Brantley Armstrong

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Fairborn, OH 45324 ac0q3p@r.postjobfree.com

PROGRAM MANAGER

Technical Support Program Leadership Project Management

Highly accomplished technical Program/Project Manager with 16+ years experience providing leadership and direction needed to see the successful completion of highly visible projects through to successful completion. Recognized for the ability to lead and manage large teams of developers, utilizing project management best practices to complete projects within set time and budgetary guidelines. Skilled at building strong relationships with internal and external project stakeholders to draw alignment with key goals. Analytical by nature, able to perform root-cause analysis, implementing long-term technical solutions to drive project efficiency.

Areas of Expertise

Root Cause Analysis

Human Resources & Payroll

Software Development Life Cycle

HR/Benefits Applications

Program Management Best Practices

Financial Applications

Written & Verbal Communication

Inventory Control Applications

Resource Planning

Problem Resolution

Project Budget Management

Programming Languages

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY

Programming Languages: BASIC, COBOL, CICS, DLI, IMS, PL/1, RPG, ISPF, MVS, DB2, QMF, JCL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, DAYTON, OH 2011 - Present

Program Manager

Successfully manage a team of 22 software developers responsible for maintaining and providing support of the Air Force Material Command’s suite of Requirements Management System’s 14 subsystems.

Oversaw the transition of support from the AFMC RMS system with multiple vendors to RYAN Consulting Group with zero customer impact.

Served as the program manger for a suite of 14 applications on mainframe and mid-range platforms using COBOL and J2EE/JAVA languages.

Experienced managing multiple projects concurrently to successful completion responsible for managing cost, schedule, risk, scope, resources and stakeholder relationships.

Led 37 successful projects utilizing software development life cycle best practices to assure the project’s completion on time and within cost guidelines utilizing Waterfall SDLC using MPP, Visio and SharePoint tools.

Developed project plans, performed risk and scope management, managed QA, developed test plans and managed cost using EVM for all projects.

Responsible for Change Management planning, tracking, reporting, scheduling and coordination of business process changes and user training to align with transition from current state to future state.

Work with the steering committee to participate in setting the vision and strategic direction of the Program.

Established and maintained RMS functional expertise and system expertise while establishing processes in adherence to the Electronic Systems Wing’s Systems Engineering Process.

HEWLETT PACKARD, GREENVILLE, SC 2006 - 2011

Director HR/Payroll/Benefits Tower (2011)

Served as the director of several areas including HR/Payroll and Benefits tower for 4 technical teams.

Provided and direction that enabled the achievement of department goals and objectives.

Program Manager (2006 – 2011)

Successfully managed a team of 36 software developers and project managers with responsibility for mission critical development and the maintenance of HR/Payroll/Benefits applications.

Managed the transition of companies acquired by client existing HR/Payroll/Benefits systems to a COTS application; Cyborg, to include customization to meet business needs and to interface with legacy systems and vendors.

Served as the program manager for numerous applications and mid-range platforms using COBOL and J2EE/Java languages.

Led process improvement efforts to restructure an organization consisting of 4 managers to an organization managed by one manager with minimal impact to supported customers and levels of customer satisfaction.

Drove the successful completion of a highly visible 12,000-hour project within a strict 7-month timeline to centralize the Business support of HR, Payroll and Benefits from multiple locations to one central location.

Managed a 6-month data normalization project that converted and upgraded an HR/Payroll/Benefits COTS software package spanning 4 operating companies and 4 instances of the application.

Assisted in the re-engineering of Business processes and procedures to support the business restructuring due to centralization

Developed proficiency managing both onshore and offshore resources in a matrix environment in a development and support model.

AHOLD INFORMATION SERVICES, GREENVILLE, SC 1997 - 2006

Technical Consultant

Served as the developer on a HRExpress implementation team responsible for analyzing legacy HR/Payroll systems.

Performed GAP analysis and developed COBOL, DB2 and CICS programs that successfully bridged legacy applications to the HRExpress system.

Led a development team held responsible for standardizing HR/Payroll applications between different grocery operating companies within the AHOLD parent company.

Interfaced with users from multiple operating companies, developing interfaces and reports that met all operating company requirements.

Provided guidance, direction and work assignments for team members.

Directed a project responsible for analyzing interfaces to the legacy application, providing modifications working with CYBORG and developing bridges to ancillary applications as needed.

Gathered requirements, developed specifications and managing development projects for implementation.

Performed as an Application Developer, creating programs to convert data from the legacy HR/Payroll applications loaded into CYBORG and gathering user specifications.

Created technical specifications and developing COBOL programs to convert data from legacy applications to the new HR/Payroll application.

FIRST UNION BANK, CHARLOTTE, NC 1995 - 1997

Technical Consultant

Served as the project team-lead for 6 consultants that successfully migrated the First Union Cardholder and Merchants application from CARDPAC to NOVA.

Decommissioned the existing CARDPAC jobs, developing COBOL programs and JCL to interface to the new NOVA system.

NATIONSBANK, CHARLOTTE, NC 1993 - 1995

Systems Engineer

Played a key role as a member of project conversation team that represented BankCard applications in two bank acquisitions.

Conducted data mapping from banks being converted while developing programs to convert and load data into the NationsBank BankCard system.

Provided comprehensive Bank and project support for branches sold to 3 banks, extracting data from the NationsBank systems delivered to the banks that purchased sold branches.

Served as the project leader for the support and maintenance of BankCard COBOL and CICS/IMS applications.

Delivered valuable input as a member of the BankCard applications conversion team to model bank platforms.

IBM, CHARLOTTE, NC 1985 - 1993

Team Leader/Admin Systems Support/Programmer/Analyst

Provided comprehensive SER support for CADG+FM, a vendor written software systems used by Facility Space Planners to aid in the tracking and management of space and equipment.

Re-engineered business process for space planners in SER by eliminating the use of CADG+FM that resulted in reduced maintenance cost for I/S and an increase in capital savings to the customer.

Provided overall system support and maintenance for the ECAT ADMIN cluster.

Served as a member of the Charlotte ECAT Logistics Systems Development Team, which installed and customized COPICS to ECAT specifications.

Designed and developed COBOL/CICS programs, Component Disbursement Systems modules in COBOLS/CICS and Batch programs and COBOL programs to report ECAT card manufacturing cycle time.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Associate of Science, Electronic Engineering – DeVry University, Atlanta, GA

Associate of Science – Electronic Computer Programming Institute, Norfolk, VA

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