PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Edgar Gonzalez is a senior information technology and Project Manager/Consultant with over twenty years of experience in the IT industry. Edgar has obtained diverse industry knowledge and experience in project management specialized in PMO methodology , finance/banking, telecommunications and technology infrastructure. Edgar possess a wide range of interdisciplinary experience in all aspects of Information technology, Data Center DC , trading floor/front office planning and merger migration, project's lifecycle Initiation, Planning, Execution and Control . Edgar has played a crucial role in implementing trading floor and back office infrastructure in major financial institutions in Asia-Pac, LatAm and Europe.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE/KEY ACCOUNTABILITY

• Ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders Project and Program Management Consultancy Experience Broad experience in technology deployment and business Process Design Project Life/Process/Design Life Cycle SDLC Multidisciplinary project execution Strategy outsourcing deployment
• Cross border/multi geography project delivery and team building skills
• Bi-lingual fluent in Spanish

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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• Effectively participated in the development and implementation of business solutions to drive pricing analytics and revenue optimization.
• Effectively assisted in directing internal groups including Product, Technology and Sales to achieve business solutions within project guidelines
• Strategically prioritized work initiatives and maintains reporting relationships with project stakeholders. This included team members, peers, managers to ensure quality and on-time delivery
• Developed documentation, monitor and reported project performance to maintain the quality of deliverables

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• Participated in strategic and operational processes. Created the Project Management Office for a large bank and financial institution. Led the strategy planning initiative to achieve business goals across two work-streams supporting the client's global Data Center strategy and Governance operating framework.
• Established Project Board and work-stream process to monitor and track progress against the strategic and business objectives as well as scope, schedule and budget
• Focused on best practices for the industries project management methodology standardization to ensure successful implementations for: governance, personnel, process and technology to maximize the return on investment
• Responsible for planning a seven to ten year roadmap for the deployment of mission critical Data Centers

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• Provided leadership, direction and oversight of all IT projects. Ensured consistent alignment of Merrill Lynch's equities technical, financial and business process management activities with corporate-level strategic goals and objectives. Responsible for planning and execution of multiple IT projects of various sizes in budget and staff using appropriate Project Management Methodology/Tools Clarity PPM .
• Effectively partnered with IT and business stakeholders to deliver end to end infrastructure using applications solutions through the project life cycle from initiation to closure. This included participating in requirements gathering, system analysis/design, development/configuration, testing and implementation phases
• Managed project through comprehensive assessment and planning techniques with central maintenance and resolution reporting to ensure successful completion of all program deliverables
• Acted as primary liaison between the business and the various IT teams as well as Sr. Management, assumed ownership of the project deliverables and results

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• Planned and executed several domestic and global projects around office/branch relocations and technology/network enhancement actively participated in all phases of the project. Set up and drove the core delivery team ensuring clear roles and accountability for each deliverable and dependency.
• Responsible for ensuring end to end project plans tightly coupled with deliverables aligned IT and business stakeholders. Track progress and actively manage any potential roadblocks or delays to ensure timely and quality delivery of committed projects
• Coordinated and prioritized resources across projects, departments, and external partners to ensure that cross-functional resources are managed while achieving project objectives
• Collaborated closely with other Line of Business LOB Project Managers and IT staff to leverage technology and resources across business areas including LATAM

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• Provided leadership, direction and oversight of all DC programs as well as ensure consistent alignment of the organization's technical and business process/project/program management activities with corporate-level strategic goals and objectives across geographies to produce optimal IT solutions
• Provided transparency, executive status reporting and governance via Project Portfolio Management PPM tools to track project major milestones, and managed risks, issues and decisions requiring action and resolution
• Participated in strategic of the Enterprise Data Center EDC Project Management Office PMO processes with the Executive Global Team responsible for developing the governance, framework/scope policies, procedures, and best practices for the planning, building/construction, operation, management Playbook and improvement of data centers Green DC , of Morgan Stanley's portfolio of legacy and new premier North American campus facilities supporting senior management's business/technology vision. This included, but not limited to the following areas of responsibility:
• PWCC/IBM, GLOBAL BUSINESS CONSULTING SERVICES - Principal Managing Consultant 1998 - 2009 Confidential
• Provided leadership and support for implementing a Services Oriented Architecture SOA Proof of Concept PoC , strategy and roadmap: Project managed a technical and a business team for the planning, management and execution to enable the client to demonstrate a Business Process Management BPM enabled by an SOA solution for a bank loan application process to increase sales channels and growth profitability, including, but not limited to:
• Provided accurate and transparent analysis of issues/risk along with appropriate solutions to meet the client's requirements via an Executive Dashboard, Score Card and PMO methodologies/tools: Seven Keys of Success to monitor quality risk management and report overall project health to senior stakeholders
• Provided leadership and support of pre-sales requirement to include Value Proposition, Sales and Marketing Framework for Global Account Managers and executives to develop the sales vision and expand multi-channel

sales capabilities and revenue streams

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• Led a team of internal, client technical resources and vendors to plan manage and executive the relocation/migration of their mission critical data center to a new headquarters building:
• Developed a reporting structure and associated PM tools including templates, detailed processes resource and project plans to track all phases of relocation to ensure predictable, consistent, and successful program execution resulting on a successful relocation on-time, within budget, on-quality
• Provided leadership in issues management and risk management.

