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Project Manager Management

Location:
Naples, FL, 34109
Posted:
June 04, 2010

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Donald H. Astley

239-***-****

abmplr@r.postjobfree.com

PROJECT Management Specialist

Articulate results driven hands-on staff and project manager with 20 plus

years of experience in customer satisfaction, application development,

sales, and training including 15 plus years of integrating the latest

technologies and processes on an enterprise wide basis.

. Staff Management - Tripled programming staff to pre-relocation levels

while maintaining satisfactory development using Agile, and Spiral

mythologies within budget by setting team member goals and supplying

feedback as to progress made towards organizational objectives.

. Project Management - Managed an initiative to automate the entire Land

Development process, $1.2 million budget, by assessing the "as is"

procedures and mapping them to the "to be" expectations while working

with the software vendor.

. Business Management - Negotiated a site license with Oracle

Corporation that resulted in a $400,000 savings for multiple

constitutional offices over 5 years.

"Donald is detail oriented and well organized. He has a tremendous depth of

knowledge and experience in many IT disciplines, languages and platforms.

In the two years I worked with Donald, he well demonstrated his ability to

handle complex projects, people and communications in a professional and

competent manner." Connie Faye Powell, PMP, WCI (PMO)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quintessential Design, Inc. Project Manager Consultant

Johnson & Johnson Miami Lakes, Florida

Manage world-wide projects involving the sterilization of medical products

including multiple concurrent and aligned projects with cross functional

groups (work streams). All testing and production runs must meet all FDA

and international requirements. Accountable for all of the on-time, on-

budget, and in-scope deliverables of the assigned projects.

. Conduct weekly and monthly net meetings that include the review and

updating of status reports, action item logs, budgets, budget

projections, and project plans.

. Training others on the use of SharePoint as it pertains to the projects

under my purview.

. Introduced practical project management techniques such as Action Item

Logs, Escalation Procedures, Accountability Matrixes, Chunking, and

Capacity Planning.

. Created high level visibility of projects through the use of SharePoint

Dashboards and color coded summary project plans and charts.

Donald H. Astley

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Quintessential Design, Inc. Project Manager / Compliance Manager /

Consultant

General Electric Fort Myers, Florida

Conduct activities to ensure that the ACS-GE Financial group maintains

compliance with all internal and external audits such as: ACS Corporate

Security, SOX, SAS70, and GE Internal Audit.

. Provide advice on continuous IT improvements for the various ITIL

processes such as Security Management, Change Management, Release

Management, Incident Management, Problem Management, Systems

Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and Configuration Management.

. Continuously streamline and prepare successful compliance deliverables

while minimizing business impact, risks, and overhead on IT operations.

. Work closely with project stakeholders to develop a communication plan

and related initiatives, including the development of written materials

and training programs for compliance related matters.

. Schedule and coordinate quarterly IT Security Policy internal

compliance reviews and monitoring activities.

WCI Communities Project Manager / Business Analyst

Bonita Springs, Florida

Responsible for all Project Management and Business Analyst needs for Land

Development, Real Estate, Title, and Mortgage initiatives. Work with and

through departmental and divisional business owners' projects via the

Program Management Office (PMO) methodology.

. Managed an initiative to automate the entire Land Development process,

$1.2 million budget, by assessing the "as is" procedures and mapping

them to the "to be" expectations while working with the software vendor

to make sure the custom modifications meet our legal, SOX, JD Edwards

interface, and business expectations.

o This included creating the Request For Proposal with detailed

requirements and scope, assessing the vendor's bid

qualifications, risks to company, Non-Disclosure Agreement,

Limits Of Authority, verification of results, Quality Assurance,

Quality Control, training, upgrades, Disaster Recovery, and

secured source code.

. Managed the upgrade, new reporting features, JD Edwards's interface,

CRM interface, and disaster recovery project for the financially

significant Real Estate system for WCI Prudential, Title, and Mortgage.

. Created a modular vendor agreement for use with Information Technology

that emphasizes protection of brand, limited access to internal

systems, and source code recovery.

. Managed the acquisition, proof of concept, and installation of a

company wide golf tee time reservation system that services public,

private members, and community lifestyle needs.

Donald H. Astley

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Source Interlink Companies Senior Director / Project Manager

Bonita Springs, Florida

Directed and mentored project and programming teams of .NET and relational

database programmers in the development of custom software to support the

manufacturing of magazine rack systems, distribution of magazines and

merchandise from our warehouses, inventory management, trucking and

delivery of our rack systems, and real-time marketing web based data

analysis. Conducted the IT steering committee, Inter-departmental

communications, employee / management relations committee, and Sarbanes

Oxley direction and remediation.

. Responsible for rebuilding and reorganizing the workplace and workflow

environment after the company relocated headquarters to Bonita Springs,

FL and consolidated divergent IT departments.

. Standardized to the .NET framework (VB, C#, and ASP) in working with

upper management's commitment to minimize maintenance activities so

that IT can partner with other departments to deliver superior service

to our customers.

. Responsible for finding sponsors for company initiatives, developing

scope documents, procuring funds, budgeting resources both human and

material local and remote, on-time delivery, status meetings including

MS project plans and management reports, attention to company money /

brand name risks, and close out.

SKILL SET

Project Management Professional (PMP) PMI Certified

MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint

VB.Net, ASP.Net, VB6, JavaScript, VBScript, Microsoft Access, Visual FoxPro

Oracle, Microsoft SQL, DB2

IBM 3090, VAX 6610, Personal Computer, a variety of mini computers.

VM/CMS, VAX/VMS, OS/VS, PC DOS/NT/2000/XP.

IBM NOMAD, PC NOMAD, VAX NOMAD, BAL, COBOL, Assemblers, Machine Languages

PREVIOUS WORK HISTORY

. Application Services Manager, Affiliated Computer Services

. Project Manager, Lee County MIS

. Principal Contractor, Trianon Associates

. Senior Technical Representative, D&B Computing Services

. Systems Representative, TRW Business Credit

. Programmer Analyst, Litton Industries Incorporated

EDUCATION

. International College - Naples, Florida - 7/1998

Bachelor's Degree - 3.91 GPA in Business Administration

. Chubb Institute for Computer Programming - Short Hills, New Jersey

Computer Programming



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