RORY FLAHERTY

**** ****** *****, ***** ******, OH 43035

Home: 740-***-**** Mobile: 614-***-**** E-Mail: ablnl3@r.postjobfree.com

PROJECT MANAGER

A turnkey Project Manager with experience across all phases of the PMLC

(Concept, Definition, Planning, Implementation & Closing) across the SDLC

phases (Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition) and excellent

understanding of Requirements, Integration, Human Resource, Cost, Risk,

Quality, Change and Configuration Management

A first-hand experience in all aspects of IT Project Life cycle as

Developer, Business and Project Analyst, Test & Quality Control Lead,

Release Manager, and Project Manager in 25 years of an IT career that

spreads across financial giants like JPMorganChase and National City

(formerly BancOhio) and utility companies like American Electric Power and

Duke Energy

Diverse industry experience includes Banking & Finance, Utilities, and

Government and Manufacturing verticals. Successfully applied commonly

adopted processes and standards of Project Management in past 14 years of a

Project Manager role

Management experience in project execution methodology, SDLC, PMO, and

Infrastructure upgrade

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CORE COMPETENCIES

> Project Management Requirements Analysis

Liaison & Team Building

> Business & Process Analysis Gap Analysis

Change Management

> Risk Management Release Management Vendor

Management

> Root Cause Analysis .Net and Web development

Mainframe platforms

> IT Services Delivery Competitive Analysis

MIS Operations

> Application Development PeopleSoft HRMS

PeopleSoft Tools 1&2

> Microsoft Office Suite Microsoft Project

Microsoft Visio

> Microsoft PowerPoint Oracle

Oracle PL/SQL

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EXPERIENCE

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER (TEKMARK GLOBAL SOLUTIONS), Columbus, OH 2010 -

2010

Business Systems Analyst

. Developed business requirements for the Grid Smart project to define the

processes needed for provisioning and de-provisioning Home Area Network

(HAN) devices installed in residential and nonresidential structures for

communicating with Smart Meters.

. Responsible for monitoring the development of an Integration Error

Console that displays record errors that are flagged during a series of

validations. The error console allows for correction of the data so the

records can be resubmitted through the system.

. Developed process flows, supporting documents, and a Roles and

Responsibility matrix.

. Mapped test case items to business requirements to meet quality control

standards.

JPMORGAN CHASE (CDI CORPORATION), Columbus, OH 2006 - 2009

Project Manager

. Managed the Midwestern Territory of an Enterprise Active Directory

infrastructure project with a $3.8million budget and eight resources.

. Responsible for the data migration of users' home drives and Lines of

Business' shared drives from Novell Servers to Enterprise Active

Directory and decommissioned the Novell Servers.

. Extracted personnel data from an Oracle database using MySQL. Used this

data to inform the Lines of Business which of their users will be

migrated and attached this to the migration request forms for the

engineer's use.

. Maintained in Excel an issues and actions log that listed who is

responsible to resolve the issue, the estimated date to resolve and

actual date resolved and what the resolution was.

. Worked in the Global Technology Infrastructure PMO where I oversaw the

compliance, performance, and engagements of project and engineering

resources in the Client Services organizations in the Americas, Europe

and Asia Pacific. This included the initial triage of incoming requests,

development and tracking of key performance indicators and metrics, and

helping project managers remediate quality issues.

. Developed reports and dashboard summaries of various metrics for

management including performance measurement and analysis, program and

portfolio analysis, and compliance to policy.

. Created and maintained Best Practices, PMO Process and Procedures, and

other valuable GDS PMO documentation.

. Responded to and resolved issues beyond standard management requests as

well as using independent judgment to make decisions where no clear

precedents existed.

THE STATE OF OHIO, DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (PROTEC GROUP, INC.), Columbus,

OH 2005 - 2006

Project Manager

. Supervised the development of the Highway Management System (HMS) Web

Time and Attendance application with a $1.8million budget and four

resources consisting of a Business Analyst and three developers.

. The .Net application was developed in Microsoft Visual Studio and

interfaces with PeopleSoft, Oracle v11i and Active Directory.

. Responsible for task assignments, status reporting and billable hours of

the resources in Microsoft Project.

. Performed application reviews and resolved reported issues.

. Developed test scripts for the Unit, System and Pilot testing phases.

. Developed training materials to be distributed to over 4,300 users at

State Highway Patrol posts and non-patrol locations.

JPMORGAN CHASE (ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY), Columbus, OH 2005 - 2005

Project Manager

. Managed up to 14 projects derived from service requests by the Lines of

Business. The budgets ranged from $2,500 - $1.3million with a range of 2

- 8 resources per project depending on the size.

