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Senior Infrastructure Cloud Project Manager

Extensive Fortune 500 and small company software and hardware infrastructure planning and implementation with over fifteen years of project experience. Project management of infrastructure security, service management, monitoring, regulatory compliance management, risk management, and application deployment. Amiable analytical that thrives on being challenged with change and team building to solve complex problems.Use Project Management methodologies related to software development lifecycle, training, software testing, and deployment processes. Developed project schedules and managed internal work activities necessary to meet project objectives within schedule, scope, and cost. Managed development of process scenarios and changes in applications required in support of related network activities. Communicated progress and lessons learned to customer, management and other team members. Managed cross-functional efforts to deliver training to geographically and functionally diverse teams. Have extensive knowledge of IT and Networking operating procedures and web-based, database-driven application design. Managed the planning and management of user acceptance test activities. Planned and managed user training. Knowledgeable of project management for software development initiatives and have developed and managed project scope, schedule and budget.Manage large projects with vision, leadership and extensive business and IT process knowledge escalating issues and risks. Stakeholders include C-level management, business users, support services, multiple vendors, and outsourced resources. Manage requirements, scope, detailed work plans, schedules, cost estimates, resource plans, communication, budget, dependencies, risk analysis, status reports, and change approval documents.

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Senior Cloud Infrastructure Project Manager

opportunity to leverage enterprise cloud infrastructure and program and project management experience. Data center consolidation, migration of virtual and physical assets, cloud and virtualization, design, installation, technology integration and implementation. Available immediately.

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Senior Project Manager

• The following characteristics enable me to minister to job seekers: humble, am grateful for being able to assist others, am a listener and story teller, am authentic, transparent, a team player, truthful, over deliver, love my job seeker work, responsive to individual needs, adaptable, passionate about the work, gracious, simplistic, dedicated, diligent, and delight others by treating them as I'd like to be treated. Teach job seekers to include in their LinkedIn profile the following type key words and phrases: Intensity, drive and ambition Integrity and sound judgment cultural fit with the organization positive outlook, enthusiastic can-do attitude and great sense of humor management and leadership competency self-awareness, reflection and resilience effective communicator, both verbally and written track record with results that are sustainable and explainable demonstrated ability to solve hard problems and overcome adversity. Ethos Character , Logos Reason , Pathos Appeal to emotion , Rhetoric Art of persuasion .
• And above all when you learn how to job search yourself then pay it forward by teaching someone else.
• Project managed Job Seekers Ministry Team at Heights Baptist Church from 2011 to 2012. Tasks at Heights included publishing a Job Seekers Newsletter every two weeks and managing workshops.

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Caregiver

• osteosarcoma bone cancer in his upper left arm. I worked for two months but the care giving needed at my house for my wife and at my daughter's house for my grandson became more important to me than working. In January of 2015 my wife's recovery to full function and my grandson's treatments had become more manageable so I started my 2015 Job Search to go back to work. My now 15 year old grandson finished his latest treatment for recurrence of the cancer the last week of March 2015 and has started UTSW Medical Center Clinical Trial of oral chemotherapy to deal with recurring cancer.

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Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Project Manager

• Project managed multiple IT infrastructure, software development Agile , and security projects at Prime Lending headquarters in the IT PMO. Cisco ISE project management. CFLOS Customer Facing Loan Origination System that included cloud based infrastructure and security project management. Think critically, read, communicate, reflect, solve complex problems, use judgment, make decisions, react, and actively listen. Understand IT, computers, electronics, mathematics, operations, systems analysis, monitoring, programming, sales, and marketing. Monitor and assess individual or organization performance for improvement and corrective action. Understand the business.

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Project Manager

• Senior Data Center Program / Project Manager in Strategic PMO for cloud infrastructure, CoLo, and managed service offerings to meet the requirements of large global enterprises, high security government agencies, and rapidly expanding Terremark Verizon internal needs. Managed the entry network implementation additions and modifications to three data centers in addition to expanding the cloud resource pool and the caged areas.

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Project Manager / Team Member

• Project managed the JobSeekers Ministry Team tasks that included building and distributing a JobSeekers Newsletter and holding workshops. Tasks included recurring weekly tasks, publicity, facility resource planning, registration, workbooks, on-site workshop preparation, on-site workshop, post workshop tasks, resume reviews and modifications.

