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Florham Park, NJ

SUMMARY:

  • Diligent project manager offering a proven record of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects; and business finance experience.
  • Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.
  • Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
  • Tasked with the closing of a 3,500-plus server in Silver springs data center and re-platforming and migration of all applications from Wintel, Solaris to AIX 790 platforms.
  • Responsible for working with the SAS, app managers, during, design, capacity planning, budgeting with respective teams in the different disciplines to guide them in preparing financial documentation and assist, getting the respective teams to provide their re-engineering documents and justifications as well as work with the cross department heads to schedule the migration time-lines for the applications and servers.
  • Built a cohesive solution for the storage SAN, VIO and hard LPAR AIX frame designs to ensure adequate memory, CPU, and SAN to support the initial migration.
  • Coordinated with the users to meet the migration dates then tracks the decommissioning of the legacy equipment.
  • Built and maintained MS Project plans, present to upper management update reports on the deliverable and mile stone dates.
  • Produce power point presentations and excel scorecard for C-level management on project impact
  • Meet with SME and management on weekly basis to provide project updates, and risk
  • Managed budget approvals and upgrade of Legacy equipment and storage to the new NAS and AIX 795 environments.
  • Senior project manager with a strong record of successfully managing infrastructure, network, data-center.
  • Lead the full build out of data centers, including electrical and mechanical.
  • Successfully managed global information technology Infrastructure budgets/forecasts for large technology implementations as well as direct interface with multiple stake holders including C-level managers to present budgets, design plans in fast-growth and Fortune 500 companies.
  • Managed, developed and implemented all aspects of Data systems for American Express Shearson Lehman in North America: Including IVR, VRU with seem-less integration to the IBM 3090 as well as engineered, and implemented the first distributed fiber network in New York.
  • Managed the career development and performance for a staff of as many as 50 technology professionals and departmental budgets of $20M at American Express.
  • Designed and developed global information technology Infrastructure business-critical, fault-tolerant infrastructures and enterprise network systems for leading companies such as American Express, Lehman Brothers, IBM, Barnes & Noble, and TIAA-CREF.
  • Negotiated aggressive Global Telecommunication contracts, which included service level agreements and discount pricing, help in reducing cost by 15%.
  • Conceptualized and created strategic plans, including cost analysis for worldwide deployment of VOIP technologies, resulting in a 20% reduction in cost around the world.
  • Implemented and restructured technology manpower plan aligning current technology manpower with mission critical priorities and business needs.
  • Identify risk and controls that could mitigate risk, decision for what controls are needed with the business manager. The team's conclusions as to what risks exists and what controls needed are documented along with a related action plan for control implementation.
  • Create and manage overall project plans based upon identified time-lines, scope and resources
  • Create executive dashboard reports for governance meetings
  • Coordinate with relevant internal teams for project scope, Identifying requirements and providing appropriate resources
  • Work hand in hand with other support teams along with the vertical team and customer stake holders
  • Create weekly status reports and trackers for general consumption
  • Track project financials and costs including management and reporting.
  • Track project resources management and reporting
  • Vendor and third party management and reporting
  • Clearly identify gaps in project delivery - time, cost, resource, deliverable, etc. and escalate as appropriate.
  • Develop action plans (go to green) for metrics deviations from the scope of work or current project plan.
  • Guide and manage project team with focus on project plan adherence and quality delivery.
  • Managed all aspects of Voice, and telecommunication services including OC3,DS3,VPN, MPLS and T1, fractional T”s
  • Managed risk to all project listed below by following these steps
  • Information Gathering Techniques
  • Brainstorming
  • Interviewing
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • SWOT, Analysis (STRENGTH, Weakness, Opportunities And Threats)
  • Checklist Analysis
  • Assumption Analysis
  • Outputs to Identify Risks finally produce the Risk Register

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Florham Park NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Project manager role in Dallas Datacenter migration preparation of the Atos Dallas Datacenter closure, and migration activities to East Windsor and Sandy Utah,
  • Including, system hardware re-platform and applications testing For Financial services & Security (FS&S) Line of business, Client Financial services (CFS) Line of business, including Main-Frame migrations, and Educational Service (Ed Services) Line of business.
  • Responsible for working with application managers, design, capacity planning, and Data Base, and Network Engineers to assist with recommendations. . providing their re-engineering documents and justifications as well as work with the vendors, in all areas of Information technology disciplines while assisting PMO groups to schedule the migration time-lines for the applications and/or servers time lines.
  • Assist in managing builds of a cohesive groups which included SAN, VIO, and hard LPAR AIX designs.
  • Assist in managing analysis of adequate resources of OS, memory, CPU, and storage to ensure successful migrations.
  • Coordinate with end-users communicate migration dates, tracks risk and follow-up of post migration activities.
  • Built and maintained MS Project plans for the project, provide project updates and present to upper management with focus on deliverable, Risk and mile stone dates.
  • Assist in managing the discovery of application, database, Main-frame, hardware and network environments.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Project Manage all worldwide application changes on HVDs and thin clients
  • Reduce risk and enable application transformation across the enterprise.
  • Mange planning, tracking, and delivering successful changes by providing timely management reporting to upper management
  • Ensure resource planning and tracking all changes through completion to assure smooth and non-conflicting application changes proactively.
  • Mange impact analysis, provide visibility into application, services, assets, and people affected by a change, while provide communications and hosting management meeting to answer any and all questions Line of business may have including “C” level management.
  • Manage multi-stage approvals ensuring required management and resources approvals are obtained before any changes are implemented.
  • Provide project calendar e nabling teams to collaborate on change activities and planning
  • Policy enforcement Improve to assure change consistency, best practices and compliance with industry-specific regulations.
  • Initiate changes, with CMDB, and Remedy ITSM cloud management, monitoring, and event management solutions for end-to-end IT operations management and development.
  • Performance insight utilizing custom dashboards and process-specific reports to assure change management processes, control, and optimization.
  • Set up meetings with line of business to explain the impact of UAT. DEV, and or PROD application changes to their line of business negotiate best time of outage, understand, while providing project plan that accounts for all activities, and discuss if re-routing traffic would be needed to assure a successful migration
  • Plan and Coordinate rack and stack of new of servers and application in addition to decommissioning equipment in local data center datacenter as well as planning all resource and team activities.

