CAREER PROFILE

• Consulting Professional with more than 16 years of experience in project management for commercial and public sector clients including Marriott International, Department of Homeland Security DHS /FEMA US-VISIT, USCIS, Department of Veterans Affairs, Indianapolis Airport Authority, District of Columbia Government, Rogers Communication and the National Capital Region.
• Solid reputation for subject matter expertise in:
• server and storage upgrades, datacenter implementation and migration, server consolidation server virtualization implementations using Windows, Linux and Unix platforms and
• comprehensive understanding of complex integration and operational issues and risks, along with broad knowledge of IT infrastructure, security solutions and evolving technologies for mission critical systems and facilities such as airports, data centers, operation centers, and command centers.

KEY SKILLS

• Successfully created and led cross-functional teams to design and deliver complex solutions and services for projects that have spanned a range of software and hardware development, service strategy and design, with technology enablement, strategic and tactical project planning, change and configuration management, and infrastructure and operations management. Leader and contributor in business development, solution design, delivery and support of emerging and leading solutions, such as:
• Emergency Operation and Data Center Implementations, IT Systems Integration, Cloud Implementations Development/Test as a Service DTaaS , Infrastructure as a Service IaaS and Software as a Service SaaS
• Datacenter migrations and Server Refreshes/Implementations IBM X Series, P series, IBM, HP Dell Blade technologies, Cisco and Brocade technologies, F5 load balancers, Hitachi and IBM storage area networks OS: Solaris Windows, Linux, and AIX

Acquired and applied capabilities in:

• Program Management Office development project charter, risk management, subcontractor management, contract change management, financial/business cost case management, Work Breakdown Structures, Integrated Master Schedules and Basis of Estimates BoE
• Blueprints and Rack Diagrams - creation, change management and as-builts
• Technical and business requirement definition, traceability and process breakdowns
• IT System Engineering Lifecycle SELC , IBM Unified Method Framework, Worldwide Project Management Methodology Unified Delivery Methodology UDM , Catalyst, ITIL, Service Oriented Architecture SOA
• MS Office 2007, 2010 Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, Project , MS Access, MS Project, Quikr, SharePoint, Rational ClearQuest, HP OpenView, and Remedy

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager Responsible for proposal management, procurement specifications, project controls, risk management, change management, project implementation within a federal Cloud environment, including multiple as a Service aaS offerings and managing a matrixed team of technical and business professionals for Federal clients such as USCIS and US-VISIT.

Confidential

Project Manager Consultant to Marriott International as a project manager within their Information Resources Shared Services department. Responsible for proposal and project delivery for a diverse portfolio including Service Oriented Architecture SOA consumers and services infrastructure upgrades such as F5 Local Traffic Managers LTMs as well as Oracle 11G and security related upgrades and implementations.

Confidential

Project Manager Consultant to CSC for the DHS/US-VISIT data center migration project. Responsible for decommissioning 1000 US-VISIT assets out of a DOJ data center, transportation and receipt of the consolidated assets to two data centers, as well as disposing of assets to the GSA disposal facility which included destruction of hard drives with Personal Identifiable Information PII . Responsible for the planning, analysis, design, build, deployment and transition to operations and maintenance for the US-VISIT disaster recovery data center for both the application and data tiers, which included Dell PowerEdge and IBM P series servers in conjunction with Hitachi storage connected via a hosted SAN fabric. Managed a team of 25 resources. Responsible for two working groups to facilitate the requirements gathering and process definition as the DHS component moved towards an active-standby disaster recovery operation model.

Confidential

• rogram Manager Rogers Communication Server refresh program, established the program charter, project plan and processes for a five year hardware currency program for a Canadian telecommunications firm that encompassed 4,000 servers, four data centers and 18 customer locations. Responsible for hardware and software procurement, staging, building and migration of servers which included consolidation and virtualization for Intel, Linux and Unix platforms including SQL and Oracle databases, managed a team of 30.
• Change Manager DHS FEMA EADIS program, a CMMI level 3 certified program responsible for managing all contractual changes to this IDIQ contract resulting in more than 150 accepted changes and an increase in contract value of 51 million in one year. Created and implemented a standard estimating methodology using UMF and WWPMM and implemented stringent risk management practices.
• Project Manager Indianapolis Airport Authority. Key contributor for the successful opening of the new airport in Indianapolis, Indiana. Responsible for migrating and implementing a series of redundant data centers on the airport campus using Brocade equipment as well as transitioning 200 applications from the existing facility into the new data centers using IBM X series and P series. Implemented an Access Control System with more than 400 points of access across the airport with biometric and card readers integrated with a Digital Video Management System and an Exit Anti Backflow system including video analytics. Directly managed seven personnel and was responsible for implementing a Primavera schedule, subcontractor and business cost case management, as well as client and executive briefings.
• Deputy Project Manager Department of Veteran's Affairs VA , Security Task Order using ITIL. Responsible for client interaction such as client briefings, scope clarification and requests for information while the 18 member team assessed the feasibility of integrating the VA's Network Operation Center and Security Operation Center as well as all project management control activities.

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Program Coordinator National Capital Region Interoperable Program. Integral member of the Program Management Office, responsible for project financial reporting, resource schedules, client and executive briefings, subcontractor selection and deliverable review for a 100M program that included three projects - interconnected fiber with video web-conferencing, 700MHz wireless and Service Oriented Architecture Web Hosting.

Confidential

Project Coordinator Responsible for the marketing of the District of Columbia's public safety wireless network to Congress, federal and District Agencies, as well as regional and national government jurisdictions. Provided logistic and graphic support for demonstrations of the network and managed project artifacts. Additionally, was responsible for researching through the GSA procurement vehicle and compile project financials and provide briefings to key stakeholders in the District government.

Confidential

Project Manager Responsible for call center dialer upgrade and new installation of new dialer at three sites Maryland and Pennsylvania responsible for requirements gathering, procurement, contract negotiations and implementation.

Confidential

Project Coordinator Human resources coordinator for background checks company processed all new hires and terminations as well as a reduction in force project.

Confidential

Director of Communications Manager of all marketing campaigns, updated the website and was editor of monthly newsletter with a 50,000 mailing list. Utilized Microsoft Access to manage 11 different lists and Microsoft Excel to maintain the print budgets for 14 different campaigns.

Confidential

Marketing Manager

Marketing Manager Led all general condition and fee proposals, created and maintained database for past performance references and resumes for project staff. IT liaison for satellite office to main office in New York for data and telecommunications.

Confidential

Pre-Construction Manager Responsible for requirements gathering, pricing and transitioning commercial construction projects including security systems, telecommunication systems, SCIFs, and data centers.