SUMMARY:

• Over twenty years of experience in delivering technology projects and programs in the United States, Europe and Latin America - from small application rollouts to large, ultra-complex, multimillion-dollar deliveries in the gaming, e- commerce, finance, petroleum, and manufacturing industries.
• Led diverse teams of professionals all over the world, local and remote in matrix and cross-disciplinary organizations.
• Took complete accountability for the delivery of high-risk projects and successfully implemented them.
• Proactively collaborated with internal AND customer executives on project status, risks, issues, and escalations.
• Collaborated on proposals, contracts, and business case creation.
• Managed multi-million dollar budgets; developed project, requirements, communication, risk, quality, and transition plans; created and maintained detailed project schedules. Established project performance matrices and reported status to all project stakeholders.
• Created transition to services processes and managed operations teams.
• Supported account and sales teams in contract negotiations.
• Managed product and service vendors. Supervised staff .
• Expert in PMI, Waterfall, SDLC, Agile/iterative and hybrid methodologies.
• Innovation and Excellence: Initiated and established new processes within the PMOs; led process improvement initiatives.
• Received numerous accolades from customers for service excellence.
• : Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems; PMP, PRINCE2, and SCRUM Master s. Good working knowledge of ITIL, CMMI, ISO-27001. Completed a full cycle of Six Sigma Black Belt .

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Senior Project Manager

Confidential, Naples, FL

Responsibilities:

• Conversion of existing video gaming system; central system implementation, new infrastructure and network installation, new video games, next generation video terminal delivery, Advanced Business Intelligence implementation ($13M budget).
• Conversion of existing video gaming system; new video scratch games, central system implementation, new video terminals deployment, d Confidential center move and network upgrade. Advanced Business Intelligence and warehousing implementation ($9M budget).
• Conversion of existing gaming systems and applications, lottery terminals deployment, central system and network upgrade ($18M budget).
• New terminal applications, lottery terminals, central system rollout and infrastructure upgrade ($16M budget).
• Established a formal project management methodology based on PMI’s PMBOK™s standards.
• Authored and implemented a software release process for the subsidiary that ensures fully controlled applications and fixes releases into the QA and Production environments and established additional quality assurance processes for releasing code into operational status.
• Triaged with the CEO, and VPs on prioritizing projects and handling major risks, issues and escalations.

Advisory Project Manager

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Customer Relationship Component Program - a customer information and management and market analysis intranet application.
• The scope included the implementation of WebSphere 5.0 technology in a three-tier internet model with added Mainframe host functionality.
• Life Insurance Sales Applications - Web-based suite of applications used by 40,000+ clients.
• The scope of this project also included the implementation of WebSphere 4.0 and new middleware (MQ Series) integration.
• International deployment of the Bank of New York proprietary application (U.S, UK, Singapore and Hong Kong and Australia) - an intranet application used by Confidential Financial Advisors.
• Implementation of over 30 small projects ranging from application upgrades to new system rollouts on various technology platforms.
• PMO process manager and mentor for newly-hired PMs.

Project Manager

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Application conversion for the AEXP Denver Business application - an internet application redesign, rewrite, and implementation onto the Websphere 4.0 platform.
• Blackberry deployment - deployment of Blackberry hand held devices to all Confidential executives.
• Six Sigma quality projects - planning and deployment of Six Sigma projects throughout the company.
• Implementation of over 30 small projects ranging from application upgrades to new system rollouts on various technology platforms.

Project Manager

Confidential, Tucson, Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Migration of all applications and systems .
• Installation and configuration of new networking equipment ie. Cisco routers, ISDN and T1 lines as well as installation, configuration, and deployment of new server equipment.
• Deployment of proprietary manufacturing applications to Confidential employees in Tucson and New Jersey.

Project Manager

Confidential, Anchorage, Alaska

Responsibilities:

• Company-wide rollout of Portal/G application - application used by over two thousand employees.
• The scope of the project included designing and providing application to users, development of detailed application user manuals, client hardware and software deployment.
• Implementation of over 20 small projects ranging from application upgrades to new system rollouts on various technology platforms.
• AutoCAD - designed and carried out of AutoCAD 13 to petroleum engineers along with its deployment.