SUMMARY

• Self - starter and strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and able to envision long-term technology objectives to ensure continued growth.
• Proven ability to bring the benefits of IT to proactively solve business issues and improve processes while effectively managing costs and mitigating risks.
• Saved $1MM on a QA project and completed another software project with 26 people in 11 months where another team had 75 people who previously worked on it 5 years without completion. Project budgets typically from $1MM to $20MM and have managed single and multiple projects with team sizes from 6 to over 150 people.
• Experience handling 3rd party vendors and client facing engagements.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills emphasizing a team approach that contributed to many successful projects.
• Enthusiastic individual with excellent work ethic. Demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of management techniques, organizational development, team building and project execution and great follow through with details. Holds people accountable.
• Develop positive working relationships with other professionals. Maintain regular written and oral communication with technical and management personnel.
• Foster an atmosphere of open, direct communication and team cohesiveness to elevate organizational productivity, efficiency, and technical infrastructures.
• Adept and experienced in problem solving and providing solutions.
• Excellent qualifications in leadership and interpersonal communications.
• Analytical and critical thinker.
• Innovative in day to day operations. Creates processes to drive down costs and improve efficiency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C
• C++
• ASP
• .NET
• C#
• Java
• JavaScript
• J2EE
• UNIX
• Linux
• HP-UX
• Solaris
• IBM Mainframe
• MVS
• TSO
• VMware
• Novell
• Windows XP/Vista/7/10
• Shell Scripts
• Apache Webserver
• Wintel
• SQL
• PL/SQL
• Oracle
• Oracle Developer
• Informix
• Objectime
• Sybase
• SQL Server
• COBOL
• Visual Basic (VB)
• HPVee
• HP Open View
• IVR
• CTI
• Winrunner
• LoadRunner
• SNMP
• Clearcase
• Sablime (Change Management)
• MS Project 97-2016
• MS Office 365
• PowerPoint
• PowerBuilder
• ODBC
• Web
• VxWorks
• C socket programming
• Rational Rose
• Web
• XML
• HTML
• RUP
• UML
• OOP
• OOAD
• SOA
• Webservices
• BizTalk
• VOIP
• AGILE
• SCRUM
• TFS
• SharePoint
• Visual Studio
• RAID
• SATA
• SCSI
• IP
• TCP/IP
• DHCP
• Clarity
• HP PPM T1 T3 OC-3 OC-48 OC-192
• MPLS
• SAN
• Blade Servers
• WordPress
• AD/LDAP
• SDLC
• PLM
• COTS
• VMWare
• PMBOK

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded 40,000 computers to Office 2016 from Office 2000 - 2010 and 22,000 from Jabber to Skype.
• Managed Service Delivery installations and upgrades.
• Nominated employee of the month for creating standardization and reducing defects 33% per ServiceNow reports.

Confidential, Miramar, FL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the email migration and the software upgrade on over 17,000 computers and users to O365.
• Slashed defects 30% and completed project on time and under budget.
• Managed the email, SCCM, AD/IAM, and field teams to complete the upgrades.

Confidential, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned the migration and upgrade of 15,000 employees and completed the upgrade of the top 500 management employees to O365.
• Managed the migration of the shared network drives to SharePoint.
• Managed the upgrade of 500 servers to O365.

Confidential, Doral, FL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed budget, timeline, and scope for a $15M Disaster Recovery site, purchase and setup of that site. This included the selection, purchase, and swap out of the equipment in the primary data center to the DR site as well as the network circuits that were involved.
• Managed the migration and testing of the financials onto the IBM iSeries platform into a DR/HA configuration.
• Managed the setup, construction, equipping and training of staff for a Network Operations Center including all 3rd party contractors.
• Managed 40TB of email migration and upgrade of 10,000 users and computers from Lotus Notes to O365 using Agile methodology which resulted in more users upgraded in one month than the previous 6 months.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed M&A consolidations, managing the administration and installation of cloud services, data center hosting and provisioning in their 26 multi-tenant US data centers which included over 100 petabytes of storage.
• Managed the administration of network circuits, power, hosting, cloud services for data center tenants.

Confidential

Senior Project and Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created standard templates for the PMO and all 2000 project managers to use which reduced project costs and schedules 15%.
• Program managed the SAAS retirement offerings and 3 high level projects to generate more sales and higher ROIs.
• Managed the transition of retiring projects to new higher revenue generating sales offerings.
• Managed the revamping of the Enterprise Service Desk which reduced support costs 75%.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the budget, scope and timetables for 3 projects.
• Managed the US consolidation of Lotus Notes servers resulting in a 60% reduction in server counts and maintenance costs.
• Managed consolidating Cognos 8 into 2 data centers thus reducing costs 20% and creating a centralized portal.
• Managed the Proof of Concept for Click to Chat.

Confidential, Boise, ID

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed high-profile projects budget, scope, and timetables for (COTS (firewall, VPN, video conferencing) retail store upgrades, data center moves and circuit upgrades and more for a savings of $30K/mo.
• Managed 10 grocery chains e-commerce sites with weekly updates.
• Upgraded network circuits in 2 data centers and relocated 7500 servers - Intel, IBM, mainframe.
• Managed outsourcing of data center administration for a savings of $2M/yr.
• Managed replacing VPN for a 15% cost savings.
• Managed replacement of inner and outer firewalls in one data center.

Confidential, Lakeland, FL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the software architecture conversion to .NET for medical/healthcare software.
• Created a 2 year schedule for converting the current architecture to .NET from FoxBase/BizTalk and eliminating a $1M in proprietary software.
• Created a plan to migrate from Oracle to SQL Server reducing costs 20%.