SUMMARY:

• More than twenty five years' as an IT consultant with extensive agile project, program and portfolio management (PPM) and technical experience.
• Has maintained a consistently high skill level by means of on - going practical (hands-on) experience, in addition to formal and informal education (including various technical and management certifications).
• Consults organizations (within a wide range of industries) on the adoption and implementation of appropriate project management methodologies, tools and techniques needed for the successful delivery of quality products and/or services.
• Coaches/mentors Confidential and contract resources regarding effective project management, including the creation (or enhancement of existing) PMO standards/processes (SharePoint, Jira/Confluence workflows, etc.) to facilitate effective transformation from waterfall-type management to an agile approach - regardless of project type (software, infrastructure, facilities, etc.). Industries serviced include: aviation, realty, direct marketing, retail, health care/fitness/insurance, property & casualty Insurance, power management/marketing, interactive media/marketing, dotcoms, legal/litigation, local and state government, federal government (DOD) contractors, engineering, medical, utilities, retirement facilities and pharmaceuticals.
• Standing up Agile Project/Program/Portfolio Management Offices
• Coaching/Mentoring organizations and resources on Waterfall-to-
• Development and deployment of SharePoint and Jira/Confluence Agile transformation/migration based Workflows
• Project/Program/Portfolio Management Execution
• Cloud/Mobile Apps

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies Practiced: PMBOK (PMI), Standard for Portfolio Management (PMI), Standard for Program Management (PMI), Agile Lean/Scrum, RUP, ITIL, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe® 4.0), ANSI/EIA-748 Standard.

Technologies & Tools Used/Managed: HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, Ajax, Ember.js, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Mongoid, RubyMine, Microsoft Access, Hyperion Essbase, AutoCAD, SOA/SAAS (Software as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), Single Sign-on (SSO), Lighthouse,.NET, Silverlight, IBM IAA, CA Clarity (v12), Ms Project Professional, MS SharePoint, WebEx, SAP, FreePlane, iMindMap, TheBrain, Microsoft Visio, Accenture Delivery Method (ADM), Rational RequisitePro, Borland CaliberRM, iBm Rational ClearCase & ClearQuest, Merant PVCS Dimensions, Documentum, PowerDOCS, eRoom, Tenrox, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, MS Outlook, Microsoft SourceSafe, CVS, Subversion, Cucumber, RSpec, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, JRun, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Apache HTTP Server, MS Exchange Server, WebSphere MQ, MSMQ, Oracle BpEl Process Manager, MS BizTalk, Macromedia ColdFusion, Citrix, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase, MySQL, IBM / Informix Cloudscape, Rational Rose, Rational XDE, TogetherSoft, Poseidon, Python, Service Orchestration, OOAD, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL / BPEL4WS, UML, JaVa, J2EE (EJB, JSP, Servlets, etc.), JMS, JSF, STRUTS, Hibernate, Spring Framework, J++, C#, VB, XML, SQL, JavaScript, VB Script, MS Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer, PHP, JavascriptMVC, Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES, SAP SRM 7, Camtasia Studio, Snagit, Adobe PhoneGap, Apache Cordova, Office 2010, Windows 7, Windows 8, Kentico, Drupal 7, Windows Azure, Visual Studio Online, BrowserStack, Durandal, Breeze, Knockout, XCode, iOS, Android, Apple Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store, jQuery Mobile, Dojo Mobile, TopCoat, Node.js, Express.js, LightSwitch, Salesforce, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, Xamarin, Xamarin Studio, Aspera, WordPress, VMware, Nagios, Solarwinds, Management. Office 365, Oracle WebCenter Collaboration Suite, Office 365, Project Online (Server) SharePoint Online, WordPress, Microsoft Team Foundation Server/Services (TFS), Daptiv, Smartsheet, Jira/Confluence, Google Drive, InfoPath.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project/Program/Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coached/mentored resources (FTEs and contractors) regarding software development and infrastructure project management best practices.
• Architected and implemented a Customer Service Representative Sales Commissions system.
• Architected and implemented a web-based nation-wide Sales Agent Licensing system.
• Designed and implemented integration services between telephony system (Lyrical) HTML presentation service (front-end) with a SIEBEL- based (CRM) presentation service with the use of COM and Windows Messaging API, etc.
• Designed integration modules for use with Identitech Digital Imaging system.
• Managed migration of data from a legacy (mainframe-based) database to a Microsoft SQL Server environment.
• Evaluated commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) ETL software products, including Informatica and Oracle Data Warehouse Builder (OWB).
• Managed SIEBEL (COTS) CRM project.
• Architected and implemented custom Java-based Enterprise Data Warehouse ETL processes, incorporating Hyperion Essbase.

Confidential

Project Manager, IT Architect and Developer

Responsibilities:

• Architected, developed and managed various stand-alone, client-server and Internet/Extranet/Intranet software projects, including state- of-the-art online transportation/logistics management systems.
• Managed numerous nation-wide infrastructure projects, associated with LAN, WAN and ultimately Internet-based networks; Windows, Novell and Unix-based platforms, desktop, server and network hardware (Intel, Sun Sparc, Cisco, etc.).

Confidential

Hardware Designer, Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Architected and developed industrial process control systems, incorporating micro-controller-based hardware and firmware (embedded) software.
• Managed corporate aviation avionics facility and maintained flight control systems.

Confidential

Apprentice/Intern

Responsibilities:

• Attended and graduated a 3-year Technical Diploma in Flight Instrumentation and Control Systems.