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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidateCandidate's Name , M.Sc., PMP, MCSE
Sr. IT Program/Project Management Professional - Infrastructure
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Profile summary
Information Technology professional with progressive experience in managing projects (PMO environment). Combining an extensive IT technical knowledge with Project Management skills, proven ability to execute significant, enterprise-wide projects typically with large budgets and sizeable staff. Infrastructure includes Data center migration, Call center operations (Cisco), Active Directory implementation and more. Ability to manage technical staff, virtual teams, offshore resources and coordinating project activities with cross functional teams. On the enterprise level, I maintain continuous alignment of program/project scope with strategic business objectives.
Skills:
Practitioner of PMI and PMBOK guideline & Project Lifecycle (five phases)
Project life cycle and SDLC (Waterfall, Agile)
infrastructure (DevOps and SysOps) operations
Scope Definition, Business Case analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis
Enterprise Architecture
Budget creation and cost control
Resource planning
C-Level and Stakeholders presentations
KPI and Project Reporting
Vendor Relations
Effective Contract Negotiations
Risk Management
RFPs, SOWs, Proof of Concepts
Release & Change Management
Business Process Management
Team-building
Time, Cost & Resource management
Conflict resolution
Data Center migrations
HIPPA/PCI Compliance
Industry worked in:
Information Technology (15 Years)
Info Sec/Compliance (3 years)
Gambling/Finance (6 years)
Hospitality/Leisure (2 years)
Education (5 years)
Government (7 years)
Manufacturing (3 years)
Civil Engineering (2 years)
Professional Experience
Kaplan Inc. Industry: Education/IT 2016-
Sr. Project Manager PMO
Work in a large PMO (composed of 20 Project Managers, Scrum Masters and Business Analysts). PMO maturity level 3.
Create project proposals, manage capital budgets, develop project schedules and monitor progress against business requirements and technical support plans.
Effectively prepared and presented monthly executive operating steering committee presentations to communicate project goals, successes and future deliverables.
Managed stakeholder relationships and expectations to deliver the multiple projects within the program on scope, budget and time.
Projects:
ITSM implementation (Asset, CMDB, Service Desk and Contract modules) with a budget of $ 1.75M
Upgrade F5 load-balancers in three data centers
Business Impact Analysis initiative to identify critical applications, costs of unavailability, impact on students, vendors and regulators
Information Assurance &Vulnerability Mitigation (InfoSec) effort for 3500 servers spanning five data centers. Effort was driven by PCI compliance. (PII and Credit Card data). Tools used: Qualys, IAM (OneLogin, FIM, ADFS and Ping Identity
Great HealthWorks, Inc. Industry: Call Center/Direct Consumer Product 2014-2016
Project Management Office
Worked in a PMO environment composed of 7 Project Managers and Business Analysts
Maintained a continuous alignment of project scope with strategic business objectives
Projects:
IT asset infrastructure refresh and Carrier program producing savings of $3.7M in annual telecomm costs.
A $1.5M data center expansion: Prepared business requirements and work flows, project managed all aspects of enterprise project; cross-functional team of Network, administration, business operations, and external (vendor) partners
Consolidation and implementation of Firewall Rules for Production and Disaster Recovery Web Centers.
Major call center upgrade of Cisco UCX to UCCE phone systems
Hartman & Tyner (dba Mardi Gras Casino) Industry: Gambling/Financial 2007-2013
Director of IT/Project Management
Managed a large program for Information Technology casinos systems (Slot management, Point of Sale, Door Access Control, Biometric, Surveillance, Accounting, Help Desk and security related systems) during a period of 20 months.
Negotiation and implementation of a multi-year telecommunication service bundle (internet, voice, long distance and video conferencing) which yielded saving of $800K per year.
Consolidated the purchasing power for all three properties to achieve cost savings of $500K annually.
The Millennium Group Industry: Education (K12) 2005-2007
Sr. Project Manager
Managed a large project to deploy 250 Microsoft Windows 2003 servers and 30,000 imaged laptops to the Broward County School District. Project lasted 7 months and involved 30 direct reports and 30 cross-functional team members.
Streamlined testing process by consolidating 45 servers into five, which reduced turnaround time from three weeks to six hours.
Negotiated favorable terms with suppliers (equipment leasing) and telecommunications providers, yielding saving of $250K in FYI 2005 and $180K in FYI 2006.
Championed standardization of hardware and infrastructure device lifecycle, from purchase to disposal. (Cost savings of $129K during FYI 2005).
Education
M.Sc. Business and Management of Information Systems, University of Baltimore
B.S, Computer Science, University of Baltimore
Certification and Training
Project Management Professional, PMP (ID#: 1617724)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (NT, 2000, 2003), MCSE (ID#: 3539326)
Certified Help Desk Specialist, ACHDS (ID#: USA06KBK)
Certified Security Compliance Specialist
Professional Memberships
Project Management Institute (ID#: 2654864) |
