Professional Summary:

PMP certified Sr. IT Project Manager offering 15 years of progressive IT Project/Program Management with a strong background in complex IT infrastructure modernization, implementation and integrations. Encompassing areas such as networking, cloud computing, virtualization, IPT/VoIP. Proven success leading multi-million dollar projects with distributed, cross-functional project teams of 20 members within industries such as retail, biomedical-pharmaceutical, financial services, travel/leisure and professional services.

Skills:

• PMP/ PMI/PMBOK
• CSM /Scrum /Agile
• Distributed Team Management
• Professional Services
• IT Infrastructure
• PDC/ Cloud Computing
• VoIP/IPT
• MS Project/Office
• SDLC/PLC
• Regulated Environments
• Data Center
• Networking/MPLS
• Migration/Implementations/Integrations/Consolidations
• ERP/CRM/DW

Professional Experience:

Sr. IT Project Manager Confidential

• Managing multi-million dollar IT Infrastructure modernization and implementation projects with distributed cross-functional teams of 25 plus members. Projects and Accomplishments:
• Next Generation WAN
• Manage 8m store network modernization project. Inclusive of resilient MPLS head end infrastructure, migration to MPLS from DSL , and Cisco 2911 firewall/router replacement in 2500 North American retail locations. Delivering network stabilization, standardization and scalability
• West Campus Corporate Headquarter Expansion
• Managed IT work streams for the expansion of TJX corporate headquarters into newly acquired campus with a budget of 10m and 30 member project team. Inclusive of network infrastructure integration, IDF/MDF, structured cabling, Avaya VoIP integration, video conferencing, data center/lab build, storage, server installation.

Sr. IT Project Manager - Confidential

• Managing the Virtualized Private Data Center VPDC migration for one of Savvis Enterprise Top 10 Clients in the East. Project scope virtualization, migration, host and management of client's IT infrastructure. Project team size of 15 members. Project budget 500k.
• Project Deliverables/Accomplishments:
• Cloud Workload Planning
• 40 customer applications
• Advanced Cloud On-boarding Support
• Virtualization
• Application remediation and migration to Windows Server 2008
• Database migration PCI compliant
• Active Directory
• o Build/Migrate/Host/Manage client's AD domain
• Citrix
• Build/Migrate/Host/Manage client's Citrix farm
• Network
• MPLS Circuits - Primary and Secondary
• IPSec/VPN - off band connectivity from client to Savvis hosted AD domain
• Cloud Connect from hosted AD domain to VPDC
• Security Assessment:
• Assess target state architecture vs client security requirements
• Security hardening for OS images and VM's
• Deliver a run book based on security best practices to address gaps in security

Global Technical Services Project Manager

Confidential

Proactively managed several infrastructure modernization projects critical to the implementation of the global Follow-the-Sun program. Delivered integrated core IT infrastructure which facilitates 24x7 access to real-time data to a global community of 5000 end users spanning 12 affiliates across the world. Successfully partnered with technology, commercial and business units. Managed cross-functional distributed project teams with 20 plus members and budgets exceeding 5million.

Projects and Accomplishments:

Global Customer Relationship Management GCRM :

• Successfully managed the global CRM project which included the expansion and modernization of an enterprise Siebel 8 CRM and Help Desk infrastructure.
• Delivered a scalable, highly available UNIX, Oracle RAC, EMC shared storage, SDLC architecture which services millions of external clients as well as 5000 end users spanning 12 affiliates across the globe.
• Global Commercial Data Warehouse GCDW :
• Lead the project to architect and deploy a Global Commercial Data Warehouse. Delivered scalable, UNIX Oracle RAC and shared storage, SDLC architecture which facilitates a global follow-the-sun operations that provides high level of availability to a global user community spanning all time zones.

Business Intelligence BI :

• Lead the BI project which positioned the Informatica ETL Extract, Transform and Load architecture with the ability to effectively leverage the GCDW and GCRM environments to provide reliable/quality data integration which services the Commercial, Financial and Clinical units. Delivered an automated and failover capable Informatica PowerCenter, ETL/Enterprise Grid architecture solution.
• System Center Configuration Manager SCCM Upgrade:
• Managed the project to upgrade the enterprise Microsoft SMS to Microsoft SCCM. Partnered with Microsoft Consulting Services to deliver a global system center configuration management system that automates the administration and distribution of O/S, software, applications and updates across Microsoft platforms.

