SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with 10+ years experience managing, building and supporting enterprise solutions.
• Accomplished and proven to deliver applications and projects across the full SDLC while managing the technical, business and resource complexity that can arise throughout the process. Multiple years of client and executive facing positions and roles have given the opportunity to develop the soft skills necessary to successfully close communication gaps between business and IT, and effectively mange expectations with the sponsors and those involved with IT efforts.
• Ten - plus years of experience delivering software using structured SDLC methodologies.
• Responsible for overseeing and directing all phases of the project life cycle: planning, requirements, analysis, design, build, test, training and rollout of application software and enterprise level databases over a cross-platform environment.
• Strong OOA and OOD skills to translate business requirements to technical designs.
• Experienced leading QA phases and teams.
• UML Modeling knowledge and experience.
• Experience in proposing architecture solutions and provide reasoning behind decisions
• Excellent knowledge in standard J2EE and GOF design patterns.
• Knowledge and experience of JSE and J2EE technologies and integration patterns and technologies.
• Experienced working with cross-functional teams to ensure that the solution is aligned with the business goals.
• Cultivate an environment for teamwork, open communication and required ownership.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing and explaining technical and project related information to multiple audiences.
• Highly collaborative leadership style.
• Ability to prioritize, be flexible and respond to changing environments.
• Ability to communicate and cooperate with multiple business units and IT teams throughout the enterprise.
• Organized and managed internal On-Shore and external Off-Shore resources and teams.
• Lead enterprise level IT projects with budgets exceeding $1 million.
• Able to communicate technical concepts to non-technical personnel effectively.
• Motivate and provide leadership and vision to subordinates ensuring each employee is performing to the best of their ability.
• Provide a structure and environment that promotes career growth and learning to direct reports.
• Interviews, selects and trains new personnel, and if necessary creates action plans and disciplines as required.
• Project Management experience in a large Fortune 500 enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex or multiple projects involving cross-departmental teams.
• Ensure that projects are completed on scope, schedule, budget and quality.
• Support and improve the development of project management practices and processes.
• Lead highly complex IT projects from inception through implementation.
• Work Breakdown Schedules, Scope Management (Change Management/Control Process), Estimating, Team Roles / Responsibilities / Resource Assignments / Project Schedule; Risk Management and Mitigation, Communication Plan.
• Ensure all key stakeholders understand project milestones, risks and issues, to set accurate expectations.
• Drives risk/issue resolution, and appropriate escalations.
• Ability to build and manage relationships across business and technology teams, client organizations, and other stakeholders throughout the project cycle.
• Embrace change and open to new ideas and process improvements.

TECHNOLOGY / DEVELOPMENT:

Applications: Stand alone, n-tier, e-business, and file back-end processing

Java: JSE, J2EE, Servlets, JSP’s, JDBC, EJB3, JNDI, Collections API, Multi Threading, Java Script, JSON, JMS

Databases: Db2, Oracle, SQL Server, Hypersonic

Design: OOA, OOD, UML, GOF Design Patterns

Integration: MQ, Web Services (Rest, SOAP), ESB

Tools: Eclipse, Visual Studio, Viso, Microsoft Project, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, Code Generation Tools

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile, Extreme Programming, SOA, SAAS

Servers: WebShere, JBoss, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache

OS: Linux, Solaris Unix, x86

Other: CVS, TFS, Subversion, Source Safe, TIBCO Portal, Clearcase, Quality Center, Load Runner, SharePoint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Managed direct and dotted-line reports
• Managed On-Shore and Off-Shore teams
• Created and installed processes to better manage the work and the team
• Managed a complete company Product from an IT perspective
• Responsible for all technical delivery and management
• Responsible for all work and resource assignments
• BA’s, Developers, DBA’s, QA Analysts, Vendors
• Involved with technical and data design decisions
• Presented and led status meetings with the CFO and CIO, among other Executives
• Managed work intake to control timelines and quality
• Ensured Regulatory deadlines were met
• Managed multiple projects across multiple teams under the ‘Program” umbrella
• Pharmacy, Billing, State Reporting, Out of Network transactions, MS&E
• Responsible for leading, managing and delivering in a weak-matrix environment (challenging)
• Responsible for all project plans across all teams and domains
• Involved with technical and data issues and decisions
• Responsible for accumulating, analyzing, and incorporating all statuses across the Portfolio
• Responsible for leading IT status meetings, and presenting weekly status reports to the CIO

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Independently lead the On-Site team
• Organized and planned the individual work streams and task details
• Negotiated timelines and status frequency, as required, with the Sponsor
• Coded Java components, unit tested and deployed as required
• Configured and performance tuned JBoss, Tomcat, and Apache servers
• Created custom manuals and documents tailored to the Client’s needs
• JBoss installation documents
• Performance findings and configuration documents

Application Architect

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for translating business requirements into technical designs and models
• Use Cases OOA OOD
• Use Case Models, Domain Models, Sequence Diagrams, State Diagrams, Activity Diagrams
• Requirement Java Component/Method/Field mappings
• Java class, field and method visibility and type definitions
• Responsible for leading Java Development Teams
• Responsible for code reviews and code quality
• Responsible for delivering a Stream/Release of work defined by the PMO/PMO

Java Developer / Lead Developer

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for leading development teams and coding enterprise n-tier applications and systems on the Java Platform.
• As a Java Developer, I was responsible for building code components from Use Cases and Technical Design Models and documents.
• My focus was on ‘business tier’ J2EE objects, API’s, and specifications. I was comfortable working directly with the Confidential BA’s, or directly with the client SME’s.
• Responsible for coding, unit testing and supporting Java components
• Responsible to work independently and research API’s as needed
• Responsible for knowledge transfer sessions with the Client development team(s)
• Responsible for knowledge sharing and training new developers
• Responsible for leading small groups of developers