Sr. Program/project Manager Resume
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Paramus, NJ
SUMMARY
- Quality - driven senior IT project manager that has a 25+-year success record of planning and directing the completion of multi-million-dollar initiatives for financial services, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
- Proven ability to lead global project teams to achieve goals within schedule and budget parameters by using Agile methodologies and Lean best practices to ensure operational consistency.
- Possesses extensive hardware, software, network and Cyber/Physical security products knowledge due to being entrusted with senior-level infrastructure management responsibility.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Agile Project Management
- JIRA
- Regulatory Compliance
- IT Infrastructure
- Disaster Recovery
- VMware
- MS Office Suite
- BMC Remedy AR system PRIME
- Project Planning
- Cyber Security
- Physical Security
- Project Reporting
- Product Demonstration
- Vendor Management
- Clarity
- MS Project
- Firewalls
- Requirements Management
- Risk Management
- Data Centers Buildouts
- Data Center Migrations
- Asset Management
- Mobility Solutions
- MS Visio
- Load Balancers
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Paramus NJ
Sr. Program/Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- The overall administration and design of project framework and portfolio management as it relates to the tracking of Information Technology (IT) projects, also including direct management of one or more medium to large sized, moderate to highly complex projects working in partnership with IT leads
- Conducting and coordination of weekly IT staff meetings to review project status
- Responsible for updates to the weekly leadership report for content and formatting.
- Project supervisory responsibilities for 4 IT engineers/architects maintaining 20+ active IT projects
Confidential
Sr. Program/Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Officiated meetings with LOB leads, Technologists and PM’s
- Responsible for initiating efforts to move the VDS infrastructure to the cloud
- Maintained problem reporting in JIRA.
- Developed schedules for Patching, Backup and Rebooting of servers and desktops.
- Provided plan to sell off or repurpose equipment being replaced by VDI thin clients.
Confidential
Sr. Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Managed projects from inception to installation developing SOW’s, managing POC’s and creations of Run Books. Tracking Risk and Issues via Excel and reporting them to upper management as required and needed.
- Responsible for the Certification of applications projects from planning to execution providing capacity and performance management as required
- Completed all deployments on time and on budget by using Agile deployment methods to manage project operations. Collaborated with stakeholders for processing change requests and effectively managing conflicts, risks and budgetary forecasts and variances.
- Identified potential financial and project risks associated with financial loss due to security breach and/or vendor delivery.
- Working with Procurement, managed the process to have NDAs put into place for Vendors.
- Coordinated meetings and dialog between the Business organizations and the Security Engineers and Architects.
- Managed Projects from the Initial Vendor contact and POC through Installation and support of Intrusion Prevention IPS (TRAPX), Intrusion Detection IDS (Illusive, Tanium) and Incident Management IM (Archer) for the cyber security group.
- Coordinated meetings and presentations for upper management with Vendors being considered.
- Worked with Security Architects to develop Use Cases to test the reliability of the products.
- Managed engineering support processes to develop the infrastructure needed to run the security applications with a strong emphasis on key performance indicators assuring top performance and minimal network impact.
- Managed the POC process to evaluate and test the Vendors products. The POC process included the management of a team consisting of Engineers, Architects and End Users. During this process these teams were responsible to me for all process involved as well as time and resources expended during this period.
- Challenged project teams to demonstrate a clear ROI and TCO for each solution by customizing the development of project KPIs.
- Maintained senior management confidence in the ability to complete key initiatives by providing in-depth project reporting.
- Tracked and managed infrastructure upgrades and application requests using JIRA
- Managed multiple meetings during off hours due to Global commitments.
