SUMMARY:

• I have over 25 years of global systems management, design, development, implementation, maintenance, help desk management, and project management, 15 years of which is in a highly regulated quality environment
• I am customer focused and driven toward their success.
• I am uniquely skilled at gathering and driving business requirements. I successfully understand, interpret, enhance, and communicate business requirements to staff at all functional levels. I have a strong “never take no” attitude toward meeting requirements.

SPECIAL STRENGTHS:

• Excellent at building and maintaining solid working relationships with stake - holders and coordinating technical operations with internal business units.
• Solid client liaison and management skills
• Excellent presentation skills including certified instructor experience.
• Strong technical background across a wide variety of technologies
• Technical IT and Non-It project management expertise within waterfall and hybrid Agile project methodology
• Skilled at developing creative ways to solve problems in even the most challenging situations.
• Interprets users’ needs and translates that into system specifications that exceed expectations.
• Communicates effectively with a wide variety of people, from IT professionals, to novice users, to Corporate Officers.
• Maintain trusting, understanding relationships.
• I am well experienced in the coordination of multi-disciplinary global project teams of varying size and complexity, and work well in managing my time around a global team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Server administration
• Server administration
• DECS
• ODBC
• SQL
• Toad
• LEI
• CamStudio
• JDBC
• Java
• JSP
• Team Studio for Notes suite
• WebSphere Studio
• Visual Age for Java
• Adobe Illustrator-ImageStyler-PageMill
• LotusScript
• HTML
• VBA
• Server administration and system development
• QlikView
• MKS Integrity source code control
• MS Office Suite
• Including Visio and MS Project
• Lotus SmartSuite
• AutoCAD cc:Mail
• Outlook
• Exchange
• Lotus Notes
• Software Development and Administration
• Server administration and application development
• Application development
• Server administration and mobile application development
• Some server administration and software development
• Server administration and application development
• Software Development
• Server administration
• Software development
• Server administration
• Server administration
• Server administration and application development
• Windows NT, Windows2000/XP, Windows 7, Windows 2000/2003 Server, Sun O/S, Sun Solaris, SCO Unix, HP-UX, AIX, all Windows desktop O/S'sDell and many similar Intel based architectures, Compaq, Sun, HP, Cisco w/ Cisco IOS, 3-Com, Linksys, IBM iSeries

EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Organize and sponsor meetings among various leadership groups in the US and EU consisting of Director and Officer level stakeholders
• Keep track of meetings, update meeting notes, gather project updates, and inform Executives of project status.
• Formally document meeting minutes including dependencies, next steps and action items.
• Track project milestones and key tasks and coordinate various team activities related to milestones.
• Escalate issues to Executives as needed.
• Manage SharePoint site which is used for tracking documents related to the GDPR project.
• Manage submissions to SharePoint site.
• Manage the Program for a newly acquired division.
• Produce metrics reports on milestone status.

Project Scheduler

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Schedule / Coordinate beta and Pilot testing of migration activities over 20 sites and 4300 users in North America and Europe
• Design process and procedure for communications, tracking, and reporting
• Daily data collection and data reporting
• Design communications documentation
• Schedule / Coordinate production migration of 52,000 users at over 70 sites worldwide
• Weekly setup, user communications, and Lead IT Training to upcoming sites
• Daily data collection and data reporting

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage the team’s day-to-day activities related to execution of the wall-to-wall contract for POS systems
• Primary contact between Confidential and Kohl’s management and staff, for POS systems
• Manage special projects related to store POS systems involving Confidential
• Prioritize and schedule daily work, as well as special project work
• Oversee communications to Kohl's from the team
• Conduct schedule of meetings (daily, weekly, and monthly) with Kohl's management and staff
• Key contact and management representative for parts, depot service, and field technician vendors

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

Responsibilities:

