Project Manager

Location:

8816

Posted:

April 02, 2010

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LANCE H. HOROWITZ

** ****** *****, **** *********, NJ 08816

(Home) 732-***-**** (Cell) 908-***-****

*************@***.***

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Summary of Qualifications

Expertise in SDLC project management methodologies from the project

inception to the post-deployment phase. Demonstrated leadership in

launching new and enhanced projects. Experienced applications development

manager exhibiting strong leadership and supervisory skills for Fortune 100

Company.

. Extensive project management skills including resource management,

risk assessment, cost analysis.

. Extensive business analysis, systems design and analysis, and QA

skills.

. Extensive knowledge in Mainframe technologies, Enterprise COBOL II,

DB2, CICS, SQL SERVER, IBM JCL, FileAid, MVS, ISPF/TSO, IDCAMS,

SQL, QMF, SPUFI, VSAM, XPediter, Abend-Aid, Syncsort, RACF, HTML,

VISIO, Changeman, SPUFI, Test Director and Remedy.

. Successfully completed several PMP Certified Project Management

courses.

. Great inter-personal skills. Excellent oral and written communication

skills.

EXPERIENCE

GalaxE.Solutions, Inc.

March 2009 - June 2009

Technical Lead - Consultant

As a technical lead for a major pharmaceutical client, Medco, I managed the

day to day activities of a staff of 4 onshore and 5 offshore consultants.

Managed the Home Delivery sub team for a 3 month HIPAA assignment.

. Provided Functional Requirements Documents and Technical Specification

Documents to various teams.

. Led design analysis and code review sessions with the development

teams.

. Created test plans and assisted developers on all levels of testing.

. Calculated and applied LOEs in creating budgetary estimates.

. Created and managed the sub team's project plan using Microsoft

Project. Used this to manage the weekly tasks for the assigned

resources.

. Managed all project deliverables from all functional teams ensuring

they met the defined timelines based on CMMI and SDLC guidelines.

. Managed the weekly team meetings and provided various status reports

to upper management.

. Managed the resource allocations and staffing plans for the sub team.

. Managed the Home Delivery portion of the HIPAA budget.

. Worked with other various technical leads to ensure the project was

running according to plan. If there were any delays, they needed to be

identified quickly and defined. Issues and risks were fully documented

if necessary.

. Managed the requirement changes through proper change management

controls.

. Assisted in the creation and updating of the Productivity Model to

assist with budget maintenance.

. Worked with RPM (Rational Portfolio Management) to input project

financials.

. Developed and maintained monthly release schedules for all production

updates (maintenance and enhancements).

MetLife, Inc. [MetLife Securities, Inc., Metropolitan Life Insurance]

December 1985 - October 2008

Manager - Applications Development January 2003 - October 2008

Managed a staff of 15-20 developers, business systems analysts and testers.

Supported all of the Sales Force Compensation systems. Full responsibility

for creating, developing and coordinating multiple, complex projects from

inception to post-deployment using Waterfall and Agile SDLC methodologies.

Activities included interviewing business and technical leads in gathering

requirements and coordinating the development of Business Requirements and

Technical Specification Documents. Created and managed all project and

resource plans using MS Project. Received proposals from business and

developed charters and budget estimates. Interviewed business and other

technical leads in gathering all requirements. Developed scope statements

based on these requirements. Interfaced with managers of different IT areas

as well as the business areas during all phases of the projects. Managed

all change controls.

LANCE H. HOROWITZ

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. Managed the implementation of a new, complex compensation plan for

MetLife sales reps and managers utilizing mainframe batch, online

interfaces, client server and website reporting. This development

project involved detailed conversion of some of the mainframe

databases over to SQL Server databases. I was in charge of processing

all aspects of the Changeman package process (creating packages,

promoting through all level for testing, demoting when necessary and

approving for production implementation), in charge of handling all IT

requests for this project. Aided the team in debugging and resolving

all batch problems for this system once implemented.

. Managed, and was the subject matter expert on 12 compensation and

commission related systems, including many payroll specific systems.

Managed the time and resources directed to these multiple systems.

Supervised all the development activities within these payroll systems

utilizing batch and online interfaces. Was fully responsible for all

production support and defect resolution of all these production

systems. Developed and maintained monthly release schedules for all

production updates (maintenance and enhancements). Ensured weekly

delivery of the sales force payroll in an effective and timely manner.

Conducted weekly meetings with the business to go over statuses,

priorities and upcoming release schedules.

. Managed the successful implementation of the Sales Force Compensation

Reporting Website and the New England Financial Compensation plan

utilizing JAVA, Web sphere, and COBOL Stored procedures accessing SQL

Server and mainframe databases.

. Managed the Field Payroll Gross to Net project migration of the entire

net payroll processing to the Administrative payroll department. In

addition, by writing COBOL II and DB2 data extract programs; I helped

develop many of the processes in order to create the successful file

transfers from Mainframe into SQL Server databases.

. Managed the Core Processing project for the re-platform of the MLFS

field force compensation plan into a new environment. Wrote the

Concept charter, the scope document, created and managed the project

plans, and helped administer the plan for business requirements and