OBJECTIVE:

• Looking for project management, software engineering management, IT management, solutions architecture, business systems analysis, or pre - sales support client-facing roles incorporating architecture, design, documentation, analysis, and technical management.

SUMMARY

• Results-oriented and high-energy professional with a successful record of accomplishments in multiple high-demand industries.
• Experienced in software project management, IT management, architect-level engineering, business systems analysis, cost/schedule/risk management, Risk Analysis, SWOT analysis, User Acceptance Testing, Earned Value Management (EVM), and various SDLC methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, RUP.
• Possess strong leadership and excellent communication skills.
• Areas of expertise include communicating with stakeholders and management, giving presentations to technical and non-technical audiences, handling troubled project turnaround, and delivering customer satisfaction.
• Successfully delivered projects on time, on budget and within scope. Managed scope, time, cost, resources, risk, communication, project integration, quality in line with PMBOK best practices of PMI.
• Extensive experience in Project Plans, Project Timelines, Project Estimates, Statements of Work, Service Level Agreements, Concept and Feasibility Assessments, building Business Requirements, Business Cases, and Operations Requirements Briefs.
• Managed large teams up to 104 members spread on-site and offshore, time and cost, resource planning, resource allocation. Coordinated with teams of various product vendors in handling multimillion dollar projects.
• As an articulate, resourceful and self-sufficient project manager, offers very strong problem solving, analysis and decision-making skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels in the organization.
• Designed and implemented business activity reporting to the leadership teams through qualitative and quantitative analysis, business process documentation and end user training documentation.
• Facilitated weekly steering committee meetings with business heads of Wealth Management, Asset Management and Legal and Compliance teams.
• Excellent and proven client and vendor management experience with RFI/RFP, vendor selection and SOW/contract formulation for contracts.
• Turnaround artist who thrives on challenge resolution through re-engineering, team building and leadership. Experienced at resolving complex business issues and making things happen across multi-functional teams through innovation and creative thinking
• 10 years project management experience, 18 years tech management.
• Successfully implemented projects with investment of up to $35M.
• Turned failed projects into success, recovered company standing with customers, and turned liability into a profit.
• Created and enacted processes and procedures, continuous process improvement (CMMI, 6-Sigma, etc).
• Maintained schedules on time and under budget, managed issues and mitigated risks, assigning work-flow.
• Managed technology decisions and assignment of resources and workflow, project timelines and milestones for government and commercial projects.
• Planned and managed engineering systems and applications, personnel up to 104.
• Managed vendors, COTS implementation, external interfaces. Reviewed and approved work provided by vendors and external organizations.
• Contract renegotiations, change management, work prioritization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Denver, CO

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the upgrade of a WebSphere Message Brokering Systems for the Southeast United States Region. Conversed with the client through active client management and project management insight to transform requirements into viable solutions while monitoring the budgets throughout the project lifecycle. Successfully delivered project through active client management, project management oversight, and budget monitoring.
• As the Project Manager, I was responsible for conducting kickoff meetings, working with the client to create technical and functional requirements, from which the scope was established and managed through successful completion. Provided leadership to cross-functional project teams, and maintained project documentation.
• Leveraged internal tools to build detailed project cost estimates, identify critical assumptions and risks.
• Technical Project Management, change management.

Environment: SOA, HIPAA, UML, logical and physical design, Visio, MS Project, Remedy, MS Office, WebSphere 8, VMWare, AIX Unix, Webex, distributed team management, StarTeam, Rational Team Center, SharePoint, source and version control.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Web Deployment Manager

Responsibilities:

• As deployment manager, I managed product releases and deployments, including test planning and release planning, actual release, and deployment, and post-deployment testing and review. Planned, configured, and tested product hosting environments for testing and production release.
• Set up administrator accounts and configurations, managed content deployment, mobile device configuration, product release management and development coordination.
• Managed "productization" of websites, and developed user training and documentation materials.
• Assisted in product development including new releases, features and interfaces.
• Participated in disaster recovery planning, COTS integration, virtualization, remote systems management, customer relationship management, change management.

Environment: Ubuntu Linux, Apache, PHP, AJAX, JSON, GiT, Asana, MySQL, log4php, iPad/iPod, html 5, JavaScript

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Researched and spread best practices; investigated and articulated customer-specific technology solutions for virtualization and cloud.
• Advised enterprise CTO and CEO level on overall architecture.
• Researched alternative architecture technologies, analyzed current client technology infrastructure and ability to support strategic objectives, including improvement of business processes.
• Managed installation and testing of prototype systems to ensure functionality.
• Researched and managed proof-of-concept of Linux cloud platforms for virtualization, scale out architecture, internet usability, information security, and elastic database architecture, to facilitate migration to cloud technology.
• Managed configuration, infrastructure troubleshooting, release management, change management, disaster recovery planning, and test environment.

