Project Manager , Ca
SUMMARY
- Highly accomplished, U.S. Citizen, who has a documented and proven, successful track record, driving and bringing value as a Senior Program or Senior Project Manager, 15 years PM, wif 29 years overall IT experience.
- Who understands revenue recognition, margins, customer satisfaction and balancing each.
- Along wif the importance of today's data driven business models.
- me am you're Consultant Results are what me produce Have been referred to as a "ROCKSTAR" on multiple occasions.
- me am intimately proficient wif Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Lean, XP, Crystal, FDD, DSDM, AUP, Six Sigma and other project management methodologies.Adapt as a quick study and solution architect, in numerous complex configurations and architectures.
- Open to project engagements of short or long term duration. Incorporated and available for direct or subcontract engagements, mentoring or training. Optimistic wif years of experience delivering Cloud, SDLC applications, Infrastructure, ERP, CRM and Omni - Channel retailing, related projects for domestic and international clients.
- Extensive IT background includes over 29 years of roles as Director, Senior Program Manager, Senior Portfolio Manager, Senior Project Manager (PMP), Agile (PMI-ACP)/Scrum (CSM) Project Manager, Agile Trainer, Cloud technology, System Developer, Data Warehouse (DW) Architect, Business Analyst, Director and a Six Sigma Green Belt practitioner across many platforms wifin the enterprise.
- Hands-on technical and management experience wif respect to development and deployment of large scale complex application systems, infrastructure architecture, business intelligence (BI) tools, support and efficient design.
- Project Management proficiencies and noledge base includes PMI methodology, CMMI3 methodology, Agile Coach / Scrum Master methodology, Kanban, SAFe Agile Framework 4.0, SDLC 2.0, PDLC, Six Sigma Green Belt, Integration / Migration Process management, Critical Chain Management,
- Testing Scripts, Cloud technology, best practice research/adherence and others. Initiatives including feasibility studies, data warehouse (Kimball), star schema, snowflake schema, data gathering, data modeling, data architecture, system/business analysis, design, coding, system deployment, tuning, quality control, project standards, data conversion, VMware Cloud solutions, DBA work and Hyperion OLAP development are also tools in my tool belt.
- Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to Line Management, benefits/cost analysis, ROI tracking, Payback analysis, Earned Value (EV) analysis, Oracle and SAP ERP upgrade evaluation, Data Integration Design Documents, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Logical Views, Schema maps,Power Point and Visio presentations, Reporting tools include, Clarity, Sharepoint, Open Workbench, MS Project/Server, PMO dashboard, Office365, Smartview, SalesForce and others.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- As Program Manager/Scrum Master, onsite in Washington, DC, wif the USDA ERS, a federal government department/division.
- me am tasked wif refining the cultural transition to Agile/Scrum methodology’s in the Web Services Branch, while driving other initiatives to delivery.
- Sharing industries best practices, techniques and concepts was a daily focus.
- me performed in the role of Scrum Master for multiple sprints.
- Working wif many features and stories involving web design, web development, continuous integration, Umbraco, Laserfiche,
- As Managing Director sought out and evaluated income opportunities for the organization.
- Recruiting non-IT resources for requirements wif our national partner
- As a Senior Project Manager Consultant, me worked various consultant engagements fortune 50/100 companies listed below
- Business process and computer system improvements for financial and legal customers (Office 365 install/migration)
- MS SQL
- PM for fee Mobile App Development - Scrum methodology
- SAFe Agile and SalesForce support
Confidential, CA
Senior Project Manager Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Successfully managed and reported on,over 30projectsto datewifmultiple deployments
- Managing project performance internally and for partners at end-client deployments
- Managingprojectfinancials,customerinvoicing, revenue recognition,margins,resourcing, expensereports, time approval.