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• Created and managed a Project Management Office PMO with the executive team for business applications and technology integrating/consolidating for a consistent and transparent Mergers Acquisitions vision for both organizations US and Canada. Liaised with twelve multi-national technical directors on an ongoing basis as directed by the EPMO to ensure the transparency and orderly execution of the technology integration program for managing scope, schedule timely and consistent team member communications and decision making throughout all program phases:
• Developed a cross-team communications process generated the weekly executive dashboard reporting and Score Card/RAG reports for managing the program's health and for mitigating the overall program risk and execute projects efficiently and effectively
• Provided leadership activities: Statement of Work SOW , WBS, financial management, cost estimating, risk analysis, monitoring project expenditure and proposal presentations to upper management to meet business's objectives

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• Led a technical team for the planning, management and execution to enable the client's efforts for relocating into a new Headquarters building to include Data Center DC and front/back office relocation activities. Responsibility for managing scope, cost, schedule, change control, and risk management with client, vendors, subcontractors and trade personnel for a successful relocation on time and on budget:
• Implemented a reporting structure for managing project resources and risk, including vendor and subcontractors, and for establishing an effective communication plan with the project team and executives provided day-to-day direction to the project relocation team to reduce relocation risk
• Managed the construction activities and timely deliverables with subcontractors and construction firms

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• Interfaced with diverse technical and business teams for managing multiple projects to remediate mission critical initiatives to ensure business and regulatory compliance. These programs were critical for mitigating business risk for this global Financial and Investment Institution:
• Managed complex interactions with multiple business and technology stakeholders to mitigating financial risk
• Coordinate and facilitate consultation with management and staff to define business and systems requirements for new technology/platform implementations.

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• Excelled at building and managing a global team of 16 offshore resources for the migration of Data Center Services DCS to India. Organized, managed and provided day-to day/tactical direction to the team to perform a complex Transition/Transformation of the bank's Command Center Service and Desk functions for a successful transition:
• Provided leadership, direction and oversight of the programs and projects as well as ensure consistent alignment of the organization's technical and business process/project/program management activities with the leadership through the effective use of standards and control metrics and SLAs to effectively manage and prioritize initiatives across geographies USA and India. Managed the timely transition of the support the desk/portfolio to India provided project management reviews across the portfolio, tracked and resolved issues and managed risk
• Devised methods around communication plans to resolved tactical issues and established controls and administered key project management processes and metrics designed an executive level reporting scorecard/dashboard process for reporting program status and reducing overall transition risk

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• Led the Executive Project Management Office EPMO with the leadership team to track business/technology projects implemented PMO/PMT Tools for tracking high-level milestones, mapping of SDLC v. PMT phases, issues, risks and cross work-steam dependencies. Responsible for communicating the project vision to the team and senior stakeholder management resulting on a high quality systems deployment that met or exceeded customer expectations for successful project implementation:
• Provided independent support in the execution and management of the Program Management Office PMO methodology to included governance, structure, reporting functions, communication plans monitored project status and portfolio/project metrics/ Key Performance Indicators KPIs for reviewed by the MBS Steering Committee.
• Defined and rolled out project management standards and best practices within the PMO group to ensured alignment of projects to the entire Portfolio and ensure consistency and coordinated delivery of projects via Phase-Gated Project Life Cycle tool for tracking high-level milestones, SDLC phases, issues, risk, cross work-steam dependencies to ensure that all the project deliverables and outcomes were implemented on time, on budget, and within scope, to meet the expectations of the client

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• Led a relocation team and provided engineering expertise for the oversight, execution and successful completion for the relocation and consolidation of the bank's Treasury Security Services TSS Distributed Computing Infrastructure DCI :
• Devised methods and managed a holistic program to consolidate/relocate, improve network capacity and resilience of DCI systems and associated supporting Data Centers to include: networking, space design, power systems, Heating, Ventilation and Air Condition HVAC , fire Protection and security systems
• Created centralized inventory of existing projects, developed relocation/prioritization and DR process and implemented a project management governance framework for reducing overall consolidation risk

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• Created the Enterprise Program Management Office EPMO with the executive team for the bank's successful relocation and consolidation to a new US headquarters building: Construction, DCs, front/back office and trading rooms:
• Provided independent oversight around three workstreams: Technology, Interior Construction and Core shell and maintained a holistic view of collective activities for managing and reducing risk
• Provided advisory services to the steering committee, facilities committees and financial committee to ensure successful project delivery
• Determined the criteria for evaluating the IT strategy solutions and DR based on an understanding of the enterprise's business objectives, strategies and IT roadmap

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• Managed the Technology Management Office TMO for the firm's successful relocation efforts to a new US headquarters building. This initiative included DCs, disaster recovery sites, trading floors and general floors:
• Acted as a subject matter expert SME for Telecom/Carrier technology and services/initiatives to include planning/evaluation of their private SONET OC-48 using Dense Wave Division Multiplexing - DWDMs
• Implemented a program for tracking progress across all the technology disciplines and monitored overall technology costs through an enterprise technology project plans across the portfolio for reducing risk.
• Created and tracked multiple Technologies project workstream to include the creation of a Request For Proposal RFP process for the implementation of best of breed of voice systems including voice systems IPC Turret Tradenet MX and made appropriate recommendations in the overall RFP project life cycle

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• Led an integration strategy team for a migration and conversion of mission critical Data Centers DCs and associated network WAN/MAN for the Mergers Acquisitions between an electronic market and an exchange:
• Conducted a feasibility analysis/planning, resilient network design engineering for relocating/consolidating the two mission critical DCs to support the electronic book technology architecture
• Provided planning and the roadmap for a resilient WAN/LAN network and associated communications systems to support mission critical functions/product from both a primary and back-up Data Centers, thus minimizing the firm's overall financial risk
• Provided leadership, direction and oversight of the evaluation of the telephony system consists of a combination of BTNA/Syntegra ITS trading turrets and IPC