SUMMARY:

I am seeking a position that will enhance as well as challenge my Project Management, ITIL and COOP planning background. I have extensive project management, business analysis, Disaster Recovery and overall IT experience coupled with a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Information Science, and a Master’s of Science degree in Technology Management with a Project Management concentration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE EXPERTISE: Sharepoint, Clarity,CITRIX, ITIL v3.0, Oracle 8/ 8i, Informatica, PL/SQL, C++, Unix, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project 2010, ServiceNow, Smartsheets, MSProject, Rally, VersionOne,Autotask

HARDWARE EXPERTISE: Cisco Switches and Routers, Lucent Switches, Juniper Networks, Citrix Platforms, Mainframe LPARS

NETWORK EXPERTISE: TCP/IP, Frame Relay, ATM. Experienced in LAN/WAN troubleshooting & monitoring.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Linthicum, MD

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for liaising with State government officials to determine requirements for the consolidation of the Confidential .
• As a Project Manager I meet with state government officials several times a week to determine their requirements for the various agencies that will be consolidated under the MD IT Infrastructure. The initial steps include providing Security as a Service to the various agencies prior to determining their migration strategy. I am also responsible for documenting their migration strategy, virtualization strategy and backup strategies for all the agencies
• Managed a large virtualization (P2V) project to provide IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to various MD agencies.
• Responsible for managing all SECaaS (Security as a Service) offerings to all Executive agencies in the state of MD.
• Work with the Network and Information Security teams to ensure requirements are met and a successful cutover to the PaloAlto firewall is achieved.
• Responsible for requirements through implementation of RAaaS (Remote access as a service) using PulseSecure to various agencies.
• In an Agile environment I document requirements and project plans based on the existing Infrastructure of the various MD agencies. Based on the Infrastructure requirements I work with the IT Assessment and Discovery teams to go onsite to document the detailed Infrastructure nuances of the various MD agencies.
• Responsible for creating Microsoft project plans to track the various activities in the various agencies as they are migrated behind the firewall. I am responsible for ensuring that deliverable dates are adhered to and expectations are clearly communicated to my engineering team as well as to my management team
• I provide weekly and monthly status reports to the MD state government officials, as well as executive management

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Senior Disaster Recovery Admin/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple disaster recovery and business continuity projects from project planning through implementation of a detailed disaster recovery program to support core business functions in the event of a disaster.
• Ensures that in the event of a disaster, my company would be able to recover all core applications within a mandatory 1 week time frame.
• Scheduled DR exercises and coordinated all efforts to ensure participants and the vendor were kept well informed of ongoing DR exercise expectations.
• Created detailed scope, project plans and project timelines and managed status update conference calls between exercise participants, management and vendor/clients.
• Managed multiple software implementation and infrastructure installation projects. Involved in most aspects of the Software development life cycle (SDLC) from the requirements definition, documentation of business requirements documents, translating business requirements to technical functional documents, risk analysis, solution design
• Coordinated the development of disaster recovery procedures to ensure applications can be recovered within the requirements SLA established.
• Developed and managed disaster recovery testing methodologies; plans and procedures for the company to ensure that in the event of a disaster at the datacenter, the company would be able to recover the core Infrastructure, applications and principle business functions
• Coordinated the testing of disaster recovery procedures. Conducted disaster recovery training for staff members in all functional areas.
• Managed multiple projects in various stages of the SDLC. One of the largest projects assigned was a Data Warehousing Oracle DataGuard project
• Implemented DR enhancements to the program to include full scale infrastructure and application recovery and simulate real life disasters, as well as surprise or mock DR exercises
• Prepared detailed Disaster Recovery plans to facilitate the implementation of disaster recovery planned and unplanned exercises and established and maintained communication between various business groups across several platforms and Infrastructure components e.g. Unix, Mainframe, Network, Information Security
• Coordinated the dissemination of information between the disaster recover exercise participants, vendors and other business groups
• Assigned the role of SharePoint administrator/PM and was responsible for the design and creation of the SharePoint site for the department and sub - sites within the primary SharePoint site

