| Personal Summary I am a pro-active, reliable, and creative experienced manager who takes charge of projects with a precise customer focus. I have successfully managed projects, time lines, budgets and personnel. Strengths include Leadership, communication, business planning, strategy development, consensus building, and drive. I possess excellent communication and relationship building skills with direct experience in enterprise network design, and product development with a focus on converged data center technologies, and have implemented, performed system integrations and decommission of various Enterprise Network Management Systems. |
| PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS |
| Confidential |
| Project Manager/Deputy Program Management |
- Manage and deploy Applications, Infrastructure and Functional Projects to serve multiple Canadian Travel Plazas/ Six International Canadian Airports and Canadian Shopping Centers utilizing Network Support Architectural Design Methodologies and Management. Develop and review application project charters.
- Use CMMI process methodologies to ensure organizational structure and track management of applications.
- Participate in functional requirements discovery sessions with Bell Canada and Verizon Telecommunications Staff to properly capture direct client needs and plan effective resource management. Knowledge of adopted industry PM / IT Practices and Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL .
- Implemented and Manage international project set to reduce monthly costs exceeding 100K through WAN/LAN Migration from Verizon Router to Bell Canada Router.
- Direct Portfolio Management Office PMO functions to implement and provide an enterprise-wide approach to identify, prioritize and successfully execute a portfolio of IT initiatives and projects. Manages a portfolio of diverse projects in terms of complexity and risks. Annual investments in excess of 10 million
- Direct Manage applications infrastructure project execution. Manage develop project team while monitoring resource allocation reports from AtTask/MS Project. Manage stakeholder expectations via e-mail and in weekly talks with the customer.
- Monitor Control project work daily by maintaining logs for issues, risk, action items, requirements churn, earned value and lessons learned using Agile Methodology.
- Direct supervision of five or more project managers. Knowledge of management techniques for managing virtual teams across multiple locations.
- Managed projects development from initiation to closure. Responsible for project results.
| Confidential Project Manager 2 Year Contract - Supported multiple Information Technology Systems ITS team with multiple projects providing process driven methodologies and technical expertise with systems applications through Wyle Inc. and STG Inc.
- Work with Project sponsor and stakeholders to complete project charter outlining scope, goals, deliverables, required resources budget and timing.
- Complete work breakdown structure to estimate effort required for each task.
- Provide project schedule to identify when each task will be performed.
- Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders.
- Act as a mediator between stakeholders and team members.
- Resolve any issue and solve problems throughout projects life cycle.
- Effectively manage projects scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved with project changes request forms.
- Track and report on project milestones and provide status reports to sponsor.
- Lead team of 35, couch and motivate project team members on a proactive basis.
- Determine how results will be measured and complete a post project evaluation
- Scheduled and chaired weekly planning meetings to capture both technical and cost requirements from stakeholders. Generated Letter of Execution LOE , Technical and Cost proposals, Project Change Requests PCR , Expenditure Reports, Statements of Work SOW and Completion Emails to Program Management Office PMO and associated groups.
- Created both Technical and Cost Proposals for PMO to submit for multiple projects. Ensured a consistent balance between resources was leveled to avoid delays to vital projects.
- Identified risks, performed qualitative quantitative risk analysis and prepared risk responses for senior management, sponsors and various stakeholders.
- Performed Agile Scrum Master on high-visibility custom SharePoint site redesign projects to ensure needs of all stakeholders are captured, prioritized, and scheduled for implementation.
- Responsible for the Implementation and Deployment of long and short term Enterprise System Integrations, Product Development and Software Application projects such as Active Directory, Windows 7 and SharePoint projects.
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| Lead Military Business Analyst Contract |
- Program Management support to SEA21 TEAM Ships PMS 470 LSD Class Manager throughout all phases of the surface ship modernization availability life cycle. Lead and/or participated in working groups, program development forums, analytical activities, readiness exercises, training, education and other forums to accomplish contract requirements.
- Scheduled and chaired availability planning meetings on a monthly basis in order to communicate and update availability status.
- Attended meetings on behalf of the client to represent the program office both technically and programmatically.
- Functioned as a subject matter expert representing the Ship Class Manager in areas such as Air Combat Element/Ground Combat Element, Arms Stowage aboard LHD's/LHA's, MV-22 Heating Deck issues and QPR Quarterly Performance Review .
- Provided technical support for Video Teleconferencing VTC , audio/video management, stand-alone server management and classified meeting coordination.
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- Functioned as a Science and Engineering Technical Assistant SETA in the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate. Supported multiple performers 20 million in contracts for a high profile project in the Chemical and Biological Research and Development Branch.
- Reviewed monthly technical and financial status reports for multiple performers and managed a database summarizing performance information. Provided situation reports to federal PM highlighting key concerns related to schedule and deliverables.
- Performed a comparative analysis of company, federal and international design and computer standards for commercial multi-media conference centers. The summary report generated was successfully used by upper management to build a case to company leadership for substantial system upgrades 200 K .
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| COMPUTER SKILLS |
- Programs: Momentum Software/SysAdmin FinDex, Remedy 7.0, 7.5, JAMIS, NDE, SQL
- Microsoft Access, Power Point, Excel, Word, Visio, SharePoint, Project Server, SAGE Act 2011, Project Server, AtTask, ClearQuest, ReqPro.
- SharePoint Project Repository/Measurement SPI-CPI /QMS/PAL Library. Microsoft Windows 9x/XP/Vista/7 Server 2000/2003/2008/2008R2, Windows XP Embedded, Windows 7, Dell/ HP workstations, blades and servers, HP Series DeskJet and LaserJet Printers, Thin Client.
- TCP/IP, Ethernet, VPN, Secure ID/RSA, SMS, Windows NT/2000/2003/2008, DCHP, DNS, and Network Storage Devices SAN/ SNA .
- Common Access Card Software, PureEdge, Tumbleweed, Data at Rest Encryption Credant , Dameware, Microsoft Exchange, X1, Active Client, Teammate, VMware, Network Associates EPO Server, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit MDT .
- Windows Deployment Service WDS , Windows Server Update Services WSUS , System Center Configuration Manager SCCM , System Center Operations Manager SCOM , McAfee Host Base Security System HBSS , Voltage, Symantec Enterprise Vault, GoldDisk, What's up Gold, Microsoft Customer Relationship Management CRM , Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and 2010, Vmware, HyperV, PKI, Internet Information Servers IIS , Kixstart.
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