SUMMARY

• He is a dependable, energetic Information Technology consultant with a proven and verifiable record of achievement in project management, design, implementation of data processing and support spanning seventeen (17) years.
• He is an individual with considerable mentoring, leadership and communication skills. His expertise includes the ability to synergize teams to coordinate and document all phases of IT systems projects from beginning to end.
• He has been a “hands on” Systems Engineer BI Consultant, and Project Manager throughout his career. Even in his Project Manager roles he always engineered and put together the first pilot or proof of concept.
• He has a positive and confident personality blended with a strong work ethic that utilizes extensive expertise in project coordination, development, and planning to streamline business analysis including, budgets, purchasing, and forecasting for all IT constructed projects.
• He has excellent customer service/relations skills in conjunction with an ability to work well under pressure, complete multiple assignments simultaneously, and meet deadlines. He has utilized MS Project server, MS Project, MS SharePoint and Agile for project management and communication.
• Confidential has a solid track record of organization, planning and execution in applying technology to solve business issues and identifying procedural gaps while being the central point of contact between the users and the IT organization.
• He possesses the experience that is necessary to lead and motivate a team of IT professionals. He is action - oriented for diversified communications and risk assessment skills at all levels to avoid problems and reduce time, resources, and cost.
• Confidential has the proven ability to utilize his knowledge of IT fundamentals, combining project management planning to bring innovative ideas to organizations and negotiation, documentation, teamwork, and troubleshooting skills to fulfill the business goals of the company.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Provides direction and oversight to project teams to design, develop, deploy and sustain solutions that meet applicable business requirements. May be responsible for a single project of medium to high complexity, a small program, or a group of smaller, unrelated projects; manages interdependencies between projects within and outside scope of responsibility. Responsible for project deliverables, cost, schedule, and quality. Allocates and directs resources to accomplish project tasks, and maintains control project schedule(s) and deliverable quality. Responsible for resolving issues and mitigating risks, escalating issues/risks when appropriate. Manages project teams, which may include Confidential employee and/or vendor team members, informs the team of its progress; leads/develops Confidential staff members. Acts as an interface to IT and Business Partners; develops/maintains strong relationship with vendor teams and vendor management. Assists with development of RFPs/SOWs and vendor selection. Leverages thorough understanding of technical concepts in multiple specialized fields to develop solutions to problems and critical design issues. Work assignments are typically focused on complex products that are of high importance to the organization. Works independently and will likely supervise the work of lower level personnel.

Confidential

Project Manager Data Center Move/Migration

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the move of 163 virtual servers, iSeries Host and the entire Data Center infrastructure to a Hosting Facility in Flint. Create the migration methodology and network infrastructure to facilitate the move with as little impact to the business as possible. Took their current schedule and redesigned the methodology to shorten the length of the migration from 6 months to 4 months. Migrate from a VMware vSphere 4.0 environment to a vSphere 5.0 environment. Engineered a single subnet between the two facilities to allow no IP changes or machine name change. vStorage migration between the two facilities is now also possible and can occur during the day if desired,

Confidential

Technical Implementation Architect/Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing all server consolidations and new SAN integration into existing infrastructure. Virtualizing 500+ Windows server of Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 R2 into new and existing Vmware Vsphere 4.0 infrastructure. Virtualizing 95 AIX servers into VIO infrastructure running on four P770's. Virtualing 15+ Linux Suse v10 and 11 servers into the VMWare infrastructure. Coordinating the separation of the existing SAN infrastructure into 2 physically seperate environments. The new environment consists of Brocade switches and IBM 8700 SAN. In charge of working with the applications group to schedule and re mediate all virtualizations that will have IP changes. Provide processes and procedures to migrate stand-alone SAN attached servers to the new SAN infrastructure. Help provide 3rd level troubleshooting for any migration issues.

