Project Manager Management
Resume:
Patrick Joseph Brady
Plymouth, MI 48170
Email: abigb8@r.postjobfree.com
Patrick is a certified PMP with over seven years experience in IT Project Management.
He has proven leadership skills in managing cross-functional teams of 5-30 people and
outstanding organizational skills. Patrick has high personal integrity, is dependable,
reliable and has an excellent record of meeting and exceeding goals. He is a team
builder with strong written and verbal communication skills.
EXPERIENCE
. Over 11 years of IT industry experience in utilities, health care,
financial services, automotive, and retail with roles participating in all
phases of project life cycle across major technology platforms.
. Proven expertise in the IT industry with management experience spanning a
variety of application development environments including traditional
development, rapid application development and large complex projects.
. Experience spanning both web-based and client server application
development projects.
. Extensive experience in infrastructure based projects and programs in
data center migration, server consolidation, service management and
storage optimization.
. Successful management of projects within a demanding business
environment, with budgets ranging from $250K - $10M.
GMAC
August 2008 - Current
Program Manager and PMO Manager
. Responsible for initiating, designing, architecting, planning,
executing, controlling, and closing complex information technology
projects using a formal project management methodology.
. Managing $200M program and $7.5M project concurrently.
. Managing the project budgets and overall project communications.
. Developed well defined Statements of Work and Budgets.
. Developing and presenting project related presentations for executive
leadership.
. Adhereing to Project Management Office policies, procedures and
methodologies.
. Managing technical staff to resolve known issues
. Managing and coordinating system testing of the new clinical
workstations
Coretek Services Inc.
April 2008 - August 2008
Sr. Project Manager
. Responsible for initiating, designing, architecting, planning,
executing, controlling, and closing complex information technology
projects using a formal project management methodology.
. Managing multiple projects of moderate size concurrently.
. Managing the project budgets and overall project communications.
. Developed well defined Statements of Work and Budgets.
. Assisting in establishing and improving project management
methodologies, procedures and policies.
. Coaching and mentoring individuals on the project teams and provide
feedback on performance to their leaders.
. Developing and presenting project related presentations for executive
leadership.
. Adhereing to Project Management Office policies, procedures and
methodologies.
. Consulting with the customer's management team to develop tactical
plans to implement their next generation desktop strategy.
. Managing the development of requirements for Operating Room PACS
viewing
. Managing the technical recommendation of Operating Room PACS viewing
for multiple hospitals
. Cooridinating the installation and configuration of VMware and
supporting infrastructure
. Managing technical staff to resolve known issues
. Managing and coordinating system testing of the new clinical
workstations
Borders Group Inc.
Mar 2007 - April 2008
Service Delivery Lead
Mar 2007 - April 2008
. Developed the overall project plans for many technical services
projects: Enterprise Portal, Online Inventory Control, Remote Access,
Managed Security Services, PC Firewall, and File Integrity Monitoring
. Managed the resource allocations of infrastructure staff to contribute
to application development
. Worked with the architects and developed the processes for improving
Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance
. Managed resources in the planning efforts for the product selections
. Managed vendor selections
. Conducted and facilitated weekly business review meetings among
stakeholders and monitored the progress of the project tasks and team
members with timely issue resolution.
. Managed the project budgets and overall communications.
Accenture July
1999 - March 2007
Nielsen Inc. - Project Manager for Data Center Migration
Sep 2006 - Mar 2007
. Developed the overall project plan to inventory the existing assets
and applications, prepare necessary documentation, coordinate vendors,
ensure future data center readiness, and execution quality
. Worked with the architects and developed the process for transferring
data files from the sending location to the receive location
. Managed client resources in the planning efforts for the preparation
of the future data center facility
. Managed the vendor selection for moving the equipment and vendors
responsible for the recertification of hardware
. Conducted and facilitated weekly business review meetings among
stakeholders and monitored the progress of the project tasks and team
members with timely issue resolution
. The intent of this project is to reduce IT spend through the reduction
of facilities and personnel costs
. Developed the wave binder including asset inventory, contact list,
fall back plan, contingency plan, backup plan, storage requirements,
hour by hour plan, spare parts list, application test scripts, etc.
Ardent Health Services - Project Manager for Data Center Migration
Mar 2006 - Sep 2006
. Initiated the project by working with customer to create the project
charter and project plan. Worked with customer and business groups to
gather initial business requirements and translate into operation
deliverables.
. Managed the 30+ member team (Accenture, client, and contractors) to
collect inventory, develop migration strategies, and detailed
migration plan
. Responsible for managing the overall budget, staffing, construction,
and logistics for moving from three sites
. Forecasted the cost breakdown of expense/capital budget required for
the project and established metrics to measure planned and actual
spending against the project's budget of $1.2M in capital and $1.0M in
expense.
. Managed the day to day activities of the project and monitored project
financials with frequent updates to senior management on the health of
the project.
