Louis C. Palermo PMP

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Stormville, New York 12582

abigdy@r.postjobfree.com

(Cell 845-***-****

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

. Seasoned MIS Professional with more than seventeen years of hands on

project management experience dedicated to organizational growth and

profitability.

. Well versed in all System Architectures (Networks, Mini, Micro, and

Legacy Mainframes) in both Fortune 10 as well as small business

environments.

. Experienced in a broad scope of industries: Financial Services (Global

Treasury, Investments, Banking, Audit, Legal, Credit Ratings, Equity

Research, S&P Indices, Commodities), Retail (Food, Beverage, Tobacco),

Insurance (Property, Casualty, Life, Pension, Annuities and Reinsurance),

Healthcare (Medical Billing & Claims Processing, HIT, HIPPA)

Manufacturing (JIT, Lean, Six Sigma, MRP II), Commercial Real Estate,

Paper, Telecommunications (Voice, Data, Wireless, Blackberry, VOIP) R&D

Research, Education, Construction, Publishing & Media fluent in

Operations (Service Delivery), Programming, Systems and Management.

Corporate Specialist in Acquisitions, Mergers, Buyouts, and Divestments

. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior IT Program/Project Manager - Financial Systems Integration

05/ 2010 - Present

Pepsico International Purchase, New York

. Managed an International Program to support the business and systematic

changes related to the PepsiCo acquisition of PBG/PAS. Ensure the proper

setup of PepsiCo Bottling North America (PBNA) Company as a new PepsiCo

division/entity. Ensure full Corporate Systems integration through HQ

function migration and consolidation across several financial systems

. Senior Principle Consultant of Noor Associates, Responsible for multiple

global cross functional projects for all Pepsico Divisions including

Pepsico, Gatorade, Quaker Oats, Frito-Lay and Tropicana.

. Facilitated Four (4) Successful Workstreams - FAST - (Financial - Audit -

SOX - Treasury)

. Financial Workstream Integration - Hyperion - Pepsico Bottler

Integration

. Audit Workstream Integration - ACL Exchange - Data Analytics -

Teammate -Sharepoint

. SOX - Certus 2.75 Upgrade - TASC - Financial controls

. Global Treasury - BRMEdge (Bank Fees), Quantum, Integrity, ReVal

(HedgeRx) Investments - Derivatives. FX Trading, ACT, Insurance

Risk (Property, Casualty, Payroll)

. Orchestrated all Pepsico Bottler Integration Initiatives -Four (4)

Workstreams - Twenty (20) Projects achieving ROI within first year based

on Consolidations and Integration Efforts and Initiatives performed.

. Performed Weekly -Monthly Program-Project Report to full Pepsico Senior

Management - Governance - VP - Director -CTO on a regular and as needed

basis. PMI - PLM -Agile-Waterfall

Senior IT Project Manager

12/ 2008 - 05/2010

McGraw-Hill, Standard and Poors New York, New York

. Senior Principle Consultant of the Latimer Group, Running multiple global

cross functional projects for prestigious clients including Siemens

Corporation, McGraw Hill Family of Companies, JD Power & Associates,

Standard and Poors, McGraw Hill Construction Division, Platts, McGraw

Hill Education.

. Facilitated Three (3) Successful McGraw Hill Corporate Security

Compliance (CIS) Initiatives following McGraw Hill best practices

leading full Global Compliance on Domain Controller Event Logging, Domain

Account Access and Elevated Rights Administration governing Privileged

Access (Sharepoint Pine)

. Orchestrated all Standard & Poor's DataCenter Initiatives (Modernization

- Virtualization) Improved DataCenter capacity from 98% in 2008 to

present 79% into 2010.

. Successfully guided Capital IQ - Server Colocation from previous 55 Water

St location to Newark CAP IQ location (38 physical servers - 78 virtual

servers with EMC Clarion units on time, within scope, within budget)

Senior SAP Solution Consultant - Sr. Project Manager 08/2008 - 10/2008

(Project Funding cancelled)

SAP America -SAP AG. (TEKsystems) New York, New York

. As a Senior SAP Solution Consultant -Functional Sr. Project Manager began

Discovery of interpreting business processes of all CRM Workstreams with

SAP America Team (New York City, NY and Newtown Square, PA) in Global

Rollout of CRM 5.0 to CRM 7.0 Realization Project. Worked closely with

all CRM Workstream Leads to indentify and verify all processes, approach

and timelines.

