Solutions Architect Resume

SUMMARY

Highly skilled, senior technology and project management professional, possessing 15 years of extensive experience with CA PPM implementations including its resulting organizational change management.
He provides both functional and technical solutions using the application and leads efforts in integrations and upgrades.
He also is skilled in portfolio, program, and project management (PMO) leadership, application development management and aligning business and technology strategies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Analyzed current state of resource management roll - out
Developed recommendations for implementing CA PPM full functionality of demand and capacity management, idea management and portfolio management
Developed and implemented Resource Management Office (RMO) operating model
Led effort to cleanse resource data in CA PPM so that accurate resource and portfolio capacity analysis could be achieved.
Acted as Project Manager / Team Lead for team at Xerox

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Instructed and demonstrated all CA PPM module functionality to director, entire PMO and senior project managers
Authored and delivered Quick Reference Cards for key aspects of each module
Directed process development and limited functionality changes to roll-out CA PPM in 30 days
Interviewed key stakeholders regarding their expectations on implementing CA PPM
Provided recommendations to PMO staff for realizing organizational change
Overcame impediments for moving from a CA PPM On-Premise environment to an On-Demand environment
Identified and compiled a list of over 1200 customizations that needed to be rewritten so that CA would accept the system into their SaaS environment
Spearheaded effort to redesign integrations (Projects, Teams, Tasks, Financial Transactions, Resources) between CA PPM and PeopleSoft to ensure interfaces were SaaS-compliant
Analyzed current state resource management processes and provided to-be process and functional state
Designed and configured CA PPM resource requisition functionality to follow customer requirements
Designed CA PPM scheduling tool allow managers to visually schedule in 15-minute increments
Authored plans, designs, and processes to merge two large instances of CA PPM together into one instance
Architected integrations of CA PPM with Oracle PA, CDH and OTL

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed Executive Dashboard portlets and reports for visibility into resource capacity and demand
Authored best practices document for administrating CA PPM
Designed educational materials and provided training to 12 classes on functionality of Open Workbench and its integration with CA PPM
Implemented CA PPM using an Agile approach
Created a custom Idea Scorecard that assisted in ranking ideas for portfolio management

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

Delivered a technology assessment regarding enterprise investment portfolio management - highlighting as-is usage of CA PPM, its interfaces to other applications, and applicability to portfolio management. Recommended improvements included:
Simplify tool suite to improve data management and reporting
Develop and implement full resource management and capacity planning
Implement an enterprise reporting and business intelligence strategy
Encourage investment transparency