. Conducted and facilitated weekly business review meetings among
stakeholders and monitored the progress of the project tasks and team
members with timely issue resolution.
. The intent of this project was to reduce IT spend through the
reduction of facilities, data contracts and hardware maintenance costs
. Realized over $1M annualized savings in facilities, data network
contracts, and hardware maintenance
. Developed the wave binder including asset inventory, contact list,
fall back plan, contingency plan, backup plan, storage requirements,
hour by hour plan, spare parts list, application test scripts, etc.
. Interviewed application owners to understand the interdependencies of
the health care applications (downtime tolerances, backup schedules,
etc.)
. Contacted health care application vendors to review application
support agreements and better understand application certification
levels in a virtualized environment
Nielsen Inc. - Project Manager for IT Optimization
Dec 2005 - Feb 2006
. Managed the detailed design team; responsibilities included
development of to be architecture, identify consolidation
opportunities using VMWare
. Developed detailed business cases to justify the transformation costs
to achieve a savings of $4MM annually
. Managed implementation planning work effort to detail the team and
tasks
Best Buy - Program Manager for IT Transformation - Storage Optimization
Jun 2005 - Nov 2005
. Coordinated and Managed cross functional teams for the storage
optimization program. Directly responsible for the daily project
related activities of resources with an overall budget of $2.0M
. Worked closely with Senior Management to identify and formulate
project plans during the planning stages of this program and also
helped Best Buy determine the infrastructure requirements
. Monitored the work load of team members and progress of the project
with timely updates to Best Buy/Accenture management
. Applied industry standard program management techniques to the
existing business process and tailored them to meet the business
requirements
. Developed detailed design including architecture, reporting, and
alerting
. Developed detailed business cases to save client over $4 MM annually
. Program manager of three teams to implement SRM application on time
and under budget
. Managed software vendor to provide assistance in executing a proof of
concept
Northwestern Mutual - Project Manager for IT Operations Benchmark
Apr 2005 - Jun 2005
. Assisted the technology director in identifying areas for annual cost
savings of $4 MM from a $97 MM budget through asset management,
storage management, and governance restructuring initiatives
. Managed clients and consultant team in identifying areas for service
cost reduction in efficiencies in change and capacity management
. Interviewed client employees to provide a baseline for current
maturity of operations
PPL - Project Manager for IT Transformation
Sep 2004 - Apr 2005
. Assisted the CIO in identifying areas for annual cost savings of $6 MM
from a $57 MM budget in maintenance contracts, servers, storage,
workstations, printers, cellular, pda, pagers
. Assisted clients in identifying areas for service cost reduction in
developing efficiencies in the help desk, voice phone billing, and
evaluating network contracts
. Managed two analysts who were responsible for developing asset
inventories, TCO models, and business case
. Collected all asset information (Config database, Storage reports,
workstation asset db). Ensured accuracy of data provided by
stakeholders through client review sessions
. Identified and classified key IT Transformation opportunities
. Collected information on existing Storage Attached Network (SAN)
environment and held meetings to obtain SAN information through
multiple sources
. Categorized assets into logical groupings for consolidation
recommendations
. Engaged Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to validate cost savings
estimates
. Reviewed business cases for in-flight projects
. Estimated cost and benefits for over 65 projects
Lucent Technologies - Project Manager for Server Consolidation
Jun 2004 - Aug 2004
. Assisted client in re-writing SLAs for contract with to-be service
provider
. Developed high-level design for Exchange 2003 environment including
server count and datacenter locations
. Aided the sale of a large server consolidation engagement
The BBC - Project Manager for IT Outsourcing
May 2004 - Jun 2004
. Developed and presented plan for reducing internet operating costs by
20% in the first two years to assist in reaching an overall operating
cost reduction of 40% in the first three years
. Responded to the 50+ requirements in the internet area and supported
the server, storage, and security areas
. Provided detailed firm credentials in the internet area through
navigation of internal resources
. Developed pricing model based on Server Processing Units (SPUs) to
benefit the client and service provider
Exelon - Project Manager for Infrastructure Consolidation
Jan 2004 - Apr 2004
. Gathered asset information for the entire mid-range server environment
. Managed BNDA (3rd party) to perform asset discovery
. Performed TCO analysis of current environment
. Coordinated development of High-Level Design for future environment
. Interviewed hosting providers to obtain detailed information of the
environment to set initial reduction estimates
CSAA - IT Consultant for Server Consolidation
Sep 2003 - Dec 2003
Server Consolidation Sept 2003 - Dec 2003
. Performed TCO analysis of current environment and developed a business
case to achieve $5.6 MM in annual savings from a $ 13.7 MM TCO
