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Summary of Qualifications

Program/project manager of multiple business/technical large complex projects

Experienced with more than 90 application systems including 50+ retail/wholesale financial systems

Directed multimillion-dollar effort for merger of 36 products with successful implementation on schedule

Assumed project management, after 2 predecessors failed attempts. Redirected project to follow original timeline. Then incorporated senior management s significant scope change 5 months prior to install, with timely and successful end user performance.

Improved project implementation goal of 15 minute turnaround, 6 months after install: to 12 minute turnaround, 2 weeks after install. Escalated install timeframe of 30 days for 6 remote sites to 14 days.

A resourceful and energetic team manager for 21+years, exceptional ability to understand business strategy and articulate to technical and non-technical, proven to quickly become subject matter expert. Experienced with several methodologies in numerous projects. Quality mentor of technical and business team members. Experienced with establishing and maintaining excellent vendor relationships.

Industry experience ranges from large to small companies with the diversification of Banking; Consulting; Healthcare; Education; Microcomputer Manufacturing; Mining; Forestry; Transportation; Auto Product Manufacturing and Electronics Manufacturing.

PC Tools: Microsoft - Word, Project, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Explorer, Windows 2000, 98, 3.x, NT, Visio; Lotus 123, WordPerfect, Netscape, Cadence, Project Workbench.

Professional Experience

EDP Contract Services

; Consultant (Telecommute) April 2002Current

Wells Fargo; Business/

Technical Program Manager

; Vancouver, WA April 2002Nov 2002

Program Manager

of two concurrent multi-million dollar Home Equity Projects. Trained as RUP facilitator. Projects with cross-divisional impact, multiple business units, business processes and products.

Business and Technical Project Manager for servicing issues related to Correspondent Home Equity loans and lines.

Modifications to 15 applications (included Hogan (CIS), Shaw, Collections, GUI frontends)

Managed business requirements and automation of business processes

Managed research and review of AllTel system functions and related business processes

Defined and implemented semi-manual business processes 3 months into project, improving customer service prior to automated solution

Remote management of 18 business leads and their teams of 55+ in 12 locations; 15 technical leads and their teams of 60+ in 8 locations

Technical Project Manager for the development and roll out of a new Home Equity product

Participated with business project team for roll out preparation and development of processes

Modifications to 30 applications (included ACAPS, EAI, Hogan, Shaw, WEB, ZOOT)

Remote management of 22 technical leads and their teams of 75+ in 10 locations

Comsys; Consultant

September 2001April 2002Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield

;

Technical Project Manager; Portland,OR Sept 2001Apr 2002

Healthcare: Hands-on management to validate and route medical and dental (NSF, UB92) claims to FACETS and multiple legacy systems. Completed HIPPA management training.

Successfully organized project and built project team in less than a week.

Designed system of complex validation with multiple two-way NDM transmissions between UNIX and multiple IBM mainframes (COBOL/JCL/ControlM/TSO)

Wrote detailed program specifications and test plans. Actively unit and system tested.

Project installed on time with no issues

Emerald Solutions

; ConsultantNovember 1998June 2001

Wells Fargo;

Business Project Manager

; Vancouver, WA (Telecommute) May 2001June 2001

Migration project manager with responsibility to migrate legacy products to web based architecture.

Migration of 10 products (included Image Positive Pay, Stops, ARP, Wires, Electronic Rpts)

Successfully provided leadership, SDLC process (including deliverables) and organization to a project in full progression. Directed creation of specific Implementation deliverables.

Mentored manager for improvement of PM skills

Remote management of 10 managers and their teams of 40+ in 7 locations

Wells Fargo;

Business Program Manager

; Vancouver, WA (Telecommute) July 2000May 2001

Integration program manager for the entire Treasury Management portfolio contained within the First Security Merger. This was a multi-million dollar project impacting both Wells Fargo and First Security customers. Projects had bank-wide, cross-divisional impact; with numerous changes to business units, business processes and products

Merger of 36 applications (included Hogan, RPM, OTP, ACH, ARP, E products, Wires, Item Processing (MICR/Vector/CHX2000), Imaging, ATM, EDI); both automated and manual conversion (mainframe/RS6000), including systems development and new capture hubs.

Liaison to bank wide: M&A; Communications; Training; Operations; Technical; QA Testing

Managed business continuity planning, merger and automation of processes

First point person for all of Treasury Management products during merger and post merger

Projects all completed on time with quality implementation and minimal issues

Established SDLC process and deliverables for future wholesale integrations

Mentored four managers for PM skills

Remote management of 12 managers and their teams of 74+ in 16 locations

Wells Fargo; End to End Project Manager

;

Denver, CO; Portland, OR July 1999June 2000

Detail management of the business and technical aspects for the Wires Risk automated conversion and development. A multi-million dollar project within the Norwest/Wells Fargo merger. Project had bank-wide, cross-divisional impact; with changes to business units and business processes; major impact to technical real-time online interfaces

Assumed project management in design phase, after 2 predecessors failed attempts. Successfully redirected project to follow original timeline. Installed corporate SDLC process, with added improvements.