. Project requests consisted of deploying new and/or existing software

applications to the Line of Business workstations.

. Developed Project Scope Documents and Project Cost Estimates and

presented them to the Lines of Business to gain their approval.

. Executed all aspects of the project by utilizing a system development

lifecycle methodology (SDLC).

. Established program communication plan across the businesses, regions,

and support and technology groups.

. Prepared and presented progress reports on a weekly basis for senior

management.

. Completed courses for Cost Estimating/Expense Capture, Tactical Resource

Management and Change Management Process Overview.

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER, Columbus, OH 1995 - 2005

IT Team Leader/Project Manager

. IT Team Leader for the Human Resources (HRMS) application group during

conversion to PeopleSoft v8.0, PeopleTools v8.18 and Oracle v8i with a

$12.6million budget.

. Used Microsoft Project to enter task identification, prioritization, and

assignments for my staff of sixteen resources.

. Coordinated the PeopleSoft training and budget requirements for all HRMS

teams. Involved working with individual team members, other team leads

and the IT training group.

. Performed non-production infrastructure tasks for the PeopleSoft

Financials and HRMS areas.

. Liaison between the functional user and technical communities in

establishing common awareness and discussions of processes.

. Conducted change request, production outage, production issues and root

cause analysis meetings and monitored the status of action items

assigned.

. Represented my application area at change control meetings with other IT

application areas to insure that there were no cross-impacts between us.

. Project Manager for the Integrated Time Reporting system. This system

incorporated several time reporting applications for different entities

throughout the company. The team consisted of five full time staff

members and two members shared with another group. Responsible for

primary support of the time reporting systems.

. Project Manager for the Multi-Day Time Reporting system. Responsible for

the development of several online programs to replace an existing

application.

. Involved in the design and development of new DB2 tables, developing them

through a DB2 Tool called Platinum.

. Attended a course in PowerBuilder in order to support a client server

version of the Multi-Day Time Reporting system.

. Worked on an Employee Self Service application developed for the Intranet

that allowed employees to view and edit their personal information.

Utilized Java and TCP/IP to connect to the mainframe to execute CICS

programs to access DB2 tables and VSAM files.

. Developed online and batch programs for the Cook Nuclear Plant time

reporting system. This system utilized a package called Tenera that

performs DB2 and CICS functions.

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ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, Charlotte, NC Systems Developer 5

1994 - 1994

DUKE POWER COMPANY, Charlotte, NC Project Manager/IT Professional II

1992 - 1994

METRO INFORMATION SERVICES, Charlotte, NC Senior Consultant

1991 - 1992

BANCOHIO NATIONAL BANK, Columbus, OH Programmer/Analyst II 1988 - 1991

BANK ONE (COMTECH SYSTEMS, INC.), Columbus, OH Programmer/Analyst

1987 - 1988

LYKES PASCO, INC., Dade City, FL Programmer 1986 - 1987

F.E. MYERS COMPANY, Ashland, OH Programmer 1985 - 1986

MANAGEMENT & TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Project Management:

o PMBOK, Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC), Project Management

Office (PMO), familiar with Agile

o Forecasting and Budgeting, Scope and Project Cost Estimation

o Tools: MS Project 2007/2003, MS PowerPoint

. Technical Skills:

o Software Engineering: SDLC, Waterfall, Web Services

o Business Analysis: Use Case Analysis, Feasibility Study, GAP

Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

o Languages: PL/SQL, PeopleTools & PeopleCode, JavaScript, COBOL, CICS

o CASE Tools: MS Visio

o RDBMS / Databases: Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2005, DB2, MYSQL

o Reporting Tools: MS-Access, PeopleSoft SQR

o Office Tools: MS Office Suite 2003 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint,

Visio)

o Operating System: Windows Vista/XP/2000/ NT, UNIX

o ERP: PeopleSoft Applications, HRMS, HCM, Benefits, Reporting

EDUCATION

DeVRY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Columbus, OH

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems

. Degree received October, 1984

. GPA: 3.2/4.0

. Honors: Presidential Honor Society and Dean's List

Professional Training:

American Electric Power-IT Project Management (Project Incentives, Inc.)

MS Project 2000 Essentials (Project Incentives, Inc.)

PeopleSoft Business Process Design, PeopleTools I & II, PeopleSoft HRMS,

PeopleSoft Benefits (PeopleSoft Education Services)

Plan to pursue PMP Certification

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