Daniel P. Laslie

Godfrey, IL *****

ad48ea@r.postjobfree.com

618-***-****

Experience Summary

Senior Project Manager with over 23 years of leading IT Application Development, Infrastructure Projects, Operational Management and Process Improvement initiatives across highly matrixed organizations

Significant training and experience running both Waterfall and Agile projects.

Served as Scrum Master for multiple IaaS/PaaS platform development teams. These teams were responsible for full lifecycle development of the IaaS/PaaS infrastructure and associated software suites

Senior lead project manager for multiple IaaS/PaaS migrations. Responsible for acquiring personnel with appropriate skills for scope fulfillment

Well versed in enterprise change management efforts throughout my 23 years of project management experience

Key Skills Summary:

Project Management:

Business Analysis:

Methodologies:

Project Scope & Objectives

Requirements Gathering

Agile/ Scrum

Strategic Planning

Communication

Iterative

Project Budget Administration

Process and Procedures

SDLC /Waterfall

Project Initiation, Charter

Coordination

ITIL

Project Planning, Scheduling

Project Documentation

Project Tools:

Timelines, Milestones, Deliverables

Financial Analysis

MS Sharepoint

Change and Release Management

Feasibility/ Cost Analysis

JIRA

Business Process Reengineering

Facilitating Presentations

MS Project

Vendor Management

Gaining Buy-In

MS PowerPoint

Risk Management

Function as a Liaison

MS Excel, Word

US ARMY 1990-1993

Served during Desert Shield/Storm

Achieved Rank of E4P

MOS 19k10 (Abrams Tank Crewman)

Awarded with multiple AAM (Army Achievement Medal) citations and one ARCOM award.

Regular top 3 in soldier of the month/quarter competitions

Professional Experience

Emerson Electric

Senior Project Manager/business analyst Corporate ECNS (Enterprise Cybersecurity and Network Solutions) 6/2018-7/2023

Manages complex security projects as well as acquisition and divestiture projects. Currently managing E-Motion Network and Lab workstreams (Emerson conversion to cloud) I currently utilize waterfall, agile, scrum and or hybrid project management methodologies to achieve best results for KPI’s.

SAP and Oracle on prem ERP migrations as well as Microsoft 365 ERP migration to the cloud

Accountable for business analyst duties, project initiation, planning, execution, control and closure of assigned projects

Oversaw and participated in project planning, program planning, estimating, scheduling, staffing, procurement and execution of project scope of work

Maintained and managed client relationship and expectations

Managed the project and program risks and changes through formal risk mitigation and change management process

Managed several cross-functional matrix projects through the full project life cycle process

Assisted in the development and implementation of account and project strategies

Led efforts in preparation and development of project proposals and strategy

Participated in proposal review meetings and estimating efforts as required in the development of the proposal

Served as a senior process improvement advisor in the PMO

Led multiple change management projects

Led multiple application development projects

oSecurity applications, e commerce (online catalog for the childrens place), web weather app for customer DTN, and a food donation tax deduction app for the red cross

Managed and trained new co-op/intern for future full time employment considerations

oIncluding activity reporting, performance evaluations, and annual review

Led multiple Security based project efforts from inception through close

oVera RMS deployment.

Supervised engineering team

Controlled budget expectations

Conducted standard team meetings

Controlled scheduling for deployment

oTitus rip and replace with AIP

oSymantec DLP implementation

oSymantec CloudSoc (CASB)

oAIP deployment to 10K users

Led significant efforts in the Emerson SAP public cloud migration

oNetwork, and Lab workstreams

including STL datacenter migration

Including CHI onboarding of data migration scheduling

Led multiple teams and member of the PMO process improvement team

oRegularly set policies and procedures for ITSM and the PMO

oProvided ITSM oversight and management for multiple processes

Sat in a leadership role and was viewed as a leader by my peers

Led multiple DR efforts including the following:

oTitus rip and replace with AIP

oSTL datacenter migration

oCHI datacenter migration/upgrade

Apex – Charter (Contractor)

Senior Project Manager 2017-2018

Operated as a senior project manager leading complex cross functional internal projects (FTTP, IPv6, DAA, IP to MAC) with the Technology Services team.

