Project Manager Management

VINCENT J. CARUSO

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Bloomingdale, IL 60108 abj3x6@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Broad range of successful IT experience with 20+ years in large systems

development. Specific expertise in project planning and management, as well

as project design and implementation. Diverse track record of success in

consulting and corporate assignments with a wide variety of technical

hardware and software systems. Excellent written and oral communication

skills; experience includes proposal and RFP preparation, presentations,

performance evaluations and appraisals and team member mentoring.

Expertise includes IT Management, IT Planning, Project Management, Proposal

Development, Systems Development Management, Systems Design, Database

Design, Software Configuration Management and Negotiating Vendor Contracts

and Budget Management. Extensive technical Applications and Systems listed

at end.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CNA Insurance, Chicago, IL 1999 - 2009

Senior Tech Lead Software Configuration Management (SCM) 2002 - 2009

Team was responsible for the Version Management of CNA's code. CNA has

monthly code releases. SCM is a responsible for moving code from

environments, and ensures that development has no access to the code in non-

development environments.

. Led team of 12 application engineers and outside consultants in multiple

projects in Software Configuration Management.

. Selected tool and led team in the migration from Serena' PVCS to

Dimensions CM providing Development with the necessary platform for its

parallel development needs and increased productivity.

. Selected tool and led team in the migration from OpenMake to Meister

which resulted in a 40% reduction in build time allowing Development to

increase their productivity.

. Led team in automating the SCM processes using BuildForge as the

procedural tool. This resulted in a 30% increase in the team's

productivity.

. Led team in three different ENDEVOR upgrades providing a stable and

maintainable platform for the mainframe developers.

. Led team in the creation of an automated Work Intake tool to address the

hundreds of work requests received daily. This automation resulted in a

10% increase in productivity.

. Created SCM standards, Workflows, job duties and metrics which provided

the SCM team and development increased productivity.

. Managed $8M budget for payments to outside vendors for license fees,

usages, upgrades for five SCM tools.

Director/Application Development Manager 1999 - 2002

Teams were responsible for Risk Management and Claims applications in

development System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) activities.

. Led team of 10 to 12 in programmers and analysts.

. Was responsible for 10 claims applications including CMD, FNOL, Claims

Desktop.

. Selected tool and led team in the upgrade of its Case Management Desktop

tool. This was an 18 month effort done in partnership with the vendor and

IBM. Increased user functionality and efficiencies resulted in an

additional $2 million in revenue annually.

. Was responsible for nine risk management applications including

Clearview, IRIS, CIMS, MBP.

. Led team in the creation of its Medical Bill Pay application, which

generated over $1 million in additional revenue in its first year.

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SPR INC., Oak Brook, IL 1995 - 1999

Consultant

Project Manager - CNA Insurance

. Led an Application Outsourcing project to develop a proposal, plan and

cost estimate for the Risk Management Division for this, one of the

world's premier insurance organizations.

. Led a team of 11 consultant and client subject matter experts in the

successful transition and implementation of this planned outsourcing

effort.

. The CNA Risk Management portfolio contained over 250 programs on multiple

platforms (MVS, Teradata, UNIX, and PC/LAN) and a variety of languages

(COBOL, Telon/ CICS, Teradata SQL, Oracle, Sybase, and Visual Basic).

. Team was fully responsible for day to day problem solving and support, AD

HOC reporting requests, providing support to User Requests and

implementing minor enhancement requests.

. Team provided 7x24 support.

. Performance levels were monitored and measured against developed Service

Level Agreement.

Project Manager - Dana Spicer/Axel

. Led a Century Compliance project to implement an enterprise wide plan to

remediate entire portfolio for this major Midwest auto and truck parts

manufacturing company.

. Twelve-member team included consultants and subject matter experts from

within the client company.

. The Dana portfolio was virtually all mainframe (MVS, IDMS, ADS/O CICS

CULPRIT, and Assembler).

. Primary focus was on CAS Manufacturing System, an integrated IDMS package

no longer supported by CA. Data expansion compliance solution. Over 2,500

programs evaluated.

. Dana is a Ft. Wayne, Indiana company. This project was conducted from

SPR's Virtual Insourcing Center in Oak Brook with remote access to Dana's

mainframe.

Project Manager - Additional Projects/Multiple Companies

Led Century Compliance Projects for multiple companies including Kraft

Foods, Navistar and Signature Insurance

Activities included:

. Needs assessment and proposal preparation winning $4.5M in project

business.

. Led implementation team of 12 members in projects that ranged from 4

months to 30 months

. Complex technical requirement for Kraft included 500 applications on a

series of different platforms (VM, MVS, AS/400, HP UNIX, HP 9000, and

PC/LAN) and 25 different languages.

. Individual project required interfacing with as many as nine separated

business units within the client company.

