Project Manager Engineer

Ovi Caravan

BS, GIAC SANS, MCSE, CNE

925-***-**** . ********@*******.***

PROFILE

. Large-scale IT Project Management ERP (SAP, OracleR11/R12), Hyperion,

Agile, CRM (SalesForce )

. IT Strategy Development and Execution

. Technical Team Leadership

. IT Professional Services Development and Operations

. Project Management, Time Management System, and Budget Planning

. Global Enterprise Data, VoIP and Video Networking, BCP/DR

. Multi-tier Integrated Enterprise Application Services Delivery

KEY SKILLS

. Project Management - Planned and managed complex infrastructure

projects, deployments, and implementations from their inception to

production, with teams from 3 to 27 technical specialists.

. Financial Management - Managed and directed every element of major

multi-million dollar projects, including development of proposals,

initial project set-up, and budget allocation.

. Personnel Management and Team Building - Managed technical teams:

hired/laid off, trained, and helped develop careers.

. Sarbanes-Oxley, ITIL, CMR, CFR21 Part11- Implementation/Compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NetLogic Microsystems (RMI Corp acquired by NetLogic Microsystems Nov 2009)

2008 - present

Director IT Operations

. Responsible for IT Strategic Planning, Budget/Vendor Oversight,

Network Administration, Web Development, Wireless & Remote, 24x7

System Support, Security, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance, Network

Infrastructure, VoIP, Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), Business

Continuity Planning (BCP), Virtualization (VMware), Upgrades,

Migrations, and Best Practices for all RMI locations. Transform IT

into a strategic business partner.

. Designed organizational structure and roles for Information Systems,

Information Management and Information Technology teams aligned with

business unit plans.

. Performed Risk Assessment for computer community, insurance, internal

control preparations, prevention and cost, auditing & legal. Evaluated

critical needs to review/examine functional operations, key personnel,

and information processing systems, documentation, vital records,

policies & procedures

. Implementation, support, and maintenance for business related

applications: Oracle 12R (bring-up new modules), Clear Case, Agile,

EDI, GRID (over 400 servers, and 150 TB (SAN/NAS) stored on NetApp,

and EMC Clarion, CISCO 6509, PIX &ASA - over 8000 sf data center)

. Mentor, Leader, Team builder; Enterprise-wide change management.

. Enterprise policy creation and implementation, strategic technology

and business planning; trained staff on ITIL, Cobit and standard

duties of leadership, compliance and best practices.

. Responsible for all the technology aspects, in a multi OS environment:

Active Directory, Exchange, Linux (Red Hat), Sun, Lotus Notes, Oracle

ERP, Agile, BlackBerry Enterprise.

. Implemented Computer System Validation for computers, servers, network

equipment dedicated to engineering labs.

Veraz Networks (consultant)

2007 - 2008

Global IT Manager

. Responsible for end-to-end technology initiatives. Direct liaison and

program manager, between technologists and the executive team. Led day-

to-day operations of application delivery and development,

network/server administration, help desk, and data center management

operations: SUN, Active Directory, Exchange, NetApp, and VMware.

. Provided IT leadership, project management, relationship partnering,

and budget planning strategic and tactical technology direction.

. Managed all phases of multiple projects including project charter

development and development of preliminary project scope statements,

scope planning and definition, cost management, quality management,

risk management; directed and managed projects execution, monitored

and controlled all project work across multiple projects, developed a

comprehensive integrated change control process for the entire defense

media center and supervised all project closures with seamless

handoffs.

. Served as the key relationship manager between internal customers and

executive team. Solved client business issues with efficient

application of technology services.

. Worked with global diverse teams (California, India, Israel, France,

and Brazil) in a matrix managed environment, internal and external;

planned and executed the engineering globalization service.

. Responsible for understanding and managing financials and P&L,

budgeting, forecasting and managing all aspects of the account and

service offerings.

QuickLogic

2005-2007

DIRECTOR IT

. Manage/controls the activities of all IT functional areas, divisions,

local and remote groups through managers with overall responsibility

for the direction of those assigned areas (lead IT across various

geographic locations - global distributed environment) - mixed

environment MS Windows, Unix/Linux, Novell Netware.

. Establish IT directions and standards, also maintained relationships

with internal business partners, external suppliers, and managed

outsourced applications (vendors, third party companies, consultants),

drove the strategic development of industry-leading, company-wide,

information technology infrastructure.

. Strategic planning of IT infrastructure (capacity planning in a fast

growth environment), service levels, disaster recovery/business

continuity (VMWare & NetApp), staffing and operating policies and

procedures to support overall business vision and goals.

. Developed and implemented comprehensive, information systems

infrastructure to ensure users' needs are met, also maintained

business related applications: Oracle 11i ERP, Hyperion, Model

N/Azerity, Brio, Optio, EDI, Diver, ClearCase, Acme, MS SQL, MySQL

. Maintain all the R&D and Engineering labs, providing 24x7x365

logistic, best practice, support

. Managed deployments for new voice system over IP protocol (VoIP) -

coordinated the deployment to local and remote offices.

