SUMMARY:

• Program Management Portfolio Management Project Management
• A highly accomplished information technology program/project manager with more than 25 years of experience directing technology initiatives in the financial services industry for some of the largest companies in the world.
• An expert in systems development life cycle using both Agile and Waterfall.
• Extremely proficient at utilizing CA PPM (Clarity) in delivering projects on time and on budget.
• Adept at implementing new processes and procedures that increase profits reduce operational costs and improve customer satisfaction.
• A creative problem solver and team builder with a proven ability to increase productivity.
• An excellent communicator that excels in demanding environments with complex challenges.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• IT Management
• PMO/PMP Leadership
• Collaboration Process Improvement
• Team Building
• Mentoring Budget / ROI / Cost Control System / Database Design
• Scheduling
• Project Planning Regulatory/Compliance Risk Management
• Development Methodologies
• SDLC - Agile-Waterfall Security

TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY:

IBM Mainframe, AIX/RS6000, Unisys, PCs, MISER, BI, SAN, MS Office (Excel, Word, Project, Visio), PlanView, Clarity, RTC, PPM, COBOL, IBM Assembler, ITIL, Six Sigma, Confidential, CMM, MS SQL, PL/I, VB, C++, HTML, XML, Progress, .NET, ASP, OOD, MVC design, RAD, Agile/SCRUM, VMware, VOIP, SAN

PROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE:

Confidential, Strongsville, OH

Senior Consultant/Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring timeline, scope and budget for multiple projects concurrently.
• Deployed three projects and have three additional projects in flight.
• Conduct seven phase gate meetings for each project
• Ensure adherence to the SLDC utilizing Clarity approvals of required project artifacts.
• Create weekly project status reports for management.
• Generate/update Work Breakdown Structures and Cost Plans.
• Conduct weekly status meetings with stakeholders and technology staff.
• Conduct daily standup meetings with the project team, removing blockers as needed.
• Utilize an AGILE/Waterfall methodology in project management.
• Maintain Risks/Issues log, determine appropriate solutions and mitigation strategies

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Project Manager / Project Estimator

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring timeline, scope and budget for the an enterprise program
• Direct and mentor junior PMs in the achievement of project goals
• Generate weekly project status for senior management
• Ensure adherence to the SLDC and the timely creation of project artifacts
• Collaborate with business partners to review and adjust priorities
• Utilized an AGILE/Waterfall methodology in software development & testing
• Evaluate Risks/Issues and determine appropriate solutions and mitigation strategies
• Performed compliance testing for high risk processes and procedures

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Monitored budget, resources, constraints and schedule for multiple projects/project managers
• Utilized the Clarity (PPM) system in time reporting, staff allocation and budgeting
• Ensured the creation of project artifacts.
• Ensured timely engagement of groups outside of the project team.
• Managed Risks, Action Items, Issues and Decisions.
• Updated a Program Matrix providing a snapshot of all projects and status

Confidential, New York, New York

Program Manager/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Managed the full SDLC for a deployment to correct data elements in HRDW that were adversely affecting Business Objects compensation reporting.
• Managed the full SDLC for an effort to add historical rows to HRDW for missing base salaries.
• Managing the full SDLC for a deployment to add historical rows to HRDW for missing base salaries
• Utilized HP’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM) system in staff allocation and budgeting
• Utilized SharePoint to facilitate document sharing with the core project team.
• Held weekly meetings with project stakeholders to review project status.
• Provided weekly RAG reporting to senior management using PowerPoint and Excel.
• Conducted a daily standup meeting with the core project team providing current project status.

Confidential, Hoboken, New Jersey

Program Manager/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Managing a firm wide rollout to 250+ users of a Oracle’s Enterprise Content Management solution
• Managing a project for compliance with the IRS regulation FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act)
• Managed an assessment for the migration of two VB 6.0 legacy applications to .Net technology
• Managed a project to create a new and revitalized Portal with new interfaces and new architecture using Oracle’s WebCenter Portal & Spaces solution.
• Managed a project to migrate all Confidential externally facing websites to Adobe CQ, a Web Content & Experience Management system.
• Managed the full SDLC for a pilot rollout of a Oracle’s Enterprise Content Management solution

Confidential, New York, New York

Program Manager/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Held weekly meetings with PMs to review project status; ensuring that the PMO SharePoint site, MS project plans and HP’s Project Portfolio Management (PPM) application are current
• Provided program/project reporting to senior management using PowerPoint and Excel Pivot tables/charts. Document process flow using Visio.
• Coordinated the transition from direct access of web services to the utilization of Kerberos and LDAP groups for a two phased security project involving the entire organization
• Performed weekly log analysis; identify those staff member not accessing web services via an acceptable mechanism; consolidate data across multiple spreadsheets using the Excel vlookup function
• Conducted status meetings with technical staff and perform updates to the PMO SharePoint site, project plans and HPs Project Portfolio Management(PPM) application
• Created projects, work plans, perform resource allocation, budgeting and time entry in the PPM application

Confidential, East Brunswick, New Jersey

Program Manager/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Performed database and screen design for a .Net Commercial Real Estate auction site
• Conducted regular status meetings and provided daily communication to business line
• Managed the project timeline using Microsoft Project

Confidential, Solon, Ohio

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established a Project Management Office (PMO)
• Created and implemented a formal Project Life Cycle and Software Development Life Cycle
• Created a central repository and established the use of standard templates for project artifacts
• Implemented project status reporting for schedule, budget and scope
• Delivered 5 software upgrades to the Banks core processing system providing processing efficiencies and regulatory compliance.
• Managed the rollout of an MPLS network solution; negotiated a yearly reduction in infrastructure expenses of $54,000.
• Implemented a process for data masking thus protecting client PII
• Ensured the creation of QA and UAT test plans for major releases and that thorough testing was performed by the SMEs / business line prior to release implementation

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Program Manager/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed multiple projects concurrently, budgets ranged from $500,000 to $3 million.
• Administered all phases of the SDLC using Confidential ( Confidential ) and coordinated activities across geographically diverse team members.
• As a senior member of the PMO provided support and assistance to other project managers.

Confidential, Camden, New Jersey

Senior Project Manager/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated all phases of project life cycle.
• Managed status review meetings to strategically coordinate project teams.