TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Analysis / Design Skills: Data Analysis Data Modeling Data Integrity Application Development Integration

Tools: /Methods: Rational Rose, UML, VB, Java, C++, C#, Perl, PowerBuilder, PacBase, CICS, Easytrieve, WebSphere, SSIS, Cognos, Oracle, IMS, DBS, DB2, SAP, SPSS, SAS, Metadata, ClearQuest, Microsoft Suite, Lotus Notes, Ideal, IMS, COBOL, GroupWise, DL1, MVS, .Net, Microfocus COBOL, SQL 2008, Sharepoint, AccuRev, DL1, VISIO, ITIL, PMI, Waterfall, RUP, Warnier Notation, OLAP, MetaStage, Erwin Data Modeler, CA all Fusion, Agile, Tomcat, JSP, J2EE Spring MVC/Struts, Javascript 1.1 - 1.81, AJAX, HTML, Informatica, JDBC, IDMS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

• Managed an infrastructure Integration project (Wausau Integration / Analysis) Lead a staff of 33 internal, 8 acquired Resources to complete the Integration and detailed planning effort.
• Initiated the Integration and Planning for Phase I Analysis (150K) and Phase II integration (2.7 M), this consisted of 466 servers, application of AD, upgrades to the Network and Telephony, extension of the Deluxe domain to encompass the above, addition of Ticketing, Help Desk and Support notification, monitoring, tracking and notification tools for Applications, Networks and associated devices.
• Provides matrix leadership to cross-functional teams to accomplish project tasks and goals.
• Prepares and distributes weekly status for the project team and senior management.
• Provided oversight and direction on Processes, procedures, High and low level estimates, third party contract reviews, approvals and vendor selection input.

Execution Lead

Confidential

• Managed a infrastructure Migration project (512 Loans Migration effort) Lead a staff of 22 internal,12 Vendor Resources, 5 offshore contractors to complete a migration. Migrated 48,187,806 documents, 204,969,61 pages. Built out 7 LPARS with IBM SW, 2 VM (Windows) in UAT and PROD with IBM SW to drive processing. (3) 12 TB SAN storage areas in PROD and (2) 10 TB SANs in UAT for testing. Validated down to the field level for all transaction. Migration from Source 1FNL to Destination ICMP environments. This was a 1.5 Million dollar effort following IT Project Management Methodology and SDLC guidelines and in compliance with IT operating and security policies and procedures
• Managed an additional Infrastructure project that Upgraded IBM FileNet (FileNet 5.2.1 Migration). Lead a staff of 15 internal,7 Vendor Resources, 4 offshore contractors to complete a migration Added 3 Physical servers (P850) for capacity, Upgraded 3 Software tool sets (Java 1.7 SR3 FP30, WAS 8.5.5.9 SP9, CPE 5.2.1 FP4) 3 additional F5 Routers for load balancing the work flow. This was a 2.07 million dollar project.
• Served as a senior lead to drive, document, maintain, and manage detailed implementation plans.
• A savvy leader with strong communication and delivery skills - able to operate with minimal direction.
• Provides matrix leadership to cross-functional teams to accomplish project tasks and goals.
• Collaborates with multiple project managers to define projects / goals, design the appropriate change focused communications and identify the learning business process model and/or timing/bundling for implementations.
• Assists in determining size, scope, impacts, risk, budget and strategy.
• Prepares and distributes weekly status for the project team and senior management.
• Provides consultation, requirements, tools, direction and oversight to business units performing their own solution preparation (for less complex projects) to ensure standards are met.
• Provided oversight and direction on Processes, procedures, High and low level estimates as well and third part SOW reviews, approvals and vendor selection input.

SR Project Manager

Confidential

• Managed a M & A (Merger and Acquisition) infrastructure project. This was a 3 project effort, call center apps, Call Center Monitoring and PCI monitoring tools effort. Lead a staff of 10 internal and 12 Contract/external employees to complete a migration from the purchased company to a rebuilt internal Optum infrastructure to include a new BCP/DR capability. This required the purchase and installation of 5 physical servers and 27 VM servers. This was a 1.2 Million dollar effort following IT Project Management Methodology and SDLC guidelines and in compliance with Optum IDP operating and security policies and procedures

Execution Lead

Confidential

• Managed a infrastructure Rebuild project (Capture Win7 Remediation) Lead a staff of 6 internal and 11 Contract employees to complete a migration from a dispersed 9 instance legacy system, migrating to a consolidated single instance to include a new BCP/DR capability. This required the purchase and installation of 215 physical servers and 77 VM servers. In addition the project upgraded 1200 desktops from WinXP to Win7. This was a 7.5 Million dollar effort following IT Project Management Methodology and SDLC guidelines and in compliance with IT operating and security policies and procedures
• Managed an additional Infrastructure project that removed the Single Points of Failure (SPOF) by adding Additional servers for fail over and processing. Added 3 Physical servers and 3 VM servers with 2 additional F5 Routers for load balancing the work flow. This was a 1.5 million dollar project.
• Provided oversight and direction on Processes, procedures, High and low level estimates as well and third part SOW reviews, approvals and vendor selection input.

