CAREER SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a certified IT Project Manager (PMP) with 15+ years in IT and 5 years of direct Project Management including planning and executing software development projects for the Telecom industry.
• With extensive engagement of offshore teams and onshore vendors, Confidential has consistently delivered large and medium projects on time and on budget.
• Confidential holds an eclectic and diverse al and work experience with a primary focus of being highly participatory and a positive influence in professional and community networks.
• Over 5 years of Managing medium to large IT Projects and is PMP Certified.
• Enhancing organizational efficiencies and operations using technical and interpersonal skills.
• Applying best practice Project Management Institute (PMI) standards and methodologies to projects.
• Well - developed communication skills demonstrated through extensive leadership and project management experience.
• Experience with industry standard PM applications including MS Project, MS Office Suite, Sharepoint and Visio.
• Successful development, maintenance, and management of project schedules and project teams.
• For multiple projects, managed the entire Software Development Life Cycle.
• Full involvement in project lifecycle from business requirement documentation, defining scope, development and management of project plan, stakeholder sign off and funding agreements, procurement of staff, engagement of architects, key developers and technical writers to hold JAD sessions and produce requirement documents, development of work break down with team leads and functional managers, risk planning, release planning, worked with established change control board for scope changes, hardware and network planning, engaging testing teams to document and create DIT/SIT/UAT test plans and scenarios, creation of dashboards and regular status reporting to key stakeholders and executives, documentation of lessons learned, and finalizing financials with offshore cost centers and onshore SOW and T&M vendors at project close.
• Experience in building portal applications in an Application/Webserver/DB configuration.
• Lead application based security reviews that included policy conformance, port and application scanning, architecture diagramming, principle of least privilege definitions and documentation.
• Leveraged and expanded multiple off-shore Global Development Centers (GDC) teams, to deliver software development and testing within scope and budget for every project.
• Well versed in human resource procurement. Solicited competitive bids from approved vendors, reviewed responses to RFPs, developed scorecards for rating RFPs, wrote SOWs to engage selected vendors, worked with finance and legal teams to implement SOWs, tracked SOW deliverables when needed, monitored and ensured vendors were meeting contractual requirements.

SKILL:

• PMBOK, PMP Project Scheduling and Estimating Visio
• Waterfall Methodology MS Project/Excel/PPT & Sharepoint Environments: Windows, Unix
• Process CMMi/SDLC SOW writing and engagement Programming: PERL 5.0, PHP, HTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• With multiple mergers, and various voice, data, and video offerings Confidential needed a single interface (layer) to all provisioning systems.
• New application interfaces with multiple existing provisioning, surveillance, and networking elements to improve installation and service update times, reduce fall-outs, and create more stable connection to Telecordia mainframe systems.
• Project also required massive data migration from an internal database to an externally managed database.
• Responsible for all levels of project management from staffing, financials, release management, build deployment scheduling, environment set up, DIT/SIT/UAT testing, and acting as a single point of contact between Executives and external vendors.
• Implemented new PMO standards for offshore teams. Identified and trained offshore Project coordinator resources to realize true 24 hour development and testing.
• Managed acquisition, configuration and installation of a new technology format that allowed for rapidly expanding hardware when needed.
• Confidential will begin implementing the new technology for mission critical application with variable loads,

Confidential

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Acted as single point of contact for Executives and Top Management while leading architecture, setting program objectives, managing development and implimentation efforts for SIP (Session Initatited Protocal) product for both Consumer and Business customers.
• Alligned needs of internal clients, corporate priorities, and exsisting and proposed infrastructure to bring product to market.
• Was presented with a challenge of having limited access to a critical interfacing environment.
• Developed traceability matrix to ensure all requirements were developed and test cases were prioritized to ensure critical components were properly tested against all environments.
• Client was atypical from an IT perspective and was accustomed to a different methodology for project tracking .
• Inserted milestones that corresponded to Stage Gates and ensured clients received proper inputs so their method could be adhered to.

IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• IT Project/Program Manager of a large software development team for a central application in the Confidential FiOS Network located in two locations in India and one location in the United States (Tampa).
• Responsible for delivering 5 releases of software per year with multiple projects that typically includeed 80,000 man hours worth of development testing and related maintanence updates and fixes per release.
• Project Planning, Risk Assesment and Risk Management, Resource Allocation, negotiations with internal sourcing (staffing) and budget allocations for both capital and expense capital required for successful delivery of software releases.
• Served as interface and primary point of contact between internal clients and external vendors with an emphasis on contract negotiations.
• Was rapidly transitioned to Project Manager from Project Coordinator position.
• Created risk assessment system to communicate to portal users potential impact of new releases.
• Brought application into conformance of an existing Change Control Board.

Confidential

IT Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Program Managers and Project Manager for large software development team inside Confidential .
• Responsibilities included project plan tracking and reporting, self directed budget audits, developing work break down structures used by software development team.
• Established work assessment strategies used for strategic planning and resource planning.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered near-site development center data network for a telecom consulting firm.
• Planned and implemented a 65 user network that contained two webservers, one file server, secured intranet-internet gateway in a Unix and Windows environment.
• Established and supported VPN tunnel from near-site to client-site.
• Supported over 200 software developers software and hardware needs.
• Maintained inventory of network related company assets.

Confidential

Help Desk Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a 20 person help desk that provided technical support for various clients.