SUMMARY:

Seeking a senior IT project/program management position. Over 10 years technical software development project management experience with SDLC background.

SKILLS PROFILE:

Project Manager skills: Create weekly project reports, manage project resource requests, estimate project contractor costs, track monthly project budget, schedule and facilitate project meetings, interface with IT/ business analysts/management, manage project risks. Project sizes of 7 to 24 people. Manage multiple projects from kick - off through completion with project costs up to $5 million. Managed both virtual and off-shore project teams. Point of contact for external clients. Interviewed project managers and computer programmers for hiring.

PMP: from PMI, working on PDUs for next re-

Scrum Master: Nov 2017 from both Scrum Institute and Scrum Study

PC: Microsoft Project - versions, Microsoft Office Suite, Visual Basic 6.0, Micro-Focus Cobol, Cognos Query Studio

IBM Mainframe: Planview, Clarity, Sharepoint, DB2, SQL, CICS, IMS, Oracle DB, HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

PMO IT Project Manager

Confidential, Pittsford, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed 40+ small mainframe iterative software projects (4 to 8 weeks) of Diploma System Clean Up program using Cobol and VSAM.
• Worked remote 2 of 5 days weekly.
• Coordinated projects between Confidential and Confidential that had a shared student loan system.
• Used MS Project and Clarity for project documents.
• Managed Confidential Student Loan Sale 2015 project that created interface of student loan data to another bank. Confidential was the servicer for the Confidential student loans. This project had 4 companies involved and cross-functional teams.
• Ensured accounting balanced and Confidential payments were properly handled. Project completed successfully on time and budget in October 2015.
• Worked on Otis DSL Data Migration project for creating data conversion files and working through defects on a large new student loan servicing system development project. Used HP QC for defect resolution.
• Project manager on cross functional 15 person team to create letters and checks for multiple mailings with refunds to customers per CFPB with hard end date. Project completed successfully on time.

PMO Engineering Project Mgr

Confidential, E. Syracuse, NY

Responsibilities:

• Contract project manager for multiple projects. Created project documents using Clarity and MS Project.
• Managed Infrastructure Hub Newburgh Expansion project, NE RTN project, Hub Realignment Projects, CASA CMTS Trial project and Northeast CMTS projects within the PMO responsible for field engineering projects.
• Project manager for Confidential project to expand internet service in New York State in unserved areas.
• Project manager for UAT testing for the Salesforce and DOCK software integration mainframe relational database development project.
• Testing effort involved software user/testers across multiple states.
• Project manager for DOCK mainframe software deployment (that interfaced with Salesforce) in Northeast, Carolinas and NYC.
• Managed software and user access for 30+ resources; ensured regional data loaded; validated DB2 software database data.
• Deployed software successfully by region.

IT PMO Project Manager

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed 4 software development projects.
• Created project reports using Daptiv and MS Project.
• Completed a project of modifying existing internal mainframe software of “The Good Life” product that tracked employee health related data used by employees.
• Software implemented successfully end of 2011.
• Project manager for federal mandate HCR Universal Benefit Summary through end of signed business requirements. Interfaced with NY State project manager and other external project managers on project.

Project Manager Strategic Marketing

Confidential, Dewitt, NY

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for guest enrollment move to another product.
• Letters mailed to members.
• Move of guest completed. Received Cognos Query Studio .
• Project manager for 2012 Product Discontinuances project to move groups and their member enrollment to another health plan product as of 1/1/2012 on Trizetto/Facets system.
• Managed project from kickoff to completion.
• Letters mailed to group enrollment population and enrollment moved to another product across multiple system platforms.

PMO Project Mgr. & Testing Coordinator

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Second project manager on a large, complicated mainframe software development project using Cobol and DB2 converting bank loan coupon books into printed monthly statements that used both external vendor software development and in-house software development along with an off-shore QA staff.
• Coordinated daily system testing.
• Develop daily testing progress report by exporting HP Quality Center data to MS Excel and creating graphs and charts for management use.
• Project documented with Sharepoint.
• Project finished on time -software implementation for this large project with multiple software system interfaces and an external vendor software company for creating bank statements.

Software Engineering Sr. Project Mgr

Confidential, Ruckersville, VA

Responsibilities:

• Project manager on multiple software development projects for both protocol interface software and casino slot game software.
• Project manager for off-shore out-sourced software documentation project. Gave guidance and instruction to assistant project managers on their projects. Interviewed potential project managers and assistant project managers.
• Client Relationship Manager (CRM) for two Native American casino clients that total over $30 million in revenue per year which included our largest client.
• Manage software deployment and hardware installations in multiple casinos in multiple states.
• Completed software deployment projects on time and within budget.
• Managed software/hardware problem resolution reported from clients.
• Attended industry tradeshows.
• Communicated with other software vendor companies for software interfaces at mutual client locations.
• Initiated a new software interface to Confidential ’s back-end system to benefit our mutual casino client.
• Worked as PM and liaison on dual company software interface project.
• Participated in monthly executive power point presentations at engineering project review meetings.

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Responsibilities:

• Brought into client of Confidential to finish two projects in progress that a former employee had managed. IT project manager for a Confidential conversion project from mainframe to .Net technology.
• IT Project manager for Confidential - Confidential files for Confidential ’s.
• Completed project on time for end of year enrollment processing.
• Client relationship manager for Confidential ’s on projects.

IT Program Manager

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Responsibilities:

• IT Program Manager for Cobol and DB2 mainframe and web development RBRVS provider management project at Confidential.
• Used Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) on project. PM for team of 24 located in 4 different cities.
• IT Project Manager for the Enhanced Automated Enrollment project that developed new mainframe Cobol and IMS programs to compare company full enrollment health insurance files in either a HIPAA 834 format or Confidential Intelliquick format to determine subscriber health insurance changes and generate reports along with creating records for adding and terminating subscribers.
• Developed technical solution proposal based on JAD session and estimated work effort needed to meet end of year deadline.
• Interviewed and hired consultants for 2 Cobol / IMS programmer positions.
• Completed project on time and within budget. Delivered presentations to senior management on this strategic project.