SUMMARY

• Technical leader with a proven track record and extensive experience delivering mission critical products on time and within budget in Agile, Iterative and Waterfall SDLC environments.Successful in intense, fast - paced and demanding company cultures.
• Recognized for the ability to mentor and foster a team environment of high productivity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management: Jira, Clarity, Innotas, OpenAir, Great Plains, Microsoft Project, HPSM - HP Service Manager, Visio

Development Environment Tools: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g. PL/SQL, .Net, PL/SQL developer, FoxPro, Access, MySQL, Visual Source Safe, Visual Basic, Crystal Reports, Wise, CVS, Java

Computer Skills: General Microsoft OS Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, Microsoft Office Suite, Share Point Portal Server, WebEx, Log Me In, GoToMyPC, Citrix, PCAnywhere, iRise Studio, BizTalk, InRule, Relational Database Design, .Net, FoxPro

Testing / Issue Tracking Tools: Elementool, Jira, DevTrack, HP ALM - Application Lifecycle Mgmt.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Organize, coordinate, and administer the daily activities of the onshore / offshore Java development teams in an Agile environment, while being hands-on with analysis and code reviews
• Accountable for supervisor functions including status reporting and performance management.
• Provide oversight to ensure that the development and delivery of solutions met or exceeded the expected requirements and that work was completed and delivered on time and within estimations.
• Monitor and report delivery statuses while anticipating and identifying issues that could inhibit success and implementing corrective actions and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure all solutions meet business needs for reliability, performance, and security.
• A leader to the development team, providing them support and encouragement while holding them to the responsibility to ensure the deliveries were successful.
• Direct teams in the creation of High Level Estimates (HLE) and Definitive Estimates (DE) for a Front Office Turn Key solution including areas of Architecture, Development, Testing, and Maintenance.
• Balance global environment hours while understanding and supporting cultural differences
• Act as the conduit to acquire what the development team required to fulfill requirements
• Support and maintained production systems to optimize performance, resolved problems, provided timely follow-up on identified issues based on support escalations as needed.

Senior Associate

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management for multiple, full software development life cycle (SDLC) projects with budgets of $30K to $500K for an outsourced managed software development service at Confidential (IBC).
• Recognized participant within a critical team for the response to a key client RFP for a turn key managed service solution sold with revenue $3M per month.

Project Manager

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities:

• Lead requirements meetings to provide counsel with all collection, processing, extraction, culling, and exception handling options and ensure all requirements are properly documented and executed.
• Continually monitor and manage multiple project time lines to ensure deadlines are met
• Managed team of analysts and QA resources.
• Communicate frequently with customers to resolve issues, provide status updates, and manage expectations throughout the project lifecycle.
• Active member of eDiscovery steering committee for Global eDiscovery strategy and process.
• Provide support to discovery hosting companies for load files delivered, including mapping and defining metadata fields.
• Coordinate application issues with vendor project teams and manage user acceptance testing on upgrades and patches when applicable.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Horsham, PA

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for Thomas’s core account management enterprise applications supporting editorial and advertising content.
• Lead daily / weekly project development meetings employing both Agile (scrum) and conventional waterfall project SDLCs.
• Manage development pipelines using project portfolio management tools (Innotas) ensuring project schedules are maintained. Provide senior level management weekly updates including schedule variances and risk mitigation alternatives.
• Work hand in hand with the PMO, analyze and define business requests and translate into detailed technical specifications.
• Manage enhancements and modifications to a national territory management system including: sales contract/proposal generation, territory management, and corporate contract acceptance.
• Maintain a sales commission web site reporting commissions processed nightly.
• Co-sponsor integration design meetings with corporate Solution Architecture group in support of Thomas’s SOA initiatives. Assist SA group in “build vs. buy” assessments.
• Work closely with quality assurance groups along with customer base ensuring project deliverables are accurate and according to business requirements.
• Planning and hosting customer acceptance presentations including initial “train the trainer” sessions.
• Manage resource pools to ensure 24x7 off hour support for Thomas’s mission critical point solutions and integration processes.
• Annual employee performance reviews.

Senior Architect / Project Lead

Confidential, Conshohocken, PA

Responsibilities:

• Lead system architect responsible for designing Thomas International Publishing’s global account management applications for their entry into European markets.
• Lead application and database design and development efforts driving a common code base/database platform capable of supporting international needs. (Local market products, language, currency and multi lingual user interface).
• Work closely with international stakeholders in defining local product needs. Design syndication tools for producing, multi-lingual web sites, printed buying guides and CD ROM’s products.
• Designed and implemented a transactional database synchronizations framework polling foreign Oracle databases and coalescing into one master repository in New York.
• Designed a global web based product classification taxonomy allowing local editors to collaborate, translate and define product classification across 8 different languages.
• Responsible for 24x7 global support for offices in New York, Antwerp Belgium, New Delhi India, Monterrey Mexico, São Paulo Brazil and Tokyo Japan. Worked closely with local market IT providers ensuring operational SLA’s were maintained.

Sr Developer

Confidential, Cherry Hill, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a contractor designing and developing various client server based solutions for the Auditing and Reporting department.
• Systems included a garnishment system, a statistical reporting system used in reporting information to the EPA.