SUMMARY

• Highly accomplished, U.S. Citizen, who has a documented and proven, successful track record, driving and bringing value as a Senior Program or Senior Project Manager, 15 years PM, with 29 years overall IT experience.
• Who understands revenue recognition, margins, customer satisfaction and balancing each.
• Along with the importance of today's data driven business models.
• I have a history of leading, communicating and turning around troubled projects; delivering results while making his superior(s) look good DRIVING CRITICAL PROJECTS TO DELIVERY, IS MY FORTE If Mission Critical, High Visibility or Troubled Projects are one of your concerns, I am your Consultant Results are what I produce Have been referred to as a "ROCKSTAR" on multiple occasions. I am intimately proficient with Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Lean, XP, Crystal, FDD, DSDM, AUP, Confidential and other project management methodologies.
• Adapt as a quick study and solution architect, in numerous complex configurations and architectures.
• Open to project engagements of short or long term duration.
• Incorporated and available for direct or subcontract engagements, mentoring or training.
• Optimistic with years of experience delivering Cloud, SDLC applications, Infrastructure, ERP, CRM and Omni - Channel retailing, related projects for domestic and international clients.
• Extensive IT background includes over 29 years of roles as Director, Senior Program Manager, Senior Portfolio Manager, Senior Project Manager (PMP), Agile (PMI-ACP)/Scrum (CSM) Project Manager, Agile Trainer, Cloud technology, System Developer, Data Warehouse (DW) Architect, Business Analyst, Director and a Confidential Green Belt practitioner across many platforms within the enterprise.
• Hands-on technical and management experience with respect to development and deployment of large scale complex application systems, infrastructure architecture, business intelligence (BI) tools, support and efficient design.
• Project Management proficiencies and knowledge base includes PMI methodology, CMMI3 methodology, Agile Coach / Scrum Master methodology, Kanban, SAFe Agile Framework 4.0, SDLC 2.0, PDLC, Confidential Green Belt, Integration / Migration Process management, Critical Chain Management, Testing Scripts, Cloud technology, best practice research/adherence and others.
• Initiatives including feasibility studies, data warehouse ( Confidential ), star schema, snowflake schema, data gathering, data modeling, data architecture, system/business analysis, design, coding, system deployment, tuning, quality control, project standards, data conversion, Confidential Cloud solutions, DBA work and Hyperion OLAP development are also tools in my tool belt.
• Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to Line Management, benefits/cost analysis, ROI tracking, Payback analysis, Earned Value (EV) analysis, Oracle and SAP ERP upgrade evaluation, Data Integration Design Documents, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Logical Views, Schema maps, Power Point and Visio presentations, Reporting tools include, Clarity, Sharepoint, Open Workbench, MS Project/Server, PMO dashboard, Office365, Smartview, SalesForce and others.
• Technical milestones include; 2008 MS SQL Server, Disaster Recovery (DR) replication, Oracle DataGuard, Snap ManagerSnap Mirror, Gird, 3 Tier Architecture, Citrix, Web, Confidential, LUN and SAN configurations, online IMS, CICS, batch IMS, CICS, DB2/SQL, graphical user interface (GUI) tools, VOIP, TELON, Confidential, COBOL, COBOL II, interfacing with Oracle ERP RDBMS.
• Exposure to Hyperion Series 9 fundamentals, HFM, HDM, OLAP concepts with Essbase, DB2 UDB, MQseries, PL/SQL, MS/SQL, SQL SERVER, JAVA, Web site publishing, CMMI, Confidential Green Belt Certification, PMP Certification, Agile/Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, JAD, Sarbanes-Oxley SOX, UML, XML, LOTUS NOTES, Domino, Infrastructure Architect, Data Architect, Data Warehouse (DW), Data Mining, ETL tools), Business Intelligence

SKILLS:

PM METHODOLOGIES: PMP, Confidential, Agile, XP, Lean, Scrum, DSMD, FDD, AUP, JAD, CMMI, SOA, Waterfall -

