OBJECTIVE:

Project / Program Management position.

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 c omplete System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This design and development experience, coupled with over 25 years of project management and management experience providing employers and clients with innovative business solutions and distinct competitive advantage.
• Experience in leading major IT implementations. Areas of focus include the implementation of:
• Business process discovery;
• E - commerce/E-business/Web-enabled applications;
• Oracle, Solomon and PeopleSoft Financials, HR, and Manufacturing Applications.
• 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 Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall and Iterative development processes.
• 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, 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 Confidential , corporate relocations, DBMS systems, data-communications, user interface, factory profitability, E-business, banking, customer relations, airlines, fast food, and HMO’s.

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, Jira;

CASE and DataWarehouse: Bachman, Erwin, MAGNA

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

Security 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;

Requirements Management: Rational DOORS.

IT 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, Agile/SCRUM, SaaS, Stage-Gate, Method-I, ISO-9000, SEI-CMM, various proprietary systems.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Initiation Phase for product enhancements, maintenance and support at a new start-up company.
• Their product monitors vehicles at airports and warns of active runway incursion (part time work)

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Initiation and Planning Phase for Confidential project; 4 of which were to cover a permanent project manager who was on Medical Leave of Absence.
• Projects were all oriented in the Health sector and required Business Process discovery and full Project Planning

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for redefining and implementing a Java/WebSphere application refresh for a product that controls and bills utilities (gas, phone and electric) for State regulatory work which impacts them.
• Project requires managing a staff of over 40 distributed business people throughout the two organizations to collect requirements (via RAD sessions), the control of the redesign and Agile-oriented reimplementation; plus the education and roll out of the new product.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining and implementing a Requirements Control system to track requested changes throughout the development lifecycle.
• This included dealing with multiple organizational levels -Executive Management down through Technical Leads- to develop a process that would be consistent with general needs for requirements’ management and the reporting of concerns to various organizational levels.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning the functional and technical aspects of a migration from Confidential to V-Workspace, as well as the off-shoring of certain data entry functions for the Finance organization. Managed over 40 resources directly and indirectly to formalize the business requirements, for the purchasing of additional hardware needed, the implementation of Security profiles, and the Testing of the resulting systems configurations.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing the functional, technical and integrated management for the Confidential -Kinko print workflow project.
• Manage implementation team of 28 members; as well as manage external interface to Confidential (customer) for installation, testing and nationwide rollout of this SaaS solution.
• Hence, project management needs require an indepth blending of knowledge of IT hardware and software usage; as well as development Engineering concepts.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Manager / Resource Manager

Responsibilities:

• Resource Manage allocations of 246 person resource pool for 17 interrelated large projects.
• Prime foci of the task were smooth integration and usage of resources.
• Overall results exceeded expectations—all resource usage issues were brought under control within040% of the expected project duration.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manage the Quality aspects of a worldwide implementation of Oracle HR for a Confidential 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

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• 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

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• 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 Confidential Company as part of Confidential ' strong commitment to growing the CHS lubricants business.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• 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

Confidential

PMO Project Manager / Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Establish,configure and train organization in the use of MS-Project 2002 Enterprise.
• Iinstitute 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 usage of Agile/SCRUM to the Engineering development groups..
• Continually analyze projects from four US-wide Engineering organizations to ensure compliance via Earned Value analysis.
• Added to this role, acted as the SME in the implementation of the complete Oracle eBusiness Suite. Implementation included CRM, Financials, Engineering and Manufacturing applications
• 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 Confidential ' largest customers. Discuss new product offerings with those customers who needed advanced product knowledge -- including the Confidential, Confidential, 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.