SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT Project Manager with over 25 years of successful large - scale infrastructure migrations and ERP systems implementation projects.
• Excellent communicator able to gather and relay project data to stakeholders and matrixed project teams
• Proven Project Manager with critical success skills including project planning, requirements management, issue tracking and resolution, SOW and scope management, and status reporting
• Knowledge of Virtual Environments, Storage, Networks, Application Tiers, Rack Buildout
• Experience with MS Project, JIRA, SharePoint, MS Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and installation of new network edge devices: Confidential ISR router, Confidential FirePower firewall, and Confidential Catalyst 9000 switches
• Managing the procurement and installation of 72 ISP and MPLS circuits
• Delivering 1794 new or reimaged end user computers
• Migrating 1593 VOIP phones, 102 Windows servers, 217 printers, 88 Confidential Wireless Access Points
• Leading a team of 4 Project Managers
• Managing vendors and subcontractors
• Working closely with other PMs responsible for End Points, Core Network, Workforce Enablement (O365), and Information Security
• Facilitating daily meetings with CIO, IT Leadership, and Chief Architect
• Driving project schedule, issue resolution, managing team dynamics, and reporting to senior management.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• For a Fortune 50 company data center migration, managed multiple SOWs on security and network migration (ASA to PaloAlto, NAT migration, Site2Site VPN, vLAN and subnet mapping, config and policy migrations)
• For a multinational pharmaceutical company data center migration, led a matrixed organization with global resources from assessment though 9 successful physical and virtual (P2V, V2V) migrations.
• For the data center migration of a large financial institution, managed 3 service towers in a 12 month process of virtual migrations into greenfield VMware infrastructure.
• Assessing hardware infrastructure, virtual environment, applications, and network related services.
• Migrating web servers, middleware, storage, database, and network infrastructure.
• Leading diverse technical teams across the globe and working with account/sales teams.
• Developing, coordinating, and executing post migration User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided acquisition integration and systems migration Project Management for the successful $3 billion acquisition of Tandberg.
• Primary areas of responsibility were the migration, transition, or decommissioning of Tandberg’s Ordering and Services tools for install base data, service contracts, and licensing.
• Tasks included development of system transition roadmaps, system design recommendation, data analysis, management of software development tasks, data migration, and day-to-day project management (budget estimates, schedules, meeting management, etc.)

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the day-to-day activities of the Systems Integrator to ensure requirements were met.
• Weekly reporting to Project Executives.
• Managing daily meetings with project teams to update project schedule and drive issues to closure.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Asked to join a struggling project that was 2+ years behind schedule and over budget, applied core PMP principles that resulted in reducing outstanding issues and actions items, provided rigor to development processes, and enhanced testing that led to a successful go live and sunsetting of legacy systems.

Project Manager

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Principle Project Manager for Confidential ’s successful and on-time $20 million implementation of Oracle EBS Financials, OBIEE, and Hyperion Budgeting.
• The project was the culmination of a 5 year effort by Confidential to replace their aging financial systems. Primary tasks included overseeing the day-to-day activities of the Systems Integrator to ensure requirements were met, reporting weekly to the Project Steering Committee consisting of Senior County and Schools department executives and Elected Officials, working with Subject Matter Experts on requirements definitions, issue resolution, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and managing daily meetings with project teams to update the project schedule, mitigate open risks, and drive issues to closure.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed the development of Cognos Impromptu reports. Specific tasks included: requirements analysis and definition, hardware purchase and configuration (production and test environments), software installation, data migration, operations, and training.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided Project Management support for 10 different Confidential systems, including the implementation of SAP financials (R/3, SRM, SEM), DoubleClick ad systems integration, and customer care.
• Responsibilities included guiding the project through hardware infrastructure development and provisioning, and coordinating with DBAs, system integrators, and system administrators.