SUMMARY

• Sr. Project Manager with over twenty years of experience in developing project plans including detailed work breakdown structures and timelines for projects varying in size from $40K to over $20 million dollars
• Experienced in all aspects of project management including, but not limited to development of advanced planning documents, project charters, project planning and scheduling, implementation of software development methodologies and standards, development and implementation of communication plans, issue management, change management, risk management, and contingency planning
• Responsible for driving complex implementations, ownership of deliverables, client management experience, functional/technical deliverables, chair meetings and drive discussions
• Managed SDLC application development projects through the Project Life Cycle (PLC) within Project Management Office (PMO). Managed customer relationship solutions or call center operations
• Serve as the primary point of contact between clients and Infrastructure Solutions team. Experience in infrastructure project management, client relations and high level solution architecture. Functioned under broad supervision. Worked with Senior Project Managers, Senior Management, Departmental Management, Business Owners, Consultants, Vendors and internal team members
• Proficient in planning and implementing projects including developing scope, goals, work plans, timelines, implementation strategies and measurement processes for assessing progress toward IT strategic and tactical goals and project outcomes
• Able to travel at least 80% time while home based, excellent knowledge of ICD - 10, eDiscovery, Disaster Recovery, EDRM, Healthcare, training and education. Excellent project manager consultant with extensive software remediation experience
• Establish project requirements, scope, priorities, resources, budget and schedule. Collaborate and manage infrastructure and software resources to deliver IT solutions. Deliver high quality IT infrastructure solutions, leveraging technologies such as Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, Lync, Websphere, virtualization, ITIL and cloud technologies. Manage budget for assigned projects and adjust resources and priorities accordingly. Identify, manage and mitigate risks to minimize impact to successful delivery of project. Serve as Program Manager for clients on multiple high-profile projects.
• Provided strong leadership and encourage team work. Understood the business and the underlying technology. Monitored contracts and vendor management
• Utilized Microsoft Project and other project management tools such as PlanView, Clarity, TFS, JIRA etc.
• Worked proficiently in a fast-paced demanding environment
• Was accountable and took a lead role in defining project plans and implements measures to monitor and track the progress of multiple IT projects or programs to ensure milestones are met on time and on/or under budget. Identifies risk mitigation strategies to resolve problems
• Communicated project status, issues and decisions so that all stakeholders understand the project and its complexities. Identified key issues and decisions related to the project for escalation to ensure resolution
• Collaborated with business owners and subject matter experts to develop an understanding of business processes and functions to aide in evaluating the success of the project, gather requirements, identified gaps and business solutions. Collaborates with business owners and technical subject matter experts to develop an understanding of a projects technical infrastructure and software
• Identified and managed both internal and external key resources for the life of the project to ensure tasks and deliverables are completed. Collaborated with IT Management to develop and support division wide resource management planning best practices, techniques and tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Environment:PeopleSoft, DB2, Oracle DB, Informatica PowerCenter, Business Object, MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Note., SharePoint

Confidential

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing long term project of 20000+ hours, team of 40 staff, including managers developers, DBAs, and team leads. Responsible for driving complex Insurance projects, ownership of deliverables, client management experience, functional/technical deliverables management, chair meetings and drive discussions
• Managed SDLC/Agile/Scrum application development projects. Managed client relationship.
• Managed Big Data, Hadoop Data Lake, Data Governance, Data Architecture, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence operationalize enterprise data lake project.

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, MS VC++, CICS, DB2, MS SQL Server, Oracle, COBOL.,JCL.,IBM Mainframe, zOS, CNTL-M, Content Manager(CM), MS Project, CLARITY PPM, JIRA, TFS

