OBJECTIVES
To obtain a Technical Project Manager position that utilizes my experience in LAN/WAN Software/Hardware project management and engineering.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
A results-driven IT professional with extensive network experience in project management, network management, data networking, managed support and administration of information systems.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• 25 years of professional engineering in information technology products (hardware/software and services).
• 9 years of post graduate studies accomplishing 3 Master Degrees (MS-Computer Science, MS-Project Management and a MBA)
• Certifications: Cisco Certify Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), pursuing PMI certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Project Manager Confidential, 2008 - 5/09
Technical Project ManagerConsultant Confidential, for T-Systems at their Data Center. I was responsible managing several large team projects involving T-Systems network Infrastructure and systems server software for Domestic ( SBC, Ebay, Nasa, Quest, Sprint) and international (France, China, Russian Telecom) customers with project budgets over 1 million for each.
Responsible for technology upgrades, infrastructure integration, and system migration Work areas I was responsible for:

• Identify/document project scope, evaluate/document risks and assumptions, define problems and project requirements (Costs, human resources, Gap analysis, systems analysis).
• Develop project plans, work breakdown structure, RUP, Project Dashboard, estimate and schedule project based on resource availability. Responsible for insuring sign off and agreement that documentation accurately reflects customer-specific timelines and processes. Approval of all submitted deliverables.Responsible for transitioning from implementation to maintenance team.
• Identify/negotiate for skilled associates, manage team members (matrix and sourced models), activities to ensure milestones, deadlines. Provided leadership in setting architectural and software direction, analyze vendor solutions.
• Communicate progress to project stakeholders (clients, executive mgmt., supervisors, team). Setting agendas and issuing meeting minutes.
• Resolve problems, offer solutions, team conflicts, identify potential impacts. Settle disputes with the Service Providers, determine technical alternatives, analyze vendor solutions and negotiate contracts. Provide leadership /motivation to team, developed training and testing.
• Identify and document lessons learned. Quality review. Facilitate project closure process.
• Fluent in MS Project, Sharepoint, Workbench, Visio, MS Office, PMBOK, COBIT, SDLC, CRM practices.

Overview of project technologies I work on:

• Network Hardware - Cisco routers and switches, Firewall, Pix, Checkpoint, Enterprise servers/clients - Dell, HP, Sun, IBM, Storage - EMC SAN, and Cisco Wireless networks,
• Software - Win 2003, 2008 Client/servers, ActiveDirectory (DHCP, Win's, DNS), UNIX, Linux servers, backup software - Veritas, web servers, Enterprise applications

Project Manager Confidential,2005 -2008

Project ManagerConsultant for Confidential, at their Worldnet Data Center. I was part of a PMO team managing and deploying several large infrastructure projects involving AT & T LAN/WAN services and systems server software for fortune 500 customers ( banks Citigroup) , financial services firms ( Merrill Lynch), retailers (Levi Strauss), hotels ( Marriott), government agencies (Army/Navy) for their enterprise data centers and remotes sites. Responsible for technology upgrades, infrastructure integration, system migration, data center moves involving (equipment relocation, cabling, rack configuration, power and cooling requirements). Work areas I was responsible for:

• Conducted customer meeting, provided remote and on-site project management and coordination, managed escalations involving provisioning, acted as central point of contact, directing workloads, coaching engineers and managing performance, billing, propose leading edge AT & T technologies, perform root cause analysis.
• Develop project plans, work breakdown structure, RUP, Project Dashboard, estimate and schedule project based on resource availability. Resolve problems, offer solutions, team conflicts, identify potential impacts. Settle disputes with the Service Providers, determine technical alternatives, analyze vendor solutions and negotiate contracts. Provide leadership /motivation to team, developed training and testing. Monitor subcontractor/vendor performance, and contracts/RFP work.
• Fluent in MS Project server, Sharepoint, Workbench, Visio, MS Office, PMBOK, RUP, SDLC and CRM practices.

