SUMMARY:

• Steve is accomplished in leadership with top company leaders and software engineers. Experienced in business areas such as Telecom, Finance, Insurance, and major consulting companies. Accomplished software and development leader with over 20 years of successful national and international experience executing multimillion dollar hardware and software projects. Experienced in supporting performance and profitability of diverse commercial business in multiple technology industries. Successful in planning and execution of technology strategy and management, with extensive executive and customer communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
• Develops integrated program plans and program - level deliverables of ongoing projects within the program and serves as liaison between program and project teams, project managers, finance, planning, scheduling and end-to-end management. Uses performance measures and risk assessments to develop plans or recommend change. Monitors program and project changes resulting in changes into program and project control systems to maintain work statements, cost and schedules. Positions projects and programs to customers for on-going support. Participates in project close-out and documents lessons learned for each project.
• A seasoned IT professional with national and international experience in program and project management

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project management
• Hardware and Software development
• Infrastructure management
• Organizational leadership
• Change management
• Strategic Analysis & Planning
• Systems and applications Integration
• Vendor Relations

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Big Five Consulting Manager Experience
• PMO & Project Management
• 20 years Senior Management experience
• PMI Certified

CORE SKILLS:

• Leadership, planning, communication, mentoring, and team player
• Work with C-level executives within the corporations to gain insight and report progress
• Ability to take on projects in “mid-stream” and manage them to completion.
• Budgeting, scheduling, resource managing.
• Business Analysis
• Ability to build consensus amongst business stakeholders and maintain a positive attitude under pressure
• Lead concurrent projects across several platforms
• Working independently and collaboratively in business and technical environments
• Apply mitigation strategies and critical path constraints to manage time and cost elements

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Greenwood Village, CO

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed concurrent oversight and reporting for projects in the PMO for three technical engineering teams, managing system and operating systems for Caesars’s 43 properties.
• Successfully lead and delivered project on schedule that had geographically distributed component development teams working in multiple environments for Caesars corporate. .
• Managed 10 to15 projects concurrently. Working with System Directors, Operation Managers, and Senior Data Center Officers in setting direction, schedules, and monitoring systems.
• Coordinated to build consensus amongst business stakeholders and maintain a positive attitude under pressure
• The projects ranged in size from $1,000,000 to over $6,000,000.

Project Manager.

• Facilitated communication between various groups to resolve and draw consensus on development options and modification or departure from original requirements
• Developed detailed project plans and detailed work breakdown structures, resources plan, project schedules and communications.
• Reviewed development plans, quality assurance test plans and user documentation to ensure correct interpretation of original specifications.
• Worked closely with QA to ensure all requirements have corresponding test cases and to ensure requirements traceability throughout software development life cycle.

Project Manager.

• Performed for 2 major platform conversions, each containing multiple major financial services clients.
• Created processes, procedures, templates, reports, and personnel structure for the PMO group to further define their development into a formal PMO for Broadridge.
• Reviewed development plans, quality assurance test plans and user documentation to ensure correct interpretation of original specifications.

Project Manager

• Create processes, procedures, templates, reports, and personnel structure for the PMO group to further define their development into a formal PMO for Great West.
• Mentored managers on usage of PMO tools and templates
• Reviewed past and current project plans for completeness. Modified as necessary.

Project Manager.

• Provided program management for the RUP Inception phase of a project that had been delayed for over a year.
• Added project checkpoints and verification steps into plans.
• Completed project plans for the remaining phases and steps.

Senior Project Manager

• Managed daily sync up with the development and QA teams to understand issues and get fast track resolutions on blockers. Maintained a ongoing escalation list where issues that have not been resolved in more than a week or in cases where resolution lied outside of our control.
• Provided program management for three major program areas.
• Worked within the PMO to strengthen the plans and checkpoints for quality assurance.

Senior Project Manager

• Created project plans and phases for monitoring the projects.
• Coordinated the development activities to create a Corporate Data Warehouse
• Provided project close - out documents and final project completion documentation.

Senior Project Manager

• Led Confidential and Magnavox technical personnel within the Confidential systems to install and update the TV set - top and system installations hardware and software for the entire US market. This resulted in over 50 Confidential systems across the country to install new hardware and software to support their video markets.
• Facilitated the equipment ordering and installation in 4 Confidential labs in the US. The result was completed technical labs from start to finished install.
• Completed the project on time and within budget.

Project Manager

• Directed software development for the security code that performed in the set top box for the TV projects in the EchoStar/Dish Network.
• Utilized collaboration and communication skills to successfully lead cross - functional teams of architects, analysts, developers, and testers to deliver several projects that involved introduction of new products & services from initial concept thru customer facing product launches.
• Experience leading testing teams to execute functional, regression, pairwise, system integration, and performance testing.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Manager

• Created and directed the operational Program Office that handled all Mergers and Acquisitions entities for Confidential Broadband for the year 2000 efforts.
• This included leading 5 project managers to successfully manage over $6M in projects dealing with over 50 cable systems with all major cable companies.
• Provided leadership, project management, business analysis, and systems analysis in the area of business and technical development to many projects simultaneously.
• In addition, developed business contacts and closed business contracts for Confidential Consulting.
• Created the project charters, defined deliverables, and project dates for the Statement of Work.
• Lead the research efforts the interactive TV product between Confidential Broadband and Microsoft.
• Created the roles and responsibilities, breaking down the areas between the cable company, Microsoft, and the System Integrators.