Donald H. Astley
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.
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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