Dynamic full life cycle Project Manager with nearly 15 years managing multiple large projects simultaneously. Accomplished, seasoned IT Professional with strong Information Technology experience. Strong decision maker problem solver. Experienced in SDLC and formal PMBOK Project Management methodologies. Managed international matrix teams. Expert cross-level communicator with superb interpersonal skills ability to interact with individuals at all levels and backgrounds. Extensive use of Clarity, KnowledgeLink and SharePoint for Project Management. Accomplished manager in large and medium Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence projects.

Managed all aspects of Project Management, these included, but were not limited to:

• Assisting in generation of SOW, Project Planning, Initialization, Creation and management of Project Definition, Risk Management and Mitigation, Project Budget, Scope and Schedule within boundaries defined by the client with respect to the Triple Constraint, fully responsible for acquisition, allocation, and management of technical staff.
• Handled multiple simultaneous projects, involving Application Upgrades, Warehousing/Business Intelligence, and Infrastructure upgrades.
• 4 years of Sharepoint primarily Enterprise and Document management , Clarity and KnowledgeLink experience with Nortel, Capital One and MetLife
• Project Manager for medium and large-scale projects for MetLife, including hardware replacing P6 servers with P7 and software upgrades App software, Oracle and OS upgrades , along with working with multiple Users/Managers and Vendors for the affected applications. Responsible for Project, Reporting, Metrics, Budget, Resource Allocation for eighteen month Program.
• Program Track Lead for AIX Hardware Software Upgrade Program, headed phase involving OS Upgrade to 1800 partitions, organized SOX compliance artifacts and submissions for 70 75 client systems, functioning as first-line compliance resource. Client Systems include MetLife Dental and Employee Benefits
• Functioned as end-user and vendor contact manager for large scale 1900 servers upgrade for MetLife. This involved negotiating with vendors and end-users regarding delivery and upgrade schedules.
• Project Manager for required Application upgrades for MetLife financial and Healthcare systems
• Managed medium Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence efforts for MetLife involving COGNOS and Oracle installs and upgrades, OBIEE installs, also using SQL for ETL
• Project Manager for large AIX 300 servers migration and Wintel 300 cluster for MetLife.
• Managed Data Center Migration effort that transferred an HSBC Data Center to CapitalOne. This required acquisition of hardware, security hardware and software and installs of all applications.
• Project Manager for Capital One Re-Platforming Program, for Infrastructure projects that were a part of that Program.
• Project Manager for medium to large scale Data Center Migrations for following CSC clients: James River, Pratt Whitney, Nortel, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia.
• Resource Manager and Application owner for Sourcing systems monitored project charges, billing and financial aspects for project.
• Managed medium Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence efforts for following CSC clients: GMLD, Nortel, Pratt and Whitney, Fort James.
• Managed and executed fixed price project upgrading Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence for Nortel project completed within budget, ahead of schedule resulting in CSC awarded two additional fixed price upgrade projects stipulating a no change in project manager clause both new awarded projects were delivered on time and under budget increasing earned value for division. This and Oracle DB upgrades were used to bring use of Agile Methodologies into play with client, this led to greater client satisfaction with delivered products and increased income for CSC

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Project Manager

• Worked as a Project Manager for the Windows XP/ Office 2003 to Windows 7/Office 2007 Desktop/Call Center Migration Effort, This required me to handle scheduling of resources and units for migration. I also would contact technical support for issues and assist on-site technicians with resolution of technical problems.
• Completed and presented Daily Progress reports to upper management of planned and completed migrations, along with issues encountered and resolutions using Clarity, SharePoint and KnowledgeLink.

