SUMMARY:

• PMI certified Information Technology professional with extensive experience in the following roles: Transition Manager, Manager, Project Manager, and Systems Programmer.
• Managed IT initiatives and recommended solutions that produced value and met business objectives.
• Strong leadership skills especially during significant changes.
• Proven abilities in performance management, communication management, team building, staffing and delivery of service.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Southfield, Michigan

Senior Buyer/MVS Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Manage the successful completion of the business unit mainframe software acquisition projects for GM IS&S including: development of global project strategies, co - negotiate price and terms with suppliers and EDS to leverage products and services globally, lead the mainframe purchasing process to support GM IS&S, adhere to corporate and unit purchasing and accounting policies and procedures, develops an understanding of the market trends and availability of materials and services within different regions, negotiate contractual terms and conditions and guide GM IS&S personnel in purchasing process, policies, and procedures.
• Recommend to Purchasing and GM IS&S management cost reduction opportunities.
• Facilitate GM Mainframe Council Meeting.

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Infrastructure Hosting Services project which was the global consolidation and migration of the file servers in the Dow Chemical environment, installation and implementation of a quota management system and cleanup of the SID History.

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

Transition Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed staff of EDS and Covansys project managers in the GM Global Supply Chain
• Operations (GSCO) Web hosting environment. The project managers managed all B2C transitions: steady state and new.
• Assisted in managing the GSCO Tech Refresh project that is moving the test environment to the IBM Atlanta facility V5 environment and the production environment move to the new V5 environment in the IBM Raleigh facility. The technical refresh team consists of IBM, Covansys, EDS and Wipro technicians and project managers.

Confidential, Canton Ohio

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with VIA Information as a project manager on a contract for hire. Led Joint Verification team of Confidential, UNIX, Wintel and Disaster Recovery specialists.
• Managed risk and issues derived from Due Diligence exercise.

Confidential, Detroit Michigan

Substitute Teacher

Responsibilities:

• Teaching and mentoring elementary students and middle school students in Math, English, Language Arts, Computer Lab, Typing and Science.

Project Manager

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple project teams on small and medium projects involving installation of software products, data center disaster recovery, applications and network design, software implementation and data center facilities management which successfully kept the IT environment current and compliant.
• Partnered with peers and customer Project Managers, due to unique technical knowledge and background, to resolve issues accurately and quickly.

First Line Manager, MVS Technical Support

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Managed Technical Support group of 6 senior technicians located in three different states whose responsibilities included installation and maintenance of the MVS operating system and its associated products, customer account satisfaction, upgrading products to Y2K compliancy and supporting the Michigan and Illinois data centers and operations staff.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Vice President, Technical Support Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of six technicians who supported the bank’s three data centers. Responsibilities of the team included software procurement and installation, performance tuning, production support and application support. This entire team transitioned to IBM and continued these projects.
• Major project accomplishment was the 24-month OS/390 upgrade product. This project consisted of upgrading the three data centers to OS/390 release 3, upgrading 60 third party products, renaming all system datasets, installing all products with SMP/E and documenting the install and maintenance process for all three data centers. The project met the budgeted cost of $3.5 million.

CICS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and maintained CICS, ACF2/CICS, The Monitor for CICS, EYEWITNESS, DMS/OS and supported/maintained IMS.
• Provided CICS technical support to the lines of business and application development staff.

Confidential, Warren, Michigan

CICS Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and maintained CICS, ACF2/CICS, SAVRS, OMEGAMON/CICS, CICSPARS, IMSPARS, SYNCSORT, PDSFAST, DCMS, FOCUS/CICS, TSO COBOL/OPTIMIZER, AND PERSONAL MANAGER

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained DOS/VSE, CICS and TAF products.
• Designed a development tool for the application development staff using CMS, Dialog Manager and VM Passthru.

Application Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developed application programs using COBOL and MARKIV.
• Designed and implemented various financial programs.
• Provided guidance to programming staff in solution to software related problems.