Confidential

Program Manager/Project Manager/Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and architected an automated deployment / imaging solution for Windows Server 2008 / 2003 and Microsoft SQL 2008 / 2005 based on a custom Microsoft PowerShell script library and vb scripts for the Bank Center Foundation Deployment project.
• Technical Project Lead for the Banking Center Foundation Deployment. Managed a production rate of 20 servers per week to support the deployment of a total of 430 banking centers in MI., CA., TX., AZ. And FL. Deployed 1 Windows Hyper-V host with 2 virtual guests-1 Windows 2003 server for the application and 1-2008 Windows server for Branch Distribution Points. Managed team of 8 people with total project budget of $40 million. (I budgeted for only the hardware part.)
• Script designed to work in conjunction with bare-metal configurations of IBM 3200, 3550 and 3850’s, Rack mounted, stand alone and Blade servers including unattended automated configuration of Direct Attached storage solutions (DAS); RAID Array controllers, boot from SAN, Disk Drives, Partitions and update of firmware and BIOS. Created, tested and deployed scripts across a wide variety of IBM and Dell platforms.
• Responsible for the installations configurations of Windows Server 2008 x64 and Windows 2003 Server x64/x86 operating systems and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005 including post operating system automated installations of supporting software: IBM Support Packs, Microsoft Service Packs, Hotfixes and Updates for Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Extensive use of IBM Deployment Pack.
• Used automation technologies, such as PowerShell, Windows AIK, WinPE, PXE booting to automate administration tasks.
• Implemented and maintained a Windows 2008 Server Active Directory Domain Test Lab with a representative test Environment in conjunction with VM instances of Windows Server.
• Generated concise technical reports and associated technical documentation. Project Manager for the new Office Location project. Created budget, timeline and organized entire move of 50 person office. Negotiated with all vendors for services at the new building as well as remodeling and actual move.
• Put a structured process of project management in place to ensure that projects are a success in terms of on-time delivery as well as staying within the scope, quality and budget specified.
• Created and deployed SharePoint 2010 proof of concept. Utilized SharePoint designer.

Confidential

PMO/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ran major IT projects for all 3 plants using Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM).
• Managed all project deliverables, cost, schedule, budget, quality, resources, risks and issues.
• Trained existing personnel in the methodologies.
• Made sure that a formal process and the necessary procedures are in place for managing the IT project portfolio. Utilized Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM), SharePoint, Word and Excel for keeping up-to-date information about the portfolio’s progress, as well as updating and sharing the indicators and monitoring overtime and over run.
• Project Manager for the AS/400 Blade Migration. This project replaces the existing AS/400 hardware going off lease with 2-IBM Blade Centers in 2 plant locations for the added benefit of disaster recovery. This also allowed the migration of over 30 Windows server onto 6 blades with VM Ware ESX 3.5 virtualization.
• Create a PMO
• Project Manager for the new Office Location project. Created budget, timeline and organized entire move of 50 person office. Negotiated with all vendors for services at the new building as well as remodeling and actual move.
• Put a structured process of project management in place to ensure that projects are a success in terms of on-time delivery as well as staying within the scope, quality and budget specified.
• Pilot Windows 7 for the desktop and beta test Windows 7 Deployment Manager for upcoming project

Confidential

Project Manager/Manager of Microsoft Technology

Responsibilities:

