SUMMARY:

• PMI certified technical project manager, Scrum Master, and Planner specializing in cross - functional teams, and bridging gaps between technical and non-technical team members.
• A firm believer in continuous improvement processes.
• Career history includes providing direct management for key and critical technical projects with varying degrees of scope, cost, time and revenue exposure.
• Kind, Patient, and Tenaciousness
• Attention to Macro and Micro Details
• Strategic fiscal project budget planning (AOP)
• Excellent Leadership and Organizational Skills
• Technology, Data Center, Roadmap Planning
• Budgeting control, Pricing, and Cost management
• In house development, SDLC (Dev and integration)
• Current of the shelf (COTS) deployment
• Application and Oracle migrations.
• Change management and Service Level Agreement (SLA)s
• Merger and acquisitions, Budget audits.
• Major, cross-functional projects

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Project Management: Advanced knowledge of Software development SDLC and Project development processes.

Applications: Office 2016, 0365, One Note, MS Project, Visio, Rally

Systems Led teams working on: UNIX, OS X, MS windows, Red Hat Linux, and Confidential Storage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manages projects to bring them in on time and on budget.
• Works closely with Confidential application owners/managers to deliver Application development / rewrites, International (Offshore) Infrastructure projects, Data Center deployments, migrations, and upgrades.
• Manages project financials (Stamp) and focuses on highly scalable cost effective solutions.
• Ensures enterprise architecture standards and data privacy standards are observed.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manages projects and roadmap for client computing worldwide.
• Leads application integration, testing, and Global Service Desk (GSD) preparation for new client hardware / software upgrades utilizing cloud and traditional push / pull models.
• Ensures that client computing experience is best possible by keeping Global Service Desk (GSD) tickets minimal through proactive quality testing, Root Cause Analysis, Merger and Acquisition conversions and site modifications.
• Leads New Site construction efforts (video conferencing, network, and phone system projects) for new and existing office space construction.

Portfolio Services Manager / SCRUM Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Works closely with Project Managers and their stakeholders to facilitate portfolio execution through phase gate and project quality(Governance) milestones.
• Promotes project lessons learned (post implementation reviews) and project execution best practices.
• Drive annual operating plan (AOP) and ensures that Governance and PMO data is up to date to facilitate trend analysis.
• Coaches, leads, and trains PMs to drive project best practices.
• Drives project execution and closure through proactive partnership and liaison services between PMO and IT. Serves as SCRUM Master, using Rally & XP Practices for portfolio software team.

Sr. IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Many InfoSec projects for companywide security vulnerabilities.
• Led PMO effort to see all projects included security scans prior to deployment.
• Managed security scan upgrades and Arc sight server migrations.
• Managed single sign-on / identity management enhancements, migrations and upgrades company wide.
• Web projects with double firewall port tailoring for functionality and maximum security capacity.
• Lead and deployed Integration &Testing Microsoft office / O365 (COTS) installation / migrations
• Data Warehouse/Big Data - Migrated ASUP program to facilitate 3 years’ growth
• Lead team to increase compute power and reduce redundant storage.
• Cut redundancy by integrating data interfaces yielding better efficiency.
• Reduced PMO change order processing working with team from 3 months to 3 weeks.
• Standardized and Streamlined PMO Procedures and Processes
• Lead team to document and standardize PMO processes.
• Cut redundancy and streamlined phase gate processes and Change order processes.
• Greatly improved project closure process implementing new Project Retrospective Procedures.
• Drove standard approach to daily Portfolio execution via documentation and procedure/process leadership.
• Respecting creativity, individualism, and encouraging openness to improve team cohesion yielding a pleasant work environment with better procedures and effectiveness.
• Managed portfolio of projects for Sales, Marketing, HR, Legal, and IT Enterprise Efforts
• TrueComp (sales force compensation) Migration and compute tailoring upgrades, Utilized Employee Project management for planning and design with handoff to contractor personnel for project execution.
• Portfolio Cost Control yielding Constant and Consistent Cost Management Improvement.
• Facilitated Monthly Actuals vs. Projected cost reviews keeping Project Cost on track.
• Drove monthly and quarterly cost tracking and project status easing project change control burden.
• Reduced expense rate for IT PM resources by 50%
• Utilized Employee Personnel for planning and design with handoff to contractor personnel for project execution.
• Managed Many infosec projects for companywide security vulnerabilities.
• Led PMO effort to see all projects included security scans prior to deployment.
• Managed security scan upgrades and Arc sight server migrations.
• Managed single sign-on / identity management enhancements, migrations and upgrades company wide.
• Web projects with double firewall port tailoring for functionality and maximum security capacity.
• Cloud and windows
• Managed a deployment of Microsoft office O365 Cloud onto Windows 10;
• Managed office 2016 for Mac and Windows deployment.
• Each major upgrade involved a Triage/ war room effort with detailed scripts and detailed back out plans
• Managed Service Level Agreement projects for defect owners for vulnerabilities

Confidential, Menlo Park, CA

Solaris Clustering Lab Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designs, Develops, and helps maintain lab environments to accommodate ever changing hardware needs and provides ongoing retooling and space modifications for new hardware utilizing latest data center technologies.
• Works capital plans with quality and product development managers / directors to meet production needs.
• Designs, orders, coordinates, and builds cluster systems for development, test, and infrastructure support of Sun Cluster product as well as other department supported software products and hardware configurations.
• Leads and trains junior engineers to perform sub functions supporting above.
• Hired personnel ramping from 1 to 8 and coordinated labor of 14 more qa personnel part time.