster Recovery Solution-Strategy Design and Assessment and Designs
• IT to Business Strategy Alignment
• Core Consulting skills - communications, presentations, and data gathering
• Data Center Strategies
• ITIL Foundational courses
• Confidential Technical Leadership program
• Agile Methods Training
• Change Management - use of tools to initiate and management operational change
• Portfolio Management

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing Sr. Project Management skills to Confidential ’s Systems Services Production Management for Enterprise Stress Testing (SSPM EST) team.
• Managing production onboarding (promotion) from lower lanes (Dev/QA) to production.
• Managing Incident and Problems using Remedy.
• Interfacing with Application Development team and Scrum PMs - to identify planned releases and/or production issues impacting the application’s availability.
• Participate in daily Scrum team stand-ups.
• Develop SLAs for Systems Support
• Managing relationships with Directors of Application Development teams.
• Attend Sr. GIS (Global Information Services Management) weekly planning meetings.
• Managing strategic roll-outs and Go-lives for applications within the SSPM EST portfolio.

Confidential

Certified Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading complex customer facing engagements
• Responsible for contract profit/loss
• IT Strategy and Complex Solution architecture and solution delivery and Solution Implementation
• Designing complex High Availability (active-active, active-passive, cloud) solution architectures
• Successfully manage cross-functional Confidential and customer project teams to resolve complex business-service availability, IT availability and data center migration engagements
• Confidential certified IT Process Reengineering
• SDLC project Lifecycle management
• Virtual Server recovery strategies, DB recovery and Network Failover strategies
• Cloud Architectures and Cloud Solution and Designs
• Confidential Patent award, Confidential Academy of Technology Study contributor
• Data Center consolidation and migration strategy
• Business Requirements alignment to IT capabilities; Gap Analysis and Solution Roadmaps

Confidential, Bronx, NY

IT Applications Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day hiring management of IT Applications tem responsible for enterprise financial applications (G/L, AP, Procurement), and Inventory Management Applications (central supply systems)
• Implemented first in the industry client-server SAP R3 logistical (including automating match of PO, AP, and Receipt)
• Implemented Confidential X12 solutions for business-to-business procurement/invoicing
• Elected President of Healthcare Users Group

Confidential, NY

Sr. Systems Designer (Team Leader)

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical IT development team in the development and deployment of first-in-industry online Show Ratings Systems - using Nielsen/Arbitron show demographics
• Activities included gather business requirements (from TV Research Dept.), design a relational data architecture, and online user application to replace sweep period books

Confidential, RTP, NC

Systems Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed enterprise Confidential (point-of-sale) systems for tracking world-wide sales and distribution of company products (semiconductors)