• With over 15 years of Architecture/Management experience with Enterprise Windows Desktops Environments and Servers, UNIX, Linux, HP-UNIX, AIX and hardware platforms from the HP9000 to P550-570-590
• Managed all products utilizing Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM).
• Lead the Enterprise Architecture Group as Infrastructure Engineer to consolidate our servers and distributed systems based on Agile, SOA and EAI in the Rochester, NY Data Center. Relocated Troy, MI Data Center to New York. Relocated Distribution Warehouse Datacenters to Troy, MI. Moved our Oracle 9i and 10i production and test infrastructure from Red Hat Linux, HP-UX and N4000’s to AIX running on a single P590 and two P550’s. Reduced our server count from 20 to less than 10. Consolidated and redistributed our DMX 3000 SAN among the new servers. Server consolidation saved $1 million per year. Also provided 3rd level support for hardware, OS and Oracle 9i and 10g.
• Lead Engineer. Piloted Windows 2008 installation for test migration and application testing.
• Project Manager for Help Desk replacement. Utilized Agile Project Methodology to lead the 12 person team. Replaced our two separate Help Desks with one consolidated Help Desk. Rolled our new software for tracking the tickets and put in a new hardware depot team. Saved $300,000 per year from previous solution.
• Project Manager/Lead Engineer for all of our Windows Server consolidation using Agile Project Methodology. Using VMware ESX 3.0 I reduced our server count from 84 to less than 50 onto 5 new physical servers. Developed and installed the pilot that led to the production rollout. Upgrade to ESX 3.5 after the deployment. Provided 3rd level support hardware, OS and applications.
• Lead Engineer for Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003 upgrade.
• Lead Engineer for Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 upgrades on all servers.
• Lead Engineer/Project Manager for WSUS 3.0 Piloted and deployed WSUS 3.0 on over 84 Windows 2000 and 2003 servers. Also included Windows 2008 server in pilot
• Lead Engineer and beta tester for Windows Deployment Toolkit.
• Used Microsoft SMS and Microsoft SharePoint to compile and maintain inventory of company software and systems assets for the purpose of tracking their corresponding licenses. Also utilized for tracking laptops in the field.
• Utilizing Microsoft SMS implemented techniques, practices, and procedures for licensing administration.
• Project Manager for SFA2 (Sales Force Automation) application project. Utilized Microsoft SQL 2005, .NET 1.1 & 2.0, Oracle and Javascript produced a Sales Force Automation tool for the field that ran on PDAs and laptops for scanning music CDs in the field and pulling inventory.
• Lead Engineer for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 implementation. Piloted MS Systems Center Operation Center 2007 upgrade.
• Reviewed all system development projects for completeness, quality and adherence to standards.
• Pro-actively identify ways in which IT may assist customers to succeed.
• Met regularly with business partners to solve complex problems through application of systems technology.
• Provided leadership, guidance and development to professional level staff.
• Identified resources to meet customer’s needs, communicate needs to upper management in a timely fashion, and develop plans to most effectively meet needs within budgetary constraints.
• Maintained awareness of technological and business trends to better service customer needs.
• Work as a member of the IT management team to recommend successful strategies for IT to select and monitor vendors, contractors and other suppliers of goods and services.
• Maintained a close working relationship with IT managers, end users, and business partners to efficiently and effectively maintain and improve customer service levels.
• Responsible for strategy and implementation of Retail Management Systems and interfaces and major cross-functional process re-designs.
• Ensured appropriate development standards and methodologies are installed and enforced for all IT Development.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a 4-5 person IS Dept. Oversaw daily operations of the Data Center which consisted of an AS/400, RS/6000, HP3000, 14 Novell 5 and 6 servers and 32 Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 servers. In charge of budgeting for the Dept. Budget in excess of $300,000.00.
• Coordinated all activities for maintaining all Help Desk Trouble Tickets. Coordinated 40+ Trouble ticket per day and helped get resolution time down to less than 24 hours.
• Handled approx. a dozen major Hospital projects within the Dept. i.e., New CT CAT Scan, QS Fetal Monitoring System, EPSI Financial System, SMART Card system, Fusion Transcription System.
• Upgrade of numerous Windows NT 4.0 servers to Windows 2000.
• Major upgrade of all Novell 5 and 6 servers to 6.5
• Designed and installed new Novell Tree and Cluster solution for Desktop Rollout.
• Coordinated 650+ desktop upgrade from Windows 95/98 to Windows 2000.
• Implemented and rolled out Novell Zenworks and Imaging for standardized desktop..
• Quoted proper hardware servers and equipment for major Hospital and System-wide projects. Worked with major vendors such as HP/Compaq, Cisco, CDW and Software Spectrum to quote and procure material.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Total responsibility for the implementation and support of most major LAN projects. Customer base was mostly Fortune 500. Directed Project teams of up to 25 employees/customer employees. Developed and worked with projects budgeted up to $10 million dollars. Instrumental in Technical Pre-Sales. Directed and trained the professional staff. Interacted closely with IS department to resolve design issues.
• As Lead Engineer/Project Manager for Detroit Edison managed u desktop and server upgrades for downtown office.
• As Lead Engineer/Project Manager for MichCon managed server upgrades at downtown and all external office in Michigan.
• Technical “hands on” Project Manager for Confidential Bank for a 6 month project. Designed and implemented their upgrade from OS/2 to Warp 4 for all of their bank branches.
• As Lead Engineer/Project Manager for a Trizec Hahn, designed and implemented a large enterprise upgrade of their network and 10 major offices. Upgraded 28 servers to Netware 5.1 from 4.11 and migrated to a pure IP environment. Managed 2 teams of 5 people and additional 10 from their company. Tested and documented all procedures for them to complete the project.
• As Design Consultant for Detroit Medical Center, verified and redesigned their implementation for a Citrix server farm. Ten server farms consisting of 5 servers each were redesigned for increased performance and access by approximately 3,000 employees.
• As Design Consultant for Henry Ford Health Systems, designed and implemented Novell Cluster solution with use for an EMC SAN and MTI SAN for approximately 3,000 employees. Did benchmarks and performance testing for best utilization. SAN was shared with Novell Cluster, Windows NT and Linux servers.
• Lead Engineer/Project Manager for a major retailer in Grand Rapids designed and implemented GroupWise 5.1 email system. System supported 14,000 users and included connection to AS/400 with eventual migration to GroupWise system in less than one year. Another project was hardware and OS upgrade for 117 Netware servers from 3.12 to 4.11. Used Project Open Workbench for all project updates.