Performed detailed statistical pivot Tables on all lines of the SAP

America -SAP AG business representing all cost breakdown for Business and

IT, Internal and External. (LE Sales, Marketing, Demand Management,

(Opportunity Management, Lead Management, Campaign Management Partner),

Data Migration and Reporting Analytics.

. Contributed professional expertise toward setup of the Program repository

in the Wiki.( Workstream Status, Milestones, Issues, Risks)

. Crafted a full 58 page Initial Program Charter that the Team will use

going forward.

Principal Project Manager 01/2008 - 07/2008

CSC, Computer Sciences Corp. New York, New York

. Senior Principle Consultant of the CSC Consulting Group, Authored two

White Papers which will be used in Major

Infrastructure Modernization Initiative. First on RPA (Rapid Portfolio

Assessment) and the Second on Software Virtualization. Published and

marketed summer 2008.

. Managed Successful ERP Web Proposal with major Fortune 50 company

following CSC best practices (Catalyst Methodology) leading to new

business for CSC

Senior Certified Project Manager / Program Manager

06/2000 to 01/2008

Philip Morris - Altria Corporate Services -EDS New York, NY

. Business savvy certified Senior Project / Program Manager that has

managed projects from conception to successful implementation for Miller

Brewing, Philip Morris Corporate and Kraft Foods.

. Solid Project Management Methodologies (PMBOK, PMI, COBIT, ITIL, Agile,

SCRUM, Six Sigma, Lean Principles, SAP) have managed multiple projects

concurrently in a cross functional environment effectively using my

excellent business, organizational, team building and communication

skills with a proven track record. (See Honors below)

. As Program Manager, Portfolio managed and lead the Kraft Spin Program (18

Projects, 12 Project Managers, >$20M) which involved successfully

migrating all business critical Legacy applications from Altria

Headquarters to new Kraft environment. Created a Roadmap of Migration

Items to facilitate client in AS-IS versus TO-BE-Kraft environment to

eradicate gaps in current Kraft Foods steady state. Portfolio was

prioritized along with Issues and Risks reported in Weekly Governance.

This achievement (included Data Center Move, New Kraft Network, Backbone

and VLANS, and all Applications on all Wintel, Unix, AS/400, and Legacy

Mainframe platforms) paved the way for the Kraft Spin off from Altria in

March 2007. Effective Implementation was on time and earned me a 2008

ABCD Award (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) Corporate recognition and

bonus

. Coordinated all global multi-platforms, cross functional project team

activities (SDLC) associated with the Global Treasury for over three and

a half years. Global Treasury Systems is Philip Morris' most vital, most

visible financial function - millions of dollars exchanged

internationally daily. Cash Management, Treasury Management, Loans and

Market Risk Management, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives and

Securities. (FI/CO) Developed BPM I/T process maps and a roles /

responsibilities matrix along with Mission Critical Application

Development in Dev-QA-Prod environments.

. Directed and Managed the Kraft International Trading Systems Program

(KTS) (E-Business- B2B -SAP-Oracle 10g, 11i, ERP) which involves the

sales, marketing and distribution of over one hundred seventy (170) Kraft

and Nabisco Products internationally. Oversaw all Projects, Current

Actions, Work Orders and Future Considerations within the Program. Many

projects used SAP ERP SCM with Solution Manager (vital PM Tool) running

against Philip Morris - Altria best practices.

. Directed and managed the Miller Brewing Company Program including the

Sale of Miller Brewing from Philip Morris to SAB (South African

Breweries). Lead the Miller Divestment, within Legal and Audit guidelines

completed project within budget, on schedule within scope. Included all

Financial and Sales and Marketing Applications as well as migration of

all SAP R/3 systems to new service provider -SRP ERP SCM - Brewery

Distribution. Awarded a CIO Award for this effort in May 2003.

. Managed successful SAP ERP CRM implementation for Kraft Canada Project.

Project saved over $125K monthly in worldwide sales distribution as a

result of new Unix Regatta hardware and SAP software upgrades and new

blueprinting, solution build, implementation and rollout. Received ABCD

(Above and Beyond Call of Duty) Award, corporate recognition and bonus

for this Project Completion.

. As Senior Project Manager, created, guided and directed key IT policies

and procedures, which was instrumental in setup and expansion of Philip

Morris PMO when Kraft had acquired Nabisco. Received months of hands on

experience on process and procedures with this successful acquisition

from key stakeholders. New Process and procedures included Weekly,

Monthly and Quarterly Status Reporting. Project Health Status and Project

Portfolio Management with balanced scorecards using ITIL and PMI Best

Practices.