- Presentations, Project meeting, Knowledge transfer workshops, status calls, customer/end-client reviews
- Travel to support project(s) when needed vCloudDirector(vCD), vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vSphere,vCloud Orchestrator (vCO),etc., vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator v(RO), Integration & Automation (me&A), etc.,
- Changepoint,SalesForce,Horizon Workspace, Webex, PowerPoint, MS Project, Lync
- Worked wif global resourcing and partner organizations
- Successfully worked wif Sales teams, PCR's, SOW, PO, WO's, e-invoicingand complex accounts
- Help drivedifferent regions that me workedwifinto becomingthe top national producer 3 out of 4 quarters
Confidential
Project Management Consultant
Responsibilities:
- As aProgram/Portfolio/PlannerManagerIhad as many as 13direct reportsand 50+ indirect reports.
- As a Senior Project Manager, me utilized the full spectrum of the project manager's tool chest and worked on Data Warehouse (ETL/BI/Data Marts), Infrastructure, and Application Development projects.
- Technologies usedincludedMS Project, Project Server,Clarity, SharePoint,Microsoft Lync 2010 (communicator),SDLC 2.0, Agile/Scrum,Hyperion, Oracle,Open Workbench,Microsoft Office2010,Cloud,Live Meetingand a host ofKPI metrics.
- Other projecteffortsincluded global deployments,me owned two global, multi-day, multi-continents implementations,Agile mentoring,Agile Trainer, Agile Coach,Scrum Master,Agile Project Manager coach andWaterfall Project Manager.
- Co-located and Distributed (geographically dispersed)Agile projects.
- Many of the java customer support applications integrated wif VRU's and Unified Voice.
- Projects financials and forecastingweremaintainedusingClarity,SharePointand OpenWorkbench.
- Global teamswere located on6 continents.
- me also engaged in meetings whosegoals wereto roll-out Agile/Scrum standards, tools, guidelines and practices enterprise widealong wif evaluating PEGAsoftwareas an Agile tool.
- E-invoicing system
- Lead Wealth Management Initiatives and training
- Created Agile/Scrum Instructional Presentations
- Created PMP Instructional Presentations
- Consulted and Brainstormed wif business partners on Hyperion HFM, FDM andreportingproducts
- Lead Mobile Application Development projects
Confidential
Project Manager Consultant
Responsibilities:
- In a matrix environment, me managed or supervised teams of 8 (core team) to 50 (deployment) resources.
- Upgradefrom 2005to 2008 SQL Serverdatabase platform, implementingData Encryption for alldata at rest (DAR), implementingData Obfuscation andimplementing an enterprise wide multiple locationsDatabaseDisaster Recovery strategy.
- Architecting a Data Center move is also the backdrop to the DR project.dis included all applications, infrastructure, and Data Warehouse environments.Currentlyfourdeployments or rollouts hasbeen implemented.
- As the PM, Ihavebroughtsomestructure to acomplex organization.
- Aggressive delivery ofprojectresultswasmade possible by using advancedproject management techniques.Some deliverablesinclude
- 1)Project Charter, Architectural Designdocument, Project Schedule/WBS, Project Planand other project documents. disWBSoutlineda veryaggressivesponsor leadtimeline,
- 2.)Coordination ofSAN, DBA, Windows, Networking,VRU (wif Unified Voice capabilities),Application teams and Business usersto work togethertocomplete significantdeliverables,
- 3)ContributingtotheirPMO toolsand procedures,
- 4)Mentoring,
- 5) CompletingmultipleProof of Conceptsinitiatives,
- 6) documenting andbringing claritytoprojectobjectivesin alignment wiflong-termorganizationalstrategic goals,
- 7)driving Application andBusinessUser'sAcceptance Test andimplementations,
- 8)Successful completion offour(4)enterprise wide implementation roll-out,
- 9)meetingdailywif Directors, VP level stakeholders and occasionallywif outside Vendors.
Confidential
Director / Project Management Consultant
Responsibilities:
- IusedPM and Scrum methodologyskills to manage anddirect the activities of dis company.
- Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Controlling and Closure methodswere used to develop the significant initiatives of dis organization.
- WebManagementDesign,developingBusiness SOP's(standard operating procedures),network integration, verseeingProcurementandContract negotiationskillswere also used to successfullypursue the business of dis company.
Confidential
Project Manager Consultant
Responsibilities:
- In a matrix environment, me managed and supervised 8 resources.
