Project Management

Donald MacMillan

Email: *********@********.***

Address: Box 235, 260 Town Farm Road

City: Barre

State: MA

Zip: 01005

Country: USA

Phone: 978-***-****

Skill Level: Senior

Salary Range: $124,000

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DONALD MACMILLAN

Project Management Consultant

*********@********.***

C: 978-***-****

H: 978-***-****

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

30 years of experience in IT encompassing Software Engineering, QA, IV&V, Governance, Business Systems Analysis and Project Management.

* Proven track record in leading complex, mission-critical, software development and infrastructure projects from origination through closing phases

* Extensive experience with major entities including Commonwealth of Massachusetts IT Division, EMC, IBM, Availant, GTEI, Staples, EDS, and Digital Equipment Corporation

* Significant experience interfacing with all IT functions while leading diverse teams to project success

* Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, analytical and communication skills honed through years of rigorous experience

* Successful career applications of methodologies including: SDLC, CMM, TQM, PMI and PMBOK, UP, EDI X12

* Certified Project Master by Villanova University 2003, PMI membership ID 837180

* ITIL Certified 2005, EMC Storage Technology Foundations certified 2008

* EMC Global Education Program Manager for world wide Project Management curriculum development, assessment, scheduling and maintenance

* Past PMO and Oversight Consultant to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

* Senior Project Management consultant, analyst, curriculum and course developer for advanced PM impact course development at EMC Global Education Services and Development

* Solid technical skills on multiple computer platforms encompassing many Software and QA Engineering disciplines

* Expertise in MS-Project, MS-Office suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio), Clarity and SQL

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Massachusetts ITD PMO/Chelsea MA, Via TEK Systems

3/09 thru 12/12

Senior Project Management consultant in Commonwealth`s Unified Communications, Telephony, Email Messaging and Agency Hosting programs.

These programs encompassed twenty infrastructure projects delivered over a three and a half year span. All Projects followed integrated PMBOK and SDLC methodology frameworks.

Often managing multiple simultaneous projects with infrastructure goals driving project deliverables in:

* Network infrastructure

* OS and Application upgrades

* Storage infrastructure changes

* Security configuration changes

* Data Center Hosting

Primary MITC/ ITD Projects:

* E-Mail Messaging - MassMail Program projects

o Exchange 2003 - 2007 Upgrade (35,000 users, 80 Agencies)

o Blackberry Upgrade

o Email Routing and Address List Synchronization

o Anti-Spam Infrastructure replacement

o Secure E-Mail Infrastructure changes

o Unified Communications Core project

o Email and Archive/Retention and E-Discovery IaaS/PaaS (Cloud) foundation project (Origination through Vendor Selection)

* UC / Telephony Projects

o Commonwealth Voicemail Replacement Project

o Commonwealth EEC, ART, MCAD, HPC Shared Switch Upgrade projects

o Second Data Center Telephony Upgrade for Disaster Recovery

* Agency Application Hosting

o Family Net re platform

o EHS SAS re platform

o Superdome replacement

Projects involved managing and coordinating network, security, server, database and storage team resources

EMC, Franklin MA 7/08 - 12/08

GS Global Education Program Manager and Project Management Consultant

* Prime contact in Mercer Road for all GS PM training needs and the prime Mercer Road conduit to and influence over PMO training-related activities

* Successfully applied program and project management skill sets to the GS 2009 Project Management Program

* PMBOK best practices applied to all activities

Highlights Included:

* Identified, planned, and managed, all aspects of Global Services PM training including curriculum content, course customization, class scheduling and delivery methods, budget planning and management, new course development, reporting and evaluation of consumption and quality, learning paths, and competency assessments

* Identified program risks and mitigation strategies, program issues and escalation to Mercer Road management and the PMO as appropriate to minimize program exposures.

* Successfully initiated, planned, monitored and brought to successful completion the Global Education 2009 Project Management Program for EMC world-wide

* Assisted EMC PMO in facilitating PMP, ITIL and STF certification training efforts for Americas, Europe (EMEA) and the Far East (APJ)

Massachusetts ITD PMO/Capital Project Oversight, Boston, MA Consulting,

1/07 - 6/08

Senior Project Management Consultant

Mass. ITD Capital Projects Oversight Project Manager

* The Massachusetts IT Division PMO serves 85 state agencies that encompass 85,000 employees.

* My services encompassed artifacts and deliverables for all phases of project management for the Commonwealth`s ITD Capital Project Oversight Program Development Project.

* Assisted Commonwealth`s PMO in developing a Project Management Methodology.

