SUMMARY:

• Respected leader and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) wif strong business acumen, and 20+ years of experience directing cross - functional teams wif specialization and extensive expertise in Enterprise Information Technology. Results-oriented software development specialist who utilizes proven process methodologies to improve project performance and success rates to achieve maximum business value.
• Exceptional problem solving skills and techniques applied to complex problems resulting in successful implementation of on-time and on-budget software/product/infrastructure implementations. Focused and effective oral and written communication skills that are adaptable to varied organizational audience levels and focused on level of detail and message delivery.
• Strong values based on integrity and business ethics resulting in high standards of professional business conduct. Diligently acnoledge teh value of maximum utilization of available resources to guarantee individual and team successes. Possess strong conviction to motivate and mentor others to enable maximum performance and provide career growth while meeting project objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for teh management of enterprise roadmap deliverables to support teh PNC Strategic Plan to implement a unified portfolio/program/project management process across teh organization.
• Developed a project plan to coordinate and ensure teh successful completion of enterprise level strategy documents that will be transformed into an implementation roadmap to mature and unify teh organizations Portfolio/Program Management Office for a multiple year initiative.
• Coordinate project meetings for multipe workstreams to glean requirements and document teh as-is state of teh organization working directly wif teh business customers that represent diversified business units wifin teh organization.
• Responsible for teh successful completion and sign-off by senior management of enterprise level strategy documents and corresponding roadmaps for teh following workstreams: portfolio/program management, learning and communications, demand management, resource management, enterprise level PMO reporting using teh Clarity PPPM tool, and a strategy to onboard all operational business units onto teh Clarity platform for greater visibility into a comprehensive enterprise level resource management approach.
• Work wif teh finance office (CFO) to ensure a seamless transition of financial data being transmitted to and from PeopleSoft CRM and Clarity.
• Responsible for teh strategic implementation of an enterprise wide fixed income and derivative valuation system.
• PolyPaths is a comprehensive complex valuation/simulation commercial software package that will be used to replace Summit as teh valuation system for teh banks $70 billion dollar portfolio of assets.
• Responsible for developing a comprehensive project plan and schedule in compliance wif teh bank's PMO methodology.
• Responsible for managing multiple integration points during teh implementation wif teh multiple systems being impacted or retired as a result of teh PolyPaths implementation.
• Responsible for project communications to teh technology and stakeholder committee on a monthly basis.
• Responsible for managing a team of business users/system owners (traders, accountants, derivative specialists, auditors) and teh technology team to ensure teh system implementation is a seamless transition and successful under tight timeframes.

Confidential

Project Director / Acting Application Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project director responsible for a custom developed solid organ and Blood and Marrow (BMT) transplant management system.
• Responsible for managing and developing comprehensive program deliverables for a large-scale multi-year program using Microsoft Technologies including asp.net, MVC, entity framework, C#, and Team Foundation Server.
• Responsible for managing offshore resources in Malaysia and scheduling all work deliverables for software engineers and developers.
• Responsible for scheduling and managing activities across multi-discipline cross-functional teams to ensure all program deliverables meet teh highest quality and all program deadlines.
• Lead strategist for developing teh product and creating a 3 year strategic plan to implement teh system at teh world's leading transplant centers, Mayo Clinic, and converting existing customers from teh legacy system onto teh web version of teh application.
• Responsible for managing senior management relationships wif our joint development partner, Mayo Clinic, and ensuring that all communications, risks and program status reporting is completed on time using excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Responsible for creating a cohesive high-performing software development team and ensuring that teh team adheres to all professional standards as set forth in teh program management plan and teh roles and responsibilities defined in teh program plan.

