SUMMARY:

• Confidential has more than 25 years of Program/ Project Management involvement in leading IT Integrations and Implementations, Infrastructure Project Management, Data Governance, InfoSec efforts and Software development using Waterfall, Agile (XP and Scrum). IT due diligences and post - merger technology integrations.
• He recently spent five years (2011-2016) wif E&Y as an Asst. Director (Project/Program Manager). Currently he is a Program Manager, in a firm started wif a KPMG exec and Georgia Tech Professor in the ML/AI/Blockchain world, an entrepreneurial effort on Confidential ’s part. The company had partnered wif IBM’s to leverage Watson’s AI capabilities to handle new technology for the real estate sector. Solutioning through IBM Cloud Orchestrator wasn’t as viable / ideal / practical as desired, leading to Confidential ’s interest in returning to the corporate world.
• Throughout his career, he has Techno-functional skills center around infrastructure and information security project management, data management, governance and compliance, and he has managed ERP integrations for SAP HR, SAP FI, and PeopleSoft.
• Industries served include Financial, Insurance and Information Technology. He spearheaded several complex end-to-end programs and prides himself on Stakeholder management, Scope definition, budgeting, prioritization, risk management, issue resolutions.
• Confidential ’s PMI background involves process redesign, process optimization, blue-printing, road mapping, etc. He has worked on several complex global projects and has managed large teams, including Cybersecurity Audit for EY for multiple countries and meeting problematic / opposing regulatory requirements.
• Confidential also had been an instrumental at EY for developing the firm’s ‘acquisition framework’ and served as the on-boarding ‘instructor’ for newly-joining program and project managers. He ran an 8-hour classes wif up to 16 - 20 attendees as needed (generally once every couple of months). He taughtEY standards on adopting Project Management Standards and Governance Models, Project Execution and Delivery, Portfolio ManagementProject Support and Administration (Tools and Reporting), Project Audit and Compliance as well as Resource Management and Capacity Planning.
• Confidential prides himself on being a ‘technologist’ and is stronger on the ‘solutioning’ side as well, involved in infrastructure and security projects. He has been able to structure a workable solution for the client, regardless of the platform. Confidential joined E&Y after receiving his MBA from the University of Michigan. He joined E&Y prior to completing his MBA (hence the mention of the United Bank & Trust role, an MBA ‘internship’ situation). Prior to that he was in ‘program manager’ types of roles at Solexo and Soft Labs, though at Soft Labs he was also utilized by the firm to work on their behalf as a ‘sell-side’ internal consultant until the firm was sold.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management Practitioner/ Trainer
• Operations & Delivery Management
• Risk & Change Management
• Information Security & Compliance
• Data Governance and enrichment
• Infrastructure Project Management
• Relationship Management
• M&A Due Diligence
• Post Close Integration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

Program Management

Key responsibilities:

• Developed and proposed business cases for new initiatives to secure approval and funding.
• Relationship management, recruitment, team building and resource utilization.
• Program Management of Scrum Agile teams for data governance, (integrity & security) and platform development.
• Led planning issues related to Privacy, Privacy Protection, and Data Security for access rights to Vendor Nodes on Blockchain to use Non-Public Data.

Confidential, ATLANTA, GA

Program/ Project Manager

Key responsibilities:

• Led IT Due diligence, day one planning, cross-functional integration strategy development and execution.
• Identified client business issues, provided resolutions adopting standard tools and approaches.
• Implemented & oversaw quality deliverables, conducted interviews and led workshops.
• Risk management through InfoSec Audits for assessment for policies related to controlling access to systems and applications.
• Oversaw Pen-tests for Threat & Vulnerability in data centers / applications design, and implementation of security and IT risk solutions.
• Global infrastructure projects (Advisory IT)
• Led global infrastructure integration and data center migration projects. Projects included migrations to MS Azure cloud services thru’ Microsoft-managed DCs from AWS
• Successfully executed global load-set planning and deployment.
• Orchestrated data center design, migration and implementation of MS Dynamics for Australian acquisition.
• Led migration and implementation of SAP HANA and SAP FI systems in South Africa
• Spearheaded consolidation of Tableau servers wifinthe USA(design and execution)
• Information Security projects (InfoSec) projects (Advisory and TAS IT)
• Led InfoSec audit of projects and compliance reporting and remediation plan
• Managed Global Advanced Security Data Center design, implementation, andmigration
• Project Management Trainer for new Program/Project Managers
• Researched and developed scope to map current community banking environment wif United’s M&A capabilities.
• Created bank universe filtering and ranking methodology & dynamic model results using financial analysis.
• Data Analytic Models for mapping KPIs and valuations.
• Developed data driven strategic rationale to UBT’s strengths and weakness for the future state recommendations.

Confidential, CLEVELAND, OH

Program Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded highly visible migration and integration effort requiring significant C-level involvement for global Policy Program. (an Agile program using Extreme Programming for cleanup and migration)
• Project Managed InfoSec (Information Security) effort to adopt Kerberos as the network authentication protocol for secret key cryptography.
• Led vendor selection for the procurement of the appliance refresh for Identity Access Management (IAM).
• Program managed acquisition of a medical bill processing unit from due diligence to integration.
• Researched and implemented InfoSec controls for the acquired EMR app, migrated it to a cloud-based solution
• Led Agile, Scrum application development for upgrade for compatibilities wif the target systems.
• Structure and successfully managing programs/projects for a variety of customers including support, B2B and B2C Digital areas wif high customer satisfaction.
• Business development and client deliveries for operational due diligence and integration projects.
• Operational due diligence (Data enrichment of raw data of A/R, A/P and consolidation), strategy development.
• Program management of software development, vendors and supplier’s relationships.