SUMMARY:

• IT Project Manager (20 years)
• Banking Industry (18 years)
• Managing large and complex cross - functional IT projects that are enterprise-wide
• IT Technology implementations, migrations, upgrades and consolidations, conversion, & recovery
• Leading teams of up to 45+ technical resources in a matrix environment
• Client Relationship, procurement and vendor management. Strong interpersonal skills.
• Lead projects with awareness and understanding of security threats, vulnerability, and compliance
• Strong detailed documentation skills - standards, guidelines, procedures, directives, and security policies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft SharePoint, MS Projects, 2010/2013 versions of Microsoft Office, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, & Clarity.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversight of all enterprise architecture projects including application and web development.
• Metric reporting.
• Schedule milestones, develop project plan and costing to project activities and monitor project completion.
• Communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Identify security requirements to ensure compliance within projects.
• Onboard onshore / offshore resources.
• Manage and ensure appropriate system access requests are granted.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and tracked cyber security product initiatives within Confidential Power and Water Division.
• Generate status reports and project metrics.
• Ensure compliance of NERC CIP standards, NIST, ISO Standards and Controls.
• Created project plan, tracked project issues, and provided weekly reporting to senior management.
• Track security baseline implementation and assessments.
• Communicate status.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of Business Analysis, Developers, and Engineers to analyze Business Requirements for the system being developed into functional and technical requirements.
• Work with team to identify security requirements for user access and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
• Develop project plans, identify project risks to meet compliance, and track project issues.
• Engaged QA resources and interfaced with offshore resources to fulfill testing requirements.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Followed set methodology and project management process to fulfill project requirements.
• Created Project Charter, Project Plan, led status meeting and prepared documentation for customers and clients.
• Worked with regulatory data types; HIPAA Security & Awareness, familiar with HIPAA Privacy & Security Policy.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design Team Lead role to lead designs for infrastructure architecture solutions for internal and vendor coded software applications in intranet and internet environments.
• Translated business requirements (BRD, Project Charter) into functional design requirements. Included the costing and presentation of costing estimates for proposed solution to the line of business client. Applied Risk Mitigation strategies.
• Coordinated design team members in the implementation of project’s specific tasks in a matrix environment. Exhibited strong ability to work in virtual and remote environments.
• Identified threats, vulnerability and risks, and performed interviews to gather security requirements.
• Monitored and ensured on-time completion of all development lifecycle deliverables: Change Controls, BRD, Design, Test and Deploy, Project Plans, WBS, and Rollout Schedules.
• Effectively worked with technology groups and business partners across multiple organizations to support large initiatives involving application development, mainframe, client server, midrange, desktop and application, and release rollout.
• Led several initiatives simultaneously, preparing forecasts, tracking costs, and client’s expectations.
• Integrates best practices with process design to ensure continuous process improvement.
• Led design project to move 80+ applications out of the data center creating new VMs in targeted data centers as applicable. Implemented P2V and V2V migrations.
• Analyzed inventory of all equipment at data centers. Build out new facilities as required, upgraded servers to current standards. Fork-lifted and relocated applications to other data centers, and decommissioned servers as identified. Managed projects requiring data center decommission, server upgrade, virtualization, racks, power, and storage needs.
• Worked with Mainframe Storage Services resource to analyze documentation.
• Gather Mainframe disk and tape requirements, to provide storage estimates, and capital funding requirements.
• Identified Mainframe DASD, Mainframe Contingency DASD, and Mainframe Tape.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of design SMEs to migrate the webMethods application to permitted hardware and supported software version. Held project meetings to build solution and created a High Level Diagram for proposed application architecture to move to a compute hosting platform.
• Obtained design signoff and started process to create a Proof of Concept (POC) environment to install and test webMethods on Linux VM to prove that webMethods will run as expected on a Linux VM shared environment in a Hosting Platform.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for the conversion to a UNIX platform to eliminate memory and capacity issues.
• Led migration of the production Web/Intelligent servers and Web servers to a 64-bit UNIX OS.
• Provided SAN storage for the intelligent server and Web servers in Production, Contingency, and development.
• Worked with Open Storage Services to handle EMF processes internal to E&O, OSS, and to procure, install, allocate and configure storage capacity.
• This project was to replace and co-locate the ETL servers.
• Involved the purchase of UNIX servers and SAN storage.
• Ensured that security architecture satisfy defined performance and availability parameters and meet business objectives and compliances requirements consistently.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager / Service & Fulfillment Operations