Senior Project Manager Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. Experience with IT Auditing and IT security and privacy laws, regulations and compliance, including ISO27001(International Standards Organization - Information Security Management System ISSM), Payment Card Industry(PCI), Sarbane Oxley Act(SOX), Family Education Rights and Privacy Act(FERPA), Gramm Leach Bliley Act(GLBA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act(HIPAA).
• Initiates and Plan IT Projects in the Project Management Office (PMO) and Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables.
• Responsible for Project Control by assessing the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affectprojects working with division and cross divisional management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution.
• Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget. Oversee and control budgets, project capital/RCE expenditures & ROI: develop, monitor and meet expense and recovery plans; continually look for opportunities for cost reductions and cost avoidance.
• Responsible for Executing and Closing Projects through Developing and executing a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.
• Responsible for Project Communication by Communicating project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team, Division, Cross Division and Executive management. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues.
• Responsible for Resource and Team Management. Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities. Supervises, motivates and mentor cross-functional /cross divisional project team of project managers, business analysts, developers, and validation analysts.
• Responsible for Quality Management and compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Responsible for the management of business systems application projects and initiatives
• Responsible for timely delivery, acceptance, and high quality of the product as well as ensure that the final deliverable meets the needs of the business partner. Plan, direct, and control project activities to deliver a technology-based information solution for an Organizations operational or functional business area
• Develop project plan identifying tasks, deliverables/artifacts, human resources, effort, and task start and completion dates. Apply project management techniques to track project progress and effort, track issue identification and resolution, manage resources, and verify project quality
• Manage the project from initiation through delivery. Balance the demand from change requests and project scope changes to deliver the project within the prescribed timeframe and to realize the project benefits identified
• Communicate with project sponsors and business partners to inform interested parties of project status. Conduct, as applicable, project steering committees to inform business partners of project progress, issues requiring their attention or action, and financial status, and change requests impacting the cost, timing, and benefits of the system
• Manage project to the established financial approvals. Monitored project expenses and resources to confirm project tracking to plan; alert appropriate parties of exceptions and develop plans to put project back on track. Manage human resources on project to perform per the plan; counsel and correct performance issues

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, MS VC++, CICS, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, COBOL.,JCL.,IBM Mainframe, zOS, CNTL-M, Content Manager(CM), MS Project, MS Project Server PPM, JIRA, SharePoint

Senior Manager of Architecture

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager for Architecture including network infrastructure architecture, data architecture, and application architecture. Data warehouse/Business Intelligence development, implementation and maintenance. Responsible for complete SDLC - Systems Development Life Cycle, System Analysis & Design, Data Warehousing design and implementation, Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange migrations, Microsoft Lync, virtualization, O365 and cloud deployments, JAVA, J2EE in a DB2 9/10, Teradata, COBOL, IMS, CICS, CNTL-M, CNTL-D, Content Manager(CM), RFI, RFP, SQL SERVER, DBMS environment. Application Development with XML, DHTML, IBM Web Sphere 6.0, Web Methods, ETL tools, Abinitio, Datastage, Informatica, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#.NET, MS Office, PowerPoint, VISIO, IBM Rational Rose, RUP, SAP BPC, PeopleSoft HR, MS Project, Clarity PPM, EDRM, Disaster Recovery(DR) and eDiscovery.
• Responsible for IT Auditing and IT security and privacy laws, regulations and compliance, including ISO27001(International Standards Organization - Information Security Management System ISSM), Payment Card Industry(PCI), Sarbane Oxley Act(SOX), Family Education Rights and Privacy Act(FERPA), Gramm Leach Bliley Act(GLBA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act(HIPAA).
• Develop project plan identifying tasks, deliverables/artifacts, human resources, effort, and task start and completion dates. Apply project management techniques to track project progress and effort, track issue identification and resolution, manage resources, and verify project quality
• Manage the project from initiation through delivery. Balance the demand from change requests and project scope changes to deliver the project within the prescribed timeframe and to realize the project benefits identified
• Communicate with project sponsors and business partners to inform interested parties of project status. Conduct, as applicable, project steering committees to inform business partners of project progress, issues requiring their attention or action, and financial status, and change requests impacting the cost, timing, and benefits of the system
• Manage project to the established financial approvals. Monitored project expenses and resources to confirm project tracking to plan; alert appropriate parties of exceptions and develop plans to put project back on track. Manage human resources on project to perform per the plan; counsel and correct performance issues
• Understanding of Digital technology/media and strong understanding of multi-layer development, specifically for Mobile applications, as well as excited to work on a variety of projects using the latest technologies
• Demonstrated experience in handling digital development projects - particularly Mobile development (application development on Apple, Android etc.), Web development, Social Media, User Experience projects
• Demonstrated experience in applying agile (e.g., SCRUM) and/or Waterfall system development methodologies

