Project Manager Management

PAUL R. ANDRE

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PT Charlotte, FL 33952

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EDUCATION: NY Institute of Technology, BMCC Manhattan College, NY Photography Institute, AFIF French Institute, Palm Beach State Collage

Technical Experience: Experienced in, and possess in-depth knowledge of all phases of the Tech Industry, Project Management, Software/Systems Engineering, Digital Forensics, IT Governance, Financial Markets Analysis, Advertising/ Publishing, Medical, Telecom, VOIP, Microwave Satcom, wireless systems, High speed networking, Cluster Based Super-Computing, Fiber optics, Advanced CNC & EDM Chem-machining & Tool Path mapping & G-coding, 3D extrusion/ rapid prototyping, including concept creation, Sub-D Modeling, (GD&T)Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance, Bonding & Composite Material Sciences, Anodizing, Hydro-form, Research, analysis, Stress test, Computational Fluid, Aero, Thermo, Structural and (MoCap)Motion Dynamics, (ReCap) Reality Capture, Photogrammetry, Digital Cinema, Circuit design/Implementation, Mechanical and Design engineering, (AI) Analytics, (DCS)Data Acquisition/ (PLC)Process Automation & Control software, (IoT), Link2Site, (SCADA)Intralink & Digital Dashboard, (FLIR)Automation, Simulation Multi-physics.

Operating Environments\Software: Windows HPC Server, Windows Server Enterprise, Splunk, PRGT Netmanager, SCCM, Flexera, Crystal Reports, VMware, Netmanager,Active Directory, Packet Sniffer Mac OS, Spaceclaim, Matlab, Max Design, C4D, Autocad, Sketchup, FactoryDesign, Inventor, Alias Speedform, Surface, MoDo, Zbrush, and Virtually all Sub-D modeling software, Computational, Aero, Fluid, Flex, Thermo & (mocap) Motion Dynamics, Simulation Mechanical,Multi Physics,Hyperview, Mach3, MasterCam, FeatureCam, Femap, Real Flow, XFlow, Boujou, Adobe Cs, Sketchbook, Premiere, After Effects, Sony Vegas, Photoshop,Dreamweaver, Corel Draw, MS Office, MS Project, Visio, Claris, Visual Basic, Fortran, SharePoint, Exchange, MS Dynamics, Filemaker Pro Adv/Server.

Technical Environment: System of Systems Architecture (SoSA), SQL, / .Net and Web application services, (LAN /WAN)Local and Wide Area Network, (DRP)Disaster recovery plans, Data Protector Software, Tape Libraries, and (SAN/NAS) hardware. MS infrastructures and (SAM)Service and Management database/security application servers using Blade servers, multi-tier cloud /virtual data center build outs, (UCS) Cisco Unified Computing Servers, (SaaS)Software as a Service, (IaaS)Infrastructure as a Service, (PaaS)Platform as a Service, development and programming of parallel processor clusters /core density silos, (IPC)distributed computing, inter-processor provisioning, (OPEN-CL)Bypass, and VN-Link Stateless virtual machine.

Systems: Cray CX1, Cx1000, XE-6, IBM Bladecenter E, H, SGI, Sun/Oracle, Rackable Systems, IBM SurePOS

WORK/ EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:

ATLAS INTERNATIONAL., 523 N. Peninsula Drive, Daytona Beach. FL 32118

Systems Engineer Jan 2016 – Present

information processing systems. Systems

Responsible for implementation of critical IS /IT related projects, services and infrastructure changes for a host of clients which include systems, storage, networks, supporting software applications and operating systems required to support both company development infrastructure project requirements.

to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints and aligning resources to meet program and project objectives, as well as configuration of multiple (cross-functional, geographically diverse) IT infrastructure projects in local and enterprise environments.

Maintain strong vendor relations, interacting with, and reporting regularly to executive stake holders, management and senior technology leadership on program stats, system remedial issues and performance metrics. Perform COTS/GOTS application and infrastructure integration and maintenance

Provide Technical leadership for delivery, deployment and project management with an emphasis on customer service and satisfaction, to translate information to a non-technical audience and ensuring service levels, security requirements, and budget constraints are met (with strict adherence to Client Methodology and delivery timelines).

