SUMMARY:

• PROGRAM / PROJECT / TECHNICAL MANAGER Dynamic Program Manager with more than 17 years of high profile program management and technical project management experience maintaining and upgrading critical Confidential facilities and equipment.
• Government/Military, Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Computers, and Software. Proven Project Management expertise in implementing Confidential Surveillance Radar and Weather systems.
• Strong background with remote management in accordance with PMI PMP PMBOK principles and practices.
• Excellent academic preparation with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Information Technology (IT), Mobile/Remote, Project Manager (PM) - Private Cloud Implementation Services- Agile Project Manager (APM) responsible for the total 'health' of the projects in their project portfolio-(Idea), ensuring that the projects meet their objectives-(Discover), that the project deliverables are complete-(Deliver), produced to schedule, to budget and meet the quality specified
• Organizations that are looking to work faster and with greater agility often look to a private cloud as a solution
• Not only can a private cloud improve data security, but it can also make better use of your existing IT resources
• Unless you're using Platform as a Service (PaaS), you're not getting the full value out of your private cloud implementation
• IBM's Cloud Builder Professional Services removes the bottlenecks that result from manual setups of middleware provisioning
• With full automation across infrastructure and middleware, now you can provision in just minutes, while vastly reducing IT workloads, errors and costs
• That's the power of an integrated cloud environment based on PaaS
• IBM Private Cloud Implementation Services Infocenter contains technical information around the use and development of the IBM Private Cloud Implementation Services assets
• IBM Private Cloud Implementation Services's range of tools makes it easy to produce files required for a Client engagement's deployment
• Ref: IT Services/Cloud Services/Cloud Builder .APM required managing the project financials including monthly billing and revenue forecasting
• Achieved all the objectives and completed the project to client satisfaction using standard IBM Project Management processes
• Set overall project plan/strategy
• Developed, own and document the project plan including a Milestone Plan
• Arranged Project Assurance reviews and technical reviews of the Project
• Produced regular status reports for management
• Monitored and maintained project progress, contain costs, and resolve issues where necessary
• Implemented Softlayer Products
• Implemented the following Services: PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS
• Managed Sub-Project Managers
• Used a change management system to manage changes to the project plan
• Managed the risk
• Escalated issues when senior management action is required
• Achieved a satisfactory hand-over with appropriate publicity at project completion and run a project debriefing
• Achieved overall Project Quality as defined in the Project Quality Plan
• Provided planning, guidance and support to Sub-Project Managers to ensure that business objectives are met
• Analyzed complex or new situations and Implemented solutions, Developed new approaches, procedures or processes
• Monitored Server migration, builds and upgrades
• Software Graphics
• System Storage
• Obtained IBM Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Security and Social (CAMSS) Certificate online from Succeeding@IBM
• As a New Employee onboarding at IBM I was able to grasp the purpose and intent of the onboarding items check list
• I participated in obtaining a IBM laptop computer for job use
• I participated in the New Employee Training
• I coordinated issues with the service desk using Telephony and the IBM email system: Lotus Notes and Same Time
• I participated in providing status on tasks in MS Project
• I participated in the Knowledge Transfer during the transition onboarding process
• I participated with the Interactive voice response (IVR) via telephone keypad
• Self-motivated, self-managed
• Experience as a PM in Solution Delivery
• Several years' experience in project management and working with third parties
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a client facing environment
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Demonstrated negotiating skills
• Ability to manage multiple detailed solutions
• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more, product/solution/service areas of networking and unified communications
• Focus on financial management Solutions Include: (but not limited to etc
• Private and Hybrid Cloud implementation
• Service Management tools integration
• Data Center Transformation and system Virtualization
• Network integration including Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) & Wireless local Area Network (WLAN) solutions
• Server and storage infrastructure implementation
• Site and Facility implementation Contacts: Internal
• Sales and Marketing personnel* Professional Services personnel
• Technical employees
• Customer Service/Support team members
• Business Operations
• External
• Significant contact with client and third party staff.

Technical Representative

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Casually Employed Resident Engineer of a Government Contractor responsible for anticipated assignments on modernization and sustainment of projects in the Confidential National Airspace System.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• (PMC), Mobile/Remote, Project Manager: Applied PMBOK discipline for the Program Management Process Groups: initiation, planning, execution, monitor and control, close out; and Knowledge Areas: integration, scope, time/schedule, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, deployment, deliverables, procurement, applied IT software development life cycle (SDLC) management
• Completed training in Microsoft Office Suite Word, Excel, Power Point and Access, Outlook, OneNote, Visio, Tools Microsoft Project Schedule, and SharePoint courses to enhance project management skill which includes Microsoft Office 365 Cloud
• Completed PHP, SQL, and JavaScript courses to enhance project management skills
• Passionate User and follower of WordPress and WebSphere.