Converted mainframe PL/1 online programs to COBOL/CICS; updating DB2 database. Hands on with technical system and program design, problem solving, test plans and test scripts.

Incorporated significant scope change 5 months prior to install. Consisted of new SUN/Solaris hardware for core system, upgrade and performance tuning to both UNIX operating system and Oracle database with development on client server and 2 IBM mainframes (COBOL/CICS), added 22 interfaces (batch/online; including Hogan (Deposits), CHX2000 Item Processing); RS6000.

Successful software install with no issues, along with the availability of the online system earlier than scheduled on implementation day.

Managed Inception Phase of web based interface to Wires Risk. Deliverables included: component selection, requirements definition and prototype development.

Remote management of 8 managers, 28 team members in 5 locations

Consolidated Freightways

; Technical Project Manager; Portland, OR November 1998July 1999

Transportation: Detail management of the complete integration of PeopleSoft Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Payroll and Asset Management into 12 legacy systems.

Joined 2-year project in final 3 months. Installed interfaces within schedule and budget.

Managed the integration of data and 50+ production jobs between both platforms using SQR extracts from PeopleSoft. Defined and managed parallel and UAT tests.

Led and assisted in analysis and debugging of SQRs.

Transportation: Managed post implementation project team of 15 to produce customized reports from PeopleSoft AP, GL and AM using SQRs; included upgrade to PeopleSoft 7.5.

Read SQR code and wrote business requirements and technical specifications

Mentored Project Manager for 7.5 Upgrade while managing and writing PS AP test plans and scripts. Designed and installed test status database (Access) with automated mgmt reporting.

US Bank

; Sr. Applications/Project Manager Portland, OR March 1985November 1998

Integration Test Team Manager

; complex development project, UWS, Bank Card processing.

In-house modifications to Visual Banker on NT with direct communications to Mtech, Hogan, Authorizations, CSF Messenger to process online and batch. On the workstation was a CTI link with the mainframe, a 3270 Emulator and Intranet access. Participated in data modeling.

Software languages were Visual Age, SmallTalk, Footprint, Callflow and Mdp Cobol interfacing with MQ, SNA, SQL and Web servers.

Established and maintained test labs on site and two remote locations

Created and managed the implementation of Testing SDLC and Risk Management Process

Managed test script/case and scenario creation and maintenance

Management of 16 technical team members in 3 locations

Technical Project Manager for major enhancements to BankPro Lobby CBT used in all branches of the First Bank/US Bank merger. Project had bank-wide impact training for numerous changes to merging business units and processes Client/server system on OS/2, written in Argo

Established and maintained an isolated OS/2 LAN with TCP/IP on site for all development

Integrated changes for the Deposits, Withdrawals, Customer Information and Loan processing into the training system.

Managed SDLC process, Argo training, development, problem resolution, IT and UAT

Team of 10. All were contractors except for one developer and analyst.

Functional Manager of 9 Sr. Programmer/Analysts concurrent with Technical Project Manager for design, development (using SDLC) and implementation of direct CMSI CreditRevue.

Production systems: Loans/Lines Applications (COBOL/IMS) and Magnum Communications (COBOL/CICS) on IBM mainframe; indirect loan applications, CMSI CreditRevue (Progress), on HP9000 and IBM mainframe (accessed using PC platform via TCP/IP on LAN/WAN networks). Support consisted of development, maintenance and performance tuning. All projects followed SDLC process.

In-house programs and systems configuration on second HP9000 in HP-UX (Progress) and IBM MF (COBOL/IMS); with installation of vendor package (Progress) and ConnectDirect; team of 32.

Maintained excellent vendor relationship; participant of vendor design for beta software. Participated in data modeling.

Participated in disaster recovery planning and testing

Member of the CMSI User Steering Committee; assisted with User Conference presentation.

Strategy/Customer Advocate Manager for the Consumer Lending Division.

Assisted Executive VPs and Sr. VPs with strategic planning for retail lending products (including Home Equity and indirect lending)

Initiated multiple application projects and re-engineering of business units. Results for the end users were improved income and systems performance.

Participated in development of new methodology (SDLC) for technical projects

Assisted business with continuity planning and technical with disaster recovery planning and testing

Program Manager for four Retail Lending systems (equity, non-equity, indirect leasing) during West One merger concurrent with Liaison Manager for indirect division for new release of Shaw IL and AFS Commercial Lending/Flooring

CMSI CreditRevue (HP-UX; Progress), Loans/Lines Applications (IBM COBOL/IMS), Collections CACS (IBM COBOL/CICS), Archive Imaging, KAR (on Kodak hardware); installation of PC-based Leasing System, LeaseTek.