Confidential

Application Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Currently working on a $50 million + application development project to on-board clients who deal in both exchange and non-exchange traded global derivative products providing end-to-end life cycle processing including collateral management.
• Manage 35 developers in teh application development process including both onshore and offshore resources.
• Design and oversee teh build of application and interface processing on third-party accounting platform software to ensure consistency, validity and quality.
• Work directly wif project managers to define all high-level and detailed work involved in teh development process and assignment of resources.
• Currently developing application processes to manage new financial instrument types and allow trades to flow through teh entire trade life cycle wif primary accountability for loading daily trades and activity into teh back-end accounting system.
• Responsibilities include all application development management duties relevant to teh software /hardware related to teh application through teh entire SDLC.
• Developing special trade application in J2EE /Spring to manage complex financial processing functionality to allow proper booking in teh backend accounting module.
• Implementing IBM Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for inter-application connectivity for intensive message and transaction based processing interactions between ~ 20 internal and vendor based application solutions.
• Provide new interfaces and processes to facilitate collateral management systems as a new product offering by teh organization.
• Working directly wif teh third party software vendor to design and implement a new collateral management subsystem.
• Working directly wif teh third party software vendor to incorporate congressional regulatory legislation into teh to-be system application architecture.

Confidential

EPMO Senior IT Program/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Senior level PM responsible for enterprise and program level project management that directly relates to teh organizational strategy and business objectives of a global energy company.
• Program and project management supporting all business units, Nuclear Power Plants (NPP), Nuclear Services (NS), Nuclear Automation (NA), Nuclear Fuels (NF), and center led (HQ) for enterprise level projects.
• Manage projects/programs that reach out to IT personnel globally in teh United Kingdom, EMEA, Asia and multiple domestic sites related to WEC joint ventures or wholly owned business entities.
• Implementing a Commercial-Off-Teh-Shelf (COTS) human resource management system in China that will support expatriates and local contractors. Teh software implementation will ensure compliance wif all society laws and interface wif SAP.
• Program manager responsible for envisioning and planning a large-scale program that will utilize a lite-touch deployment strategy using SCCM and MDOP for Windows 7 / Office 2010. Teh roll-out will impact ~15,500 company laptops and desktops worldwide.
• Successfully implemented a Commercial-Off-Teh-Shelf (COTS) software used to manage mobile devices (MDM). Allows management and tracking (for disaster recovery) of company owned iOS assets (iPhones and iPads) and Android devices.
• Project Manager for an automated work flow solution using COTS and work flow add-on that is used to manage all design reviews for all business units wifin Westinghouse.
• Project manager of a large-scale SAP security scan remediation that includes both RDBMS and Security aspects.
• Senior level PM responsible for reviewing and developing project management processes in an emergent PMO to ensure project consistency and governance.
• Developed a release management communication plan to eliminate redundancies and provide focused communication for varied audiences from senior executive to project team members.
• Currently assigned to a strategic initiative geared at migrating clients and data to an industry related application that provides mortgage and financial services to most major banking institutions in teh US.
• Responsible for all project deliverables including teh development of a migration strategy that aligns wif teh business needs and provides maximum value in a phased implementation approach.
• Teh application is built on a J2EE platform using IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere application servers.
• Responsible for deliverable reviews and ensuring adherence to organizational standards and guidelines.

Confidential

IT Project Manager (short-term contract)

Responsibilities:

• Lead PM responsible for managing multiple strategic initiatives including an application architecture/ infrastructure upgrade project, and a Siebel CRM upgrade.
• Managing a high-visibility Siebel upgrade project from version 7.7.9.2 to 8.1.x wif direct communication to senior management and teh Steering Committee, comprised of all key stakeholders.
• Assisted teh ERP Technology Manager in developing a project management strategy for a high-visibility dashboard reporting project that provides teh business product managers wif visibility into customer relations and purchased product usage from a BI data warehouse.
• Establish PMI comparable project management and SDLC deliverables due to a deficiency of standardized templates and deliverables.
• Determine and apply appropriate project level processes for teh organization to ensure successful product delivery.
• Responsible for developing all project management deliverables as well as project schedules.
• Develop and lead teh effort to determine teh long-term road map for teh internal custom developed application, involved in teh infrastructure refresh, which generates revenue in excess of $50 million per annum.
• Conduct meetings per teh project communication plan and report project status to executive sponsors on a monthly basis.
• Develop a risk identification and response plan for teh Siebel CRM upgrade project due to compressed time line and resource constraints.
• Communicate and work wif globally located resources to ensure project success in multiple time zones.