SOFTWARE: vCAC, vCOps, vRA, vRB, vCO, IMS DB/DC, IMS DL/1, DB2, CICS, COBOL, COBOL II, MICROFOCUS COBOL, Erwin, Metadata, CLOUD CONCEPTS, JCL, MFS, BTS, ADF, PSBGENS, MGSGENS, OS/MVS, SQL, QMF, EASYTRIEVE, SAS, HTML, UML, XML, JAVA, WINDOWS, EXCEL, MS WORD, LOTUS NOTES, Walker Financials CARMS, MS SQL, Confidential, SNAP MIRROR, NetApps, Snap Manager, Grid Tool, MS 2007 Office Suite 2007, Guardium, HFM, HDM, SDDC, IaaS

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Program Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As Program Manager/Scrum Master, onsite in Washington, DC, with the  confidential.
• I am tasked with leading the cultural transition to Agile/Scrum methodology’s in the Web Services Branch, while driving other initiatives to delivery.
• Sharing industries best practices, techniques and concepts was a daily focus. I performed in the role of Scrum Master for multiple sprints. Working with many features and stories involving web design, web development, Umbraco, Laserfiche, Elastic Search API’s, JIRA and other open source applications.
• As Managing Director sought out and evaluated income opportunities for the organization.
• Recruiting non-IT resources for requirements with our national partner
• As a Senior Project Manager Consultant, I worked various consultant engagements fortune 50/100 companies listed below
• Business process and computer system improvements for financial and legal customers (Office 365 install/migration)
• MS SQL PM for fee Mobile App Development - Scrum methodology SAFe Agile and SalesForce support

Confidential

Senior Project Manager Consultant, Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed and reported on, over 30 projects to date with multiple deployments
• Managing project performance internally and for partners at end-client deployments
• Managing project financials, customer invoicing, revenue recognition, margins, resourcing, expense reports, time approval.
• Presentations, Project meeting, Knowledge transfer workshops, status calls, customer/end-client reviews
• Travel to support project(s) when needed vCloud Director (vCD), vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vSphere, vCloud Orchestrator (vCO), etc., vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator v(RO), Integration & Automation (I&A), etc.,
• Changepoint, SalesForce, Horizon Workspace, Webex, PowerPoint, MS Project, Lync
• Worked with global resourcing and partner organizations
• Successfully worked with Sales teams, PCR's, SOW, PO, WO's, e-invoicing and complex accounts
• Help drive different regions that I worked with into becoming the top national producer 3 out of 4 quarters

Project Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Program/Portfolio/Planner Manager I had as many as 13 direct reports and 50+ indirect reports.
• As a Senior Project Manager, I utilized the full spectrum of the project manager's tool chest and worked on Data Warehouse (ETL/BI/Data Marts), Infrastructure, and Application Development projects.
• Technologies used included MS Project, Project Server, Clarity, SharePoint, Microsoft Lync 2010 (communicator), SDLC 2.0, Agile/Scrum, Hyperion, Oracle, Open Workbench, Microsoft Office 2010, Cloud, Live Meeting and a host of KPI metrics.
• Other project efforts included global deployments, I owned two global, multi-day, multi-continents implementations, Agile mentoring, Agile Trainer, Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Agile Project Manager coach and Waterfall Project Manager.
• Co-located and Distributed (geographically dispersed) Agile projects.
• Many of the java customer support applications integrated with VRU's and Unified Voice.
• Projects financials and forecasting were maintained using Clarity, SharePoint and OpenWorkbench.
• Global teams were located on 6 continents.
• I also engaged in meetings whose goals were to roll-out Agile/Scrum standards, tools, guidelines and practices enterprise wide along with evaluating Confidential software as an Agile tool.
• E-invoicing system
• Lead Wealth Management Initiatives and training
• Created Agile/Scrum Instructional Presentations
• Created PMP Instructional Presentations
• Consulted and Brainstormed with business partners on Hyperion HFM, FDM and reporting products
• Lead Mobile Application Development projects

