Project Manager Management

Peter B. Semonick PMP

**** *** *** **. **** Bradenton, FL

(941) 730 - 2757 ****@*********.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersemonick1/

Senior IT Project Manager

Client Management Server Migration Team Leadership Transition Transformation

Diligent project manager offering a proven record of success leading all phases of diverse technology projects; PMP credentials; and system development and transitions and transformation and business and finance experience.

Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains.

Excellent communicator; leverage technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.

Expert in project management methodologies. Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

Skills Summary

Project Management:

Software Development, Cross Functional Global Teams, Process Improvement, Server Migration, Data Center builds, Financial Controls

IT Project Lifecycle:

Requirements Analysis, Strategic Planning, Cost & Budgeting, Project Scheduling, Testing/QA/Rollout/Support, Stakeholder Management, Issue Resolution, Vendor Negotiations, Risk Management

Value-Added Leadership:

New Business Development, Staff Training & Mentoring, Client Relations & Presentations, Business & IT Planning, Vendor Management

Career Progression

October 2009 – 2017 CDI Global Transition Project Manager

January 2006 – 2009 IBM IGS Business Consulting Services - Certified Executive Project Manager

March 2001 – 2005 IBM IGS Integrated Technology Services - Certified Executive Project Manager

October 1994– 2001 IBM Global Services – Certified Executive Project Manager/ Professional Development Manager/First Line Manager

Provided project management over large-scale, top-priority and complex technology initiatives. Managed budgets of up to $10M and cross-functional teams of up to 50 developers, programmers, analysts, and infrastructure specialists.

Drove the high-quality completion of migrations, data center builds and enterprise wide implementation of global projects for major IBM clients including:

Avis, Western Bank. CenturyLink, Manpower, Chubb Insurance, Ace Insurance, SpiritAero, Sandvik

Achievement Highlights:

Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.

Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.

Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Created detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.

Directed global teams for all transition processes from pre-migration tasks to post migration support for server and data center equipment migrations.

Representative Projects (1996 to 2017)

Global Data Center Consolidation: As project manager accomplished the migration of existing servers from data centers in South American countries (5) to the United States. Migration and support for 400+ servers.

Data Center Consolidation Completed the migration of servers and telecomm equipment from a client data center to an IBM data center. Directed efforts ranging from space planning, infrastructure builds, and server and data migration.

Global Server Migrations: Directed and completed data center migrations for a client based in Sweden. Directed efforts ranging from space planning, infrastructure builds, and server and data migration.

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Data Center Build Out: Completed the infrastructure build out of a new data centers for an aerospace IBM client. Guided ground up effort from space plan, to infrastructure build out including MPLS WAN, LAN, and server farm.

Data Center Consolidation: Completed the migration of servers and telecomm equipment from a client data center to an IBM data center. Directed efforts ranging from space planning, infrastructure builds, and server and data migration.

Data Center Consolidation: Managed numerous server consolidation, transformation and security gap remediation projects for major IBM Clients These projects include replacing servers that do not comply with new corporate requirements and upgrading remaining servers to meet security requirements. Responsible for all aspects of the projects including, cost proposal, equipment procurement, resources, financial management and, managing the resource efforts across multiple towers

Enterprise Rollout: Directed the Microsoft XP rollout to over 8,000 desktops and networks across 55 branch bank loan fulfillment centers. Served as leader for acquiring and monitoring of all delivery resource staffing, which included 18 on-site project managers, 9 senior team leads, and 1,375 delivery resources.

Project Manager for the migration of six (6) applications from data center in Prestwick Scotland to new data center in North Harbour England

Expanded the scope of the services portfolio for a bank outsourcing contract by managing the transitioning of physical database management support for Oracle and SQL environments. Nine hundred and fifty-five (955) databases were transitioned to existing contract resources which freed up client staff for development and business support. Prepared and implemented End User Request Management Process for users to interface with new support group.

Managed the upgrade of DB2 V7 Instances on Z/OS, to DB2 V8 Compatibility Mode (CM). End of service for DB2 V7 was July 2008. Effort was completed by June 2008 in each of the engineering, test, quality, and production environments. The timely upgrading eliminated the need for costly extended support and provided enhanced application functionality.

Managed the Symantec Anti-Virus version 9 to Symantec Anti-Virus version 10 upgrade. Version 9 was scheduled to sunset and upgrading to version 10 ensured Symantec Anti-Virus protections were maintained. Twelve hundred and seventy-five (1275) servers were upgraded before scheduled sunset with no service interruptions

Education & Credentials

Pima College Computer Science, Liberty University Business Administration

IBM formal education including contract preparation., client negotiating, project finance, project management, people management, team building, service level agreements, statements of work, project planning, risk assessment, and working in a global community. IBM certified executive project manager.

Continuing Project Management education acquiring three hundred and sixty (360) Professional Development Units (PDU) for PMI recertification.

Certification. Certified Project Manager Professional (PMP) for the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Professional Tools

MS Office Suite, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Lotus Notes, MS Project

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