• Consult with clients and management to review project proposals to determine goals, time frame, funding, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements and allotment of resources.
• Develop project plans, specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources, within a waterfall methodology.
• Define project objectives, scope and level of effort.
• Champion the clients objectives and ensure they are met within SDLC framework and policy
• Develop project strategies and plans, and identify the methods and tools required for projects
• Formulate and define technical scope and objectives of projects.
• Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones and required tasks.
• Assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority to project personnel and cross-functional teams.
• Direct and coordinate activities of in-house and off-shore project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within budget
• Confer with project personnel to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
• Coordinate and respond to requests for changes from original specifications.
• Monitor project results against technical specifications.
• Communicate at all phases and milestones to interested parties, stake holders and team members
• Develop and maintain technical and project documentation.
• Develop quality assurance test plans.
• Monitor and manage progress against plan
• Close the project on time and in budget
• Utilized tools such as MS SharePoint, MS Project and MS Office Suite for project deliverable and tracking.

Project Manager / Sr. System Analyst

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Managed $1.2mm annual system budget
• Responsible for the entire software life cycle (SDLC), from concept to retirement of the system utilizing Confidential waterfall project methodology.
• Managed all related projects such as enhancement projects, hardware changes, and FDA requests.
• Administered change control system and approvals.
• Managed SPR implementation, processing and disposition.
• Responsible for metrics tracking and reporting for SPRs, and system utilization.
• Managed the ELN Software Review Board.
• Implemented all new and modifications to existing processes and procedures for the system including access control and security.
• Manage all user account administration including annual user re-certification.
• Supervised help desk operations.
• Responsible for CFR 21 part 11 compliance.
• Utilized tools such as MS SharePoint, MS Project and MS Office Suite for project deliverable and tracking.

SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed as Initial System Architect
• Managed multiple teams and vendors
• Offshore vendor team performing data mapping
• U.S. vendor team for development of the output software
• U.S. vendor team for the development of the transform and input
• Managed Testing and Remediation
• Authored FDA Compliant process and procedures with evidentiary recording and reporting
• Managed day-to-day migration execution
• Responsible for schedule, budget, staff, compliance and closure

Lead Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead software developer responsible for the development team of 3 developers.
• Led the architectural and network security review and remediation for FDA Compliance
• Responsible for much of the SLC documentation, scheduling, change management, testing, performance measurement against schedule and implementation.
• Assisted in the acquisition of project development and support resources.
• Supported users in 6 countries around the world, including Japan, Puerto Rico, United States, England, Ireland and France.

Group Manager

Confidential, Brookfield, WI

Responsibilities:

• Launched the Lotus Domino Workgroup Consulting Team from concept. Hired, trained, developed, and managed 10 team members, both software developers and system administrators.
• Performed Lotus Notes consulting, application development, and system administration services for clients in industries including manufacturing, service, telecommunications, and human services.
• Developed marketing plans, sold projects, and generated sales leads through networking, and various marketing efforts.
• Developed, deployed, and managed their hosted product offerings.
• Led projects and developed custom Notes-based messaging and collaborative solutions to solve customers’ business problems.
• Managed the in-house system infrastructure design and implementation, maintenance, virus protection, and firewall / network security.
• Key contact for the company’s Lotus and IBM Business Partnership.

Project Manager / Advanced Instructor

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager acting as consultant and champion for clients' projects.
• Developed the Allied waterfall project methodology based on the PMI-PMBOK
• Managed large-scale IT development and infrastructure projects from concept to completion.
• Managed projects for clients' mail migration from Outlook to Notes.
• Managed infrastructure updates from one to multiple servers.
• Managed implementation of a Kiosk system for Atlanta Transit Authority during the ’96 Olympics.
• Software developer utilizing MS Access VBA, and Lotus Domino.
• Instructor for Microsoft public and private classes
• Taught end user classes such as Basic Windows, MS Office Suite, MS Access
• Taught custom classes such as advanced MS Access and MS Project
• Developed and taught custom MS Project class for current project professionals
• Certified Lotus Advanced Administrations Instructor - Taught Advanced system administration
• Certified Lotus Advanced Development Instructor - Taught Advanced system development