SUMMARY:

As a Sr. Project Management, professional with over 25 years of experience managing a broad range of IT infrastructure and software development initiatives with million dollar budgets, I am proficient in developing project timelines, managing project scope, resources globally, engaging with C - Level management as well as working with cross disciplines promoting good working relationships in a team environment, and negotiating to achieve objectives. Day to day responsibilities of conducting status/planning meetings, vendor management, procurement, status reporting, and tracking cost are all key deliverables as a PM.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Protocols: Protocols Local Area Protocols (TCP / IP - ARP, IPX/SPX, UDP, SNA/IP, sFTP/SSH, SSL and TFTP)

WAN: Frame-Relay, T 1 Point-to-Point, ISDN, S2SVPN, iVPN

LAN Topologies: Switched Ethernet (10/100 Mbps LAN), Gigabit Ethernet, 802.1d, Token Ring Mgmt / analysis software / Analysis tools OpenView, Concord, Network Associates Sniffer Technologies (DSS)

Security: Cisco PIX Firewall. Checkpoint Provider-1 NGX

Applications: Windows XP, MSOffice, MS project, Remedy/Chameleon, ServiceNow, Sharepoint, Power Point, Excel, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Standing up virtual server infrastructure for multiple environments: Development, QA, Modification and Production
• Managing development team resources and network systems resources to define project scope, and tasks; develop project schedule, coordinate all aspects of QA/testing and deployment
• Worked with outside software vendor developing and implementing a single sign-On software solution for many retail insurance agencies, to enable a secure single sign-on process to access Hudson products.
• Managed interaction between internal network systems and vendor resources to meet an aggressive timeline driven by the business.
• Change algorithm / Load Balance method from round robin to least connections to multiple environments and test
• Manage software vendor development tasks to provide a software utility (web portal) allowing system health checks prior to sending packets. Error codes are sent back to indicate the health of the system and allow for seamless failover by the load balancer if a bad error code is received.
• Worked with vendor to develops SOW and develop solution
• Assigned admin responsibilities to manage Kanban/Scrum boards, users and other general activities
• Vendors provided proposals, system analysis, and costing for VMware, Confidential Azure and AWS Cloud services
• Worked with PMO director and CIO to establish policies, processes and artifacts to be used by PMs
• Performed analysis of tool working with product owner to design modifications for scripting different views for data presentation

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Adhered to Corporate best practices: PMO PMI/PMBOK/Agile, ITIL
• Tracking projects with ServiceNow
• Manage RFP and vendor selection process
• Manage vendor contract negotiation process
• Ongoing vendor management
• Develop sharepoint site for project artifact storage
• Manage system testing, UAT
• Manage promotion sched: Dev, UAT, MOD., Prod.
• Tracking defects
• Tracking code deliverables
• Problem resolution
• Create and ensure completion of all PMO documents: Charter, Project plan, Support Plan, Training plan, Test scripts, system transition document for Golive
• Manage status meetings
• Provide regular status reports and meeting minutes to project team and management
• Manage equipment ordering and implementation scheduling
• Manage coordination with the internal business and construction team
• Manage outside vendor, Entigral Systems database software development for RFID asset tracking, accounting and reporting
• Meet with IT SLT (Senior Leadership Team)
• Meet with Steering committee to provide progress updates

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Network independence: ability to operate seamlessly over just about any kind of public or private network and access different backend applications
• Network persistence: When devices roam between networks, they lose their IP address and authenticated state. Mobile VPNs fix this by assigning each client its own virtual IP address that remains constant as physical IP addresses change
• Application persistence: Throughout each day, most wireless users encounter coverage gaps and regions without cellular coverage. Mobile VPN lets applications survive frequent or even lengthy disruptions in coverage

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide the ability to visualize Confidential data in a web-based map viewer, including Confidential ’s landbase data, Gas Facilities, Mobile Units location and travel paths, CP inspections, OSMS inspections, Markouts, and CAD jobs.
• Users will have the ability to navigate the map through tools made available to support interactive panning and zoom. Users will also have the ability to turn individual or multiple layers on and off
• The ability to query data, identify features, and search for specific features in the map. Visualize information about specific jobs through map tips, including hyperlinks to geocoded images

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop project budget working with clients and IT MBR to fine tune numbers developed during the in the investment planning phase
• Provide 12 month project forecast, and review /present monthly forecast for current actuals vs. forecast, and explain variance +/-; justify next month forecast based on project history and current situation
• Work with vendors to adjust forecast depending on work performed based on milestone schedule in SOW.
• Manage and track accruals for work performed but not invoiced
• Track all invoices
• Track al internal labor and outside services (contractors / vendors) and material charges
• Work with supply management /purchasing to create POs
• Provide regular stakeholder project / portfolio status / progress reports showing/reporting on: top project risks, top project issues, project milestones, budget forecast and RAG (RED, BLUE,GREEN) status indicators
• Create and execute agreed upon communication plan to identified stakeholders

