Project Manager Engineer

SEASONED INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT MANAGER

ENTERPRISE-WIDE TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENTS

• Consultative Program Manager delivering IT strategic solutions, above board results, effective

resource and vendor management.

• Over 16 years’ experience providing global technology solutions management for industry leaders in

technology outsourcing, consumer products, health care, security solutions and government

environments.

• Proven success turning around at-risk accounts and driving double-digit improvements in servicing

levels and customer satisfaction.

EMPLOYMENT:

Watson/Actavis Pharmaceuticals

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager (Contract) (September

2012 - Present)

• Senior Infrastructure Program Manager responsible for the integration of multiple global

pharmaceutical distribution and manufacturing facilities as part of a multi-billion dollar acquisition.

• Manage IT related construction projects globally. Datacenter Construction, Rationalization and

Migration.

• Telecom, Network, Server, Virtualization, Storage, IBM iSeries hardware migration planning and

relocation.

• Responsible for end to end project financial management and status reporting.

• IT and Datacenter construction vendor procurement, contract, permitting, resources and project

management.

• Manage and direct multiple project teams within the organization as a part of the overall Daily C

Level dashboard status reporting and communications using Planview as well as MS Project for day

to day tracking and management.

Arise Virtual Solutions (February 2011-

September 2012)

Sr. IT Project Manager

• Senior PM responsible for range of IT and Infrastructure projects. Avaya Migration (Migration of

clients from old

Telephony platform to Leading Edge Avaya soft phone telephony platform.

• Manage deployment and migration of Telephony, Networking and security platforms in Ireland and

Great Britain. Waterfall and Scrum methodologies.

• SDLC methodology development of back end reporting and client required applications.

• Daily C Level dashboard status reporting and communications using Daptiv as well as MS Project for

day to day tracking and management.

Citrix Systems (Contract) (July 2010 -

February 2011)

Senior Infrastructure/Datacenter Project Manager

• Designing and building additional 1900 SQ FT Datacenter at Terremark (Verizon) NAP in Miami.

Citrix’s primary Datacenter for global operations.

• Server Hardware, Networking, Storage, Structured Cabling and Telephony vendor management.

• Technical resource for Global Datacenter Expansion project. Managing team of Network Engineers,

Datacenter Engineers, Network Administrators and Host Systems Engineers. Vendor Management,

Procurement, PMO Reporting and leadership status updates. Clarity, MS Project 2010 Project

Management Tools. Budget and financial management.

TBC Corporation (Tire Kingdom) (Contract) (January

2010 -July 2010)

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

• Dedicated IT Project Manager responsible for the consolidation of three data centers and relocation

into the Palm Beach Gardens facility. PM for IBM i-series migration, JDE and SAP upgrades and

migration into new data center facility.

• EMC ADM deployment, Solarwinds, CiscoWorks, Cisco VOIP, POS and customer facing websites.

• SharePoint as well as Network Infrastructure upgrades for 850 retail store locations, 10K Employees

across North America and Canada. Project Managed $2.5M AS400/Data Center relocation and

consolidation project. Blackberry Servers Upgrade and Consolidation to V 5.0. Project Manager for

DLP, SEIM, and PCI Compliance related initiatives as well as Acquisition projects.

Forsythe Technologies (December 2008-

December 2009)

IT Security Solutions Architect (Presales) - Southeast (FL, GA, AL, MS)

• Presales overlay for 9 Forsythe Account Managers in the Southeast, providing advanced technical

level design and input towards achieving sales quotas in the IT Security space.

• Mapped to 46 strategic accounts in the Southeast, primarily in GA, FL, and AL.

• Responsible for qualifying the opportunity, recommending the appropriate solution, managing vendor

interaction with clients. (Trusted Advisor).

• Responsible for creation of SOW and relative documentation as well as manage the expectations of

the sales process from inception through implementation. Project Management for Deployment,

Optimization as well as Scaling. (MS Project, Gantt charts, Timelines, Budgets, WBS)

• Successfully working to achieve sales goal of over $1.5M in GP during first year at Forsythe.

Managing and generating new and existing opportunities within territory.

• Good Understanding of Risk, Corporate Governance & Legal issues related to Information Security.

• Ability to discuss business issues as well as technical issues with CXO's throughout the enterprise

as well as articulate regulatory compliance issues.

• Responsible for developing vendor relationships at the field level. Established numerous positive

vendor relationships while adhering to Forsythe's go to market strategy and maintained current

product knowledge through vendor sponsored training and seminars.

• Worked closely with vendors to establish opportunity registrations for optimized program/deal

discounting.

• Conducted existing/new account planning with vendor channel and direct account managers.

• Provide post-sales support as well as roadmap discussions on the strategic planning and direction of

the security space for our clients.