. Managed and coordinated all global project team activities (SDLC) running

several Implementation, upgrades, Maintenance application projects with

the Altria Corporate Finance Group for over two and a half years.

. Lead Mission Critical SAP Application Development and Infrastructure

Upgrades in Dev-QA-Prod Environments using SAP R/3, Blueprinting,

Solution Manager Templates, monitoring, reporting and documentation.

o One vital project involved incorporating Business Warehouse with

SAP MySap front end to access all (FI/CO) Accounts Payable,

Accounts Receivable and General Ledger documents archived in

Documentum repository. This Archiving Solution linked with SAP ERP

Finance (FI/CO) meeting Sarbanes Oxley compliance. SAP Phases-

Project Preparation, Business Blueprint, Realization, Final

Preparation and Go Live and Support. (Wintel, Unix, SAP R/3, Oracle

10g, 11i, ERP)

o Established documented guidelines for Report Execution, Severity

One Ticket Passing Process, Roles and Responsibilities Matrix,

Hierarchy Maintenance and security control.

o Aggressively managed Issues within tight timeframe for SAP FI/CO

production which includes G/L, Fixed Assets, reporting, controlling

A/P and A/R.

. Directed and Guided Altria Corporate IT Program Portfolio overseeing

corporate projects including implementation of Sabanes Oxley Section 404

Internal Control Workbench by Price Waterhouse Cooper as well as

management of large complex projects many with multiple platforms.

. Member of Corporate Steering Committees ( Transposing stakeholder

requirements and key drivers, incorporating best practices into quality

long term, short term business strategies.( full P&L responsibility on

Kraft, Nabisco, PMUSA and Altria Corporate projects (very visible Fortune

10 Environment)

Platform: IBM Unix SPII, Netfinity Windows Servers, VMWare, IBM AS/400, IBM

Mainframes, SAP ERP- (R/3,mySAP,CRM, APO, SCM, FI/CO, MM,) SAP Solution

Manager ( Project Administration, Business Blueprint, Configuration, Test

Workbench), Netweaver, BPM EAI Middleware, Sybase, C#, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g,

11i, AIM, Oracle ERP, DB2, SQL Server, Websphere, Java, C++, J2EE .NET,

FileNet, ASP.NET, MS VB 6.0, SQL Server 7.0, NetIQ - Vigilent, Sarbanes

Oxley, Microsoft Project, Planview, Pacific Edge, EMC-SRDF High

Availability - Business Continuity, Worldwide Global Projects - Global

Treasury

IBM, Tom Watson Research, Poughkeepsie, NY 07/1996 to

06/2000

Senior Certified Project Manager

. Directed and managed the migration of 1,600 UNIX AIX Machines at Watson

Research in a Research Environment successfully on time and within budget

from 1/97 to 3/98

. Successfully Directed and managed the implementation of the One Ahead Hub

in Southbury, Connecticut to assure a hardened site to support the 1996

Olympic Activities held in Atlanta, Georgia

. Guided and Planned the Lotus Notes Backup for IBM Northeast

(Poughkeepsie, Southbury, Somers) for over 62,000 Users. (Full SDLC)

Performed Evaluations to verify Lotus Notes Performance requirements and

make improvements by managing issues for IBM Corporate Lotus Notes

Roadmap in use today.

Platform: IBM RISC 6000 SPII-S/80 - AIX, Microsoft Office, Microsoft

Project 98, Lotus Notes 4.6, 5.0

AT Clayton, Greenwich, CT 11/1993 to 07/1996

Director of Information Systems & Technology

. Developed and implemented numerous policies and procedures governing

successful operations, systems, programming and administrative staff

effectively in Sales / Paper Environment

. Developed Information Systems Security procedures which safeguarded

company assets. (Disaster Recovery Plan) (phases = Communications/

Hardware/ Software/People)

. Initiated, designed and managed complete MIS Departmental form analysis

which improved project scheduling work as well as program documentation

and standards.

. Provided tech support / consultation to 50 UNIX and over 40 PC/Apple Mac

end-users.

Platform: IBM RISC 6000 AIX, Apple 9500 Server - Appleshare, SCo Unix -

System 5.0, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Filemaker

Pro, Snap-Mail, BBX Basic - Facts Accounting System

EDUCATION

State University of New York - Empire State College, Saratoga Springs, NY

B.S., Management Information Systems 1986

Transfer credits from Fordham University, Bronx NY

George Washington University

School of Business and Public Management Washington DC

Master's Certificate in Project Management July

1999

Advanced Master's Certificate in Project Management

September 2003

Advanced Master's Certificate in IT Project Management June

2005

Committees

Process and Procedures Steering Committee

TECWorks, Rye Brook, NY 2003 - 2006

. Mentor and conduct continuous improvements in areas of Project Management

Process and Procedures.

