Gabriel E. Casallas

*** ******** *****, *******, ** 07652

201-***-**** ac0wwa@r.postjobfree.com

Program/Project Manager

Project Management Delivery Management Cost Savings

Information Technology Professional with proven experience in roles as a Manager, Project Manager, Systems Integrator, Software Engineer/Administrator and Systems Programmer. Experienced in all stages of software development life cycle from analysis through implementation. Successfully managed numerous projects and led teams in system and vendor selection, analysis of business requirements, vendor management, Internal Audit, Cyber Security, Risk Management, Compliance and Information technology systems developments & implementations. Fluent in Spanish.

Project/Program Management

Team Management

Software Development Lifecycle

Vendor Management

Systems Selection & Integration

Waterfall/Agile

System Analysis

Process Mapping

Mergers & Acquisitions

Professional Experience

Experian - New York, N.Y. June, 2015 - October, 2016

Cross Channel Marketing Services (E-mail, Social Media, Print plus Enhanced Demographic Data)

Global Senior Project/Program Manager (Consultant)

Senior Project Manager for Experian Marketing Services Omni/Cross Channel Marketing Platforms and Infrastructure. Platforms service 10,000 global clients across Consumer, Financial and Industrial sectors.

Working closely with representatives from the President’s Office, Client Services, Information Technology Departments and external vendors to drive renewal and new on boarding of clients.

Introduced new tools and processes to support best Agile and SDLC practices – JIRA, Confluence

Gathered information from multiple sources, reconciled conflicts, dissected high-level information into basic details, abstracted low level information to represent user requests that underlined true needs.

Worked with all Directors of Information Technology departments to manage business and technology roadmaps in support of long-term strategies.

Developed various reports, graphs and charts that are used to brief management on status of performance, schedules and cost on a weekly basis.

Projects Included:

oDisaster Recovery build

oPerformance Environment build

oCyber Security WAF (Web Application Firewall)

oData Integrity, Vulnerability and Obfuscation

oHP SAN legacy storage migration to EMC XIO

oProduction Resiliency build and Holiday execution

oProduction Barclays Migration

oData Center Decommission and Consolidation

oAudit and Compliance projects for the Cross Chanel Marketing Platform

IBM Express Scripts – Franklin Lakes, N.J. May, 2013 - March, 2015

Healthcare Pharmacy Services.

Project Manager

Provided leadership, coordination and management of scope, cost, schedule and project deliverables. Additional responsibilities included planning, project life cycle process, tracking, and change control and risk management. Interface with clients to source and manage projects, coordinated resources and establish effective communication between vendor, project teams and the various client stakeholders via daily reports and Agile Scrum meetings.

Responsible for project status and related information communication both written and verbally to executive management, business sponsors and technical staff. Ensuring that all IT and its business clients had a clear understanding of the current status effecting success of the project: meet with business and management to determine solutions to business problems.

Optimized results within business and time constraints. Lead meetings with project team to access status, deliverables and issue resolution. Provided update and ongoing cost Analysis to IT and Business line management, assisted IT team’s members with issues needed technical expertise or complex systems knowledge. Mentor team to improve understanding and skills to ensure familiarity with resource materials available. Ensured adherence to project management process and documentation standards.

Managed monitored, triaging and issue facilitating for all Claims sub-capabilities POS, CDH, ELIG, CBM, BA, ADJ and RNM, Midrange Team Manager/Lead responsible for managing, prioritizing of all issues impacting clients and members Including all data security.

Claims PSO Support and implementation. Triage/Claims SOP Process Documentation Central. Lead team on creating, implementing processes, procedures and playbooks to support all claims production applications in Production. Created and managed a SharePoint site to house all SOP and Claims documentation for the Firm.

MHM Digital Signage – Hackensack, N.J. February, 2009 - April, 2013

Advertising media products and Services Company

Project Manager

Responsible for providing leadership, coordination and oversee daily operations. This includes implementing and supporting systems, financial planning, budget management, establishing short and long term goals, preparing reports, and developing procedures to ensure the company conforms to generally accepted principles.

Led Analysis and implementation of Digital signage program at Newton Memorial Hospital. Partnered with Newton Medical Center to showcase their staff and services as well as providing a tool to help with community outreach.

