SUMMARY;

• 15 years of experience in managing large complex high visibility projects.
• Confidential 50 - enterprise wide infrastructure upgrades.
• Expert in Disaster Recovery / Data Center Build Outs.
• Expert in large-scale migration projects, Windows 7, MS Office upgrades, remedy upgrades.
• Expert in resources planning and management - teams sizes of 50-100.
• Expert in vendor management.
• Expert in leading technical and business teams spread out geographically.
• Expert in risk and issue management and mitigation.
• Expert in managing scope, documentation, defect tracking, requirements traceability.
• Proven experience with complex financial systems and integrity of financial data.
• Proven experience with HealthCare systems and HIPAA standards.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) projects.
• Business and technical requirements gathering.
• Business process re-engineering, business process modeling.
• Agile methodologies.
• GAP analysis and creating functional specifications.
• Data mining using SQL and data transformations for business reporting.
• Application Rationalization and Legacy Remediation.
• ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library
• Excellent business and technical writing skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical Knowledge: PureApp, Clarity, Appsense, SCCM, ChangeBase AOK, Citrix Xen App, Xen Desktop, DART, Mercury Quality Center, QTP, Integra Solstice, WinRunner, LoadRunner, ClearCase, Clear Quest. Test Manager, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, SQL Server and MS Access, Six Sigma, ETL tools, SWIFT, Windows7/2000/NT/95/98/XP, Unix, SQL, XML, C, UNIX, FAS91, Active Directory, Lotus Notes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led disaster recovery (DR) initiatives for BlueCross BlueShield / Confidential .
• Created detailed Plan of Action for disaster recovery exercises - coordinating between operations, support, application and business teams. (Size 100+)
• Managed implementations of all new infrastructure and applications in the DR environment.
• Interfaced with vendors on DR solutions on their respective products e.g. Network Security, Storage Solutions.
• Managed a 5+ million dollar annual budget and reported monthly budget variance to finance and upper management.
• Managed all project planning activities, risk and issues management and reports for executive level.
• Successfully managed a $5+ Million enterprise wide, multiyear project.
• Successfully managed quarterly and yearly audited disaster recovery exercises.
• Delivered on all milestones set for Disaster Recovery initiatives.

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Build Out / PM Lead for Network and Storage Infrastructure.
• Led and managed a team of architects and engineers to build out infrastructure. Team Size 50+
• Storage and Network RFP reviews and equipment procurement.
• Vendor management and communications IBM, EMC, NETAPP, EPLUS, CISCO.
• Project Planning, Risk and Issues Management and Reports for executive level review.
• Created and maintained alignment between PMO, Engineering, Business and supporting teams.
• Led DR Recovery Exercises including Market Liquidity Exercises and Business Process Recoveries.
• Led Business Third Party Connectivity with the following business partners; Reuters, Blackrock, Bloomberg, Fed Reserve, JP Chase, HP, DTCC.
• Led Data Center Closeout - footprint reduction of Denver Facility.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed processes for implementation of the Risk Threshold Framework in production.
• Created process and design documentation and other deliverables for the FHFA.
• Hosted “production” simulation workshops for Application Owners and Support Teams to enhance the adoption of the Risk Threshold Framework.
• Managed risks, issues, and interaction between the business portfolio owners and production support teams.
• Implemented a risk-based approach to production changes by operationalizing the Risk Threshold Framework.
• Established and maintained communication channels between Business Portfolio Owners and the Enterprise Command Center.

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary execution POC for Confidential ’s Retail Branch and Commercial Lines of Businesses.
• Led application rationalization and remediation planning and execution for LOB.
• Maintained communication at all levels between program office, business line and leads.
• Consolidated individual work stream and LOB plans into program schedule.
• Maintained project logs: Risks, Issues, Dependencies, Action Items and Decisions.
• Remediated 600+ Applications through rationalization and remediation process.
• Laid out a successful plan for application and user migrations to windows 7.

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established, maintained and managed the scope of the Next Gen Project.
• Defined assumptions and created processes for successful execution of the project.
• Created and maintained project plans and provided direction to teams.
• Manage interaction and activities across business, IT teams and end-users.
• Identified/managed risks/issues logs and escalated high severity items to senior management.
• Reported progress to senior management in meetings and through weekly status reports.
• Led larger project meetings, provided overall project status to team members and end users, collected feedback and status on tasks assigned and action items.
• Maintained relationships between 8 Business teams, 13 IT teams and Vendors.
• Managed end user expectations, training and end user communication.
• Formed and led the application remediation committee for rationalization of applications.
• Led the execution of over 6000 windows 7 end user migration.
• Effectively managed disputes and provided resolutions.
• Collected, managed and negotiated on the LOEs for the project.
• Planned and allocated resources, managed budget and reported on actuals.
• Managed and coordinated all application releases to the Windows 7 environment.
• Maintained and updated the project sharepoint site with project documents, status reports, issues and risks.
• Planned and led the transition of the Win7 environment to operations.
• Successfully managed and delivered a $22 Million enterprise wide, multi year project.
• Established and maintained communication channels between 23 teams (100+ personnel).
• Successfully managed the migration of 6000 employees to Win7.
• Rationalized COTS Applications by 33% in the environment.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager/Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of SLDC 2.0 standard in the development process of the home price forecast application (HPFA).
• Initiation and planning of HPFA releases, creation of scope, deliverable traceability matrix, risk assessment, project management plans and presenting it to the CRB for approval.
• Initiated the iterative approach to software development to enhance prototyping and quick responses to the business objectives.
• Created and maintained monthly production runbooks for several FNMA models including Loss Forecast Model, Loss Mitigation, FNMA Pop and Loan Processing LPPOP.
• Advised on business processes and menu based application creation for HPFA and User Interface Design.
• Analysis and Design activities included creation of Interface Controls and SLA between HPFA and consumer systems.
• Presentation of all SDLC checkpoints to Project Quality Office, PMO, senior management and obtaining sign offs.
• Test planning for UAT, UAT Test cases, traceability, defects management and transition to production
• Responsible for SOX control audits and D&T audit of the HPFA system.
• Reviewer of all production tickets and activities through the CLAMS systems.
• SharePoint administrator for the HPFA site and responsible for all content management.
• Design and setup of new active directory initiative for the HPFA system.
• Technical documentation specialist for the HPFA team.