Project Manager Management

IT PROJECT AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Extensive experience in IT management leading special projects,

applications development, production support, and process improvement

efforts. Managed direct, third party, and offshore development resources;

keeping within time and budgetary constraints for mission critical

projects. Champion for process improvement within IT providing for

substantial cost reductions, enhanced audit capabilities, and customer

satisfaction. Expertise in requirements gathering, data architecture,

validation and documentation in cGMP and SOX regulated environments. Key

industries include pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, foods,

telecommunications, insurance, media, finance, and cosmetics.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Engaged in successful projects at some of today's most influential

companies. Enforced and facilitated use of SDLC methodology by building and

designing tools, templates, and procedures. PMI Project Management

Professional (PMP) certified.

Complex Cross Functional Project and Applications Development Management.

. Full SDLC; Initiate, Design, Build, Test (Functional and Regression),

and Implementation.

. Blue Printing, Consensus Building, Initiated Development Standards and

Best Practices.

Applications Background -Manager, Business Analyst, Data Architect, and

Programmer.

. SAP ABAP, Reports-Interfaces-Customization-Enhancements-Forms (RICEF).

. ERP Interfaces: EDI, ALE, ETL (BW Generic Extractors), EAI.

. Relational database design, SQL, System Integration Architecture Design.

. Unix & Windows C/C++ programming skills, Class Instruction, Technical

Mentoring.

. Web-site development using Apache, HTML, JavaScript, and Adobe Photoshop.

. MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio Flow Diagrams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager/Consultant - Johnson and Johnson 2010

Project Manager for several projects as part of a corporate restructuring

program focused on realizing value from consolidating local Business Unit

IT services, and transitioning to a Global Services organization. Organized

Charter kickoff presentation meetings and facilitated workshops bringing

together leads from the Business IT, Global services IT, Finance, HR,

Compliance, and the Vendor Management Organization in order to determine

current demand, resources, and build out of the consolidated Global

Services organization.

IT Manager - L'Oreal USA

2008 to 2010

Directed onshore/offshore development teams for on time delivery for two

full lifecycle implementations as part of a $120 M project and received a

series of performance bonuses. Coordination of cross team development, work

plan updates, and performance reporting. Development of robust PMO

processes for integrated change management.

. Negotiated $100 K cost reductions in purchase of change management

workflow software and associated vendor services.

. Reduced annual vendor costs $70K by streamlining change management

processes.

. Participated in global design and gap analysis to determine workload and

time estimates for development object deliverables.

. Managed global staff for production support initiatives concurrently with

key project rollout.

. Presented status and performance metrics for consolidated, cross

functional view, to senior management during regular PMO meetings.

Development Manager - DSM Nutritional Products 2006 to 2008

Provided hands on technical development of SD and FI user exits and IDOCS

required for support of eCommerce Order Entry system and B2B Invoice.

Custom fields and processing were required for IDOC fields and optional

segments on the Material Master, Product Catalog, and Customer Master as

well as transactional Sales data. Configured Partner Profile and output

types for final destination of Webmethods interface to the web.

. Implemented planning and status requirements as well as best practices

for development standards and code design reviews improving quality and

turnaround time for user requests.

Technical Team Lead and Business Analyst - Unilever NA 2005 to 2006

Initiated file interface review and garnered consensus for implementing

best practices. Analyst for upgrade to SAP Netweaver. Programming for

Production (PP-PI) and Source-Make systems.

. Project Manager on Sarbanes Oxley remediation for all North American Sap

servers ensuring compliance for a 15 billion dollar corporate enterprise.

. Led technical design effort to develop a framework that replaced custom

point-to-point interfaces with ALE/IDOC standard. This process

improvement greatly reduced nightly support issues and associated costs

of quality related to missing data in downstream applications.

Managing Consultant - American Computer Resources; LLC 1998 to 2005

Independent SAP ERP consulting for high profile and Fortune 100 companies

including Coach Leather, West-Ward Pharmaceutical, US Army, Phoenix

Marketing (Express Scripts Company), BMW, VNU Media, ABC/Walt Disney,

Lucent, Centre Solutions (Zurich Centre Group), Pearson (Simon and

Schuster) and Warner Lambert (Pfizer).

CERTIFICATIONS

PMI PMP Certified

EDUCATION

MS/MGE - Computer Science/Management Engineering:

Long Island University: CW Post

BS - Psychology/Business Economics:

State University of New York: Oneonta

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