Project Manager Management

Pete Esobar

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

Address: **** ******* ******

City: O'fallon

State: MO

Zip: 63368

Country: USA

Phone: 314-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: $120,000

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Summary

Championing solutions for a diverse set of clients, I have protected tens of billions of dollars in assets, optimized budgets with hundreds of millions of dollars, served millions of customers, impacted tens of thousands of employees and directly changed the working processes for thousands of employees. Solutions have encompassed hardware, software, process, and critical relationships to overcome obstacles. The combination of 14 years of leadership roles, engaging teams domestically and in over 14 countries, have refined my leadership skills to yield business efficient results. Achieving successful solutions through improved quality, improved time to market, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, I always seek to satisfy my customers and elevate the team. Often this was accomplished while navigating industry standards such as ISO 27002, NIST 800-53, GLBA, US Patriot Act, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, SOX, US Privacy Regulation as well as numerous industry standards. As a catalyst for change, I have been a strategic leader applying 20 years of experience to transform corporations.

Skills

* Security Training

* Virtualization and Private Cloud Security - from SANS

* IT Forensics - from SANS

* Mobile Device Forensics - from SANS

* Network Penetration and Vulnerability Testing - from SANS

* SCADA Conference (power grid security) - from SANS

* Disaster Recovery Certified Business Continuity Planner Training - from Disaster Recovery Institute

* Regulations: NIST, SOX, PCI DSS, US Privacy Regulations, ISO 27002, HIPAA/HITECH, Safe Harbor, OTS, OCC, GLBA, Patriot Act, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, CMS, NERC, FERC, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (eDiscovery)

* Corporate Transformations including: mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, building teams, restructuring companies, corporate security evolution, regulatory alignments, quality improvement, time to market optimization, business and IT alignment, market planning, and organizational redesign

* Process Overview: RUP, ITIL, CMM, Agile, Waterfall, Rapid Development, OOD, PMI, COB, ISO 9001, CISSP CBK

* Professional: Portfolio & Project Management, Risk Management, Vendor Management, Crisis Management, Release Management

* Author: for Prentice Hall Publishing in October 1994, Having Fun with Alpha Five, Tips, Tricks and Techniques

* Languages & Scripting: Visual C++, C, Java, Visual Basic, ASP, HTML

* Operating Systems: UNIX (AIX, SCO); Windows: 2008, 2007, 2000, 98, 95, XP, NT, 3.11; MS DOS, OS/2, Telecommunication systems

* Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Alpha Five

* Defect Tracking Tools: Remedy, Clarify, DDTS, PVCS Tracker

* Configuration Management Tools: PVCS Version Manager, Visual SourceSafe, ClearCase, MKS

* Additional Tools: Crystal Reports, Microsoft Project, Estimate Pro, Novient, TeamPlay

Experience

VP of Customer Care

Plexis Healthcare Systems

Ashland, OR

2012 - Present

--- Responsibilities included customer delivery of solutions, Project Management Office, process improvements, compliance, audit response, information security, information technology (Infrastructure), training, technical support, product designers, customer contracts, vendor contracts, budget, executive committee and corporate planning.

* Drove information security policies, process, controls, incidents and compliance

* Managed audits from partners regarding process, security and technology to standards (e.g., NIST 800-53, CMMi, HIPAA/HITECH))

* Directly managed over 35 individuals and coordinated over 90% of non-direct report resources across the organization

* Drove product delivery of products which generated over 90% of company revenue

* Lead improvements to organization wide policies and processes which designed, developed, tested, delivered, and maintenance

* Leveraged industry best practices such as RUP, Agile, ITIL, and PMBOK for organizational improvements

* Part of executive committee for organization strategy, budgets and planning

* Managed customer relationships and turned around key customer accounts

* Managed customer base that included major corporations, government accounts and midsize operations

* Ensured compliance with client contract stipulations including quality, delivery, financial parameters and client objectives

* Assisted in the design, development, and review of client contracts, and RFP responses

* Ensured infrastructure controls such as: access controls, backup and restore, network traffic monitoring, environmental management

* Project oversight for vendor RFI/RFP process, including vendor comparisons, and infrastructure issue resolution

Cyber Security Consultant

Solution Consulting (for Ameren Corporation)

St. Louis, MO

2011 - 2012

--- Responsibilities included building cyber security for a billion dollar energy-company with over 10,000 employees and millions of customers.