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created and developed project plans using Microsoft Project 2000 to manage software IT implementation projects from initiation through implementation and closure.
• Made presentations to senior management while providing frequent status updates on the delivery and lifecycle of all projects I worked on. Created Gantt chart reports to summarize various projects status.
• Responsible for the creation of a website project in a matrix type of organization while managing resources both domestically (Columbia, MD) and internationally (New Delhi, India)
• Managed IT projects from project inception, through analysis, design, testing and implementation of the solution. I was involved in all aspects of the SDLC with the exception of development processes
• Worked with both Agile & Waterfall methodologies to implement various software projects
• I implemented a corporate wide disaster recovery process that is updated and tested annually and led a variety of projects such as a Disaster Recovery project, system enhancement projects, re-branding project, etc.
• Responsible for identifying all weaknesses and risks that would adversely impact Confidential ’s business continuity efforts and developed a clear, concise and comprehensive business continuity plan. .
• I met regularly with developers, engineers and system administrators to evaluate and redefine processes and procedures to support application recovery in the event of a disaster, and develop new recovery methodologies to meet and exceed existing recovery time objectives

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assigned role of Team Lead Analyst on a platform and software consolidation effort that spanned several clients, programs, architectures and countries. Was successful in leading team on this effort
• Met with various stakeholders and documented requirements within the scope and resource constraints allocated
• Developed project plans outlining expected release of various milestones throughout the analysis phase of the SDLC process
• Performed detailed risk analysis and risk mitigation plans to prepare for inevitable risks and potential scope creep
• Created detailed requirements, functional specs and data flow diagrams while communicating changes in the project to management and various stakeholders
• Provided status to management and stakeholders. Made presentations to management on the status of the project while communicating with other teams any changes in status/scope.
• Ran requirement review meetings to ensure development teams were able to code based on the functional requirements and the Quality Assurance team could create detailed test scripts
• Communicated any changes in the scope change with management, stakeholders and various team members to ensure no resource constraints would adversely affect project release dates

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Business Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and timelines within which projects would be completed
• Managed various projects simultaneously and successfully
• Managed the Confidential (change control board) to ensure new requirements were not added to the various projects resulting in scope creep
• Managed team members to ensure all resources were adequately utilized.
• Reviewed status reports from team members and communicated any changes in project scope, deliverables, timelines or expectations with management, team members and management
• Managed and reviewed requirements gathering sessions with analysts and stakeholders
• Monitored and reviewed requirements documents for various projects while ensuring the requirements adhered to the business need and architectural constraints
• Was instrumental in resource allocation while monitoring budget and other constraints
• Performed analysis on business processes and acted as key liaison between the stakeholders, senior management and technology
• Led various projects through the software development life cycle and made presentations to management to portray the project benefits and solution.
• Identified potential project risks and made risk mitigation suggestions
• Used Microsoft Project 2000 to create project plans and track project progress from design through implementation
• Made formal presentations to the senior management team on various projects, while training the end user on various products as the subject matter expert
• Ensured various team members met the project deliverables
• Monitored project risks and created risk mitigation plans
• Analyzed business processes and made recommendations on process improvements
• Assisted with quality control by reviewing test cases and test scripts to ensure the functionality outlined in the requirements were adhered to in the test plans
• Managed projects to ensure they were delivered within the time, financial and resource constraints allocated

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed project plans and ensured projects were within the defined scope
• Ensured that work performed under task orders was within scope, consistent with requirements, and delivered on time and on budget
• Translated the business need into more technical terms while creating DFDs (data flow diagrams) and other design documentation utilizing Visio
• Created project plans using Microsoft Project 2000 to illustrate the project timeline and overall project expectation
• Identified staffing, financial and other resources/constraints for various projects and conferred with management on resource allocation
• Identified and communicated objectives, goals and scope of projects. Worked with various teams to ensure scope creep did not affect my timelines.
• Presented a weekly status report to management and various stakeholders and acted as liaison between stakeholders and technology to ensure all parties were in agreement on the requirements and functionality to be developed.