EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Over fifteen years experience, managing and delivering IT solutions. An effective manager, project manager and leader with a distinguished background of developing sound strategic business solutions while, employing project management methodology. A solutions-oriented IT specialist with distinguished achievements directing a broad range of corporate initiatives while, contributing to the initiating, planning, implementing, closing and analysis of simultaneous, multi-phased IT projects in a matrix organizational structure with the propensity to seamlessly integrating corporate and information technology strategies.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Systems Development Lifecycle
• Software Development Lifecycle
• CMMI & ITIL
• Project Planning & Implementation
• Portfolio Management
• Leading and Managing Teams
• HIPAA Regulations
• FDA Regulatory Protocols for Biopharmaceutical companies
• Process Implementation and Improvement
• IT Problem, Incident, and Change Management
• Agile, Waterfall, PMMI, Catalyst and Fusion SDLC Methodologies

• Managed the FDA GxP qualification of an entire network and security-computing infrastructure
• Managed the Rollout of over 17,000 GTECH Altura GT1200 terminals throughout New York State
• Managed the build-out of several state-of-the-art data centers from the ground up
• Managed the full SW integration of SiteMinder and BEA portal infrastructure with Juniper SSL/VPN architecture
• Managed the migration of Vertex’s aging network infrastructure from Cisco architecture to a Foundry 10Gig backbone Networks architecture
• Met business and regulatory requirements by leading cross-functional teams
• Received Computer Sciences Corporation’s “Service Delivery Excellence Award” in 2000, 2001 and 2003
• Received Computer Sciences Corporation’s “Operational Excellence award” in 2002

1/06 – Present Confidential, NEW YORK, NY
Principal Project Manager
Offer senior level consultancy with over fifteen years experience, delivering IT solutions, managing large-scale projects and programs, developing innovative business solutions and improving organizational processes for clients. Direct experience in portfolio-program-project management and operations, our portfolio has spanned business, compliance, network, security, call centers, business continuity, and disaster recovery and information technology disciplines.

Clients: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Perot Systems Corporation for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, SAIC, GTECH and Pfizer, Inc.

5/09 – 4/2010 Confidential GREENWICH, RI
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
I provided Senior Project Management leadership for the delivery of a fully integrated gaming technology system, while assigned to the GTECH Systems Delivery Group.

• Managed the deployment of a fully integrated system
• Responsible for leading GTECH, established PMO project management methodology
• Accountable for ensuring consistent development of project management deliverables
• Achieved the Rollout of over 17,000 Altura GT1200 terminals
• Responsible for the resource management and forecasting of over 180 geographically dispersed resources
• Fiduciary responsibility for an $30M project, using tools such as SAP and Clarity
• Responsible for the oversight of multiple technology disciplines e.g. Software Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Engineering, Quality Engineering, Systems Design Engineering, etc…

4/08 – 2/09 Confidential INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP, CAMBRIDGE, MA
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Accountable for multiple simultaneous projects within the IT Services Network and Security group
• Responsible for delivering several projects designed to reduce security risks, vulnerabilities and network computing efficiency.
• Responsible for seamlessly aligning and integrating Vertex’s corporate information systems and technology strategies

New Site Builds:

• Managed the IT Services build-out of several locations in Cambridge, Iowa and Washington DC.
• Managed and Lead the build-out of the computing, telecommunications and networking infrastructure and its tie back to Vertex’s Global Network Service

TippingPoint IDS/IPS Deployment:

• Responsible for delivering several projects designed to reduce security risks, vulnerabilities and network computing efficiency.

Server Load Balancer Project:

• Responsible for deploying the Server Load Balancer (SLB), which provided Vertex’s network infrastructure with a comprehensive suite of advanced traffic management and QoS functions enabling the deployment of triple-play service provider networks and converged enterprise networks supporting voice, video, and data.

Network Upgrade Project:

• Responsible for upgrading the UK campus network from a flat layer 2 network to a routable layer 3 network containing multiple subnets so data transfers between servers, voice, storage, and the user community will be decreased.
• Responsible for increasing the capacity in the server area so that data transfers between the servers in different racks and the core switch will use the 10G uplinks.

Network Migration Project:

• Accountable for migrating Vertex’s aging network infrastructure from Cisco architecture to a Foundry Networks architecture.

