SUMMARY:

• Accomplished self - motivated IT professional with experience in software applications development and web based solutions.
• Hands-on technical leader, business analyst, and project manager with ability to move effortlessly through and adapt readily to ever changing technologies through extensive experience and judgments.
• Extensive experience in designing application systems, managing complete software development life cycles (SDLCs), AGILE and coordinating project teams.
• Highly knowledgeable in wide variety of development tools and languages.
• Expertise in analysis, testing, debugging and requirements gathering.
• Familiar PCI Compliance, retail systems with credit card processing, and manufacturing industries.
• Consistently deliver excellent documentation, communication, and mentoring skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Software Development: System Design & Planning, Technology Integration

Project Methodologies: Project Management (PMP), SDLC, AGILE/SCRUM (CSM), Database Design Structures, Critical Thinking

Web/Internet Technologies/ Trends: Java, HTML, COLDFUSION MS OFFICE XP Suite, MS Project, MS Project Server, SharePoint, Clarity, Plan-View, PPM Optics

Databases and Technologies: Ajax, SQL Server, ACCESS, MySQL, PARADOX, Inter-Base, Alpha 5, Documentum D2

Operating Systems/Services: Windows XP, W7. W8, MS-DOS

Programming Languages: Ajax, PL/SQL, VB6, .Net, Confidential 5/7, COBOL

Other Knowledgeable Areas: Business Requirements & Financial Analysis, Team development and mentoring, Technical and financial project reviews, risk analysis, and product analysis, Staff Training and Mentoring, Quality Assurance, Customer Relationship Building/Maintenance, Tax and Accounting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

PMO Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed management guidelines, templates, and development processes for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliance.
• Review and analyzed customer business strategies and their implementation needs.
• Managed the creation of the Disaster Recovery Plan for business continuation.
• Partnered with department directors for key process improvement.
• Mentored project managers in project initiation, planning execution and closure.
• Implemented software development change control process.
• Created and maintained project process templates.
• Maintain SDLC project methodology.
• Established work assignments, and monitored work performance.
• Directed the development of a process methodology to complement the enterprise culture.
• Partnered with directors establishing governance structure and road map that supports all areas of the business.
• Performed the role of Project Manager for high priority enterprise projects.
• Reviewed project documentation for completeness and accuracy.
• Prepared and managed departmental budgets and staff resources.

Confidential

Sr. Project Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multi project teams, 15 developers & contractors using development technologies of .NET, XML, SQL VB6, ColdFusion, IIS, ADO, ASP and Oracle Forms.
• Managed team’s promotions, performance and salary adjustments.
• Managed multiple projects, budget controls and project templates.
• Ensured project expectations regarding project scope, schedule and cost were met,
• Maintained a realistic comprehensive project plans and schedule from multiple teams.
• Provided daily direction for POS design, application development and implementation teams.
• Served as a key point of contact for project issue, risk, and change management processes.
• Managed and distributed a weekly executive report of accomplishments, milestones/deliverables, and forecasted activities.
• Tracked actual versus estimated project resources and associated costs.
• Directed project documents, objectives, requirements, scope activities.
• Coordinated and facilitated separate weekly program and sponsor focused status meetings.
• Established criteria lead selection process for selecting one software system out of 30 vendor packages.
• Retail Project responsible for development and Implementation for:
• Development of a $5.5M Tomax/Oracle ERP POS solution for 375 plus retail stores,
• Sizing the POS server environment,
• POS change Management Process and Configuration Testing Management,
• Oracle integrated POS Lead Management system,
• Corporate wide Universal Finance/Payment processing system,
• Web-based integration to Oracle purchasing & inventory system,
• Retail System - migrating legacy based VB4 store system to a VB6 & .Net based store system environment,
• Software Designed in 3 tiers, front-end, middle and back-end,
• Improved stores POS efficiencies by:
• Secure credit card & gift card processing,
• Real time order submission,
• Providing multiple web portals for fast order lookup, previous day sales, sales reporting, store communication status, competitive information, time recording and corporate to store messaging system,
• Creating status notification,
• Creating extensive error-logging and polling dash boards,
• Automatic software updating,
• Proactive store closing process.
• Stabilized store order polling software efficiencies by:
• Condensing number of software programs,
• Increasing server capacity,
• Replaced 3rd party communication software with integrated VPN technology solution,
• Improved Retail Help Desk operations by:
• Providing daily staff direction and guidance,
• Developed store hardware staging processes,
• Streamlining POS Help Desk functions into corporate Help Desk.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Technical Director/Owner

Responsibilities:

• Directed the technological design, development and implementation strategies for the business tax and medical inventory bar code application software development.
• Directed and implemented take-to-market product strategy plan, product promotion, marketing support, product pricing, customer liaison, new account and industry penetration strategy.
• Formulated pre-sales presentations for major accounts and consulted with customers on application technology direction.
• Directed technical staff, developed program specifications, wrote code, conducted walk thru reviews, prepared test data and carried-out system testing before product release.
• Developed Income Tax and Inventory systems using Confidential (object oriented) and VB programming technologies.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Development Manager/Owner

Responsibilities:

• Developed optical document storage and data base retrieval systems in a start-up organization.
• Responsible for the design and development of vertical market business applications.
• Responsible for working guidance of database development projects using several database software products.
• Provided work direction for senior application designers and programmers.
• Raster to vector scanning services provided to City and State agencies, corporate businesses, engineering department with backlog of blueprints.
• Blueprints were scanned and digitized for modification with CAD/CAM software.