Environment: Ubuntu, Mint, Redhat, Debian, PuppyLinux, DamnSmallLinux, Pinguy, Zorin, Fedora, UNIX, VirtualBox, VMWare, WIKI, Jira.

Confidential, Highlands Ranch, CO

Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Engineered and prototyped system for the project, with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Coordinated with the customer in design, presentation, and scheduling of project activities.
• Developed documentation for design, system implementation, integration, use and test cases.
• Performed requirements translation, requirements decomposition, user interface design, human factors engineering, information security planning, financial and security compliance, data modeling, documenting functional specifications, reporting, database design, user documentation, systems engineering, and user help system.

Environment: Netbeans, Windows, Linux, Subversion, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA/SOAP), T-SQL, PL/SQL, Mind Maps, Agile, FOSS, Word, Excel, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle, Apache, IIS, UML, XML, SharePoint.

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Consulted on modeling concepts with multi-national navigation data standards committee.
• Engineered and modeled data model for proposed new data standards, to be presented at business venture meeting.
• Handled data modeling and database design.

Environment: Enterprise Architect, Java, J2SE, J2EE, Netbeans, HTML, UML, XML, XMI, UNIX, SharePoint

Confidential, Loveland, CO

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed technology decisions and assignment of resources and workflow, project timelines and milestones.
• Planned, managed, engineered system and applications.
• Reviewed site design, architecture.
• Managed vendors, COTS implementation, external interfaces.
• Managed test lab configuration, coordinated test and development activities, build process, production environment.
• Collaborated on graphic art and visual design.
• Direct marketing, customer liaison, vendor liaison, full SDLC (software development life-cycle), Enterprise Content Management Services (ECMS), change management, virtualization, financials and financial reporting, internet usability, disaster recovery planning, release management.

Environment: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Java, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, SQL, OOD/OOP, WIKI, Joomla, HTML, ETL, OpenProject, SharePoint, e-commerce, Windows 7 migration, Linux, SOA, SAAS, Paypal.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Software Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Turned a failed project that was a liability into a positive for the company.
• Managed the full project life cycle, to include providing estimates and bid input based upon project requirements.
• Maintained the schedule on time and under budget, managed issues and mitigated risks, assigning work-flow.
• Reviewed and approved work provided by vendors and external organizations.
• Participated in 18 contract modifications in three years, managing customer changes in requirements and priorities.
• Directly responsible for assignment, design, work-flow, resources, prioritization and day-to-day activities of a software engineering department.
• Directed unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
• Managed test lab configuration, coordinated test and development activities, build process, production environment.
• Coordinated with the government customers in design, presentation, and scheduling of project activities.
• Developed and oversaw the development of documentation for design, system implementation, integration, performance analysis, use and test cases.
• Authored and implemented procedures for development, code standards, source code management, configuration management, build and release schedules.
• Created issue tracking, work-flow and reporting management tools and processes used by all personnel involved with project.
• Coordinated and performed end-of-project delivery of all software, hardware, documentation, CM, surplus, and residual inventory.
• Sold remaining equipment to bring back additional $250K+ to the company.
• Implemented new CMDM inventory control system for the Configuration Management/Document Management department, replacement QA database for production QA, and company electronic suggestion box.
• Responsible for user interface design, human factors engineering.
• Contributed to BD team for proposals, bids, estimates.
• PMP/PMBOK, Earned Value Management (EVM), financials and financial reporting, requirements management, change management, RFI, RFP, SOW, requirements translation/decomposition, data modeling, functional specifications, disaster recovery planning, COTS implementation, release management, information security, cross-domain security.

Environment: s: Agile, Waterfall, Scrum Java, J2SE, J2EE, Netbeans, Windows, Linux, VB6, Oracle 10g, Active Directory, SourceSafe, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), ETL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Subversion, embedded firmware, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Virtualization, reporting, networking, CMMI, MS Project, MS Access, UML, XML, PowerPoint, Mind Maps, DOORS, SharePoint, management, systems engineering, FOSS, Word, Excel.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Developer/Consultant/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developer and analyst for a startup SBU.
• Systems perform security system monitoring and management for hundreds of thousands of customers at once.
• Developed and modified existing n-tier application systems and analyzed and changed database as needed.
• Designed and created ASP web-based version of Manitou, 4-tier real-time access to central station systems, serving over half a million live subscribers.
• ETL system and application for importing legacy data from Bold's 22-year-old THEOS system.
• Operated as part of a team organizing, planning, and executing large-scale project from vision through implementation.
• GUI-based application design and object-oriented development.
• Data modeling and relational database design, programming, localization, implementation, delivery.

Environment: Waterfall, Visual Basic 6.0, VBScript, ASP, COM, user interface design, human factors engineering, embedded software, JavaScript, internet usability, Sybase 12, SQLServer 2000, SourceSafe, Active Directory, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), ADO, OLEDB, ETL, DAO, SQL, control creation, Sheridan controls, Access 2000, networking, some MSVC 6.0.