SUMMARY:
Career transitioning professional seeking to leverage project management and previous information technology experience in junior level IT project management position.
RECENT EXPERIENCE:
Project Manager / Principal
Confidential, Fairfax, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Manage commercial construction projects for new gas station and convenience store structures.
- Perform technical project estimates, create business proposals and negotiate construction contracts.
- Estimate required activity resources and plan project schedules using Microsoft Project software.
- Identify, analyze, and mitigate project risk opportunities by actively monitoring all project phases.
- Plan and conduct resource procurement activities to adhere to "just - in-time" site requirements.
- Provide supervision and guidance to 15-20 employees and subcontractors while ensuring exceptional quality, safety, and timely delivery of contracted work.
Supervisor Network Operations
Confidential, Washington, DC
Responsibilities:
- Managed network operations for Washington office of enterprise data communications network.
- Was responsible for project management and implementation of local firm IT initiatives.
- Facilitated supervision and maintenance of all network services including numerous operating system, email, infrastructure, printing, and backup system upgrade projects.
- Acted as technical liaison to 8 field offices comprising 2500 users.
- Was accountable for insuring integrity of mission critical local and offsite data stores.
- Provided technical guidance and supervision for network department staff.
- Acted as firm-lead in evaluating, procuring, and deploying an “electronic copy solution”.
Network Engineer
Confidential . Arlington, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Managed data communications network and network services as lead engineer.
- Evaluated information technology initiatives and provided management of technology projects including the design and implementation of a technology learning facility, database and application conversion projects, and Ecommerce integration.
- Provided technical guidance and supervision for network technicians and helpdesk staff.
- Acted as a technical liaison to headquarters and other field offices.
LAN Specialist
Confidential, Washington, DC
Responsibilities:
- Monitored servers and infrastructure devices and responded to unscheduled outages.
- Resolved network connectivity issues.
- Tested beta software, documented results, and made recommendations as needed.
Network Engineer
Confidential, Vienna, Virginia
Responsibilities:
- Installed and configured new data network installations.
- Provide onsite technical support and troubleshooting for network failures.
- Provide remote technical support to geographically dispersed clients.
