SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with Big 4 consulting experience and over 12 yrs of experience in managing complex, high visibility, strategic and enterprise - wide IT programs/ services.
• Highly successful Sr. Program/Project Manager with extensive IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity and SDLC experience focused on leading and managing strategic and complex programs/projects in matrix and global environments for Fortune 500 companies in various industries including, Media, Oil and Gas, Healthcare, Finance and Logistics and Supply Chain.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. IT Project Manager

• Provided IT Project Management and Program Management for strategic Confidential ( Confidential ) IT infrastructure and Cyber security projects. Direct Project portfolios range from $1M to $6.5M.
• Project Manager responsible for the upgrade of the Check Point IP690 Firewall Cluster pair securing the Internet Perimeter for the corporate network which was unstable and out of support with Palo Alto PA-5060 next generation firewalls at both the Confidential Main and West Campuses locations.
• The newly deployed next generation firewalls were configured to provide support for 10Gps throughput and provide Intrusion Prevention capabilities to prevent against malicious network traffic filling a gap that previously existed in the Confidential edge security architecture.
• Effectively managed the planning, communication and coordination between a wide range of stakeholders including external vendors, clinical stakeholders, servers and application owners.
• Project was successfully completed on schedule and under budget with no impact to production systems and patient safety
• Project Managed the planning, design, and implementation of four ASG S500-20 appliances: two at the Confidential Main Campus and two at its West Campus location.
• Project team was able to successfully standardize on a method for redirecting traffic to the ASG S500-20 testing via an architecture-based Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) only. A significant enhancement over the previous mixture of WCCP and explicit proxy/Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) files used to redirect traffic to the current Blue Coat environment
• Project was successfully completed on schedule and under budget with no impact to production systems and patient safety.
• Planning, sizing and build out of Splunk Architecture - Installation of Splunk Core and Enterprise Security, Splunk Deployment server, Search Heads and Indexers and Splunk forwarders.
• Review of Confidential security use cases and the prioritization of data sources
• Training of Confidential InfoSec resources
• Project was successfully completed on schedule and under budget with no impact to production systems and patient safety.
• Successfully managed the physical installation, connectivity and integration of all appliances with the Qualys cloud management platform
• Managed the enterprise wide vulnerability scanning of all Confidential Systems
• Project Manager responsible for the deployment of IPSwitch (MOVEit) solution to provide secure and reliable Managed File Transfer (MFT) and automation between Texas Children’s Hospital ( Confidential ) and its customers.
• The deployment of this solution provided Confidential with the capability to securely exchange files between partners, customers, systems and internal users.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Manager

• Project-Managed the data center migration of 200 physical servers from BHP Cyrus one Galleria data Center to Pet Cloud.
• Responsibilities included: led the infrastructure discovery effort, planned and coordinated the server migrations, project resource management (Human and financial) vendor management, issues tracking and resolution, project status reporting to both internal and external stakeholders.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Security/ IT Infrastructure Project Manager

• Project Manager for the deployment and roll out of Smart cards to Baker Hughes 2,000 Admin users globally. This project was part of a Baker Hughes break through initiative designed to uplift the identity assurance of all privileged accounts globally. This project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.
• Due to IBM’ s data center relocation from Boston to Poughkeepsie, there was a need to migrate several Baker Hughes business critical applications and servers belonging to multiple Product Lines globally to the new data center. The project successfully completed in October 2013 with the migration of 80 business critical applications and approximately 420 servers. Responsibilities included, performed infrastructure discovery and application dependency analysis, identified business requirements, identified migration strategies, negotiated server/application outage schedules and provided ongoing coordination, migration planning and execution, managed the outside vendors (IBM) issues and dependencies and developed a decommission strategy and check list for all application instances in the project scope.
• Project Manager for the SCCM 2012 deployment. This was a 1-year global rollout to upgrade the Baker Hughes infrastructure from SCCM 2007 to the new SCCM 2012. As part of this project scope, 70,000 workstations and 5000 servers were upgraded. This was $1Million project which was completed under budget and on schedule.
• Project Manager for the upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 for the various Baker Hughes Product Lines globally. This project involved determining the Windows 7 compatibility/Readiness for approximately 40,000 applications used within Baker Hughes globally and planning the integration of mission critical business applications with Microsoft System Configuration Manager (SCCM) to ensure compliance with corporate security standards. This Project was completed on schedule and under budget.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Infrastructure Project Manager