Vertex Global Network Qualification Project:

• Retroactively achieved the “Full Qualification” of the newly upgraded network to align with Vertex’s corporate initiatives and computing strategy.
• Accountable for the network upgrade of Vertex’s Global Network capacity to a core 10Gig uplinks

Mobile Broadband Deployment Project:

• Responsible for migrating end-users from across Vertex worldwide onto the new mobile computing infrastructure
• Achieved $150K in Q4 2009 OPEX savings

4/07 – 4/08 Confidential, PROVIDENCE, RI
PMO - SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Accountable for leading the established PMO project management methodology
• Accountable for ensuring consistent development of project management deliverables
• Responsible for resources in a matrixes organization including international development teams
• In-depth analysis of LRSP Claims and Payment system
• Implementing audit controls for LRSP development
• Oversaw and led mainframe software developers in a CMMI Level 3 environment for EDI transactions
• Oversaw and led the development of mainframe/COBOL software development across geographically dispersed locations for LRSP
• Oversaw and led the development and promotion of over 5,000 mainframe software modules and associated JCls and libraries for LRSP

10/06 – 3/07 Confidential BOSTON, MA
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Accountable for senior portfolio management in their pursuit to complete the construction phase of their new state-of-the-art 10,000sqft disaster recovery data center at their Hingham South Shore Campus
• Supervised all design/build projects from conception through completion
• Management of workflow & critical path scheduling
• Oversaw and led the build-out of the new core network infrastructure and NOC
• Developed a sound data center, relocation strategy to relocate their computing infrastructure from two other locations across Massachusetts
• Oversight and fiduciary responsibility for a budget of $25 million dollars

2/06 – 10/06 Confidential ENTERPRISE SERVICES, GROTON, CT
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Responsible for leading the established PMO project management methodology
• Achieved millions of dollars in both maintenance and service costs annually.
• Responsible for a cost savings of over $15 million dollars in annual OPEX costs
• Primarily responsible for understanding their global application platform and infrastructure requirements, as well as currently supported reference and target architectures
• Responsible for overseeing and leading the mapping of application components to the appropriate computing environments

3/03 – 1/06 Confidential (Consulting firm), New York, NY
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
XBR provided services such as engineering, construction and IT project management consultants in the metro New York City.

• Managing partner responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company
• Accountable for managing the company’s portfolio of projects for various clients
• Accountable for managing direct relationships with clients

Confidential SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Accountable for providing project leadership and technical leadership for the IRS technology modernization and consolidation effort
• Responsible for authoring the Infrastructure Technology Modernization Plan complete with timelines, projected costs, infrastructure recommendations, and strategies for the deployment of a new infrastructure for the program.

11/98 – 2/03 Confidential, TMG, FORT WORTH, TX
REGIONAL FIELD ENGINEERING MANAGER
Led a group of over 20 talented IT leads and professionals in designing, developing, and maintaining a highly transactional and complex platform, I was responsible for managing and mentoring a team of managers and engineers that are chartered to lead the IT Systems and Infrastructure team responsible for the 24x7 support and operation of geographically dispersed sites.

• Worked with IT Managers to ensure that all projects approved by IT Steering are successfully implemented.
• Ensured that Systems and Infrastructure platform is appropriately architected, configured, deployed and maintained.
• Worked with IT Services team to ensure appropriate SLAs and monitoring systems are in place to provide 24x7 on-call support for all critical systems and infrastructures.

Confidential NJ Data Center Build
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
While working for CSC, assigned as the Project Manager to oversee the construction phase of a 50,000sqft state-of-the-art data center:

• Responsible for overseeing the construction phase of the data center
• Supervised all design/build projects from conception through completion
• Management of workflow & critical path scheduling
• Responsible for overseeing and leading the build-out of the new core network infrastructure
• Responsible for overseeing and leading the build-out of the NOC

New York State Healthcare Systems:
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Responsible for overseeing and leading the full lifecycle of a new infrastructure project designed to convert medical claims from providers seamlessly into a single standard format
• Responsible for overseeing establishing and managing clear and achievable objectives for the designing, procurement and deployment of computing infrastructure for an E-commerce IT solution-enabling providers to submit claims to NYSHS for transparent processing.

10/91 – 3/01 Confidential Sergeant

• A United States Marine assigned to various leadership positions.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor of Science, Psychology
• Graduate of Military Sciences

TRAINING:

• Certificate awarded, Project Management for IT Professionals, WPI
• Certificate awarded, Service Delivery Excellence Program, CSC
• Certificate awarded, Operational Excellence Leadership, CSC
• Certificate awarded, Information Systems, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Certificate awarded, VetTech, Wireless LAN Technology 802.11 standards
• Certificate awarded, Sun Microsystems Inc., Enterprise Server Maintenance
• Certificate awarded, HP Systems Administration I and II, HP Training Center
• Certificate awarded, Combat Information Systems, U.S. Joint Maritime Command
• Currently involved in coursework leading to PMP certification

AFFILIATIONS:

• Member of the Project Management Institute
• Project Management Institute’s College of Performance Management

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:

• Fluent in Greek