SUMMARY

• Business Process Improvement Consultant
• Short - Term and Long-Term Strategic Planning
• Vendor Selection & Management
• Program / Project Management
• 27+ Years Management Experience: {Big 5 Consulting, Fortune 1000 Manufacturing,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONFIDENTIAL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• I managed the coordination and completion of the following project artifacts:
• Project Charter, Stakeholder Assessment, Business Requirements Document, Functional Design
• Project Justification, Risk/Issues Log, Project Governance & Communication, Project KPI’s
• Security Risk Analysis, Planning, Cost Breakdown, Project Kick-Off, Solutions Design Document, and weekly status reporting to Core Team and International Key Stakeholders in the Netherlands

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Cost, schedule, and technical performance
• Production of all artifacts documenting the above process (PMP, Forecast, & Risk Register)
• Ensuring all aspects of the project are communicated effectively to the appropriate stakeholders
• Lead forecasting efforts for projects - know and understand all components of forecast templates
• Conduct Estimates To Complete (ETCs) when appropriate
• Change Control activities and communication management to Senior Management / Stakeholders
• Provided day-to-day leadership and management to Rainco Industries and demonstrate willingness to assist its subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners wif their operations
• Responsible for driving subsidiaries to achieve and surpass sales, profitability, cash flow and business goals and objectives
• Managed the metrics all processes internal and external, while providing timely, accurate and completed reports on the operating condition of all subsidiaries and affiliates.
• Collaborated wif senior management teams to develop and implement plans for the operational infrastructure of systems, processes, and personnel designed to accommodate the rapid growth objectives and strategies for their respective organizations
• Assisted, as required, in raising additional capital at appropriate valuations to enable the Company to meet sales, growth, and market share objectives

Confidential

Project Management

Responsibilities

• Supervised infrastructure or operational staff in support of the IT and enterprise environment
• Directed infrastructure teams in one or more areas of expertise including, but not limited to, networking, server and data management, security, operations, disaster recovery, desktop and handheld devices
• Instructed infrastructure teams in the areas of scheduling, technical direction, future planning and standard deployment practices
• Met scheduled milestones to ensure project objectives are met in a timely manner and TEMPhas in-depth knowledge of the principals, theories, practices and techniques for managing the activities related to planning, managing and implementing infrastructure projects
• Tracked and monitored project execution, regularly updating project plans, budget, forecasting, and status reporting
• Actively identified any issues or risks associated wif a project, escalating them and possibly implementing mitigation strategies for risk prevention and timely resolution
• Served as initial point of escalation for all project management issues
• Assisted senior level management in coordinating business area activities and balancing workload

Confidential

Enterprise Infrastructure Support

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management support for process improvement initiatives including: EIS Workflow Phase I & II, Monitoring/Alerting Phase 1-3, Clarity Build Process, Technical Escalations, New Requirements for Level II Support, Cognizant Off-Shore Ramp Up, Corporate Training, and P1/P2 Notifications.Ensured the all Middleware products that provide support for Workload Management and Software Migration are upgraded to ensure adequate vendor support and advance planning for end-of-date releases. The product upgrades and their respective workstreams include: CA-7, CA-Autosys, CA Scheduling Agents, CA-Enterprise Workbench, and Oracle Database Upgrades.
• Retired 300 existing (15%) servers that were over five years old. Purchase next-generation servers for development and testing of new versions of core products; Configure ILO server management authentication to use enterprise authentication (AD); deploy the current release of HP SIM.Sunset of 200 UNIX servers (~20%) wif OS versions older than N-3, and hardware versions greater than five years.1000+ servers across the Charlotte Production environment were rationalized and moved to a standard environment through server virtualization.
• Server Virtualization reduced the footprint in the environment, and associated support cost.Allow global policy changes from a central point in an expedited manor; Insure UID uniqueness, preventing accidental granting of access rights; Reduce administrative resources consumed to maintain the UNIX environments; Enable the UNIX servers to comply wif IT5135 Access Control Standard and IT5136 Corporate User ID Standard.
• Reviewed aging components and retired them from the current Citrix environment. The new components were incorporated into the standard design, review, optimization/rationalization, upgrade, replatforming, and consolidation. Savings were realized from reduction in physical infrastructure maintenance.