SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with 20+ years of experience, including 15+ years managing teams of IT professionals. I have the educational background, professional experience, and track record that should be of interest to you. In addition, I am motivated and enthusiastic, and would appreciate the opportunity to contribute to your company’s success.
• Project Manager in a wide range of IT Companies, including sub - contractor with the Federal Government.
• Project management experience in all areas of IT organizations, including desktop and web application development, maintenance and support, requirements, QA, and infrastructure.
• Solid in project management essentials of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing as well as processes, methodologies, tools, scope of management, scheduling, resource management, solution identification and assessment, vendor selection, procurement, and business case creation.
• Proficient in both Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies.
• Passionate leader with a proven track record for delivering quality software products.
• Recognized as an effective manager that empowers teams, fosters environments for innovation, and develops individuals into strong performers and future leaders.
• Thrives in the constantly changing world of software development and loves to multi-task.
• Consistently executes reliable schedules and is always on alert for process improvements.
• Solid performer as a project manager, with excellent communication and organization skills.
• Proficient in MS Office and MS Project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, C++, Java, SmallTalk, Visual Basic, and COBOL

Databases: SQL, Oracle, Informix

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, WV

Area Lead/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Optimal Solutions & Technologies (OST, Inc. ) is focused on project excellence. OST specializes in providing Management Consulting, Information Technology, Research Development, and Engineering Services. OST is one of an elite set of companies worldwide to be externally appraised at CMMI Level 5.
• Managing multiple projects which includes following the process of traditional Project Management according to PMI standards. Responsible for project plans, project schedules, projects milestones, project risk, document deliveries relating to projects, cost estimates (both labor and purchases), government sign offs, resource management, change management, risk management, and release management.
• Develops and communicates project status and/or health, plans, schedules, as well as strategies, goals, and objectives to both government and internal audiences.
• Manager of projects and administrative functions for 4 Software Engineers, 4 SharePoint Administrators, 1 SharePoint Developer, 2 Oracle DBA’s, 1 SQL DBA, 1 Business Analyst, and 1 QA Tester.
• Received 3 OST “Spot Awards”, Certificates of Appreciation for the Enovia V6 software deployment, performance in the additional role of Systems Engineering Area Manager upon the departure of my immediate manager, and coordination of the Windows 10 and MS Office 2013 roll-out.
• Awarded the highest government performance metric in the history of the contract while performing as the only Project Manager for Systems Engineering Department.

Confidential, WV

Realtor

• Residential Real Estate Sales associate in North Central West Virginia
• Able to generate own business through networking and prospecting.
• Adept at working with property owners and developing successful business relationships

Confidential, WV

Technology and Operations Manager

• ListHub, is a product and division of Move, Inc. that is currently integrated with over 90% of the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) systems in the real estate industry, serving over 30,000 brokers representing over 4.0 million listings.
• Responsible for the coordination and management of multiple development projects directed toward strategic business and organizational objectives.
• Oversaw all aspects of software development of the ListHub product from project initiation through deployment, including maintenance and support tasks.
• Responsible for ListHub’s systems architecture, database design, and network administration.
• Managed the migration of the ListHub computer infrastructure from traditional server based computing to Amazon cloud based services.
• Manager of 9 computer engineers, 4 support technicians, and 6 interns. Responsibilities include: resource allocation, career development, and associated administrative duties.

Confidential, MD

Project Leader

• Project manager for a software development team for UPS Operations.
• Responsibilities included full life cycle development and production support for 20+ Windows based component applications. Component applications are part of the UPS Package Flow Technology, a suite of software packages which encompass package loading to delivery, with a primary focus on package sorting technologies.
• Simultaneously managed multiple development projects with a staff of 20 professionals, including architects, programmers, QA testers, and system administrators consisting of UPS employees and 3rd part vendors (i.e.; Accenture, IBM, Ajilon).

Confidential, MD

Project Manager

• Software application development manager for a health care data content company.
• Responsible for the development of the Top 100 Hospital report published by US News and World Report.