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CLINTON PATTERSON III

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Atlanta, GA 30340

ac0jpx@r.postjobfree.com

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OBJECTIVE

Experienced Project Manager with proven ability and excellent critical thinking skills to solve problems and accomplish objectives. Extensive experience in software development life cycle management. Effectively bridges gap between technology and business. Results driven leader with great analytical and problem solving skills. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Diversified experience within various service-oriented and customer-focused environments.

Accomplished leader with teams of all levels of management.

Self-motivated with excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Demonstrated ability to communicate and build relationships effectively with customers. CORE COMPETENCIES

Risk and Change Management Release Management SDLC (Waterfall and Agile) Microsoft Project Program Management COBOL I and COBOL II Microsoft SharePoint ChartPro Frontpage 2000

Visual Basic 6 JCL Easytrieve

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MARTA Atlanta, Ga September 2016 – January 2017

IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Manage budget and select/work with external vendors

Plans, directs and monitors all aspects of large projects or medium sized projects with a high degree of technical complexity.

Investigates, plans, analyzes, designs, documents, tests, implements, trains and supports assigned projects.

Works closely with the Sr. IT Project Manager and performs assigned Quality Assurance responsibilities to ensure deliverables are aligned with the business requirements and customer goals.

Coordinates the staffing and workload of IT Projects through the entire project development cycle and provides complete documents on schedule.

Provides leadership by establishing project strategy, setting goals and objectives, building team and partner relationships.

Manages multiple clients and/or teams for major projects. Develops contingency plans to ensure timely delivery of projects.

Works with Authority-wide Departments, Office and Branch Managers for project management and reviews.

Executes training plans for clients as established in project plans.

Projects: 3-year plan to upgrade Networks, SAN, and Servers. Budget is $24 million. Team size: 10 resources.

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Macy’s Systems & Technology Duluth, GA December 1997 – January 2015 Project Manager – July 2004 – January 2015

Served as project manager across three different Business Units (Enterprise Support Systems, Human Resources, and Logistics) for moderate to complex projects during tenure.

Directed project activities utilizing the organizational standard processes to ensure the timely delivery of stated business benefits, comparing actuals to plan and adjusting plans as necessary.

Drove the project to successful completion by leading team members (virtual and matrix), external customers, and internal customers to execute tasks according to plan.

Operated as Lead Project Manager for the Enterprise Support System (ESS) business unit.

Defined and managed the requirements and approach for risk management; organized and communicated issues and actions until resolved.

Prepared and presented weekly status report to senior management and stakeholders.

Lead and facilitated periodic and weekly status meetings.

Mentored less experienced, contract and permanent PMs

Sampling of medium to large projects within the Logistics Business, HR and Enterprise Support Systems (ESS) included:

Microstrategy to Microsoft Reporting Tool - conversion/re-platform(Agile)

The Buy it Now and Auction Report projects involved working with the Return to Vendor system. The Auction report project provided me access to new technology (SSRS reporting) (Agile)

Business Unit PM lead - managed PeopleSoft and INSITE (benefits information) teams(Waterfall)

Lead teams for the Federated to Macy’s conversion and the May CO. to Macy’s merger. (Waterfall)

Managed the Omni channel Quick Wins projects - provide needed infrastructure and attribute data via flat file processes for Macys.COM, Bloomingdales.COM, Bloomingdales, and Macys. ( Waterfall and Agile)

Estee Lauder project – assist vendor to gain access to data(Waterfall)

EDI sales project - enabled transmission of non-financial sales data(Waterfall)

Direct2Comsumer Omni channel Presale project - challenging and complex project that required re-work of the project plan from prior work performed. Received Omni Channel Project Team Award based on accomplishments. (Waterfall)

Team size: 10 to 22 resources.

Decision Support Analyst - December 1997 - July 2004

Worked closely with customers to translate business needs into requirements for system enhancements.

Prepared estimates for new projects, enhancements, and application maintenance.

Served as primary systems support by having in-depth knowledge of multiple moderately complex information systems.

Trained end users on Easytrieve (mainframe reporting) tool. Assisted in training new and less experienced team members.

Researched and resolved problems for internal and external customers.

Created ad hoc reports utilized for remediation support. Dittler Brothers, Inc. Atlanta, GA June 1997

Direct Mail Programmer

Performed revision and expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency and/or adapt to new requirements

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Supported account coordinators and sales team by processing incoming data and creating mailers for target customers.

Utilized COBOL and DIJICOMP programs to create imaging tapes for web presses AFLAC Columbus, GA 1994 -1997

Computer Programmer

Consulted with business and technical personnel to clarify program intent, identify problems, and suggest changes

Analyzed and assembled existing data processing systems in order to develop new programs.

Maintained, modified, and documented existing programs.

Created Ad hoc reports to assist with remediating production issues. Total Systems Columbus, GA 1995 - 1997

EDUCATION

Columbus State University Bachelors of Business Administration 1993 Bainbridge College Associates of Computer Information Systems 1991 CERTIFICATION

Currently studying for PMP

REFERENCES

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