SUMMARY

• Experience managing Windows 2008 to Windows2016 migrations.
• Experience moving applications; identifying interdependencies; discovery of applications on servers and what needs to be moved and determining impact.
• Collaborates with project team members to coordinate and manage project plans, budgets, testing and other project related tasks.
• Part of project teams of 35 - 40 members.
• Background successfully working on highly visible, complex projects with aggressive timelines.
• Develop, plan and implement detailed project plans for major projects ensuring availability and utilization of the right disciplines, skills and staffing leading teams to successful outcomes.
• Effectively communicate project status and risk with stakeholders, sponsors and team members.
• Experience with domestic and international infrastructure and data migrations and deployments.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills; self-starter, motivated, dedicated and thorough.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Infrastructure Project Manager

Confidential - Pasadena, CA

Responsibilities:

• Used Datadobi migration tool to migrate virtual and physical servers to FAAS platform.
• Work with security team to validate compliance requirements.
• Plan and implement schedules with application and technical teams.
• Manage risk and issues.
• Communicate currency status to management and stakeholders.

Infrastructure Project Manager

Confidential - Westwood, CA

Responsibilities:

• Manage project to migrate off of legacy windows 2003 servers the following components: (SQL databases, SSRS reports, jobs, processes and packages) to new servers. Also includes upgrades of SQL from 2005 and 2008 to 2014 and 2016.
• Work with application teams and compliance department to get approval to backend financial data and Clarity reports.
• Re-certified existing user permissions access to new infrastructure.
• Manage risk and issues
• Communicate status to board and stakeholders

Project Manager

Confidential - Pasadena, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed various data center projects to migrate servers off legacy EMC DMX storage to new EMC VMAX storage and remediate servers where required with upgrades to OS, Powerpath and ODM for compatibility to VMAX storage frames.
• Managed various data center projects to migrate EMC storage to Netapp or EMC VNX NAS storage. Also, included remediation of servers for upgrades required prior to migrations.
• Managed server migrations of physical to virtual/cloud and from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008/2012
• Perform discovery on each array and server to identify stakeholders, applications and remediation requirements.
• Secure and manage internal/external resources and vendors. (Kaiser, IBM, EMC)
• Communicate status to team and stakeholders.

Project Manager

Confidential - San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Using my infrastructure expertise I was able to turnaround two business critical projects (NWCS and FNOL) which had run away from their timelines and deliverables.
• This involved managing relationships and teams from midrange, Wintel, network, security, application, database, and email disciplines.

Infrastructure Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated company goals to meet growing capacity requirements, improve scalability/application availability, and reduce software license and server maintenance costs through the implementation of new hardware with a load-balanced configuration, migration of applications to a new server cluster and retirement/repurposing of legacy servers.
• This was accomplished by the build out of a virtual server environment, load test and migration of Confidential ’s core system’s development, test, QA and production environments to a new virtual server environment for enhanced management of licensing and server resources (memory, CPU, etc.).
• Adhered to enterprise expectations and rigor for documentation, reporting and processes.

Infrastructure Project Manager

Confidential - Simi Valley, CA

Responsibilities:

• Budget ~ $800K. Leveraged Netscout’s three monitoring methods (Probe, MIB2 and NetFlow data) to provide Application, Utilization, and Response Time information in a single system. Increased WAN monitoring environments ability to leverage Probes, NetFlow, IPFix, and MIB information. Installed Netscout probes in high traffic, Non-Data Center Core sites and Branch Egress points (GigaMan) and NetFlow at Cisco based Core sites enabling full network visibility throughout the enterprise. Due to this combination of data sources the nGenius system generated reports based on application trending and utilization. Improved monitoring of Countrywide’s WAN traffic resulting in optimized WAN performance.
• Facilitated all IT Service Management/ITIL Programs delivering root cause analysis, business impact analysis, and system availability reporting to business units and increasing average system availability. Managed on-boarding of support for 25 various applications and systems for UAT, incident management using ITIL framework based teams (service desk, knowledgebase, Remedy and web based ticketing, Change/Configuration management, problem management and reporting, etc.). Managed various business critical applications, (Loan Origination, etc.) working with business units to create scorecards for monitoring and reporting baseline performance against SLAs, compliance and business unit expectations. Managed various application and system performance monitoring projects on business critical systems to provide end-to-end base and custom system monitoring using Mercury Business Process Monitors (BPMs, probes for synthetic end-to-end transaction monitoring), NetIQ, Sitescope, Netcool and other tools to insure SLA compliance, health and availability of business critical systems. Provided comprehensive data set of alert responses for various applications and systems to be used to formulate run books used by service desk. Facilitated communication plan between various ITIL service groups for appropriate escalations.