EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Operations and Applications sides of IT
• Custom and COTS Web Applications development and delivery
• Big Data Netezza and Greenplum
• Development and Production Support
• Vender management and negotiations, managing vender project teams and managing outsourced applications.
• Sarbanes and Oxley SOX and Financial Systems
• Commercial and Government
• International Experience
• Software Application Life Cycle Methodology SDLC
• Veteran - US Army

WORK HISTORY

Confidential

Director of Operations

• Managed two data center migrations of 300 physical servers, 700 virtual servers and 1200 applications as we insourced our technology
• Built out Enterprise Tools teams, consisting of AutoSys, AR Remedy, BMC BPPM Monitoring, and NetBackup to support the Enterprise.
• Provide Enterprise Tools Support to 300 physical servers and 700 virtual servers
• Developed yearly budget and managed to it

Director of Shared Services Engineering

• Built out an Engineering team that was to provide both development and production support to new and existing applications.
• Managed development support of J2EE Applications, both WebLogic, and Apache
• Supported Tomcat Apache and SunOne web servers
• Rolled out multiple technologies including WebLogic, Netezza, GreenPlum, Spring and HADOOP
• Managed the implementation of our Big Data infrastructure Netezza, GreenPlum and provided the initial production support to it. petabytes
• Provided Production Support to WebLogic, and SpringSource Apache
• Grew and Supported a Shared Services infrastructure from 4 to 75 applications
• Developed a 24/7 support organization.
• Developed department's support strategy, budget, and vision.
• Work with Technology, Management and the Business to resolve issues, prioritize work and implement key projects.
• Confidential

• Managed the build-out of 42 UNIX / Linux production server data platform to support the Disney Mobile Phone MVNO per the requirements. This involved working directly with Architects, Developers, Senior Customer Management and Executives from both InPhonic and Disney.
• Data platform supported 35000 users
• Hired and managed a Production Support Team and Implementation team tasked with supporting 3 separate UNIX environments.
• Worked with Customer to understand and develop requirements and built-out a customer facing Helpdesk to include a Trouble Ticketing system.

Confidential

Sr. Manager of Corporate Systems

• Managed a migration and conversion effort which resulted in migrating 1.5B of assets and 3M dollars worth of inventory from JDEdwards JDE to Oracle Financials, as well as moving 1500 employees from JDE Human Resources to Oracle Human Resources and onto to our back office systems without service interruption. This was completed in 6 weeks with a composite team consisting of vender employees, contract workers, and XO technical and functional employees. The project allowed the company to realize a cost savings of 200K/year by eliminating redundancy in the Finance and Human Resource business areas. Additionally, we saved IT resources, and by giving the company the ability to provide all Financial Reporting from one system, improved Financial and HR Reporting.
• Managed an Oracle Financials and HR upgrade to 11.5.9 from 11.0.3. Modules upgrade were, GL, AP, PO, FA, Inv, PA and HR. This project provided increased functionality to our users and allowed the company to remain compliant with Oracle Corporation and continue receiving support and maintenance. In the process of the upgrade led the architecture design activities with technical team.
• Managed Oracle Migration 11.0.3 from internally hosted HP platform to externally hosted Corio Inc. Sun platform Managed Oracle 11.0.3 migration, and upgrade to 11.5.9, from externally Corio hosted platform to externally Oracle hosted platform. At the same time we changed the architecture from Solaris on Sun boxes to Linux on Intel boxes.
• Managed Oracle Applications migration from the external Oracle Hosted platform to an internal XO hosted platform. The move in-house save the company 600K/year and was completed on schedule 6 weeks and under budget, and resulted in our users receiving better support and greater performance from the Application
• Managed the deployment of Manager Self-Service, Cash Management and iExpense Modules, PCPW Payroll, ADP eTime.
• Developed and deployed an integrated barcode scanning solution that interfaced with a custom developed GUI sitting on a Motorola cell phone that interfaced with our Oracle Applications system providing a custom Supply Chain Management Application that significantly contributed to our Logistics Group saving 400,000 per month by driving us closer to a Just-in-time JIT
• Built working relationships with vendors and across-organizations in gaining consensus on deliverable due dates, project scope, and resource assignments collaborated with external teams to mitigate and resolve issues.

IT Operations Manager

• Responsible for managing the Operations Project Managers, Business Analysts, and the Stress and Load Testers. Personally managed high profile / high visibility projects. Working with the Development Team to understand their hardware requirements and translate these to a design.
• Developed Level of Effort LOE , Requirement's Documents, Design, Schedule, Test Plans and other SDLC documentation for IT Operations
• Manage a team of quality assurance professionals and project managers, consisting of employees and on-site consultants, to ensure the timely delivery of new software and enhancements associated with the testing phase of the software development life cycle.
• Responsible to procure, track and monitor all hardware purchases. This involved negotiating with Venders, and working with Procurement to order and receive the hardware.
• Managed and supported multiple test environments.
• Provided budget support to 20M Operations budget.
• Responsible for the management of Technical Team as well as all project management functions for our projects. Managed and completed projects in the fulfillment area including mission critical projects, managing multiple projects at a time. Responsibilities included development and execution of project plans, test plans and test cases, facilitating document reviews sessions and project status meetings, communication of project status to senior management and stake holders, driving issue resolution, collaborating with external teams to meet project objectives.
• Manage technical staff responsible for the corporate back-office IT applications including, Oracle Financials and Human Resources, ADP Payroll and eTime, and Sonic Recruiting, support and development for a 1.5B Company/4800 employee company. Applications sat on a variety of platforms including: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Intel, and HP. In addition to managing the development efforts I was also responsible for Production Support including implementing monitoring of applications, databases processes and hardware.

Confidential

Project Control Manager

• Coordinated the preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budgets, project work breakdown structure and project schedule for a 4 year 175M project in Russia that had 3 major sub-contractors on it.
• Contact for program management activities, lead program review sessions with customer to discuss cost, schedule and program performance. Established milestones with program technical team, and customer, and had weekly status reviews.
• Analyzed contracts to ensure that they were within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines.
• Managed the preparation of budgets and schedules for all contract work.

Project Control Specialist

• Managed schedules, work breakdown structure, Earned Value EVM methods and tools, and cost control for 1B/year DoD integration project.
• Full participant in a 6 month exercise that resulted in our Business Unit M DS becoming CMMI Level 3 compliant with Federal Government. Compliance allowed M DS to submit proposals under CMMI Level 3 Best Practices saving Unit Millions of dollars per year.
• Monitored adherence to master plans and schedules and managed identified program problems and guided work-around development, such as allocation of resources or changing contractual specifications.

Confidential

Consultant

• Helped assess project issues and develop resolutions to met client goals and objectives.
• Developed flowcharts, project schedules and status reports.
• Supported Senior Consultants.