PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Technology Consultant and PM

Responsibilities:

• Senior Consultant providing assessments, management and improvement presentations for Technology partners; Business Continuance, Merger & Acquisition, Services Delivery, Software Development, Hardware Engineering, Quality Assurance and Digital Video.

Program Manager

Confidential, Denver

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager building out the QA PMO organization for the Confidential ' Theater AppDev and Mainframe Transformation initiatives .
• I was promoted to the QA role to develop a specialized QA PMO for virtual Hybrid Cloud, ViPR Cloud Controller, Application Development (Java) and Mainframe Transformation (Cobol/Java) initiatives.
• Also assisted other teams with DevOps, Data Migration and other customer development and consulting needs.

Proven Professional Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built out QA methodology and best practices for new software development initiatives.
• Designed and built EMC Hybrid Cloud (EHC), QA, Test and Delivery templates ensuring high project success rates (schedule, deliverables and financial).
• Selected Agile tools and methodologies for new Application Development (AppDev) teams.
• Mentored AppDev teams in adopting Agile methodology best practices and tools.Participated in all AppDev development and customer status and scrum meetings. Assisted and managed Code and Test reviews.
• Qualified projects, SOWs and determined staffing, scheduling and software/hardware requirements.
• Implementation issue resolution management and escalation for F100 Banks, Healthcare and Federal government among others.
• Typically managed 30 - 40 remote matrixed developers, testers and PMs for the AppDev, M/F Transformation and PMO teams.

Services Delivery Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Practice Manager, Delivery Manager and Solution Architect for the Confidential ’ BRS Practice, responsible for successful Project Management of EMC Professional Services Delivery for Backup, Recovery, Archive and DR projects utilizing Networker, DataDomain, Avamar, DPA, Homebase, Autostart, Replistor and DX software.
• Managed and contributed to 40-50 concurrent F1000 projects focused on backup, disaster recovery planning, business continuance and compliance issues for banks, telcos, government, healthcare, etc… I successfully merged new product acquisitions (Data Domain, Avamar, DPA and others) and new product functionality (NMM, BaaS, Backup Architecture, Virtualization …).
• Responsible for project readiness, status, budgets and completion while assisting the Divisional Delivery teams in the Confidential (Enterprise, Commercial, TME, Federal and Latin America).

Proven Professional Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As BRS Practice Mgr., dramatically increased resource utilization and decreased backlog. Met or exceeded all utilization targets and local goals. Built expert BRS team to address complex projects.
• Defined BRS PMO process and methodology improvements including Backup Infrastructure Assessment.
• Managed the CheckPoint Service initiative including quarterly reporting and tracking and delivering C-level presentations.
• Qualified projects and determined staffing, scheduling and software/hardware requirements.
• Managed the Confidential ’ BRS Practice Solution Architects direct reports and matrix teams from 2007 through 2014. Provided HR (IDP, EPAS Appraisal), team meetings and career guidance to direct reports.
• Typically 20+ remote Direct and 40+ remote Matrixed resources were managed for 40+ concurrent project load across 4 time zones and including Latin/South American projects.

Program/Project Delivery Manager

Confidential, Tampa

Responsibilities:

• District Program/Project Manager (Southeast) responsible for successful Project Management of EMC Professional Services Delivery for Storage Systems.
• Recruit and manage internal resources and external contractors. Full responsibility for project definition, implementation, completion and problem resolution for SAN, NAS and CAS projects including Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra and Centera product lines with associated software including Replication and DR solutions.
• Pre-sales presentation, proposal and design work to assist Sales team.
• Post-implementation issue resolution management bringing all parties together for successful conclusion. Assist PMO with process and methodology improvements.
• Dedicated to project completion using consultative and team-building approach in a matrix organization.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed engineering team of mpeg developers building mpeg hardware and software mpeg encoder/decoders and embedded real-time software.
• Made the transition to HD from conventional tv standards.
• Contributed software algorithms to the team.
• Also managed the test and QA teams.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Co-founded this early travel consortium Nasdaq startup and was responsible for all technology matters including conceptualizing, staffing, designing and building the fully integrated website for air, hotel, cruise, etc…
• This was a Microsoft .NET and AS/400 environment.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the engineering and production team from Nasdaq ipo through many major releases of hardware and software for this innovative video-conferencing startup.
• Managed all technical aspects including software development (C++, Delphi), circuit board, Test, Manufacturing and Installation.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed all technical aspects for this disk and tape array manufacturer, introducing ‘hot swap’ drives to the market.
• Evangelized RAID capability to the marketplace.
• Managed all manufacturing innovation and practices (injection molding, circuit board, machining, etc…).
• Made the transition from scsi-based to fibre channel technologies.Also, Program Manager for SPAR Aerospace (RadarSat payloads and mission control).
• Program Manager for Alex Informatique (parallel processing, supercomputers, media servers).
• Founder of Integrad Technologies, invented digital commercial marine radar and navigation system.
• Research Associate for McGill University Physics Dept., providing complex meteorological systems for global users including designing and building weather radar system for NASA’s Space Shuttle launch and landing facility (Patrick AFB, FL). Scientific contributor to World Health Organization (WHO) cloud seeding experiments.