SUMMARY:

• Exceptional and experienced IT technical project lead with demonstrated performance leading and motivating high - impact professionals.
• Oversee daily project functions, defining standards and processes, while directing large-scale implementations on time and within budget.
• Apply knowledge in business, finance, planning, forecasting and personnel, providing guidance, analysis and negotiation.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Management
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Needs Assessments
• Negotiations
• Budgetary Oversight
• Issues Resolution
• Root Cause Analysis

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: MS Office Suite, MS-Project, Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint, CRM, Outlook, Cognos, IPC (incident, problem, change - ManageNow, ServiceNow, Maximo, Remedy), Clarity, RPM, Lean, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), SOW, Lotus Notes, Outlook, O365, PMBOK

Security Compliance: Regulatory compliance, SOX compliance, PCI compliance, HIPAA compliance, Corporate security, Incident response, Vulnerability testing, Penetration testing, Vulnerability management, Health checking / Remediation, McAfee

Hardware: Cloud Computing, Operating system hardening, Citrix, Mainframe, Teradata DBC/1012, NCR3600, NCR5100

Operating Systems: UNIX (HP, SUN/SOLARIS, AIX), Linux, Windows / Intel / Wintel, Microsoft Windows NT, Active Directory, AS400, VMWare

Database: Oracle, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported the Windows 2003 Server and O365 remediation for 60 concurrent projects to migrate Windows 2003 server instances to Windows 2008 or 2012 depending on application compatibility. Mitigated CHI’s current risk to mission critical application servers by moving application instances to a robust and redundant Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment. Functioned as the primary contact person for the CHI Application owners and Application Directors. Possessed in-depth knowledge of the CHI application environment and end user processes. Resolved post server migration issues. Partnered with the vendor delivery architects and vendor.
• Lead, identified and managed communication to line of business leads and drove migration engagement schedule with the application groups (technical and business support).
• Managed the plan for the inflow/outflow readiness and execution of the vendor application factory (offshore verification-validation teams for CHI application set).
• Assisted with the migration scheduling and sequencing of application move groups (sets of related server instances supporting a specific business application).
• Facilitated and helped remove roadblocks to the migration schedule especially coordinating and sequencing change requests, schedule changes and follow-up tasks. Assisted with tracking of issues and risks especially pertaining to the application set.
• Ensured the maintenance releases were properly tested and quality assured prior to migration. Communicated server migration progress upward and outward on a required/regular basis.

Confidential, Commerce City, CO

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall success of the project including fulfillment of the client business and technical requirements and adherence to the approved project scope and budget. Client facing role that required knowledge of the business and offering, risk management and integration skills. Understanding and usage of project management processes and principles, including experience in deliverables associated with these practices. Managed remote and international resources across multiple business and technical silos.
• Solutioned a plan to install and configure McAfee antivirus and host intrusion prevention system and to define the policies on each McAfee module for 6 physical servers and 540 workstations.
• Implemented a plan to install, upgrade and configure Tripwire agents and firewall rules across all production and preproduction AIX, Linux and Windows servers for audit compliance. Additional tasks included the delivery of the scan reports and remediation.
• Managed the client application vulnerability assessment across 6 projects to identify vulnerabilities in applications residing on the customer’s networked systems.
• Managed the security source code review to provide high level analysis of the security framework of the Customer’s application source code and to identify potential instances of vulnerability in Customer’s source code.

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Audit Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and translated business requirements into control objectives. Designed security controls and led implementation within security management cycle. Served as primary contact for all IT-related audits, collaborating with auditors and providing in-scope resources, documents and personnel for SOX and internal audits. Assisted stakeholders in responding to audit findings.
• Reduced company costs by $3.6M by transitioning primary responsibility for compliance management to third-party provider.
• Saved $3.6M and reduced need for continuous compliance upgrades of 30K+ network devices.
• Enabled direct access to analytics by developing and deploying extensive logging solution.
• Enhanced company image with stakeholders and external customers by instituting mechanisms for immediate access to crucial information utilized for real-time actions, while preserving Confidential ’s infrastructure security.

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed IAM (identity and access management) primary and secondary control projects pertaining to PKI and audit compliance (SOX, PCI and HIPAA). Administered enterprise-level hardware / software procurement, infrastructure build, and data center relocations, deployments, migrations or take overs. Directed up to 7 sub-projects concurrently, totaling $150 - $900M with global teams of 10 - 20 resources in matrixed environment. Analyzed and defined security requirements for computer systems, including mainframes, servers, workstations and personal computers.
• Led effective meetings with cross-functional teams focused on design, development and deployment of various projects.
• Ensured all projects met validation and compliance requirements by managing and coordinating required industry audits, identifying issues, and anticpating and solving problems.
• Completed global projects involving stakeholders from multiple regions (North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and EMEA).