* Drove recommendations for new cyber security team including the strategy, roadmap, vision, mission, objectives, and supporting documents.

* Designed and developed security organization architecture for policies, teams and project plans

* Lead development and implementation plans, resolved assessment findings, developed policies, procedures, and practices

* Provided alignment to industry standards, identification of regulatory controls, and review of current controls

* Developed roadmaps, presentations and status reports for senior executives and board of directors

Management Consultant

MasterCard (subcontractor)

St. Louis, MO,

2009 - 2011

--- Responsibilities included organizational transformation leadership for a 3,000 person technology organization as well as for private consulting firm. Leadership includes organizational process assessment, providing alternative solutions, leading organizational restructuring, creation of Portfolio Management, creation of centralized Project Management Office, creation of a centralized Governance Team and corresponding process improvements.

* Developed Information Security Policy, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan for private consulting firm

* Developed Roadmap, framework and detailed guidance for creation of Audit and Compliance team

* Drove strategy, roadmap planning and tactical details for the development of a centralized Portfolio Management, Project Management and Business Analyst Office to deliver policy, process, audit, tools and metrics.

* Provided training and awareness for executive level staff and line managers

* Provided vision, plans, policies, processes, templates, best practices, educational material and recommendations

* Provided information which was utilized in Board of Directors meetings and senior executive meetings

* Streamlined processes to improve communication, coordination, IT alignment to Business Strategy, and process agility

Information Security Office Policy and Compliance Lead

Monsanto, Inc.

St. Louis, MO

2008 - 2009

--- Responsible for IT process improvements including process strategy, development and implementation across organization.

Received Outstanding Service Award for participation in the development of the Enterprise IT Project Management Framework

* Developed strategy to build Policies, Standards, Guidelines and Controls around Information Security, Regulatory Requirements, Business Objections and Technology Objectives. Refreshed and built more Standards, Controls, Standard Operating Procedures in 6 months than had been completed in the previous 4 years of existing documents which reset the baseline for direction and governance

* Preventing single point of failure by creating more internal resources to support IT Forensics (FTK, Encase), eDiscovery and Legal Hold

* Managed and responded to security incidents including lost assets, misuse of organization resources and external security breaches while improving tracking and response models.

* Managed the IT SOX scope, guidance team, SOX controls, internal and external audits

* Managed the approved deviations form approved policies and standards with the use of a risk management acceptance process

* Performed external party security reviews, including technology, policies, standards and contracts.

* Supported integration and review of Policies and Standards of 3 corporate acquisitions.

* Engaged projects and teams regarding the following regulations: SOX, US Privacy Regulations, PCI DSS, HIPPA, CMS and Safe Harbor

Citigroup (Citi Home Equity, Consumer Lending Division, Real Estate Lending)O`Fallon, MO

2002 - 2008

-- Business Information Security Officer - REL Operations

Citi Mortage, Inc.

O`Fallon, MO

2006 - 2008

-- Business Information Security Officer / Director of Governance

Citi Home Equity

O`Fallon, MO

2005 - 2006

--- Responsible for leading process improvements for Business Technology Solutions Team which developed technology and strategic business projects for Citi Home Equity including improvements to project management, change management, internet management, information security, export compliance, risk control self assessment testing, and vendor management

* Developed strategy to build an Information Security and Governance Team for rapidly-growing Citi Home Equity Division with over 2,500 employees and over $14 billion in assets.

