Career Highlights

• Significant experience in governing and executing all project management phases including: RFP, vendor negotiations, scope definition, Charter and Statement of Work development, business and requirements development, code build, implementation, budget and schedule control, integration testing and validation, IT asset and security management, change management and customer satisfaction activities.
• Skilled in Project Management, Lean Manufacturing principles, Waterfall and Agile software engineering methodologies, client negotiations, managing integrated teams on- and off-shore, and coordinating multiple program initiatives, and ensuring the achievement of value and effectiveness projects are designed to deliver.
• Strengths include: Iterative software development using Project Management Centers of Excellence PMCoE , IBMs Rational Unified Process RUP , and various Agile software development tools. Additional project disciplines include PCI DSS 3.0 Certification, ITIL, Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO-9002 compliance, Quality Standards Measurement, Business Process Designs and Implementation.

Technical Highlights

• .Net, J2EE and mainframe projects
• Windows Client Server 2008 R2
• SQL Server Database
• SOAP Architecture
• IBM HTTP Server
• IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS including EARs and WARs
• IBM DB2 Cluster High availability
• IBM DB2 Pure Scale
• DB2 Server Farms archive and reporting
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
• Citrix ZenApp Zen Desktop
• Load Balance Architecture
• SAN Storage
• RSA security
• DMZ
• FTP, SFTP, DNS, HTTP, ISP, WAF
• Data Center Move Lift Shift, P2P, P2V, V2V
• Double Take Move, Double Take Share Unix to Linux Database Migration

Experience

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Leading PCI DSS 3.0 certification project for multiple bank products jointly managed with external vendors to support the prevention of security breaches and theft of payment card information. Supporting external QSA audit to obtain annual certification.

Confidential

Deployment Manager/Consultant

• Supported the technology refresh/data center move and applications upgrade for an off-shore bank.
• Managed database migration and transformation of Flexcube and SOA4FSI as part of mid-size bank data center move from Calgary to Ontario, Canada.
• Data Center migration and consolidation two data centers into one - 100 G8 Blades and G8 Rack servers, 275 physical, 250 virtual and 40 other servers includes building new infrastructures, and using Lift Shift and Swing Gear approaches in Waves.
• Conduct enterprise transformation leveraging SAN storage, inter- and intra- chassis connectivity, VDI/Citrix Zen Desktop and AppSense.
• Design and lead application deployment dress rehearsals and UAT for Flexcube, SOA4FSI, Postilion, SWIFT, TradeThru, Actimize, Autonomy, OBIEE, QRM and FDCB mobile banking .
• Support the implement design to enable applications to run in new Cloud Disaster Recovery environment.
• Lead Double Take Move Share proof of concepts to transform UNIX Solaris databases to LINUX Red Hat.
• Support Disaster Recovery Go Live running concurrently with Technology Refresh/Data Center Move Go Live.

Confidential

Consultant

• Worked with Treasury and Investment departments to build strategic plan to redesign their equity investments tools to align with their new mutual company structure.
• Created business cases to define and expand mutual fund investment strategies and enhanced risk management tools to allow the organization to better streamline, automate, track, value and account for investment activities.
• Evaluated current software portfolio including CAMRA to determine if best practices can be achieved to manage complex security investment strategies including derivatives and provide immediate access to decision-making data.

Confidential

Consultant

• Set up Microsoft Private Cloud proof of concept project to determine if it was a viable replacement for VMware.
• Developed plan for installing, verifying and integrating private cloud infrastructure components including data center infrastructure management using System Center.
• Components included: Virtual Machine Manager, sequencing using Server App-V, Service Template Designer, Service Manager, Orchestrator and Operations Manager Agents and other monitoring features included .
• Supported re-design of healthcare virtualization program that replaced thick/thin clients with zero client hardware and single sign-on SSO technology.

Confidential

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

• Led full project life cycle development to build multiple infrastructures and install many banking products to create and sustain state-of-the-art financial servers for B2B and personal customer accounts.
• Worked with leading financial application vendors Fiserv, Wausau, Clear2Pay to build scalable architectures that are green aligning to corporate and federal standards and provide expandability and leveragability to meet growing market demand for file funds transfer capabilities, information reporting and web monitoring capabilities.
• Directed and oversaw full project life-cycle activities and teams to deliver change.
• Partnered with Clear2Pay to lead the redesign of the bank's Corporate Banking Gateway onto new, scalable environments and installed new Enterprise Payment applications to allow for stable, secure File Transfer capabilities as well as a sound, integrated desktop cash management system for transactions, account/balance information and payment activity . .
• Partnered with Fiserv by installing their Frontier application to automate the reconcilement of assigned general ledger and demand deposit accounts DDA in a controlled production and disaster recovery environment. This project required significant inter-organizational planning and execution to effectively deliver data quality data conversion , data management new regulations and data transfer processes as well as capacity planning and data center consolidation, data policies, business process management, and risk management check and wire transfer risk exposure .
• Restarted a 3.4M Wausau Business Deposit Capture WebDDL and Optima project that included an architecture upgrade and application installation allowing the bank to provide new transaction based/end to end financial products directly to small businesses for Risk and Fraud management.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

• Managed conversion of data ported into Cerner-based applications that supported Computerized Physician Order Entry, Online charting, Revenue Solutions Warehouse and Medical Record Number MRN validations.
• Managed McKesson and Ingenix conversion of data for revenue systems and streamline processes for Patient Management, Registration, and Health Information Management HIM Medical Records integrating clinical management, revenue management and supply chain management systems.

Confidential

Consultant

• Re-aligned the redesign of their E-Commerce Platform project - a crucial piece of the company's BPR program designed to 1 re-engineer all core business processes of Entertainment Publications, and 2 replace multiple legacy technologies and custom applications with new state-of-the-art common systems.
• Using Agile project management methodology, re-set cross-functional teams to stand up Endeca/Hybris E-Commerce shopcart to move company from a fundraising focus towards direct sales.

Confidential

Program Manager - Program Launch Process Development

• Established planning and execution processes for GM GPSC Emerging Market EM clients by developing a program launch methodology providing the forum for the GM EM team to make informed investment decisions for development and deployment programs.
• Led Global Pre-Planning activities to support startup of Emerging Markets' development and deployment programs traveling to GMDAT South Korea , GMI India and LAAM LCA for Colombia .
• Led GPSC Global Integration Testing process for cross-functional global, regional and local business and technical teams at GMDAT, GMI and the LCA deployments for GM Colombia to ensure compatibility between application interfaces and validate the integrated technical landscape will support the business model at assembly and component plants for General Motors.

Confidential

Program Manager

• Integrated several multi-million dollar system development and deployment projects for assembly and component plants in China and Korea.
• Managed the EDS-build supply chain application's 12-step implementation process by coordinating and carrying to rapid completion multiple functional data conversions, system developments and launches of various global component ordering and vendor management systems to General Motors GM Joint Ventures in China and GM assembly and component plants in South Korea .

Confidential

Project Manager - Program Management Office PMO

Led full life-cycle development and deployment of proprietary collaboration and document management system which evaluated and executed all General Motors' national and regional sponsorship programs across all vehicle divisions.