Project Manager Management

Lorenzo Hidalgo

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City: Phoenix

State: AZ

Zip: 85012

Country: USA

Phone: 323-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $130,000

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Lorenzo Hidalgo

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Blog: www.a-new-breed-pm.com

Rate: $70/hour

Availability: 2 weeks notice

Location: Phoenix Metropolitan only

Qualifications

Program and senior project manager with 10+ years of diverse experience that continuosly finds solutions for client's biggest problems. Key strengths are strategic planning, risk management, and resource management. My commitment is to transform every team into high performers that deliver ahead of time and exceed expectations.

Basel II Tech PMO, American Express March 2012 - present

Primary Responsibility: Oversee End-to-End (E2E) Project Managers (PMs) for Basel II technology work streams.

Reporting

* Mentor E2E PMs how to write weekly status reports for third-party audience:

Summarize overall project health based on current and upcoming milestones and dependencies.

Provide one-line status updates in order to focus on high-impact risks & issues.

State risks & issues using Deep Dive Analysis.

* Created weekly high-level bullet summaries for executives.

Risk Management

* Mentor E2E PMs how to perform a Deep Dive Analysis:

Clearly idenitfy the risk or issue by linking it to a specific milestone or dependency.

Concisely determine the root cause by stating the task on critical path and why it cannot complete.

Understand the context of the risk or issue by identifying which phase the task is in the SDLC process.

Assess the impact to downstream milestones by using the four types of task relationships.

Assess the impact to scope, schedule, and budget by using $impact/day.

Specify a decisive action to complete the task by whom and when.

Escalate based on the success or failure of the decisive action.

Leadership

* Created $impact/day in order to manage scope, schedule, and budget with financial accountability.

* Created Deep Dive Analysis in order to communicate risks & issues more clearly and concisely to management for faster decision-making.

* Created centralized frameworks for cross-project dependencies in order to focus cross-functional teams on common goal.

* Lead cross-project interdependency meetings in order to get results faster.

* Drove resolution of open risks & issues across technology work streams.

Secondary Responsibilities:

Milestone/Dependency Closures and Change Control

* Ensure compliance with new SDLC 2.0 standards.

* Resolve conditional approvals between business, technology workstreams and leadership.

* Break down cost impact to $impact/day for scope, schedule, and budget.

Collaboration

* Collaborated with business and technology workstreams to re-baseline milestones and dependencies from single market portfolios to multiple market portfolios with multiple sources.

* Collaborated with peers to create inferential statistics on how to show cause & effect from change control log.

Education

* Certified Scrum Product Owner - Scrum Alliance.org

* Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance.org

* Professional Scrum Master I - Scrum.org

* Agile Training - Davisbase, GembaSystems, Valtech

* B.A. in Economics - University of California, Los Angeles Lorenzo Hidalgo Page 2

Oracle 11g Program Manager, Charles Schwab Feb 2010 - Jan 2012

Primary Responsibilities: Migrate 500+ Oracle databases from 10g to 11g encompassing 70+ application groups across three environments: standalone, shared, and virtual on Linux and AIX platforms.

Multi-Level Release Planning

Developed 5-Step Currency methodology in order to clarify purpose and strategy:

* Set the Right Priority to maximize business value for the sponsor.

* Create a Tiered Program to provide flexible planning to resource managers.

* Secure Funding, Resources, Scope & Schedule to get buy-in from sponsor and key stakeholders.

* Socialize Roadmap to get feedback and buy-in from customers.

* Commit to Funding, Resources, Scope & Schedule to deliver what we promise.

Program Budget

* Responsbile for managing hardware and software costs allocated for migration.

Statement of Work

* Significantly reduced time to generate statement of work from 8 weeks down to 5 days by leveraging enterprise architecture to define scope, deliverables and non-functional acceptance criteria.

Project Risk Assessment

* Streamlined gathering business and technical requirements from 20 pages and 3-4 weeks turnaround down to 1 page in 3 days by collaborating with business owners, account managers, and technical architects.

Extended Support Risk Management Plan

* Collaborated with managing directors and senior management to determine and define options to offer customers: accept, avoid, defer, and mitigate.

Secondary Responsibilites: Oversee multiple project managers; both full-time and contractors:

Schedule Management

* Train project managers in MS Project scheduling engine: D=W/U.

* Effectively manage project end date by shifting from a single committed end date to a range of dates with primary, contingency, and fallback.

* Deliver on-time and on-budget by running parallel tasks independent of the critical path.

Resource Management

* Proactively manage resources by determining actual capacity versus constraint. Get high-fidelity estimate of hours to complete tasks in the next 20 business days minus assigned allocation to project.

Team Performance

* Improve team performance by performing and incorporating Lessons Learned after each deliverable versus at the end of the project.

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Charles Schwab (employee) Mar2006 - Jan2012

Program Manager

Migrated 500+ Oracle databases from 10g to 11g encompassing 70+ application groups under multi-year Oracle 11g Currency Program. Developed Agile multi-level Release Planning. Coached project managers how to become more effective managing stakeholders, risk, and resources.

Senior Project Manager

Managed 30+ full project life-cycle technology projects across web, application, and database tiers on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX platforms using PMBOK/Agile methodologies. Expanded breadth of projects to include availability, emergency capacity adds, new business functionality, regulatory, revenue generating, and security. Project durations were from 5 days up to 18 months and managed up to 12 projects concurrently.

Project Manager (contractor)

Managed 10+ full project life-cycle technology projects across web, application, and database tiers on Windows and Linux platforms using PMBOK/RUP methodologies. Breadth of projects included cost savings/avoidance, currency, and small enhancement. Project durations were typically 3-6-9 months and managed up to 4 projects concurrently.

Real Estate Investment (consultant) Jan2005 - Feb2006

Project Manager. Managed remodeling projects for family investment property using simple plan, design, build, and deliver methodology.

General Electric/NBC/Universal (contractor) Apr2004 - Dec2004

Project Manager. Migrated 700+ servers from NBC/Universal's IP addressing scheme to GE's IP addressing scheme using Six Sigma's methodology of define, measure, analyze, improve, and control.

Web-and-Wireless (employee) Jan2003 - Feb2004

Product Manager. Developed and sold online backup and remote access solutions to small companies.

Strativa Corporation (consultant) Jul2002 - Dec2002

Project Manager. Determined a major entertainment company's internal exposure and legal liability of digital music and peer-to-peer file sharing using 4D's methodology of discovery, design, develop, and deploy.

City of South Gate (consultant) Jan2002 - Jun2002

IT Consultant. Replaced network infrastructure, added servers, and desktop automation tool using PMBOK methodology.

Strativa Corporation (consultant) May2001 - Dec2001

Project Manager. Consolidated application, file, and print servers using 4D's methodology of discovery, design, develop, and deploy.

Capital Group Companies (consultant) Oct2000 - Apr2001

Project Manager. Deployed a new, enterprise-wide SAN and backup infrastructure using PMBOK methodology.

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