SUMMARY

• Quality - driven senior IT project manager that has a 20+-year success record of planning and directing the completion of multi-million dollar initiatives for financial services, pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
• Proven ability to lead global project teams to achieve goals within schedule and budget parameters by using Agile methodologies and Lean best practices to ensure operational consistency.
• Possesses extensive hardware, software, network and IT security product knowledge due to being entrusted with senior-level infrastructure management responsibility.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Agile Project Management
• Regulatory Compliance
• IT Infrastructure
• Disaster Recovery
• Project Planning
• Cyber Security
• Project Reporting
• Product Demonstration
• Requirements Management
• Data Centers
• Servers
• Mobility Solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Cyber Security Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Completed all deployments on time and on budget by using Agile sprint meeting to manage project operations.
• Working with Procurement, managed the process to have NDAs put into place for Vendors.
• Managed Projects from the Initial Vendor contact and POC through Installation and support of Intrusion Prevention IPS (TRAPX), Intrusion Detection IDS (Illusive, Tanium) and Incident Management IM (Archer) for the cyber security group.
• Coordinated meetings and presentations for upper management with Vendors being considered.
• Worked with Security Architects to develop Use Cases to test the reliability of the products.
• Managed engineering support processes to develop the infrastructure needed to run the security applications with a strong emphasis on key performance indicators assuring top performance and minimal network impact.
• Managed the POC process to evaluate and test the Vendors products. The POC process included the management of a team consisting of Engineers, Architects and End Users. During this process these teams were responsible to me for all process involved as well as time and resources expended during this period.
• Challenged project teams to demonstrate a clear ROI and TCO for each solution by customizing the development of project KPIs.
• Maintained senior management confidence in the ability to complete key initiatives by providing in-depth project reporting.
• Tracked and managed infrastructure upgrades and application requests using JIRA
• Managed multiple meetings during off hours due to Global commitments.

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the entire project lifecycle from developing and presenting business cases to executing weekly meetings through project completion.
• Directed the installation of Citrix technology into global data centers ensuring consistent configuration at each location.
• Partnered with software developers and testers to complete the error-free launch of a comprehensive mobile testing and next generation mobile monitoring systems.

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrated the installation of Confidential networking solutions for financial clients, state and city schools.
• Core duties including managing network technology installation teams, handling project planning, facilitating sprint meetings and completing customer project reporting.

Confidential

Sr. Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Excelled at gathering complex global technology requirements and managing the completion of each initiative in compliance with industry regulatory standards.
• Completed over 45 technology implementations by cultivating seamless collaboration with customer management, development and testing teams.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Effectively managed IT vendors and internal project teams to complete solution configuration, testing and implementation.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Played an integral role in ensuring the smooth integration of an acquired hedge fund company by overseeing the integration of data centers with corporate resources.
• Directed server and storage modernization initiatives resulting in better file and SAN storage.

Confidential

Vice President of Sales & Marketing

Responsibilities:

• Generated strong revenue increases for the company by auditing and redesigning pre and post sales presentation and Barracuda technology implementation processes.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected and managed a project to transition to EMC Disk Library (EDL) Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution replacing conventional tape storage for over 150 Lotus Notes servers.
• Managed Data Domain De-Duplication System implementation that encompassed 3 data center locations that slashed storage process cycle time by 30% and that reduced WAN, storage, and physical tape requirements by 80%, 60%, and 75%, respectively.
• Managed the archiving of legacy data and email to EMC Centera, utilizing tier 3 storage which reduced the requirement for tier 1 storage and thereby reducing storage cost significantly.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Project Manager directing a 9 month project orchestrating the enterprise upgrade for all production and development infrastructure to Oracle 9i with UNIX valued at $10M.
• Guided design, procurement, and deployment of 6 EMC units for 3 sites within $5M budget to achieve 140TB of incremental storage, to implement 2 DMX units and Celerra unit for NAS, and to establish Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) between production and disaster recovery site.

Confidential

Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the build out of two state of the art datacenters running an online trading system.
• The design was a three tier architecture utilizing load balancing to keep them in sync.
• The Oracle backend database was kept in sync via Quest software with an upgrade rate of less than 1 second.
• Once both data centers were up and functional I managed a project to migrate the data from a third data center to both of the new data centers.
• Responsibilities also included resource management (24+ technical engineers - UNIX, Firewall, Oracle Database, and Window Servers), Vendor negotiations and management (EMC, SUN, IBM), Risk assessment, Project scope and full project life cycle reporting, utilizing an ITIL framework.
• Managed compliance with industry/regulatory standards such as SOX, and SAS70.