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SUMMARY

  • An IT professional with over 20 year career working in top tier IT environments, managing complex programs and critical projects and leading and managing high performance project teams in order to implement the vision of senior leadership.
  • Experienced customer - facing program manager, project manager and solutions architect with ability to summarize in a clear and concise manner for executive management program and project status, including timelines, tasks, budgets, variances, risks and opportunities.
  • Customer satisfaction and excellence driven with relationships highly valued as an important component part of the formula for success.
  • Experienced in managing process improvement, governance, and risk and change management.
  • Full understanding of IT technologies with proven, hands on experience in all facets including application development, networking, compute, storage, business continuity, desktop and security.
  • Skilled in all technical projects phases and deliverables including requirements definition, forecasting and budgeting, statement of work, projects plans/timelines, project meetings, sprints, project execution, status reporting, change orders, project handover, closeout, forecasting, budgeting, leading, facilitating, and mentoring successful execution of technical implementation projects.
  • Experienced working with matrixed staffing models, shared and dedicated project resources, and both on and off shore and remote project teams.
  • Proven global infrastructure program manager, project manager and engineer
  • Experienced with providing appropriate analysis of project cost, benefit/ROI and risks and ensuring they managed appropriately.
  • Develop and conduct team training and development, coaching/mentoring, and leading high-performance teams to partner with senior leaders in driving more efficient and effective services.
  • Identify and implement appropriate performance metrics to drive performance objectives

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Strategic Planning
  • Relationship Management
  • IT Project Management
  • Implementation Readiness
  • Change Management
  • Process Improvement
  • PMO Governance
  • Training & Development
  • Resource Allocation
  • Matrix and Virtual Team Management
  • Large scale data/data center migrations and transformations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Contract Sr. Project Manager focused on data center relocation/consolidation program and projects. Act as technical data center relocation program PM and primary point of contact for applications and infrastructure teams.
  • Primarily responsible for project planning and execution, risk management, engineering, operations and executive approvals, road block removal, process, corporate standards adherence and creating and maintaining an auditable archive of relocation/migration artifacts.
  • Responsible for driving teams to meet target data center exit timelines, resolving issues, upstream/downstream dependencies, guiding teams through the processes involved in a large and complex matrix organization.
  • Platforms migrated implemented RSA RSA Secure ID two factor authentication and included ESXi virtualized and stand alone Windows Servers, Redhat Linux, AIX, Kali Linux distros for penetration testing and ethical hacking.
  • Migration methods were primarily transformations with some lift and shift/forklifts. Also responsible for developing migration playbooks, opening and chasing all related tickets (scheduling/assignments/approvals for server builds, security, ITSM, tools and applications installations, internet air gaps, vips/nats, firewall rules, network segment routing, pre and post migration DR and performance testing, backups, cutovers, troubleshooting, acceptance testing).

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Contract Sr Project Manager for Enterprise Oracle Consolidation and Re-platforming Project.
  • The project is an enterprise-wide migration of all Oracle application databases from stand-alone database platforms to Oracle Exadata farms, a project scope of ~600 applications and 6000 databases.
  • Worked directly with applications teams, DBA’s and Exadata teams to relocate applications databases to Oracle Exadata ODA’s.
  • Conduct regular team meetings, publish minutes, direct technical teams to open schedule tickets (primarily firewall, database shells, prod/DR/UAT/staging instances, utility servers, Golden Gate setups) chase approvals, develop migration playbooks, obtain approvals for cutovers, pre/post migration DR and performance testing, conduct application migration cutovers, toubleshooting and acceptance testing.

