SUMMARY

• He is well - accomplished IT Project Manager with proven and in-depth technical expertise of over 9 + years of delivering various projects in data security/ data implementations, supported with a solid experience of 12 + years as a database administrator.
• Under his leadership, employing hands on/off style of management, he has delivered large and medium sized database & infrastructure related projects both local and globally.
• He demonstrates capability to be technical, direct global resources, coordinate multiple work group, direct enterprise wide projects., reduce operation costs, improve efficiency and automated IT process.
• He has managed global implementation from concept to testing / certifications, acceptance by business units.
• He is able recruit and manage resources, assess their technical strengths, implement training programs. He has successfully managed database administrators, developers and lead projects.
• Liaising between business and technology teams, he has evaluated & transformed business requirements into technology implementations, created process transformation for a more efficient and homogenous operations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Project Management
• Consensus builder
• Technology Strategy & Planning
• Technical leadership
• Business Continuity data solutions
• Data Governance & Audit
• Data Governance, compliance and security
• Emergent Technology assessment
• Assess risks & makes decision
• Portfolio planning and Budgeting
• Budgeting & program management
• SLDC & Agile - Scrum
• Developing training programs
• IT Business partnership
• Effective communications
• Enterprise Solutions architecture
• Production stability and performance
• Managed global or remote teams
• Managed Multiple projects streams
• Off-Shore project management
• IT process & efficiency
• Database solutions architecture
• Developed & assessed KPIs / RACI
• Mentored and guided interns/junior staff

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Advising on data protection with focus on preventing unauthorized data access/retrieval/modification/destruction
• Developing data solutions & automating document work flow for Mortgage Industry
• Database Identity management solutions.
• Database Audit process and remediation.
• Evaluating hardware and database infrastructure and advise on latency improvements.
• Test performance Solid State Flash array for DB storage.
• Evaluating emergent DB technologies such as mongodb, hadoop, rainstor
• Presenting viable database hosting solutions, especially in database as a platform, as a service concept.
• IT process and improvement.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the audit findings and assess systems against the audit points.
• Identify additional security gaps that exist in the database.
• Evaluate current database & o/s configuration settings, parameters.
• Define audit & database security framework.
• Develop documentation & knowledge training
• Create best practices, policies, security.
• Set audit standards and advise on an implementation plan.
• Identifying additional findings that were missed out by the TWI audit.
• Evaluate current database/ Operating System privileges.
• Develop end-to-end user tracking for each account in the database.
• Measure and test current databases controls and procedures.
• Database account lock-down procedures.
• Knowledge transfer and DBA & end user education.
• Lifecycle mangement of hardware, software, database versions

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted an initial assessment of database security and access approval process for Oracle/MS SQL/SYBASE.
• Gathered understanding of disparate systems and their database.
• Identified & discovered existing gaps in current tools and systems.
• Document existing process and procedures to data access Developed data analysis algorithms.
• Extracted database ID & access privileges Evaluate violations for further remediation.
• Preventing data loss / data manipulation and data protection from unauthorized changes.
• Establish best practices, policies and procedures.
• Engage with IT Application Owner to evaluate allowable access.
• Create security & audit related documentation and maintain artifacts.
• Developed best practices to prevent future violations.
• GAP analysis of existing inventory systems.
• Created and implemented a repeatable audit process from concept to completion.
• Prepare & Communicate Audit related SOW to database manager, directors
• Negotiated & implemented new process enabling faster access systems for data extract.
• Improves compliance reporting time line.
• Defined the audit remediation template that has become the standard for audit remediation reports.
• Engage with application owners for actionable tasks for bringing database into compliance.
• Additionally trained Non DBAs in conducting analysis of data and derive reports.
• Directed implementation of best practices to sustaining database security model.

Confidential

Project Manager / Strategic Platform Manager

Responsibilities:

• Drive internal PaaS service as a new model of database operations.
• Prepare technology presentations for key stake holders.
• Present IT solutions in effective manner & generate consensus, Increase adoption.
• Syndicated solutions architecture & design topology & elicited user feedback.
• Define SLA, KPI's and RACI for platform operations, provisioning, service delivery models.
• Solicited user requirements for future PaaS enhancements.
• Managed multiple releases & upgrades to DHP Paas Platform
• Streamline and Enhance process for provisioning and operations.
• Automated database ordering intake form and streamlined work groups using MS Infopath.
• Lead a team implementing enterprise wide monitoring & alerting system for database platform.
• Regularly conducted meetings with IT partners, operations, operations & engineering.
• Maintained project status, risks, scope creep.
• Reported project RAG status to IT & Business sponsors and steering committee.
• Managed Requirements on JIRA.
• Managed Testing and Defect resolution on HP Quality Center (HP QC).
• Evaluate new products and emergent technologies with vendors.
• Created internal training programs for DBA staff.
• Persuaded product and database platform adoption, thus reducing individual CAPEX.
• Created database governance & access standards to be compliant.
• Audit, access traceability & accountability measures.
• Involved in data-center relocation projects.
• Program resource & effort estimation.