Independent Senior Project/Program Management Consultant Resume , Windsor, CT - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

17 years IT project management experience. Classically trained IT project manager. Several years experience with full system development life cycle waterfall, crashed waterfall, and Agile approaches . Detail oriented.
Expert planner. Strong Financial and Accounting background.
16 years’ experience within Insurance and Financial industry Life, P&C, Healthcare, Reinsurance .
Application, Security and Infrastructure Project Management experience.
Typically manage $2 - 4M budgets per year up to 40 FTEs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Independent Senior Project/Program Management Consultant

Confidential, Windsor, CT

Responsibilities:

IT Project Manager on several assignments throughout all lines of business including P&C, LIFE, Infrastructure and Corporate.
Managed IT projects 60-person multi-year, multi-million-dollar effort co-managed . I have also managed several small projects at one time, at one point, 5 small projects simultaneously.
Project leader for several IT projects throughout their entire system development life cycles mainly waterfall approach but also Agile development on 3 projects .
Supported the development and support model of an internal tool that scans for and de-identifies non prod data.
Automating the upgrade processes using currently supported Hartford Change Management tools Remedy
Followed various IT system development life cycle methodologies and frameworks.
At times, I have been the main project liaison between IT and business partners. On several occasions, the staff has been located at several facilities and in other countries.
3 years’ experience building Disaster Recovery IT solutions

Confidential, Bloomfield, CT

eCommerce Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed staff of developers and system analysts on projects of over $2M
Project manager for full system development life cycle for 2 projects, each with a staff of between 5 and 15 coders as well as several business analysts. Implemented Confidential ’s first Consumer based website. Updated Confidential ’s Single Sign-On Model to accommodate financial services web portal for consumer customers.
Developed and was responsible for budget and time line for entire development life cycle of large projects starting with design and analysis through functional and technical specifications, construction, testing and roll out.
Managed the creation of a SSO delegation model for Confidential s Provider portal
Communicated, escalated, and resolved issues and matters between senior management and staff both on the business and technical departments.
Developed and maintained project and staffing plans with milestones and budgets for initiatives.
Provided effective direction, coaching, and mentoring to project staff

Confidential, East Hartford, CT

Business and IT Support Specialist and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Developed and maintained an integrated Business Planning tool database system that incorporates actual, forecast, and plan data. This data was used by both Marketing and Mergers and Acquisitions groups
Web development tools included dynamic database queries from Intranet, setting up web security infrastructure, and web page development. Several business areas requiring sales forecast data used this tool to retrieve data.
Developed Competitive Intelligence system infrastructure (Oracle based)