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Provides support for problem identification and anticipate (business growth) impact on the technology infrastructure. Formulating and executing cost effective plan in time to meet operational needs in compliance with all security and privacy regulations. Perform nessus security evaluations, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing and compliance checks.

Architect and develop infrastructure changes, including (low voltage) structured cabling for projects, IT installations, and client configurations.

Monitor,manage and report project progression, stats, risks and issues to ensure optimal operation of all network hardware and data center equipment (including routers, redundant cellular routers, switches, hubs, servers, and storage devices).

Create and implement plans to manage and ensure effectiveness of security solutions, including firewalls and intrusion detection systems.

Knowledge of Clients hardware environments, server, network, telco & voip infrastructure, as well as security and authentication processes for data center co-locations.

Experience interviewing end-users for insight on functionality, interface, problems, and/or usability issues with flexibility and adaptability in learning and understanding new technologies and conducting research into software-related issues and products.

Develop detailed (POA)plan of action, to meet negotiated service levels for all business applications, reporting results regularly to appropriate stakeholders and prioritize and execute tasks independently, or in a team-oriented environment

IPR INC., 50 broad suite 1701, New York, NY 10004

Manager of Information Systems Apr 2008 –Feb 2014

Responsible for company-wide IT strategy; Aligning people, applications, data, networks, scalable infrastructure, and technology. Worked effectively in a high-paced, dynamic, and collaborative environment.

Regularly engaged with new clients, Perform independent research and identified specific solutions to customer needs.

Lead the development and implementation of platform and product architectures in collaboration with senior staff, Provided technical input to help identify and solve project risks that may affect overall plans and schedules.

lead team to redevelop product quality, Improve operating performance, systematize company operations, and developed a newly re-architected way to find restaurants, order food and make reservations as easy as opening an app on your smart phone.

Responsible for information systems, voice communications, management automation, and Project Management budget. Transformed IT to an integrated environment; achieved $1.2 million annual savings.

Developed company data center, financial applications, and . NET framework for building web apps. utilized all opportunities to systematize and automate new and unique scripting methods for data mining. Utilizing advanced e-commerce scripting, generating sophisticated autobot search and deliver results, boosting client participation and revenue stream.

Migrated to Cloud Computing environment as tandem backup and dynamically federated scalability, leveraging on demand infrastructure to address usage-level alignment, and seasonal peaks based on business needs.

Worked cooperatively with retailers toward identification of areas to encompass every on-line promotional avenue valued by the Client; implementing in-house commercial production aided by autonomous promotional and marketing technology witch further boosted residuals.

Accomplishments include:

Online Retail Channels. Raised company’s visibility and credibility in digital space by developing an (Industry-First) e-commerce / smart phone platform to find restaurants, order food and make reservations (Easy2eat.com).

MIS SERVICES / Data Recovery, INC., 1 World Trade Center 33 fl. NY,NY 10048/

Chief Technologist, 180 Broadway, NY NY 10046 Nov 1997 – Sept 2001 /2003-2008

Provided High tech Data Securities and Data Center planning, design, deployment and Management. with just over $40M in technological assets under management on multiple client locations. Later drove the development of a highly profitable State-of-the-art Data Recovery Firm, specializing in Computer security, preventative measures against corporate espionage, Digital Forensics, Decryption and retrieval of lost data from computer and Hard Drive malfunction. MIS Data Recovery Lab was the first-of-its kind on the east Coast to provide this service, and one of only 3 Data Recovery companies nationally.

Delivered executive level expertise and technical services in Digital Forensics to fortune 500 Wall Street firms, hospitals, Law Firms, Federal and city Government.

Developed an array of high speed supercomputer clusters to conduct mathematical modeling on custom written software running sophisticated algorithms used in the assimilation of damaged or lost data.

