PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Professional project manager with PMP certification that has demonstrated success in a variety of challenging IT projects.

Overview of Required/Preferred Skill:

o Project Management: 20 years

o PMP

o SDLC Projects: 20 years

o Budgets Managed: up to 3-4 Million

o Average Team size: 10-12

Experienced in working with a highly matrixed project team.

• Experienced in business analyst process, analyzing business objectives develop data motels and analysis and develop business requirements.
• Skilled in facilitating communication to all involved, executive management through project resources, and manage stakeholder relationships.
• Skilled in conflict management, problem-solving, negotiation, project risk management, status reporting and leadership skills.
• Skilled in developing projects using SDLC methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience in managing project teams in international settings, virtual teams, off shore teams, and cross functional matrix organizations.
• Serving as a volunteer PMP certification trainer with the local PMI chapter.

Organizations

• Project Management Institute Cincinnati Chapter PMI
• Trainer for PMP certification 2011-2013

Professional Experience

Infrastructure Project Manager

Contract to First Data in Omaha, NE to manage multiple projects.

o Manage multiple infrastructure projects tasked with server builds, storage refresh, hardware cut overs, hardware installs and decommissioning.

o Created project plans for infrastructure tasks to build development, QA, Cat and production servers.

o Manage solutions engineer tasks for architecture diagrams, server data capture, and submission of Remedy ticket to start server build processes, firewall requirements and ticket creation to create firewalls.

o Monitor Remedy ticket progress and attend daily server build meeting to keep server build on schedule.

o Manage the enterprise risk and compliance for servers by document creation, assimilating all necessary supporting documentation and representing at implementation review board.

o Manage team to execute a change request, represent at the change management board, and run bridge call to execute change.

o Projects managed with Clarity to create project WBS, baseline, resource allocations, log risk and issues, create timesheets for resources, run project reports.

o Software tools: Microsoft Office, Visio, Project, Clarity, Remedy

Contract to Devon Energy in Oklahoma City, OK to manage multiple projects.

o Role as program manager oversee a vendor developing and implementation of 3 separate dashboard applications for Devon's business intelligent operations portal. All three projects had daily scrum calls and weekly project reviews with business sponsors. Scrums task were assigned and managed using TFS.

o Manage the development and implementation for business intelligent data cubes in Excel, and SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS reporting. Scrums task were assigned and managed using TFS.

o Manage the implementation and system refresh for SAP environment rationalization

o Manage the upgrade of vendor software in support of oil and gas field data structures.

o Software tools: Microsoft Office, Visio, Project and Project Server, Microsoft Team Foundation Server TFS , SAP Cross Application Time Sheets CATS .

Contract to HP to manage IT implementation the State of Delaware Medicare pharmaceutical applications.

o Teamed up with the 6 other project managers on the project to review the RFP and Proposal, sort the 3000 plus requirements per functional manager responsibility.

o Hold discussions to determine which requirements are cross functional and which functional area will be responsible for cross-functional requirements.

Sr. Application Project Manager

Contract through Confidential

• to manage enterprise implantation of prescription drugs application.
• Manage software implementation with million dollar budget to add new enhancements to support administrating prescription drugs to patients. Software managed patient record, polypharmicy interrogation, patient drug notice and advisory. Project added new patient record reports, single sign on for client software and several enhancements.
• Project managed using Waterfall methodology, while development was accomplished in an Agile methodology using Sprints.
• Software tools: VPMi project management software and resource management, ARC forecasting and budget software. Microsoft Office, Visio and Project.

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager

• Contract through The confidential to manage infrastructure and implementation projects for healthcare environment client.
• Manage the re-imaging of all the Epic servers in the CHP production environment
• Managing backlog remediation projects that included installing new vendor hardware/software, replacing data arrays, upgrading operating systems, network support, virus protection and software upgrades.
• Develop guidelines in the use EdgeSight reporting software for CHP user base.
• Lead the development of a change management procedure to control process for updating production servers.
• Provided CHP with documentation on how to use EdgeSight software for monitoring and reporting Epic server activity.
• Held checkpoint meetings for critical tasks and hand off of tasks between functional groups so that milestones were met, as risks occurred, mitigated and kept project on schedule.
• Participated in Change Management Board meetings to acquire approval for starting project tasks.
• Skills and tools: Microsoft Office suite, Project and Visio, Lotus Notes, Remedy, Citrix EdgeSight.

Application Project Manager

• Contract through Experis to manage IT implementation for the banking industry for client.
• Manage software development and implementation for banking mobile applications for smart phone, tablet and credit card applications.
• Lead schedule driven mobile projects through defined planning, construction and testing.
• Release manager for mobile applications, responsible for QA testing and roll out of deliverable applications and infrastructure.
• Member of tem to define and maintain standards to support the mobile applications project management department.
• Managed that directed a project with 4 to5 project managers, resources of 50 to 60 and a budget over two million dollars. Project had a firm delivery date for a rollout prior to Olympics.
• Skills and tools: Microsoft Office suite, Planview project planning software, Clarity issue tracking

Project Manager

• Contract through Sogeti to manage IT implementation for the medical devices industry client.
• Perform Project Management responsibilities for a client in medical devices industry to implement PLM software.
• Manage software upgrade implementation for PLM applications, led a team of 5 to 6 resources with a half million dollar budget.
• Software tools: Microsoft Office and Project

Sr Application Project management

• Manage the staffing of computer operations personnel for the Army Corp of Engineers.
• Member of large proposal team responding to a RFQ from the Army for supplying staffing to support Army data centers.
• Lead development and deployment of manufacturing based projects for data transfer from graphics design software to relational database in support of Northrop Shipyard.
• Lead effort for decommissioning of software and hardware for a retire U.S. military application.
• Managed several International Standards Organization ISO projects using both an international team and a corporate team.
• Lead business analyst analyzing business objectives develop data models and analysis and develop business requirements.
• Member of ISO quality team, responsible for validating quality in ISO standards, performing quality audits and for writing and publishing QA guidelines and standards.
• International leadership responsibilities include committee chairman, project lead, deputy committee chair and head of U.S. delegation.
• Lead effort to published several ISO product data standards
• Software tools: Microsoft Office, Visio, Project, process diagraming tools, data flow diagraming tools.