OBJECTIVE

Project / Program Management position in an ERP or IT - Integration environment.

SUMMARY

Project / Program Manager with extensive experience in directing and leading Information Technology and Software Engineering organizations. This includes the proposing, planning and managing large, highly complex projects through the complete System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This design and development experience, coupled with over 25 years of project management and management experience, provide employers and clients with innovative business solutions and distinct competitive advantage.

• Experience in leading major IT implementations. Areas of focus include the implementation of:
• Oracle, Solomon and PeopleSoft Financials, HR, and Manufacturing Applications;
• E-commerce/E-business/Web-enabled applications;
• Business process discovery.
• Excellent manager and mentor with an adaptive management style who can create, motivate, and lead strong, productive teams.
• Expert in Project Management methods, tools, and processes.
• Experience managing large, complex, multi-million dollar business (re)engineering projects; IT-integration projects; and e-Business implementations.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMI / PMP).
• Expert in managing matrixed and worldwide-distributed development projects and teams.
• Expert in project management tools and in creating and establishing process methodologies for ISO-9000, SEI-CMM and Project Management Office (PMO).
• Experience in computer engineering - this experience is in the design and development of product that is core to the offerings of several very large national and international corporations. Operating System products include Database Management Systems, Networking Platforms, Computer Terminals, PC Hardware and User Interface Subsystems.
• Experienced in Data Security concerns. Experience includes products that enforce data and program security consistent with US Purple and Orange Books, ECU/ISO standards, Database Security (ACL, Schema, Sub-schema) as well as Biometric based system user identification.
• Excellent communications and presentation skills for effective communications with all levels of management, project team members, stakeholders and users - from the boardroom to the factory floor.
• Experienced in the porting of proprietary applications to Open Architectures, implementation of multi-tiered business solutions, as well as data center moves or expansion.
• Experience includes working with state/national/international governmental organizations, as well as in the areas of Biometrics, corporate relocations, DBMS systems, data-communications, user interface, factory profitability, E-business, customer relations, airlines, fast food, and HMO’s.

EXPERIENCE

Short Term Independent Consulting Projects

Engineering and IT/IS projects with manifold and diverse responsibilities. All required extensive business practice knowledge, an understanding of enabling technologies, as well as strong Project Management skills. All projects completed on or before schedule.

Confidential- Minneapolis, MN (thru Yoh)

Project Manager / Resource Manager

Resource Manage allocations of 246 person resource pool for 17 interrelated large projects. Prime foci of the task were:

• The proper selection of personnel to fulfill project needs,
• The elimination of use of generic resources,
• The reduction of over-allocated resources
• The weekly analysis of project health through Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and the identification of those tasks that the project leads need to focus upon.

Overall results exceeded expectations-all these factors were brought under control within 40% of the expected project duration.

Confidential - Kuwait City, Kuwait (thru MetaSys)

Project Manager - Quality Process

Project manage the Quality aspects of a worldwide implementation of Oracle HR for a Kuwait based Logistics company. Responsible for the development of the processes governing the import, consolidation and maintenance of employee data for 23,000 international workers from 17 disparate legacy HR systems.

Confidential- Minneapolis, MN (thru COMSYS)

Project Manager

Project manage the definition and planning of the changes necessary to support a changeover of proprietary Financials and HR packages to PeopleSoft. Primary focus is to the City\'s legacy systems that act as feeders to the G/L portion of the overall system.

Confidential- St. Paul, MN (thru COMSYS)

Project Manager

Project manage the planning, integration and testing of IT systems and business processes necessary to provide a seamless acquisition and transition for customers of Nor-Lakes Services Midwest and the Farm-Oyl Company as part of Cenex\' strong commitment to growing the CHS lubricants business.

Confidential- Minneapolis, MN (thru COMSYS)

Project Manager

Co-ordinate the planning, integration and testing of changes needed to update Operating Systems, system services, and in-house developed applications to meet the demands of the new Daylight Savings Time act. Requires dealing with software platform companies (RIM, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft and MicroFocus)

Confidential

PMO Project Manager / Product Manager

Confidential develops, manufactures and markets products that identify individuals through their fingerprints and via facial recognition. With these unique security solutions, Identix has positioned itself as the preeminent multi-biometric security technology company in the world.

