SUMMARY:

• Senior Project Manager/Business/Systems Analyst with extensive professional experience in the insurance, aerospace, and pharmaceutical industries.
• Proven track record of managing complex projects to a successful conclusion.
• Managed projects through full SDLC life - cycle including RFI, RFP, SOW development, client business requirements interviews, scope development and negotiation, system build, IT and business testing code migration and implementation.
• Experienced working with senior level management on company wide initiatives.
• Effectively implemented projects valued from $250K to $3 million, adhering to project management methodology/standards in all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Experienced in using SDLC project methodologies, Water Fall, Iterative, Agile and CMMI.
• Experienced managing off shore resources and Vendor management.
• Excellent interpersonal skills used to build collaborative working relationships with internal and external clients.
• Able to adapt quickly to clients existing approach to project management
• Strong advocate of teamwork, performance excellence and continuous improvement.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills used to build teamwork and cooperation amongst team members.
• Certified scrum Master with Scrum Alliance, Agile Project management with New Horizon

COMPUTER LITERACY:

Databases: DB2/UDB V7.2, DB2/UDB V5, DB2/6000, IMS DB/DC, Access, IMS, VASM, Oracle 10

Languages: HTML, VB, VB Script, XML, SQL, VSAM, IMS, VB, .Net.

Miscellaneous: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, MS Word, EXCEL, MS Project, Power Point, Visio, Source Safe, XML, Toad8.5, Java script, Clarity, IBM Case Management Manager, FileNet, Workplace XT, Content Navigator, Forms Designer 8.2

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Management of a 1M budget, facilitation of stake holder meetings
• Management of onsite developers and business analysis and offsite third party vendors (Esri) team member
• Creation of Project Charter, Scope, and Risk plan (WBS, Schedule, Budget, dependencies) documents
• Tracked overall progress of project to verify that SDLC processes are occurring and Project artifacts were being created, reviewed and approved as required
• Identification, monitoring and resolution of risks through the Risk plan

Environment : - .Net, SQL Server, MS office suite, MS Project, MS Visio, HP PPM

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Consultant PROJECT MANAGER/TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for leading the initiative to development a cloud based geographic information system (ArcGis) website in support of the state’s statute requiring the Bureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse to provide information to the public concerning the release of sewage into CT waterways.
• Responsibilities included
• Development of cost benefit analysis documentation and presentation of results to senior stakeholders
• Management of a 1M budget, facilitation of stake holder meetings and vendor selection process
• Management of onsite developers and business analysis and offsite third party vendors (Esri) team member
• Creation of Project Charter, Scope, and Risk plan (WBS, Schedule, Budget, dependencies) documents
• Tracked overall progress of project to verify that SDLC processes are occurring and Project artifacts were being created, reviewed and approved as required
• Identification, monitoring and resolution of risks through the Risk plan
• Planed and felicitated project meetings with CSDE team members, steering stake holder presentations
• Technical Project Manager for the consolidation/conversion of six DEEP’s project management and data tracking systems into a web based mobile application that is integrated with IBMs Case management, Continent navigator, FileNet and Esri Arcgis Geographic Information system technologies.
• Facilitated the definition of the project vision, goals, tasks and resource requirements.
• Planned and felicitated JAD and work sessions with client staff and senior level stakeholders to develop and document new workflow processes, business and technical requirements.
• Developed RFI and SOW artifacts in preparation placing project out to bid
• Developed initial project plan
• Identification, monitoring and resolution of risks through the Risk plan
• Project Manager responsible for effort to improve the public’s access Hazardous Waste Manifests documents which must be available for via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Documents were to be digitized and placed into IBMs FileNet repository where the public would have access to them.
• Responsibilities included:
• Creation of SOW and RFI documents that were used in the vendor selection process
• Development of Contractor selection process
• Selection of vendor to that will process the Hazardous Waste Manifests in to an electronic format
• Delivery of Presentations to stake holders on status of project

Environment : - .Net, SQL Server, MS office suite,, MS Project, MS Visio, Esri Arcgis online, IBM - Case Management Manager, FileNet P8, Content Navigator, Iterative method

Confidential, Portland, ME .

