PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Program/ Project Manager: Assigned to design, provisioning, and migration activities of CLOUD & DATA Center Migrations
• Project Management & System Design/Provisioning:
• Planned and implemented strategic transformation projects, including data center cloud constructions, migrations, provisioning, and consolidations; decommissioning; service desk transformations, application and infrastructure migrations to the Cloud (Public, Private and Hybrid); utilizing lift & shift methodologies; provided compliance, Audit, security processes, and controls. Responsible for all aspects of IT Business Continuity which included the implementation and testing of disaster recovery (DR) and ensuring all critical systems were at the right level of high availability (HA). Project Management methods: LEAN; and Agile practices. Implemented 24x7 Global Support along with enhanced systems management which reduced the overall Operations budgets by more than 60%. Successfully managed multi - million-dollar budgets and staff exceeding 300 globally
• System Development Lifecycle (SDLC):
• IT Program/Project Manager with over 25 years of enterprise level experience driving full lifecycle infrastructure projects, with prior success within Confidential ; Confidential ; Confidential, Confidential, Jeld Wen; and Confidential
• Utilized LEAN methods for projects: Confidential thru Confidential - 7 years
• Utilized Agile methods & practices for projects: Confidential thru Confidential - 15 years
• System Design / provisioning:
• Managed data center constructions, provisioning, and migration; - with System & Design Architects; 5 years’ experience - Confidential thru Confidential
• Management experience with “Lift & Shift”; “Clone”; & “Forklift” migration methodologies
• Clients: Confidential thru Confidential -- 12 years successful migration efforts
• Application development/ & deployment:
• Managed the application development, data center consolidation; Cloud provisioning & migration (utilizing lift & shift; clone; & forklift methods ); data center decommissioning - with server deprovisioning, decomposition, and system migration for multiple Data Center Projects
• Managed Confidential ’s global deployment, project reporting, estimation, budget/cost reporting, development, system testing, and operation activities which included: staffing, scheduling, cost analysis, resource assignment, training, staff development, vendor selection and monitoring, testing, quality service reporting, application development, testing, implementation, and product release efforts---of five project groups located in four continents; activities supported Confidential /WorldCom’s new global services; products that generated an additional revenue per year; project/products ranging from Global VOICE, IPVPN, Portal, WEB Hosting, WEB Server, IP Communications, and others.
• Additional operational duties included: vendor and customer contract negotiation, conducting and presenting business case requirements, financial planning, scheduling of engineering and installation activities, project and costing reviews, defining IT development standards, identify level of efforts, release planning, and operational training/turnover

SKILLS:

Tools: PMUWS (Project Management Universal Workstation); LEAN methods; Agile practices; WORKDAY (ERP Cloud provisioning); MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, SharePoint; Remedy; Plainview; MS Project Enterprise 2010; Workbench; CA Clarity; STAMP; & Lotus Notes; PMP & Scrum processes

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: MS Office Suite Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, SharePoint, DocuShare, Plan View, Mercury Quality Center Test Director, Altesto, Loadrunner, Autotester, PMUWS Workbench; Clarity; Lotus Notes; Excelerator Modeler; ABT Resource Estimator. Rational Rose; Rational XDE; HP PPM; Double Take ™; Confidential ™ Remedy 2000; CA Clarity; Websphere (7.0); and Citrix Xen APP

Databases: SQL, DB2, IMS, & Oracle

Methods: JAD; RAPID; SIE/CMM; SIGMA; QOS; TQM; AGILE; OOP; RUP; UML; ITIL; LEAN; and PMI

Hardware: Solaris 8 & 10; MS Enterprise 2003/2008; IBM MVS/OS Mainframe; Z10; NT Servers; LAN-WAN Networks; WebSphere environments; Citrix; Analog and Switch Based Networks; ATM & Frame Relay; IP/VOIP Networks

Languages: .NET, J2EE, PHP, Windows, COBOL, JCL/Mainframe, CICS, Java, HTML, XML, HTML, VS, Semantic Metadata, and C+

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ames, IA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and directed client/account activities, client servers, RFQ/RFP responses, architectural reviews, and contract acceptance, scope and requirement definition, resource scheduling, budget/cost reporting, marketing assessment, RFP completion, customer service, and product marketing.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and directed client/account activities, client servers, GSA/Fed Connect/ DOD, RFQ/RFP responses, architectural reviews, contract acceptance, scope and requirement definition, resource scheduling, budget/cost reporting, marketing assessment, RFP completion, customer service, and product marketing.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ / Shoreview, MN

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Tech Refresh of all legacy & migrated environments:
• Experienced in full project lifecycle deployments; including CRM; ERP; & CMS production turnovers
• Presentation & development of design along with build requirements for Azure ™ Cloud provisioning & migration activities
• Assigned & managed MS .NET stack (.NET, c#, SQL), XM deployments
• Ensured all Oracle databases have been removed from OCR legacy source servers
• Assigned & completed the provisioning & migration of 50 applications to Azure ™ Cloud

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential also provides an upgrade path for Windows & Linux servers with Confidential ™; and DR protection provided by Confidential ™.
• Managing of all Migration & Discovery activities; along with Confidential ’s Infrastructure personnel developing migration standards and procedures.
• Management of technical teams and client’s business units to ensure achievement of project’s objectives; including validation, and architectural verification, along with build & provisioning requirements for Data Center consolidation activities. LEAN; and Agile practices.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Confidential ’s IPV6 infrastructure deployment.
• Assigned to Storage, Mainframe, & ExtraNet clients; ensuring all business units & applications have IPV6 standards and security deployed.
• Project Management methods: LEAN; and Agile practices.
• Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) allows enterprise to extend their addressing capability: IPv4 has 4.3 billion addresses, while IPv6 addresses is more than 7.9×1028 times that of V4.
• Design presentation; support completion of architect builds-of-material; Statement of Work definition, deployment scheduling with resource assignments.
• Successfully deployed V6 standards within timelines and requirements requested by Confidential business units; including Storage, SAN, and Mainframe assignments.