AVP IT Manager

Confidential

• Direct staff of 6 fulltime BA's and 2 contract employees to complete a migration from a ARGO Loan application system to a Harland Software Package, supported legacy systems, and developed new applications. This was a 2.5 Million dollar effort following IT Project Management Methodology and SDLC guidelines and in compliance with IT operating and security policies and procedures
• Manage dynamic teams to meet business and project goals. Review, Reward, Discipline and initiate staff development plans; report to the Vice President for Programming and Implementation.
• Create full life-cycle software analysis processes, high-level requirements definition, Technical designs, Testing Approach Documents and unit testing plans.
• Served on the IT Planning Committees to establish project priorities and Coordinated with Retail Lending line of business to formulate systems plans and enhancements in support of current and future business objectives.
• Initiated One on One reviews, Team reviews, IDP (individual Development plans), and automation recommendations for their reporting tools.
• Performed resource planning and budget planning on an Monthly Basis.
• Defined estimates, assigns, and tracks tasks of team members. Monitors and communicates team progress against established schedules and deliverable's.
• Develops, sells, and implements project plans, beginning with project team structure and resource assignment, and ending with a control plan identifying both business process metrics and IT platform quality requirements

Contract Project Management

Confidential

• Managed the Search GIZMO project Search engine development project with a staff of 10 developing the internal infrastructure Selection and implementation of tools and process to perform the underlying search layer as well as the page creation (UI's) to present a portable tool presentation used as a common module for other applications
• Managed a second project (Fleet Ordering, Supervisor ordering, Short release and Full Release as well as Factory ordering) that took 32 C++ screen presentation and redesigned them into 5 new UI's using JAVA. Managed a staff of 15 (5 off shore and 10 internal contractors) to accomplish this. This allowed all mobile devices to view these web pages, from mobile phones, IPad, internet and other mobile devices.
• Lead professional employee who serves as direct line supervisor of business solutions projects in support of assigned applications area.
• Develops, sells, and implements project plans, beginning with project team structure and resource assignment, and ending with a control plan identifying both business process metrics and IT platform quality requirements.
• Utilizes Quality discipline to manage new application development projects through complete project lifecycles.
• Managed project scope, cost and timeline to deliver business benefit through a technology solution. Interacted with business users to gather and validate requirements and develop detailed specifications and designs.
• Leads systems, integration and user acceptance testing, and roll-out of new applications.

Application Development Manager

Confidential

• Direct staff of 5 full time and 5 contract employees to complete software releases on a 2- to 3-week cycle, support legacy systems, and develop new applications. Manage dynamic teams to meet business and project goals. Review, reward, discipline and initiated staff development plans; report to the General Manager of two business units as well as to the Senior Vice President for Programming and Implementation.
• Created full life-cycle software: high-level definition, coding, unit testing, and string testing through distribution and manufacturing processes within a SQL 2005 environment using C# and .Net as well as SSRS and SSIS tools.
• Implement a version control tool, project management tool (HP), Share point repository, development life cycles, and quality assurance processes, and provide documentation to develop policies. In corporate a program prioritization process to communicate changing priorities within IT and to business clients.
• Implement a GMC Printnet-T printing toolset (Enterprise level effort, ETL toolset) for standardization of inbound and outbound production and printing functions and lead a mixed internal staff of 15 to define business rules for implementation.
• Managed the creation and execution of Reporting and Web reporting tool sets for the business as well as test DB's and test outcome processing.