* Numerous presentations regarding findings and proposals were prepared and delivered to the Commonwealth ITD Executive Management Committee.

Highlights included:

* Gathered and refined requirements for Capital project Oversight Development Program

* Developed Project Plan for Capital Project Oversight Development Program

* Analyzed various state and federal government PMO and oversight models to assist in developing oversight model for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

o Developed oversight tools for the Commonwealth including:

Capital Project Quality Assurance Form

Capital Project Standards Compliance Form

Capital Project Artifact Guide

Capital Project Health Check Forms (all phases)

Capital Project Risk Register

Capital Project Issue Log

EMC, Southborough, MA 7/05 - 9/06

Project Management Consultant

Responsible for Project Management, research, analysis and course development for EMC major service areas:

* Effective collaboration with EMC`s PMO and Global Education and Development functions.

* Provided full range of Project Management services including Stakeholder Management:, requirements gathering and refinement; WBS, schedule development and risk management leading to delivery of eight advanced Project Management Impact courses

* Courses involved extensive research and analysis encompassing products and services in EMC NAS, SAN, CAS, SRM, Backup, Recovery and Archive, Replication, and Migration business and technical domains

* Platform focused research and analysis included EMC Celerra, CLARiiON, Symmetrix and Centera

* Courses Developed and Delivered:

Managing EMC Technology Projects - General Module

Managing EMC NAS Technology Projects

Managing EMC SAN Design projects for CLARiiON

Managing EMC Symmetrix Replication Projects

Managing EMC Backup, Recovery and Archiving Projects

Managing EMC Data Migration Projects

Managing EMC Storage Resource Management Projects

Managing EMC Content Addressed Storage Projects ( Sarbanes Oxley )

* Performed EMC and ESI PM course curriculum comparative analysis

Availant Corporation, Cambridge and Waltham, MA 7/00 - 5/05

Associate Director, HACMP Engineering

Responsible for P&L, Project Management and people management for five successful releases of IBM HACMP software systems.

Senior QA Engineering, Y2K Project Leadership, Analysis and Programming 6/96 - 6/00 for companies including GTEI, Staples, and Compaq Computers via Contracting Agencies: Sullivan and Cogliano, Computer Express, Computer Merchants, and Software Connections.

Electronic Data Systems, Waltham, MA. Advanced Software Engineer 4/95 - 5/96

Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA. 3/86 - 2/95

Principal Software Engineer

Experience prior to 1986

* Zayre Corporation - Programmer Analyst (1985 - 1986)

* Benjamin J. White Associates - Consulting Programmer Analyst (1983 - 1985)

EDUCATION AND SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL TRAINING

EMC Storage Technology Foundations

EMC GSAP Program August 2008

Pink Elephant ITIL Certification Training

Certified in ITIL foundations 2005

International Institute for Learning

Advanced Project Management and Kerzner Best Practices in Project Management 2005

Harvard University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Tufts University Consortium

Program for Negotiation for Senior Executives 2004

Villanova University

Villanova Certificate in Project Mastery 2003

Boston University

Improving Supervisory and Management Skills 2002

Central New England College

Certificate in Data Processing 1983

40 credit hours 3.95 average in courses covering Assembly, Basic, COBOL programming languages, Data Structures and Algorithms and Structured Systems Analysis and Design

EMC Global Education and Development internal courses 1985 - 1986

In order to successfully complete the eight Advanced PM Impact courses for EMC, I consumed and based my research on the following EMC training courses:

NAS Foundations

NAS Backup Concepts

Networked Storage - NAS Basics

Network Appliance Basics

Celerra Fundamentals

Celerra Features and Functions

Celerra Foundations SAN Planning & Design Concepts

SRM Solutions Design Concepts

ControlCenter Foundations

Symmetrix Basics

Symmetrix Fundamentals

Symmetrix Foundations

Symmetrix Solutions Design Concepts

Information Lifecycle Management

ITIL and EMM Overview

Centera Foundations

SRDF Foundations

Time Finder Foundations

Digital Equipment Corporation - internal courses and sponsored seminars

1986 - 1995

Over the course of nine years, at an average of one course per quarter, I had accumulated over 900 hours of state of the art technology training. An outstanding feature of this training was that it was immediately applied in a professional context. These courses included:

Distributed systems development

Developing software in complex environments

Requirements engineering

Six-Sigma and continuous process improvement for software engineering

Using VMS features from:

C,

VMS COBOL,

VMS Basic

Advanced DCL programming

ULTRIX - UNIX features and programming Data modeling for DB design

RDB/VMS application programming

Advanced RDB/SQL

Data Dictionary - CDD

Object Orientated Design Concepts

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