Operations Program/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Full governance of remote operations engineering program management, spanning operational budget administration, project control, deployment, deliverables, and program management planning., Managed requirements, cost control, resource allocation, scope, scheduling, system storage, and quality for all collaborative project work plans
• Applied basic financial concepts and Analytic skills such as Financial Management Information System (FMIS)
• Managed Confidential Automation center relocation and migrations of networks and servers in the IT infrastructure applying SDLC Methodologies iterative and waterfall
• Handled outage resolution, out of service facility and equipment items, action items, reporting, authorizations, and work orders. Reduced time and funding spent on over 3,000 projects annually by developing and launching an information technology (IT) single-server automated requirements collection program that allowed all personnel to log their needs and requirements into an Excel database with geospatial (GIS) content
• Developed and implemented a collaborative national operations work plan project execution system using an MS Excel database software program hosted on a single server
• Monitored Server migration builds and upgrades
• Applied Complex formulas in Excel
• The operations work plan software utilized SharePoint concept equivalent and Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management P3
• Made sure MS Outlook Meetings were not ambiguous with SharePoint Calendar
• Provided project audit reports
• Published notes from meeting containing issues and action items
• Prepared work streams and status reports
• Maintain the virtual storage environments
• Project jobs were entered into the MS Excel database with geo-spatial content applying software graphics with Map Info, Google Earth Pro and Google Map
• For the last five years the Sustainment Program has obligated 10 Million Dollars yearly on 500 projects in 11 districts
• A manual processes was automated and improved reducing time and/or funding
• Passionate User and follower of WordPress and WebSphere. One of my job roles was Government Technical Interpreter (GTI) coordinating Task Order Projects with the Confidential Task Order Manager (TOM) and providing performance evaluations of contractor employees assigned to my operations program management position
• The contactor project team delivered solutions to systems integration projects balancing the technical discipline of cost, scope, and schedule.

Regional Associate Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Regional Associate Program Manager for Surveillance & Weather Radar that Applied Electronic Systems Engineering and Program Management Principles and Discipline to Implementation of systems throughout the Confidential Central Region
• Following is an enumeration of achievements
• Adhered to the Federal Information Security Management Act
• Directed implementation of surveillance and weather radar systems, information technology systems, aligning project activities with gathering and identifying requirements, integration, scope, cost, schedule, quality, training, procurement, quality assurance, and operations acceptance requirements
• Defined annual program management implementation plans
• Coordinated with team members and upper management covering configuration change control, resource management, operations planning, implementation planning, deployment planning, work planning, procurement, deliverables, contracts, Budgeting, Initiation, Planning, Execution, Monitor& Control and Close Out
• Applied IT-SDLC, ITIL, Primavera P3, ARP, ERP, MRP, MES, Confidential and EVM to projects as required. Coordinated integration of a major facility into the national airspace system, including influencing two federal agencies collaboration on necessary configuration changes to high-risk remote analog radar with low risk digital airport surveillance radar
• Collaborated with Department of Defense and the Confidential upper management to transition Scott AFB Airspace Assumption/Integration into the Confidential National Airspace System
• Managed Confidential (ATC) Automation center relocation and migrations of networks and servers in the infrastructure
• The ATC Automation System implementation and cutover is of equivalent technical complexity to the IT Data Center Transition and Transformation procedures and processes
• Applied Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques to optimize profit and loss financial parameters
• Adhered to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) process
• Adhered to Federal Government contracting and procurement regulations
• Coordinated with the GSA for supplies and materials
• Upgraded the siting method with hosted GIS software using digital identification of cultural environments, resulting in $100,000 in Cost Avoidance per site. Oversaw installation of 135 systems from 20 different contractor/vendors, comprised of the following areas: real estate, environmental, radar, weather sensors VHF/UHF data-link sites and communications repeater sites in which the projects were implemented requiring telecommunications circuits & IT-SDLC network design and connectivity. Managed Implementation of Electrical Power Monitoring Systems, control/automation industry (metering, transformers, switchgear, circuit breakers, PLCs, drives), energy management, and power distribution. Managed and directed implementation of Terminal Doppler Weather Radars, Integrated Terminal Weather Systems, Long Range Primary Surveillance Radar Radome's/Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS)
• Managed and led engineering change proposals for baseline requirements for installation of Facility Uninterruptable Power Supplies for systems including TDWR, ITWS, Terminal Airport Surveillance Radar, Long Range Primary Surveillance Radar and Secondary Surveillance Radar Mode Select.

Electronic Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Electronic Warfare (EW) and Electronic Counter Measures - Engineer
• Type Active, SLQ-17

Confidential

Electronics Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Electronic Warfare (EW) and Electronic Counter Measures ( Confidential ) - Engineer, Type Passive, SSQ-74