Professional Summary:

• PMO Manager/Senior Project Manager with a history of strong leadership and strategic planning with over 17 years of diverse experience in the IT sector. Extensive experience with ALM/PPM tools and project management best practices seeking a challenging and strategic position with a progressive organization
• A results-driven business professional with experience combining skills in business process and information technology.
• Roles of increasing responsibility as individual contributor, consultant, manager and director in business development, hardware/software support, and project management leadership.
• Possess expert knowledge of project management methodologies, tools, and processes to support full implementation of PMO frameworks.
• Responsible for directing, managing, and developing program and project managers implementing project management methodologies, Project Management Offices, ALM/PPM tools, staff training, mentoring, coaching and quality reviews
• Proven ability to lead and motivate teams while maximizing levels of productivity.

Technical Summary:

• Technologies: ASP.Net, SOA, Web Services, Biztalk, EDI
• Applications: MS Project, JIRA, SAP, QuickBase, ScrumWorks, AtTask, SharePoint, MS Office, Visio, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio, Cognos BI Tools, eProject, Borland StarTeam, Borland Tempo, PVCS, NCompass Content Management
• Development: JavaScript, Visual Basic, VBScript, SQL, ASP, XML, Lingo, HTML

Experience:

Confidential

PMO Manager/Sr. Project Manager

• Opera Solutions combines technology, advanced science, and machine learning expertise, to create business solutions that provide profit growth and strategic advantage with Big Data.
• Established PMO framework and project management practice to drive the successful delivery of software projects.
• Served as Agile mentor/coach to project managers and team leads while actively supporting key projects and initiatives.
• Trained all software and analytic project teams on standardized Agile Scrum practices.
• Established project management processes, templates and governance that align IT and Business strategies.
• Responsible for tracking/reporting on the resources, health and progress of the IT project portfolio.
• Conducted pilot programs to assess the data needs for and corporate acceptance of recommended ALM/PPM toolsets.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager - Consultant

• Provide hands on management of projects from initiation through implementation with budget responsibilities that support the Independent Financial Advisor/Broker community.
• Projects under management include implementation of an enterprise level Annuity Order Entry system and Portfolio Rebalancing and Trade Management application. The AOE Project is a multi-site/multi-phased project that includes integration with and management of external business partners, select product vendors and remote development teams.

Confidential

Sr. Program Manager

• Manage projects and programs that support the Connectivity business, the Strategic Connectivity Platform and vendor management support activities. The connectivity platform was built leveraging the Microsoft technology stack MS Server, MS SQL, .NET, Biztalk, SSRS, Team Foundation Server
• Responsible for the management and execution of programs and projects within the constraints of budget, schedule, scope and business value ensuring adherence to established processes and methodologies.
• Successfully managed key infrastructure program comprised of several component projects to develop software platform of foundational services based on SOA design. Provided oversight and coordination of the related projects including development of automated system tests.
• Serve as the primary PMO contact for all Connectivity Messaging projects, working closely with the Connectivity marketing and the R D development teams to ensure all strategic and tactical objectives are being met.

Confidential

Sr. Engagement Manager

• Neudesic is an IT consulting firm specializing in integration of Microsoft systems and is a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner.
• Responsible for the management and delivery of software projects for clients in the greater San Diego area.
• Projects under management include enterprise software implementations for UPS and Callaway Golf. Duties include staff management, vendor management, training, project plans, timelines, budgets, resource allocation, task management, and progress reporting and risk management.
• Project approach for each engagement is based on evaluation of best practices across predictive and adaptive methodologies tailored to support the strengths of the individual organization.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

• Manage key business initiatives including the implementation of Business Intelligence solutions Cognos and development of a Student Loan Origination system.
• Managed the delivery of a proprietary Student Loan Origination system. This enterprise system provides student loans to the post-secondary community. The system required the secure exchange of online financial data with schools, lenders, guarantors, servicers and students. Data was exchanged using CommonLine/CommonRecord an XML based message protocol. The LO enterprise system was developed using ASP.NET and web service technologies based on SOA design principles.
• Founding member of the Process Improvement Team responsible for refining business practices to improve customer satisfaction and ensure the planned and predictable delivery of software projects that provide business value across the enterprise.
• Oversee the creation and implementation of the Project Management Office responsible for the implementation of process methodology and supporting toolsets.

Confidential

Director of Internet Development

• Manage technical resources to maximize speed and lower the cost of development.
• Provide project management and coordination for the full life cycle of web based projects in a cross-functional organization.
• Recruit and manage additional engineering staff and contractors as needed.
• Develop and manage software requirements specifications, design documentation and unit test plans.
• Ensure that all projects are meeting business, engineering, and user requirements.
• Generate and maintain engineering development schedules using MS Project.
• Provide leadership for engineering staff 15 , project managers 5 and DBA s 2 .
• Conduct staff performance reviews and evaluations.
• Direct multiple launches of award winning educational portal site.
• Programmer/Development Manager
• Successfully managed 10 engineers in porting 66 CDROM game titles to PSX in less than 9 months.
• Lead Engineer responsible for the daily management of 2-4 Software Engineers providing best practices and technical analysis and leadership.
• Developed cross platform educational CDROM game titles with Macromedia Director and PSX based scripting language. Titles were developed for PC/Mac, PSX and Apple set top box.
• Promoted to Engineering Manager and implemented process and infrastructure change based on CMM methodologies for engineering department.
• Established coding standards for solid, reusable component based development.
• Provided excellent communication, interpersonal and team building leadership skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while effectively leading software engineering teams.