SUMMARY:

Well-rounded, accomplished Project/Program Manager with particular expertise within the IT and financial industries. High-impact strategic planner skilled at resolving corporate challenges with integrated solutions. Proven success in achieving dramatic budgetary results in various settings. Outstanding mentorship and management skills with a history of building winning teams that achieve organizational objectives. Ability to combine technical and business solutions to support overall corporate strategic goals—expert in analyzing data, solving problems, creating detailed project schedules, and providing superb client service. Adept at working with both established and startup PMOs. Seeking a key role with an organization in need of an individual with project management skills that enhance productivity, improve operations, and drive sustained business performance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpha, NJ

Project Management Consultant

Managed projects In New York and New Jersey. Achieved objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change. Developed Project Management proficiencies, process improvement, tracking budget expenses and planning, This also included architecture, infrastructure and network capacity/bandwidth testing

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Vice President, Project Management Office

• Buildouts of new space. Responsibilities included Network(Voice and Data), Desktop and Multimedia. Corporate Real Estate also reported into the Project Manager for the construction of the space. Largest buildout was in Long Island City 2 with 16 floors and the movement of 1500 personnel. The moves were completed within a 9 week period with all areas functional on time with all 9 moves. Move out of the Sears Tower location in Chicago of 1900 personnel was completed and all areas functional on time. Both of these projects were completed within budget.

• Buildout of 15 labs at the Warren location. This included space, architecture, environmental’s, infrastructure and network for each lab.
• Managed the UNIX Support Group to manage the front end for Databases and Firewalls.
• IT Infrastructure. Ran various projects for the IT area for upgrades and consolidation. Consolidated 19 helpdesk centers into 3 locations in England, Singapore and Texas. This was a multi technical project due to the many locations and differences in infrastructure/hardware/software. Completed on time and under budget.
• Also, managed the application conversion of 400+ servers to 45. A second task of this conversion was to move the systems into the ‘Glass House’ Data Centers and onto SAN Storage.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Project Manager, Operations Support

Project Management for selection and implementation of solutions for infrastructure, management and automation in a multiplatform environment. This included an analysis of the Data Center and the policies and procedures currently in place to identify needs and priorities.

Confidential, Ridgefield Park, NJ

Vice President, Operations Support

• Implementation of various automation systems within the Operation, Distribution and Production Services areas in a multiplatform environment resulting in an 18% personnel reduction and over 2.5 million in annual saving. The project included standardization across departments and implementation of mechanical automation as well as systems.

• Developed and implemented an infrastructure for Client Server including backup, recovery, software distribution and standardization of procedures and practices.
• Workstation Management Initiative: One of five members of a board reporting on the project to standardize desktops throughout the bank.
• Member of the Y2K team for conversion/upgrades of legacy applications, operating systems, software and hardware.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Manager of Operations and Production Services

• Achieved service level objectives of over 99% uptime.

• Implemented various software products to automate the Distribution and Production Support area. This function reduced the staff needs while improving the quality of service.
• Developed and implemented a training program.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Manager of Technical Services

• Formed a financial control department within ISD to perform cost analysis and contract review for software and hardware acquisitions.

• While managing the Storage Group we were the first Data Center in New Jersey to have a terabyte of IBM storage on the floor.
• Managed a corporate-wide laser printing project to form an infrastructure and common print platform for the conversion to electronic printing resulting in a cost reduction of 1.2 million dollars. Planned, directed and coordinated activities for Automated Operations within the Data Center. This reduced staff by 35% and had an annual savings of $500,000. Due to performance benefits derived from this project we were able to deinstall one CPU providing additional annual savings of 3.5 million dollars. Also achieved service level objectives of over 99.4% uptime over five years.

Confidential, Fairfield, NJ

Manager of Operations and Production Services

• Achieved service level objectives of over 98% uptime.

• Implemented Report Distribution software to automate the distribution of reports and provide online viewing. This function reduced the staff needs while improving the quality of service.