Jennifer Lee Branham

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CAREER SUMMARY

Twenty years of experience in information technology, managing several software

development and network infrastructure teams of global employees and projects with

diverse technologies and hardware platforms utilizing various methodologies with

application of SDLC and PMBOX guidelines.

SOFTWARE EDP,DOORS,CMM, EXPRESS, Microsoft Suite, ABC Flowcharter, Word

Perfect, ITE, DTE, DB2, PEGASYS, IMS, Oracle, Seagate Info(Crystal

Reports), VISIO, PMA, PANVALET, TSO/ISPF, ACF2, JES2, JES3,

UCC7/1/11, LOTUS Notes, PACBASE, Mercury Quality Center,

XPEDITER, PWB, LIBRARIAN, Net Meeting, RPM, PgMP, Smart cloud

meetings, IPWC, Maximo and ECRS ticketing,Waterfall

EXPERIENCE

2012 - 2015 IBM - International Business Machines

Project Manager (PM) - Strategic Outsourcing; Global Services

• Managed Disaster Recovery from US to Japan

• Managed projects from original concept through closure

• Managing multiple projects

• Network infrastructure, managing VM and physical server builds,

decommissions and associated configurations including not limited to

Firewall rules; Installation of Software apps and OS; re-pooling of IP

addresses, removal of DNS entries, patching

• Managed the building and upgrade of WebSphere Application Servers

for the customer's use in managing their business web-sites

• Managed VM and Physical servers, refresh (Upgrading to the most

current or contracted version for Window OS or Linux OS, applying fix

patches for SW applications) and migration (migration of VM servers to

a different ESX host within the current Data Center or different data

center)

• Managed PCI compliances with a network environment to identify

vulnerabilities that were corrected by upgrading or removing

applications or servers

• Managed the integration of Oracle OEM with Tivoli using SNMP traps

to allow OEM to monitor remote servers not configured with Tivoli

• Created and maintain the standard management documents, Project

and communication Plan, Lessons learned

• Managed Global installation and maintenance of Cisco Network

Appliances

• Managed SAP GTS upgrade from V7 to V10.1

• Managing 60 – 85 Work Orders

• Managed several 3rd party vendor relationships

• Managed and hosted executive presentations, project meetings and

status reporting

• Point of contact between appliccation, infrastructure and customer

teams

• Managed project budgets

2012 – 2012 ITT Technical Institute, Kansas City MO

• Network Infrastructures

2010 - 2012 Concorde Career College, Kansas City MO

• Computer Science and Algebra Adjunct Professor

2009 - 2010 Vatterott College, Kansas City MO

• College Algebra Adjunct Professor

2008 - 2009 Modis, Kansas City MO

Contract Integration Testing Project Manager CenturyLink

• Managed End-to-End testing phase for a Ethernet Network Project for

COBOL and midrange oracle applications

• Verify and assist with creation of test cases for COBOL billing, order

entry and provisioning application systems

• Track testing results through Quality Center online tool

• Create and monitor defect issues

• Create and maintained MS project plan

2007 - 2008 Yoh Telecom, Kansas City, MO

Contract Project Manager(PM) Sprint/Nextel Communications

• Managed Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Cable joint Ventures.

• Managed conversion of Cable Partners to a common SLA agreement

• Managed the associated COBOL and oracle development project

• Managed the development of an operational Data Warehouse

2006 – 2012 Colorado Technical University (CTU), Kansas City MO

• Information Technology and College Algebra Adjunct Professor

2006 – 2006 Technosoft, Kansas City, MO

Contract Project Manager(PM) Sprint / Nextel Telecommunications

• Managed Network projects through Feasibility and Estimation phase

• Initial intense date driven phase of each project determines feasibility of

a project and alignment with Corporation’s Strategic Target State

Architecture

• Assigned resources and provided the timeline

• Attended feasibility, estimation and Architect Blueprint reviews

• Obtained impacted application’s Level of Efforts (LOE)

Present project summary, proposed solution and estimates

• Liaison between application area and Sponsors

• Maintain several statistical workflow tracking reporting tools

2005 – 2006 Southwestern Bell Company TELECOMMUNICATION, St. Louis, MO

Project Manager

• Lightspeed IP-based network Project to deliver IP-based TV,

broadband and voice services using fiber technologies

• Instituted SBC’s Project Management methodology

• Capability Maturity Model methodology to develop technical

requirement

1991 – 2005 SPRINT TELECOMMUNICATION, Overland Park KS

Project Manager/Manager/Software Engineer

• Managed Sales Force Automation application, a Lotus Notes client and

Web based system

• Managed Network Administrators

• Managed performance reviews, workforce forecasts, budgets

• Managed a DB2/COBOL Mainframe Customer Information system, a

Business Marketing application midrange system and a Customer

Loyalty system DB2/COBOL mainframe system

• Managed the implementation of Local Number Portability

• Managed multiple projects with diverse technologies and hardware

platforms; COBOL mainframe, UNIX, JAVA, Web logic, C++, Lotus

Notes, Oracle, DB2, Mainframe Websphere Java development. A

portion of this team was located offshore in India.

• Managed development & implementation of mainframe web-based

system with 25 employees, waterfall methodology

• Managed conversion of a legacy client server app to a Web based

system

• Managed the Conversion legacy mainframe on-line ad-hoc reporting

system into crystal Seagate Info midrange reporting system, extensive

end-user interaction with 250 users

• Managed the conversion of a legacy DB2 mainframe data warehouse

system into an oracle midrange data warehouse with constellar data

transformer and micro strategy end users interface

• Maintained a COBOL DB2 IMS Customer Information System (CIS) by

coding, testing, design, and implementation

• Developed of COBOL II, DB2 prebill verification system for AT&T

EDUCATION MBA - Information Systems, Avila University, Kansas City, MO

Bachelor of Science - Business Admin/Computer Science, Lincoln

University of Missouri, Jefferson City, MO, Cum Laude

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