. Have implemented Order of magnitude, budget and definite Cost Estimating

Techniques to the Team.

. Assignment of resource to tasks to provide more accurate resource

allocation leveling has also been accomplished.

Certifications and Designations

PMP - Project Management Professional

PMI # 105508 - Achieved PMP in May 2000

Recertified till May 2013

PMI - Project Management Institute

Philip Morris, Rye Brook, NY 2003

Certified Project Manager by Philip Morris

Altria, New York, NY 2003

Altria Certified Project Management Certification

IBM, C.D.P 1995

Certified Data Processor

Advanced AIX/6000 System Administration

Apple Computer 1995

Certified Apple Macintosh System Administrator

Novell 1996

Certified Netware System Manager

Honors and Awards

Altria Corporate Services - TECWorks May 2003

CIO Award

For successful project execution of Miller Brewing Divestment with

recognition on corporate website and bonus

Special Achievement Award February 2005

For successful NetIQ Vigilent Project completion

Reduced virus threats to all worldwide Altria UNIX, Windows Servers

platforms by 85%.

Corporate recognition, bonus.

ABCD Award December 2005

For "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty - performance on major visible

Kraft Canada SAP CRM Project Go Live completion. Saving over $125K monthly

in worldwide sales distribution. Corporate recognition, bonus.

ABCD Award March 2008

For "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty - performance on Mission Critical

Kraft Spin Off Program. Successfully separating all Kraft Infrastructure

from Altria Corporate making Kraft independent. Corporate recognition bonus

Civic Leadership

Carmel Area Hockey Club Inc., Carmel, NY 1997 to

2002

President

Grass root startup of a Junior varsity - Varsity High School Program in the

Putnam County -Carmel, Mahopac area. Conducted tryouts, assigned USA Hockey

Coaches forming two competitive squads as part of the Mid Hudson Hockey

League out of Poughkeepsie, New York. As President, we setup organization

as a non profit - 501c organization. Close to 68 students went through our

hockey program in four seasons off to play in college hockey programs as

they graduated. The success of our program prompted individual high school

hockey sanctioned Varsity programs in Carmel and Mahopac High Schools still

popular today. This achievement is my own personal legacy.

Addendum II - Additional Industry Experience

* Insurance Frank B. Hall Insurance -

Operations Analyst

Puritan

Insurance - Division of GE - Programmer Analyst

- Developed and Implemented custom Casualty, Liability database which

involved careful auditing by Staff Underwriters for verification and

compliance

- Knowledgeable on all Client Database, Client Billing issues dealing

with Hull Claims, Property, Casualty, Annuities and Capital Markets

- Redesigned many facets of Auto, Life and Home Insurance Modules

producing integrated Billing Claim and Payment Tracking System.

- For over 7 years, I have written code, tested closely with

Underwriters, Actuaries, Account Executives, Business Analysts of

specific piece of business. Accuracy, six sigma principles assured due

to penalties and payout amounts within timeframes

* Healthcare L&M Computer Systems - Management

Consultant

- As Medical Management & Billing Consultants we were a full service 3rd

party billing agency, insuring timely reimbursement to medical

providers. Claims experience with Cardiology, Psychology and Urology

Specialists. We coded, electronically billed insurance companies,

Medicare and Medicaid for Doctor's offices. We followed up with

secondary and Medigap providers and then billing patients for

copayments and coinsurance due. We followed up with the collection

process. We set up Doctor's offices for paperless electronic data

collection. Good working knowledge in HIT (Health Information

Technology) HIPAA, ICD-9-CM, ICD 10, DSM-IV, and CPT coding.

- Evaluated Implemented and Maintained Hospital Scheduling System in

Hospital at Maryknoll focusing on 3 shifts and levels of expertise

needed per shift. Scheduling stressed sense of urgency and integration

with Salary and Claims Administration.

- Background in Medical Imaging, Scanning, CD-ROM Optical Disk Retrieval

for Cardiologist; Head of Nuclear Medicine in Westchester Hospital.

- Implemented technical support / help desk for Health Claims &

Electronic transfer to Blue Cross/ Blue Shield and other Health care

providers (Aetna, Prudential, Empire Plan, Cigna, Magellan, United

Healthcare, and GHI) for Health care providers.

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