• Specifically in the areas of compliance driven DLP, SEIM solutions, two factor authentication,

encryption, WAF and eDiscovery.

Auxis Management & Technology Services (November 2006-

December 2008)

IT Service Delivery Manager - Applica (Black & Decker Kitchen Appliances Division)

• Responsible for day to day IT Operations for a 2.5B Home Appliance manufacturer headquartered in

Miramar, Florida.(Applica Inc., Black & Decker)

• Practice manager for Cisco Premiere Partnership across multiple client bases.

• Project manager for all major IT Project Initiatives through the Infrastructure practice.

• Vital project coordinator for a Merger and Acquisition project -Applica & Salton, a global distributor of

small kitchen appliances.

• Project Manager for Data Center relocation to (Terremark) NAP, Storage, HP Blade Conversion.

• Responsible for IT compliance and security measures within the enterprise.

• Managed a H/A BES server deployment with over 300 users.

• Developed authentication solutions for remote Blackberry users.

• Managed day to day monitoring and operations procedures for the collocation facilities and

datacenters in Miami, FL, Hong Kong and China and LATAM locations.

• Solution selling and technical resource for solutions to all Auxis clients in the US. Mainly focusing on

Florida, Texas, Colorado, California and China.

• Integration project manager for the LATAM, Europe and South Africa locations.

• Manage a team of 12 Infrastructure engineers supporting multiple platforms including Microsoft

Windows, Cisco, Citrix, HP/Unix, Red Hat Linux, Extreme Networks, Watchguard, Checkpoint, Novell

and Oracle, Avaya/Cisco Telephony Solutions.

• Managed Microsoft SMS, SCOM, WSUS, Nagios, EMC SMARTS, CA Unicenter Service

Management system.

• Managed from an ITIL perspective - Service Management.

IKON Office Solutions, Sunrise. FL (November 2004-

November 2006)

Systems Analyst Manager/Enterprise Project Manager- Professional Services

• Manage and Build a team of 8 Senior Systems Analysts and Engineers responsible for

implementing, designing and configuring

• Enterprise Document Storage and management solutions as well as Enterprise Class print engines

and output peripherals.

• Responsible for the project management of major accounts in the South Florida Marketplace as well

as creating and designing network related document storage and management solutions.

• Interface with Sales and Account Reps to present a complete Networked Document Solution to our

customers. Provide Project Management and resource allocation.

• Developed Training resources for Analysts and Engineers. Products such as Documentum (EMC),

RightFax, Kofax, EMC Storage Devices, Planet Press, Objectif Lune, Digital Store Front and the

Adobe Suite of products.

• Participated in Six Sigma projects to streamline and improve IT related business processes.

• Project Manager for Imaging and Document Management solutions for First Data Merchant Services,

City Of Miramar, Carpenter Contractors of America, Visa Latin America, Burger King.

City Of Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL (June 2003

-November 2004)

Senior Network Engineer

• Redesigned and Implemented a Routed VLAN (Cisco Backbone) infrastructure for the City as well as

all remote locations.

• Administration and management of all wireless connectivity for 300 police officers as well as 120 PC

Tablet users into the City’s applications servers. NetMotion applications as well as other wireless

security products.

• Administration and management of Blackberry BES servers and devices.

• Engineer responsible for the Project Management as well as communications vendor management

for all the City’s Infrastructure LAN/WAN media.

• Responsible for accurate reporting and network bandwidth as well as fault analysis using network

management software such as CiscoWorks 2000, SolarWinds Professional Engineers Edition and

Sniffer related products.

• Designed and implemented a wireless solution for the City’s code enforcement inspectors to

remotely issue citations as well as manage daily code violations from a remote PC Tablet device in

real-time.

• Designed and Implemented a Cisco VOIP solution in conjunction with Siemens Technology Group in

all departments of the city.

• Performed the pre-design, analysis and benchmarking for the VOIP upgrade project.

• Designing a dark fiber Gigabit infrastructure backbone within the City of Miami Beach in conjunction

with Bell South Telecom.

• Senior Engineer responsible for Exchange 2003 migration, Veritas Backup Exec, Pix/Checkpoint

Firewalls, Intranet/Web Servers, FDLE, NCIC, FCIC security for police department and remote law

enforcement systems.

• Procurement and Budget Management for the Infrastructure Group.

• Novell, MS Windows, Red Hat Linux, Unix, Dell SAN platforms.

Compuquip Technologies, Miami, FL (October

2002-June 2003)

Senior Network Engineer

• Senior Network Engineer assigned to the City Of Miami Beach as the interim replacement for their

departed Network Admin.

• Redesign and implementation, Documentation of Infrastructure and Inventory of all Network Related

equipment at COMB.

