SUMMARY:

• Business savvy Project Management Professional (PMP, Inactive) with 30+ years experience in Information Technology.
• Transformation leader. Knowledge of Confidential, PMI, PMP, CMM, OPM3, JIT, Waterfall, full system life cycles and similar methodologies.
• Aligns technology solutions and project portfolios with business strategies.
• Expert in Information Systems, Accounting, Taxes, and Real Estate.
• Seeking full time position as a Project Management Consultant, Engagement Manager, Senior Project Manager, or similar position where I can put my years of knowledge and experience to work helping organizations use best practices to fulfill their IT and business needs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS / EXPERTISE:

Project Management: PMI PMP (Project Management Institute Project Management Professional Certification) ABT Project Manager Workbench Plan View Microsoft Project 98, 2000, 2014 SEI CMMI (Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Integration) Microsoft Project 98, 2000 Microsoft Visio 2000 Microsoft SharePoint PMI OPM3 (Organizational Project Management Maturity Model) Clifton Strengths Finder Signature Themes ( Intellection Strategic Learner Achiever Deliberative) PMI Confidential (Project Management Body Of Knowledge) Processes (Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, Closing) PMI Confidential Knowledge Areas (Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resource, Communication, Risk, Procurement)

Programming Languages: ALGOL Assembler 360 Basic Business Basic COBOL 68, 74, II, LE/370 CSP Easytrieve, + FORTRAN LISP PL/1 SAIL SIMULA SNOBOL

Hardware: Data General DEC 10,20 DEC PDP - 8,10,11 DEC VAX IBM AS/400, S/38, S/36 IBM 33XX, 43XX IBM ES9000 IBM PC IBM S/390, S/370, S/360 NCR Tower, Century Wang

Operating Environments: AOL CL CP/M HASP ICCF IMOS Internet ISPF JCL JES Mainframe MS/DOS MVS Networking OS/VS POWER RJE TCP/IP TOPS TSO VS VSE World Wide Web Windows 3.1, 7, 95, 98, NT, XP, XP Professional, VISTA, 7, 8

Database Administration: DATACOM DB2 & SQL DEC DBMS DL/1 & IMS IDMS MS Access SQL/DS TOTAL

Software: ADSO CA-Masterpiece ERP Suite CICS DB EZTEST 2000 DB-IMAGE 2000 ENDEVOR File-Aid/Data-Ager HTML Hourglass INTEGRAL LIBRARIAN Lotus Suite MS Excel MS PowerPoint MS Word PANVALET PAYROLLMATION SPSS SYNCSORT VIASOFT ESW Visi-Calc VSAM Word Perfect

Managed Technology (Not Hands-On): Adobe Photo Shop AUTOCAD B2B B2E B2C Black ICE Cold Fusion Enterprise JAVA Beans ICE IPIX JAVA JAVA Applets / Servlets JAVA Server Pages / Script JSP Macromedia Flash McAfee Netegrity Real Media SEND-IT Shockwave Siteminder STAT-TRAX SUBMIT-IT TIBCO Vignette WEB TIME XML SQL Database .Net Architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, East Moline, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Division, helping to align project portfolio with Confidential guidelines in anticipation of expanding company sales.
• Confidential provides vertical software solutions to the trucking industry, implemented using SQL Database in a Microsoft .NET environment.

Confidential

Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed strategic IT initiatives for portfolio prioritization, project and risk management
• Enhanced prioritization model to align portfolio and resource allocation with business goals
• Established new project management guide to achieve global best practices using PMI Confidential
• Mentored fledgling IT PMO and project teams; presented to and coached “C” level executives
• Negotiated project buy - in directly with senior management and each business unit executive
• Determined baseline of organization’s project management maturity using PMI OPM3 and SEI CMM
• Formulated processes for IT PMO to continually drive best practices and educate project managers

Confidential, East Moline, IL

PMO Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for $10.5 million in proposal generation (RFPs) and project reviews
• Daily interaction with CEO and CFO assisting with strategic direction and tactics
• Managed relationships to turn distressed clients (e.g., Confidential ) into satisfied customers, resulting in $2 million in additional client projects
• Authored first "Ask The Expert" article in company glossy brochure for clients
• Focused on improving bottom line by cutting $125,000 in unnecessary client projects
• Instrumental in establishing project management office (PMO) to drive best practices and educate PM's; initiatives yielded 25% improvement in project success rate in 6 months
• Motivated "at risk" project teams to deliver $175,000 in projects on time and under budget
• Developed service level agreements (SLA) and board room presentations of proposed e-Business solutions
• Mentored and coached project managers at all levels to drive for success
• Conducted formal training sessions for project management team
• Delivered board room presentations of proposed e-Business solutions to clients
• Developed strategic initiatives for risk management and client proposal generation
• Drove projects to closure with over 90% personal success rate

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Senior Project Manager 1

Responsibilities:

• 1 of 3 experts (out of 7,000+ consultants) chosen to troubleshoot project bottlenecks internationally
• Led proposal writing teams originating SOW and RFP responses for over $13.8 million in projects
• Created model test plan which was used to proof South Florida Water Management District government projects totaling $8.5 million
• Completed 100% of assigned projects on time, under budget, with zero defects
• Identified areas for process improvement and showed how to employ best practices

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed $2.5 million Confidential effort, finishing two months ahead of schedule and $500K under budget
• Motivated staff of 36 in geographically dispersed international teams from Miami to Nova Scotia
• Performed staff appraisals and evaluations, participated in hire and fire decisions
• Developed and drove best practices in conjunction with Wall Street PMO
• Traveled extensively to ensure consistent product delivery within client expectations

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Executed $100K Confidential vendor assessment and compliance contract with team of three
• Coordinated best practices and project schedules with Denver PMO

Confidential, Pompano Beach, FL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led $1.5 million enterprise wide conversion to relational database financial package
• Directed vendor, external consultant and in-house team efforts through all project efforts
• Developed and provided user training and operational support programs
• Incorporated best practices from other sites implementing same package, saving $300K

Database Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of corporate database design, resource allocation and utilization
• Reduced size of corporate database from 33% to 25% of all data storage capacity

Project Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Converted legacy Payroll/HRIS to relational database package, cutting process time 50%
• Provided on-going support and troubleshooting for operational problems and user support
• Managed and implemented planned upgrades to later versions
• Planned, managed and led a major corporate-wide Chart of Accounts conversion

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Consultant / Systems Analyst / Programmer

Responsibilities:

• For a major manufacturer / distributor of vitamin products (Sundown Vitamins), led the development of a new Order Entry system, with the integration of seventeen additional applications
• For a major PC manufacturer (IBM), part of DB2 team on confidential software projects
• For major petroleum products producer (Exxon), played key role in the development of an international General Ledger system used in 26 countries, processing over US $1 million daily

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Owner, Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed and supported Local Area Networks for small companies in the trucking and retail industries.

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

College Instructor

Responsibilities:

• Instructor for two courses: Electronic Data Processing Concepts and MS-DOS.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Consultant / Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Consultant to regional companies for mid-range computing platforms and business software.