SUMMARY:

• Detailed oriented certified IT Project Management Professional with extensive leadership experience in enterprise systems, network infrastructure implementations and operations, data center deployments, Telecom, and wireless based solutions.
• Credentials include many years of project management, business analyst, and overall SDLC experience.
• Excellent client relationship management skills at various levels of management.
• Dynamic team player demonstrating a “lead - by-example” philosophy to team members through coaching and mentoring while exhibiting analytical, organizational, problem-solving and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools/Activities: Microsoft Project 2010, Project Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Project Portfolio Server, Enterprise Project Management (EPM) / Project Web Server (PWA), Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM), Agile Software Toolset, Rally, Documentum, Cisco WebEx, PMBOK Philosophies, Requirements Management, Federal Proposal Development, Earned Value Management, Deployment Management, Process Improvement, Federal Certification & Accreditation Procedures

Virtualization Computing: VMware; Citrix

Methodologies (Sessions): Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC - Waterfall) Procedures, Agile/Scrum Procedures, Joint Application Requirements (JAR), Joint Application Design (JAD), Rapid Application Development (RAD)

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012, Windows 2010, MAC OS, Linix, UNIX, Cloud Platform Computing Office 365, Office 2013/2010 Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook/VISIO, SDLC Facilitator, CRM, Visual Basic, Remedy, Clarity

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): PeopleSoft

Database Managers - Languages: Oracle, MS Access, DB2, Query Mgmt Facility (QMF), DB Manager, VSAM; SQL, MySQL

Data Management: NetApp Storage Arrays, Cisco SAN Switches, Cisco Nexus Appliance, SQL Server, Tivoli Storage Manager, Enterprise Storage Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures in accordance with PMO methodology processes for maintaining profitable execution of consulting engagements.
• Manage and analyze profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization across projects while proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Routinely focus on minimizing company exposure and risk across multiple projects and facilitate reviewing high-level deliverables across projects.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained all required project documents such as a Project Charter, Project Management Plan, Requirements Document, Design Documents, Architecture Documents, Test Plans/Results, Implementation Plans, Project Schedules, Budget Forecasts, Resource Management Plans, and Post Implementation Plans/Lessons Learned Documentation.
• Produced weekly program/project status reports, managed the EPM toolset and associated data from project schedules as well as generated reports from EPM used for forecasting and reconciling timesheets.
• Generated quality and well maintained project schedules, baselines and estimates to complete program/project and report variances.
• Responsible for reporting on risks and for providing an ongoing risk management plan as well as managed risk assessment and mitigation within a program/project.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported project implementations through the Project Quality Office (PQO) adhering to all governance procedures and approval measures.
• Overall accountability for migration activities and maintaining engagement relationships with all external and internal project stakeholders.
• Supported efficient change control processes necessary to minimize delivery risk with transparency into migrations via status reporting.
• Responsible for risks and issues management, maintaining project plans and schedules, oversee communications via status meetings and accurate reporting to all project stakeholders.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed day-to-day operational aspects of projects and defined scope levels of work
• Effectively applied PmI methodologies and enforce project management standards on all projects.
• Communicated relevant project information to executive leadership, project stakeholders, and customers.
• Baselined projects and captured actual metrics for tracking historical data and level of effort forecasting.
• Prepared engagement reviews and assisted with quality assurance policies and procedures.
• Tracked and maintained lessons learned while utilizing lessons learned on subsequent projects.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and deployed a 1.4 million square foot Wireless Network solution at Confidential totaling more than $1.5M where placement of approximately 1000 Access Points (APs) enabled the hospital to provide adequate wireless coverage throughout its 25+ facilities.
• Managed the implementation upgrade of the network data circuits supporting Confidential 's three tier network topology with hosting services migrating from Verizon to Qwest - a 3-year commitment totaling over $1M.
• Managed a $.5M+ complex deployment upgrade of 34 Cisco 65xx Series switches within the Main Hospital.
• Provided project management support for key Confidential IT network projects by re-engineering documentation standards, building project schedules, coordinating with all vendors, and facilitating Stakeholder meetings.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the engineering team selected to modernize the data centers within BIA and BIE providing a server virtualization solution utilizing IBM hardware and VMware software resulting in the reduction of hardware and operating costs.
• Managed network enhancement initiatives within BIE - transition from FTS2001 Bridge architecture to Networx Universal architecture and Frame Relay Service to Network Base (IPVPN Service)
• Reviewed, analyzed, and provided recommendations as necessary for business applications as well as coordinate application development processes
• Participated in team proposal development efforts in support of Federal Request for Proposals (RFPs).

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Primary role involved interfacing with all technical groups to manage infrastructure improvements and deployments.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Implementation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the project management effort for the design setup, configuration, build, test, and production roll-out of the entire network infrastructure for Confidential (Confidential ) . Also served as the PM lead for implementing a three-year (ongoing) management and monitoring services project for Confidential ( Confidential ).