OBJECTIVE:

Obtain a permanent or long - term contract position where I can maximize my diverse 20+ years of project management and systems engineering expertise and help a company realize ROI on IT investments.

CAREER SUMMARY:

• IT Project Manager with extensive experience in ERP deployment, IT security, network architecture and Windows migration projects executed in the food manufacturing, banking, healthcare, insurance, and defense industries.
• Major project management efforts include infrastructure build-out and upgrade, fiber and cabling installations, ERP Software deployment, Windows XP/Win7/Win10 operating System migrations, impact dynamic software development, supply chain system-oriented architecture (SOA) deployment and systems engineering for multiple defense contracts.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Beef Production Plant Diversification: Managed diversification of $25m beef processing plant.
• Managed / coordinated transition activities between selling and buying companies.
• Beef Procurement: Modified Oracle ERP processes to align with beef procurement changes driven by McDonalds.
• Effort included changes to payment accounting processes, product logistics, and Oracle status reporting.
• Esker Deployment: Deployed Esker (accounting automation software) to automate invoice and accounts payable processes.
• Ingredient Management: Deployed Genesis (foods formulation and labeling software) for US and international users. Deployment increased compliance with USDA and food safety directives.
• Win10/Office 2016 Deployment. Deployed Win10 and Office 2016 to 11k users. Effort included compatibility testing and remote (SCCM) deployment.
• Application / Operating System Patching: Stood up standardized patching program for manufacturing, business, network and operating system software affecting US and international users.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Vulnerability decreases contributed to a successful Authority to Operate accreditation from Center for Confidential.
• Decreased vulnerability risk scores by 75% through elimination of 25 critical network and server vulnerability findings.
• Reduced security analysis labor hours by 50% through automation of network and desktop device configuration and patching data collection processes.
• Decreased critical CMS-identified deficiencies by 45% for the network hardware configuration, inventory, and patching areas for three different companies by modifying the associated management procedures.

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project involved the Win10 compatibility testing and device migration for approximately 45k devices (desktop, laptop, and tablets) of the Community Banking Confidential .
• Key project accomplishments included meeting sponsor deployment readiness date and reducing project delays by focusing on devices with near-term refresh dates.
• Managed Microsoft Office 2016 compatibility testing for hundreds of webservice and associated applications.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Expanded the current network incorporating firewalls, routers, server, and switching devices between two datacenters, three call centers, and a four-hundred-person headquarters site.
• Managed deployment of fiber and cabling solutions for both datacenter and operations facilities. This included the planning, scheduling, budgeting, and monitoring and control. Also, managed multiple vendors in execution of network upgrade. Tasks included vendor selection, contract management, and task coordination.
• Saved over $3m in server and storage hardware by evaluating current configuration and long-term enterprise usage.
• Saved over $1m by conducting multiple vendor evaluations and reducing ambiguity in statements of work.

Confidential, Birmingham AL

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Executed desktop device replacement and operating system refresh projects for a 150 rehabilitation hospital within the $4.3m budget.
• Key management responsibilities included project planning, budget execution and control, personnel hiring, project scheduling, and technical direction.
• Successfully deployed over 12,000 desktop devices to 150 rehab hospitals through both on remote processes and on-site teams.
• Upgraded 7k Windows XP desktop devices with Windows 7 and ensuring zero XP desktops on the network by OS sunset.
• Saved approx. $100k by utilizing both pre-deployment and on-site strategies, such as Confidential and SCCM tools to maximize desktop configuration and pre-deployment backups.

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Project Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully won IDIQ contract with Confidential Materiel Command that included IT support and six sigma process improvement positions by executing proposal planning and development, technical writing, basis of estimates (BOE) / resource loading, proposal packaging and contracts management.
• Orchestrated deployment of initial site network, email server admin, desktop support (hardware and software), and MS SharePoint capability.

Confidential, Huntsville, AL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assimilated 20+ legacy / low-efficiency logistics data systems for 450k data users by utilized PMI, ITIL and Agile methodologies in deployment of System-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions.
• Consolidation of 110+ ERP resources resulting in a single authoritative logistics data depository by modernizing logistics data storage and management.