Accomplished IT Project Manager

• PMP Certified. Has 25 years of successful IT Project Management experience with large companies such as Ernst Young, Farmers Insurance, Capital Records, Southern California Water Company, Long Beach Unified School District and Unified Grocers
• Experienced IT Professional -
• Has worked in all IT project roles and capacities Director, Management Consultant, Project Manager, Project Leader, Project Sponsor, Systems Analyst, and Programmer.
• Creative and Resourceful
• Winner of numerous corporate awards for cost improvement and system optimizations. Has patent pending on MADNSS software.
• Broad Range of Business Knowledge -
• Has 25 years of development experience in industries such as Accounting, E-commerce, Education, Finance, Insurance, Inventory Control, Pricing, Retail, Shipping/Receiving, and Transportation. Quickly earns trust and respect of business area executives

Confidential

Technical liason between LBUSD's myPD Project Team and both the software vendor TrueNorthLogic and LBUSD's IT Department. Responsible for designing, testing and monitoring system interfaces. Established and managed the Help Desk. Developed working knowledge of Google Applications for Education tools.

IT Director / Principal -

Confidential

• Project Manager and Sponsor of A1PoolParts.com website development and all subsequent IT projects, as well as InstockPoolSupply.com in 2013. Managed all phases of development, including Requirements Definition, Project Charter, RFQ development, Functional Gap Analysis, Package Selection, Risk Management, Package Functional Design Specifications, Change Management, Interface Design and Development, Test Plan Development and Execution and System Implementation.
• As Project Manager, worked with domestic and off-shore developers to develop many in-house back-office software infrastructure tools, vastly increasing ability to expand and manage large numbers of catalog items, increase employee productivity, and minimize order processing errors. Developed tools such as Automated Product Price Management, Automated Delayed Order Customer Notification, Automated Billing Reconciliation, Catalog Management Tools, and Electronic Order Transmission to our suppliers.
• As Project Manager, designed and patented MADNSS Marketing and Advertising DecisioN Support System , an online marketing and advertising decision support system, written by offshore developers. This tool maintained all of PPC and CSE campaigns automatically and kept online marketing costs below 3 of total sales.
• As CMO, developed and managed all company marketing initiatives and campaigns, pay-per-click, SEO, monthly emails to 90,000 customers, trade shows, social media, face-to-face, and direct telephone sales.
• Managed and mentored staff ranging in size from 3 8 employees, plus subcontractors, and off-shore developers.
• Managed in-house network, server, computers, and email.
• Negotiated contracts with suppliers, vendors and service providers.
• Two-time Inc. Magazine Top 500 Fastest Growing Privately-Owned Retail Company in America award winner.

Systems Analyst -

Confidential

As a consultant, assisted LAUSD Accounts Payable A/P department with business process analysis and re-engineering. Worked directly with Executive to develop solutions and optimize business processes, thereby reducing vendor payment lead times. Played lead role in the creation / implementation of the LAUSD Accounts Payable Call Center. Wrote district-wide Project Communications Strategy.

Senior Project Manager -

Confidential

• PMO Manager - Project Manager of Y2K project at Southern California Water Company now American States Water Company which, at the time, was the 3rd largest water utility in CA. Created overall enterprise wide project plan template for use by field offices. Authored Y2K section of quarterly Board of Director's Report. Led all phases of the remediation with 100 success. Also developed a Corporate Office Disaster and Recovery plan.
• Project Manager of Defense Logistics Agency DLA study to determine feasibility of migrating military branch vendors into a single online buying environment. Traveled the nation to interview vendors to gather information about willingness of vendors to participate in this online buying community as well as understand potential issues. Along with other team members, authored a feasibility study and presented to the DLA.

Senior Programmer / Analyst -

Confidential

As a subcontractor to IBM, provided Y2K-related IBM JCL Remediation services to Toyota Motor Company.

Project Manager -

Confidential

• Managed development and implementation of an Automated Routing system in 3 warehouse locations. Managed staff which performed maintenance and enhancements to the Order Routing and Billing System.
• Managed creation and development of JCLGEN and JCLPARSE software which automated the Y2K remediation of Job Control Language.
• Project Manager of the Clean Team project. The Clean Team was formed to identify and eliminate processing control breaches throughout the Enterprise.

Software Development Manager -

Confidential

• Managed large-scale IT project that transitioned legacy systems CICS / IMS to new and customized ERP system JD Edwards . Managed vendors and re-negotiated IT vendor labor contracts, reducing labor costs by 1M 40 .
• Developed and managed budgets, schedules, project plans and development methodology.

Consulting Manager -

Confidential

Project Leader of a team of client and EY personnel that built an interface between the new insurance policy system DB2 / CICS and their legacy systems CICS / IMS . Developed overall project plan and successfully managed all design and programming / testing activities

Senior Programmer / Analyst -

Confidential

As a subcontractor to Perot Systems, provided Finance and Inventory Control System design and programming support to American Medical International AMI .

Project Manager -

Confidential

• Managed the largest IBM Mainframe development project in the Space Communication Group using IDMS, ADS/O and COBOL. Responsible for all phases of the project and its staff of 15 employees and subcontractors.
• Wrote employee performance reviews. Hired / released subcontractors.
• Received several Cost Improvement Awards for reducing disk storage usage, reducing program I/O, and nightly batch processing window improvements.
• Received Employee of the Quarter Award out of 4,000 employees.

Programmer / Analyst -

Confidential

Developed an online EDP Auditing system that identified and corrected discrepancies between the general ledger and cost ledger using IDMS, ADSO and COBOL.