Confidential, NJ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Contract Senior Technical Project Manager at Confidential Corporate Business IT managing enterprise systems. Projects include:
  • Corporate Data Center relocation, replatforming and exit project. End-to-end responsibility.
  • Conduct project meetings with vendors, external and internal teams, business leaders. Gather quotes, prepare proposals, project plans, status reports and present to corporate leadership. Plan and coordinate project teams and activities. Lead waterfall project meetings and agile sprints. Obtain approvals and signatures from corporate leadership and vendors.
  • Support corporate divestitures and acquisitions
  • New systems installation/deployments in core network and DMZ network zones.
  • Capacity upgrades, expansions and decommissions
  • Systems relocated included Oracle Exadata and Oracle ZFS, EMC Vblock and VMAX, Data Domain, Cisco UCS and HP blades/chassis, and NetApp filers as well as all applications, services, and WAN/extranet data circuits.
  • Architected and diagrammed/documented network configurations, application flows, specified and managed firewall, load balancing, VPN and security installations and configurations. Assigned IP addresses, hostnames, alias records, NAT’s for DNS, load balancing, firewall and disaster recovery configurations.
  • MQ and Managed File Transfer with external business partners. Included load balancing and DR
  • Performed systems and networks troubleshooting.
  • Managed configuration change processes. Managed configuration management data base for inventory of systems, applications, system owners and support personnel. Utilized Confidential tools such as JIRA and Service Now for ticketing, CMDB, and change control. Attended global tower change control meetings as single point of contact for changes. Formulated justification, test and rollback plans for changes.
  • Utilized ARCHER and GRID for corporate information security policy management, approvals and implementations. HP PPM, MS Project as well as MS Office suite of tools (Word, Visio, Excel, and Power Point) and MS SharePoint were used for project management.
  • Managed project teams with scrum and traditional project management methods as appropriate.

Confidential, TX

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Multiple Data Center relocation, replatforming and exit projects for multiple clients.
  • Client facing Bid Manager for client RFP/RFQ inquiries, ITO projects and hardware/software sales. Managed RFP team and process for projects up to $25M.
  • Managed existing client and new logo relationships
  • Senior Project Manager managing multiple simultaneous projects for all phases (initiate, plan, execute, control, close) of Fortune 500 enterprise client ITO projects.
  • Developed and managed project activities and documents supporting business case, risk, constraints, charter, scope, requirements, procurement, resources, budget, schedule, proposals and SOW’s/ROM’s, risks and issues, project communications and meetings (waterfall and agile sprints), project execution, change management, forecasting and variance reporting, project acceptance and operations hand-off, lessons learned, record keeping, project closure, etc.
  • Develop project financials for CFO and COO level presentations for financial and functional/operational project approvals, internal and external clients.
  • Managed bid factory/PMO demand according to Confidential corporate processes, standards, and SLA’s
  • Engaged appropriate matrix project resources on-shore/near-shore/off-shore for virtual project teams and projects as required

Confidential, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Project manager and solutions architect for Confidential Regional Medical hospital client. As consulting technology project manager, projects included:
  • Data Center consolidation - consolidate mid-range servers and storage from satellite DC’s to main DC.
  • Server and SAN O/S upgrades
  • Blade server upgrades (Cisco UCS)
  • Virtual Tape Library implementation. Migrated midrange/mainframe IBM tape libraries to VTL IBM SAN (XIV/DS8000/SVC) software and hardware upgrades.
  • Application and workstation roll-outs (i.e. 3M HIS workstation, EDM, Windows desktops, etc.). Rollout enterprise wide hospital management and recording keeping hardware and software replacing outdated hardware and software.
  • Desktop Image standardization.
  • Developed IT Policies and Procedures
  • Specified and managed firewall, load balancing, VPN installations and configurations
  • SSO Implementation - Implement single sign on for Windows desktops/IBM mainframe.
  • Specified and managed firewall, load balancing, VPN and security installations, load testing, penetration testing, intrusion prevention/detection and configurations
  • Planning and rollout of security Implementations of Active Directory policies, OU’s.