* Responsible for leading efforts to ensure Citi Home Equity Division was in line with various corporate compliance regulations and with Federal Agencies such as Office of Thrift Supervision, Office of Compensation Controller, PCI DSS, SOX, Fair Credit Lending, Fact Act, Graham-Leach-Bliley, Patriot Act, Department of Defense, and Department of Commerce

* Lead security initiatives for the division which included efforts such as: identification and classification of Critical Business and Technology Process, Risk Assessments, Application (security) Compliance Questionnaires, Business Impact Analysis, Threat & Vulnerability Assessments, Ethical Hack Scheduling & Reviews, Business Impact Assessments, Continuity of Business Plans, Citigroup Technology System Inventory for Citi Home Equity Division, Information Security Project Reviews, Access Entitlement Reviews, Record Retention Management, Multi-Factor Authentication, Confidential Email Management

* Developed strategies, process development and implementations for Information Security solutions which have been leveraged for approximately 16,000 employees

* Lead 30 person team of Information Security Coordinators who worked in business departments to facilitate security and compliance

* Lead End User Computing Policy (EUC) Roll Out for Citi Home Equity Division for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) to accomplish a more robust compliance solution in 2 months, where it took other divisions a year to accomplish

* Responsible for ensuring the division could develop and maintain controls for internal audit standards as well as external audit agencies

* Lead compliance for identification of Non-Public Information for the division including files, Electronic Transportable Media, and Non-Electronic Transportable Media

* Responsible for rolling out information security initiatives including: data classifications, approval for transmission of information, review of vendors for information security, and awareness efforts

* Lead reviews of third party vendors for information security, and general compliance with Citigroup standards

VP, Architecture - Citigroup Real Estate Servicing and Technology Division

O`Fallon, MO

2004 - 2005

--- Responsible for assisted with the development of the Technology Vision and Strategy (-Roadmap-) to serve business needs while leveraging technology industry evolutions for an organization with a budget of approximately $60 million

* Provided consultation for audit compliance and best practices for areas such as: Information Security, Project Management, 3rd Party Contract Review, Citigroup Technology Management Policy, Vendor Management, Information Security, Audit Risk and Review, Export Controls, Configuration Management, Librarian Role, Requirements Management, 3rd Party Tool Reviews, Project Management, Vendor Management, Release Management, Change Management, and Proof of Concept

* Strategized security overhaul for technology, process, and personnel (Citigroup Information Security Program; Database Access rights; Non-public Information protection, and SOX)

* Lead strategy for managing integration of two technology portfolios between two Citigroup organizations

* Assisted with the Development of Application Portfolio Plans, including details such as: Roll-out, Sunset, Impact Assessment, business unit alignments, compliance alignment and Financial Review

VP Process Strategy and Implementation

Citigroup Real Estate Servicing and Technology O`Fallon, MO

2002 -2004

--- Responsible for process roll out across Citigroup Real Estate Servicing and Technology (CREST), which involved mobilizing over 75 people to assist with process improvements to over 700 people located in multiple states. Responsible for the redesign of process framework to align the organization with CMM Level 3 which contained 13 key process areas including Project Management Office.

* Identified issues, raised awareness and assisted in closing matters such as intellectual property concerns, Information security, vendor contracts, export control issues and customer relations

* Initiated inter-group coordination process improvements involving: Human Resources, Legal Counsel, Franchise Development, Business Units and Information Technology

* Raised awareness of global export compliance gap which could have resulted in up to $10 million in violations

* Reviewed, drafted and consulted on approximately $9.9 million in vendor contracts

* Saved company from engaging in a $800,000 fixed cost contract

* Planned, created and coordinated 61 training sessions of 7 different process improvement modules, teaching 57 of the classes

* Managed a 4 person vendor team valued at approximately $317,000 with international components, finishing $60,000 under budget

Project Manager

Paragon Solutions (currently purchased by CSC)

Alpharetta, GA

2000 - 2002

--- As Project Manager, lead teams to achieve approximately 70% profit margin for largest customer, who consisted of a 3.6 million dollar contract. Responsibilities also include customer billing, training, product, project planning, coordinating international travel for team members, ensuring projects adhered to contract stipulations and process compliance.

* Co-lead CMM planning effort to change operations though out organization

* Products generated $6 million in sales in 8 months for large international ERP Training Client

* Lead Process Improvement Committee for workflows, including helping to develop, implement, measure and improve processes for both onshore and offshore teams.

* Managed and developed solutions for 16 different Projects, often running 4 projects at once

* Managed onshore/offshore team of 21 people including: Project Managers, Project Leaders, Business Analyst, Technical Architect, Developers, and Testers

* Utilized RUP workflows for: Project Management, Change and Configuration Control, Risk Management, Requirements Management, Deployment Management, Test Management, Analysis and Design Management, Implementation Management, Employee Management

Project Manager

Ezenia (Formerly known as VideoServer, Inc.) Burlington, MA 1998 - 2000

--- Managed videoconferencing solution product line which generated 80% of the company`s revenue and approximately 51 million dollars.