• Active Directory and Windows 2000 domain wide system upgrade for 1500 clients at Commercebank

(BancoMercantil), Miami.

• Project Manager for the IT Relocation of World Fuel Services, a fortune 500 company.

• Coordinated the Data Center Relocation of 78 SUN Servers,500+ PCs. and multiple peripherals.

• Worldwide networking infrastructure equipment and service provider equipment.

• Senior Network Engineer responsible for the Windows 2000 O/S Upgrade for the City of Dania

Beach, Florida. Exchange 2000, SMS 2.0, SQL Server and Veritas Backup Software with an external

DLT Changer.

• Active Directory design and implementation. Migration of Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 Active

Directory for Bank United in Miami. FL., 1000 Exchange users.

• Implementation of CiscoWorks Management Software, Backup Dialing capability for 32 remote

branches using ADSL, Cisco AS5300 RAS Server for remote VPN clients, Citrix Metaframe XP to all

remote mortgage facilities for Bank United.

Ikon Office Solutions, Sunrise, FL (March 2001 -

October 2002)

Senior Network Engineer

• Senior Network Engineer responsible for the upgrade of the Network Infrastructure to a Gigabit

Ethernet Backbone for the City Of Hollywood, FL. Installed and configured over $2.5M of Cisco

Network gear. Project Manager.

• Implemented several Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and 2000 networks, including Exchange 5.5 and

2000, Outlook Web Access, SMS 2.0, Active Directory, Terminal Server, and IIS.

• Migration from Novell GroupWise 5.5 to an Exchange 2000 Cluster Server for 2,000 users at Dade

County Aviation (Miami International Airport)

• Implementation of Citrix MetaframeXPe at Staffing Now in Tampa for 2000 Users. Included Active

Directory, Exchange 2000, MS Office 2000 and custom applications being published to the desktop.

• Network Analysis and Baselining of current network infrastructure at the City of Miami Beach using a

Sniffer based software package.

• Provided vital network deficiency information and suggestions for a complete network upgrade.

• Installed and configured the entire CiscoWorks 2000 package at the Broward County Office of

Information Technology.

• Provided user training and troubleshooting of network related issues.

• Worked with RightFax, CheckPoint Firewalls, Cisco Pix, Cisco AS5300 Access Servers, Cisco

Aeronet Wireless Systems, NetSys Baseliner, Cisco ConfigMaker and Bindview Software.

Singer Asset Finance Company, L.L.C., Boca Raton, FL (Oct 1997 -

March 2001)

Director of Information Technology (March 2000 -

March 2001)

• Designed and Implemented a complete 200 node Win NT 4.0 Network

• Microsoft Networking Environment, Backoffice, SLQ7, SQL 2000, Exchange 2000, Exchange 5.5,

SMS 2.0, IIS 4.0, Microsoft Proxy Server, CISCO Backbone, Citrix Metaframe 1.8 ., HP OpenView,

Cisco CWISI, Backup Exec, Microsoft Fox Pro, Cisco PIX Firewalls, Cisco CAT5500 Switches, Cisco

AS5200, Cisco Secure Software

• Responsible for managing annual IT budget of three million dollars

• Implemented Disaster Recovery Plan For the Entire Organization

Senior Network Administrator (April 1997 -

March 2000)

• Install and maintain all network servers and equipment

• Document system access and subsystems to the internet and WAN links

• Supervised and provided level II support for Help Desk staff

• Implemented Citrix Metaframe 1.8 Server Farm, Secure ICA, Roaming Profiles

• Citrix Nfuse and Metaframe 1.8 Administration

EDUCATION:

Vendor Trained : Proofpoint Technology, Symantec (Vontu, SEIM), RSA(Envision), McAfee,

Crossbeam, Imperva, Palo Alto, Riverbed, Encryption (2009), Sandler Sales Training Methods.

Intense Training Schools Boston, MA (2006)

• Unitek Training Center Santa Clara, CA

(2004)

• CISCO CCIE-Written Certification

• Wave Technologies San Jose, CA

(2001-2002)

• Cisco CCNA/CCNP

• Cisco Security Specialist

• Keiser University Fort Lauderdale, FL

(1996 - 1997)

• DeVry University Toronto, Canada

(1985-1988)

• Herzing University Toronto, Canada

(1980 - 1982)

o Diploma in Computer Programming & Systems Admin

o BASIC, Pascal, PL/1, Cobol, Assembler, RPG I, RPG II

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Six Sigma Yellow Belt

• Project Management Institute Certified (PMP)

• ITIL Foundations Certified

• Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)

• Network Professional (CCNP)

• Cisco Certified Internetwork Engineer (CCIE Routing & Switching -Written)

• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE 4.0)

• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)

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