As PMO Project Manager: Originally hired to introduce and institutionalize a Project Management process that was to be complimentary and consistent with Identix\' newly introduced Stage Gate product development methodology. This role included

• Establish and configure MS-Project 2002 Enterprise Edition -- this included the method by which IT now adds and removes users as part of their standard activity of adding and removing employees.
• Train Engineering line-management and team-leads in the proper use of MS-Project Professional Edition. This included the utilization of resource control from MSP-EE and proper project decomposition techniques.
• Also through training, institute usage of work-breakdown structures and shared resource allocations.
• Develop and introduce corporate-management level reports of the status of all development projects.
• Introduced the tracking of project progress through Earned Value computations -- and the ability for corporate management to access project status via OLAP Cube and MS-Outlook.
• Continually analyze projects from four US-wide Engineering organizations to ensure resource usage compliance as well as monitor Earned Value progress.

As Single Finger Fingerprint Reader Product Manager. Responsibilities include:

• Gathering of product requirements from direct customer input, at biometric trade shows, biometric journals, and through a general sense of what the market requires in the single finger fingerprint reader lines.
• Plan and control the development and support of new hardware and software -- both internally and with vendors who provide subassemblies for my product lines.
• Perform new product introductions at both biometric trade shows and with Identix\' largest customers. Discuss new product offerings with those customers who needed advanced product knowledge -- including the TSA, US Defense agencies, and the passport agencies of France, Portugal, Sweden and Germany.
• Negotiate large product buys (of 10,000 plus units) directly with customer representatives -- most notably from the country of Brazil, Pay By Touch, and Sentillion Medical Systems.

Under my guidance and customer interface, Identix introduced three new single finger reader products and exceeded yearly sales goals for in those product lines by over 12%.

Additionally, acted as the SME in the implementation of the complete Oracle eBusiness Suite. Implementation included CRM, Financials, Engineering and Manufacturing applications.

Zerone / NCS-Pearson / Transportation Safety Administration

Program Manager / Operations Director

For the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), directed a staff of over 45 IT, Testing, Logistics, HR, Security and Medical personnel to assess and evaluate candidates for TSA employment by assessing their employment skills, health and personal background.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager / Associate Director

Cambridge Technology Partners is the global e-Services subsidiary of Novell, Inc. delivering e-Business solutions that span every segment of the value chain. Clients are Global 1000 enterprises. Cambridge has 3,500 Employees in 19 countries, $586.6 Million in revenue.

Responsible for providing the functional and integrated management for twelve CTP projects. Manage implementation teams of from 7 to 100 members; as well as manage external product vendors who supplied baseline components for client projects. Responsible to produce state-of-the-art product offerings for very diverse clients that span a manifold of disciplines. Examples are companies that focus on Employee Relocation, Telecommunications, Call Center, E-commerce/E-business, Financials Systems, and Factory Profitably Management.

Responsible for managing projects through the complete SDLC -- from requirements gathering, through scope, execution, QA, and rollout. Utilized the best principles of project management to assure on-time and on-budget performance, quality, profitability, customer satisfaction, and adherence to contractual requirements.

Components / technologies employed included: MS-Project, Niku Workbench, PeopleSoft, Oracle (Apps and Database), Solomon IV, MS SQLServer7, Siebel, Servicengine, Equus, with many custom components developed using Microsoft - IE5.5, Visual InterDev 6.0, Directory, ASP, IIS for Web Server, Message encryption and WAN/LAN Architectures. Additional responsibilities centered upon: Project Profit and Loss; the establishment and chairing of Project Management Offices to control evolving project requirements; and daily negotiations and interplay with client representatives.

Each of the representative examples of assignments listed below resulted in an enterprise-wide solution with simultaneous users.

For Confidential: Develop Employee Relocation package

• Managed, coordinated and oversaw the activities of 4 project managers, 89 Business Analysts / Developers, 5 Quality Assurance project members, and a spin-off team of 2 who were responsible for data migration in the design, development and rollout of the largest web enabled project ever undertaken by CTP.
• Massive project of close to 500 workflow web pages tightly integrated with two also implemented financials packages (Solomon Financials and Relocation Advantage) as the core product for GMAC GRS -responsible for driving all aspects of employee relocation.
• Managed the ongoing relationship with three product suppliers.

