SUMMARY:

• Results driven Technology/Transformation Leader and motivator. Focuses on organizational goals, while creating an environment of trust and respect among the teams, challenging teams to find solutions and overcome obstacles.
• Influential at all levels of an organization.PMP Certified Project Manager | Certified Scrum Master | ITIL v3 Foundation Certified | Prince 2 Foundations
• Change and innovation champion
• Cyber Security Experience
• Portfolio/Program and Project Management
• Software Engineering Management
• Manager of Large teams (30+)
• Strategic Planning
• Vendor Management
• Business Partner champion
• Enterprise application Management
• Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
• Application/Infrastructure Sun - Setting
• 10+ Years process/governance changes
• 10+ Years cloud migrations
• 20+ Years managing budgets and resources.
• 20+ Years managing complex systems.
• 10+ Years presenting to C-Level executives

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: SIEM - ArcSight, Splunk, MITRE, Qradar, Tanium, Cylance, ServiceNow SIR, JIRA, ESXi, Web Services, Nagios, ETL, Azure, AWS, Brocade, NFS, NetApp ONTAP, Python, Java 2, J2EE, Java Script, FileNet, PL/SQL, XML, WSDL, XML Spy SQL/DML/DDL, K/C/Bourne Shell scripting, Perl, Splunk, Autosys, Jenkins, HTML, Word, Excel, Access, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Risk Navigator for SOX, Docu corp (Ipps), ETL

Database: Oracle 12c, 10x, Cassandra, SQL Server 2012 & 2008 R2, MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, BI (Crystal Reports), IBM DB2, Access

Storage: EMC-DELL Unity, VNX2, NetApp, HP

Operating Systems: RedHat Linux, UNIX, Ubuntu, Windows XP, Windows 20XX, HA, IBM 30XX

Network: UCS Blades, Switches, IPv4, Cisco UCS, TCP/IP, Routers, 7 Layer Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Vice President, Technical Program Management - Global Cyber Security

Responsibilities:

• Managing several Security related Project’s - Partnering with Vendor and internal resources:
• Analyzed with internal teams next SIEM: Arcsight, Splunk and Qradar
• Implemented new bare metal infrastructure to support Splunk Enterprise, UBA and SIEM.
• Managed and completed the creation and implementation of the Splunk platform.
• Managed and implemented the Use Case (Alerts) builds based on specific requirements.
• Managed and integrated SNOW SIR Module, CMDB.
• Managed and implemented new SOC to support Splunk Platform, T1 & T2. T3 in house.
• Successfully implemented first and most critical Phase of project. 2 Year Project
• Provide weekly status metrics.
• Maintain SIEM Stabilization, Upgrades and Program Management.
• Implement System forensic software.
• Implement Security agents across the Enterprise.
• Implement TPRM tools and support platform.
• Upgraded and modernized ArcSight SIEM.