IT Implementation Project Manager

Confidential

• Acted in a trusted advisor capacity, partnering with external clients throughout project/program life cycles, to ensure successful implementation and migration of data, network and application initiatives.
• Lead concurrent projects teams of internal technical resources, vendor resources and client resources, throughout project life cycle, delivering optimal solutions for clients in various sectors including health care, civil engineering, architecture, insurance, technology, manufacturing and distribution.

Projects and Accomplishments:

• Data Center and Network Infrastructure Implementation: Multi-Campus Medical Care Facility
• Directed the implementation of a multi-million dollar, multi-phased program, Cisco unified voice and data infrastructure for a newly constructed 151,000 sq ft hospital and its affiliated medical office buildings.
• Delivered a redundant VoIP based IPT communications system, Cisco network switching, integrated emergency response system, Unity voicemail system and wireless infrastructure which services 2300 employees across five locations.
• Communication Management System Modernization: Multi-Site Hospital
• Lead the integration of Cisco Unified Communications Management UCM system, Unity voicemail system and Cisco network switching infrastructure replacing legacy Nortel PBX system for full-service medical care facility. Delivered a scalable communications management system which services 1200 staff members across three locations.
• Unified Call Management System Deployment: Multi-Location Insurance Agency
• Managed the deployment of Cisco UCM system for a full-service insurance company. Delivered a redundant unified communications system which provides secure voice and data services for 300 employees across five branch locations.
• Application and Infrastructure Modernization: Civil Engineering Firm
• Directed the migration to Microsoft Exchange from Lotus Notes , network, IPT, UCM expansion and modernization for a 200 person, multi-location civil engineering firm.

Professional Development:

Achieved PMP Certification through PMI Project Management Institute

Manager of Midrange Infrastructure

Confidential

• Project Manager for IT Infrastructure initiatives with primary focus on the company's core business systems i.e. IBM midrange environments.
• Functional Manager accountable for eight direct reports responsible for system architecture, engineering, administration, and support of over 60 physical and logical IBM AS400, iSeries, AIX environments that facilitated the processing of billions of dollars in annual transactions and serviced over 1500 employees across three locations in a 24x7 operations environment.

Projects and Accomplishments:

• Midrange Infrastructure Modernization Project:
• Multi-million dollar initiative to optimize and modernize the IT environment for mission critical backend systems. Key deliverables included: Redundant and Highly Available IBM Infrastructure including Unix AIX and iSeries AS400 server environments. EMC storage integration. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Established and continuously developed the midrange engineering team with the expertise to design, build and support the midrange infrastructure iSeries, AS400 and AIX/Unix which facilitated multi-billion dollars a year in transaction processing.
• Delivered Unix and Oracle based data warehouse DW infrastructure
• Delivered Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions for mission critical IT environments iSeries, AS400 and Unix/AIX.
• Integration of a scalable server based, cross-system automation solution Control-M Deployment of Midrange infrastructure capable of accommodating the enterprise solution development life cycle SDLC
• Implementation of system security tools and solutions across the Midrange platform iSeries, AS400 and Unix/AIX

IT Project Manager

Confidential

• Partnered with external clients in industries such as financial, aerospace and retail to provide project management, business analysis and system engineering expertise.
• Lead technology initiatives through SDLC and project life cycles.
• Projects and Accomplishments:
• Planned and managed the consolidation of enterprise business systems.
• Implementation of system automation. Delivered a more cost effective and streamlined IT operations.
• Lead business analysis efforts for the migration and consolidation of human resource information system.

Sr. Midrange Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Project Manager for midrange infrastructure projects and initiatives and lead engineer for the enterprise IBM AS400, iSeries infrastructure. Supported a 24x7 environment for the distribution centers, retail stores and business units. Realized significant reduction in midrange infrastructure operational overhead.
• Projects and Accomplishments:
• Deployment of scalable IBM midrange iSeries/AS400 infrastructure. Delivered cost effective, consolidated environments that facilitated implementation of SDLC framework.
• Implementation of process automation. Executed the deployment of integrated automation Robot of critical business processes for the financial, HRMS, JDA retail and PKMS warehouse management systems.

Midrange Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Automation of business processes and system operations for the enterprise reservation management system. Delivered lights out operations and accomplished 30 reduction in operational costs.
• Projects and Accomplishments:
• Lead project engineer for IT infrastructure projects, partnered with business units and IT to deliver business critical initiatives. Supported 24x7 backend reservation management systems.
• Deployment of a new IBM server infrastructure which increased processing throughput and reduced footprint.

Professional Development:

• Boston University, Project Management Program PMI compliant :
• Comprehensive Project Management
• Principles of Project Management
• Foundations of Project Management
• BigVisible Solutions, Scrum Master Certification/Education