SUMMARY:

• Decisive, action - oriented and results focused professional offering 8 years of Information Technology Management experience with focus as project Manager for diverse industries.
• Offer outstanding talents in resource loading, resource leveling (sharing resources), team building, team consensus, budget management, developing project scope (budgets, timelines and delivery dates), customer relationships, cost avoidance, continuous design improvements, conducting status meetings and customer reviews.
• Driven by new challenges and desire to be successful in all endeavors. Immensely enjoy navigating all aspects of complex projects.
• Result-oriented and hardworking professional with extensive knowledge of project management field, strong communication and interpersonal skills, excellent leadership skills, strong presentation and organization skills, excellent problem solving skills, other Skills are:
• Experience working in an agile and waterfall environment.
• Excellent communicator: leverage technical, business, and financial acumen to communicate with client.
• Self-motivated and enjoy in working a team environment
• Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring, and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects.
• Strong communication, presentation, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Excellent organization skills and ability to prioritize tasks.
• Experienced in negotiating and motivating outside vendors and off-shore resources in support of time line and IT project deliverables.
• Experience in several fields such as: School District, Hospitals, Distribution centers, Gaming, Hospitality, Gaming, Finance, Automobile, Insurance and entertainments.
• English Dutch Flemish Italian

SKILLS:

Working with MS project, Clarity, Ariba

Windows server 2008 Active Directory (MCTP)

Project Analyst (PA)

Vendor Relations Specialist (VRS)

Certified Windows Systems Administrator

Systems Administrator (SA)

Cisco certified Design Architecture ( CCDA)

Certified WAN Administrator (CWA)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Project Manager Professional. Pending ( PMP )

MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, OneNote, ExakTime, Alert software project management & job Costing, VPN, Outlook, LANWAN, TCP/IP

SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Orange, CA

IT Project manager / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supervising activities related to planning, implementation and maintenance of projects.
• Design and build wireless Wi-Fi systems for Navy base, Military base and government entities.
• Interviewing; hiring; determining employees' training needs; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Coordinate with supervisors to identify and manage any potential roadblocks or hazards that may hinder productivity or schedules on assigned tasks.
• Monitor all work activities to ensure progress and assure adequate numbers are available to meet project needs
• Determine size and mix of skill sets needed to economically manage installation, and support
• Maintain schedules, productivity, and quality standards of all job tasks.
• Respond to customer concerns or questions as required
• Furnish information necessary to meet requirements of the Bid/Proposal Process.

IT Project Manager

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously such as DB Migration and MS upgrade to 2008 within the enterprise, (40 Casino’s Nationwide). Including upgrading all Database and software related.
• Develop project plans, specifications, and other related project planning materials.
• Resolve project issues, problems, and changes.
• Lead projects to overall success. Oversee quality assurance cycle for development projects and implementations.
• Prepare formal project reports on a regular basis for customers and internal management.
• Apply learning from past projects to future projects by developing and continuously improving tools, templates and processes to facilitate deployment efforts.
• Create and maintain project documentation including technical specifications, flow charts, project schedules, content collection checklists, meeting agendas and status reports.
• Participate in problem resolution meetings and conduct tests of Incident Management procedures and alerts.
• Demonstrate full understanding of development methodologies, consulting best practices, and common web and application architectures.

IT Project Manager / Consultant

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Create a project plan to build a new Data center for fortune 100 in a 2.1M SF.
• Participates in project priority setting. Detailed project plans are created, covering the entire life cycle, and associated project budgets.
• Manages backup and recovery processes
• Supporting new greenfield and/or repurposed distribution center facilities
• Performs design and build definition; inclusive of requirements for data center, production
• Floor wired and wireless infrastructure, client device and MHE infrastructure support
• Defines methodologies which ensure Ross and vendor partner solution architects are aligned with direction, solutions, milestones, and delivery models
• Evaluating technical designs, developing alternatives, and recommending appropriate solutions.
• Collaborating with others throughout IT to ensure timely and successful issue resolution.
• Identifies new methods of improving system performance and stability.

Project manager

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Schedule and execute all stages of enterprise software, hardware and system implementations. Assessed business implications for each project phase and monitored progress to meet deadlines, standards and cost targets.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously such as VPN implementation, DB Deployment, and T1 & MPLS circuits’ deployment.
• Managing circuits project between the local offices and the 2 data centers in Atlanta and Texas.
• Define and initiate projects, and assign Project Managers to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.
• Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
• Excelled in guiding the work of technical teams. Articulated project goals and scope, translated business needs into technical terms, prepared detailed work breakdown structures (WBS) and instilled shared accountability for achieving project milestones.
• Abstracting up low-level technical information to a high-level general understanding; and Business Case development and liaise with appropriate stakeholders in the assessment, development and implementation of IT projects
• Create PMO templates for a Startup Company.

Confidential, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Project Manager / Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Manage Project development from initiating to closure such as Network infrastructure upgrade. VoIP Projects, Wi-Fi / Access point Deployment, Remote office.
• Managing several Projects and technical teams with Cisco Gold partners such as Security, Wireless, Switching & routing and VoIP projects to support a huge number of school districts and hospitals in California.
• Managing infrastructure type projects from network cabling to LAN and PC integration and consolidation activities, this includes but not limited to understand clients requirements, budget, objectives, user expectations and plan accordingly making sure projects are delivered in time, within the budget and within the company standards.
• Collaborate with senior management and sales teams on project development, pre-sales meetings with clients, and definition of enterprise architecture.
• Accountable for project results along with project sponsor.
• Ensured highest customer satisfaction levels for majority of clients with collaborative customer relationship building.
• Experience in working with PMO Office, and following the PM methodologies.
• Coordinate meetings, including travel arrangements and expense reports.
• Responsible for defining resource requirements, budgets, timing, scope, and deliverables for each project.
• Over millions of dollars projects was successfully closed within the time and budget.
• Monitor or track project milestones and deliverables.
• Develops positive relationships with project team members through frequent daily update and substantial coaching to establish goals and objectives for personal and professional growth. .
• Define & maintain all implementation processes, manage implementation lifecycle; coordinate
• Perform a complete technical review of network design topology drawings verses contracted BOM.
• Identify installation schedule conflicts and implement an appropriate solution.

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Apply effective project management methodologies and control techniques.
• Mitigate risk by identifying, escalating and resolving issues across multiple delivery projects.
• Interfaced with clients when providing marketing presentations promoting company credentials proven to be beneficial for specific vendors based on vendor profile.
• Created and managed release and replacement schedule for the entire company, and coordinate with the project team to ensure consistency and project focus.
• Assisted project team in maintaining project schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), issue/decision logs, meeting summaries and status reports to ensure effective, ongoing communications across all team members.
• Designed tools, reports, charts, and graphs for senior management to provide ongoing, at-a-glance summaries of project status and application prototype performance.
• Collaborated effectively with project, product and program managers, developer and IT department to ensure project deliverables remained on track and aligned with business goals and expectations
• Oversee development of support systems, encompassing management reporting, payment approval, and accounting interfaces.