Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Project Management Professional/Information Technology Professional offering over 20 years of experience as a result driven individual, effective in cutting costs and increasing productivity.
Technical/Operational leader with regional experience leading teams to excellence to develop and implement technologies, services and solutions to enhance productivity.
Identified, communicated and achieved technical and business objectives while routinely interacting with clients, colleagues and senior management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Planned and managed project plan, stakeholders, and communication. Prepared and presented project status reports for senior management on weekly basis
Engaged and managed application teams. Identified and documented dependencies, impact and timeline in which these applications can be migrated.
Worked with the data center core services team to plan and test all core services prior to the migration.
Worked with Active Directory, LAN, WAN, Storage, Virtualization, SEG (Server Engineering Group) to ensure their engagement and participation in the moves. Worked closely with application and virtualization teams to identify servers that were best candidates for P2V (Physical to Virtual) and their move timeline.
Worked with newly acquired company (Paladyn) to integrate their VDI images into Broadridge image and rolled them out.
Planned and implemented MPLS routers in Paladyn offices in Hong Kong, Toronto, London, and St. Petersburg (Russia) offices to isolated voice and data traffic from their existing VPN routers.
Worked closely with the Broadridge network security team to identify and harden the security holes in St. Petersburg office.

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Planned and managed project plans, stakeholders, created communication & contingency plans. Prepared and presented project status reports for upper management on weekly basis
Engaged and managed network architecture, data security, telecom, facilities, and application teams. Managed vendors and helped negotiate SLAs.
Worked with co - location (new data center) team to ensure timely readiness of cage space, power, server racks, and network connectivity.
Worked with the application teams to ensure all patient critical applications will be migrated with the hospital’s approved timeline.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Conducted a full physical inventory at all data centers and had the ADDM team run daily scans for all hardware and software to help validate the inventory results
Worked with ITS network team and agencies’ resources to determine the bandwidth needed for the migration to CNSE
Engaged network architecture and data security teams to ensure federal guidelines were followed to protect the Criminal Justice System data at the new data center
Engaged and worked with Unisys Stealth team to implement Stealth COI (Communities of Interest) and Stealth client installs before the migrations

Hartford, CT

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Focused on replacing the aging and lack of support Nortel Contivity VPN client and providing a better VPN solution.

Philadelphia, PA

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Completed a company-wide telecommunications audit that identified inactive customer circuits and saved the company over $1.8M by decommissioning them.
Developed and managed project plan for network transition projects/phases as a member of the PMO team; integrating peer project plans where necessary. Coordinated customer and stakeholder meetings.
Conducted cost-benefit analyses of 150 customer circuits to determine the financial feasibility of migrating to new network solutions.
Successfully migrated HA circuits (OC3, GIGE…) from a POP-based architecture to directly into the data centers.
Acted as the communications conduit to executive sponsors and program steering committee; conduct periodic progress briefings/status updates.

New York, NY

Technology Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Helped plan a build out of a new data center for the FAS group. This included planning for power, rack space; Fiber & Copper patch panels, switches and connectivity.
Planned, implemented and managed Citrix environments for New York, Chicago and Santa Ana, CA centers.
Supported Tri-State Infrastructure, including PBX/VM (Nortel Option 81C/Octel 350) LAN/WAN services, security systems and servers.
Produced system guidelines and procedures to be adopted through out the East Region and supervising technical personnel as well as consultants involved in additional LAN/WAN related projects.