STEVE UTLEY
acanp9@r.postjobfree.com
Duluth, Georgia 30096
http://www.linkedin.com/in/StevenEUtley
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
Creative - Connected – Customer Centric
Highly accomplished project management professional having gained credibility and knowledge working for Microsoft Corporation as a technical account manager and enterprise strategy consultant. As a consultative contributor, optimized client’s investment to ensure specific support deliveries were met. Collaborative, ethical, well organized, and committed to honest, productive, internal and external business/client relationships.
CAREER SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE
Project management • Self-motivated • Problem solving • Microsoft Suite
Organized and efficient • Staff development • Building cloud environments
Systematic thinker • SQL server data warehouse • Team oriented • Profit driven
Sales skills • Trusted by peers • Technology savvy
PROJECT MANAGEMENT ACHIEVEMENTS
FEDERATED DEPARTMENT STORES/MACY’S
Executed and maintained project management processes to deploy Microsoft Operation Management
• Created a responsibility matrix to guide resource usage
• Consulted with stakeholders and others to identify the risks that could impact the project
• Successfully monitored the progress of the project to keep the project on schedule
Directed resources for building a cloud environment
• Procured Microsoft resources to build the client’s virtual environment
• Identified the summary tasks and work packages for the project
• Created the schedule based upon Work Breakdown Structure
• Assisted in creating a risk management plan
THE HOME DEPOT
Provided extensive onsite project management support to implement Project Server
• Worked with project manager to define the project objectives
• Responsible for daily updates to stakeholders
• Worked with stakeholders to identify potential risks to the project implementation
• Responsible for daily review of project progress with the project managers
Prepared customer’s environment for multistep migration to Dedicated Cloud Services
• Customer contracted to migrate to Microsoft’s Cloud Services
• Responsible for working with Microsoft’s migration team and customer’s migration team
• Created a communication plan for stakeholders
BANK OF AMERICA
Supported project management migrating the bank’s branch environment to the Window’s platform
• Assisted in developing the full scale project plans and drove project milestones
• Assisted in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for the new technology
• Migrated over 90,000 devices in more than 6,000 sites
SUNTRUST BANK
Served as project manager for building a SQL Server Data Warehouse to prevent money laundering
• Migrated the bank’s lockbox system to transcend Year 2000 issues
• Executed project management processes for the bank’s deployment of Active Directory
• Project manager for the bank’s deployment of exchange infrastructure
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Technology Specialist
WindyKnoll Duluth, Georgia 2012-present
Technical Account Manager
Microsoft Corporation Atlanta, Georgia 2005 – 2012
Enterprise Strategy Consultant
Microsoft Corporation Atlanta, Georgia 1998 – 2004
Senior Consultant
Microsoft Corporation Atlanta, Georgia 1995 - 1997
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Project Management Institute Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), 2013
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), 2013
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0 Foundation Certification, 2011
IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v3 Foundation Certification, 2011
TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE
Windows 95 & 97, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 & 8.1
Microsoft Office 95 through Office 2013 suites
Microsoft Project 2010 and Project 2013
Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows Server 2012R2
System Center 2012 and System Center 2012.SP1Private Cloud Computing