. Projects included total life cycle from proposal, creation and management

of consultant and client payroll budget, establishment of project plan

and deadlines, cross-functional communications, writing of technical

documentation and deliverables.

THE BRADFORD EXCHANGE, Chicago, IL 1993- 1995

Project Manager, Marketing & Operations/Financial Systems

. Managed a staff of eight programmers and analytical resources in the

development of new systems and support applications. Staff comprised of

internal and consultant personnel.

. Led multiple projects from steering committee through implementation.

. Led project to replace an existing mainframe Wholesale/Retail Business

System with a Packaged Software solution.

. Participated in the development and installation of a Packaged Solution

(DATAMAN) for a catalog business.

. Planned and coordinated the marketing system and data portion of a

company-wide operations outsourcing effort.

. Supported Bradford developed applications related to Customer Offer

Generation, Inventory Control, Returns Processing, Wholesale Distribution

and Financial Reporting.

. Supported MSA (D&A) Financial Packages for General Ledger and Accounts

Payable.

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WORLD BOOK DIRECT MARKETING, Evanston/Chicago, IL 1988 - 1992

Manager, MIS

. Directed the entire MIS operation, including Systems Development and

Programming, MIS Planning, Hardware and Data Entry Outsourcing and

Database Marketing support for a company whose sales exceed $42 million

annually.

. Managed a staff of 10-12 supervisory and data processing professionals.

. Reduced mainframe computer expenses by over $700,000 annually.

. Reduced order processing costs by 15% over internal costs.

. Developed a 3-year MIS plan that outlined the hardware and software

platforms that would be used to totally replace the 900+ programs

currently being run in production. Projected savings of $150,000 to

$200,000 of false start and retrofitting costs.

. Managed the development of new applications or enhancements to existing

systems that allow the marketing group features required to achieve their

corporate objective of 10% growth annually.

Programming Manager 1985 - 1988

Senior Systems Analyst 1980 - 1985

Systems Analyst 1979 - 1980

Business System Consultant 1978 - 1979

User/System Liaison 1976 - 1978

Mail Order Staff - Analyst 1972 - 1976

EDUCATION

Loyola University-Political Science

College of DuPage-Associate Degree

International Institute for Learning - successfully completed The Project

Management Certificate Program: The Kerzner Approach to Project Management

Excellence

Currently working toward Certification as a Project Management Professional

(PMP)

TECHNICAL

Hardware: IBM 3080, 3090, AMDAHL, Teradata, UNIX, MVS, RS6000,

Honeywell 6000.

Database: ADABASE, IDMS-R, IDMS, IDMS/DC, IDS, IDS II, Sybase,

Oracle.

On-line: ADS/O, CICS, NATURAL, Telon CICS, Oracle, CICS, Java

J2EE, XML-HTML.

Languages: Assembler (BAL), COBOL, COBOL II, COBOL 370, CLIPPER, Visual

Basic, EASYTRIEVE, CULPRIT, DYL 280, CLIST, Basic, Foxpro,

Java, Perl Scripting.

Other Software: MVS, MVS XA, MS-DOS, VSAM, Panvalet, Librarian,

TSO/ISPF/SPF, ABEND AID, Windows 3.1, Windows '95, NT,

INFORMIX, DBASE III+, FoxPro, Windows 2000, UNIX.

Tools: TIMELINE, MS OFFICE (Excel, Word, Access, Power Point), Word

Perfect, MultiMate, Lotus 1-2-3, Nutshell, Project Work

Bench, Excelerator (CASE), Teamplay, E-time, MS Project,

PeopleSoft, TeamTrack,

SCM Tools HARVEST, Stat, PVCS Version Manager, OpenMake, Dimensions CM,

Meister, IBM WebSphere Application Server/WSAD/RAD6/7,

Eclipse, IBM BuildForge, Remedy, ANT, SQL, ENDEVOR.

Methodology: Structured Development and Design, System Development Life

Cycle, Spectrum, Method 1, 4Front, YOURDON, BACHMAN,

Framework.

Applications: McCormick & Dodge, MSA, PRISM, D&B, LPC, Group1,

Credit/Collection, Inventory Control, Invoice/Billing,

Order Entry, Sales Analysis, Marketing, A/P, A/R, Cost

Accounting, General Ledger, Taxes, Bill of Material,

Facility Mgmt, Job Accounting, Labor Distribution,

Materials Req., Production Control, Purchasing, Scheduling,

MRP, Direct Marketing, Risk Management, Case Management,

Medical Bill Pay, Claims, Software Configuration

Management.

Network: Novell, Ethernet, Windows XP 2003, PC/LAN, UNIX HP.

Other: Department Org., I/T Architecture, JAD Techniques, Project

Planning, Ratings/Reviews, Technical Writing,

SDLC/Methodology Dvlp. Standards Dvlp.

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