Project Manager Management

Daniel Danysh

US 443-***-****

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Professional Profile

Project, Programme, PMO & Portfolio Business Applications,

Management, Planning & Governance Infrastructure, Process Change,

Business/Organizational/Functional Improvement & Optimization

Change Team building & leadership

IT/Technical Change & Optimization RAID Management, Analysis &

Performance Management & Metrics Mitigation

Cost & Procurement Management Traditional, Advanced, Fixed and

Financials & Reporting Variable Product Development

CMMi, Six Sigma/Lean, Compliance Structured Methodologies

Off, Near & Onshore Team & Vendor Strategic, Tactical and Operational

Management Planning and Modelling.

Professional Summary

1985 -2010

24+ Years of Delivery & Service experience.

16+ Years in Project/Programme and Process leadership and management

roles.

16+ years in Financial Services, inclusive of Insurance, Banking, Wealth

Management and

Credit Cards.

I have delivered and implemented over 100 projects or programmes to date.

These efforts have ranged from very small ( 25k) to very large ($6.5M,

$16M, $30M and 85M) projects, programmes and portfolios of work. My teams

have ranged from 0-15 direct reports and from 2-105+ matrixed project

resources/indirect reports, with an average typically between 20 &40 team

members. I have managed the entire spectrum of resource specialties from

Business Analysts to Architects to Actuaries to Project & Programme

Managers.

12+ years in a Consultancy background, partnering with internal and

external stakeholders and clients, heavy travel, ability to "hit the

ground running" and gravitas to influence at all levels of an organization

in providing Delivery Project, Programme and Process leadership.

I have worked for a number of companies and consultancies on large

transformation projects (both IT and organizational) and operational

performance improvement-quality initiatives mainly in the heavily

regulated compliance-driven financial services (insurance, banking, wealth

management, credit cards) industry.

I've developed broad scope and depth of experience in leadership,

governance and management utilizing formal industry standard methodologies

including: PPM/PMI/PMBOK, SDM,EVM (Earned Value Management), Enterprise -

Integrated - Organizational Project Management (EPM-IPM & OPM3), PRINCE 2

hybrids/derivatives, Waterfall & Agile (DSDM/Scrum/XP methodologies) and

process/quality improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma, Lean, ITIL,

CoBIT, and CMMi.

.

I am certified in both Project Management and Six Sigma, and acts as an

advocate & advisor of best practices.

Recent Assignment(s)

Liberty-IT, a division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company - Belfast, UK

January 2010 - May 2010 (Short FTC)

Senior Project Manager - Commercial Professional Services - WC Claims

Industry : Insurance/Financial Services

Dimension: 8 Projects & Application owner. 12 direct & 6-20 indirect

project team reports. 50 -250 days duration and 40k - 200k budgets.

Responsibilities/Achievements:

Management & Delivery of the Provider Web Florida Fraud Electronic

Signature project.

Management & Delivery of the VE migration to SharePoint project.

Management & Delivery of the Rational Rose replacement/upgrade project.

Management & Delivery of the DCI/NCCI feed project.

Management & Delivery of the LDW (Logical Data Warehouse) Datamart.

MMU (Middle Markets) Segmentation & Organizational change/All Market Block

Transfer and Claim reopening in same segmentation project.

Application ownership of a very large, complex and technology expansive WC

(Workman's Compensation) Claims system known as ExPRS (Excellence in

Providing Risk Services) - availing of technologies such as C++/VC, J2EE,

Farpoint, COM, Rational Rose, Struts, Orbix, MQseries, Spring, Websphere,

Roguewave, Silverrun, Docucorp etc., using a variety of servers and

databases. This is a mission critical system warranting high availability

and a user base of 6500, 4000 concurrently.

Headstrong North America & United Kingdom - Nottingham, UK

January 2008 - August 2009

Managing Consultant/Senior Programme & Project Manager - Client: Capital

One UK

Industry : Banking/Credit Cards/Regulatory-Compliance

Dimension: 2 Projects 1 Programme (19 projects). 2 direct & 5-35 indirect

project team reports. 50 -850 days duration and 25k - 650k budgets.

Responsibilities/Achievements:

Bi-Annual Visa and MasterCard Association compliance programmes and

project management through a third party vendor; TSYS.

The (CCA3) Consumer Credit Act 3 Programme - a regulatory compliance

super-programme and project management from an enterprise delivery

perspective, consisting of 19 sub-projects.

MasterCard Global Authorizations project; converting from EPSNET/XNET to

MasterCard's Global network : BankNet.

ePMO/UKPMO roll-out of the Visual Standard (PPM) methodology.

GTECH - West Greenwich, RI USA

July 2007 - October 2007

Program / Sr R&D Project Manager (Independent Consultant)

Industry : Gaming/Lottery- R&D Product Development

Dimension: 1 Project. 0 direct & 5-15 indirect project team reports. 150

-250 days duration and $400k - $500k budget.