Confidential, NY

Global Infrastructure Program Manager

Responsibilities:

  • As contract Global Infrastructure Program Manager for Rates, E-trading and FX/Currencies at the Investment Bank, was responsible for:
  • Multiple Data Center relocation, consolidation, replatforming and exit projects
  • Delivery of new application environments for the development teams and Chief Business Technologists.
  • End of Life and unsupported hardware/software remediation and technology refreshes
  • Manage program budget in up to $50M
  • SOX and risk compliance for investment bank's trading systems
  • Recruit, hire and manage a project team of over 25 direct reports (PM’s, Server Engineers, DBA’s, Web Developers) located Houston, New York, London and Bangalore
  • Conduct executive management project status meetings and staff meetings
  • Architect solutions for portfolio
  • Managed Project Portfolio using CA Clarity PPM, MS Project, MS Office tools.
  • New deployments of WebLogic and Apache on Linux and Wintel ESX servers/VM’s; DB2, Oracle, Sybase and SQL server, Solaris native servers, MQ. Solaris to Linux migrations, security certificates/SSL. Managed File Transfer (Sterling), and others.
  • Specified and managed firewall, load balancing, VPN and security installations, load testing, penetration testing, intrusion prevention/detection and configurations. Platforms deployed implemented RSA Secure ID two factor authentication.
  • Conduct End of Life program for in-scope IT assets
  • Virtualization of front-end, middleware, and backend servers and applications
  • Extra-net circuits and client connectivity projects
  • Conduct high-visibility fast-track pilot projects (Agile/sprints) as well as traditional waterfall projects
  • Mentor/coach teams on a variety of business and technology topics
  • Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery analysis, planning, implementation and testing
  • MQ and Managed File Transfer with external business partners. Included load balancing and DR
  • Conduct post-mortem reviews for RCA, lessons learned and go-to-green plans.
  • Conduct daily standups meetings and briefings, acted as scrum master
  • Utilized CA Clarity PPM, MS Project, MS Office apps (Excel, pivot tables, macros, VB scripting), JIRA to manage project portfolio and projects.
  • Projects included executing strategies to meet operational and financial goals via server consolidations, re-platforming, data center migrations, relocations and decommissions, storage rationalizations, team sizing.
  • Managed project teams with scrum and traditional project management methods as appropriate.

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer/Solutions Architect/Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Roles included Systems Engineer, Oracle/SQL DBA, network engineer, Sr. Infrastructure Engineer and Infrastructure Team Leader/Manager for clients including Advanced Micro Devices (IC Manufacturing), RailAmerica (shortline railroad holding company), Norwegian Cruise Lines clients for more than 10 years.
  • Hands-on team lead; Managed all technical aspects of the customer environments including level 2 and 3 support and help desk.
  • End-to-end responsibility for the life cycle of the client’s applications and infrastructure, application performance and availability.
  • Planned/executed client data center migrations/moves
  • Handled corporate acquisitions and divestitures in a highly dynamic environment
  • Managed the technical account team for enterprise client Rail America for 10 years
  • Engineered enterprise solutions for 80+ client (Rail America) geographical locations.
  • Re-platformed existing ERP systems to achieve client performance and capacity expectations.
  • Handled migration from legacy ERP to SAP R/3 to support complex global corporate financial structure of public held railroad holding company. Provided ongoing SAP ABAP support.
  • Implemented SAP Enterprise Asset Management for RailAmerica client.
  • Managed account financials including budgeting/planning, monthly billings and reporting.
  • Architected/implemented/supported Citrix solutions for global client's core operations application
  • Architected/Implemented/Managed/Supported File Transfer (Sterling MFT), and EDI with external business partners
  • Lead SA/DBA/Network engineer and architect for SAP Oracle on Solaris, Red Hat Linux servers, Windows servers, HPUX servers, AIX servers; storage, Lead Network Engineer for all Internets, WAN, LAN, ISDN, dial-up and VPN networks, intra/extra-nets including Exchange, SMTP, DNS, active directory, firewalls, data, network and site security including Internet domains, security certificates/SSL, anti-virus and intrusion prevention/detection, penetration testing, etc.
  • Responsible for all desktop and laptop systems, telephony,/VoIP and related software and devices
  • Disaster Recovery analysis, planning, implementation, testing.
  • Prepared IT policies, SOX policies, provided internal and external IT audit support, prepared business cases and project proposals, invoices, financial models, budgets, forecasts
  • EDS SME high-profile fast-track projects utilizing Solaris 10, Apache, Fatwire, Oracle, BEA WebLogic, EMC SAN, and F5 Big IP.
  • Managed project teams with scrum and traditional project management methods as appropriate.

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