SUMMARY:

An accomplishd enterprisee Information Technology Project Manager with comprehensive experience in a fast - paced, global, Fortune 100 environment. Highly knowledgeable in all IT areas as well as business processes and principles. An innovative individual with proven ability to combine business acumen, technical acumen and process expertise with strategic agility.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Management
• Service Delivery Management
• Vendor Management
• Customer Service
• Application Development
• Application Support
• Financial Planning and Forecasting
• Program Management
• Staff Management and Development
• Risk Assessment
• Data Center Operations
• Process Improvements
• Organizational Planning
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Strategic Planning
• Business Continuity Planning

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies/Processes: ITIL PMP Lean IT Agile ITSM Six Sigma CMMI PMI

Software: MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Project, Visio, Outlook) Acrobat Ariba Elance Clarity PPM Concur Sharepoint SAS Veritas HA Netbackup VMware Windows Server AIX HP-UX Solaris RHEL Windows Server Citrix WebSphere Application Server WebSphere MQ DB2 Oracle Database Hadoop Oracle EBS Hyperion Cognos Informatica Documentum VDI SAP

Hardware: HP Proliant Oracle SPARC Cisco Catalyst Cisco Nexus Cisco UCS HP 3PAR NetApp A10 EMC F5 Big IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant Project Manager

• Led cross-functional team in design and deployment of Confidential using Azure Cloud. Organized planning of individual Sprints. Led daily Standups and Scrum meetings. Ensured that Sprints addressed user Stories. Managed Testing. Conducted Retrospectives. Ensured turnover of completed work units to Operations support.
• Led Enterprise wide Windows 10 migration project. Collected existing endpoint information to support on upgrade vs replace decision. Coordinated testing and remediation of 300+ corporate applications. Managed development of testing and Gold images. Ensured compliance with Information Security standards. Oversaw pilot rollout. Led selection of vendor to perform upgrade and replacement of over 12,000 devices.

Confidential

Transition Project Manager

• Led multiple concurrent projects to migrate clients’ IT Infrastructure to AWS Cloud environment. Performed infrastructure discovery and documentation leveraging cross functional team and clients’ resources. Identified appropriate landing zones for all infrastructure devices, including servers, storage, network. Proposed and planned transition methodology. Managed migrations. Documented all migration activities. Held Lessons Learned sessions and provided appropriate documentation. Managed decommission and disposal activities. Ensured transition to steady state support and project closure.

Confidential

Transition/Implementation Project Manager

• Managed Data Center migrations for multiple external clients, using Lean IT methodology and Agile principles. Typical budget of up to $5M. Planned pre-deployment activities including infrastructure requirements and acquisition, architecture discovery and documentation. Managed network design and deployment. Managed migrations including Virtual to Virtual, Physical to Physical, Physical to Virtual, Physical Forklift. Manage Storage migrations for large customers (over 300TB). Managed post-deployment transition to run support and change management control. Led and documented Lessons Learned process.
• Managed deployment of medium to large applications. Applications included SAP, SAP HANA (capital budget in excess of $1M), Citrix, Active Directory, Oracle EBS, Oracle DB, MS SQL. Managed post-deployment transition to run support and change management control.
• Managed data center infrastructure refreshes, including servers, storage, network routers, firewalls, and load balancers.
• Managed activities of geographically dispersed cross functional teams, including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, VMware, Citrix, Exchange, Database, Network, Storage, Backup, Monitoring, Information Security, and Hardware teams. Partnered with key engineering resources and architects. Documented technical specifications. Worked with 3rd Party Confidential (AWS, Azure) to integrated Cloud infrastructure into customer’s environment.
• Managed external client and vendor relationships, including Project Schedules, Budgets, and internal and external Project reporting.
• Clients included Campbell Soup, IRI Worldwide, Sun Chemical, Forterra Building Products, State of Nebraska, Bank of Scotland.

Confidential

Consultant Project Manager

• Managed Data Center Relocation of a large private cloud implementation for the Data Analytics system. Planned pre-migration activities. Migration included Virtual to Virtual, Virtual to Physical, Physical to Physical, and Physical to Virtual. Managed resource plan. Oversaw work of cross functional team. Ensured successful transition.
• Managed Upgrade and Migration of a large Hadoop cluster (500 nodes). Capital budget at $10M. Planned Hardware acquisition and deployment. Data migration. Implemented robust operational support. Ensured that the implementation complied with security policies.
• Managed deployment of new storage infrastructure. Developed plan for installation, testing, data migration, and decommissioning of old equipment.

Confidential

Lead Program Manager

• Implemented 3rd party hosting of critical financial applications. Developed RFP. Led vendor selection. Negotiated the contract and renewal. Oversaw build-out and deployment. Managed issue escalation, change orders, and compliance efforts. Managed relationships with Finance, Procurement, Legal, and internal customers. Oversaw successful wind-down from the engagement and Data Center migration to internally hosted facility. Annual spend $3M. Negotiated early termination of the agreement ensuring that no financial penalties would be assessed. Partnered with Information Security to ensure alignment with applicable regulations and laws.
• Successfully delivered multiple concurrent enterprise projects through all phases of project management. Conducted impact analysis, gathered requirements, created project plans, negotiated with customers and service providers regarding schedules, partnered with technical engineers to ensure on-time delivery of servers in a web hosting environment. Developed and implemented SLAs and KPIs. Projects included Corporate Planning and Forecasting, External Financial Reporting, Regulatory Compliance, Executive Information System, Data Warehouse, Data Center Build-out, and other financial and regulatory compliance applications. Deployed Oracle EBS, Essbase, Informatica. Utilized PMBOK guidelines.
• Deployed Data Center Management tools. Created project plans, negotiated with customers and service providers regarding time lines, partnered with technical engineers to ensure on-time delivery of servers in a web hosting environment. Tools included PowerBroker, BMC Patrol, Sharepoint Portal, NetBackup, Veritas Storage Foundation.
• Developed and managed infrastructure charge-out model. Built close relationships with Finance and internal service providers to ensure that the charge-out complied with management policies and provided for equitable cost allocation among internal customers. Built CMDB (Customer Management Data Base) to manage the billing data and interface with enterprise-wide CMDB. Over 200 distinct applications and 3,500+ server images.
• Managed Business Continuation Plan for a global team of over 100. Ensured that the plan is properly updated to reflect changes in personnel. Led annual BCP exercises.