Managed implementation of Digital signage program at the Sport Facility in Sparta NJ displaying what the business has to offer to the thousands of people who enter your local sports facility each year providing advertising space to local businesses, broadcast news, sports scores, the weather and upcoming events.

Implemented Hispanic Digital Signage Network in Restaurants, Supermarkets and retail Shops in NJ, NYC, Florida and managed companies advertising client portfolio.

Provided Systems implementations, replacements and support of new and existing POS environments in Portfolio.

JPM CHASE (formerly Bear Stearns) – Whippany, NJ October, 1995 - January, 2009

Global investment, brokerage, securities trading and investment-banking firm.

Project Manager

Led projects with Systems Analysts, end user’s personnel and Management to investigate new systems or upgrades to enable operational efficiencies and/or cost savings including legacy Systems. Managed teams including I.T. staff, vendors, consultants and personnel from user departments. Methodologies applied Waterfall and Agile.

Led a team of 20 people in planning, development and implementation of applications upgrades to DB2 Connect gateway access resulting in a $100,000 savings. Conversion implemented seamlessly to the firm’s business units.

Analyzed vendor systems, products with a focus on cost reduction which led to replacement of legacy Systems PRF (Platinum Report Facility) resulting in $80,000 savings, SYSBII with $570,000 of savings and Omegamon achieving $590,000 of savings.

Managed IBM’s “AFP” advanced formatted printing project across the entire firm, which involved introduction of new printing solutions to replace the purchase of printed customer’s forms. Utilized IBM 3800 laser printers.

IBM’s programming software products and tools to produce the pre-printed statements resulting in a $2,000,000 savings.

Led the Performance CPU and cost savings initiative project. Managed a project to improve performance and cut the mainframe engine usage during the firm’s month end data consolidation. Process which reduced the monthly Hardware cost significantly. This project required the involvement of resources from both the Chief Development Officer (CDO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO) organizations, reported directly to senior management resulting in savings of $1,296,000.

Other Responsibilities:

oCOTS implementations and Support

oCICS Application Turnover Technical Manager.

oCICS/DB2 BCP Disaster recovery P.O.C

oAuditing Compliance Project lead.

oData Center P.O.C representative during application support meetings.

oRemedy task tracking system Director in behalf of the CTO Key contributions include: Outage Process Continual Improvement, Post Mortem and Root Cause Analysis, Issue Resolution, Documentation and Coordination of Team efforts, Production Control, Tech support and Output Technologies Technical Manager.

EDUCATION

Bergen Community College, Paramus, N.J. – Computer Programming major N/D

Farleigh Dickenson University, Teaneck, N.J. – Electronic Engineering major N/D

CERTIFICATIONS

JPMorgan - JPM E-Learning Project Office, Performance Management,P3 for GTI Reporting, IB Leadership Program and

IBID Internal User Entitlements. Bear Stearns Inc-BSC System Development Life Cycle, Ethics Training, Compliance Certification, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Privacy Training, Anti-Money Laundering, Communicating Safely, Financial Product Introduction to Debt Securities, CLPD MS Excel, Access, Word PowerPoint, ASG MQ, DB2, CICS, IP, IMS, Web and Microsoft Windows Solutions. Express Scripts - ESI Compliance, HIPPA. ESI Information Security, ESI Privacy Certification, ESI Internal Controls, Experian Marketing Services-EMS Navigating the Platform CCMP Assessment, EMS Navigating Cross Channel Marketing Platform, EMS Security Fundamentals, EMS Anti-Corruption Training

Additional Skills

Software: AFP, Niku, HP PPM, Remedy, Lotus Sametime, ECMS, EURC, WRM, P3, Datamart, MS-Excel, Access, Outlook,Exchange,

Project,Visio,Word,PowerPoint,SharePoint,CA1,CA7,CA11,CA-Dispatch, Xptr, NDM, Control M/R/O, Top Secret, JCL, CICS, DB2, SQL,

Vsam, Roscoe, TSO, ISPF, TMON, zOS, Rumba, Komand, Pitney Bowes Mailstream, DPV, LACS, Code1 plus, FTP, Clarity, Waterfall,

Agile, Scrum, XP, VMPi and Adfotain, Central MZ, JIRA, Confluence and Service Now .

Operating Systems: IBM/390, z /OS 1.9, OS/400, Linux Blades SUSE, Microsoft server 2003, 2008, Windows 7

Programming/Scripting Languages: COBOL, OGL

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