Project Manager Management

ALAN C. PAPROCKI - PMP

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Certified Project Manager

Experienced PMI certified Project Manager with demonstrated

accomplishments in Information Systems Technology and Business

Operations Project and Program Management. Proven leadership skills

in the identification, design, estimating, and implementation of

critical business projects and programs. Strengths Include:

*Contract Management * Computer Infrastructure * Design and

Implementation * Change Control

* Detailed Document Management * Requirements Gathering *

Relationship Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ZS Associates, Evanston Illinois - A privately held marketing and

sales company consulting to the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and

Medical Products industries.

Project Manager 2012 - 2013

. Responsible for the roll-out of key SharePoint platform.

. Project Management for the migration of Lotus Notes to Exchange

2010.

. Management of vendors and offshore personnel for consultants

providing technical support.

JP Morgan Chase, Chicago, IL 2005 -2012

Project Manager

. Directed the transitions, implementations, and coordination of high

impact business critical infrastructure projects completing within

project milestones, in accordance with detailed, cost and schedule.

. Developed MDM - (Mobile Device Management) solutions for BYOD and

company owned devices.

. Identified key contract requirements, defined budgets and schedules

while extensively utilizing PMI methods and practices. Consistently

exceed expectations by delivering under budget and ahead of

schedule.

. Worked closely with key stakeholders, performed detailed risk

analysis, flushed out and identified potential areas of customer

risks. Consistently maintained detailed project documents,

including detailed statement of works, drawings, spreadsheets,

financial approvals through the use of Engineering Configuration

Management Techniques, Business Case Tools, ECM (Engineering Change

Management) and structured engineering meetings. Worked on

developing hardware (Cisco) and software platforms.

. Dramatically improved results by highlighting customer questions

and concerns.

. Communicated clear expectations internally and externally which

resulted in exceeded expectations for project quality.

. Managed the development and procurement of equipment hardware,

software and services which resulted in a substantial reduction in

overall project lifecycle annual costs.

. Pro-actively drove work flow, schedule and resources in order to

meet and exceed overall business objectives.

. Extensive use of Microsoft Tools through-out product life cycle,

tracking detail budgets, resources, identifying critical paths on

many critical and high impact prime and subprime projects.

. Project plans, detailed spreadsheet information etc, were placed on

Corporate Sharepoint Sites and accessed by all stakeholders.

Strategic Staffing Solutions, Oakbrook, IL 2004- 2005

Consulting

Project Manager

Assigned to the JP Morgan Chase account.

. Managed gap analysis projects in the identification of key project

initiatives.

. Executed across multiple lines of business and was subsequently

hired by JP Morgan.

Independent Consultant, Batavia, IL 2003 - 2004

Project Manager & Technical Consultant

. Developed strategic design study for a Medical non-for-profit Company.

Identified future platform strategies and forward technology plan.

Recommendations were subsequently adopted, which realized a cost

savings to the client of hundreds of thousands dollars in annual

costs.

. Led a staff of 10 consultants responsible for Network Build-outs,

Helpdesk, and Business Analysis for high volume Options Exchange

Co.

Sears Roebuck and Company, Hoffman Estates, IL 1996 - 2003

Sr. Technical Consultant / Project Manager

. Served as Contract/Project Manager for the installation,

management, and technical support of the Sears Hoffman high speed

LAN network of more than 6000 plus corporate workstations.

. Conducted Gap reviews with strategic business stakeholders to

discover and document all problem areas.

. Coordinated detailed helpdesk scripts reducing costs, allowing for

uniform maintenance and escalation procedures to support end-users.

. Worked closely with in-house vendors (IBM, Cisco and others), their

design labs and product people to resolve technical issues before

they would impact end users.

. Established stable state scenarios, base lined current network

promoting quicker recovery from outages. Simulated modifications of

the existing environment to determine impacts of future changes.

Produced detailed project plans in Microsoft Project to track

specific stakeholders expectations, schedules and budgets.

. Documented, priced and planned a complete redesign of the

building's existing wiring plant, to take advantage of cost

effective future designs, new techniques and wiring schemes.

. Performed strategic design reviews, led vendor training meetings

discussing potentials and risks of advancing new technology

throughout the enterprise.

. Directed the restructuring of Cisco Device Maintenance Program that

resulted in annual company savings of over $910,000 including

writing detailed cost effective operating procedures, managed

vendor negotiations related to Smartnet maintenance. Wrote and

established critical paths for device replacements.

. Developed procedures and processes to take over the maintenance

responsibility for departmental servers. Annual savings projected

over $ 1.4 million dollars.

. Reduced WAN Telco charges by 25% by consolidating, updating and

eliminating underutilized and unneeded telecom circuits.

ARDIS a partnership with IBM / Motorola Lincolnshire, IL

1994 - 1996

Technical Support Specialist

Responsible for technical support documents and relationships with

ARDIS business partners.

. Worked closely with programmers, senior developers and stakeholders

to attach wirelessly to Ardis network.

IBM CORPORATION 1984 - 1994

Senior Systems Engineer Oakbrook,

IL

Responsible for pre and post selling support, installing and

configuring a wide range of LAN hardware and software products

including operating systems, application software, printers and

related peripherals.

Responsible for Technical Support for PC and LAN-based products,

performing hardware and software product

throughput analysis on various platforms including servers and

workstations.

Subcontractor Administrator Houston, Tx

1984 - 1987

IBM Federal Systems Division

Subcontract administrator responsible for all activities associated in

the support of NASA, DOD, USAF and commercial subcontract

administration. Executed and reviewed prime contracts for source

identification, source selection, award the subcontract,

administration and close out. Significant responsibilities for NASA

Space Station

LOCKHEED MISSILES AND SPACE CO. Space Systems Division Sunnyvale, CA

1980 - 1984

Subcontract Analyst

Initiation, RFP, response, supplier evaluation, source selection, and

management of major subcontract acquisition on multiple DOD, Air Force

and Classified programs.

Leader of a 4-person team in a Government classified Top Secret

Clearance environment responsible for evaluating and negotiating

complex government contracts with third-party vendors.

. Managed delivery of custom equipment consistently within budget,

exceeding customer goals.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science, Marketing Northern Illinois University

DeKalb, IL

Master of Business Administration Notre Dame de Namur University

Belmont, CA

Project Management Professional (PMP Certified 2006) - Current

Cisco -CCNA certified, (expired)

Dale Carnegie - Effective Communications and Human Relations,

Leadership courses.

Project Management Institution related courses

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