SUMMARY

• Seeking an IT Project Management / Portfolio Management opportunity providing leadership in infrastructure global vision architecture and to lead and manage technology team(s) towards the realization of those objectives.
• 35+ years of successful experience in Management, Architecture, Engineering and Support in providing IT services in demanding and diverse business environments. Vast experience in managing technical projects, people, standards and policies, new technologies and operational processes. Technical expertise includes infrastructure planning, design and implementation, systems administration, technical documentation.
• PMO Management / Enterprise Portfolio Management
• Management of Technical Teams, Technology Deployment, Processes, Projects, Budgets
• Project Management Experience
• Infrastructure Systems Architecture
• Active Directory Global Architecture, Design, Implementation, Integration and Support
• High Availability, Business Continuity, DR, Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning
• Virtualization - ESX / VMWare / Hyper-V
• Blade Technology / SAN/Fibre Technology
• Application Delivery - Citrix, Terminal Services / Presentation Server / Virtualization Technologies
• Exchange Knowledge / Migrations
• Confidential Solutions Design and Implementation - including MOM, SCOM, SMS, SCCM, MOSS, PKI, Patch Management
• Data Center Planning and Migration/Moves
• Patch Management
• POC Design and Testing Environments
• Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, NT 4.0, NT 3.51, Win7, Vista, XP, 95, 98
• SQL Knowledge
• MOF, ITIL, Confidential Delivery Framework Knowledge

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

PMO Team Lead / Enterprise Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in building the new PMO from ground up
• Leadership role in creating PMO governance
• Created and stood up new PMO CAB
• Successfully assisted with driving the 1.5M Enterprise Vulnerability Remediation project, overseeing the program manager and the PM Teams. Provided much needed leadership guidance in process, planning, reporting, documentation, governance and driving remediation numbers upward.
• Successfully provided leadership to the 3M Data Center migration program and program manager in moving from the current data center to the new Ashburn data center. I’ve provided assistance in escalations, governance and general leadership. Assisted in bringing the EWDC Program to close.
• Involvement in the interviewing and recommendation of PM candidates.
• Successful management of escalated customer dissatisfaction
• Successful project team interaction in resolving people conflict
• Managed team of Project Managers
• Tracked resource utilization for all projects.
• Project budget management
• Ensure PM's complete SOW milestones
• Ensure all required training are done timely without follow-up by PMO team
• Ensure project team present projects at the Operational Acceptance Board before project go-lives
• Escalation/Resolution point for project teams as relates to risks and issues that cannot be resolved at PM level
• Team Status Calls
• Steering Committee & C Level Presentations
• Ensuring Customer CSAT
• Ensure the go to green plans for red and amber projects are clear and concise with owners and due dates.
• Ensure SDP’s are completed and signed of in timely manner.

Confidential

Sr, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Resource requests and team assembly. Resource time & Budget management
• Project Plan & Timeline Development towards Business Go Lives
• Manage, lead & motivate project teams towards end goal objectives
• Manage Scope changes / Go To Green where necessary
• SNOW Administration
• Status Meetings & Reporting
• Risk & Issue Tracking and Mitigation Strategy
• Standing up Servers/Storage Infrastructure for business applications
• Managing Internal Middleware resources in installation/configuration (Apache, WebLogic, JDK, Webgate, Supported Ratings Apps)
• GLB, LLB, DNS & Firewall requirements.
• Go Lives
• Vulnerability & Scanning
• Informatica Refresh
• OUD Access Control Infrastructure
• QAS AD Migration
• W2K3 Refresh (Program - Multiple Projects)

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Driving cross functional teams and the business in asset assessment and analysis, extraction of JV shared assets, sequencing readiness activites for each business group, including IT activities, dependencies, risk and mitigatin processes. WBS included workstreams for non IT tasks as well as IT tasks, i.e. WAN, LAN, Client machines & devices, Servers (Physical & Virtual) and VOIP.
• International O+O Playbook. I was tasked with understanding and assessing the common readiness activities for moving a JV to an O+O. This was done by Business Workstream (IT, Broadcast Ops, Programming, Ad Sales, Production Marketing, Distribution, HR, Finance, Legal, etc). This Playbook is to serve as a blueprint/roadmap for implementing all common elements for all future O+O's.
• Project Managed the Oracle 11g Upgrade & Red Hat Server Upgrade for the Gabriel System. This upgrade affected a number of integrated systems and cross functional teams. I successfully led the team through planning and extensive testing in QA and UAT towards production rollout.
• I've used the PMBOK as the framework for all projects. All projects entailed Project Initiation, Charter creation, Scoping, Stake holder Management, WBS, Execution, Resource Mgt, Monitoring and Control, Risk and Mitigation assessment, Communication Plans, Status Meetings and Reporting and Project Closure.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Driving all Win 7 dependencies to their remediation and readiness through the full deployment life cycle. Encompasses over 10,000 devices.
• Scope Definition, Documentation and Project Plans.
• Project Process Development & Deployment Strategy Development
• Lead Project Status and Deployment Meetings between technology and LOB’s on all levels including Executive Management.
• Drive Application Readiness / Remediation
• Developed Scheduling Strategy and handshake strategy between groups
• Developed Access DB Tool for Schedule creation, Migration Tracking and Device Report Generation.
• Risk & Issue Tracking and Mitigation Strategy
• Development and coordination of global migration schedules, departments, geo locations and resources. Coordination and communication with Business Unit heads.