Overview of project technologies I work on:

• Network Hardware - Cisco routers and switches, Firewall, Pix, Checkpoint, Enterprise servers/clients - Dell, HP, Sun, IBM, SAN and Wireless networks.
• Software - NT4, Win 98, 2000, XP, 2003 Client/servers, ActiveDirectory (DHCP, Win's, DNS), UNIX/LINUX servers, Storage - SAN,Database-Oracle, backup software (Veritas), , web servers, Java

Project Manager Confidential, 2004 -2005

Project Manager Consultant for NRT Inc at their Data Center with 18 hub locations across the US. I was involved in LAN/WAN infrastructure management of their Cisco network hardware/software. Areas I worked on:
Capacity planning/management, project management/plans, develop, track, present project plans, vendor negotiations, product evaluation, budgets, coordination, risk assessment, tracking tools, and plan execution.

Engineer Manager Confidential, 1997 - 2003

Data Engineer Manager for Confidential, outsourcing project. I was involved with infrastructure migrations at MasterCard Data Center and Branches. I worked on: Capacity planning/management, project management/plans, develop, track, present project plans, vendor negotiations, product evaluation, budgets, coordination, risk assessment, tracking tools, and plan execution.

Software Infrastructure -

• Managed - NT4/Win98/Win2000 Microsoft client/servers and MS-Web servers, enterprise applications
• Managed - Upgrades to Client/Server software, Microsoft applications, SAS, SMS,

Hardware Infrastructure

• Conducted Project rollout - Reengineering of Microsoft server hardware (DHCP, Win's, DNS), SAN's (EMC), backup software (Veritas), Security software (NetIQ)
• Conducted - Technology upgrade/migration - lifecycle hardware Pix and Checkpoint Firewalls versions releases,
• Managed - VPN, IBM SNA, Front ends, Cluster controllers, Concentrators.

Data Engineering Manger Confidential, 1994 - 1997
Network Manager for AT & T's, Merrill Lynch outsourcing project. This work entailed: network management, project rollout, project scheduling, cost analysis, conducting-configurations, provisioning, test, lab and production administration, support, network performance, developing and implementing policies and procedures, and deployment support.

Major projects at the Merrill Lynch Data Center that were planed budgeted, tested, implemented, tracked:

• Conducted - deployment of network upgrades and patches for Cisco router/switches
• Conducted - deployment new Cisco load balancers for network traffic
• Conducted - Deployment of new and upgraded old network devices DCE and router/switch interfaces
• Conducted - testing and hardware/software upgrades to firewalls
• Managed - upgrades Microsoft and Sun servers hardware/software running enterprise applications

Sr. Network Engineer Confidential, 1990 - 1993

Sr. Network Engineer for AT & T's JP Morgan project. This work entailed managing:

• Cisco network device configurations, customer data collection,
• network design , implementation, network security, network performance, dial backup, trouble shooting , network support, training of enterprise network
• The software environment I setup and administered in lab contained:
• Windows NT, and Novell servers, Morgan transaction servers, financial applications/systems.
• The hardware platforms I setup and administered used were: Cisco Catalyst 5500, and routers 1900, 2900, 3600, 4500, 7200, 7500 series.

System Design and Deployment Engineer Confidential, 1987-1990

System Design and Deployment Engineer- Network design, test and deployment of a router network for Remote Utility Maintenance System (RUMS).

• This was a 150 node router network to network all AT & T central office maintenance system.
• Provide addressing schemes, performance information, network design, deployment support, lab tests, presentations and status reports to management

Design & Test Software engineer Confidential, 1984 - 1987

Design & Test Software engineer- Microsoft LAN manger project. Develop and tested network code ported over to run over UNIX from Microsoft for AT & T StarLan network. This entailed: flowchart, state diagram, coding and test scripts. Worked with Microsoft engineers to incorporate features and functions of their product to run under UNIX for AT & T Starlan product.

System Engineer Confidential,1981 - 1984

System Engineer -Custom Network Offering (CNO II)- This project developed custom networks for large customers using AT & T switches as backbones for customer access devices. Developed interoperability and performance plans for LAN\'s and DCE equipment. Conducted lab test on various switches and DCE for requirements.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2005- 2008 Consultant- Confidential
2004 - 2005 Consultant- Confidential
1996- 2003 Employee - Confidential
1981- 1996 Employee - Confidential

EDUCATION

Degree: Master of Business Administration (graduated )
Degree: M.S. Technology Project Management (graduated )
Degree: M.S. in Computer Science (graduated )
Degree: B.S. in Computer Science/Math/Electronics (graduated )