* Contributed improvements and compliance to development life cycle process as member of process team

* Coordinated efforts of release with all functional areas of the company, including over 120 individuals

* Lead effort which reduced software development time from 1 year to 6 months, 57 software builds to 14 builds

* Managed GUI Software Development Team and Integration Test Team

* Lead effort to migrate older product line to a Web Based System

* Coordinated third party development efforts in distributed development environment

* Managed schedules, resources, deliverable contents, code review, documentation reviews, and patent reviews

* Worked with marketing and customers in product requirement identification

* Chaired weekly Engineering & Service meetings with key partner companies

* Worked with purchasing and SAP team for integration of new products and OEM customers for coordination of releases and information

* Managed a videoconferencing solution for ISDN, using Win 95, 98, NT workstations connected via direct connection or dial up to an OS/2 Server. Capable of T1, E1, ATM connections following the H.320, H.243, H.261 supporting G.711, G.722, G.728, T.120, Q.931. The server supported a DB2 RDBMS for OS/2

International Section Manager for Continuing Engineering

Comverse Network Systems

Andover, MA

1996 - 1998

--- Lead team which supported approximately 30 million dollars worth of service agreements with customers in Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan, India, China, Thailand and United Arab Emirates to provide patches and maintenance releases. Provided Project Management, process and compliance for voicemail product line including coordination internal and external technical teams.

* Responsible for approximately 3 million dollars in hardware testing equipment

* Managed team of 10 software engineers to maintain software releases for international customers

* Moderated code reviews and ensured engineering had resources available to be successful

* Worked with Customer Service TAC, QA, Documentation, Release Control, Sales, and interfacing engineering units

* Worked with Corrective Action Team to assist with the design and implementation of a system for tracking and resolving company wide issues for topics such as process deviations, software issues, hardware issues, customer complaints, and training

* Worked with ISO 9001 team for department to review, define, and improve process

* Ensure support of products which used C, C++, E1/R2, ISDN, SCO UNIX, Windows NT, TAP, SS7, Voice Application Interface, Excel Switches, db_vista RDBMS, TCP/IP, Unix Pipes, TNNP, T1, and fail-over redundant systems

Software Engineer

Longview, Inc.

Boston, MA

1995 - 1996

--- Developed and maintained code for Landmark Trading System, a software package designed for financial institutions stockbroker activity.

* Performed architecture, design, development, and maintenance on Upgrade System to move upgrade customer from any previous database schema, which may have been modified by the end customer, to the tip version of the software by using C++ to generate SQL code on the fly

* Lead architect, design, development, and maintenance on Transfer Manager to port MS SQL database to Sybase database Product line which used Visual C++, MS SQL, Sybase SQL, RCS, Unix, and Windows NT 3.51

Technical Support Manager / Senior Specialist / Technical Support

Alpha Software Corporation

Burlington MA

1992 - 1995

--- Lead team of 10 support engineers which maintained products for all clients. Developed technology solutions including an Application Pack and Forms library used to upsell product offering. Programmed artificial intelligence voice automated knowledge base, accessible via PBX and dial up modems. Provide quality assurance of new products as well as documentation.

* Generated programs to collated statistics on all inbound & outbound calls and fax traffic from PBX

* Supervised training programs, technical support issues and Internet online serves for technical information

* Worked with the marketing and sales departments for feedback

* Supported product offering including: printing, database management, scripting commands, and configuration

Education

Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri

MBA, with honors

August, 2005

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering

September, 1991

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Current

Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP)

Current

Information Technology Information Library (ITIL) V2, V3

Current

Associations

* ISACA - Information Systems Audit and Control Association

* InfraGard - an FBI sponsored organization to promote security collaboration between the private sector and the government

* ITEN - Information Technology Entrepreneurial Network

* World Tae Kwon Do Federation - 4th Degree Black Belt

* Moo Duk Hai Association - 5th Degree Black Belt

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