SUMMARY:

• PMP with 15 years of project management and business analyst experience working with data driven projects.
• Strong JIRA expertise
• Migrated more than 25 applications to AWS for the Department of Commerce
• 5+ years of experience leading financial services projects for clients.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cloud Engagement Manager - Consultant

Confidential, Smithfield, RI/Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• Conduct high level assessments of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure for Fidelity FI line of business
• Create and define high level assessments model leveraging Fidelity existing assets
• Conduct surveys and questionnaires to ascertain cloud suitability for the applications with the Product Managers, Architects and key stakeholders
• Identify groupings and public recommendations of 2,000 applications
• Conduct applications interdependencies analysis
• Define cloud end state architecture and migration plans for the applications
• Perform cloud platforms AWS/Azure for the targets applications
• Led the team to build cloud migrations roadmap across the applications portfolios
• Work with the team to start the transition of 2,000 applications to an enterprise cloud solution and the establishment of a Cloud PMO
• Successfully managed the project using Agile - Scrum methodology
• With requirements constantly changing, iteratively managed the project successfully

Environment: Linux, MS Windows, Excel, AWS, MS Azure

Infrastructure Project Manager/Delivery Lead - Consultant

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated servers from Virginia Beach to Harrisonburg part of Confidential Health Care datacenter move initiative.
• Led team of Engineers to create Disaster Recovery plan and server for a new unit of Confidential .
• Mitigated risk of data loss and met compliance requirements on MicroFocus Mainframe Environment.
• Consolidate the backups of MicroFocus files to a central location to meet Audit and Compliance requirement.
• Led process improvement initiative to streamline and align consolidated production support departments.
• Work as the Scrum Master on development project with heavy emphases and reliance on the Engineering and Infrastructure teams
• Facilitate daily scrum meetings with the development team
• Facilitate sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives with product owner and the development teams
• Create tasks, sub tasks and users’ stories and backlog in JIRA for the management of scrum project
• Depending on team p, stored project documents in Confluence and SharePoint

Senior Project Manager - Consultant

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Work with the business to identify and clean up all Data, redundant and abandoned sites in preparation for the cloud environment migration
• Ensure that the environments are secured prior to the migration to the cloud
• Managed the decommissioning of over 80 Linux and Windows servers in preparation for the roll out to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure clouds
• Supervise Engineers and Cloud Architect to transition from on-premises data center to AWS.
• Solid understanding of core AWS services (EC2, EBS, S3, ELB, VPC, Route53, etc.)
• Managed the transition of unsecured http to a more secured https SSL enabled websites
• Managed the migrations of Windows 2003 servers to a more secured Windows 2016 server
• Work with the team to migrate servers to a new and more secured Production Demilitarized Zones (DMZ) in preparation for the cloud migration
• Managed and led the team to move all external applications Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) on premises Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to the cloud Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AzureAD)
• Coordinate with the Information Security team managed the annual Business Continuity Plan (BCP) exercise to ensure the continuity of all critical applications during outage or disasters
• Document and track project progress with JIRA

Environment: Linux, MS Windows, AWS, MS Azure

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master - Consultant

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Facilitate scrum sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.
• Successfully migrated more than 25 applications using Scrum within 6 months to Amazon Web Services (AWS) IAAS Cloud.
• Prepared Project Plan with MS Project including schedule, WBS, Budget, Resource plans, Implementation milestones, Risk Log & Mitigation Plans.
• Coordinated reported project progress to senior management and Key Stakeholders
• Planned and managed the development of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solution for the agency on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
• Evangelized and coach the team on the need for continuous delivery, integration and deployment
• Managed, develop and integrate existing IT infrastructure, standards, processes and services with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platforms.
• Worked closely with the vendors to implement Commercial off the Shelf products (COTS).
• Interviewed and on-boarded candidates for the client per the SOW.
• Document and track project progress with JIRA

Environment: Linux, MS Windows, AWS

Sr. Project Manager - Consultant

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the upgrades and the installation of UniFi Mortgage Loan Origination Systems (LOS).
• Created baseline schedule, WBS, Budget, Implementation milestones, Risks Log, Mitigation Plan, Infrastructure Provisioning and Builds.
• Led the Infrastructure and Engineering teams on the Integration of new Expere document provider systems with the Vendor Wolters Kluwer (WKFS).
• Managed the vendor to provide proof of concept for Mortgageflex HELOC systems to produce reports which the Investor Accounting Department required to produce the Revolving Home Equity Loan Asset backed s.
• Worked with Mortgageflex on the installation and deployment of Mortgageflex Loan Origination Systems (LOS).
• Managed server upgrades from Windows .
• Managed the upgrades of ATMs to Windows 2007 and the migration of the Credit Union ATMs to Diebold Agilis version 3.0.
• Successfully sourced and scoped the purchase and acquisition of Content Management Systems (CMS).
• Worked with the vendors, implementation partners and the technical teams on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products.
• Conducted vendor analysis, comparison and deliver proof of concept projects for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud

Environment: Linux, Java, Oracle, Microsoft .net

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage project plans, tasks, budgets, schedules and meetings to establish and maintain project goals and timelines.
• Managed the installation of Oracle Identity Manager for Federal Government Affordable Health Care Program in a dynamic environment using Agile Methodology.
• Collaborated with the team to create Identity Management process, strategy, best practices and architecture documentation including Access Management, Password Management, LDAP Management, Provisioning, following SDLC Systems Development Lifecycle.
• Managed the team to deploy and update Oracle OAM, OID, OUD and Admin Servers.
• Worked with third party vendors to promote, updates, modify and install packages and files for seamless deployments for the Affordable Health Care Program.

Environment: Linux, Java, Oracle

Program Manager - Consultant

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed the installation and upgrade of SAP R/3 4.6C to SAP ECC 6.0 HR Module.
• Managed Projects from initiation through implementation levels by managing technical teams and keeping business expectations in line with the organization goals.
• Worked with the team to develop a work around to Expere Mortgage calculator with emphases placed on a more efficient HELOC for the Mortgage team.
• Created project charter, project plans, schedule, WBS, and budget using MS Project.
• Successfully managed Business Object Upgrades for the bank consumer lending business area.
• Managed the procurement and the installation of Test Data Management Tool (TDP), Compuware Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) product for Data Management in Test Environments.
• Managed the Cloning of CICS Mainframe Environments.

Environment: Mainframe, Java, SQL Teradata, Oracle, UNIX/Linux

Release Manager - Consultant

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed Business Object related projects.
• Worked with the business and stakeholders to clearly identify and define scope for modifications in business object database and Universes.
• Created and administered tickets using Remedy Clear Quest.
• Worked as the release manager on projects deemed very large in scope and size.
• Using Agile and Modified Waterfall Methodology managed Quick Strike projects.
• Responsible for the creation of projects implementation plans and migrations schedule.

Environment: Oracle, Business Objects, Java