Project Manager Management
Resume:
CORY RUTH
404-***-**** (C)
Atlanta, Georgia http://www.linkedin.com/in/cruth
********@*****.***
FACT SHEET
Fiserv
* Sr. Program/Project Management across 44 business units and 90 data
centers
* 30 Million dollar culminative budget
* 7 Enterprise-wide technology deployments
* 36 IT Compliance projects including assessments and remediation PCI,
SAS70
* Monthly executive status presentation (C-level visibility)
American Express
* Sr. Program/Project Management across 7 technology platforms
* Realized 2.5 Million dollars in annual corporate cost savings
* 3 Data Center Migrations 1 Data Center Build
* 21 IT Compliance projects including assessments and remediation PCI,
SAS70, SOX
MosDeft
* Partner Sr. Client Facing Project Manager
* Managed Multi-national team and off-shore team
* Multi-million dollar client growth campaigns
Sprint
* 7 yrs progressive career movement: Sr. Network Analyst, Project
Manager, Vendor Manager
* Sprint University of Excellence Enterprise Management Development
Program Alumni
* Henson Award Nominee: Professional and Civic Leadership
* Sprint Values Excellence Award Recipient (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004)
Experience
o Server Consolidation/Virtualization
o Third Party Hosting Rationalization
o Active Internet Failover Implementation
o Software Licensing Consolidation
o Trusted Network
o Connection Pooling and DNS Migration
o IVR Implementation
o Network Redesign
o Network Implementation
o Network Service Assurance
o Broadband Metropolitan Area Network (Wireless Data Network
Development)
o Long Duration/Chronic Trouble Report
CORY RUTH
404-***-**** (C)
Atlanta, Georgia http://www.linkedin.com/in/cruth
********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL RESUME
Visionary Strategy Innovative Thought Leadership Collaborative
Management Style Results Orientation
IT Compliance Internal Auditing IS/IT/Telecom Project Management
Vendor Management
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:
> Fiserv. 6/2009 - Present
Sr IT Compliance Program/Project Manager Enterprise Risk and Resilience
Duties and Accomplishments:
* Sr. Program/Project Management across 44 business units and 90 data
centers
* 30 Million dollar culminative budget
* 7 Enterprise-wide technology deployments
* 36 IT Compliance projects including assessments and remediation
* Monthly executive status presentation (C-level visibility)
As senior project manager I am accountable for multiple large/complex
enterprise wide projects. I manage all projects associated with an
enterprise wide assessment of IT standards and compliance across forty-four
different business units specifically network security. This includes
managing the development of project plans, tracking progress, identifying
and communicating risk, aligning senior leadership, performing
environmental profile to determine infrastructure requirements, negotiating
and approving vendor quote, submitting and tracking tool and service
funding request, determine appropriate accounting - that is, how an order
will be paid out from an accounting perspective, submitting capital and
expense items into SAP, driving and tracking approval process, securing
purchase order, ensuring vendor delivery of hardware and software,
negotiating and reviewing SOW, track, reviewing and approving all vendor
invoices, managing contract professional services pool, reporting
financials - including $30 million dollar compliance budget, managing all
technology vendors, approving invoices, review SOW's and contracts,
developing standard reporting for all 44 business units, providing
governance and process across 7 technology deployments and 44 business
units, facilitating external and internal vulnerability remediation,
functional application scan and pen testing, developing and managing
information sharing - including gathering, centralizing and publishing on
SharePoint and developing and presenting monthly executive dashboard to
status CSO and SVP on efforts.