Consultant PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the migration/integration of 3 legacy mainframe applications into a single application as part of the company’s Future ready strategy.
• Responsibilities included;
• Tracking of the overall project progress and management of 10 contractors and Confidential personnel
• Identification, monitoring and remediation of identified risks and issues to the new process
• Planned and facilitated meetings with staff and stakeholders in a highly matrix environment.
• Managed cross functional and geographically dispersed highly matrix team

Environment : - .Net, SQL Server, DB2, COBOL, VSAM, IDMS, MS Project, Clarity, MS Visio, Agile, Iterative method.

Confidential, Westport, CT

Consultant PROJECT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for development of a prototype method to migrate 70 SQL 2005 to the client’s 2008 Orion platform. Responsibilities included;
• Development and assessment of a cookie cutter process that would enable the client to quickly move identified servers to the new 2008 Orion platform. Process was developed by creating a straw man process and migrating several servers, improving the process with each irritation.
• Tracking of the overall process
• Identification, monitoring and remediation of identified risks and issues to the new process
• Planned and facilitated meetings with staff and stakeholders

Environment : - .Net, SQL Server, MS Project, MS Visio, Agile, iterative method.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

PROJECT MANAGER/SR, BUSINESS/SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for multiple Data warehouse and public facing applications that allowed the state to gather metrics on schools districts and provide that information to the public. Projects were done in a highly matrixed environment with geography dispersed team
• Creation of Project Charter, Scope, and Risk plan (WBS, Schedule, Budget, dependencies) documents
• Tracked overall progress of project to verify that SDLC processes are occurring and Project artifacts were being created, reviewed and approved as required
• Identification, monitoring and resolution of Risks through the Risk plan
• Planed and felicitated project meetings with CSDE team members, steering committee members and internal management.
• Managed the day to day needs of multiple off shore development teams ensuring that the project is on track and no roadblocks existed.
• Established and managed change control process
• Deployment of Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF)software for 168 districts
• Worked with Connecticut State Department of (CSDE) sponsors and stake holders in the development of structured business and functional requirement documents using JAD sessions.
• Developed test strategies and conducted UAT testing sessions with Department of stakeholders.
• Responsible for coordinating project builds between Choice and CSDE IT DOIT area.
• Assisted in the of CSDE end users in the use of the developed applications.

Environment : .Net, SQL Server, MS Project, MS Visio, Agile, iterative methods.

Confidential, Shelton, CT

Consultant PROJECT MANAGER/SR, BUSINESS/SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Customer relationship management working with Sikorsky stake holders and SAI management to develop policies, procedures and assignment of project tasks.
• Creation of project documents (Charter, Scope, Project, Budget) plans
• Provided weekly project status metrics to Senior Sikorsky and SIA systems management that indicated current status of the project.
• Worked with off shore development staff to develop project plans and technical specifications.
• Managed the day to day needs of the offshore development teams ensuring that the project is on track and no roadblocks existed.
• Systems Analyst responsible for the development of structured business and functional requirement documents using JAD sessions with key Sikorsky stake holders to develop Hi-Vis.
• Developed test strategies and conducted UAT testing sessions with Sikorsky stake holders.
• Worked closely with the off shore Hi-Vis programming staff in the role of mentor and technical analyst, identifying design and coding issues.
• Responsible for receiving builds from off shore and deploying to the onsite Hi-Vis application and testing before sending to build to the client.
• Worked with client to build and install the new Hi-Vis application in here environment.
• Assisted in the of Sikorsky end users of the Hi-Vis application

