SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Over 15 years' experience in Program and Project Management, with responsibilities including: project planning, interacting with business client, budgeting, managing human resources, reporting and achieving customer goals. Experience within an Information Technology Project Management Office.
• Proven capabilities managing a team of onshore and offshore resources.
• Customer focused with strong relationship building skills. Ability to translate between business and technical resources to convey understanding of requirements and solutions.
• Extensive experience managing concurrent projects and large, complex projects spanning multiple platforms, multiple sites and matrix-managed resources. Multiple technologies include: web, desktop, middleware, DB2, Oracle, Informatica, mainframe, UNIX, and Data Warehouse.
• High degree of organizational skills with the ability to develop detailed documents in Microsoft Office Suite applications to validate and manage project tasks, business and technical requirements, budgets, risks and open issues.
• Business and application knowledge includes various aspects of the financial, banking, insurance, retail and pharmaceutical industries.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Senior Project Manager consultant with Millennium Consulting

• IT Project Manager in the Global Security Organization of EMC2.
• Program manager of eight IT-related projects in one of the Security programs.
• Maintained program and project plans managed tasks to completion identified and coordinated issues and risks provided weekly management status managed resource allocations, budgets and forecasting participated in PMO and steering committee meetings.

Confidential

IT Program Manager consultant with Solution Partners

• Program manager executing post-merger integration of technologies, people and processes in support of an acquisition of a block of retirement financial services business from another large insurer.
• Program manager of Investment Offering Enhancements program which included several projects.
• Project manager of asset transfers and blackout period portion of migration. Worked closely with acquired company, custodial company and fund companies.
• Managed project managers and project coordinators plus extended team maintained program and project plans identified and coordinated issues and risks provided weekly management status managed budgets and forecasting.

Confidential

Senior Systems Project Manager consultant with Veritude

• Project Manager of multiple enterprise-wide security, identity and access management projects. .
• Project manager of SiteMinder r6 to r12 upgrade of 265 web applications. Managed four engineers maintained project plan, identified and coordinated issues and risks provided weekly management status and project dashboard.
• Project manager of project to lock down access to local administrative accounts using Cyber-Ark product. Rolled out to over 70,000 machines worldwide. Managed three technical resources plus extended team maintained project plan, identified and coordinated issues and risks provided weekly management status and project dashboard.

Confidential

Senior Business Project Manager consultant with Veritude

• Project Manager within the Project Management Office.
• Managed vendor and project budgets including monthly updates to senior level management.
• Editor of monthly senior management business report documenting all project updates, service levels, latest releases, and planned activities. Editor of quarterly newsletter outlining division's accomplishments, project spotlights and new associates.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager / Systems Manager

• Project Manager and Resource Manager for multiple projects within the Project Management Office.
• Program manager of 5M Identity Management Solution Security program addressing Internal Audit findings related to user provisioning and periodic access reviews. Focus on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX , Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 SAS 70 , Payment Card Industry PCI 2.0 standard and Personally Identifiable Information PII applications. Integration with PeopleSoft.
• Program manager of 4.5M Enterprise Messaging program aimed at creating a single email identity and Active Directory domain for 34,000 associates. Allows for a single MS-Exchange architecture consolidating all legacy exchange and Active Directory architectures. Integration with PeopleSoft.
• Project Manager of 2.1M Retire SUNRW2 Server project which involves migrating from Sun Solaris platform to a more robust, scalable and current IBM AIX platform and upgrade to Oracle Database 11g. Coordinating development efforts for over 30 applications including Informatica, Pro C, Secure FTP, and SQR.
• Resource manager for 15 employees and contractors including project managers, analysts, and migration engineers.
• Communicate closely with senior management and business partners including bi-weekly project governance meetings.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

• Project Manager of multiple projects utilizing both waterfall and agile development methodologies.
• Project manager of Customer Account Re-engineering program. A 3.5M, 4 year program spread over multiple releases. Includes changes on multiple technology platforms, including mainframe, DB2, middleware, web, Informatica, UNIX, and Data Warehouse. Project included over 40 technical resources including India.
• Concurrently with aforementioned project, project manager of Cost Basis FBSI/DART Transfers project. A regulatory project with cross company application changes and resources. Program included onshore and offshore resources including Ireland.
• Managed Bank Wire Address Re-engineering project. A 1.5M project which included changes on multiple technology platforms, including mainframe, DB2, middleware, web, Informatica, UNIX and Data Warehouse. Project included over 40 technical resources including India. Applications involved interfaces with CFO, NSCC, ACH, and Fed Wire.
• Managed mainframe infrastructure upgrade schedule and individual upgrades such as: z/OS, MQ/Series, CICS/VR, and CICS Transaction Gateway. Monthly status meetings with senior management.
• Member of Project Management Best Practices core team which set standards and procedures.

Confidential

Lead Systems Integration Tester consultant with LeapFrog Systems

• Functioned as Lead Systems Integration Tester.
• Managed systems integration testing SIT for the Fidelity Transfer Agency FTA VSAM-to-DB2 database project. Created and executed SIT estimates, project plan, test plan and test cases for multiple phases of the project. Assigned and coordinated tasks and trained other testers. Coordinated problem resolutions with multiple groups.

Confidential

High School Math Teacher

Taught high school mathematics including Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry.

Confidential

Lead Systems Integration Tester

Created and executed test plan for the Annuity Loans project. Interacted with senior level management. Primary systems applications: Vantage-One, CSR Client Server , Data Warehouse including reports, Tax Reporting OTRS , PFPC.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Project manager and lead analyst for re-engineering the existing mainframe Securities and Futures systems into a single Web-based real-time application.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager consultant with Synergy Systems

Project manager, lead analyst and lead developer for multiple projects. These included modifications to the billing and financial system to incorporate the PeopleSoft payroll system and created an interface to a new internet-based purchasing system EMall .

Confidential

• Principal Software Engineer / Project Manager consultant with Keane, Inc. then Permanent
• Functioned at multiple levels on Defined Contribution 401k projects within the FPRS application.
• Project manager, lead analyst, and developer on project that put withdrawal restrictions on a participant's account due to legal requirements. Implemented all phases of project. Responsible for providing technical leadership for three people and coordinated Workstation changes.
• Project Manager, lead analyst and lead developer for Price Correction project. Developed on UNIX platform utilizing COBOL, Oracle, SQL, and Stored Procedures. Interfaced with IBM mainframe.

TECHNICAL SKILLS