Project Manager Management

Nicholas Tovell

Dallas, Texas ***** ********@******.*** Cell: 469-***-****

Senior Project Manager

Senior development project manager with proven track record of leading

major initiatives with large and small companies.

ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT: Created application consulting group that won

multiple multi-million dollar contracts. Built 120 person advanced

product development organization. Managed multiple enterprise, mission

critical projects.

TECHNICALLY AWARE: Experienced in management of research, product

development and use of leading edge and mainstream technologies. Includes

management of Java/J2EE, .Net, ETL and common database systems.

BUSINESS FOCUSED: Introduced advantaged agile development practices to

multiple organizations. Developed multiple business cases. Created and

led application consulting group.

RESULTS ORIENTED: Achieved CMM level 3, successfully delivered multiple

large projects including the new US Treasury National Payment System

handling over $1.6 Trillion annually.

TEAM BUILDER: Created self-directing teams for multiple clients, reducing

attrition, increasing productivity and quality and providing career

growth.

PHILOSOPHY: Manage risk and dependencies. Require open communications and

teamwork to manage obstacles. Expect competency.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EMC, Dallas Texas

One of the largest information storage, security and retrieval

companies in the world.

SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER

2007-2009

. Led consulting team on US Treasury national payment system development.

. Consultant program manager on 120,000 desktop and Sharepoint program.

. Provided "red-team" review of development estimates and proposals.

. Consultant to project managers, providing coaching, training and

mentoring.

Geniant LLC, Dallas Texas 1999-2007

A Boutique IT consulting company, with clients primarily in Financial

services. (Acquired by EMC in July 2007)

VP ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS

Created and built successful application consulting practice.

. Won bid to build the new US Treasury national payment system that

disbursed $1.6 trillion annually.

. Directly managed the development activity for the US Treasury payment

system..

. Grew highly profitable application consulting group from 6 to 60+

personnel.

. As PMO leader, oversaw 8 PMP certified project managers

. Led major project pursuits and grew contract size from $25,000 to

multiple $1,000,000+ contract

. Developed major offerings including organizational assessments used on

major national engagements, target price contracts and intellectual

property sharing contracts.

Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas

Leading Semiconductor Manufacturer

WORKS PROGRAM MANAGER 1995-1998

Managed multi-year Manufacturing Execution System (MES) development.

. Reversed excessive attrition and created stable high performance 120

person product organization.

. Achieved CMM level 3 and passed corporate audit with zero major

findings and multiple recommendations that other projects adopt our

best practices.

. Introduced agile development practices with monthly QA releases across

14 applications.

. Participated in M&A activity to transition the 14 application product

suite to external organization for commercial exploitation.

WORKS PROJECT MANAGER 1992-1995

Led definition of first version of US standard MES "plug-and-play"

standard.

. Delivered version 1.0 of the MES standard to SEMATECH. This standard

has evolved into US, EU and Japanese standards for MES systems. All

major vendors now comply with the standard.

. Managed first commercial engagement developing customized versions of

3 applications.

CONTROL AND DIAGNOSIS BRANCH MANAGER 1989-1992

Formed and managed an advanced research group within Texas Instruments'

Semiconductor Process Design Center.

. Built and managed a multidisciplinary team of researchers and software

developers.

. Team delivered multiple patent award techniques for control and

diagnosis.

. Led research into control and diagnosis techniques including ARIMAX

models, quantitatively bounded qualitative models, interestingness

filters and other techniques for diagnosis and control of single wafer

semiconductor processing systems.

INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION MARKETING AND PRE-SALES 1986-1989

Various Roles, from product definition, pre-sales and marketing management

. Defined Texas Instruments' entry into the distributed control market.

. Created and managed pre and post-sales team.

. Managed positioning of acquired company into the Industrial Automation

portfolio of products.

Prior positions include programming, field service, systems operations and

work in multiple countries.

SKILLS

Development Management - Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Agile

development (Scrum and XP) management and mentoring

Organizational Change - Maturity assessments, modern practices

introduction, tailoring of practices to corporate culture

Business Value - Business case development, technology strategies,

portfolio management

Tools - Competent with project management and office tools

Industries - Financial services (both Federal Reserve Bank and Banking

software vendors), Semiconductor manufacturing, Specialty chemical, Oil and

Gas, Pulp and Paper.

Technologies Managed Recently - Java, WebSphere, .Net, DB2, Oracle,

SQLServer, Hibernate, MQ, Struts, SharePoint, Portals

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

University College London - B.Sc Chemistry

Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Scrum

Master (CSM)

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