Project Manager

Confidential, Florida

Responsibilities:

• In a matrix environment, I managed or supervised teams of 8 (core team) to 50 (deployment) resources.
• Upgrade from 2005 to 2008 SQL Server database platform, implementing Data Encryption for all data at rest (DAR), implementing Data Obfuscation and implementing an enterprise wide multiple locations Database Disaster Recovery strategy.
• Architecting a Data Center move is also the backdrop to the DR project.
• This included all applications, infrastructure, and Data Warehouse environments.
• Currently four deployments or rollouts has been implemented.
• As the PM, I have brought some structure to a complex organization.
• Aggressive delivery of project results was made possible by using advanced project management techniques.
• Some deliverables include
• Project Charter, Architectural Design document, Project Schedule/WBS, Project Plan and other project documents.
• This WBS outlined a very aggressive sponsor lead timeline,
• Coordination of SAN, DBA, Windows, Networking, VRU (with Unified Voice capabilities),
• Application teams and Business users to work together to complete significant deliverables,
• Contributing to their PMO tools and procedures, Mentoring, Completing multiple Proof of Concepts initiatives, documenting and bringing clarity to project objectives in alignment with long - term organizational strategic goals, driving Application and Business User's Acceptance Test and implementations,
• Successful completion of four (4) enterprise wide implementation roll-out, meeting daily with Directors, VP level stakeholders and occasionally with outside Vendors.

Confidential, Florida

Responsibilities:

• I used PM and Scrum methodology skills to manage and direct the activities of this company.
• Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Controlling and Closure methods were used to develop the significant initiatives of this organization.

Project Manager Consultant

Confidential, Florida

Responsibilities:

• In a matrix environment, I managed and supervised 8 resources.
• I also was the Program Manager for Infrastructure Architecture Management of two new facilities.
• The new construction of a four line production and manufacturing facility along with the build-out of a separate chilled distribution facility.
• Both projects interfaced with the chilled supply chain and other distribution centers.
• My PM duties required me to perform the full complement of PM activities along with gaining
• CMMI3 level compliance (Project Feasibility & Approval, Project Preparation, Blue Print Design, (HLD), Realization Design, Realize Construction, Realization Test, Final Preparation, Go Live & Support, Project Closure).
• Other deliverables included the migration of data from legacy systems to SAP data warehouse environment, Project Charter, Project Plan, Project Schedule/WBS, Server Build Procedures, SAP ERP Integration, Deployment / Go Live Procedures, Disaster Recovery Plans, Training, Architecture Assessments, SDLC remediation, Decommission of Infrastructure, Functional/Non Functional Business Requirements, Traceability matrix, Infrastructure Architecture Assessments (LAN, WAN, SAN), Equipment Accounting (capital/expense), etc.
• Tools used include MS Project Server 2007, Outlook 2007, eRoom, Primavera, KnowledgeNet, KnowledgeStore, Caliber, Star Team, Oracle 10g, Oracle8i, etc.

Confidential, Richmond, VA.

Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In a matrix environment, I managed and supervised 12 resources on the first project, 12 onshore and 3 offshore.
• On the second project, I directed and supervised 6 international directors.
• My projects or iterations involved evaluation of business tools and processes for complexity reduction, cost savings or cost avoidance.
• BI tools such as Micro Strategy, Business Objects, SAS, Hyperion BRIO, Planning, HFM, Essbase, Financial Reports, FDM and other enterprise wide tools were evaluated during this project.
• Work on Data Warehouse, Data Mart and Business Intelligence initiatives.
• BI tools such as Micro Strategy, Business Objects, SAS, Hyperion BRIO and other enterprise wide tools were evaluated during this project.
• Another project is assessing which business processes should be re-used or adopted enterprise wide due to their efficiencies. This project involves management at the international or global level, involving only director level members.
• Hardware Infrastructure, Architecture and Project recommendations would be socialized along with their best practices.
• Under my direction previous projects were brought out of red and yellow status to green status.
• Iterations had been completed and multiple pilots began.
• Metadata Management is one of our piloted processes.
• MS Project Server 2003, SharePoint, Knowledge link and Project One were some of the tools I used, along with an Onshore/Offshore model.
• Ensuring compliance to established PMO standards were also my duties.