- me also was the Program Manager for Infrastructure Architecture Management of two new facilities. The new construction of a four line production and manufacturing facility along wif the build-out of a separate chilled distribution facility.
- Both projects interfaced wif the chilled supply chain and other distribution centers.
- My PM duties required me to perform the full complement of PM activities along wifgaining
- CMMI3 level compliance (Project Feasibility & Approval,Project Preparation, Blue Print Design, (HLD), Realization Design, Realize Construction, Realization Test, Final Preparation, Go Live & Support, Project Closure).
- Other deliverables included themigration of data from legacy systems to SAP data warehouse environment,Project Charter, Project Plan, Project Schedule/WBS, Server Build Procedures, SAP ERP Integration, Deployment / Go Live Procedures, Disaster Recovery Plans, Training, Architecture Assessments, SDLC remediation, Decommission ofInfrastructure, Functional/Non Functional Business Requirements, Traceability matrix, Infrastructure Architecture Assessments (LAN, WAN, SAN), Equipment Accounting (capital/expense), etc.
- Tools used include MS Project Server 2007, Outlook 2007, eRoom, Primavera, KnowledgeNet, KnowledgeStore, Caliber, Star Team, Oracle 10g, Oracle8i, etc.
Confidential
Project Manager Consultant
Responsibilities:
- In a matrix environment, me managed and supervised 12 resources on the first project, 12 onshore and 3 offshore. On the second project, me directed and supervised 6 international directors.
- My projects or iterations involved evaluation of business tools and processes for complexity reduction, cost savings or cost avoidance.
- BI tools such as Micro Strategy, Business Objects, SAS, Hyperion BRIO, Planning, HFM, Essbase, Financial Reports, FDM and other enterprise wide tools were evaluated during dis project.
- Work on Data Warehouse, Data Mart and Business Intelligence initiatives.BI tools such as Micro Strategy, Business Objects, SAS, Hyperion BRIO andother enterprise wide tools were evaluated during dis project.
- Another project is assessing which business processes should be re-used or adopted enterprise widedue totheir efficiencies. dis project involves management at the international (UK, Canada, India, US) or global level, involving only director level members.
- Hardware Infrastructure, Architecture and Project recommendations would be socialized along wif their best practices.
- Under my directionpreviousprojects were brought out of redand yellow status to green status. Iterations hadbeen completed and multiple pilots began.
- Metadata Management is one of our piloted processes.
- MSProject Server 2003, SharePoint, Knowledge link and Project One were some of the tools me used, along wif an Onshore/Offshore model.
- Ensuring compliance to established PMO standards were also my duties.
Confidential
Infrastructure Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- me facilitated the orderly transition of assets, primarily servers and memory storage, from or to IBM's client. Managed and coordinated a national team of providers to, build, commission, wipe and decommission servers.
- Validated closure letter process and financials of other project managers before asset were finally closed.
- Scheduled agenda meetings wif Honeywell and IBM stakeholders.
- Attended meeting wif Honeywell and IBM stakeholders weekly to communicate status, issues or concerns.
- Attended training sessions related to IBM's products (me.e. ODBS, Financial Reporting, RUP, etc.)
Confidential
Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- In a matrix environment, me managed and supervised 3 resources.
- Duties included, evaluating the customer's 700 plus page requirements document, producing business rules, producing business requirement specs, producing test cases and quality requirements for the project team.
- My role also included, defining project objectives, milestones, prioritizing work schedule while establishing timelines, establishing meeting agenda items wif stakeholders, defined reporting requirements, defining qualityrequirements, producing test cases, preparing end-user questionnaires and data gathering.
- Project administration included Initiating, Planning, Executing, and Controlling, and Closure, post implementation review for the project.
- Establishing best practice guidelines, identifying lessons learned, producing acceptance criteria requirements and creating consensus while managing customer expectations were also initiatives that were provide.
- Copious amounts of documentation, interviews, charts, flows, benefit analysis, risk management, loss control and best practice techniques were used or produced.
- The software construction used each phase of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). MS SQL SERVER and MS SQL was the backbone of the construction phase. Other tools used are Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF Professional etc.
