SUMMARY:

• Highly effective, results - producing PMP Certified Information Technology project manager with more than twenty years of IT experience analyzing business requirements and planning and successfully leading IT projects in support of critical business goals and objectives.
• Especially adept at communicating with management, vendors, and subject matter experts with a real ability to build and lead top-performing Information Technology project teams.
• Experienced Project Manager leading global wide teams in the banking and automotive industries delivering a number of software and infrastructure projects using a variety of Project Management methodologies.
• More than seven years of Senior Level IT Management experience with two large public agencies with responsibility for managing all IT and telecommunications systems, analyzing agency operating needs, designing and developing systems, obtaining top level management project acceptance, preparing all project management documentation and managing projects from inception to closure.
• Solid skills in writing specifications evaluating bidder’s proposals, and selecting vendors with overall responsibilities for managing the procurement process from RFP to contract closure.
• Adept and experienced with preparing both operational and planning documents.
• Strong technical background in systems architecture, (Wireless; LAN; WAN; SSL; VPN; Authentication, Remote access, ESX virtual servers) Expert level competency with Microsoft Operating Systems with MCP, MCSE and Network + certifications.
• In-depth knowledge and experience with agile and standard project management practices including project plan development, CPM analysis, budget preparation, cost management, time management, risk management and mitigation, integration management, resource leveling, earned value, technical estimate validation, status reporting and overall project objective achievement. Especially skilled at project oversight, validation and verification.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, excellent at maintaining positive client relationships and successfully negotiating with vendors and customers. Extensive experience making presentations to management, Boards of Supervisors and project team members.
• Direct supervisory experience over project teams of technicians, application developers and network engineers. Extensive experience with hiring, motivating and evaluating performance of technical and project teams.
• Managed project from “cradle to grave” prepared project initiation documentation, negotiated credit financing, acquired approval from Board of Supervisors, wrote RFP for vendor selection, evaluated vendor responses, and selected vendor. Following selection, managed implementation team of two internal and three contractor support engineers, prepared detailed project plans (scope, cost, time, risk, communications etc.) created schedules, budgets and resource utilization plans with Microsoft Project.
• Responsible for preparation of a multiagency RFP for an 8 million dollar 911 call center project. Worked with personnel in other participating agencies throughout the RFP process. Wrote the Sheriff’s Department section of the RFP. After responses were received, participated in evaluation of responses and was key team member in vendor selection. Project Manager Sheriff’s Department implementation with full county - wide responsibility for software (COTS) modifications and redesigns. The project was delivered on time and within budget and the Stanislaus County 911 call center is fully operational and serving the community.
• Financial systems Infrastructure Project Manager delivering project solutions for Ford Motor Company including Oracle 11g upgrade, Teradata, Web Single Sign On and Powerdesigner Modeling tools. Virtualized and consolidated Confidential Corporation Financial Offices migrating the offices to new AD forest and retiring existing forest. Lead project manager for the GM Data Center Transformation program migrating data center assets from HP facilities on a global wide area to new Data Centers in Warren and Milford Michigan.
• Project Manager for Genesis10 providing overall project management leadership for projects involving the virtualization of servers to create an “internal cloud” for the Confidential . Projects include OS remediation, new builds, ESX upgrades and application upgrade and installs.

TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY:

Project Management: Expert with Six Sigma and Waterfall and familiar with Agile project management methodologies.

Software: Expert with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint and Visio as well as Clarity, Nexus and IT Service Manager, Service Now.

Network Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server, Novell Netware, Unix, Linux, Hyper-V and VMware ESX Virtual Environments Sun Solaris.

Networking: VoiP, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, IPX/SPX, and XML, Active Directory and eDirectory, Exchange and Novell Groupwise, Lotus Notes.

Database: MS SQL Server including SQL Statements and Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for the redesign of the backup tape system.
• Created budget, project plans, communications plan and other Project Management Documentation.
• Held regular meetings with SMEs to formulate risk management plans.
• Unfortunately, the project was cancelled due to lack of funds.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for the Microsoft Modernization project. Successful completion of these duties requires upgrade of both custom and COTS/vendor application (including testing plans) to operate on Windows 2012 platforms.
• This requires recoding and other modification of programs to meet the requirements of the new operating system.
• This is accomplished by a combination of vendor involvement and Consumers application development staff.
• The size and scope of the project includes more than 100 applications and all database alterations.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently in the early stages of Business Case Development and project proposal for a Robotics system upgrade and software redesign.
• Completed customer requirements documentation, cost benefit analysis and current situation description.

Confidential

Sr. Project/Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all areas of Six Sigma Methodology Project Management activities including identifying customer requirements, formulating technical solutions, developing project plans and budgets. Managed a project to move the Confidential Data Center.
• This required reconfiguration of communication AVAYA Phones and supporting software.
• Managed implementation activities including building technical teams preparing budget reports, reporting status to senior management, and execution of technical solutions.
• Project include complete migration of 200 person line of business to new data facility and execution of plan to provide redundancy for critical application servers

Confidential, Warren, MI

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a variety of infrastructure projects supporting key business objectives on a global scale.
• Primary areas of focus is Data Center Consolidation and Virtualization of “metal” servers.
• Produced project plans, migration schedules, backup and recovery plans, financial estimates and budget execution for large scale global wide projects.
• Managed efforts of multiple project teams comprised of personnel from various departments including Telecommunications, Active Directory Engineering and WAN\LAN organizations.
• Successfully migrated applications and virtualized all servers for the GMAM financial office in New York to a new AD Domain.
• Following migration decommissioned all servers as well as the Active Directory Forest.
• Successfully migrated servers and applications from the HP Auburn Hills Data Center to an “in-house” Data Center located in Warren Michigan

Confidential, Farmington, MI

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Project Manager for the conversion and upgrade of the State of Michigan “Crash Program” from PowerBuilder to Oracle based reporting system.
• Developed all project documentation including project plan, communications plans and financial plans and data migration plan.
• Worked with personnel from the Department of Transportation as well as the State Police to insure successful conversion.

Confidential, Rochester Hills, MI

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Project Manager for Windows 7 migration for Confidential .
• Developed project plan, testing plan and all other documentation required for successful implementation of the Operating System Upgrade.
• Conducted successful pilot.
• Unfortunately project was put on hold.