SUMMARY:

• 23 years program / management experience, including strategic and technical projects.
• Over 20 years of software development projects; including hands - on development and technical management and infrastructure.
• Extensive experience with vendor management and remote teams, to include global teams.
• Industry experience includes: Parks and Entertainment, Hospitality, Pharmaceutical, Logistics, Utilities, Manufacturing, Finance, Health-care, and Education.
• Merger and Acquisition experience in the evaluation and assessment of newly acquired companies.

TECHNICAL OVERVIEW:

• MS-Office Suite
• MS-Project
• MS-Visio
• BI
• Inter-Tel - Session Manager
• MS-Windows
• (98, ME, NT, 2000, XP)
• RedHat Linux
• Enterprise ES
• AIX-Unix
• Novell Netware
• (2.x, 3.x, 4.x)
• Veritas Backup Exec
• MS-Exchange
• Norton Anti-Virus Server
• Trend Micro Anti-SPAM
• Inter-Tel
• Call Center Suites
• MS-Internet Information Services Server
• Apache Web Server
• Nagios - Network Monitoring
• HP - OpenView
• SAMBA
• MS-Operations Manager (MOM)
• Ethernet
• Wi-Fi
• T1 / T3 / Sonnet
• TCP/IP
• ISDN xDSL
• Cisco
• 3Com
• HP
• Siemens
• MS-Visual Basic
• Pascal
• ANSI C
• SQL Query
• HTML
• Cold Fusion
• MS-SQL Server
• MySQL
• Informix
• MS-Access
• Sybase
• Method1
• MethodNS
• PMBOK
• Waterfall
• Scrum/Agile
• Peoplesoft
• SAP
• Oracle

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

Program / Project Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Oversight of development, technical and quality assurance teams utilizing a hybrid Agile/Waterfall project methodology
• Budgetary responsibility for $1.5 Million
• Implementation responsibility, to include both hardware and software, for over 1500 restaurants across five concepts.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Oversight of web and ecommerce development team.
• Review and signoff of content and page layout

Confidential

Senior Program Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Budgetary oversight of program budgets in excess of $44.9 Million
• Operational responsibly for the maintenance and support of the digital learning schools
• Oversight of the acquisition, configuration, and distribution of over 34,000 digital devices
• Responsible for the development and integration of cloud based asset management system

Confidential

Oracle Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Management of solution, interface and conversion teams, including on-site, remote and off-shore
• Redesigned technical strategic design to ensure project is completed on-time and on-budget
• Developed resource management plan to include consultant roll-off schedule, resource gap analysis and performance management process

Confidential

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Budgetary oversight of project budgets in excess of $1.4 Million
• Managed development and technical resources utilizing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to ensure testing and implementation compliance
• SAP Integration with 3rd party systems for Design & Entertainment Department
• Remote Management of on-site and off-sight resources to include results management
• Managed compliance and governance requirements to include SOX, PII and PCI
• Oversight of site development and release of SeaWorld Kids (seaworldkids.com)
• Oversight of site enhancement for Waves of Honor (wavesofhonor.com), an ecommerce site.

Confidential

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Cross system integration allowing automation of outbound calls for patient refills
• Budgetary oversight of $2.3 million IT budget
• Managed compliance requirements to include HIPPA and PII compliance
• System enhancements increasing performance of select processes
• Coordination of systems enhancements through the release management process
• Oversight of system development resources and budget
• Managed compliance requirements to include HIPPA and PII compliance
• Managed project to update expedited shipping fee to ensure consistency across multiple systems
• Managed requirements and resource coordination across 16 systems to ensure PII compliance

Confidential

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• New infrastructure refit of refurbished building including new structured cabling (12 months)
• Relocation encompassed six week, multi-phased relocation of 1500 users
• Budgetary oversight of $2.1 million IT budget
• Coordination with local and remote site personnel in preparation required for infrastructure deployment
• Budgetary oversight for multiple location efforts throughout the United States

Curriculum Services Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of business and technical shared resources.
• Vendor management to include RFP development, contract negotiations and deliverable management.
• Initiation of course reviews utilizing internal, external and student resources for the evaluation of course material.
• Executive level presentation and communications, to include project charters, risk assessments, and periodic status updates.

Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lease equipment replacement; coordinating with technical engineers, DBA and Test resource to achieve results within 10% of planned budget and lease end dates.
• Storage Replacement Project; this project replaced the Fund’s entire SAN storage infrastructure consisting of 277TB of storage utilized by 300 servers and a mainframe. This project was completed on time and under budget with zero impact to the end user.
• IBM WebSphere Upgrade project; focused on four environments, parallel upgrade of underling systems to provide security compliance within project schedule.
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM); oversaw the enhancement of the new system and interfaced with application groups to produce retime alerts for proactive monitoring of those systems.
• Windows 7; coordinated the evaluation of the OS to ensure The Fund’s applications would function properly for Members.
• “Keep the Lights On” (KLO) Efforts; scheduling and overseeing the maintenance of equipment BIOS and network equipment lease replacements ensuring system availability within SLA.
• PMO subject matter expert (SME); assisted the PMO in supporting the IT community in Project Server 2007 and provided administrative support of project and reporting with the Project Server system.

Technical Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Governed segment wide inventory of applications which included key application information
• Delivered insight to Leadership on Application Portfolio Optimization
• Supported development of Application Business Impact Analysis scoring
• Deployed segment wide application repository tool; Troux’s metadata repository
• Performed segment wide training and support around application repository tool
• Developed segment documentation and deployment plans for deployment of application repository tool

Director MIS

Confidential, West Palm Beach, FL

Responsibilities:

• Reported monthly status to senior executive team
• Developed project proposals and budgets
• Managed the implementation of systems across 17 locations
• Created and governed financially sound procurement procedures
• Developed IT department annual operational budget of $1M to $1.5M
• Managed the company’s data retention process
• Development of Data Warehouse Cube
• Consolidation of systems data into Data Warehouse Cube
• Oversaw the company’s Business Continuity Plan development

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Palm City, FL

Responsibilities:

• Reported weekly and monthly status to the CIO
• Created software modification requirements and re-design specifications
• Oversight of data cleansing and migration from Legacy system
• Conducted code review and testing of the revised modules
• Orchestrated the released from development, into the test and production environments
• Performed routine AIX-Unix system administration and upkeep

Information Systems Project Lead

Confidential, Juno Beach, FL

Responsibilities:

• Conducted on-site analysis of each facility
• Drafted proposals for plant integration
• Compiled individual budgets
• Recruited and managed team technicians
• Coordinated with upper management and Vice Presidents on plan execution

Manager

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed project plans for system installations
• Composed Request for Proposals and evaluated responses
• Implemented, deployed, managed and maintained wide area networks for clients
• Designed and implemented national Frame-Relay WANs
• Conducted and coordinated installation of telecommunication and LAN equipment at remote sites
• Installed Novell Netware networks providing authentication and system services