Director IT Planning and PMO Resume Chandler, AZ - Hire IT People

EXPERIENCE:

Director IT Planning and PMO

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Responsibilities:

Stabilized and matured a fledgling IT Project Management Office (iPMO)
Managed a team of six FTE and Contractors and 23 nationally matrixed PM’s
Implemented simple and flexible processes that enhanced IT’s service delivery capability, increased awareness on project costs, matured resource capacity analysis and provided historical references for repetitive projects
Implemented a process to develop the first ever 5 year IT Strategy, which included working with business units to understand their plans, requirements, priorities, and annual budgets

Senior IT Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Salvaged an infrastructure outsourcing program:
Migrated multiple data centers with little to no legacy resources or documentation
Migrated extremely old hardware and even older applications to new hardware or Virtual Servers running Windows, Linux, HP - UX
Implemented new Virtual Server infrastructure environment using VMWare ESXi and HP-UX Virtual Hosts
Aided in re-negotiating with the outsource provider to amicably modify terms of the agreement to avoid litigation
Significantly reduced Project Management costs, buy simplifying processes, clarifying roles and holding resources accountable for their deliverables which allowed the a 5 FTE reduction in Project Managers originally assigned to the initiative
Completed a corporate wide WAN migration from multiple carriers to a consolidated MPLS infrastructure that reduced global latency from 180ms+ to 62ms

Senior IT Project Manager

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

Independently planed and managed multiple enterprise level projects impacting all lines of business
Managed the larger and more complex IT projects within the organization with the project sponsors usually being the President, CIO, and CFO for the Bank
Regularly managed projects with Bank regulating agencies, Federal Reserve Bank, independent contractors, and multiple vendors
Conducted oral and written presentations regarding project scope, cost, status, and risks/issues to C-level Bank Executives
Established and maintained positive relationships with team members and vendors while meeting project timelines and budgets by holding resources accountable for deliverables
Multiple data centers serving 41 branch locations via a mix of Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, VMWare ESXi, Solaris, AS400, MS SQL 2000,2005,2008, 2012, ORACLE 9i, 10g, and 11g, and MySQL, HP-UX, AIX
Internally and externally hosted as well as custom in-house developed applications
Project Management Tool Familiarity: Clarity, Open Workbench, Daptiv / eProject, MS Project, Tenrox