Project Manager

Kevin Morrison

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City: West Babylon

State: NY

Zip: 11704

Country: USA

Phone: 646-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 120

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SUMMARY

Certified Project Manager (PMP) involved in all phases of project delivery from discovery to implementation. Professional experience covers a variety of industries including Internet Services, Consulting and Financial Services. Technical background of development and IT support coupled with advanced business degree facilitates project communication across all levels of the organization. Specialties are managing software development projects, application and database design, establishing project related policies and procedures, client relationship management.

EXPERIENCE

Gabriels Technology Solutions; New York, NY 6/2009 - Present

Director, Real Estate Products

Managing software delivery projects with at team of developers and data analysts located in New York, Romania and India. Using JIRA and Agile processes such as project backlogs, daily meetings and short development cycles the following work was delivered:

Developed a mobile real estate search API for the client's iPhone and Blackberry application. Collaboration between client Product Managers and Design Team and external iOS developers in Finland was managed with Basecamp and Google Docs.

Implemented federated login with the New York Times and the Real Estate Search website using the Security Access Markup Language (SAML) and private keys.

New personalization features allow users to save notes and personal photos with listings they saved. These features are available on all platforms: web, iPhone and Blackberry.

Delivered a self-service website for Real Estate Agents used to purchase upgrade to their listings and register for a metric reporting service provided by the client.

Released a listing comparison tool to present users with a side-by-side comparison of selected listings. Users can drag and drop to sort the listings, view the listings on a map, save the listing and print a grid view to take with them when they view a house.

Evaluated and re-factored web page code using tools such as WebPageTest to improve page load times from 12 to 3 seconds. Improvements exceeded client requirements and have been used as a framework for performance improvements on other sites developed by the company.

WeightWatchers.com; New York, NY 9/2006 - 8/2008

Senior Project Manager, Project Management Office

Implemented WW.com SDLC processes to deliver projects with cross-functional teams of internal and contracted resources.

Managed a team of consultants working on the implementation of the Oracle ERP application suite (primarily for Supply Chain and HR) and contributed to the development of processes to control the book of work for the back-office support group.

Led project team delivering enhancements to the Plan Manager featured of the WW.com subscriber website.

Organized multiple work-streams for a large integration project into a single book of work used for weekly prioritizing meetings across business units.

Stellar Services; New York, NY 11/2005 - 9/2006

Project Manager

Delivered custom software to clients by managing small development teams located on and off-shore.

Established processes and procedures required to achieve Level 2 on the CMMI Maturity Model allowing the firm to submit RFPs to additional contracts.

Implemented a MS-Sharepoint site to consolidate all project documentation.

Credit Suisse First Boston; New York, NY 8/1999 - 11/2005

Vice President, Financial Control IT

Supported applications used by the Global Corporate Treasury department by leading a team of business analysts and developers.

Upgraded all Treasury Systems to support new hedging rules in place for FAS-133

Led a two year effort to develop a liquidity risk management application that consolidated reporting on global positions across the firm. System was rated "above peer" during external audit by the New York Federal Reserve.

New York manager of a shared services team overseeing project that affected all Financial Control IT applications such as continuity planning and data center shutdowns.

Integrated Business Systems; Long Island, NY 12/1995 -8/ 1999

Development Manager

Analysts International Corporation; New York, NY 3/1993 - 12/1995

Application Developer / Consultant

Ansaldo Industria of America; New Providence, NJ 8/1992 - 3/1993

MIS Manager

Nassau County AHRC; Long Island, NY 2/1990 - 8/1992

Network Manager / Application Developer

Sterling Drug, Inc.; New York, NY 7/1986 - 2/1990

Financial Management Trainee

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Tools: MS-Office, MS-Project, MS-Visio, Mockflow (wireframing tool), JIRA, MS-Sharepoint, Basecamp, Google Docs, MS-Visual Studio, Bugtracker

Technologies: SQL, .Net, XML, HTML, CSS

Methodologies: PMBoK, Agile (SCRUM, Feature Driven Development), CMMI

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Business Analyst Plus Certificate; SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 5/2009

M.B.A., Information Systems; Hofstra University; Hempstead, NY 5/1989

B.B.A., Finance with Accounting Minor; Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 5/1986

Project Management Professional (PMP Cert. # 184580 Expires 3/2014); Project Management Institute 3/2004

PRINCE2 Certified Practitioner (Inactive); APM Group Limited 2/2002

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