Responsibilities/Achievements:

Enterprise Systems Multi-Media Product Project Launch. A 1 Million dollar

effort to upgrade the in-store/lottery sales media terminal to a

functionally expanded version 3 product, and providing 35,000 new lottery

terminals to Camelot U.K.. (e.g. User-friendly front-end GUI, Content

configurations, side & show pooling, grouping by retailer, show

expiration, weighting etc., completed with a comprehensive audit/reporting

system.)

Programme/Project Initiation & Planning.

Matrixed project task management & leadership/supervision of Business

Analysts, Hardware, Software, Firmware and Network Engineers & Architects.

PMO, Stakeholder & SLT reporting for the ES MM V3 Product Program.

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals - Global Research & Development, Groton, CT USA

March 2007 - June 2007

Sr Master Data - Entity Data Project Manager (Independent Consultant)

Industry : Pharmaceuticals

Dimension: 1 Programme leg of 4. 0 direct & 12-20 indirect project team

reports. 350 -400 days duration and $650k budget.

Achievements:

Streamline & document Activity Tasks surrounding the Master Data

Enterprise Program across all data classes at Pfizer.

Responsibilities:

Direct Management of the EIS (Enterprise Information Services) area

involving complete re-engineering and architectural design(Information

Architecture) of a number of data Classifications in building a relational

Data Master/Warehouse.

Programme & Project Management of EIS efforts.

Matrixed project task supervision of Data Analysts, Data Modellers &

Architects, & Information Architects.

PMO, Stakeholder & SLT reporting for the Master Data Program

The Hartford - U.S. Wealth Management Division, Windsor, CT USA

July 2006 - January 2007

Portfolio/Sr. Project Manager - Independent Consultant

Industry : Insurance, Financial Services, Wealth Management, Insurance

Dimension: 2 Programmes & 4 Projects. 2 direct & 25-65 indirect project

team reports. 900 -1600 days duration and $16 million budget.

Within the U.S. Wealth Management Division:

(IPT) Investment Product Technology Retirement Initiative - Retail (non-DC

space) Portfolio & Senior Project Manager plus Office of the CTO -

Architectural services

iFoundation - eBusiness Modernization - Weblogic Portal Project Manager

Achievements:

Successful delivery of Retirement Initiative Programme & Projects to gain

market share and build new relationships with prominent brokerage houses,

in anticipation of the growing baby-boomer market.

Successful build/configuration/implementation of new cutting-edge, XML

rules-based Insurance pay-out system : Admin Server, delivering a variety

of new Investment products.

Leadership of Retirement Initiative Programme & Projects to gain market

share and build new relationships with prominent brokerage houses.

Successful launch & management of the iFoundation eBusiness Modernization

Programme resulting in enhanced customer experience, scalability,

navigation and functionality.

Critical software vendor negotiations for Enterprise licensing,

Consultation & staff augmentation

Responsibilities:

Direct Management of Retail Retirement Initiative Portfolio comprising 7

Programmes with an estimated value of 30M in 2006/2007.

Portfolio, Programme & Project Management of HIS Day2/RIS, HLI (Income

Shares) Models : Mutual Fund, Brokerage, Full Service 401K, and a Retail

IRA, with Online quoting, The Investment Notes project (direct

management), SPIA (feed to DTCC, Product development & Online quoting), DB

Solutions, and The Advisor Tool Initiative.

Direct (hands-on) management of the Portal software purchase,

Architectural design, infrastructure commissioning, Experience design,

build, test & Implementation/Post-Implementation of the Portal stand-up

project, as the basis foundation to support numerous follow-on projects.

Typical Programme mgr duties: Project Plans, Risk, Issue, Change Control

Management, Steering Committee, SLT & Ad-hoc Reporting

Financial & Senior management reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting,

Resourcing, On, Near & Off-shore Vendor Management & Procurement, 3rd

Party Software assessment, evaluation, procurement, management &

relationship building.

SLT member of the PMO board representing IT Delivery, Admin Server Client

Advisory Committee member, Executive Manager on multiple Steering groups.

Allstate Ireland (NTNI), Londonderry, U.K.

December 2003 - July 2006

(A Division of Allstate Insurance Co. - U.S., 2nd largest Insurer)

Project Manager/Team Lead

Industry : Offshore Vendor IT Services, Insurance, Financial Services

Dimension: 20+ Projects. 2 - 12 direct & 5-15 indirect project team

reports. 10 -500 days duration and 5k - 350k budgets.

Achievements:

Successful transition of Storage Provisioning work to the U.K. from U.S.

Server commissioning, decommissioning, provisioning and DR for over

30,000 servers remotely.

Capability Maturity Model (CMMI) Implementation to Level 3.

2 Six Sigma projects - Fault & Root Cause Analyses, Resource allocation &

optimization

Responsibilities:

Direct Management of 9 SAN & NetBack-up Engineers.

Management of Storage & NetBack-up Change Orders & Incidents.

