Project Manager Management

James F Harris, PMP

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Hingham, MA, 02043

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EXPERTISE

Project/Program Management - PMP certified, with over 15 years experience

in several industries including: Financial, Manufacturing, Retail and

Insurance. A quick learner with proven success in adapting knowledge and

experience in fast paced environments. Led projects using Agile/Lean

standards. Proficient in scheduling, tracking, status reporting, and

presentations, team building, and communications, problem resolution,

budgets, managing risks and change control. Expert level in MS Project,

Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, & Visio.

Business/System Analysis - Developed and documented use cases and

requirements for system development life cycle processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Stop and Shop Supermarket Company, Quincy, MA (Contract Assignment)

__ 12/09 to 3/10

Project Manager - HIPAA Security Rules Assessment, Legal Department

. Successfully organized and lead a project to assess security

requirements related to electronic Protected Health Information and

re-establish compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule in light of the

HITECH amendments.

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA (Contract Assignment)

09/08 to 8/09

Program Manager - Disaster Recovery, Institutional Products Group

Managed the development and implementation of a Disaster Recovery practice

within IPG that complied with ISO 20000, Fidelity Corporate policies, and

relevant regulatory policies. Ensured that all IPG built applications and

infrastructure components were "DR Ready" at all times

Facilitated & coordinated the development and validation of disaster

recovery capabilities of distributed systems and applications.

Led and participated in Mainframe recovery exercises.

Managed a two million dollar budget.

Applied Agile/Lean Project Management standards to ensure timely adherence

to the task schedule by collaborating in a daily "scrum" meeting.

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA (Contract Assignment)

08/07 to 6/08

Project Manager - Fidelity Technology Group, Internet Security and Risk

Led and managed the 'Secure Email Project' with the goal to establish an

enterprise wide strategy for securing emails across the company including

electronic communications between Fidelity's associates, customers, and

partners.

Consulting Project Manager for the Social Security Number analysis and

reduction project.

Managed the deployment of DKIM keys to outbound emails.

Consulting Project Manager for the Desktop Security project.

Coordinated and organized application penetration testing.

DST Output, Westwood, MA, Quincy, MA, and South Windsor, CT

1/01 to 08/07

Project Manager, Application Development

Managed projects related to the brokerage team applications including; the

formatting, printing and mailing of millions of tax forms, financial

statements, confirmations and letters.

Managed the MK (Manufacturing Knowledge) conversion project across multiple

business units to a successful close. MK automates customer data into a

consistent factory systems print and mail process; created production

orders for factory personnel and performed billing and invoicing functions.

Developed and implemented a cross platform solution to process client work

in one DST system and print & mail from another. Named 'Associate of the

Quarter' for this accomplishment.

James F Harris, PMP

Mass Bay Chapter of the Project Management Institute _______

___ 06/03 to 06/06

Director of Education - Volunteer Position

Developed Project Management training course offerings for our Chapter

which included: locating and qualifying training firms, assessing the

demand and frequency of training course offerings, negotiating contracts,

managing training class registration and auditing course feedback from

attendees.

J Baker Inc., Canton, MA

04/94 to 01/01

Project Manager, Team Leader

Provided supervision and team leadership for multiple business systems

across several computer platforms to support the functional areas of Sales

Capture and Reporting and Catalog Sales Fulfillment in a large and diverse

retail company.

Successfully completed Y2K conversion project for IBM mainframe sales

retail systems.

Installed and supported the Smith Gardner catalog fulfillment software

executing on the Hewlett Packet (HP-3000) mid-range computer.

Supported and maintained a client/server based, SQL Server exception based

reporting (XBR) system used in the loss prevention, fraud detection area.

Interviewed, hired and trained new staff members. Motivated, developed and

guided existing staff to excel in technical and analytical areas. Conducted

performance reviews and applied company budget policies.

BankBoston, Boston, MA, ___

02/93 to 04/94

Senior System Specialist

Designed and implemented the DDA conversion components for corporate

account reconciliation executing in an IBM mainframe online and batch

environment.

Technical leader for Common ARP project and Multibank conversion team.

Project leader for the ARP contingency planning and testing.

EDS/Blue Cross of Massachusetts, Boston, MA,

06/82 to 01/93

CICS Systems Programmer

As employed by EDS (Electronic Data System) performed system-programming

functions under contract to Blue Cross for IBM CICS mainframe systems.

Assumed responsibility for all Medicare 'A' and Medex 'A' claim processing

in CICS regions.

Advanced from Entry Level Programmer to high level producing System

Programmer.

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Massachusetts/Boston, Lecturer, part-time, taught

'Introduction to Data Processing' and 'Structured COBOL'.

Positions in public education as a Guidance Counselor, Teacher and Coach in

several school districts.

EDUCATION

M.A., Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, Student Personnel Services -

Guidance Counselor.

B.A., Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, Education

Additional Courses and Accomplishments

Active as a Project Management mentor in Mass Bay PMI mentoring program.

Published an article on 'Gap Analysis' in the PMI Mass Bay Chapter

Newsletter, March 2008

Continuing education classes to maintain PM certification, 2003 to Present

PMP, Project Management certification classes, Bryant College, 2003

Volunteer for South Shore Habituate for Humanity construction projects.

Avid golfer, woodworker and home handyman.

REFERENCES - Available upon request.

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