Managed cross-functional teams to identify requirements, tasks, dependencies and timelines for projects

Utilized Charter project management best practices as established by each internal group preference or standard

Acted as a liaison to facilitate communications among cross functional teams to work toward a common project goal

Created Operational and Executive level cross functional project status reports

Stepped in to quickly get up to speed and manage a project deployment when another project manager left the team

Presented weekly status updates to executive leadership for critical path, RACI and RAID logs

Held weekly status meetings with impacted stakeholders to ensure timely project delivery

Executed multiple change management projects

CenturyLink 2013-2017

Senior Engagement Manager (Large and Complex Deal Group)/business analyst

Operated as a senior project manager leading client migrations onto CenturyLink’s global colocation, dedicated managed hosting, cloud and WAN infrastructures.

Project management methodology (agile/waterfall) determined by customer preference

Managed many types of customer migrations across diverse customer types

oeCommerce, retail, Government, public cloud, change management, colocation, managed hosting, network and data center

oExamples or data center migrations:

Panera Bread Company, 1500 stores and 8 fresh dough facilities migrated to the Centurylink network/data center in St Louis. Also managed all financial activities for the entire project. Budget approximately 75 million dollars.

Seyfarth Shaw Law – Chicago – migrated to Centurylink network and moved to CH3 data center with a DR solution in St Louis. Also managed all finance, vendors and purchase orders for this project. Budget approximately 15 million dollars

DTN – Omaha NE – migrated to Centurylink network and data center in Omaha, NE with a DR site in St Louis. Also sdlc for their weather app for deployment. Managed all vendor and purchase order activity for this project. Budget approximately 5 million dollars

The Childrens Place – large ecomm project encasing network and sdlc. I managed all financial activity including labor, vendors, and purchase orders. Budget approximately 80 million dollars.

Multiple projects with VoiP customers such as Seyfarth Shaw Law and DTN

Member of the PMO process improvement team

oRegularly set policies and procedures for ITSM and the PMO

oProvided ITSM oversight and management for multiple processes

Acted as lead and escalation point for junior Project Managers

Managed contractor contracts and onboarding of personnel

Managed financials for all projects and worked with the team to ensure that all financial aspects of the project were taken into consideration to include labor, vendors, and purchase orders to include waterfall and agile methodologies.

Led multiple DR efforts including:

oPanera migration and installation of DR

oSeyfarth Shaw Law

oThe Childrens Place DR replacement/upgrade

oSilverleaf installation of DR

Savvis Direct, Town and Country, MO 2012-2013

Agile Project Manager/business analyst

Agile Project Manager within the IaaS/PaaS Infrastructure development group responsible for the implementation of the Savvis Direct public cloud platform.

Leading daily scrum meetings with team leads and management

Leading project planning meetings with team leads and management

Weekly reporting generation identifying key project statistics, resource performance and availability

Coordination and approval of maintenance window scheduling across multiple infrastructure development teams

Department of the Army, Fort Knox, Kentucky 2010-2012

Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Full project lifecycle management responsibility for various technical development teams.

Responsibilities included gathering requirements, performing analysis, administering project budgeting ($20+ million) and leveraging Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies.

Conducted feasibility studies, trade-off analysis, business case development, project scoping, objectives development and cost estimates

Use Case development to describe and document sequenced events in a system.

Savvis Communications, Town & Country, Missouri 2000-2010

Senior Project Manager/business analyst

Lead Project Manager on over 3.2 billion dollars of completed projects, all on time and under budget.

Planned and managed over 50 complex network projects across multiple stages of the system development lifecycle. Managed each project through the five required PMP phases.

Served as technical business analyst on all projects. Gathered technical requirements from customers and interfaced with senior engineering to establish feasibility and level of effort.

Served as Client Account Management and networking subject matter expert with focus on backbone routing/switching, managed hosting and colocation services.

Education:

1/1993-8/1999 ITT Technical Institute – Bachelors of Science – Project management and administration – Arlington Heights IL

Weighted rank: 12/175

Unweighted rank: 3/175

Weighted GPA: 4.125

Unweighted GPA: 3.885

SAT Composite: 1510

1986-1990 Southwestern High School - Piasa IL

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