Confidential, Klamath Falls, OR

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing all Provisioning, Migration, Testing, and Architectural Verification for Data Center Consolidation Activities.
• LEAN; and Agile practices.
• Responsible for the management of 100-person team including DBA’s, System Administrators, network/ application teams; and vendors.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ / Shoreview, MN

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Confidential ’s international banking operation to consolidate existing Wholesale environments into one data center.
• Project Management methods: LEAN; and Agile practices
• Directly managed the application development, data center consolidation
• Duties included design, architect build of material, Statement of Work definition, product description, server and application deployment, installation, process improvement, consolidation, and decommissioning of 1,300 servers to primary data center-- within time lines and requirements requested by Confidential Wholesale business unit.
• LEAN; and Agile practices.
• Functions included production description (RUP, and Rapid JAD); server and application development, migration, installation, server verification, SAN provisioning/zoning, release planning/deployment, and activation.
• Decommissioned Server Readiness Reviews’, backup processing, and data center readiness turnover for Business Operations.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded Confidential ’s program goals to ensure data center site consolidation, centralized management services, deployment of global standards for all Confidential (life and Property and Casualty) applications and achieve best-in-class infrastructure / application deployment and services across Confidential product line.
• Project Management methods: LEAN; and Agile practices.
• The program overall business objective was to lessen Confidential ’s risks associated with providing computer infrastructure and application deployment services throughout Confidential global environment; objectives of Houston migration for Confidential Life/ and Property Casualty Applications (Houston) were achieved on time and to budget.
• Directly managed (from design, application development/deployment, target provisioning & build, testing, UAT validation, release planning, operational turnover, and decommission phases) the Confidential Life and Property Casualty open system migrations and application provisioning for all of Confidential LIFE and Property Casualty applications.
• Management activities included all application development (.Net, and JAVA - SQL, and Oracle), design, Build of Material documentation, migration planning, network and application deployment / testing, turnover, release planning/ and deployment, and de-commissioning activities for assigned Production, Development, and Testing environments -- all activities completed within client’s timeframes and budget.
• Assigned for all Federal Readiness signoff and GRC requirements associated with migration and consolidation activities.
• Coordination of all BPO activities, for consolidation, migration, and application support requirements
• Houston site team has completed 100% of (targeted) servers’ and applications deployment, development, migrations -- on time and below budget, utilizing LEAN concepts.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA/ Tempe, AZ2

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project managed the Confidential (Ecommerce/Sales Force Automation/ Pitney Work’s web services) data center consolidation from Atlanta to Tempe, and Disaster Recover on time, to customer’s expectations, and within budget. Project Management methods: LEAN; and Agile practices.
• Completed Infrastructure for migrations - data center consolidations and application development have been within Microsoft’s™ BI stack (including SSRS, SSIS, and SSAS)

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Project Manager (Application Provisioning and Deployment)

Responsibilities:

• Directly managed the application development, design, architect build of material, Statement of Work definition, product description, server and application deployment, installation, process improvement, and consolidation of 1,100 servers to primary data centers -- within timelines and requirements requested by Confidential Internet and On-Line banking’s business unit.
• Functions included production description (RUP, and Rapid JAD); server and application development, migration, installation, server verification, SAN provisioning/zoning, release planning/deployment, and activation.
• Decommission (350 servers); Server Readiness Reviews’; backup processing, and data center readiness turnover for Business Operations.
• Outcome: All server/application provisioning were completed on time, under budget, and exceeding Client’s expectations.

Confidential, Omaha, Ne/ Tempe, AZ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Confidential ’s open system migrations from Denver to Omaha data center for all of Confidential ’s billing, accounting, tracking, and Cable services products; 510 servers; activities included migration, network and application testing, turnover, and de-commissioning activities of assigned Production environments within client’s timeframes and budget; coordination of all BPO activities between for consolidation, migration, and application support requirement; project completed on time, to customer’s expectations, and within budget.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and directed client/account activities, client servers, RFQ/RFP responses, architectural reviews and contract acceptance, scope and requirement definition, scheduling, budget/cost reporting, marketing assessment, RFP completion, customer service, and product marketing.
• Accomplishments include operation of all (IBM Mainframe to WEB Hosting and E-Portal systems) of various State/Federal entities, IT and network service contracts to WSI from their current IT provider, obtaining staffing contracts from public and private entities to WSI service, and opening additional California office for WSI.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Included the management and direction of project description, application development, testing, migration, turnover, release planning, de-commissioning (450 servers), and site closure for all assigned data centers
• Managed capital budget of over $ 15M and operating budget of $10m for the completion of all functionality migration (Authorizations and Settlement Business Functions).
• Directed the data center consolidations & migration of new acquisition sites to 1st Data’s data centers and network.
• Responsible for all data center provisioning: Managed and directed client/account activities, RFQ/RFP responses, architectural reviews and contract acceptance, scope and requirement definition, scheduling, budget/cost reporting, marketing assessment, RFP completion, customer service, and product marketing.
• Accomplishments include legacy migration (IBM Mainframe to WEB Hosting and E-Portal systems) of various State/Federal entities, IT and network service contracts to WSI from their current IT provider, obtaining staffing contracts from public and private entities to WSI service, and opening California office for WSI.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project/program managed (and turnover for operation acceptance) the client’s mainframe, operator centers, and process integration efforts.
• Management duties included supervision of $10M capital hardware and system resources and budget for migration to client's tier 4 sites
• Project responsibilities ranged from requirements generation, architecture review and development.