Confidential, Denver

Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• I facilitated the orderly transition of assets, primarily servers and memory storage, from or to Confidential 's client.
• Managed and coordinated a national team of providers to, build, commission, wipe and decommission servers.
• Validated closure letter process and financials of other project managers before asset were finally closed.
• Scheduled agenda meetings with Honeywell and Confidential stakeholders.
• Attended meeting with Honeywell and Confidential stakeholders weekly to communicate status, issues or concerns.
• Attended training sessions related to Confidential 's products (i.e. ODBS, Financial Reporting, RUP, etc.)

Confidential, Danville, IL.

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• In a matrix environment, I managed and supervised 3 resources.
• Duties included, evaluating the customer's 700 plus page requirements document, producing business rules, producing business requirement specs, producing test cases and quality requirements for the project team.
• My role also included, defining project objectives, milestones, prioritizing work schedule while establishing timelines, establishing meeting agenda items with stakeholders, defined reporting requirements, defining quality requirements, producing test cases, preparing end-user questionnaires and data gathering.
• Project administration included Initiating, Planning, Executing, and Controlling, and Closure, post implementation review for the project.
• Establishing best practice guidelines, identifying lessons learned, producing acceptance criteria requirements and creating consensus while managing customer expectations were also initiatives that were provide. Copious amounts of documentation, interviews, charts, flows, benefit analysis, risk management, loss control and best practice techniques were used or produced.
• The software construction used each phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). MS SQL SERVER and MS SQL was the backbone of the construction phase. Other tools used are Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF Professional etc.

Director / Project Manager

Confidential, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Duties included each phase of the project development life cycle (PDLC) and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• RUP methodology including: quality by design, got the users/developers involved, overall focus on quality, functional documents, performance issues, scorecard deployment, etc., were used.
• I managed and supervised 12 people. Other involvement included:
• Creating and Implementing Business Plan
• Creating and Executing Project Plan
• Creating and Implementing Network Plan, LAN/WAN IP configuration (VOIP) etc.
• Conception, Development and implementation of companies Web Site (SDLC)
• Creating, developing of data mapping repositories (Data Architect)
• Create data warehouse concepts and schema
• Evaluate, Create, Develop Infrastructure (Infrastructure Architect)
• Managing day to day activities, issues (network/hardware) and executing plan
• Created and Implemented best practice and lessons learned methodology.
• Evaluated Sarbanes-Oxley SOX fundamentals for compliance
• Evaluated UML and XML for data modeling and future web initiatives

Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida

Project Manager / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I managed and supervised 3 people. producing business needs request or other project initiation documents driving the needs request process, obtaining stakeholders signoffs, setting stakeholders agenda items, producing business requirements for development team, defining business rules, producing test cases, defining quality requirements, establishing best practice repository, identifying lessons learned and creating consensus while managing customer expectations.
• Creating Project Definition Plan, producing all supporting project documentation such as WBS, schedules, cost accounting, risk plans, communication plans, scope definitions etc., organized meetings with project sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Coordination of activities between team members in multiple states with four different companies, evaluated, create and develop infrastructure facilities for various implementations.
• Additional projects included the migration to a new Oracle Data Warehouse environment including data mapping, data integration,
• ETL, referential integrity, and data validation. Data migrations (ETL) were also preformed to move data from one data center to another.
• Integration upgrades from MVS to Oracle were analyzed weekly.
• Consulted weekly on data, functional and platform issues regarding the Oracle environment.
• Brainstormed features and functional impact of ERP upgrades from Oracle 8i to 9i.. Performed SME analysis for application integration into the Oracle platform. One of the projects impacted many major databases, many applications on various platforms. (I.e. Customer relationship management (CRM)), revenue maintenance, account receivables ( Confidential ), general ledger, plant and equipment applications on UNIX, Informix, ODS, AS/400 and Confidential MVS Mainframe hardware.
• This project had national impact on every system that used a customer number.
• The communications, coordination and timing between systems and departments throughout the US were critical.
• The content of this project interfaced with Confidential midware due to its multi-platform, multi-lingual features.
• Confidential features such as data transportation/ transformation, multicast and routing were critical to the successful completion of this project. Indoctrination to Confidential components such as Message Broker, Rendezvous, Adapters and Hawk features were understood.
• Analysis of Websphere also undertaken to interface with project.
• I also produced documents for: 'Project Need, 'Project Definition', 'Business Requirements' and 'Project Plan'. Project plans were created using MS Project, PMO (project management office - James Martin) methodology is used to communicate project scope, issues, status and milestones throughout the organization. MS PowerPoint was used for his presentations to the VP and directors. He coordinated stakeholders’ meetings, set the agenda and communicated issues to the national team.

Confidential, Jackson, Mississippi

Project Manager/Data Architect/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• I supervised 3 people. evaluating stakeholder’s requirements documents, meeting with stakeholders, analyzing requirement, creating business rules, creating business requirements, producing test cases, defining quality requirements, establishing best practices and identifying lessons learned. JAD and project development lifecycle methodology was used on this project.
• Conceptual, Logical and Physical designs were created. Data Warehouse techniques ( Confidential ) such as data gathering, design, interviewing, requirements definition, analysis, stars schema, snowflake schema, etc., were used.
• His duties involved, evaluating, creating and developing the necessary infrastructure to facilitate this project, producing entity relationship diagrams (ERD) for the DB2 tables, logical and physical views for the data,
• Data Conversion Requirements Definition documents for each system and also defined task & resources needed to complete this project.
• Developing physical models for the DW using ERWIN, understanding HIPAA and working with metadata were also his responsibilities.
• All work was performed in an Confidential MVS Mainframe environment.

Continental

Project Lead, Florida & Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Design phase also included DB2 tables with referential integrity and other proficiency considerations.
• The incentive system would reward the sales force of Continental Airlines, for the performance of their travel agencies or telesales staff that were associated with their territory's sales volume.
• The software tools used were DB2, COBOL II, EXCEL and MS WORD in an Confidential MVS Mainframe environment.
• There were significant communications with top management at Continental
• Houston) daily, in an effort to further enhance this system and offer solutions to business issues and needs etc.
• Travel to the client site in Houston, was also a part of the support provided.
• These tasks were performed in an Confidential mainframe and PC network environment.
• The next phase of this project scheduled is to have a GUI interface with probably Visual Basic as its platform.
• CICS appears to be the second choice as a platform. This phase will make the results available to the national community of sales representatives and travel agencies, not just the administrators, as phase one does.

Confidential

Consultant Miami, Florida

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included developing software in the Insurance and Risk Management areas.
• Analysis, design and maintenance were duties performed in this area.
• Software tools used, were DB2, COBOL II and Confidential .
• Responsibilities also included developing software to standardize reporting of benefits to over fifteen different vendors that provided benefits to the employees of this company.
• Supporting Confidential and Payroll areas, with new reports.
• Addition duties were to provide the end user reporting systems with strong user interface (directors, vice presidents, senior vice presidents) in the field and headquarters. Confidential, Work Force Analysis development and Marketing Research Analysis were also areas that major time was spent.
• COBOL II, Confidential, SAS, FTP and OS JCL were the primary tools used in the completion of those tasks in an Confidential MVS Mainframe environment.