Confidential
Director / Project Manager
Responsibilities:
- Duties included each phase of the project development life cycle (PDLC) and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
- RUP methodology including: quality by design, got the users/developers involved, overall focus on quality, functional documents, performance issues, scorecard deployment, etc., were used.
- me managed and supervised 12 people.Other involvement included:
- Creating and Implementing Business Plan
- Creating and Executing Project Plan
- Creating and Implementing Network Plan, LAN/WAN IP configuration (VOIP) etc.
- Conception, Development and implementation of companies Web Site (SDLC)
- Creating, developing of data mapping repositories (Data Architect)
- Create data warehouse concepts and schema
- Evaluate, Create, Develop Infrastructure (Infrastructure Architect)
- Managingday to day activities, issues (network/hardware) and executing plan
- Created and Implemented best practice and lessons learned methodology.
- Evaluated Sarbanes-Oxley SOX fundamentals for compliance
- Evaluated UML and XML for data modeling and future web initiatives
Confidential
Project Manager / Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- me managed and supervised 3 people. producing business needs request or otherprojectinitiation documents driving theneeds request process, obtaining stakeholders signoffs, setting stakeholders agenda items, producing business requirements for development team, defining business rules, producing test cases, defining quality requirements, establishing best practice repository, identifying lessons learned and creating consensus while managing customer expectations.
- Creating Project Definition Plan, producing all supporting project documentation such as WBS, schedules, cost accounting, risk plans, communication plans, scope definitions etc., organized meetings wif project sponsors and key stakeholders.
- Coordination of activities between team members in multiple states wif four different companies, evaluated, create and develop infrastructure facilities for various implementations.
- Additional projects included the migration to a new Oracle Data Warehouse environment including data mapping, data integration, ETL, referential integrity, and data validation. Data migrations(ETL)werealsopreformedto movedatafrom one data center to another. Integration upgrades from MVS to Oracle were analyzed weekly.
- Consulted weekly on data, functional and platform issues regarding the Oracle environment.
- Brainstormed features and functional impactof ERPupgradesfrom Oracle 8ito 9i..PerformedSME analysisfor application integration into the Oracle platform. One of the projects impacted many major databases, many applications on various platforms. (me.e. Customer relationship management (CRM)), revenue maintenance, account receivables (Walker CARMS), general ledger, plant and equipment applications on UNIX, Informix, ODS, AS/400 and IBM MVS Mainframe hardware.
- dis project had national impact on every system that used a customer number. The communications, coordination and timing between systems and departments throughout the US were critical.
- The content of dis project interfaced wif TIBCO midware due to its multi-platform, multi-lingual features.
- TIBCO features such as data transportation/ transformation, multicastand routing were critical to the successful completion of dis project. Indoctrination to TIBCO components suchas Message Broker, Rendezvous, Adapters and Hawk features were understood. Analysis of Websphere also undertaken to interface wif project.
- me alsoproduced documents for: 'Project Need, 'Project Definition', 'Business Requirements' and 'Project Plan'. Project plans were created using MS Project, PMO (project management office - James Martin) methodology is used to communicate project scope, issues, status and milestones throughout the organization. MS PowerPoint was used for his presentations to the VP and directors.Hecoordinated stakeholders’ meetings, set the agenda and communicated issues to the national team.
Confidential
Project Manager/Data Architect/Business Analyst
Responsibilities:
- me supervised 3 people. evaluating stakeholder’s requirements documents, meeting wif stakeholders, analyzing requirement, creating business rules, creating business requirements, producing test cases,defining quality requirements, establishing best practices and identifying lessons learned. JAD and project development lifecycle methodology was used on dis project. Conceptual, Logical and Physical designs were created. Data Warehouse techniques (Kimball) such as data gathering, design, interviewing, requirements definition, analysis, stars schema, snowflake schema, etc., were used.
- His duties involved, evaluating, creating and developing the necessary infrastructure to facilitate dis project, producing entity relationship diagrams (ERD) for the DB2 tables, logical and physical views for the data,
- Data Conversion Requirements Definition documents for each system and also defined task & resources needed to complete dis project.
- Developing physical models for the DW using ERWIN, understanding HIPAA and working wif metadata were also his responsibilities.
