Senior IT and PM Professional

Multi-disciplined IT professional with expert qualifications in the direction of enterprise IT Program Project Management, specializing in QA-Software Configuration / Release Management systems government IV V oversight management including Risk Management Earned Value Analysis. A Project Management Professional PMP with extensive experience in progressively responsible positions in large-scale IT SW Waterfall and Agile development organizations, developing business technical requirements, performance project auditing metrics, Data and Call Center/Facilities design and business management at the P L level.

Special Skills and Emphasis

Expertise

Very strong background in Information Technology, Program/Project Management, Aerospace Engineering, Software Development Life Cycle SDLC process Agile development Best Practices, Quality Assurance, designing custom Performance Metrics including project Earned Value analysis and reporting, Business and Technical Requirements development, Process Engineering including Work Flow Risk analysis, Work Breakdown Structure WBS with experience ranging from hands-on working level project management to executive management.

• Demonstrated expertise in large company leadership, team building, with excellent people skills with mentoring with an emphasis on knowledge transfer as a personal emphasis.
• Project Management Professional PMP and Lead Instructor of PMP Certification at a local commercial college using the Boston University Curriculum for PMI PMP Certification.
• More than 17 years experience in Large Company Technology and PMI/PMBOK Project Management Methodologies including management of the following Project phases and methodologies:

• Program Managed a major Confidential and refreshment project for an obsolete Capital Markets Home Lending Document Custody Management Services System application from a Windows based client server based 32 bit application to a .Net based 64 bit application. Managed refreshment of the obsolete and unstable Win2000 32 bit SQL 2000 application server, Database, Reporting Disaster Recovery servers to a new Windows 64 bit SQL 2008 server infrastructure. The project also retired the obsolete Loan Document Management Application and unstable server system.
• Program Managed a key Agile Software Development program for a major banking concern that consolidated four internally developed Pricing Event Applications . The 18 month S/W development program automated a previously labor intensive manual and excessively time consuming process. The new consolidated application shortened a yearlong Price Event process to less than six months and reduced operation costs by several million dollars. The program was managed using a synthesized Agile SW development process consisting of seven each ten week Sprints and was completed on-time and below projected costs. The consolidated application included more than 1.5 million lines of high quality code.
• Directed five 5 Enterprise Technology groups of IT Change Management, Release Management, Program Management Office PMO , Special Application Development teams and Off-Shore SW Test teams managing more than 150 IT professionals
• Designed and developed an enterprise wide Program Management Information System PMIS for a major aviation company to include selection of Program Management tools, System Architecture, PM Infrastructure design, Document Content Management DM/CM , Risk Management Project, Risk-based Audit Planning tools controls reporting, Team collaboration tools and process, E-mail management tools and the creation of a Program Management Office organizational Structure and PM Job Description suite.
• Demonstrated expertise in Infrastructure Data Center and Call Center Design, successfully provided architectural design and Building layout and supervised construction of a five 5 building complex of Corporate offices, Raised Floor environmentally controlled Data Center, Day Care Center, and a 500 seat Call Center, including specifications, design construction drawings, HVAC, Tri-dundant electrical distribution, emergency power FM-200 Fire Suppression systems. Managed Call Center after Construction.
• Experience with IBM's Rational Unified Process RUP methodologies as well as Agile XPe, Waterfall/Spiral SDLC Best Practices process in a large company environment.
• Developed and deployed enterprise wide Agile and Automated Software Testing Best Practices Methodology and Tools in a large company IT environment.
• Experience in using SAP Client 4.6c Plant Management and limited purchasing within the SAP R/3 Materials Module.
• Extensive background in Business Case, IT Methodology development and Process Analysis/Preparation and Project Planning including project COST estimation, Performance Metrics and Audit controls.
• Innovative developer of new ideas/concepts for Software Development Lifecycle SDLC methodology including performance estimating and Audit tracking metrics tools.
• More than 20 years experience in multi-functional, cross departmental and multi-system Project delivery on-time and within projected cost.
• Excellent organizational and briefing skills at the executive level.
• Expert skills with CA Clarity, MS SharePoint 2013, CA Workbench, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, .Net Web based Development and process modeling tools .

Work History and Selected Achievements

Confidential

SENIOR IT PROGRAM MANAGER

• Successfully led a multi-tiered, Major IT upgrade program with 7 subordinate phased projects through completion on schedule and on cost.
• Developed and published multi-level, nested MS Project Plan s including resources allocation / management and Risk based auditing performance tracking.
• Developed and authored the comprehensive Program Charter
• Successfully lead the effort to justify and obtain the program funding through hi-level presentations to Senior management
• Successfully implemented a comprehensive set of PMI PMBOK Project Management and Business Analysis methodologies including Project Charter, Project Planning, Project Scope, Technical and Business Requirements, Time Management, Earned Value Analysis and reporting, Cost Management, Quality Management, Human Resource Management, communications Management, Risk Analysis management, and Procurement Management.
• Developed customized performance tracking metrics that tracked financial performance
  • Earned Value analysis, Plan vs. Actuals, as well as complete vs. expended.

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

• Developed Maintains project Test Plan s .
• Developed Maintains all necessary Testing Documentation and Deliverables.
• Wrote executed Test Strategies, Test Plans, and Test Cases Test Scripts for all phases of testing including Unit, System Testing, Integrated System Test IST , and User Acceptance Testing UAT .
• Tracks reports defects using agreed-upon defects management processes and standard tools such as Mercury Quality Center Test Director
• Subject Matter Expert SME for Standardized Test Management Tools.
• Applied Risk Based QA planning and confirming adherence to test phase entrance exit criteria
• Produced weekly Earned Value analysis and management report
• Developed maintained customized test performance metrics.
• Developed, analyzed published weekly Testing Metrics Status

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

• QA/QC Technical Lead on the Oregon Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System. SACWIS writing Business and Technical requirements.
• Provided IV V oversight for the Oregon SACWIS program.

