Project Manager Management

Robert B. Stalcup

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Grove City, OH 43123

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PROFESSIONAL Versatile, results-driven IT Project/Program Manager and Business Analyst with

SUMMARY multilple years experience as a pivotal resource for leading corporations such as

American Electric Power, Oracle, Wal-Mart, EDS, and Boeing. Highly skilled in IT

Management, project management, architecture planning, enterprise architecture

methodologies and application integration.

• Strategic business sense with extensive background in IT, retail,

manufacturing, utility, healthcare and service industries. Seasoned executive

resource whose capabilities transcend IT operational boundaries.

• Exceptional ability to partner with business leaders and technical teams (both

matrixed and fully-staffed models) to plan, integrate, document and execute

complex project plans on time and on budget.

KEY IT Portfolio/Project Management Enterprise Application Integration

COMPETENCIES Business and Application Analyst Process Modeling / Engineering

IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Enterprise

Architecture Management

Middleware/Distributed Computing Customer

Relationship Management

IT Management Schedule,

Budget, Cost, Scope Mgmt

PROFESSIONAL PMP - PMI Project Management Professional

CERTIFICATIONS ITIL Foundation Certified

Deming Facilitator

PROFESSIONAL Health Garden 06/2008 - Present

EXPERIENCE Natural Health Clinic

Co-owner, office and Project Manager. Responsible for project to remodel and

stock facility. Managed day to day operation of clinic including Doctor’s schedules.

Responsible for retailing, accounting, tax reporting, insurance claim filing, vendor

relations, and all administrative activities.

Limited Brands, Inc -- 05/2007 – 06/2008

Columbus, OH

Senior Application Architect and Project Manager. Designed SDLC process that

was included in ITIL Framework utilized by LBI IT. Managed application modeling

utilizing HP Application Modeling tool, MAM including component and master data

identification.

Self-employed Consultant (contracts listed) 08/2004 – 6/2008

Senior Project Manager

Bank of Oklahoma Financial Corporation -- 12/2006 – 05/2007

Business Analyst for Wealth Management Division performing analysis and

technical tasks on implementation of Financial Risk Management System, an ASP.

Designed local data mart with analysis and reporting capabilities.

Cherokee Nation Enterprises – 04/2006 to 12/2006

Managed multiple mission critical infrastructure projects including disaster recovery

planning; implementation of backup and recovery solution; data protection strategy

and planning; implementation of SAN supporting mission critical applications;

systems management tools selection and standardization.

Bank of Oklahoma Financial Corporation -- 04/2005 – 04/2006

Project Manager for Trust and Wealth Management Divisions. Managed project for

due diligence selection of software solution for Financial Risk Management area of

securities trading and accounting group.

Project Manager Item Processing Prime Pass Capture implementation. Project

implemented AFS ImageVision for image capture of all bank processed items in

compliance with Check21 legislation. Project team from multiple bank operational

and accounting areas, Information Technology, and external vendors. Responsible

for business requirements, detail system specifications, vendor relationships, cost,

schedule, scope management, change control, and quality while accomplishing

multi-level communications and status reporting.

Pennsylvania Power and Light Montana -- 12/2004 – 4/2005

Oversight manager for Project Engineers at PPL Montana fossil power plant. Built

master outage schedule for major overhaul of power plant control systems

converting from analog to digital controls for two generation units. Worked

extensively with PPLM Project Engineers providing training, mentoring, project

management guidance. Schedule included internal PPLM work and all vendor

touch points. Supplied earned value management tools and training in project

controls. Extensive use of Primavera P3E.

Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group 08/2004 – 11/2004

Managed Data Warehouse Consolidation project, which was to create enterprise

data warehouse from two merged rental car companies. Project teams consisted

of

personnel from IT Applications, Data Warehouse, UNIX administration, and Server

administration. Resulting warehouse was on Oracle. Source warehouses were

Oracle and SQLServer.

American Electric Power, Tulsa, OK 08/1998 – 08/2004

Principal Business Analyst / IT Manager

Principal Architect responsible for defining Backup/Recovery and Disaster

Recovery environment for the Western operating companies located in Oklahoma,

Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Designed architecture, wrote RFQ and RFP

documents, led team in due diligence evaluation of vendor responses, and built the

project plan for the proposed implementation.

• Coordinated multiple Field Services organizations, application groups, data

base administration, data services and hardware/software vendors.

• Designed architecture solution for upgrade of enterprise backup/restore

capability, bringing capability into compliance with requirements for business

continuity.

Manager, Service Performance IT Infrastructure Production Services

Managed group of architects responsible for the Systems Management tools and

processes. Responsible for vendor relationships, performed total environment

evaluation in cooperation with IBM, BMC, and HP. Evaluated existing software

environment versus vendor proposals. Led team in due diligence effort for final

environment selection, software and hardware implementation, and support.

Project Manager Principal

Participated as a principal in the IT Program Office to expand standardized project

management competencies among IT Leaders and Project Leaders.

• Supplied mentoring and knowledge transfer for AEP usage of standard tools,

techniques and methodology for project management.

• Utilized Process Model, Inc software to design and build process models.

• Led server consolidation project across 7 major server categories

and 11 operating companies, consisting of 35 professionals from all

geographic locations and multiple disciplines within IT.