Confidential

Project Manager/ Technical Business Analyst

• Project manager/business analyst for software development (SDLC) leading a team of business and technical analysts.
• Business Project Lead for $85 million, high-visibility, externally audited custom developed insurance billing system.
• Responsible for business case development, presentation, and project justification analysis (return-on-investment (ROI)), for strategic, compliance, and SOX audit initiatives, as well as system enhancements.
• Develop project charter/scope statements for presentation to senior management and varied iterations focused at all levels of participant communication.
• Facilitate and manage Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to gather stakeholder needs.
• Work collaboratively to create project scope statements that focus on goals and objectives wif concentration on business value.
• Identify and manage risks to successfully develop mitigation approaches to remove obstacles to project scheduling and on-time product delivery.
• Manage, monitor, and report project budgets/statistics based on resource availability factors.
• Gather and communicate project statistics for management dashboard reporting.
• Organize and manage business and technical analysts in executing project schedules for high-visibility, high-stress, and complex development environments.
• Develop SDLC deliverables (templates) tailored to project size and organizational need.
• Worked directly wif Rational Software (now IBM - Rational) personnel to implement teh Rational Unified Process at Highmark in direct correlation wif an Object-Oriented development approach improving teh Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) to a repeatable process commensurate wif a Capabilities Maturity Model (CMMI) Level 3.
• Experience wif SDLC methodologies inclusive of waterfall approaches and iterative development.
• Defined and implemented a new functional testing approach that reduced delivery time frames by 35%, and increased process efficiency and software accuracy.
• Responsible for planning, implementation, and testing of cutting-edge features to significantly improve accuracy and timeliness of Corporate Revenue generation for a multi-billion dollar corporation.
• Unlocked new avenues for opportunities to pursue marketing strategies, customer service capabilities, and additional investment income through technology solutions.
• Led a team of 20 business and testing analysts to implement 10 consecutive major on time/on budget iterations of teh system software.
• Lead analyst for business process engineering and improvement projects wifin teh finance department at Highmark.
• Led a team of technical analysts to fully automate a Java based billing system interface that reduced newly introduced defects into production, and saved significant time by allowing test analysts to focus on new functionality testing as opposed to manual regression testing.
• Worked/managed SDLC projects in environments pioneering teh use of OOAD, UML, and SOAP.
• Served technical role responsible for Linux and UNIX OS and IBM Web Sphere Application server maintenance for a Java based intranet application. Technical training included MQ Series messaging services, WebSphere (WAS), LINUX, and networking.
• Lead consultant responsible for development of a custom developed Third Party Administrator (TPA) billing system for multiple insurance carriers providing health, life, and disability insurance.
• Managed technical development, and system enhancements to improve process efficiency and revenue generation.
• Managed new client installations and data conversions.
• Managed ERISA trust account revenues in excess of $500 million annually including municipal government accounts for teh state of Pennsylvania.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Professional (PMP): certified in accordance wif teh Project Management Institute (PMI) global certification process. Certification for teh Risk Management Professional (RMP) from teh PMI is currently in-progress.

Software Tools: Advanced MS Office (MS Project, MS Project Server, SharePoint, Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Outlook, Visio), SQL Plus/Navigator, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Change Management software (Harvest, ClearCase), Rational Tools (ReqPro, ClearQuest, ClearCase, Test Manager, Functional Tester) IBM Eclipse Software Development platform, and many others.

Operating Systems: UNIX/LINUX, IBM OS390, CICS, WIN (95/98, 2000, XP, ME, Win7) and VAX/VMS.

Database Systems: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, and Access.