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Project Manager

• Managed three medium projects involving movement of applications from Capital One and HSBC and applications between HSBC and Capital One.
• Managed Data Center Migration effort that transferred an HSBC Data Center to CapitalOne. This required acquisition of hardware, installation of security hardware and systems and installs of operating and application software.
• Lead the Analysis effort between Capital One and HSBC for Domain Name Change and Separation, as part of the COF HSBC Separation Master Plan. Interfaced with executives across both organizations and lead high level sessions for program plan and schedule development. Functioned as a communications conduit between both organizations and assist in escalation and resolution of cross project issues. Other duties include analyzing and monitoring DNS traffic between the Capital One and HSBC Networks. working closely with the DNS teams, Engineers and Applications Managers to determine and ensure execution of remediation plans to terminate the traffic prior to termination of the DNS Firewall Forwarding Rules.
• Assisting in planning and managing AD Trust Termination Event, DNS Forwarding Termination Event and Firewall Lockdown to follow.
• Worked with the Desktop Support Teams to resolve DHCP interactions between HSBC and COF with regards to COF HSBC Separation.
• Workied with Project Managers and Directors to generate and get approvals for invoices between Capital One and HSBC for work performed as a part of the Cards Separation. This requires validation from the Project Managers for the hours worked on their projects and adjust invoices where necessary I also worked with Project Managers in generating Scoping and Sizing documents and statements and validate their estimates and changes for new and existing projects.

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Project Manager

• Track Lead/Project Manager for AIX Hardware Software Upgrade Program, headed track involving OS Upgrade to 1800 partitions, responsible for Project Plan, Budget, Resource Allocation for eighteen month Program. Managed staff of 20 25 personnel excluding Vendors and Business Owners.
• First Point of contact as liaison between Business Owners and staff, especially regarding financial systems, Health Systems MetLife Dental ,
• Lead Project Manager for DW/BI work involving Oracle Upgrade and OBIEE upgrade concurrent with OS Upgrade for 100 applications, this required coordination with DBAs, BSAs, Application Managers, Developers, Testers, Engineers, Vendors and upper client management. Also required was Application Upgrades to match new OS and DB versions
• Project Manager for MetLife Infrastructure AIX Migration involving 300 servers across multiple Lines of Business.
• Project Manager for Migration of 400 Wintel Cluster Migration
• Project Manager for multiple projects involving Application Upgrades/Installs and concurrent Infrastructure upgrades.
• Worked extensively on SharePoint updates
• Project Manager for Java and Web-based SQL Server, .NET, Windows installs and upgrades, including required application system upgrades.

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Project Manager

• Project Manager for Capital One Re-platforming Program, this involves moving Capital One Lines of Business from PHP platform to Portal rebuilt Requirements documents with client leads, BSAs and new outside vendor for Small Business LOB.
• Managed large Infrastructure Project to upgrade Capital One Web and App servers from Red Hat 3 and PHP4 to Red Hat 5 and PHP5. Managed Project to develop, test and install system Health Checks and Automated Failover from
• Production to DR environment

Confidential

Project Manager

• Managed and executed fixed price project upgrading Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence for Nortel project completed within budget, ahead of schedule resulting in CSC awarded two additional fixed price upgrade projects stipulating a no change in project manager clause both new awarded projects were delivered on time and under budget increasing earned value for division. This and Oracle DB upgrades were used to bring use of Agile Methodologies into play with client, this led to greater client satisfaction with delivered products and increased income for CSC.
• Project manager for Oracle DB upgrades and installs, i.e DW/BI upgrades for Nortel. General Motors Locomotive Division GMLD , Pratt and Whitney P W , James River Fort James .
• Lead and Managed Data Center Migrations for CSC clients, including James River Fort James , Pratt and Whitney, Nortel These involved DB2 to SAP, IMS DB/DC to SAP, Managing COGNOS and Oracle installs and upgrades, SAP upgrades, OBIEE installs. And use of SQL and other software for ETL
• Multiple years of experience in DW/BI including managing DB2 to SAP, IMS DB/DC to SAP conversions, managing COGNOS and Oracle installs and upgrades, SAP upgrades, OBIEE installs.
• Project Manager for CostPoint Project Accounting Software Upgrade for CSC Federal Sector.
• Managed project creating new Insurance Underwriters Quality Assurance.
• Project Manager for several Mainframe App to SAP conversions.
• Functioned as SME and Project Manager for Legacy Mainframe to Web/Server Migration for James River Fort James
• Served as QA and UAT Test Manager for IRS upgrades.
• Developed Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint and Macros to assist in Project Management PMO reporting.

TECHNICAL Skills

• Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point 15 years
• Advanced Excel Training 12 years
• Microsoft Project 12 years
• Microsoft Visio 10 years
• Oracle 9 years
• DB/2 5 years
• IMS DB/DC 7 years
• COBOL 15 years
• SharePoint 6 years
• SAP 8 years
• SQL/SQL Server 8 years
• DNS, DHCP, AD, Data Center experience 6 years