Lightconnect Inc. (company acquired by NeoPhotonics)

2001-2005

DIRECTOR IT OPERATIONS

. Built (ground-up) and directed the corporate IT function, supporting

(24x7x365) global business operations with remote offices. Hired,

trained and managed a high-performance staff of 8 (Manager Operations,

Network Engineer, System Administrators, Developers, Technicians).

. Developed both short/long term strategic plan to move company in

direction to meet and exceed corporate growth plans. Forecasting,

tracking, and controlling the information technology annual operating

and capital budgets. Created and presented to VP of Finance the Global

IT Strategic Plan and established Quarterly IT Business Review

Processes for executing Corporate IT goals against Capital and Expense

Budgets

. Outlined corporate IT security, disaster recovery (DRP), and business

resumption (BCP), and planned capacity for fast growth environment.

. Managed ERP implementation project (Oracle ERP): a team of 3 internal

engineers, and the vendor implementation team. Also worked on the FIS

design (Factory Information System) procedures to increase and improve

data gathering and to ensure data integrity and availability.

. Depending on project, responsibilities included hands-on contribution

such as Information Architecture, New Product Service & Technology

Launch, IS/IT Strategy & Execution, Enterprise IT Systems, and Global

ERP Implementations.

. Implemented Computer System Validation for computers, servers, network

equipment dedicated to optical labs.

. Management/coordination/support for all IT Infrastructure projects

(CISCO routers/switches, NAS, SAN, COMPAQ, HP, SUN, EMC, DELL, NetApp

servers, Juniper-Netscreen VPN/Firewall boxes, desktops, SIEMENS PBX-

VOIP), operating system (UNIX, LINUX, Red Hat, Win NT/2000/2003,

CIFS), and the afferent applications (Data Synapse, Crystal Reports,

Oracle ERP, SalesForce.com, JMP, MS SharePoint Collaboration Server,

WebMethods, WebLogic, Citrix, SolidWorks, MathLib, MathWorks, L-edit,

Macromedia).

Ultrabridge

2000- 2001

Network Operations Manager

. Supervised recruitment, development, retention, and organization of

staff in accordance with corporate budgetary objectives and personnel

policies. Created technical standards, policies and procedures for

entire company, including disaster recovery and contingency planning

. Managed IT operational and strategic planning, including business

requirements, project planning and organizing and negotiating the

allocation of resources for the support of all business units

. Responsible for hardware and software vendor relationships, including

pricing negotiations, purchasing order requisitions and ordering/spare

parts inventory; managing outsource projects for IT department.

. Project Manager: managed the deployment of over 75 data lines to

customer sites, worked the relation with all the major telecom

companies, managed the deployment team - third party network company,

implemented, and deployed: Active Directory (Win2000 servers, Win 2000

Pro, and Exchange 2000, Microsoft Terminal Services, and CITRIX Server

farm).

. Managed all the IT teams: a total of 15 engineers, administrators, and

technicians, on a 24x7x365 shop: customer support, network support,

data center engineers, and application support.

. High availability Data Center Operations, built in full redundancy for

all critical services providing 100% availability.

Integrated Device Technology

1998-2000

Systems Manager

. Project Manager Y2K - coordinated Y2K activities (inventory,

assessment, remediation, reporting) for IDT sites in North America,

for more than 3000 infrastructure (hardware, communications, third

party software) components.

. Managed and directed a group of 27 IT specialists (analysts,

engineers, technicians, support, and vendor team) on $12 million split

project, initiated purchase of over $1.5 million computer and

infrastructure equipment, evaluated bids, expedited delivery of

equipment (overseas remote sites), and negotiated final purchase

agreements that accelerated completion schedule.

. Measured progress against project plan to identify risks and recommend

necessary corrective action in order to meet the SLA (Service Level

Agreement) with different internal departments.

. Disaster Recovery/BCP a Cold Site was housed on the East Cost - tested

and evaluated the DR/BCP program plan via checklist, simulation, and

structured walk through.

. Designed/prepared/implemented and executed merge for the enterprise

Network Directory Services tree. Also managed, and prepared together

with APAC project managers, the Active Directory implementation.

. During company acquisition (merge), and moves, managed team of 8 to 10

engineers, and technicians to assure a smooth move, compatibility

between systems, and financial other applications.

CS of CPA

1997 - 1998

Network Manager

. Management and senior technical resource for all NetWare, Windows NT,

and Windows 95 servers/workstations - carried out specific project

management tasks to ensure cost, schedule and performance criteria are

met - three locations.

. On a daily basis managed the 4 technical support teams: network,

support, help desk, analyst.

Watson Wyatt Worldwide - Network Coordinator

1994-1997

SHL Systemhouse Co - LAN Engineer

1994

DIGITAL Equipment Co - LAN Engineer

1994

Eltop Electronics Ltd. - Network Engineer

1989-1993

Polytechnic Institute - Professor Assistant

1993-1994

EDUCATION

Master Degree/Computer Science - University of Bucharest.

Professional Development - Security Essentials - SANS Institute GIAC, CISSP

Training, CCNA - training - Advance CISCO Router Configuration, CNE v5.0 /

v4.11 /v3.1x, UC Berkeley - TMS Project Management, MCSE, Lotus Notes,

Programmer Analyst - CDI

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