SUMMARY:

• Director & Project Manager, teams of 6 to 60 direct reports. Iterative, Waterfall and Agile project planning tools in on and offshore application development
• Serviced small to large companies which included fortune 50 & 100 pharmaceutical, banking, financial & investment organizations.
• Operation, manufacturing, audit, banking, mutual fund, wealth management, human resources, payroll, insurance personal, commercial and re - insurance lines.
• State & local government platforms serving a broad base of service, 911, EMS, Fire, Police and state operational functions/services.
• Client & user interfacing in every environment to accomplish business analysis to document, modify and as new application development tools were needed
• Business analyst, developed work breakdown structure (WBS) took environments from card board boxes to real-time online systems
• Supported Sales in developing RFP/ RFI responses, moving from above to statement of work (SOW) for client kickoff and then to project plan
• Managed and directed DBA teams in development of new DB2 platforms
• Assisted senior level managers on platform needs to expand production executions
• Involved in UX and UI during UAT efforts during development and through implementations both initial and phased deliveries, participated in training to manage any changes that customers raised in real time activities
• Strong knowledge of both System/Software development life cycle (SDLC) and Project/Program development life cycle (PDLC) process and procedures, documentation and procedural user and background

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE: IBM mainframe, midrange, Desktop/PC, Honeywell, & Servers.

SOFTWARE: OS/MVS, EVSA/MVS, COBOL, VSAM, OS/JCL & Utilities, TSO/ISPF, DB2, IMS DB/DC,IDMS, MOD204, DATACOM DB/DC, Ideal, ADS/O, CICS, SQL Culprit, EDP Auditor, EASYTRIEVE, PL/1, Focus, Assembler, M&D, D&B, TESSERACT, MS Office Suite, Access, Project Workbench, VISIO, Disaster Recovery Planning, SEI CMM LV3.

Knowledge in: MQ Series, TCP/IP, VB, JAVA, HTML, UNIX, BRIO, Six Sigma, C#, VB.Net, OOP, SAAS technologies/environments

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked starting in 3/27/18 until 9/15/19 with various construction companies as a temporary laborer
• Did roofing, bathroom remodels, room additions, painting and more.
• Work at local farms that needed temporary help during product harvest

Confidential

Project Manager, SA, BA

Responsibilities:

• Public safety software SaaS supporting Police, Fire & EMS, Dispatch facilities nationally
• Reviewing RFP and determining the project requirements and deliverables for future installs
• Involved in client Kick Off, UAT, Go-Live processes
• Project plan development templates for use within the organization by other PMs
• Gaining an understanding of the products functions and clients needs and how to use it efficiently
• Managed a team from 4 to 12 including offshore developers, supported client efforts by developing SOW, Project Plan which required technical SME estimation on timelines and Kick Off meeting and subsequent product install at client sites.
• Agile project management development environments to address product upgrades for release to client’s production systems

Confidential

Project Manager, Sr Technical Manager, PA, BA

Responsibilities:

• Service provider managing teams of mainframe DB2 DBA, CICS programmer, performance reporting and programmer analysts addressing clients’ maintenance needs
• Interfaced with client representatives, coordinate the staffing coverage, managed reporting responsibilities and assignments and project deliverables
• Agile and waterfall project management development and responsible for production release upgrades
• Projects included building test production platforms environments quarterly meeting future testing requirements and acting as a business analyst to support the business user’s system requirements
• Supporting of 24 x 7, CICS systems environment, including production issue, management and promotion of online programs to production and region build
• Establishing procedures for use of automated tools and needs to support the clients
• The running and building of SQL analysis using a client tool for production DB2 program promotion and reviewing progress of all support efforts via SQL analysis
• Development/maintenance of programs meeting client production needs
• Enhancing the goals and needs of a client call team operating (help desk)

CIO, Project Manager, Sr Technical Manager, PA, BA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Clients Payroll service and Wealth management organization
• Provided full project development life cycle, analysis, design, development, documentation, installation, UAT testing and modification of financial/banking applications for customers
• Partner with SME in business units, and technology department to analyzed legacy software to identify inherent business rules web centric design analysis for future development
• Working for payroll service bureau, located in southern NJ supporting a mainframe application with Citrix server front end and FTP interfaces
• Role also included technology augmentation, interface with clients on marketing, product demos, deal with DBA and application software groups managing custom installations

Confidential

Project Manager, Sr Technical Manager, PA

Responsibilities:

• CRO Clinical Trial Project management consultancy
• Provided full project management within a clinical trial organization phase 2 thru 4 trials
• Partner with business users, client management, statisticians to prioritize requirements with planned trial
• Developed validation rules, user acceptance testing and production promotion, design code with a custom tool
• Established and enforced project priorities, mentor and trust to accomplish the project objectives
• Develop training manuals for system enhancements, tracked change per user requests
• Maintained client management processes and documentation and Helpdesk training and interfacing
• Used MS Projects, Access, Visio and proprietary documentation and development tools for trial management and investigator user manuals, training presentations
• Coordinated logistics of hardware deployment and Helpdesk training and interfacing

Project Manager, Sr Technical Manager, PA, BA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Dove industries window manufacturer with retail & wholesale business
• Provided full system development cycle on financial system modification tested and implemented for client
• Converted company acquisitions through data mapping and reformats to existing applications
• Provided management of project, including user and operation interface, status reports, technical support
• As business analyst worked with business users prioritize requirements in conjunction with planned solutions
• Provided training for new system enhancements with hands on and training manuals
• Managed the project planning, definition, and requirements gathered to support enhancements

Confidential

Director, Project Manager, Sr Technical Manager, BA, PA

Responsibilities:

• Company involvement in Banking, Wealth & Portfolio Management and trading activities
• Provided director & project management for development which included system acceptance testing, system integration, installation, documentation and promotion to organization production environment
• Program technologies COBOL, MQ, CICS, DB2 and other mainframe tools for development,
• Partnered and worked with business units and developer to prioritize the requirements in conjunction with the planned solutions
• Managed the development, project planning throughout the project life cycle, using MS projects, Visio
• Provided guidance to on & offshore teams for new system enhancements
• Tested programs to support the trading applications
• Provided change request management for ongoing enhancements
• Supported web and mainframe applications using MQ architecture, including data transfers using FTP/NDM architecture
• Additional support required a complete understanding of the application area including problem analysis and resolution with a variety of business departments, CMMI project tools used for all development and documentation efforts