Managed 6 technical leads and their teams of 22+ across 4 locations

Project Manager for installation of CMSI CreditRevue

Managed vendor relationship, requirements, data modeling, development, training and installation of customized vendor and in-house software; (HP-UX; Progress and COBOL/IMS) including all hardware (HP9000); PC workstations for end users; networking; systems configuration, TCP/IP; SNA, FTP and SuperTracs to mainframe; telecommunications. Conducted training at end user sites.

Managed business continuity planning, disaster recovery planning and automation of processes

Technical team of 5, end users based out of state with 5 remote user sites, total team of 25.

Improved project implementation goal of 15-minute turnaround, 6 months after install: to 12-minute turnaround, 2 weeks after install. Escalated install timeframe of 30 days for 6 remote sites to 14 days.

Program Manager of Retail Lending conversion of equity and non-equity loans from Security Pacific and Bank of America branches (Application Processing, SHAW, Creditline and Collections)

Technical Project Manager

Major enhancements to Magnum Communications (COBOL/CICS); installed LU6.2/VTAM.

Major enhancements to production MSA Payroll; payroll process and reports (COBOL/IMS).

Re-design and installed Flexible Benefits system, IMS database design with complex online screens.

Enhanced Flexible Benefits System (COBOL/IMS) for merger of ONB and Peoples Bank. Data base design.

Project Manager; Lead Programmer/Analyst; Consultant; Hardware Operator

Designed and enhanced PC software (Pascal/2, C); assisted sales team; edited PC mfg. user manuals for Ithaca Intersystems, a PC manufacturer

; Ithaca, NY

Project Manager

for installation of MSA Payroll/Personnel (COBOL/IMS); complex time card gathering/customized reporting ; lead MSA vendor relationship for NERCO, a mining company; Portland, OR

Led team to enhance in-house Inventory System (COBOL/IMS) and MSA Payroll System (COBOL/IMS), with end users out of state; Forestry Projections (RPGII, FORTRAN) for International Paper Company, a forestry and manufacturing company,

Longview, WA

Led team to design, code, data base design and install (with end users in 3 remote locations), Inventory Scrap System (COBOL/IMS) for Walker Manufacturing; Racine, WI

Led team to design, code, data base design and install Cost Accounting; multiple inventory systems; multiple financial and manufacturing systems (COBOL, NEAT/3) for NCR, Ithaca NY

Tutored COBOL, operated NCR mainframe, assistant to DP Director

Education; Degree

in Computer Science ACC, Auburn, New York

Technical Summary

Hardware: IBM mainframe; 4300, 360 - 90xx; HP9000/G-T Series; RS6000, IBM PC; HP Vectra; Toshiba; SUN/Solaris; DEC, AS400, IBM System 34-38; NCR 100-201; Apple/LisaPC; Z80-Z8000 microprocessor; DPI midrange

Systems: Manage installation of: application systems with connectivity to multiple platforms (online and batch; client server); internal and external communications; hardware; LANs; WANs; software packages (custom and vanilla); in-house systems.

Mainframe:

OS VM(CMS), MVS/XA(TSO,JCL), DOS, CICS

Communications VTAM, CompuServe, LU6.2, NDM, SuperTracs, TCP/IP, FTP, Sterling

Databases IMS, VSAM, DB2, TOTAL, Data Dictionary

Languages COBOL, NEAT/3, FORTRAN, PL/1, Assembler

Software TSO, SPF, CA7, ControlM, SAR, AMMO, TLMS, Syncsort, PACII, Endeavor, Librarian, Changeman, Panvalet, FileAide, File Marvel, FOCUS, SAS, Playback, EasyTrieve, DYL260, Expeditor, AbendAide, RACF

Micros/Small/Medium:

OS UNIX, MS-DOS, OS/2, CP/M, MP/M, XENIX

Communications TCP/IP, SNA, FTP, NDM/Connect Direct

Networks Novelle, Netware, Ethernet

Databases Progress, Paradox, SQL, Oracle

Languages SQR, PeopleSoft Tools, Visual Age, SmallTalk, Argo, Shell, Progress, Lotus Notes, Power Builder, RPGII, Visual Basic, Visual C, C++, Pascal/2, C, Basic, AIDE IV

Software Talkthru, Attachmate (KeaTerm 3270Emulation), Websphere

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Contact Information

Celeste N Wood

13709 NE 195th Ave

Brush Prairie, WA 98606

US

email abptb6@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 360-***-****

Industry: IT/MIS Management

City: Brush Prairie

State: WA

Zip: 98606

Country: US

Date: 20030322

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