Richard Oberdier - PMP, MPM

**** ****** **. ( Radnor, Ohio 43066 ( aceoce@r.postjobfree.com (

614-***-****

Summary of Qualifications

Highly effective Sr. Project/Program/Iteration Manager with over eleven (11) years

of PM experience; managing progressively larger and more difficult projects in

software development and infrastructure. Experienced with both waterfall and agile

methodologies. Formal agile training - over two (2) years of experience with agile.

Over nineteen (19) years in IT.

Formally trained; including PMP and a two (2) year Master of Project Management

(MPM) Degree. Over two (2) years of excellent PM mentorship. Trained on agile

methodologies and have implemented and executed agile process.

Experience in SDLC, risk management, vendor management, change management, budget

and schedule management. Excellent history of successful delivery of projects.

Excellent planning skills, communication skills and ability to manage customer

relationships and decision making skills

Great team building skills - Foster a high performing work team, issue resolution.

Very strong at leading talented teams to successful delivery of difficult projects

with aggressive timelines

Extensive experience with: MS Project and Project Server, MS Office, SharePoint,

Clarity and Open Work Bench

Project Experience

SR Project Manager - McGraw Hill Education

Jan 2014 - June 2014

. Consultant - Sr. Project Manager, completed the successful delivery of

a high priority marketing automation projec. Duties include: Managing

finances, driving the planning, schedule development, training,

meeting with sponsors and stakeholders of each marketing division,

leading bi-monthly steering meeting with senior executives, assisting

with analysis and test preparation. Project delivered on schedule and

under budget.

SR Project Manager - JP Morgan Chase

July 2013 - Jan 2014

. Consultant - PMO support for 8 project managers on large data

warehouse migration in Mortgage Banking. Helped document the process

flow of data elements through the migration lifecycle; from System of

Record (SOR) to final Integrated Consumer Data Warehouse (ICDW),

helped PMs with schedule development, planning/execution and developed

the program level status for reporting to leadership.

SR Project/Iteration Manager (agile) - Znode (E-commerce)

Sept 2012 - June 2013

. Sr. Project Manager/Iteration Manager for the Multifront e-commerce

platform - Team size of twenty four.

. Responsible for: Putting agile process in place, getting team trained

on process, planning and executing major releases from beginning to

end, conduct daily scrum sessions, communication to executive

leadership on progress, risks and issues.

SR Project Manager (agile) - Nationwide Insurance

June 2011 - Sept. 2012

. Consultant - Project Manager, successfully managed a large agile

project (1.2M, 8 month) Technologies: SOA, Informatica and ETL.

Project delivered on schedule and within budget.

. Consultant - project manager, successfully took over and managed a

large agile project to provide a source system of record. This was a

2.6M project spanning two years. Working with - agile team

Technologies: ETL, SOA, DB2, Groovy Grails; successfully delivered

six releases in eight months.

SR Project Manager (agile) - Honda of America

Dec 2010 - June 2011

. Consultant - Sr. Project Manager responsible for planning a production

critical application to control a large parts carrier. Project Scope:

Application re-write, Install of a cell network and end to end testing

of the overall system. Working with a hybrid of waterfall - agile

methodology.

o Worked with multiple technical and business experts to: gather

requirements, build schedule and estimate

... Continued Project Experience

SR Project Manager - Cardinal Health

June 2010 - Dec

2010

. Consultant - Infrastructure Project Manager responsible for planning

of a 2.1M project to upgrade and virtualize (VMware) legacy windows

servers and operating systems.

o Working with multiple infrastructure teams to plan, estimate and

track the infrastructure upgrades

o Working with multiple application teams to plan, estimate and

track software upgrades and changes related to the

infrastructure upgrade

Project Manager - AEP

June 2004 -

June 2010

. Project Manager of application migration portion of VMware Disaster

Recovery (DR) replacement project.

o Infrastructure scope was to migrate our DR environment to a

virtualized (VMware) platform

o Application scope involved migration and testing of 130

applications on the new virtual environment

o Developed WBS, detailed overall schedule, developed charter,

conducted weekly status, directed teams - including vendors,

application teams and infrastructure team

. Project Manager of a portfolio of enhancements to Documentum (EMC

content management application).

o The portfolio included: rewrite of the basic Documentum object,

implement a restore utility that integrates with Documentum

o Complete infrastructure upgrade (Windows to Linux) and upgrade

(content management application) to version 6.5 and migration of

data from old system to new

o Developed WBS, developed detailed schedule in Microsoft Project

Portfolio Management (PPM)

o Chaired the technical status meetings, maintained schedule,

followed Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC), tracked budget,

tracked issues/risks/actions and managed resources within a

matrix organization

o Project Included over 8 development resources involved over 25

active IT and BU resources

o Program lasted over one year and cost over $1M

. Took over as Project Manager of a large "Marque" project, Project Web

Portal (PWP), at the end of construct phase. The project was in

serious jeopardy and at risk of missing the delivery date when I took

it over.

