SUMMARY:

• IT Infrastructure/Operations Project Manager with 14+ years experience leading teams in the plan, build, deployment and migration of data center infrastructure, networks, compute, storage, telecom, security, disaster recovery, and new site construction
• Expert vendor coordinator involving data circuit providers, electrical vendors, low voltage cabling, physical security, video conferencing, specialized packing, shipping, e - waste
• Skilled and creative organizer, planner and communicator. Professional and friendly. Quickly builds trust and credibility with customers, management, stakeholders and peers
• Strong verbal/written communication skills, listening skills and presentation skills.
• Fluent in common project management and collaboration tools, such as MS Project, MS Office, MS Visio, SharePoint, Google Suite, Smartsheet, Jira, Skype, Webex, Trello and others
• Manage small to large infrastructure projects, from concept through delivery.
• Ensure schedule, budget, security guidelines and quality specifications are met or exceeded
• Establish and manage the relationship between technology teams, customers, business stakeholders, and all levels of management to ensure productive working relationships
• Create and maintain project documentation; project scope, project schedule, communication plan, RAID log, responsibility matrix, executive status summary, key learnings, etc.
• Schedule and facilitate weekly and ad hoc project team meetings to review tasks, deliverables, progress, performance, and address key issues and risk

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Confidential ’ key IT teams in the planning and execution of the company’s relocation of its 300-person corporate headquarters in San Francisco.
• The project involved moving HQ network and lab infrastructure to new space in New Jersey, as well as migrating key infrastructure from the west coast data center to the east coast.
• Served as a key coordinator between IT, circuit providers, electrical and cabling vendors, to construct a new POS lab/ room in the New Jersey office, install multiple new data circuits, and migrate all lab functionality to the new site.
• Effectively led several network, security and systems administrators in the global deployment of FireEye as a Service (FaaS) as the company’s new data security platform.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Contract Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully partnered Confidential ’s Network and Desktop Support teams with Facilities and construction vendors in the design, build and deployment of all IT infrastructure to roll out two new floors at 199 Fremont St., San Francisco.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the upgrade of the company’s three-building campus networks in San Jose.
• Converted from Aruba wireless equipment to Cisco access points and controllers.
• Contributed to the planning for the migration of the company’s co-located data center in Sunnyvale to a new data center in Las Vegas.
• Drafted several design documents (in Visio) for multiple projects.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Contract Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed IT infrastructure personnel in the planning, testing, and implementation of the company’s first virtual server farm to replace their IBM AIX/DB2 physical servers with HP blade servers, VMware, and Cassandra databases.
• The project delivered Dev. QA, Staging and Production environments.
• Supported the deployment of “Fast Common Catalog” as the first major production application to use the new virtual environment.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed Confidential ’s program to migrate from their many EMC CX3/CX4 storage arrays in North America to new Isilon and Netapp arrays.
• Accelerated the project schedule to avoid significant financial penalties for late return of leased EMC equipment
• Successfully managed the build-out of a new floor in the company’s headquarters building, including a new server room, an engineering lab, an IDF, wired and wireless networking, information security devices and conference room technology.
• Effectively managed the cabling and electrical vendors.
• Successfully managed the upgrade of the UK data center to a new 10GB infrastructure to support Confidential ’s growing Cloud Disaster Recovery service.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the design, build, test and deployment of the company’s first disaster recovery site.
• Coordinated multiple technical teams, multiple circuit and equipment vendors, and all logistics to build, test and move all equipment from a data center in San Francisco to the new DR site in Chicago
• Led numerous projects, from inception to delivery, to support the company’s rapid growth, including the integration of five acquired companies, multiple new site builds, and multiple facilities/tenant improvement projects
• Created and evangelized the company’s first IT infrastructure Lifecycle Management Process (PLcM) which defines how all large IT projects at Riverbed are structured and executed.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Contract Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the build-out of all data center infrastructure (Sun E10000, Netapp, Cisco, Juniper) to support the company’s migration to SAP
• Managed the design and build-out of a new data center at Raging Wire, Rancho Cordova, CA, to be designated as the company's disaster recovery site

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Senior IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed multiple projects to deliver infrastructure to improve/expand the company’s networking architecture, performance and security
• Successfully managed the integration of three company acquisitions.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Lead Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the implementation of a new pharmacy PICK system to improve KP’s pharmaceutical inventory and shipping process.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Contract Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the re-coding, testing and migration of 46 internally-written ASP and JavaScript web applications from Windows 2000/IIS 5 to a new secure Windows 2003/IIS 6 environment.

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Systems Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the on-time delivery of all technology (cabling, wiring closets, networking, servers, PBX, phones and applications)
• Successfully managed the migration of business critical UNIX and Intel servers from various California sites to Providian's new data center in Arlington, Texas.
• Successfully managed the implementation of a corporate network/application monitoring system using tools such as Netcool, NetIQ, BMC Patrol and SNMP agents