Project Manager Management

ROBERT P. MIGNONE

***** *******

Mission Viejo, Ca. 92691

949-***-**** - *********@***.***

Career Summary

Mr. Mignone has extensive experience in Management Consulting, Quality

Assurance, IT systems assessment and capacity planning, design,

procurement, project management, contract management and software

development, including design methodologies, computer-aided software

engineering (CASE) tools and systems evaluation, standards, and

acquisition. Mr. Mignone has provided coordination and management

consulting to L.A. County and the State of California, U.S. Navy, Air Force

and NASA on numerous projects. Mr. Mignone has a strong financial systems

background having developed systems for Insurance, Banking, and Brokerage.

Project Management

. Define, document, track and effectively manage scope, schedule, cost,

risk and resource constraints to bring a product to fruition.

. Business Process Re-engineering including process flows and solutions

. Integration management: Responsible for development and execution of

the project plan and integrated change control.

. Process & Methodology development, including PMI and IEEE SDLC

modifications

. Project scope management: Responsible for planning, defining,

verification, and change control within the project.

. Time management: manage activity definition, sequencing, duration

estimating, schedule development, and schedule control.

. Cost management: Managed resource planning, cost estimating,

budgeting, and cost control. Cost reporting accomplished in accordance

with current processes.

. Project quality management: Manages scope of quality planning, quality

assurance, and quality control.

. Human resources: Managed team development.

. Communications: Lead cross-functional program teams including

representatives from sales/marketing, design engineering, and

manufacturing, ensuring roles and responsibilities of all team members

are well understood. Ensures performance reporting is communicated

according to the contract.

. Facilitate communications, mediate conflict and maintain positive

interdepartmental relationships.

. Risk management: Manages risk planning, identification, analysis

(quantitative and qualitative), response planning, and risk monitoring

and control.

. Procurement management: Responsible for procurement planning,

solicitation planning, source selection, contract administration, and

contract closeout. Influence make/buy decisions, manage outside

vendors, and manage program personnel. Support proposal manager or act

as proposal manager by coodinating inputs from functional

organizations. Support contract fact-finding and negotiations, long-

term agreements and/or memorandums of understanding. Other related

duties as assigned.

Experience History

January 2006 to Present, Project Manager, Heritage Global Solutions for

Network Appliance

Provide Storage and Business solutions to Fortune 500 clients for Data

Storage and retention, Disaster Recovery, Internet security, e-mail and

Enterprise content management.

. Customer interface and risk management

. Creation of Project Plans and schedule

. Resource allocation and management (groups of 3 to 12 consultants)

. Delivery verification

. Managed multiple projects (up to 11) both Unix and Windows based

engagements

June 2005 to January 2006 Independent Consultant

LogicLink October 2005 to November 2005

. Providing Management Consulting services to reviewed company

systems and procedures, providing re-writes and recommendations for

improvement. Company sells Business Centers for Hotels

Management Consulting June 2005 to September 2005

Provided analysis and processes for a start-up retail computer support

venture, including:

. Services determination and pricing

o Trouble shooting/problem determination

o Virus detection/removal

o Hardware installations (drives, memory, cards etc.)

o Data retrieval/backup

o Security analysis/installation

3/2005 - 6/2005 System Mgt. Consulting Inc. - Balboa Insurance Co. -

Consultant for Quality Assurance

. Managed a group of 22 IT professionals engaged in QA for Mainframe,

Client/Server and Web-based systems

. Developed QA methodology in conjunction with corporate SDLC

. Utilized Mercury tools including; Test Director, Quick Test Pro,

Loadrunner

. Managed integrated testing of six interface systems to PeopleSoft

Financials

. Set up the use of offshore QA services from Keane and Wipro to

accommodate a backlog of enhancements, corrections and small

projects.

1997 - 2004 GovConnect (subsidiary of First Data Corporation) Public

Sector Practice Manager

Numerous engagements with State and Local governments including:

. Risk Management - LA County Dept. Public Social Services, reviewed

system design, specifications, and insured adherence to

standards/IEEE SDLC methodology

. Business Process Re-Engineering- LA County Assessor's Office

. Web/IVR development/Testing - Santa Barbara, Ca.

. QA/Testing - Texas Medical system

. IV&V of J2EE/Oracle, IlogJrules, HTML, XML, JMS Welfare System -

Ca. C4 Consortia

. Strategic/Tactical Planning - Ca. Statewide Automated Welfare

System

. Automated Testing/Performance Monitoring - Mercury Intl tools

.

1995 - 1997 Unisys Corporation

. Technology Project Manager -large-scale systems integration, LA

County Welfare System,11000 users, 120 LANS, FrameRelay WAN, 3-

tier Client/server using Windows NT servers/MS SQL Server, 5000

rules, 2.5 terabyte database, hired and managed all technical

disciplines

1981 - 1995 NorthropGrumman Data Systems

. As Program Director, Mr. Mignone provided IS management for

Northrop Grumman Data Systems Space Systems division. He

managed a $5M budget and a staff of 26 data processing

professionals. Including Strategic Defense Initiative

. As Director of Systems Planning and Development for Northrop

Grumman Data Systems, was responsible for the tactical planning

associated with IT systems for nine internal divisions. Mr.

Mignone supervised 50 EDP professionals in projects such as;

. The automation of the corporate Legal Department developing an

integrated imaging system and

. System architecture for NASA space station support.

. Managed the development of Bill of Materials (ERP) for 5 of 11

tactical aircraft that defend this nation, IMS

1979 - 1981 Computer Task Group

. Sr. Consultant - numerous engagements with Fortune 500 companies

including:

. Application Development - Bantam Books,

. Database Design - Citibank

. GL selection/installation - E.F. Hutton

. CICS/IMS Teaching - Longines Whittenhaur, Hammermill Paper

. Options Analysis/Portfolio - Merrill Lynch

Prior: Community Service Society / Chemical Bank / New York Life Insurance

Education

. B.B.A., Management, St. Francis College

. Graduate Studies, Program Management, American Graduate University

. Life Office Management (LOMA) Fellowship

Technical Skills

. Hardware: HP, IBM, Unisys, PCs, and Apple, Mainframes, Micro VAX,

CAD/CAM, DEC/Alpha, DEC/VAX

. Software: Windows 2000, Unix MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, PowerPoint,

MS Outlook, MS Project, WordPerfect, VISIO, Utilities, CorelDraw,

PowerBuilder, Middleware, EIS-InfoQuest, Case Tools, Auto Testing-SQA,

Winrunner, Loadrunner, Test Director, QTP, SMS, Middleware, ODBC,

UniAccess, Tuxedo

. Database Development: SQL Databases, Oracle, VSAM, MS Access, DB2, IMS

. Programming Languages: C, C++, COBOL, HTML, Fortran, TIP, IDMS,

Oracle, RDMS, CICS, SQL, DEC, Visual Basic, Assembler

. Networks/Communications: ATM, Frame Relay, SNA/VTAM, DEC Net,

Ethernet, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, Novell Netware

. Operating Systems: Windows 95 & 98, NT, 2000, XP UNIX, MS DOS, Unisys,

IBM

References

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