SUMMARY:

• Result - oriented Information Technology management professional with proven program/project management skills and strong international business expertise. Track record of evaluating and selecting leading edge technologies for enhancing and introducing products. Managed projects of all sizes in the US, Australia, Europe, and Latin America to increase market share and reduce development cost.
• European based Account Manager customers
• Program managed all aspects of $4 million government contract, including supervision of personnel, management of project finances, development of life-cycle plans/performance requirements, and acquisitions
• Performed business process reviews and surveyed operational environments for various government sites in an effort to recommend potential system software and hardware upgrades
• Evaluated Information Engineering and Modeling products for adoption by various government agencies.
• Administer $5 million research for a new Product Release
• Researched new technologies and reported on metrics and trends for new department of defense technologies
• Experienced creating and managing Agile and Waterfall Project Management methodologies
• Managed the life-cycle migration of a Loan application and developed easier process/interface for customers to access, apply, submit, while reducing our approval time by 10 days
• Program manage combination of customers for several projects: internal, consultant, and vendor resources
• Create processes and procedures to establish a Project Management Office (PMO)
• Program managed over 25 projects in the data center and infrastructure field including all aspects of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning
• Initiated resource management tools for shared resources on Infrastructure projects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planned the implementation of a solution to archive claim data and then purge them from its Confidential Claims Management System (CMS) and claims related documents from its EMC2 Documentum repository (Documentum) based on specified parameters to meet the requirements of its Claims business and corporate Records Retention Schedule. Worked out the requirements to create SQL calls for the testing phase.
• Worked with vendors to build the proposal for the Proof of Concept for an audit software (AuSuM) into the independent insurance division.
• Worked with security and contracts administration to finalize the implementation contract for the vendors. This included background check, market research on vendor reputation, comparing vendor product against requirements.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• IBM InphoSphere, Hadoop, and Matadex: Lead a team of architects and engineers in analyzing and acquiring Metadata and Hadoop platform for Confidential .
• Evaluated new technologies and vendors that support Metadata and Hadoop created and executed proof-of-concept, recommended the best fit product and support environment for the bank, worked with sourcing to negotiate and secure 3rd party vendor to assist and document the implementation of Hadoop.
• Managed the work and timelines of 7 sub-contractors.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Program Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Planned the delivery of the overall NAS Migration and its activities in accordance with the mission and the goals of the Confidential organization.
• Developed initiatives to support the strategic direction of the organization.
• Created and implemented long-term goals and objectives to achieve the successful outcome of the program.
• Built a program evaluation framework to assess the strengths of the program and to identify areas for improvement.
• Developed funding proposals for the program to ensure the continuous delivery of services.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Portfolio Manager responsible for all the Back-Office projects that are planned and in-progress across the company.
• Gathered and reported metrics that describe the state of the portfolio. Tracked in-progress projects to elevate risks and issues, and managed the resource pool that supported the IT investments. The portfolio budget was at $6.5 million across 3 programs and 10 projects.
• Managed the deployment (included training and installation) of 400+ Salesforce endpoints to the entire customer service organization and field sales personnel.
• Reported and participated in 2 pure agile projects. 1st entailed the development of a new web-based product; the 2nd was migration from Teradata to Oracle database for the BI group.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Project Manager / Business Analyst Consultant,

Responsibilities:

• Application and Data Migration project. Using Agile and Waterfall methodologies, managed the lifecycle of migrating a legacy Loans Application.
• Created the migration lifecycle.
• Migrated the data.
• Built the application retirement plan.
• Negotiated vendor contract.
• Created As-Is and To-Be process models and evaluated gap and implemented approved changes.
• Setup and customized Salesforce as the CRM tool for the Franchise sales team.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Market Research project manager with the Confidential group. Conducted surveys using 250 consultants researching 580 customers prior of the release of a new version for a modified Legal search engine.
• This 90-day project required daily reports to 5 different market segments and bi-weekly reports to the VP of MKT.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Manager Implementation Team

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 5 PMs in overseeing the day-to-day progress of projects in implementing Cisco (Tandberg), Polycom and LifeSize Telepresence endpoints and infrastructure devices from post sales, installation, through managed services support. Using Agile methodologies, lead the team in transitioning the Managed Services and project management processes from Confidential to Communications to Confidential based requirements and processes.
• Implemented Salesforce as the communication method for the sales team.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Director PMO

Responsibilities:

• Created processes and procedures using waterfall methodologies for establishing a PMO office at Confidential Communications L.L.C.
• Obtained business user, systems, and other vendor commitment of people and resources to implement assigned projects using resources across the corporation.
• Worked with functional managers to negotiate for resources for projects and communicate with those managers regarding resource availability, workload, and performance.
• Managed departmental staff, other functional resources, and consultants during all phases of project.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed the construction and installation of state-of-the-art Data Center with full NOC Operations.
• Managed multiple projects in cross-functional environment of 5 or more projects at a time with teams of 2 to 15 engineers on each project.
• Oversaw more than 25 projects related to the Radian primary and secondary data centers; ranging from operating systems upgrade, Database restructuring, Storage upgrade, Cabling, installation of Voice Over Internet Protocol,
• Controlled the opening of new and upgraded field operation offices, and various infrastructure projects. Initiated and lead resource management tools for shared resources for the Infrastructure projects.

Confidential, Miamisburg, OH

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a twenty-member engineering team to develop a single global legal product that will eliminate numerous customized country specific products. As a key member on the Global Product and Content Council.
• Conducted site surveys, analyzed existing technologies, and determined high level product requirements for sister companies in Chile, Argentina, Australia, UK, and France.
• Drove financial analyses related to migration of global products.
• Directed a multi-million dollar effort to certify existing X.25 protocol to Y2K compliance and migrate to a new TCP/IP protocol.
• Migrated thirteen legacy systems to Y2K compliance.
• Managed the development of two new unique legal research products that are part of Confidential ’ primary money making products provided to law firms and insurance companies.
• Managed a team of 15 software engineers and developers.

Confidential, Beavercreek, OH

Business Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of a $4 million government contract, which included supervision of personnel management of project finance, development life-cycle plans, performance requirements, and purchasing.
• Single point-of-contact for formulation of technology acquisition strategy, assigning and supervising contractor personnel, enforcing work standards and reviewing performance discrepancies.
• Facilitated as a Subject Matter Expert in several area of Software Engineering Institute/ Capability Maturity Model in achieving Level 3 certification for Dayton Logistics Center.
• Manager Deployment and Implementation Team (Standard Depot System Maintenance)
• As the organizational web architect, successfully managed the development and deployment of a web-based application for the US Army’s largest rotary-wing depot maintenance operation.
• Managed a team of contractors and Confidential employees in Dayton Ohio and Corpus Christi Texas.
• Joint Logistics Data Center ( Confidential ) Automated Systems Demonstration Project Team Supervisor.
• Responsible for retaining and leading senior systems engineers, functional and business analysts in direct support of Confidential .
• Tasked by system program office to perform business process reviews and surveys operational environment at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center.
• Let research studies of current and proposed DoD standard systems for in corporation into the military Technical Order and Engineering Change Proposal processes.