Confidential

Senior Project manager

Responsibilities:

  • Provide Proof of concept project with Silver-Peak and River bed Wide Area Network optimization to include all 200 Plus Africa locations for IRC
  • Assist in ISP and vendor consolidation worldwide to one provider per discipline, while realizing a 33% savings and centralized management services.
  • Develop the Scope of work and project plan for Silver peak & Citrix rollout worldwide.
  • Create x-cross impact analysis to assure downstream devices have all been accounted
  • Determine Feasibility study, to develop budget for Project
  • Track Financial service related to project
  • Manage vendors and develop Service level agreement.
  • Managed all Change management requirements Tasked with identifying and replacing all African site end of life, firewalls, Servers, Routers, and Switches
  • Tasked with identifying and partnering with in country providers to assure maximum performance for Africa sites

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Project manage analysis and determine if Print & File Servers in all North America branches could meet Latency threshold of 10 milliseconds, allowing us to long-line service back to Local data-center or refresh office with new file and print server, encompassed over 200 offices
  • Develop the Scope of work (SOW )
  • Create x-cross impact analysis
  • Determine Feasibility study, to develop budget for Project
  • Track Financial service related to project
  • Manage vendors
  • Managed all Change management requirements

Confidential, New York NY

Senior project manager

Responsibilities:

  • Tasked with the replacing corporate wide End of life, firewalls and intrusion detection systems
  • Managed teams and configurations of associated equipment, router, switches, and firewalls
  • Initiated and managed site surveys, which resulted in documentation and flow chart of each environment to prepare NRF, which was approved through change management cabs after review and understanding actual change of production Firewalls and traffic.
  • Worked with data center staff to assure, equipment placement of new or replacement firewalls to assure environment can fully support such as: power, space and HVAC.
  • Complete comprehensive line of business report, extracted from, all source and destination information provide from Firemon and internal systems to provide one comprehensive report that would identify Line of business and application that would be impacted.
  • Set up meetings with line of business to explain the impact of replacing production firewall to their business negotiate bets time of outage, understand and discuss if re-routing traffic would be needed to assure a successful migration
  • Assist in the RFP process of equipment ordering, form placing and tracing equipment and resources
  • If necessary, request new cabling (copper or fiber ) from existing network switches to new firewalls
  • Plan and Coordinate rack and stack of new firewalls as well as all resource and team
  • Identifying and mitigating Risk.

Confidential, Livingston, NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Sized, planned and migrated database and application (Sybase, Oracle) servers in Latin America.
  • Worked with the teams around the globe to ensure security, compliance requirements were met
  • Worked with teams to order and track installation and migrations.
  • Navigated through a global organization with minimal supervision.
  • Worked as a hands-on project manager in project delivery not in PMO process roles.
  • Focused on the full application development life cycle.
  • Proven experience in dealing with and presenting to Director/VP level sponsors.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Tasked with the closing of a 3,500-plus server data center and the re-plat forming and migration of the applications from Wintel, Solaris to an AIX platform.
  • Responsible for working with the SAS, app managers, design and capacity planning, budgeting and other persons in the different departments to guide them in preparing financial documentation and assist with getting the groups to provide their re-engineering
  • Documents and justifications as well as work with the groups to schedule the migration time-lines for the applications and/or servers.
  • Built a cohesive group for the storage SAN, VIO and hard LPAR AIX frame designs to ensure adequate memory, CPU, and SAN to support the initial migration.
  • Coordinated with the users to meet the migration dates then tracks the decommissioning of the legacy equipment.
  • Built and maintained MS Project plans for the project, present to upper management update reports on the deliverable and mile stone dates.
  • Managed budget approvals and upgrade of Legacy equipment and storage to the new NAS and AIX 795 environments.
  • Sized, planned and migrated database and application (Sybase, Oracle) servers in Latin America.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Assigned to customer projects responsible to design and build co-location sites and move active data centers for several insurance and brokerage houses in Connecticut for Align customers.

Confidential

Vice President

Responsibilities:

  • Provided executive leadership as Head of Technology, responsible for all aspects of strategic technology planning implementation and support as integral component of business plan in developing strategic plan to implement and support voice over internet protocol, internet protocol television, internet protocol servicing commercial client and residential clients.
  • Responsible for development and design of LIDARC.
  • Managed and implemented new co-location/datacenter in Long Island developing all aspect of a Tier 3 Data center, I.E.: System ground noise cause and effects issue, supporting NCPI, power factor, backup surge factor, provide power consumption forecast and cost per square foot.
  • Developed strategy for redundant power feeds including incorporating switching gear and negotiating better primary feed and reduced KVM per unit cost from utilities.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Managed end-to-end project life cycle responsibility, include requirements analysis through design, development and deployment.
  • Met with key decision makers from each business unit to understand business process flows and developed comprehensive project plans addressing their needs and requests.
  • Initiated a comprehensive process improvement study of current distributed technology delivery process and lack of resources, which resulted in the development of a strategic direction in the technology service area.

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