For Confidential: E-commerce website development - Project Recovery

• Managed the design, implementation and rollout of a French-Canadian E-commerce website and provided functional enhancements to their partially developed English website.
• Responsibilities centered on insuring requirements and that both CTP and Rogers personnel understood the plan, dependencies, tradeoffs, risks, issues and the implications of an extremely tight and extremely incorrectly planned schedule.
• Work daily with the project sponsor to clarify and coordinate the client’s responsibilities and realization of their dependencies.

For Confidential: Process - Siebel Implementation

• Activities centered on the definition and setup of a Model Office environment for this worldwide Siebel implementation. The environment served both as an early test platform and also provided an arena where the client would develop and document their evolved business processes.

For Confidential - Oracle Financials Upgrade

• Managed a team of 21 financials analysts - 13 from CTP India, the remainder from the client - in an Oracle Financials upgrade. Included was the addition of the Oracle Inventory Module to track the repair parts needed for their aircraft. Also wrote and established the Program Office Methodology that would be used throughout the upgrade period to control scope and cost parameters.

For Confidential: PeopleSoft Financials/HR Implementation

• Third project manager brought in to managed the Business Process Prototyping (BPP) for the design, implementation and rollout to production of this unique implementation of PeopleSoft Financials. Most interesting project challenges centered on:
• Controlling the resources of four separate organizations: those of CTP\'s, Wendys and two other consulting organizations brought in to do reporting. Maximum number of resources assigned to project: 57.
• Wendys\' requirement that the Accounts Receivables books for both Wendys and Tim Horton\'s close on a nightly basis - 367 periods.

For Confidential: PeopleSoft HR Implementation

• Once the BPP for the design and implementation was completed, I was brought in to run the CAT portion of this implementation. Major foci for the activities were:
• Creating a test environment to measure the performance of the hosted server at peak demand; but without utilizing automated testing tools.
• Creating a Model Office environment for the controlled introduction of the product.

For Confidential: (Rockwell International spin-off) - PeopleSoft Financials Implementation

• Managed two teams who were responsible for the total definition and implementation of a startup E-commerce B2B company. All business aspects for the creation of a new company, from the definition and creation of standardized business processes, the establishment of corporate alliances, and the implementation of enabling technologies were performed.

For Confidential: Manufacturing Process

Coordinated and led on-site activities for the installation of a factory profitability software package at four Dana Manufacturing plants in AL, MS and AR.

• Key to the success of the program was the analysis of each factory\'s production process and the isolation of the strategic control point where the factory would be managed. Once complete, the next steps were to co-ordinate the installation of on-factory-floor data collection workstations so as to collect the status and productivity of the manufacturing line being monitored; as well as for determining the profitability of each product being produced by the factory.

Confidential- US Postal

Accounting Financials Project Manager

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

TECHNICAL & PROJECT SKILLS

Databases: Oracle, IDS-II, MS Access, SQL Server, DB2.

Languages: Assembler, C, COBOL, FORTRAN, V-BASIC, V-InterDev, ASP, Java, XML, EDI, XML-EDI, SQL.

Tools: Project: MS-Project, Project Scheduler, Workbench, Timeline, Planview; CASE and DataWarehouse: Bachman, Erwin, MAGNA;

Office: MS-Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Visio, Framemaker;

Serucriy and Encryption: Kerberos, DES, “Purple Book”, Biometric system access, GCOS system and data services Groupware: Lotus Notes, Groove, Sharepoint;

Configuration Management: CCC/Harvest, CMS/MMS, PVCS, SABLIME, VSS, Remedy.

Operating Sys:

• Large: GCOS, MULTICS, MVS, OS/390;
• Medium: GCOS, VMS, UNIX (AIX, Solaris, KORN Shell), X-MOTIF;
• PC: Windows, GEM, DOS, System-Emulation.
• RTOS and Others: Bridge, I2-ICE.

Packages: Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft Financials, Solomon Financials, Oracle Manufacturing Suite, Maxager Factory Profitability, Reliant Data Conversion, Trilogy Variable Compensation, Relocation Advantage, Siebel, VUE.

Data Comm.: Point to Point: Async, Sync Multiport, Bi-Sync;

WAN/LAN: ISO, Ethernet, X.25, SNA, TCP/IP, DSA, .NET, IIS;

High Level Comm.: File-transfer, X.400, X.500, EDI.

Process: PMI-PMBOK, PMO, Stage-Gate, Method-I, ISO-9000, SEI-CMM, various proprietary systems.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member of the Twin Cities Microsoft Project Usrsd Group (MPUG)