Confidential

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER,

• Directed a comprehensive Independent Validation Verification IV V evaluation of a large company Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and development of Best Practices.
• Directed evaluation and remediation plans for a large company SW Requirements Management, Development Process and Quality Standards, Tools and Certification processes to bring a client company up to CMM Level II standards.
• Directed development of a customized Integrated Tool Suite ITS and Barely Sufficient CMM Process along with a Three Phased Implementation plan for large company client.

Confidential

• Directed the Enterprise wide Windows XP Pro OS Upgrade and Consolidation program - moving from Win 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Millennium to Windows XP Professional involving over 5,300 plus desktops enterprise wide.
• Directed an Enterprise wide migration upgrade development project for more than 360 Oracle 7x, 8x to Oracle 9-I applications that were hard-wired to version specific Oracle based Database applications involving over 28 Million records. This project exceeded 32M in redesign, development, test and deployment costs over an 18 month period.
• Directed the MS Exchange Server 2003 Infrastructure Migration program and Active Directory AD Systems reducing the number of active e-mail servers by more than 200 units.
• Directed the E-mail Infrastructure Application Consolidation program enterprise wide involving 26 sites nationally, moving from a variety of E-mail applications to Outlook 2003.
• Directed and Project Managed the Roll-out and implementation of the Qwest Internet Application Utility IAU , a .Net Web based user interface that reduced the number of enterprise servers nationally from 7,000 to only 200, achieving an annual savings of nearly 26M.
• Consolidated all of Qwest Software Configuration Management tools from 39 different SCM and RM tools into one 1 SCM tool resulting in Six Million in annual license fee savings, reduced training and software maintenance costs.
• Negotiated a one-time Perpetual Enterprise software agreement resulting in a 5 year cost savings of 13M.
• Directed a successful consolidation of all 1,100 AS-400 Mainframe Applications to a single Software Configuration Management SCM tool and common SCM and Release process, resulting in millions of dollars in savings.
• Directed the development of an innovative new Qwest Integrated Tool Suite, ITS a .Net web based tools consisting of four 3rd party SW Life cycle Development tools, integrated to work in concert providing a Integrated Development Environment. IDE resulting in increased efficiencies, lower costs and reduced development times.
• Developed a new Web based .Net user interface TRAINING CONCEPT, which resulted in a reduction in training times for SW Developers and testers from ten days to two hours.

Confidential

• Designed and directed construction and operationally managed a 500 Seat Prepaid Calling Card High Volume Call Center.
• Successfully Designed, Directed construction of a new 15M, 116,000 Sqft, five building Technology Data Call Center and Day Care Center including all construction documentation, specifications and drawings.
• Designed and Developed new Enterprise Financial Performance Metrics and Key Performance Indicators including Web Based reporting for Call Center Management.

Confidential

SENIOR MANAGER

, Network Systems Engineering NSE Program Management Office,

• Successfully directed the Qwest Y2K program resulting in NO system or facility outages enterprise wide.
• Directed and Program Managed the Qwest Communications Local number Portability LNP roll-out program resulting in over 280 Million in revenue to date.
• Initiated a Companywide PMI certification college for Program Managers resulting in 16 PMI certifications the first year.

FINANCIAL DIRECTOR AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATOR,

• Managed all aspects of the financial and operational management of the church 4.2 M annual budget.
• Effectively Directed Finance and Accounting, Human Resources, Facilities, Maintenance management.
• Implemented new Management Information System, Accounting Systems, Personnel management systems, LAN/WAN operations, Automated Telecommunications systems PBX .

Confidential

DIRECTOR

• Successfully managed a Major Aerospace Army support project proposal, capturing 35 Million dollar technical support program.
• Effectively Managed 35 man Army Technical support team including direction of several major winning proposal efforts within cost, performance and schedule requirements capturing more than 30M in new business.

Confidential

• Founder, President and CEO - Chairman of the Board Of Directors of a 1990 start-up. Successfully managed Venture Capital development program and investment mining, raising 2.3M in Venture Capital for my start-up company.
• Founded a new company that produced new and innovative computer OEM products.
• Filed patents for PC Memory management product and original concept internal PC UPS product.

Confidential

PRESIDENT and CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER / TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR.

• Directed Development of new Military Qualified WORM Compact Disk Drive.
• Achieved 120 sales growth in first twelve months.

Aerospace and Engineering

Confidential

• PROGRAM MANAGER, Ground Launched Hellfire Anti Tank Missile program.
• ENGINEERING TEST PILOT, Hellfire Full Scale Development Program, Missiles Systems Div. MSD . Logged 109 Hellfire Missile test launches, AH-1G/R Cobra Test Pilot.
• FLIGHT TEST DIRECTOR, Missiles Systems Div, Hellfire Test Program, Eglin AFB Florida.
• PROJECT ENGINEER, Hellfire Three Rail Launcher Development Program, Missiles Systems Div. Norcross GA.
• MARKETING MANAGER, Army Programs, Collins Government Avionics Div, Won over 45M in development contracts.
• PROGRAM MANAGER, Airborne Target Handover System ATHS Digital Communications Computer, used on AH-64 Apache and OH-58D Kiowa Scout helicopters.
• ENGINEERING MANAGER, Missile Systems Div. Engineering Development Laboratory.
• DESIGN ENGINEER, Missiles Systems Div., Apollo Lunar Mission. Designed the Kelvin temperature, Urine Ejection Valve UEV for Apollo Command Module. Valve went to the Moon, July 1969 -1974.