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, MS VC++, CICS, DB2, COBOL, JCL, IBM Mainframe, zOS, CNTL-M, Content Manager(CM), RUP

Director/Senior Project Manager, Data Security and Application Development

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager for financial Services data warehouse/Business Intelligence development, implementation and maintenance for the Project Management Office (PMO). Responsible for complete SDLC - Systems Development Life Cycle, System Analysis & Design, Data Warehousing design and implementation in an Oracle 8i/9i, DB2 8/9, Teradata, CICS, COBOl, CM, CNTL-D, CNTL-M, Websphere 5.0, Oracle, SQL SERVER, DB, DBMS environment. Application Development with XML, DHTML, Web Methods, E.0, TL tools, Abinitio, Datastage, Informatica, J2EE, JAVA, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#.NET, MS Office, PowerPoint, VISIO, JIRA, RUP, SAP BPC, PeopleSoft HR, MS Project, Clarity PPM
• Managed a team of fifteen ETL developers and was responsible for coordinating with offshore on development / maintenance projects progress. Data warehouse development was implemented using DW tools - Informatica Powercenter 7.x, Business Objects, Datastage, Abinitio, Hyperion EssBase, Office Communicator / Live Meeting (or equivalent), OmniFind, FAST, InterWoven, MS Project, Project Server 2007, and Teradata with an Oracle 8i/9i RDBMS, SAP/BW enterprise implementation, PLSQL, and Linux (UNIX) environment. Implemented Disaster Recovery (DR) plan and Continuous Availability for the enterprise.
• Responsible for managing the project plan in MS Project, Clarity PPM, project documentation in MS SharePoint, Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange migrations, Microsoft Lync, virtualization, O365 and cloud deployments and chairing regular meetings with the team to ensure all deliverables is on track and escalated risks or issues in a timely manner
• Experience with IT Auditing and IT security and privacy laws, regulations and compliance, including ISO27001(International Standards Organization - Information Security Management System ISSM), Payment Card Industry(PCI), Sarbane Oxley Act(SOX), Family Education Rights and Privacy Act(FERPA), Gramm Leach Bliley Act(GLBA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act(HIPAA).
• Develop project plan identifying tasks, deliverables/artifacts, human resources, effort, and task start and completion dates. Apply project management techniques to track project progress and effort, track issue identification and resolution, manage resources, and verify project quality
• Manage the project from initiation through delivery. Balance the demand from change requests and project scope changes to deliver the project within the prescribed timeframe and to realize the project benefits identified
• Communicate with project sponsors and business partners to inform interested parties of project status. Conduct, as applicable, project steering committees to inform business partners of project progress, issues requiring their attention or action, and financial status, and change requests impacting the cost, timing, and benefits of the system
• Understanding of Digital technology/media and strong understanding of multi-layer development, specifically for Mobile applications, as well as excited to work on a variety of projects using the latest technologies
• Demonstrated experience in handling digital development projects - particularly Mobile development (application development on Apple, Android etc.), Web development, Social Media, User Experience projects
• Demonstrated experience in applying agile (e.g., SCRUM) and/or Waterfall system development methodologies. Demonstrated ability to develop well-substantiated estimates for project effort. Successful use of project management tools such as MS Project to define project tasks, schedules, and effort, to manage project scope, and to be able to effectively monitor and track project status and issues to determine the project's actual disposition
• Demonstrated ability to develop a project plan and approach that appropriately addresses the business need and to oversee the development process to ensure the delivered system will accurately and effectively meet the need