Confidential, NY, NY

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Employing industry standard PMBOK project management best practices per corporate standards, and ITIL change management to manage multiple business critical initiatives for various business units simultaneously, working through the project life cycle, and organizing activities using Confidential ’s internal process assets to initiate, manage, document, report and schedule required changes.
• Worked with various business units to deploy requirements involving numerous market data vendors
• Infrastructure upgrades in market data DMZ data centers, Thomson price server migrations.
• All requirements involved cross discipline coordination w/ security, telco, and facilities, as well as outside resources such as SAVVIS, BT Radiance, Confidential, XO, Sungard and others.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• This initiative was two years in the making, and with the contract stage finalized, rules of engagement defined, a PMO was formed to control scope changes, requirement changes and technical changes along with general management oversight for receiving reporting, handling disputes and contract issues and many other management oversight functions; we worked very closely w/ the PMO as an intermediate between Confidential and the project team for changes and other specific issues.
• This initiative was the largest project, global in scope and impacting all aspects of Confidential ’s business.
• Confidential Business was selected as the global strategic service provider, to deploy circuits and Cisco equipment, establish a management domain, and serve as hands and feet in the field to install branch kits during the migration stage to move branches off of the old network infrastructure to the new MPLS network, and serve as level 1 support post implementation/migration.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• The PAG initiative was to close their existing primary production data center in Secaucus, NJ and migrate all 200+servers: EVA SAN, Penske WEB portals, dealer Apps: Reynolds and Reynolds DMS POS system, and internal IT services application, Exchange, Websense, RSA etc., to the Bloomfield Hills, Michigan HQ new primary production data center.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• GTI, Global Technology Infrastructure, is the project management arm of the PMO providing best practices for project management of a portfolio of regional and global infrastructure projects. Using the PMBOK full life cycle PM model, we provided PM services to all of Merrill’s business units for small, medium and large scale projects, with a typical duration of between 60 days to over a year.
• We also follow ITIL standards for Change Control / Release Management best practices.
• I use internal project management software tools and off the shelf applications: PMR for project reporting, status updates, financials, and tracking resources.
• Excel Dashboard software, MS Project to manage project tasks, resources and coordination between multiple project tracks and others.

Confidential, King Of Prussia, PA

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for B2B infrastructure, managing a portfolio of projects and providing customer facing internal services, focused on using project management best practices throughout project lifecycle (PMBOK) within a PMO, for the initiation, planning, implementation and completion of projects.
• Web Portal access, software development from outside vendors, clinical trials, data exchange, mergers, internal IT life cycle changes and management of outsourced vendor projects.
• I handled projects between various Confidential business units and External 3rd party business partners.
• Also, collaborated with GITRM (Global IT Risk Management) for compliance with internal controls and polices. Confidential is an ITIL shop.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Consolidation of the he Philadelphia School Admin Staff from several buildings located throughout the city, into one newly state of the art technology building featuring: new data center, new fiber cabling plant, state of the art LAN infrastructure, WiFi, Firewall security and more.
• The Admin community consisted of over 2000 school administrators. Project Management activities followed good practices using (PMBOK) standards.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Managed various technology projects for the corporate office and regional sales offices

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Migrated British Petroleum’s global WAN to Confidential ’s Managed Services Network Infrastructure globally.
• Coordinate with global team leads in London, Asia and South America to develop and implement migration plan for WAN circuits over to Confidential ’s Frame Relay network in a phased project plan in accordance with contract SLAs.

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Global Technology Infrastructure Division: Performed needs assessment and business analysis for multiple projects for different Business Units through the internal technology organization: Citi corp Global Technology Infrastructure (CGTI).
• Captured business requirements from departments, and entered project specifications and cost analysis into the NSR software.
• Worked with vendors to requisition equipment and managed implementation team and change control requirements.

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Confidential has elected to us Confidential 7000 series routers as the IBM mainframe application conduit from the remote agency locations.
• The controllers are located in (8) wire centers, with 140 SDLC lines connecting the controllers to the (8) wire centers.
• This objective is in a phased approach. The resultant architecture and design using Cisco routers positions Confidential to embark on integrating their SNA network with their multi-protocol network. Confidential follows PMI/PMBOK and the ITIL framework.

Confidential, New York NY

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• working with in-house technical staff from tech to director level to support Confidential ’s HQ move of 2500 hundred employees to a new high rise office building at 7 Hanover Square NYC.

Confidential, NY, NY

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Develop business requirements for various departments and work through the development and approval process providing budget analysis, project plan, and cost analysis.
• I Coordinated team efforts through all phases of various projects through delivery and project completion.

Confidential, Nutley, NJ

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Project management for Roche Pharmaceutical Information Technology dept. Performed as an internal consulting resource for various projects supporting departments and subsidiaries.