• Project Manager for the design and implementation of SharePoint 2010 extranet into Technip’s IT infrastructure. As part of this implementation, 100TB of data, 5,000 user accounts, and 600 site collections were successfully migrated into the new SharePoint farm.
• This was a regional project driven by global objectives and planned in parallel across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. This project was completed on schedule and within budget.
• Project Manager responsible for the PDMS Global infrastructure design and integration into Technip’s IT infrastructure. As part of this project, a dedicated Wide Area Network (WAN) connection was established between Technip and StatOil via Secure Oil Information Link (SOIL) allowing for bi directional and secure transfer of data between both companies. This project was successfully delivered on Schedule and within budget.
• Project Manager for the successful migration of approximately 120TB of data from EMC Clarrion to EMC Isillon. As part of this engagement, 400 Virtualized file/ application servers were migrated and 50 physical servers consolidated via EMC VMware P2V process which helped to reduce physical server count while offering improved service levels. This was part of an effort to decommission the EMC Clarrion SAN which had reached its End of life (EOL). This project was successfully delivered on schedule and within budget.
• Project Manager for the upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 for the offshore business unit. Planned and Managed Project execution of 20 engineers to successfully execute the roll out of Windows 7 for 3000 Global users/machines. This Project was successfully delivered on time and within budget.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Director / Management Consultant

• Project Manager responsible for the virtualization and migration of file servers into the new Data Center by utilizing VMware. This consolidation effort helped to reduce server count by 75% while offering improved service levels.
• Project Manager for various infrastructure related projects ranging from network cabling to LAN, Server and PC integration and consolidation activities. Key activities included: understanding the customer requirements, budget, objectives, user expectations and developing a project plan accordingly to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and within company IT standards.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Consultant

• Project Manager for the deployment of EMC CLARiiON CX3 storage systems for several large financial services clients.
• The final deliverable consisted of a highly redundant and scalable Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure designed to meet and exceed the customer’s business requirements.
• Project Manager for Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery planning (BCP / DR) engagements for several Fortune 500 clients. This engagement included a Recoverability Assessment and Gap Analysis for the IT environment and organization. .
• Milestones included a Systems and Application Mapping Database (SAM) tool for Business and IT to effectively and speedily map applications and systems dependencies in the event of a disaster, Crisis Management plan, Disaster recovery plans and continuity plans to address IT, natural and man made crisis’s, risk assessments, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), additionally, the Recoverability Assessment included DR design utilizing solutions for both local and remote storage replications.
• Managed capability assessments of several Clients’ Storage environment including processes and people/organization using the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as the standard for best practices to review process and quality standards.
• Key deliverables included, baseline of the current operation against ITIL drivers for gaps and opportunities, cost savings business cases appropriate to the environment, prioritized target areas within the environment and recommendations to reduce costs, improve utilization, enhance service levels and short and long term recommendations and implementation roadmaps that align with business objectives.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Systems Engineer

• Acted as primary interface between Confidential and Confidential to ensure compliance of application software conformed to Confidential standards.
• Managed activities of a 5 engineer support team to ensure that qualification test results and deliverables were on schedule.
• Performed extensive qualification and certification of application on Confidential tape drives and SAN products on Windows platforms for the Confidential.
• Compiled extensive documentation including test specifications, product and marketing requirements, test plans, and test cases. Conducted bug testing and tracking, reported and logged defects, and communicated test results to upper management.
• Liaised on a weekly basis with members of CA upper management and engineers by setting up weekly conference calls to discuss software requirements and test results of application testing
• Developed and maintained an issues tracking database for CA and drove complex issues to completion while communicating resolutions to Confidential upper management.