o PWP is an external web interface to our Enterprise Content

Management (ECM) application

o Project involved integration of .Net, Java, middleware and

Documentum

o Upon taking over, I immediately assessed the situation

considering: remaining budget, resources and risks

o Developed an action plan - engaged senior management to get

assistance with resources

o We delivered the application on-time, under budget and the

sponsor was happy with the product

o Project included over 6 development resources and over 20 IT and

BU resources

o Project cost over $600K

. Project Manager of mission critical application (MV90) upgrade.

o Developed WBS, developed schedule, tracked budget, managed

resources, issue/risk tracking, chaired weekly status, and

status to sponsor

o Over-site of infrastructure build and over-site of our test

coordinator

o Project had over 10 project resources involved - with a budget

of $95K

. Program Manager of large program to implement an asset management

application (NRX) at 12 power plants. Functioned as the program

manager with over-site of three on-site project leads.

o Mentored on-site leads, managing finances, driving the planning,

staffing, meeting with sponsors and stakeholders at

headquarters/plants

o Our team managed to gain efficiencies of up to 30% reduction in

cost, from the first implementation, as the program progressed

o Three plants implemented successfully in 2008 before project was

put on hold due to corporate budget constraints in 2009

o Program involved over 25 resources and budgeted at over $7M

o Program was to be a six year program - we successfully completed

1.5 years $2M before all budgets were frozen in IT

. Project Controller on a large program with multiple enhancements to

our Project Management Module (PMM).

o PMM, written in Power Builder, was the main application used for

managing project materials

o Responsibilities included: Working with application developers,

business analysts and architects to develop a Work Breakdown

Structure and project schedule

o Maintained the schedule and budget - managed risks, issues and

resources

o Managed resources, track project activity using detailed

schedule, and manage budget. Received mentorship by a PM with 30

years experience

o The program was a ($2.3M) two (2) year program to make four

major enhancements to the application

...Continued Project Experience

. Assigned to portfolio, of very time constrained infrastructure and

software development initiatives, related to the 2007 Daylight Savings

Time (DST).

o Assigned to the, already in-flight, project in Jan. 2007 and

very quickly developed a schedule encompassing the tracking of

30+ applications and an infrastructure test environment

o Immediately scheduled meetings to create a sense of urgency

o Took over as chair of the weekly status call with over 50 in

attendance

o Estimated cost of over $500K

o Worked with program manager to help develop and carry-out an

escalation strategy for continued non-responsive groups

.

. Project Controller on a large ($1.2M) project to upgrade our

Distributed Work Management System (DWMS) to a new version.

o Developed schedule, tracked work on budget, issues, risks and

testing

o The project went successfully through the construct phase.

During the load runner performance test, it was discovered that

the throughput of the new version would not handle AEP's demands

o Received mentorship by a PM with over twenty years of experience

who was filling the role of test coordinator

. Managed Web project - using SOA architecture in developing a system to

facilitate the order processing of new PCs. The project was killed due

to the suspension of the life-cycling of PCs until 2012.

. Managed multiple, small to medium-sized, infrastructure projects as an

infrastructure solutions engineer.

o Assisted with facilitation of infrastructure solution, estimated

infrastructure costs, submitted order for hardware, and

planned/tracked the environment build-outs

o Environments included: stand alone, virtual and clustered server

builds, Unix/Windows OS, Content Switches, Oracle, SQL, Disaster

Recovery (DR), SAN storage and Middleware

Technical Experience

Served in several technical positions for four companies

June 1997 - June 2004

. AEP - Lotus Notes Admin for four years - assisted in migration of

Exchange/Outlook users to Lotus Notes

. AEP - Filled in as project lead on an Ethernet conversion project in

2001

. Consultant - Assisted in managing multiple Systems Management Server

(SMS) and LANdesk rollout projects - using MS Project to develop

project schedules

. Consultant - Managed the planning, design and project work involved

with expanding the existing network infrastructure of a small public

relations firm. Supported and administered their Exchange/Outlook mail

system.

. Bank One - Planned and performed server installations - worked with

application vendors and business units, installing and configuring

various server-based applications

Co-op - AEP and State Auto

June 1995 - May 1997

. Co-op at AEP - Provided support to the company executives and their

secretaries

. Co-op at State Auto - Provided company-wide PC support

Education

. Project Management Professional (PMP), certification 2005 - Project

Management Institute

. Master of Project Management (MPM), 2004 - Keller Graduate School of

Management-Columbus, OH

. (BS) Computer Information Systems, 1993 - 1997 - DeVry Institute of

Tech. Columbus, OH - Cum Laude

Professional Development Courses:

. Neal Whitten: Project Management Training - 2005

. New Horizons: MS Project Level 2 Training - 2009

. PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) Training - Through Project

Management Academy - 2013

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