Managing Remote Virtual Teams with U.S. counterparts.

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MetLife Insurance Company, Clarks Summit, PA. USA

September 2004 - May 2005

Sr. Project Manager

Industry : Insurance, Financial Services - Product Development, Systems

Implementation

Dimension: 1 Project, 1 Programme. 2 direct & 49 PMs/Workstream Leaders

reporting to me with over 105 indirect project team reports. 2500 - 3500

days duration and $30 million budget.

Achievements:

Successful launch of the largest Traditional product initiative in

2005/06.

Multi-million dollar portfolio & projects.

Successfully managed an overall project team size of 105 resources.

Manage multiple offsite offshore vendors & work pieces.

Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX-section 404) compliance.

Enterprise wide new product launches & implementations

Responsibilities:

6 Direct Reports &105 Indirect Reports including PMs - matrix managed.

Project/Programme planning, tracking, controlling, monitoring & reporting.

The Royal Bank of Scotland, Dublin IRL

June 2003 - December 2004

Team Leader/ Project Manager

Industry : Retail Banking, Financial Services - COTS Product

Implementation.

Dimension: 9 Projects 1 Programme. 0 direct & 5-55 indirect project team

reports. 500- 650 days duration and a subset of 85 million budget.

Achievements:

Successful Design & Build of 85 million pound Mortgage platform

implementation.

Manage multiple 3rd party vendors & work pieces.

Responsibilities:

10 Direct Reports in an overall team size of 50.

Programme planning, tracking, controlling, monitoring & reporting.

Enterprise wide implementation of the Summit Mortgage Product by Lynx,

across 9 Banking brands

Pramerica Financial Systems Ireland, Letterkenny, IRL

October 2001 - December 2003

(A division of Prudential Insurance - U.S.)

Project Manager/Team Leader

Industry : Offshore Vendor IT Services, Insurance, Financial Services

Dimension: 20+ Projects. 2-12 direct & 5-35 indirect project team reports.

5 - 200 days duration and 2k - 1 million budgets.

Achievements:

Successful delivery of 18 Projects ranging from 20K to 1 million.

PMO- Project Charter, Peer reviews & Service Level Agreement introduction.

CMMI Implementations to Level 3.

Functional & Technical documentation.

Responsibilities:

From 3-12 Direct Reports in an overall team size of 45.

Project planning, tracking, controlling, monitoring & reporting.

Team/Project Management of an Application Development area performing

COBOL & Java source code enhancements to the Outputs department for

Prudential Insurance..

24/7 Production Support.

Anti-Money Laundering systems enhancements.

In my 2nd Qtr, my team's effort we were rewarded with Prumerica's Impact

Award for outstanding customer service and effort in delivering the

largest single project in 10 years for Prudential Outputs. We delivered

100 days sooner than IBM's estimate, who were the resident experts and

maintainers of this system for the previous 10 years.

Objective

To provide a "world class" service using my talent, experience, vision and

drive for success.

Qualified/targeted appointments : Programme & Project Manager/Director,

PMO Manager/ Director, Delivery Manager/Director, Director of IT, AVP, VP,

SVP of Systems, Operations, Quality, Risk etc.

Certifications

Project Management

Six Sigma Green Belt

Six Sigma Black Belt - pending.

PMP/PgMP - In progress

ITIL Management Certification - In progress

I've developed broad scope and depth of experience in leadership,

governance and management utilizing formal industry standard

methodologies including: PPM/PMI/PMBOK, SDM,EVM (Earned Value Management),

Enterprise - Integrated - Organizational Project Management (EPM-IPM &

OPM3), SDM, PRINCE 2 hybrids, Waterfall, Iterative/Agile++, and

process/quality improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma, Lean, ITIL,

CoBIT, and CMMi.

Education

University of Maryland - European Division, Bentwaters, U.K.

B.S. Information Systems Management minor in Business Management

- Actively pursuing further education & qualifications.

References

Up to 10 Letters of Recommendation are available upon request.

Prior Assignments

Mutual of New York (MONY), Syracuse, NY - June 2000 - August 2001

First Data Resources, Omaha, NE - March 1999 - April 2000

United States Postal Service, St. Paul, MN - December 1998 - February 1999

Cigna Insurance, Philadelphia, PA - February 1998 - October 1998

Policy Management Systems Corp/CSC, Columbia, SC. - Sept. 1997 - February

1998 Bank of America, (Nations Bank) Charlotte, NC - June

1997 - August 1997 The

Application Group, San Francisco, CA. - March 1997 - May 1997

Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC. - March 1996 - March 1997

SBC Communications, St. Louis, MO. - October 1995 - February 1996

Union-Pacific Technologies (UPTech), St. Louis, MO. - January 1995 -

September 1995 IMS Health (IMS America), Plymouth Meeting, PA. - May

1988 - December 1994 Aafees (Army & Air Force Exchange

Service), Bentwaters, England - 1983-1987

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