PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 12 years+ as a PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) developing and implementing complex project plans in highly collaborative environments across various industries such as Pharmaceutical, Biomedical, Telecommunications, Retail Marketing, Banking/Financial Services, and the Public Sector.
• 17 years prior hands - on experience in IT Infrastructure and Software Development.
• Strong cross-functional team facilitator and an effective communicator.
• Strong servant leader with instinctive leadership ability to empower and mobilize teams by positioning them for success by removing impediments and articulating the projects vision and organizational value.
• Highly effective in achieving project deliverables through project scoping, scheduling and estimating requirements/user stories and monitoring project financials on a weekly basis for cost and schedule variances.
• Deep knowledge of the SDLC related to requirements and design, implementation, end-to-end testing, deployment and operational transition planning, Go-Live readiness and postmortem reviews.
• 2.8 years leading scrum teams and coordinating formal ceremonies as well as facilitated scrum of scrums and worked with product owners on backlog grooming; served as a product owner for 6 months for a large-scale agile backlog that led to implementing scaled agile.
• Strong Customer focus when driving results and creating project visibility through KPI dashboarding.
• 20 years+ working in regulated environments such as GxP and CFR 21 Part 11.
• Experienced working with cloud vendors such as AWS and MS Azure.
• Adept in leading off-shore blended teams across multiple time-zones.
• 5 years customer facing experience implementing solutions such as COTS projects, new software implementations and upgrades.
• Have managed cross-functional teams up to 45 members and budgets up to $6M.

IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS:

Proficiency with: OpenAir driven by Oracle NetSuite, Salesforce Contract Management, Workday for HR and Financials, Atlassian Jira (3 years), Trello, CA Clarity with Crystal Reports, Remedy, ServiceNow, Microsoft Project, Smartsheets, Office 365 cloud product suite with MS SharePoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Lake Mary, Fl

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for twenty-one public sector ERP projects across four time-zones implementing and upgrading large-scale Financial, HR, Payroll, Cognos Reporting, and Community Development systems within a hosted cloud environment.
• Developed and managed project charters, schedules, budgets/contracts, project management plans, risks and issue logs, project team rosters, and weekly status reporting.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed multiple in-flight projects to completion.
• Projects consisted of various COTS implementations, a multi-environment Oracle database upgrade, and infrastructure projects such as successfully managing (9) back to back Network infrastructure upgrades across multiple data centers within four-months.
• Established process efficiencies such as project and operational KPI reporting, SOP’s, DevOps functional workflows while leveraging Kanban with cumulative workflow management.
• Developed an IT Infrastructure, server, database, and desktop patch management policy to institute quarterly maintenance and application releases.
• Successfully managed a vendor IT managed services transition of a service desk and desktop support from the incumbent vendor to the new managed services provider.
• Developed the master plan and prioritized projects based on a resource capacity and skills assessment.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the successful delivery of IT cloud project initiatives with cross-functional collaboration with the internal application and external vendor teams.
• Lead project manager for the Confidential Data Center transition to the cloud.
• Successfully managed an Confidential initiative to migrate ADFS, DNS, SSO to the Microsoft Azure cloud for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Developed the requirements and planned the $2.7M Confidential budget to establish a secondary data center (DRaaS) for IT Disaster Recovery.
• Successfully delivered an IT EMC storage platform transformation of the Red Cross biomedical blood collection, manufacturing, testing, and distribution ecosystem.
• Developed and managed project scope, schedules, budgets, reporting, resource utilization, risk and change management.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Tampa, Fl

Responsibilities:

• Successfully spearheaded an IT merger integration of Confidential and Confidential Inc.
• Worked with building facilities management, architects, engineers, IT cabling vendors, building and IT security, audio visual, furniture vendors on the estimation, scheduling, and implementation.
• Developed and managed the Master schedule and assisted in developing their IT and Physical Building Security policy.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Successfully fast-tracked and implemented a repeatable process or migration runbook in addition to establishing a tool-gate review process to ensure adherence to runbook development standards and ensure the successful delivery of multiple data center migrations.
• The project consisted of a four data center consolidation including 400+ business applications and 4000+ servers.

Confidential, Saint Petersburg, Florida

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead Scrum Master for the Catalina Agile PMO transformation in coordinating all scrum ceremonies.
• Developed and managed project charters, schedules, sprints, project management plans, risks, issues, changes and provided weekly status reporting.
• Orchestrated the planning, governance, and resource provisioning for a multi-year project involving master data management, data governance, a data center relocation, and multiple business intelligence development initiatives.
• Led the Catalina technology divestiture of its Healthcare digital marketing division to a leading Healthcare provider that included standing up a new data center and carve out of code and data that included refactoring of the HR and Financial systems and data mappings to fit into the acquiring firm's application architecture.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Tampa, Fl

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with facility engineers across 50+ North American manufacturing locations for managing network and server upgrades, and facility expansions with new structural cabling, wireless networks, and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• CA Clarity for project portfolio management to include project scheduling, resource and timesheet management, risk, issues, and change management as well as weekly status reporting.

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Delivered upon objectives for an Enterprise Software Asset Management Audit Project which aligned software assets within the new corporate configuration management system that achieved a reclamation/savings of $1M in the first year based on true up and down period.