Completed project 2 months ahead of schedule. Realized 30% more

savings than projected, coming in 25% under budget for hardware/labor.

Deliverables were used as a model for IT Program Office templates.

Manager, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Provided guidance to Solutions Architects and vendor consultants in the

implementation of EAI infrastructure to support retail energy data exchange

activities. Managed task assignments, mentoring, training and development.

• Identified application integration opportunities.

• Oversaw ROI, management reporting and hardware/software purchases.

• As internal technology champion, prepared and gave presentations to senior

management.

• Successfully implemented EAI infrastructure, integration components and

support environment 6 weeks ahead of time, exceeding strict energy

deregulation guidelines.

Provided ability to leverage and reuse components for major integration

effort required for implementation of Enterprise Applications Systems,

HR/Payroll, Finance and Supply Chain.

Systems implemented post-merger and replaced existing applications

utilized by AEP and mergee, Central and South West Services.

Principal Architect (Central and Southwest, pre-merger)

Performed full component architecture discovery project on all CSW hardware and

software components for use in architecture alignment with AEP during pre-merger

activities. Built process models of IT processes incorporating all interfaces for use

in IT organization alignment with AEP during pre-merger activities. Utilized

Process Model, Inc software for modeling processes.

Key Accomplishments:

• Component architecture document and IT organizational process

models facilitated alignment activities.

NCR Corporation, St. Louis, MO 08/1997 – 08/1998

Principal Architect, National Accounts

As Project Manager for high-availability scalable data warehouse professional

services, handled pre-sales activity, logical/physical design, and deployment (data

sourcing, load utilities, data mining and customer support).

Principal Architect on U.S. Postal Service middleware project, involving the use of

TOP END for administration, guaranteed message delivery, security and overall

infrastructure.

Key Accomplishments:

• Effectively applied middleware expertise in closing a major sale with the US

Postal Service to design and implement a middleware infrastructure layer to

support a new retail environment.

Led architecture design effort involving NCR and 3 other contract firms.

Supported 75,000 NT clients and 8,000 middle-tier UNIX/NT machines

with multiple MVS mainframes and large UNIX servers on the back end.

ORACLE Corporation, St. Louis, MO 07/1995 – 08/1997

Manager, Applications Sales Consulting

Led team of Sales Consultants and Applied Technologists to drive sales of Oracle’s

Finance, Manufacturing and Human Resources applications and Tools

(Designer/Developer/Discoverer). Coordinated pre-sales consulting resources

across business opportunities in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Wichita, Kansas.

• Conducted technology presentations, customer seminars/workshops,

demonstrations, prototyping and, benchmarking.

Key Accomplishments:

• Skillfully turned around a troubled account, resulting in client making

additional purchases. Client also agreed to participate as an Alpha site for a

major new object-oriented line of products being developed.

• Within 3 months, had mastered the entire Oracle toolset well enough to

successfully install, demo and close multiple sales for each product.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR 04/1989 – 07/1995

Manager/Senior Software Engineer

Effectively fulfilled management and project management roles directing multiple

enterprise-wide client/ server technology and development services projects.

• Built architecture and led implementation of the middleware infrastructure

supporting communication between 2000 stores, 500 Sam's Clubs, 90

distribution centers (3 UNIX servers each), 150 home office UNIX servers, a

Teradata data warehouse and back-end mainframes.

Applications were built and implemented in 1/4 the normal time, due to

the ability to reuse common use components and scalable architecture.

Developed in-house training classes for methodology, programming and

use of common components.

19 major applications utilized the resulting infrastructure.

Presented “Distributed Computing at Wal-Mart Stores Utilizing a

Middleware Infrastructure” at the CrossRoads Conference.

• Major contributor during implementation and launch of a Teradata data

warehouse.

• Wrote Automated Warehouse system. Wrote all CICS components that

managed the receipt, storing, picking, and shipping of items to all Wal-Mart

entities. Environment: IBM, CICS, ALC, Teradata, UNIX

PRIOR Boeing Computer Services, Wichita, KS 06/1983 – 04/1989

EXPERIENCE Senior Systems Engineer / Program Manager

Program Manager for development of new processes for distribution of engineering

drawings (25,000,000) to design engineering, manufacturing engineering,

manufacturing, and shop floor control.

CICS Systems Programmer and Application developer. Utilized Assembler

language and Cobol. Databases included DB2, IMS/DB.

TECHNICAL Platforms: IBM Mainframes, IBM RS/6000, Sun,

HP, DEC, NCR UNIX,

SKILLS IBM OS390, MVS, VM, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, SVR4, DEC

OpenVMS, Windows 2000/2003/XP

Languages/Tools: ALC, C, C++, COBOL, Visual Basic, Oracle Designer,

Developer, Discoverer, ERWin, Process Model, Teradata

Utilities, PL/SQL, Access, self taught in .net C#

Middleware: WebSphere (MQSeries, MQSeries Integrator), CICS, TOP

END, Web Services

Management Tools: BMC Patrol Enterprise Manager, HP OpenView, Tivoli

Storage Manager, CA ARCServe

Databases: Teradata, Oracle, Informix, DB2, UDB, IMS/DB

Mgmt Software: Primavera P3E, Microsoft Project, Process Model, CMMI,

ITIL, Microsoft Office, Visio

EDUCATION Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, KS

B.S., Information Systems

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