Contract Program / Project Management

Confidential

• Manage a portion of the 787 Project. Identify technology and point of contact for automated download of file material, maps, and schematics. Manage project staff of 12.
• Modify Diamond flight scheduling system. Compile all possible flight combinations and branches to determine the optimum capacity and booking costs. Manage project staff of 6.
• Perform annual pilot and flight attendant contract integration into the scheduling and routing systems and integrate into planning and training tracking systems to include standby scheduling. Manage project staff of 8.
• Lead a project for infrastructure installing single sign on using AD (Active Director)
• Managed project scope, cost and timeline to deliver business benefit through a technology solution. Interacted with business users to gather and validate requirements and develop detailed specifications and designs.
• Lead and Managed a $3.5 million database build and data transformation project with financial responsibility that spanned 11 business groups while managing a project staff of 19 internal resources.
• Consolidated data into a reporting Schema via a ETL process that allowed a standardized reporting DB solely for reporting that would be used for Business reporting and analysis.
• Managed project scope, cost and timeline to deliver business benefit through a technology solution. Interacted with business users to gather and validate requirements and develop detailed specifications and designs.
• Lead $4 million effort involving 3 project managers and 12 applications to provide early adaptor changes for application upgrade from non-supported WAS (WebSphere Application Server) versions to WAS 5.1 with documentation of the process serving as a template for further upgrade efforts. This also included server consolidation, Purchases, rack, stack, builds, loading security and testing.
• Manage $24 million infrastructure project to build and relocate data centers, spanning multiple, simultaneous IT projects and resource pools. Direct 12 project managers working with 62 individual sub-applications supported with onshore and offshore staff. Serve as the primary liaison and point of communications between multiple IT Departments and business units.
• Provide extensive client interfaces and feedback to identify, define, and deliver client-focused applications and functionality.
• Identify and meet future content management needs and eliminate expired or duplicated applications no longer meeting business needs.
• Evaluate and recommend a $3 million migration project from a DB2 (Mainframe) to a Middleware environment.
• Identify cost savings of $1 million, combining projects into enterprise projects for cross-functional use.
• Manage 2 staff performing project management functions, including performance, reward, disciplinary and developmental planning.
• Provided leadership in PMO processes and procedures for WEB based development, full SDLC and delivery of the final product to include bug tracking and reporting.
• Lead individual business area projects from conception to completion.
• Manage $5 million Sarbanes-Oxley security requirements as well as HIPPA requirements throughout the organization.
• Combine multiple external functions into an updated, centralized process. Develop procedures and coordinate integration plans with SAP implementations.
• Lead migration from DB2 Mainframe to UDB DB2 Middleware environments, saving $2 million annually.
• Provide scope and direction to contractors to identify and recommend breakout projects totaling $9 million. Provide cost, timeline and benefit analyses.
• Manage external customers’ needs and requirements related to projects.

Principal Project Manager / Senior Project Manager

Confidential

• Lead a $9 million project to migrate the company’s Wang system to an AS400 system, replacing its core business processing platform.
• Redesign security protocols, processes, and procedures due to higher level of systemic security features. Manage to conform to HIPPA standards
• Drive implementation of third party software, data retrieval process and procedures, schedulers, and SLA for the business.
• Manage creation of new capability of enterprise scheduling, identification, and error notification, as well as disaster recovery and mirroring capabilities
• Perform as the business champion for applications to ensure they meet or exceed current capabilities.
• Provide project management for an expanding staff (15-60) as well as performance, reward, disciplinary and developmental planning.
• Monitor and manage deliverables of 10 contractors and an external vendor staff of 12.
• Responsible and accountable for all levels of communications from the team to senior executive levels and to the respective business units.
• Manage multiple smaller projects from $95k to $2.5 million with staffs ranging from 5 to 15 people to support the business needs.

Programmer / Analyst

Confidential

• Develop client server requirements (hardware and software) for new product/system development and legacy system support. Responsible for system availability for On Call Scheduling for multiple distribution centers as well as performing problem resolution for those applications and business functions.
• Code and maintain multiple online and batch distribution mainframe systems.
• Direct internal and external IT staff.

Lead Programmer / Analyst

Confidential

• Primary point of contact and support for the transition from a centralized to a decentralized mainframe system to a $500 million paper division.
• Direct multiple on-site contract staff as well as internal IT staff, responsible for coding, maintenance of multiple applications, both on-line and batch, with heavy data base utilization.
• Primary user support, performing problem identification and correction involving extensive customer and IT contact.

Programmer, Programmer Analyst

Confidential

• Participate in rewriting over 500 existing application programs to include integration, connectivity, data extraction and communications between external and internal applications.
• Main responsibilities for coding, development, maintenance, and debugging of both on-line and batch transportation brokerage systems with extensive database utilization’s.
• Interpret and define customer requirements and convert to useable applications that meet the customer/business needs and provide on-call support for those systems.