. Developed a Server Inventory Matrix This deliverable updates the
current matrix maintained by CLIENT with information to support the
categorization and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models Data will
define geography, hardware, capacity, asset management, and financials
. Completed Stage 0: Server Inventory and As-is Assessment
. Assisted in developing an As Is Infrastructure Blueprint This
deliverable provides a high-level diagram of the physical platform
e.g., data center sites, networks, storage and existing servers
. Assisted in developing a High Level Business Case and TCO Analysis
Framework this deliverable was intended to provide a framework and
samples to assess TCO. This will include key metrics on costs from
CLIENT's infrastructure service provider, as well as key direct costs
incurred by CLIENT to manage the environment
. Provided SAN Target Architecture High-level SAN options, storage high
level design
. Developed Tracking Metrics Templates for tracking server consolidation
and application rationalization savings metrics
. Prioritized Optimization Opportunities The optimization opportunities
will be prioritized by ease of implementation and business case impact
. Completed Stage 2a: High-Level Design, Application to Server mapping,
and Storage Recommendations
. Developed an Application Categorization Prioritized list of servers to
be optimized. Scores applied to various categories to apply a method
to the ranking
. Developed Server Board of Review process, roles and responsibilities,
and Server Request Form
DaimlerChrysler - IT Consultant for Server Consolidation
Nov 2002 - Jun 2003
Server Consolidation Nov 2002 - Jun 2003
. Server Consolidation pilot Project Management Office
. Supervised the three month server consolidation pilot (reduced 11
servers to 9)
. Coordinated technical resources to design, build, and test the
consolidated, externally hosted environment
. Server Consolidation consultant
. Identified potential reductions of 27% of identified costs,
specifically an annual savings of $19.4MM
. Used Mercury Interactive's Site Scope to gather utilization data for a
subset of servers
. Assisted in writing and evaluating RFQ for Managed Hosting Services
. Placed first in forced ranking of 20+ Accenture consultants at this
client
. Obtained/Scrubbed/Updated the Asset Management Information in MS
Access 'Server Database'
. Developed detailed reports with information to be shared with client
directors
. Installed and configured software (Mercury Interactive's SiteScope) to
obtain CPU, Memory, and disk utilization data for a select group of
servers
Duke Energy IT Consultant
Risk Management Information Systems
Dec 2001 - Nov 2002
. Custom software development to report the accuracy of the system
. Developed ETL programs for near realtime application and detailed
application flow diagrams
. Developed detailed designs for data transformation, market data
transformations, and exception handling
. Developed detailed application flow diagrams
Duke Energy IT Consultant
Risk Management Information Systems
Jan 2001 - Dec 2001
. Custom software development to collect data from multiple stores and
replicate to central data store near real-time.
. Built a messaging infrastructure capable of moving eventtypes from
both RMIS and TriplePoint to SAS
. Designed message model based on the data integration team's logical
and physical data models and event models
. Validated message format (Assessed XML Alternatives, serialized beans,
and text parsing)
NutraBid.com - IT Analyst for eProcurement Implementation
May 2000 - Oct 2000
. Implemented nonnative shopping cart functionality in Moai's
LiveExchange.
. Created user specific web pages (i.e. Orders, Auctions created, Bids
placed, etc.), created site email templates
BioSpace.com - IT Analyst for eProcurement Implementation
Jan 2000 - May 2000
. Developed an eProcurement website using the Moai API and developed
relationships with the vendor
. Facilitated meetings with the client to determine the GUI standards
and content for the product
DaimlerChrysler - IT Analyst for Sales support IT Implementation
Jul 1999 - Nov 1999
. Applied the project development standards and practices to assigned
tasks (Programming standards, application architecture design, error
handling approach, logging approach etc..)
. Developed and unit tested the user interface and activity layer for
various application areas of the application
TECHNICAL SKILLS
PM Tools: MS Project, Visio, ADM Project Workbench, Microsoft
Excel/PowerPoint/Word
Software Tools: Microsoft Visual Basic, BDNA, Mercury Interactive
SiteScope, Moai, Progress Sonic MQ, VMWare. UNIX Shell, Server
Side Visual Basic Script, JavaScript, HTML, Microsoft Access,
IIS, Java, COM/OO methodology, TOAD, PVCS, Struts, Ant, Xerces,
Xalan, Log4J, IBM Websphere, Apache Tomcat, Java, XML, C, SQL,
SAS
Platforms: Windows XP/2000/NT/98/95, AIX UNIX
Certifications: PMP
TRAINING
PM Training: Core Manager School, Accenture, 2004. Core Consultant
School, Accenture 2003. Leadership Skills for New Supervisors,
Accenture, 2004
Other Training: Storage Networking Bootcamp, Infinity I/O, 2006. Moai
LiveExchange Auctions www.moai.com, 2000. eCOMMERCE SYSTEMS
DELIVERY/ MSRESOURCES, Accenture, 2000. HandsOn Java Programming
course 471, The learning tree international, 1999
EDUCATION
Michigan State University B.S. in Chemical Engineering,
1998 East Lansing, MI
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2007 - present Project Management Institute -
member
2004 - present Detroit Old Newsboys Goodfellows
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