SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT professional with significant, Pro gram/ Project Management expertise. Progressive experience and expertise with systems administration, network engineering methodologies, technology design, and architecture, including but not limited to data center infrastructure and design to project - management, vendor management, scheduling, contract negotiations, planning and tracking, quality, and change management throughout the project life cycle .
• Excellent Technical Project Manager has the ability to multi-task 10 projects at once. Has great experience in Implementation planning and driving project to completion. Have established a pipeline of resources and relationships across various IT and Telecommunications firms.
• Eight plus years’ experience with Waterfall methodology and three plus years with Agile methodology with an understanding of Scrum methodology.
• Project responsibilities include; power & racks build-outs, network refreshes, managing storage requirements, server remediations, contingency testing, server builds, office build, circuits, moves and decommissions, data center consolidations and budget forecasting .
• Proven track record in mid- to large-scale technology rollouts and migrations, utilizing a comprehensive project-tracking & management system and various other project management applications.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

• Proficient but not limited to work with the following applications:
• Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, Sharepoint, Smartsheet, Google- Docs, Sheets and Drive, Remedy, Jira, ServiceNow.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Vendor Management, Procurement related to enterprise global projects.
• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, and release planning in an Agile environment.
• Effective communication with project sponsor, Manager / Director, in customer organization.
• Plan and control projects, including monitoring, issue and risk management, change control & contingency planning list maintaining the overall direction and integrity of the project.
• Directs project team activities by influencing cross functional team members without direct line of authority (daily).
• Provide project management leadership for data center infrastructure projects including Cloud, large-scale server, circuits and network deployments.
• Familiarity with development of risk management plans for technical Cloud / data center infrastructure projects.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinates and monitors infrastructure according to build-out activities for medium to large technology based projects.
• Coordinates technical staff through design, budget, procurement, installation, powering, networking, OS, cabling, SAN zoning, middleware application, monitoring/alarming, and documentation steps for distributed systems in the datacenters.
• Assumes the lead role on technical projects from initiation through delivery.
• Works with partners to develop technology concepts, requirements, design alternatives, project schedules, risk analysis and costs for new systems initiatives.
• Plans and directs program schedules and budget, monitoring project status in comparison to cost/time projections.
• Provides consistent and comprehensive status reports, project updates, and ongoing cost analyses, significant issue management, and communication with business lines and technology management levels.
• Act as on-call point of escalation for all issues until systems are implemented, documented and turned over to Operations group.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the deployments of EMC- Vmax, VNX, VNXe, RPA and MDS switches. Also, Data Domain, circuit turn up
• Works in tandem with customers, internal executive sponsors, stakeholders, and technical team managers to achieve business goals by leading multiple small to medium sized cloud infrastructure projects or a large-scale infrastructure project with defined beginning and end in Datacenters.
• Managed creation of port maps for cabling build out of new Data Centers and Data Center migrations deploying network, storage and compute.
• Procured power and space, to build-out infrastructure space with network, storage and compute.
• Deployed a unified computing infrastructure utilizing Cisco UCS, Nexus switches for production and Lab environment.
• Perform Data center migration and Data Center Disaster Recovery Test.
• Provide project management leadership services in building and operating Public Sector cloud infrastructure for the customers.
• Led projects from inception to closure, and ensures that business goals of infrastructure build or operational improvement projects are accomplished within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.
• Functional build out of new Data Centers and Data Center migrations deploying network, storage and compute.
• Led project meetings, activities, tasks, manages technical project team members and different vendors to ensure project objectives are achieved within prescribed time-frame and budget. Assesses project risks and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer-satisfaction levels.

Confidential, Irving, Tx

Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for the overall implementation of infrastructure projects, transition to operations and support teams, and work to ensure all implementations/deliveries meet company mandated policies and procedures.
• Managed the deployments of managed network appliances, servers, data storage units, firewalls, circuits, new office build, applications, and security/IT controls in a datacenter environment.
• Met financial objectives (capital and expense) by forecasting, monitoring, tracking, and reporting project financial status (budget, actuals, and variances).
• Collaborate with the engineering and business teams to deliver high availability solutions and stable customer experience.
• Ensure the project(s) are in compliance with Security Standards regarding protection and privacy of sensitive corporate data (SOX, PCI, etc. compliance).

Confidential, Richardson, Tx

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Partner with functional teams during initiation, plan, design, procurement, deployment, and post-deployment phases for cloud infrastructure.
• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, and release planning in an Agile environment.
• Utilized Agile methodology keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful iterations.
• Contributing to plans for data center and cloud migrations.
• Evaluating vendors in the data center and cloud marketplace.
• Drive internal process improvement; remove gaps, across multiple teams and functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise cloud infrastructure-related projects such as Network, Storage, Data Center Deployments and Data Center Migration.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Instituted stringent data center policy and procedure documentation.
• Collaborated with the network , firewall, monitoring and data center teams within diverse groups, to plan and manage rack deployment, security, and go-live launch for systems into en terprise cloud data center infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience managing network and telephony implementations of similar size and scope.
• Understanding global enterprise cloud solution approaches from a technical cloud (infrastructure)
• Facilitated implementation of infrastructure change management. Established and maintained relationships with vendors and managed vendor resources.
• Utilizes agile methods that cross multiple groups to plan, organize, lead and motivate agile project teams to exceed expectations of delivery.
• Coordinate activities between the regions and PMO, as well as assist in coordination between other organizations where dependencies exist.
• Served as project manager for the data center migration, overseeing server installations, power configurations, network design, and server build-out.
• Project Manager for the PMO Infrastructure Group. Projects include; circuits deployments, network refreshes, server, office moves and storage installations, AV, datacenter migrations and monitoring tools. Program manager for co-location infrastructure projects and activities.
• Provide expert oversight and direction to multiple IT network projects to ensure completion within budget and time constraints.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working with the PMO (Project Management Office) to oversee the global migrations from old servers to the new server / network. Also adding monitoring tools like solarwinds and nimsoft.
• Apply experience & SME knowledge to solve complex business issues within established guidelines and recommend alternatives.
• Work on problems / projects of diverse complexity and scope. Project responsibilities include; managing storage requirements, server remediations, contingency testing, server builds, moves and decommissions, data center consolidations and budget forecasting.
• Provide direction to team activities and facilitate information validation, including team decision-making process.
• Responsibilities include; managing technical resources, hosting meetings, assisting with budget, creating and managing project plans. Coordinating with business on scheduling project and change management activities.
• Coordinate activities between the regions and PMO, as well as assist in coordination between other organizations where dependencies exist.
• Coordinate and manage project reporting, project reviews and project steering meetings.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Implementation /Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manages the build-out of global Data Centers strategically and geographically dispersed across the world and in the US, but specifically in Amsterdam, Asia - Pac, East and Western Europe and Australia.
• Responsible for the management of the Richardson Data Center, which includes but is not limited to, all projects, power upgrades and resources.
• This project was to move around 50+ key applications from HP platform to Virtual infrastructure using Cisco UCS platform. Work involved budget planning, scope planning, Projects were executed using Cisco( TM )s Demand Clearing methodology.
• Identifies and schedules project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks. Leads daily project tracking, planning, and status meetings. Develops and implements project communication plans. Participates in cross-program project reviews and planning.