Senior Project Manager Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing data warehouse database projects, managing people, hiring, performance management, evaluations and reviews. Responsible for driving complex implementations, ownership of deliverables, client management experience, own functional/technical deliverables, and drive discussions
• Responsible for the management of business systems application projects and initiatives
• Responsible for timely delivery, acceptance, and high quality of the product as well as ensure that the final deliverable meets the needs of the business partner. Plan, direct, and control project activities to deliver a technology-based information solution for an Organizations operational or functional business area
• Develop project plan identifying tasks, deliverables/artifacts, human resources, effort, and task start and completion dates. Apply project management techniques to track project progress and effort, track issue identification and resolution, manage resources, and verify project quality
• Manage the project from initiation through delivery. Balance the demand from change requests and project scope changes to deliver the project within the prescribed timeframe and to realize the project benefits identified
• Communicate with project sponsors and business partners to inform interested parties of project status. Conduct, as applicable, project steering committees to inform business partners of project progress, issues requiring their attention or action, and financial status, and change requests impacting the cost, timing, and benefits of the system
• Manage project to the established financial approvals. Monitored project expenses and resources to confirm project tracking to plan; alert appropriate parties of exceptions and develop plans to put project back on track. Manage human resources on project to perform per the plan; counsel and correct performance issues
• Extensive experience in the planning, design, development and delivery of information systems projects. Demonstrated experience in the successful delivery of multiple mid- (5 work year) and large-sized (10+ work year) projects that are stand alone and part of an overall program
• Demonstrated experience in applying agile (e.g., SCRUM) and/or Waterfall system development methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to develop well-substantiated estimates for project effort. Successful use of project management tools such as MS Project to define project tasks, schedules, and effort, to manage project scope, and to be able to effectively monitor and track project status and issues to determine the project's actual disposition
• Demonstrated ability to develop a project plan and approach that appropriately addresses the business need and to oversee the development process to ensure the delivered system will accurately and effectively meet the need

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, MS VC++, CICS, DB2, COBOL.,JCL.,IBM Mainframe, zOS, CNTL-M, Content Manager(CM), MS Project Server PPM, MS SQL Server, Oracle

Senior Project Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing people; hiring, performance management, evaluations and reviews. Responsible for ensuring the execution of specific strategic functions and implementing high-end, business-wide, critical strategy
• Provided guidance, planning and direction for business unit(s), maintains budgets and proactively allocates resources and time for the business units or functions they support
• Developed and implemented Server Consolidation, Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange migrations, Microsoft Lync, virtualization, ITIL, O365 and cloud deployments projects utilizing formal project management methodologies and industry best practices using CMM, PMBOK and PMM from PMI. Extensive experience with formal project management tools such MS Project, Clarity PPM, MS SharePoint and MS Office
• Performed Project Task Estimation, Resource Scheduling, Risk Management, Issue Management, adhered to Standard Project Lifecycle and PMI methodology, Budget / Financial Management including Business Case completion, Cost benefit analysis, and Evaluation of impact to Total Cost of Ownership. Responsible for driving complex implementations, ownership of deliverables, client management experience, own functional/technical deliverables, and drive discussions

President/CTC/Program Manager

Confidential, Markham, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for large scale projects management for the Project Management Office (PMO). Other responsibilities include staffing, budgeting, estimating, marketing, strategic business planning, technical training, project management, and technical consulting. Responsible for driving complex implementations, ownership of deliverables, client management experience, own functional/technical deliverables for Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange migrations, Microsoft Lync, virtualization, Disaster Recovery(DR) planning and implementation, ITIL, O365 and cloud deployments, SAP BPC, JAVA/J2EE, DB2, Teradata, COBOL, CICS, RFI, RFP, IBM Websphere, Datastage, PeopleSoft HR, MS Project, MS .Net, Visual Basic, Clarity PPM, and drive discussions
• Responsible for the management of business systems application projects and initiatives. Responsible for timely delivery, acceptance, and high quality of the product as well as ensure that the final deliverable meets the needs of the business partner. Plan, direct, and control project activities to deliver a technology-based information solution for an Organizations operational or functional business area
• Develop project plan identifying tasks, deliverables/artifacts, human resources, effort, and task start and completion dates. Apply project management techniques to track project progress and effort, track issue identification and resolution, manage resources, and verify project quality
• Manage the project from initiation through delivery. Balance the demand from change requests and project scope changes to deliver the project within the prescribed timeframe and to realize the project benefits identified
• Communicate with project sponsors and business partners to inform interested parties of project status. Conduct, as applicable, project steering committees to inform business partners of project progress, issues requiring their attention or action, and financial status, and change requests impacting the cost, timing, and benefits of the system

Environment: JAVA, J2EE, MS VC++, CICS, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, COBOL., JCL.,IBM Mainframe, zOS, CNTL-M, Content Manager(CM), MS Project, Project Workbench, Clarity PPM.