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Enterprise Project Manager

• Project managed the infrastructure consolidation, transformation and closing of HP/EDS data centers in the Americas from existing legacy data centers to new high density data centers. Servers and systems include iSeries, AS400, Mainframe, UNIX and Wintel platforms. Member of Transition Team PMO. Managed network project managers, systems architects, system delivery and account teams, run-books, high level migration scope documents and schedules. Also managed internal and external risks to project schedules, business costs and resources.

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Enterprise Program Manager

• Project managed the State of Texas Virtual Data Center Server Consolidation infrastructure project that is tasked with migrating over 6000 servers from existing legacy data centers at 28 state agencies and over 1000 remote locations to two state virtual data centers. Servers and systems included iSeries, AS400, Mainframe, UNIX and Wintel platforms. Member of IBM Transition Team PMO.
• Managed other project managers, systems engineers, architects, network LAN WAN providers, system analysts, systems administrators and application SME's to improve processes, run-books, high level migration scope documents and schedules. Also planned to scale the migration rate up substantially to be able to meet the migration contract target schedules and target numbers of servers.

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Project Manager

• Project managed infrastructure support on multiple applications that used agile methodology to update applications once a month. Met with Application development and implementation teams to provide infrastructure support that included networks, servers, storage, and firewalls needed to support the applications. Used SCRUM and ITIL Security Standard.

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Project Manager

• Project managed tool support planning for AT T, SWB, and AT T Mobility networks.
• Gathered, analyzed, and presented to senior network management a summary of existing and planned near term functional and integration network support initiatives to improve the merger of all network support functions. Developed high level scope documents that included cost, schedule and resource estimates.

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Senior Enterprise Project Manager

• Managed internal data center relocation and consolidation of infrastructure from ADS subsidiary of 100 mid-range servers UNIX and INTEL . Transitioned reward program financial transaction processing systems into existing data center and command center. Reported to VP of Technology Relationship Management. Project managed internal and external Information Technology Services due diligence Compliance Security Review for CitiBank to examine security of fifteen enterprise infrastructure components. Managed initial CitiBank/FMI rewards system project prototype that included performing a payment card security audit with CitiBank to assure security compliance prior to implementing the prototype system using ITIL Security Std.

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Project Manager

• Managed National Data Center PMO infrastructure processes and server projects UNIX, INTEL, iSeries, AS/400 and CITRIX using IT Information Library ITIL model to drive change into existing infrastructure processes by using the concept of IT Service Management ITSM and the Unified Process. Managed server migrations. Servers and systems included iSeries, AS400, Mainframe, UNIX and Wintel platforms. Member of AT T Wireless PMO. Managed data warehouse deployment. Consolidated SQL servers.
• Developed Key Performance Indicators KPIs and SLAs and implemented KPI and SLA reporting including KPI Reduction Reporting. Managed SQL and Network Appliance Server Consolidations, NetIQ, Business Intelligence Security and Enterprise Security Management applications deployment. Produced Outsourcing Request for Information RFI for data center outsourcing. Implemented team change request review process utilizing Remedy and fast tracked critical projects. Installed NetIQ and Security on MS Exchange and Active Domain servers.
• Managed Microsoft SUS Enterprise Infrastructure Security SWAT Team to fast track automated deployment of all Microsoft patches to over 60,000 workstations and over 2,000 servers. Developed new processes to test and deploy patches during ninety day project. Reported to VP of Infrastructure Support and was nominated for Quality Team Award. Established virtual organization to implement processes.

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Senior Telecommunications Project Manager

• Managed VOIP telecommunications proposals and projects for 5 million Tulsa Independent School District and internal Williams Energy Infrastructure Upgrade of 80 convenience store telecommunication infrastructure systems.
• Managed and provided sales support for complex new telecommunication networks that included support for both CISCO and Nortel VOIP telecommunications systems. Took the following training courses: Fundamentals of Telephony, Building a Converged Enterprise IP Telephony Network, Cisco AVVID Pre-Sales Engineering SWAT Team Training, Voice/Data Network Fundamentals, Voice Partners II Applications Technologies, LAN/WAN Interconnect/Multimedia Switches Compliance