- All work was performed in an IBM MVS Mainframe environment.
Confidential
Project Lead
Responsibilities:
- applying legal/regulatory changes and formatting data for the Oracle database /UNIX environment.
- Iwas the primary contact, in regards to all conversion issues, arising from data on the mainframe going to the UNIX box. Year2000 (Y2K) considerations and issues were also services provided to dis client.
- Travel to the client site in Dallas, was also part of the support provided.Administrative skills used indis environmentwhere time reporting, status reporting, project forecasting, scheduling and coordination of activities between departments, users and region to bring about the expected end.
- Technical skills used in dis environment were IMS/DLI, CICS,DB2, Easytrieve, JCL, and FTP, in a COBOL, VSAM, and HISAMin an IBM Mainframeenvironment.
- The support levels wif dis client, covered many applications (me.e. Invoicing, Account Receivable, Contract Processing, Electronic Billing, Weekly Mailing and me lead the monthly conversion file process, which were used by the ORACLE applications).
- FTP's (file transfer protocol), of data, files, reports, etc., to other national locations, was a large part of the conversion process.
- Iwas on call for production support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Providing answers and enhancements to user issues in the field.
- Problems solving/ Solution providerfor workrequest were also a part of myresponsibilities.
- Year 2000 (Y2K), acceptance testing, implementation and analysis were the primary task performed at dis site.
- Supporting thefinancial accounting area, wif new program development, analysis, design and user communication was a large part of the functions performed wif dis client.
- These tasks were performed in an IMS, CICS, DB2, andIBM MainframeMVS environment.
Confidential, TX
Project Lead
Responsibilities:
- me supervised 2 people.
- Design phase also included DB2 tables wif referential integrity and other proficiency considerations.
- The incentive system would reward the sales force of Continental Airlines, for the performance of their travel agencies or telesales staff that were associatedwif their territory's sales volume.
- The software tools used were DB2, COBOL II, EXCEL and MS WORDin an IBM MVS Mainframe environment.
- There were significant communications wif top management at Continental (Houston) daily, in an effort to furtherenhance dis systemandoffer solutions to business issues and needs etc.
- Travel to the client site in Houston, was also a part of the support provided.
- These tasks were performed in an IBM mainframe and PC network environment.
- The next phase of disproject scheduled is to have a GUI interface wif probably Visual Basic as its platform. CICS appears to be the second choice as a platform. dis phase will make the results available to the national community of sales representatives and travel agencies, not just the administrators, as phase one does.
- Software tools used,were DB2, COBOLII andEASYTRIEVE PLUS.
- Responsibilities also included developing software to standardize reporting of benefits to over fifteen different vendors that provided benefits to the employees of dis company.
- Supporting Human Resources and Payroll areas, wif new reports.
- Addition duties were toprovidethe end user reporting systems wif strong user interface (directors, vice presidents, senior vice presidents) in the field and headquarters. Human Resources, Work Force Analysis development and Marketing Research Analysis were also areas that major time was spent.
- COBOL II, EASYTRIEVE PLUS, SAS, FTP and OS JCL were the primary tools used in the completion of those tasksin an IBMMVS Mainframe environment.
Confidential
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Responsibilities also included interfacing wif multiple users, analyzing their needs, coding and implementing the required changes.
- Their technical environment used COBOL, DB2, and IMS DL1 under MVS on an IBM mainframe.
- In addition, designed and developed inquiry software for the above systems using TELON and DB2.
Confidential
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for producing conversion programs that produced variable length output for everyaccount inthe American Express system. The output records would then be loadedto an IMS database which provided worldwide support for decision making consideration on each account when needed.
- Support was also provided in the system test cycles. Multiple, multi-level tables, records ranging from 41 to 14,000 bytes, COBOL and Xpediter were used in dis task.
- Resolved maintenance request submitted byusers of the Merchandising Information Data Analysis System (MIDAS).
- The MIDAS system primarily required expertise in COBOL II, IMS DL1, IMS DB/DC,EDI and JCLin an IBM MVS Mainframe environment, wif good communication and organization skills to interface wif user in New York City and Phoenix, Arizona.
