Manager Management

Location:

7876

Posted:

October 12, 2010

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16 Honeyman Drive, Succasunna, NJ 07876

SUMMARY: Seasoned professional with over twenty-five years of IT

experience in business analysis, project management, training efforts and

leadership positions. A strong early background in network

administration complemented subsequent roles spent in assessing,

documenting, managing and delivering of multiple simultaneous projects

totaling millions of dollars. Significant areas of expertise include

collaboration solutions, document and records management, and full software

development life cycle support.

PROVEN ABILITIES AND RESULTS

Business Analysis

. Documented business requirements through interviews and workshops and

performed a solution gap analysis leading to the successful project

delivery of a complete Human Resource Records digitization project.

. Developed a taxonomy strategy for a Microsoft SharePoint based

Intranet through feedback from core business leaders.

. Translated multiple collaboration challenges into effective tools

allowing better interaction within corporate teams.

. Produced effort estimations to reliably predict proper resource

allocation.

. Spearheaded software application client interactions and analysis for

a Legal Document Management system.

. Collaborated closely with technical teams through the entire SDLC

process including the development of use case scenarios and UAT

scripts for various software application enhancement projects.

Project Management

. Maintained budgetary constraints and project oversight of multiple

simultaneous document management IT projects worth over a million

dollars.

. Researched and presided over selection of third party vendors to

supplement in-house application and software development efforts.

. Provided primary support and guidance regarding contract

negotiations, required schedules and deliverables.

. Coordinated and collaborated with business end users, application

development teams, and network infrastructure teams to ensure

activities were completed in accordance within project plan timelines.

. Prepared vision statements, executive overviews and cost analyses on

technology proposals for upper management review and approval.

Training

. Provided various types of learning experiences for rollouts of

technical solutions including PowerPoint presentations, live classroom

training, and creation of instructional documents for IT staff and

employees.

. Instituted a first generation corporate media repository system and

development of in-house training videos.

. Organized and led a fact finding committee over a two year period to

investigate and recommend alternatives for a corporate learning

management system.

. Researched and procured a web and video conferencing systems that

became an integral business training tool.

Leadership

. Directed a group tasked with researching and implementing new

solutions to enable a growing, international company to collaborate

more efficiently with internal and external partners.

. Negotiated pricing, RFP proposals, and contract terms with third party

vendors including a half million dollar maintenance contract with

Microsoft.

. Balanced successful delivery of projects and solutions with

responsibilities for addressing business unit issues and challenges.

. Established cohesive teams by hiring, monitoring and mentoring of

direct reports.

KEY PROJECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

. Microsoft SharePoint Intranet - Designed and implemented two separate

environments based on core business feedback and response to corporate

challenges.

. Human Resources Records Digitization - Developed a system to

successfully convert and index 4000 employee record files into a

secure, easily searchable system.

. Agile Development Projects - Oversaw the development cycle of various

implementations ensuring that projected solutions stayed within budget

and met promised timelines. Interfaced between technical teams, third

party support vendors and business users to resolve clarity issues

during analysis and development phases

o Conversion from a manual to an electronic Capital Expenditure

Request system

o Clarification of searchable characteristics and digitization of

Legal Document records

. Internet Website Revamp and Related Technology - Conducted workshops

to elicit business objectives for a revamp of the corporate website

and a replacement for the content management system based on the

Corporate Communications Department's specifications.

. Electronic Corporate Bulletin Board - Devised a revolving presentation

solution for an internal employee corporate communications system,

specified hardware and supervised solution installations at all

facility locations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NEMAR Business Service, LLC, Succasunna, NJ - Owner/Independent Consultant

June 2010 - Present

July 2010 - Present Business Analyst - Global cable company,

New York, NY

Covanta Energy Corporation, Fairfield, NJ

July 1997-June

2010

2009 to June 2010 Business Analyst

2006 to 2009 Manager/Director of Collaboration

Solutions

2003-2006 Manager, Network

Services

1997 - 2003 Network Administrator

Shaw Data Services, Fairfield, NJ (a SunGard Corporation) Network

Admin Supervisor February 1984 - July, 1997

Professional Affiliations

[pic]Secretary of NJ IIBA Chapter

Education

BA, English, Herbert H. Lehman College - Minor in secondary education

References available upon request. (Linked In:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marcia-kasper/1/935/29b)

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