> American Express 1/2007 - 2/2009
Sr. Technical Project Manager Acting Manager Strategic Planning and Ntwk
Ops
Duties and Accomplishments:
* Sr. Program/Project Management across 9 business units
* Realized 2.5 Million dollars in annual corporate cost savings
* 3 Data Center Migrations 1 Data Center Build
* 21 IT Compliance projects including assessments and remediation
Managed the IT Compliance efforts SAS70, PCI DSS and Enterprise Security
Certification Audit. Coordinated the efforts of American Express
Technologies including interpreting control language, interfacing with
auditors, gathering and verifying artifacts as well as mapping requirements
across audits to establish an action plan for gaps and avoid any
duplication of effort. I centralized all artifacts, driving time
constraints, creating managing spreadsheets, facilitating status meetings,
managing emotions, expectations, and efforts of senior management and
project team. I also managed all infrastructure projects including server
consolidation/virtualization, third party hosting rationalization, active
internet failover implementation, software licensing consolidation, trusted
network, etc. I managed the development of project plans, tracking
progress, identifying and communicating risk, aligning senior leadership
and reporting financials. Led network operations team administering LAN/WAN
and Network Security.
> MosDeft Global 08/2003 - 12/2006
Senior Project Manager Consultant
Duties and Accomplishments:
* Partner Sr. Client Facing Project Manager
* Managed Multi-national team and off-shore team
* Multi-million dollar client growth campaigns
I provided strategic business consulting, effective business planning, on-
going business reviews to measure results to a global client base and
project management, leading and directing web development project teams
and delivering project results within the constraints of schedule, budget
and resources. I managed multi-million dollar growth campaigns and
demonstrated the benefit of MosDeft products and services to add business
value to client. I managed a multi-national staff that included designers,
programmers, account managers and was responsible for organizing three
annual conferences with $600,000 budget.
> Sprint Nextel 10/1998 - 11/2005
Sr Network Analyst LEC Service Manager
Duties and Accomplishments:
* Seven years of progressive career movement
* Sr. Network Analyst: Network Redesign; Network Implementation;
Network Service Assurance
* Project Management: Broadband Metropolitan Area Network (Wireless
Data Network Development); Long Duration/Chronic Trouble Reports
* Enterprise Management Development Program Alumni
* Henson Award Nominee: Professional and Civic Leadership
* Sprint Values Excellence Award Recipient (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004)
Led the start up of the new team that included five Network Analyst who
organized and managed Sprints relationship with Local Exchange Carriers
(LEC) in every region to increase company revenue by lowering the average
time to repair a circuit from the initial report to the LEC until its
resolve as well as providing physical layer (LAN/WAN) service assurance
activities in support of Sprint Nextel iDEN and CDMA Wireless Access
Circuits. Managed team of five network analyst who worked to identify
customer transport network problems, isolate root cause, develop action
plans to minimize customer impact and restore service including performing
physical layer implementations of all domestic customers terminating
broadband fiber transport services to encompass Digital Signal Three (DS-3)
and Optical Fiber Carrier (OC-n) levels supporting Sprint's IP, ATM,
Private Line, and Frame Relay product inventories. I provided guidance to
team members in the testing of all service types; managed all aspects of
the team ticket queue; evaluated and directed group training needs;
delegated team work and disseminated information. Prioritized team
workload, accepted first and second level escalations, and collaborated on
annual personnel reviews.
EDUCATION: CISSP Examination Expected Sit Date 12/5/2010 Atlanta,
Georgia
> Villanova University Masters Information Security Management In
Progress 3/2011
> Oglethorpe University Bachelor of Arts History and Political
Science 2010
> Universit t Dortmund Graduate Researcher 2007
> Carver College Bachelor of Arts Biblical Studies 2003
Functional Languages: English, German Studied Languages: English,
German, Spanish, Ancient Greek
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
ISO 9001:2000, ISO 27001, COBIT, SAS-70, SOX and PCI DSS audit
requirements.
Network penetration testing and security assessments.
UNIX, Windows, NT/2000, Netware, firewalls, Cisco routers, intrusion
detection.
Job scheduling, Active Directory, Disaster recovery, systems controls,
network controls, etc.
48 hrs Project Management Course Work 12 yrs Project Management
Experience
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT:
> Hope Scholar, DAAD Scholar, Halle Scholar, Harold Hearst Scholar,
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