Vice President, Technical Program/Project Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing Network Segmentation Project - Partnering with Vendor and internal resources:
• 4,000+ Servers in scope. Ringfence Requirements for Crown Jewel Applications.
• Identify servers and applications impacted. Contact and coordinate with owners.
• Coordinate the installation of agent software on 4,000+ servers
• Work with Vendors IBM, Verizon and others to ensure no disruptions.
• Confirm current firewall rules and coordinate conversion to new product.
• Provide weekly metrics on status for Federally Mandatory Project.
• Part of the PMO Governance Team reporting into the Sr. VP of PMO.
• Maintain critical metrics, as well as Communication and C-Level reporting.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Technical Portfolio/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing Digital Transformation - Partnering with Business and Product:
• Data Center Consolidation - 6 DC’s into 2 DC’s. HW/SW Build out. Set up DR.
• Data & Voice - Replaced 1,500 phones. 4 vendors consolidated into one. (CISCO)
• ITSM - ServiceNow / CMDB Implementation.
• EEM&M - Implement Zenoss
• ILM - Backups, archive, DR)
• Cloud Migration - Select applications moving to Azure.
• Building out new PMO based on PMI standards. New process flow, Project Framework and Change Management. Continued management of Wealth and retail banking projects.
• Maintain Technical Roadmap, Portfolio Reporting, Project intake, Communication and C-Level reporting.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Director, Curriculum Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Product development of enterprise wide K-12 curriculum.
• Utilizing my sphere of influence to enhance the Elementary Language, Arts and Math experience.
• Working closely with Application, Multi-media, Product and Infrastructure teams.
• Working closely with Academic officers.
• Preparing for large product upgrade release for brick and mortar institutions as well as on-line learning.
• Managed 35 Educational and Technical professionals, as well as 40 - 50 independent educational consultants.
• Manage Curriculum Development, Multi-Media and development experts.
• Acknowledged expertise in Program, Project and Product Management.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed over 20 large enterprise wide projects, utilizing cross-functional expertise in Application and Infrastructure.
• Working closely with Product and business teams. Assigned to rescue, failed or troubled programs and projects.
• Consistent positive results, building teams, resource management, budgeting, forecasting, communication planning, risk assessment, and proactive mitigation planning.
• Acknowledged expertise, pulled into rescue a critical in-flight project, with 5 major platforms in danger, running on old unsupported equipment, coordinating with application and infrastructure teams, planning and executing replacement, and avoiding potential outage.
• Moved 8 key platforms to virtual cloud, planning, coordinating, and testing, with 8 application and virtualization teams, successfully installing program, increasing developer productivity and avoiding code collision, allowing developers to spin up environments, and manipulate data without impacting others.
• Executed 3 Saudi Arabia College of Excellence PowerSchool implementations, moving information from spreadsheets to software, maintaining student attendance, grading, and administrative tasks, improving productivity and accuracy.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 20 concurrent projects. Increased bandwidth with fewer resources, maintaining innovation, cost, and quality. Proactively met with agencies to improve software and communication.
• Oversaw critical claims platform hardware replacement project, exchanging unsupported hardware and maintaining system integrity, as CSR remained taking calls, planning 30 integration points, risk with contingency, and delivering without incident.
• Produced innovative mobile application proof of concept venture, allowing insured clients access to web features on hand held devices.
• Drove and expedited 19 agent enhancements, coordinating, planning, and communicating with teams, scheduling timing and testing improvement participation, successfully implementing project with excellent results.
• Implemented enterprise wide data governance effort, coordinating with application and infrastructure teams to limit exposure of personal data

Confidential, Westborough, MA

Implementation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensured client expectations are met through careful requirement gathering, design, planning, development and quality assurance. Implement client specific proprietary software.
• Introduced several best practice artifacts, including scope statement, resource management, and budget forecasting, and streamlining process.
• Led requirement and customer design sessions for implementation of proprietary, client specific software, for large Pennsylvania insurance company, allowing for immediate usage of Policy System, rather than off the shelf software requiring time, money and expertise.

Confidential, Quincy, MA

Project / Application Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Headed application maintenance, enhancement, and production support for large critical corporate software and infrastructure, systems, with 8 direct reports.
• Modernized claims technology and processing, managing $2M storage and imaging project, providing MSAR (FileNet), storage from 2tb - 10tb, replacing old imaging hardware, reducing response time from 15 seconds to < .05 seconds, and impacting 400+ CRS claims.
• Increased team productivity 50%, reducing backlog of work from 100+ issues / enhancements, to current in 6 months.
• Decreased consultant head count, saving $2K+, streamlining project intake.
• Led team to win “IT cost savings competition”, through effective leadership, team building, and empowering creativity, replacing manual tasks with automation, and saving $15K / Year.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Technical Project Manager / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Planed, designed, and deployed large brokerage system upgrades. Built, managed, and directed team utilizing best practices, quality assurance, and peer reviews.
• Executed brokerage portal lacked audit capabilities, with complex re-engineering, updating J2EE, Oracle 9i, Unix and WebSphere, leading team to successful deployment, and avoiding Risk Mitigation issues.
• Directed task force determining client site slowdowns, landing page issues, and load balancing problems, using Web Analytics, various vendor tools, and expertise, resolving concerns and improving system performance.