Environment : - .Net, SQL Server, Access, VB, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Access, Waterfall.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Consultant PROJECT MANAGER/SR, BUSINESS/SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager responsible for the migration of the EFTC RAFT platform with a new in house developed RAFT.Net platform.
• Responsibilities include customer relationship management working with portfolio managers to develop policies and procedures, assignment of project tasks, development of detailed project plans.
• Developed Access database to track migration work and develop metrics supplied to senior management
• Systems Analyst responsible for the development of structured business and functional requirement documents using Agile for the development of RAFT.Net.
• Developed test strategies and conducted UAT testing for the RAFT.Net platform.
• Created manuals and provided to the RAFT.Net migration and production support teams.
• Worked closely with the RAFT.Net programming staff in the role of mentor and technical analyst, identifying design and coding issues.

Environment : - VB.Net, SQL Server, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Power point, Agile.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Consultant PROJECT MANAGER/SR. BUSINESS/SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include managing a team of 10 onshore and offshore Resources, development of Project plans, tracking and planning, task assignment, conflict resolution and PMO senior management status reports.
• As Business/Systems Analyst facilitated the gathering of functional business/systems requirements from domestic and foreign stakeholders for Confidential Ceded Automatic Booking h.
• Developed use cases for the Confidential Ceded Automatic Booking from the functional requirements that were used to develop System and UAT test cases.
• Worked closely with onshore and offshore programming staff to deliver a quality application
• Introduced new process for change management which brought together the Business, IT and QA areas to review and sign off on changes to the project

Environment : - .Net, SQL Server, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Power point, MS Word, Waterfall.

Confidential, Boston, MA

PROJECT MANAGER DBA/ APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT, BUSINESS/ SYSTEM ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Performed onsite management of major application development project
• Performed detailed client needs analysis.
• Prepared detailed workflows, analysis of existing technology, and analysis of client processes/work flows.
• Developed multiple applications and websites as well as provided user and documentation.
• Performed all required documentation, testing, debugging, and QA functions.
• Function as primary client contact after project completion and performed follow-up and troubleshooting services.

Confidential, Worcester, MA

PROJECT MANAGER/ SR BUSINESS/SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Tracked overall progress of project to verify that SDLC processes are occurring and Project artifacts were being created, reviewed and approved as required
• Identification, monitoring and resolution of Risks through the Risk Plan
• Planed and felicitated project meetings with Warehouse team members, steering committee members and internal management.
• Managed the day to day needs of multiple off shore development teams ensuring that the project is on track and no roadblocks existed.
• Managed team of 10 remotely located QA testers and business analysts for an enhancement to the client’s mainframe/web based personnel lines, auto and home policy management system . Responsibilities; tasks assignments, project tracking resource allocation.
• Participated as a Business/Systems Analyst in the retooling of the client’s connections, auto point of sale (POS) system, from a main frame Policy Management System to a web based application. The system was designed to quote, rate and issue auto policies using information gathered from interviews by the agent, MVR, CLUE, credit score reports and VIN validation.
• Drove the vendor selection process for the client’s new VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) and symbol process for the connections auto project.
• Developed data models and process work follows for client, depicting the new Functional specifications for the client’s MAP system .
• Trained new Confidential staff in the use of existing policy management and rating systems.
• Developed Data models and process work follows for client depicting the new functional specifications for the client’s MAP system
• Created detailed test criteria and tested new functionality while reporting and troubleshooting problems.
• Developed and managed client’s new DB2 data structures in support of the client’s new EAP system.

Environment : - .Net, J2EE, SQL Server, DB2/UDB, PEGA, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Power point, MS Word, Waterfall, CMMI

Confidential, Stamford, CT

DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with the implementation of the client's new pricing application.
• Trained the new DBA on application features.
• Developed applications using DB2/UDB Work Group Edition V7.2 on a NT Platform and Websphere.
• Used application to facilitate the tracking, movement and status of chemical tanks.
• Trained client employees to become UDB DBA's, including installation of UDB, creation of objects using DDL, back-up and recovery, and restoration of database
• Documented best practices procedures for the recovery and restoration of databases

Environment : - .DB2/UDB