SUMMARY:

Technical Project Manager with strong technical and managerial background and extensive experience in Project Management, System Delivery, Business Process Development and Outsourcing. Proven ability to direct complete project life cycles, from requirements definition and prototyping to design, testing, and implementation. Experienced at recruiting,, and leading effective technology teams. Proficient in modern computing technologies, programming languages and database design. Highly respected technical leader with a reputation for delivering results.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Technical Project Management, PMO
• Scrum/Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
• Release/Service Delivery Management
• Full life cycle project management / SDLC
• Client/vendor relationship management and negotiations
• Resource and budget allocation and tracking
• Gathering and writing business requirements
• Preparing project ROI and financial justifications
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Highly analytical with great problem - solving skills
• Selecting and managing high quality technology teams, inspiring and mentoring project staff
• Application design, build, testing, deployment, support and production systems monitoring
• Physical architecture, hardware selection and sizing
• Database analysis and design (Oracle, Sql Server, Sybase)

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

UML Tools: ERWIN, Rational Rose

Internet: Tomcat/Apache, JRun, Jboss, Oracle App Server, MSIIS

Languages: Java, JSP, SQL, C, VB, XML, XSLT, .Net Framework, ASP.Net, C#

Databases: Oracle/PL-SQL, Sybase/Transact SQL, MS SQL Server, Netezza

Operating System: Windows, Sun Solaris, RH Linux, OS2

Hardware: Sun Servers, IBM RS 6000, Wintel Servers

Agile Methodologies: Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development and Scrum

Productivity Tools: MS Office Suite, MS Projects, MS Visio, Atlassian suite (Jira/Confluence)

DCM Packages: Confidential Livelink, Artesia DAM, Confidential Documentum

Others: Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Build Forge, Ab Initio, WordPress

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project/Release Manager

Confidential, Fort Lee, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Personal responsibilities include delivery of projects from inception to completion. Specifically, this involves: requirements gathering and design; project sizing and scheduling; tracking progress, changes, incidents and risks; communicating with internal and external clients through regular status calls and reports; coordinating and scheduling activities of analyst, development and QA teams; scheduling, coordinating and supporting releases; managing numerous technical and operational issues/projects concurrently.
• Proficient with Agile methodologies, Jira and Atlassian suite.
• Lead optimization project designed to optimize use of leads and maximize profit. This is a complex project, involving Azure Machine Learning, analyzing multitude of variables and historical data to arrive at recommended sales strategy.
• Consumer-direct and agent version of the Massmutualdirect.com websites used for completing online sale of life insurance products.
• Several lead generation websites for MedicareAdvantage, MedicareSupplement and Life Insurance for Confidential and major carriers.

Sr. PM/ Release Manager

Confidential, Warren/Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Performing Project/Release Management functions for Global Data Warehouse initiative, fully managing process of build and release of several large sub-systems.
• General responsibilities include creating and enforcing process and documentation standards, coordinating and scheduling build and deployment activities, monitoring progress and promotion of releases into various stages of testing, validation and user acceptance, monitoring cross-application impact and dependencies, interfacing between project teams and PMO, creating and tracking project plans, budgeting and resource loading, holding status and review meetings, reporting up to senior management, driving projects to the plan.
• Managing migration of all applications within the functional area to the new datacenter.
• This involves coordination of all activities between many services within Confidential including networks and infrastructure groups, hardware and storage services and multiple software teams.
• Responsibilities also include coordinating testing and cut-overs, managing releases, creating project plans, running status meetings and reporting status to senior management.
• Responsible for coordinating builds and deployments for Confidential ’s major financial portal designed for institutional clients ( Confidential ).
• Implemented build and deployment automation integrating in-house request system and Build Forge.

Director, Content Management Systems

Confidential, Upper Saddle River, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and operations of applications used for management of company’s digital assets and content.
• Manage a team of full time employees and development resources offshore. Prepare capital budgets, project proposals, financial justifications, and presentations for upper management.
• Manage relationships with software and hardware vendors, negotiate agreements and price structures.
• Manage several large projects and oversee management of others, with full financial and people responsibility.
• Design all project plans, track all deliveries and report progress to senior management and stakeholders through weekly status calls and presentations.
• Conduct daily status calls with development teams and conduct weekly reviews of deliverables.
• Enforce compliance with the company technical standards and policies and adherence to standard PM methodologies and PMO practices.
• Lead development efforts from initial requirements through final deployment, using custom and Agile development methodologies. Select ramp-up teams for new development and major enhancements, design application architecture, select hardware and software.
• Provide guidance and oversight to all technical activities involved in application development process. Interact with business users to collect and refine requirements and develop functional specifications.
• Provide day-to-day operational support for Content Management Systems. Resolve stability and performance issues, implement bug fixes, level-2 and 3 support of production, resolution of helpdesk tickets, monitor systems health and adherence to SLA. Maintain technical and operational documentation and policies.
• Support large-scale Internet applications used for management of textual and graphic files and publishing processes. These are custom applications or customized packages, load-balances across many servers and instances:
• Penguin CORE - .NET Custom App designed for synthesizing MS Word documents and assembling a final book (.NET)
• Documentum Content Management System from Confidential used for document management and workflows (Linux/JBoss/Java/JSP/Oracle)
• Livelink Content Management System from Confidential used for document management (Linux/JBoss/Java/JSP/Oracle)
• Artesia Digital Asset Management System from Confidential, used for management of Images (Solaris/JBoss/Java/Oracle)
• Deployed three large-scale Content Management Systems across Confidential offices, external customers and vendors.
• Designed and implemented a highly optimized queuing process used for import and exports of large volume of content. This was done to improve performance for low bandwidth users.
• Resolved severe stability and performance problems at the archival layer of the system. These were intermittent problems, which manifested themselves at peak loads and were not easily repeatable.
• Delivered a comprehensive framework of dashboard reports for helpdesk and the end the user, providing information on system’s health and usage.
• Reduced operational cost by migrating from Sun-Solaris machines to Linux-based servers.
• Reduced cost of development and operations by utilizing offshore development center.
• Created a partial Disaster Recovery Architecture by utilizing two disparate hosting locations.
• Developed applications used for management of Confidential Video Library, using Java/JSP and Oracle.

Technical Team Lead

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

Responsibilities:

• Managed various size development teams and personally developed Internet and Client-Server applications used for lease origination, lease-end maturity, and management of Confidential assets, such as cars and trucks.
• Served as a key technical expert and played a role of a lead developer, technical project manager and a business analyst.
• Involved in most areas of Confidential leasing and financing business.
• Often assigned to critical projects, reporting directly to the CIO.
• Client-Server application using SqlWindows/C and Sybase