Responsibilities:

• Network Project Manager for large initiatives relating to Information Technology implementations, upgrades, conversion and recovery.
• Utilized strong oral and written communication, facilitation, organization, and project management skills.
• Prepared costing worksheets and tracked project activities to budget.
• Worked closely with Service Delivery Manager to lead technical resources across multiple organizations to support large initiatives involving application development, mainframe, client server, midrange, desktops and application rollout in a weak matrix environment.
• Application of ITIL Service Support Processes.
• Responsible for forecasting, managing, tracking, reporting project progress, issues, and scope changes.
• Creation of project plans using strong documentation skills.
• Mentored less experience Project Managers on core competencies.

Confidential

Service Delivery Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the implementation of technology to support Image Exchange (Send & Receive) capabilities between Confidential and other financial institutions. Identified risks and performed risk management. Close involvement with Service Delivery Managers on all of these Check21 initiatives.
• Provided facilitative leadership in project execution meetings, publishing standard project management deliverables including project plan, action items, risk, and issues involving telecommunications.
• Wrote project plans, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), and perform activity and cost estimating.
• Effectively coordinated with various technologies, business, and vendor teams the end-to-end processes for the build-out and installation of a new nationwide Check21 Returns and Exception system which enabled us to process the image of items as opposed to having to rely upon paper.
• Led a team of technical resources to provide the infrastructure solution to implement a fraud detection platform (3rd party product) to augment Liability Risk Management Department efforts in combating fraud and meet generation one business requirements. Managed vendor relationships.
• Effectively deployed an IRD printing solution of R&E for Release 1 to the Mid-Atlantic and NE regions.
• Provided project estimation and forecasting, sizing and assessments, system analysis, resource planning, coordinating, tracking deliverables, metrics reporting of end-to-end software and infrastructure projects.
• Created Project Plan, WBS, identified risks; tracked issues, tasks, and resources involving telecommunications.
• Provided onsite project management support for installation of printers, and UAT testing and test scripts.
• Project Manager for special initiatives projects involving the migration of Atlanta sites from Bay Network routers to Cisco routers in a switched Ethernet environment. Between all four sites, 2,800 clients were affected by the conversion. Engaged and managed internal and external vendor resources to fulfill telecommunications needs.
• Utilized Service Management skills to track configuration items in a system.
• Held weekly status meetings to drive efforts and to ensure that project plan was performed within project constraints.
• Performed Risk Management and Business Continuity planning to ensure that business processes would continue through a disaster and coordinated those activities with IT personnel.
• Project Manager to install Account Documentation Imagining and Signature Verification Systems across the enterprise. Managed vendor relationships and held working sessions to development requirements.
• Handled the building out of facilities and Server Rooms, identifying all telecommunications requirements.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Conducted UAT testing.
• Worked closely with various functional teams to develop an aggressive schedule to replace Cisco equipment.
• Developed plans, change scripts, back-out scripts, test scripts, and migration checklists.
• Led a large project team of 50+ to implement the Alpharetta conversion to TSG supported platform.

Confidential

Technology Project Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported Application development and implementation.
• Utilized knowledge of development and testing life cycle.
• Track, managed, and adjusted the original plan as necessary to ensure project success.
• Worked on the content development of Computer Based (CBT) that was Lotus Notes based.
• Utilized strong project management and analytical skills to effectively meet client’s requirements.
• Provided high attention to user needs, avoiding negative impact to production environment during implementation and conversions.
• Provide Project Management expertise to the Private Client Services project.
• Developed Business Assessment, Conceptual Design, Detail Design, Functional and Technical Design specifications, and Implementation Approach documents.
• Participated in design meetings, created project plans, design documentation, and tracked issues.
• Provided a centralized Project Office for the project plans and status across the four teams.
• Led implementation activities for the rollout of the WAN to all the Commercial branches.
• Created Site Surveys, test scripts and technical design test documents.
• Tracked progress against timelines, prepared weekly status reports and reported status to Senior Management.
• Ensured that project timelines were met.