SUMMARY

• Dynamic Project Manager with over 16 years experience delivering over 100 projects in various sectors such as financial banking, retail, manufacturing, and energy.
• Experience working with multiple vendors to implement software and hardware upgrades including Microsoft, Deloitte, HP, Verint, Oracle, and VMware. Proficient in project management tools such as Clarity, MS Project, SharePoint repositories, and JIRA. Extensive background with database migration projects.
• Proven ability to embrace ambiguity and influence stakeholders, executives, and steering committees to deliver effective and sustainable solutions. Supervisor and motivator who promotes cohesive work environment. Regularly provide convincing presentations to senior leadership. Willing and able to travel to client sites on short notice.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Technical Leadership
• Superior Project Management Skills
• Cross - Organizational Leadership
• Cloud-Focused Projects
• Superior Time Management Skills
• Risk Management
• Excellent Communicator
• Senior Advisor
• Motivational Team Lead
• Quality Assurance
• Presentation Skills
• Great Interpersonal Skills
• Scrum Master / Agile
• Cloud Migrations
• Stakeholder Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, toronto

IT Cloud/Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Senior Project Manager responsible for the successful upgrade of 15 VCenter’s, including 600+ hosts and 300+ SRM plans.
• Led over 20 different technical teams while managing 10 projects.
• Managed small and large-scale project with a budget from $20k - $800k.
• Managed VPN connectivity between CIBC and Google.
• Managed project teams involving Identity Management, VMware, Linux, Middleware, Storage, Oracle.
• Partnered with Oracle and SQL database teams to implement and sustain project, ensuring compliance with all policies.
• Managed project using complete SDLC/Waterfall and Agile scrum methodologies.

Confidential, toronto

Retail Branch Virtualization Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the virtualization of over 300 retail branches across Canada working with virtual windows, application, and change management teams.
• Presented benefits and features of virtualization to all branches, motivating audience to capture new efficiencies and features.
• Developed, applied, and communicated best practices for implementing strategic solutions to management teams.
• Leveraged PM tools to achieve efficiencies (e.g. Onesource, CCU, OneOps, Marketplace, SharePoint, MS Project, Visio).
• Coordinated with internal and external stakeholders to quickly research and resolve action items.
• Organized and managed all project phases to ensure prompt completion within time and budget allocations.
• Managed complex identity management project with $3.8M budget impacting over 10,000 end users for large client.
• Appropriately handled confidential and sensitive data and ensured team compliance with data management policies.
• Utilized Sailpoint enterprise application, involving, VMware, Linux, Middleware, Storage, Oracle, and Service NOW.
• Built relationships with cross-functional groups to manage large-scale projects. Collaborated with business stakeholders, vendors (Deloitte, SailPoint, HP), and technical resources.

Confidential, Toronto

Data Center Migration Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully led the migration of data centers for all capital markets systems across Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean.
• Developed Statement of Work (SOW), defined contract deliverables, and administered scope changes.
• Managed up to 20 Resources in matrix environment and managed team for valuation for all system models.
• Manage project using a complete SDLC/Waterfall and Agile scrum methodologies.
• Delivered complex transformational plan converting legacy applications within a strict timeframe.
• Managed large cross-functional projects through the entire project lifecycle from project initiation to implementation phases.
• Built successful relationships with multiple external vendors (e.g. IBM, VMWARE, and Cisco).

Confidential, Toronto

Retail Internet Banking Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed project budget up to $4 Million and led up to 50 resources in a matrixed environment.
• Built online channel platform focused on providing new methods of transferring funds and enabling TD retail customers to conduct online fund transfers in a safe, secure, and easy to use environment.
• Closed gap in online money movement capabilities, contributing to greater attrition rates.
• Contributions increased TD Bank revenue through transactional fees from the additional channels available for fund transfers.
• Developed understanding of the mobile application market and devices (phones and tablets).
• Managed projects team in Citrix, VMware Unix, AML, SQL, DB2, Mainframe, FTP Protocol, TCP/IP, Cloud, LAN/WAN, Fiber Firewall, Routing, Switching, Sonet, Cognos for environments deliveries, Datapower, Connector Grid, and Websphere.
• Transition project handling TSX/stockbroker Application and infrastructure affecting 250,000 clients.
• Planned and administered changes, budgets, created executive presentations, and led weekly status reporting.
• Managed 30 resource schedules and activities (matrixed environment). Managed vendor and ten (10) internal support staff.
• Delivered major transformation by upgrading three (3) call centers/infrastructure affecting 7.1 million voice/data subscribers.
• Manage three separate support groups (IBM, ROGER, and VERINT) and multiple projects up reaching $12M budget.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to optimize database workloads for performance, functionality, and reliability.
• Managed priorities of multiple simultaneous projects via a centralized system.
• Owned resourcing, scheduling, estimating, budget management, communications, and knowledge sharing for multiple projects.