SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated, detail - oriented IT Project Management Professional, Graduate in Information Systems Management, IT Management Certified Professional, PMI PMP, Scrum Master, KANBAN board and a CSSGB, with a strong attention to detail.
• Experienced in Client Management, Customer Management, Software development, Infrastructure design and deployment in house and internationally with a keen focus on IT Governance at the enterprise level.
• Utilizing tools and processes such as Rally, JIRA, MS Office, Visio, MS Project, Clarity, WebEx, Skype, Tableau, ITSM, SDLC, Agile, Scrum and various client owned and developed systems.
• Managing budgets of various sizes up to $11,000,000.

CAREER SYNOPSIS:

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Agile maintenance programing development being tracked with Toll Gates and scrum processes.
• Tracked Financials with PMMT, PCM web and spreadsheets for weekly financial reporting, status and IT Governance.
• Monitoring user stories working with the Product Owner (PO), SMEs and stakeholders to be placed into the backlog.

Artech Business Systems Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Agile teams using Jira to track progress of scrum teams creating Hadoop migrations from MS SQL to HDFS, CAR, ISDN, and AVG businesses being converted.
• A dedicated member to make sure stories meet the definition of done.
• Tracked user stories by working with the Product Owner (PO), SMEs and stakeholders to be placed into the backlog.
• Worked with the PO to prioritize user stories in the product backlog.
• Worked with developers to create mockups, breakdown user stories for more detail and collaborating across the scrum teams to ensure each user story met the definition of ready and addressing bugs/defects. keeping the backlog groomed for current and future sprints.
• Adhering to the IT Governance guidelines.

ESP Technology Remediation Execution Liaison

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Created Excel reports and PowerPoint presentations from Infrastructure Liaisons and Project managers to conduct sprint review meetings with individual business units to Stay informed, Understand deliverability, Analyze, Intervene, Escalate, Follow up, and communicate all action items with team members.
• Provide reports to CIO's on a weekly basis with the progress of all of actionable items.
• Adhering to the IT Governance guidelines.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Programs: Infrastructure, and Data Centers
• Upgrade IBM z/OS, MQ, CICS and Managed File Transfer.
• Projects were dispersed across Confidential ’s footprint.
• Worked with IBM, the technology teams and stakeholders to schedule the roll out of the new OSs, software, infrastructure, firewalls, storage, networking, security and endpoint experience to complete in a timely fashion. Adhering to the IT Governance guidelines.

Tools used: MS Project, Clarity, WebEx, Tableau, and MS Office.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Procure and implement SAS foundation analytic software which serves as the cornerstone to an EDA and innovation lab group partnership.
• Provide a robust, high performance, high capacity file system for landing, staging, and temporary retention of Hadoop load files.
• EDA Big Data Production Readiness/Platform Stabilization (data center migration)
• Provide a platform that can support production applications and facilitate successful project implementations including data lake capabilities.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• gathering requirements, information security, and identity and access management) is the bank’s primary repository of customer privacy ps as they relate to participation in marketing activities. The Authorized Data Source (ADS) is the validation of adherence with the Enterprise Policies and Standards, and evidence that critical key business elements have been taken through quality checks during the transformation of the ADS.
• Using Visio documented the process flow for the migration of applications from Physical to virtual for Remedy workflow processes including Change Management.
• The goal was to retire 2,000 servers and 4 data centers for 5 years (data center moves).
• Third, managed the design of Five DMZ environments for the Enterprise and Five environments for Global Wealth Information Management for Application Hosting with the Oracle Database machine Exadata and VMware Application Migrations to VMware AKA the Cloud with full financial responsibility including Change Management, infrastructure, firewalls, storage, networking, security and endpoint experience. .

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing Migrations, Cloud migrations, AML, and AWS. Adhering to the IT Governance guidelines for Applications, servers including Windows 2003 Server migration, infrastructure, firewalls, storage, networking, security and endpoint experience. 2014 budget four million dollars (worked with the goal was to migrate 400 servers with operating systems at the end of life and hardware over four years old, including Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX and Oracle migrations to Virtual Machines on Exadata for Application Migrations to VMware AKA The Cloud, including Change Management, Meta data, data lineage, process mapping, gathering requirements, information security, and identity and access management.
• We successfully replaced 522 of 2,900 servers far exceeding our expected goals.
• Server refresh (Applications, servers including Windows 2003 servers, infrastructure, firewalls, storage, networking, security and endpoint experience.) 2015 budget of $11,000,000 , our goal was 500 servers (Solaris, AIX, Linux, and Windows) this year we will exceed our expectations based on first quarter performance.
• I expect this year we will exceed our expectations by 200 servers to VMs on Exadata for Application Migrations to VMware AKA the Cloud. My experience with Change Management, Project Management, Engineering, Customer Service, Development,, and Product Deployment have given me the vision needed to successfully complete IT Projects.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Using AtTask to manage and improve the documented process of the work flow of infrastructure including firewalls, storage, networking, security and endpoint experience.
• Built projects working with cross-functional project team members on numerous assigned projects; developed and managed project plans that encompass the complete product development life cycle (i.e. product requirements, infrastructure requirements, software development, quality assurance including Change Management, data remediation, deployment etc.).
• Determined detailed approach and timeline of projects, defined roles and expectations of team members and ensure timely feedback.
• Resolved issues affecting project scope, quality, effort, risk, and timeline.
• Created and managed contingency plans for the projects, managed multiple projects simultaneously; prioritized and monitored engineering and operations tasks and resources across projects. Technologies included virtual and physical client/server architecture, network architectures, web-based development ( websphere and weblogic), database architectures (SQL, Oracle) ISP architectures including e-mail, LDAP, provisioning and identity and access management.
• Datacenter builds and moves, server Deployment with all the needed infrastructure and Sunsetting of Applications and supporting Infrastructure for Server and Application Migrations to VMware VMs on Exadata for Server and Application Migrations to VMware AKA The Cloud with full financial responsibility, including Metadata, data lineage, process mapping, gathering requirements, information security, and identity and access management.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the upgrade/conversion of all the Call Center Associates from Windows XP desktops and laptops to Windows 7, including the entire infrastructure, firewalls, storage, networking, security and endpoint experience.
• Needed to support thousands of Associates computers, their Identity and Access to multiple customer support applications, including Change Management, Meta data, data lineage , process mapping, gathering requirements, information and security.
• The applications were being developed using the Agile Development Methodology through Design, Unit Test, Integration Test, User Acceptance Testing ( ensuring data quality and remediation of the data), and migration into Production ensuring data quality and system performance provided the Call Center Associates’ customer enquiries were accurate, in a timely manner, while maintaining or improving the User Experience and improving the documented process for Regulatory Data Reporting.
• CashPro (infrastructure, data centers) Online was a legacy LaSalle Bank corporate banking product that The Bank took from a regional to an International presence.
• The core is Magnet Internet Banking Systems ( Confidential ); this product was developed by the vendor, after the initial development, Confidential transferred ownership of the source code to the bank, Confidential acquired LaSalle Bank and began a project to use this product Enterprise wide for businesses whose gross revenue was equal to or greater than $2 MM.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Short Term Contract, Deployment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple projects from inception to completion, creating quality data (data Remediation, including Change Management, Meta data, data lineage, process mapping, gathering requirements, information security, and identity and access management) and content management using Kofax (OCR), Rightfax, FileNet eCommerce content and workflow management with Metadata input fields and search functions for Confidential Capital Markets, Securities, Corp. Trust Services, Investment Banking and Capital Markets .