SUMMARY

• Manager for business and IT systems with extensive experience in business relationships, security, business resilience and continuity, emergency management and development in legacy and cloud environments. Projects have included multinational companies in the finance, banking, healthcare, automotive and retail industries.
• Advised and directed Cloud migration projects for legacy applications and databases to Cloud systems.
• Managed Agile and DevOps projects for business partners and stakeholders in a service oriented organization.
• Developed and maintained budgets, plans, KPI’s, schedules, estimates, and reports.
• Proficient with Microsoft and Linux Office tools: Jira, Confluence, LastPass, SharePoint, Project, Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio and LibreOffice.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

AWS Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Project Managers and project team members for the AWS environment.
• Performed IT assessments, cost reduction analysis, strategy development and system efficiency reviews.
• Coordinated teams for security, VPC landing zone architecture and re - platform of applications to AWS.
• Managed vendor relations and communications with stakeholders.
• Conducted scrum and staff meetings for monitoring and continuous work flow of agile projects.
• Leveraged Jira and Confluence for managing agile epics, stories, tasks and organizational assets.
• Wrote Business Case for the AWS project, with executive summary, benefits, risks, costs and feasibility.
• Performed senior C-Level presentations for status, organization processes, business cases and strategic planning.
• Provided leadership to team members for project and business requirements.
• Managed a data center decommissioning and exit project.
• Actively engaged in security, governance and HIPAA compliance.

Confidential

Program/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Advised and directed Cloud migration projects for legacy applications and databases to Cloud systems.
• Managed Agile and DevOps projects for business partners and stakeholders in a service oriented organization.
• Managed software and data driven projects for client expectations concerning delivery and deadlines.
• Initiated and managed IT rationalization projects for consolidation of data centers for Mergers & Acquisitions.
• Led change of efforts for shifts in priorities in a global environment operating from multiple locations and time zones.
• Leveraged Amazon Web Services (AWS) for data warehouse design, ETL operations and data mining.
• Managed teams of developers comprised of local and offshore resources to reduce costs and meet deadlines.
• Architect and re-architect of systems for Private Cloud, AWS Cloud, performance, maintainability and security.
• Managed Application Transformation to Cloud (AT2C) projects, end-to-end, including assessments, budgets, closings, emergency management, disaster recovery procedures for system resiliency and business continuity.
• Initiated and participated in workshops, Proof of Concepts (POCs) and pilot programs.
• Developed and maintained budgets, plans, KPI’s, schedules, estimates, and reports for cross functional teams.
• Improved processes for efficiency and usability within governance and strategic initiatives.
• Performed Server to Server (S2S) pre-sales and implementation for migrating, transforming and rationalizing system modernization for C/C++, Java and Windows applications.
• Created Statement of Works (SOWs) for client solutions with standard clauses and special provisions for the project.
• Worked projects using Jira, Confluence, git and subversion in Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integrated Development (CID) environments.
• Assessed applications for scope and complexity for virtualization and cloud based environments with Application Suitability Map for Cloud (ASM4C) and created reports for Go/NoGo Green and Red Teams.
• Tech Lead for JEE projects with Ant, Maven, JBoss Server, Eclipse, JBoss IDE and Oracle database environment.
• Managed the reverse engineering project of Oracle Forms and Crystal Reports to JSP web reports.
• Managed Java web applications, scripts and C/C++ application migrations from Unix to virtual Linux servers.
• Managed the transformation of Sybase databases to MS SQL with Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA).
• Championed best practices to comply with International Standards Organization (ISO) and PMP methodologies in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ITIL, JAD, Scrum, DevOps, Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Collaborated with clients and SME's to scope out project requirements and scheduling for seamlessly integration.
• Directed test procedures and user acceptance to ensure quality standards met expectations.
• Achieved project completions with user sign-off and led support roles for customer satisfaction.

Confidential

Project Manager, Program Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of developers and project managers for Store Systems to support strategic initiatives, anti-money laundering (AML), Business Resiliency and Continuity, new technology, security and governance.
• Managed security projects with Loss Prevention (LP) and Operations (Ops) to secure the Point of Sale (POS) system.
• Managed certifications for Customer Data Protection (CDP) and Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards.
• Designed and developed the Layaway and Returns system for the Point of Sale (POS) in C/C++, STL, XML, and Oracle using Linux and Solaris.
• Used embedded NoSQL Berkeley XML DB, Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) XML models and Xpath for transactions and messaging.
• Programmed components for the Warehouse Management System (WMS) upgrade in Perl, XML and DBI.
• Wrote middle tiered Pro*C programs to execute Oracle stored procedures using sockets communication.
• Improved customer satisfaction with a receipt redesign for the Point of Sale (POS) application.