Established and maintained business clientele, grow customer base, promote symmetrical customer, and supplier relations with focus on improving the overall company performance. Provide tactical, and operational direction as well as quality assurance for every aspect of company and Ensuring that daily operations and initiatives are met.

Crescent Investment Management., 450 Lexington Ave.18 fl New York, NY 10017

Systems Engineer Nov. 1995 – Sept. 1997

Developed (in Collaboration with leading Money Managers and Market analysts) Computer Aided Regression and Analysis Tacking Software, using highly precise real-world/ real-time market Analytics to Forecast the trajectory of a stock and or market positions ahead of conventional analyst forecasts (A.K.A. Artificial Intelligence). By using live market feeds running advanced trigonometrically generated algorithms against historical market data, utilizing additional feeds from relational markets and data generated by global interacting and dependant markets, numerically adjusted by sell off values and assimilating the frequency of their trending volumetric's. Assembling these anomalies into probability index to dynamically forge computational models which generate buy or sell signals used to aid brokers in navigation through volatile markets (Risk Management).

Developed Back office Record Keeping Software so Brokers have on demand international currency conversion and positioning as they execute global trades. To know the actual profit or loss due to exchange rate volatility of the item they are trading from one market to the next, while or before they execute live trades.

Developed and embedded dynamically linked software providing data and alerts to indicate where total allocated company assets were at any given time, thereby preventing over extension, also used to provide performance records used for quarterly reports and presentations in attracting new business.

Upon completion, Crescent Investment had just under 2 billion USD under management running on Software that I authored and the Firm was rated by the wall St Journal as consistently outperforming Morgan Stanley.

COMPTEMPS. Contract Holder, Apr. 1993 - Nov. 1995 500 Eighth Ave 12 fl. New York, NY. 10018

Credit Suisse (PMP)PROJECT Manager - Contractor One Liberty Plaza 2nd Fl, New York, NY 10048

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Project Manager and Director for CS site relocation plan.

Project Management: Tracked and monitored progression, Developed deployment plan, functional specs, and rollout, including implementation and post implementation support. Developed executive dashboard for project status and reporting schedule, leading to highly improved decision making and project completion times.

Developed deployment plan, functional specs, and rollout, including implementation and post implementation support. Developed PMO dashboard for project status and reporting schedule, leading to improved decision making and improved vendor performance, on-time delivery, contractor availability and same-day order fulfillment.

Performed a thorough assessment of technological model, inter-business communication needs, Market feed products, management procedures, technology assets, and software portfolio. Met regularly with Sr. management,,vendors, and third-party consultants to produce a state of the art trading floor, data center and security measures with heightened performance goals. emphasis on performance improvement and accountability with weekly and monthly key metrics to monitor progress and challenges as they arose.

Results: By projects end we had surpassed proposed benchmarks, Improved efficiency by applying well thought of Fiber optic backbones, high speed drive arrays, strategic mapping of parallel processing, improving throughput & trader performance 500 percent, resulting in a shortened projected timeline by 20 percent and cut costs by 26 percent.

Bankers Trust

IT Governance IT Governance (Network & Security Operations Center)- Contractor

130 Liberty Street 18th Fl, New York, NY 10007

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Responsible for 7 other technicians, administering 1200 Member server, providing software and hardware support locally and remotely for technical support, and worked with the programmers to map out objectives, isolate bugs and find resolutions.

Organized Training sessions and Technical Writing of all Manuals for a variety of Software, mentored IT Staff. Held individually and in “In-Class” training sessions on all platforms to make effective use of computer equipment and facilities, so as to produce a corporate culture that Possess a strong knowledge of computer fundamentals and Understand how to maximize computer applications and hardware at their disposal.

Provided hands-on LAN/WAN Level I support, Troubleshoot Windows and business related software. Improved operating performance, reducing escalatory risks as well as proactive involvement in support activities. resulting in efficiency gains of 33% eliminating two-thirds of incident down-time overcoming systemic bottleneck that included the merger, integration and centralization of 2 remote data centers. Authored custom trade tracking, News and Market data dissemination software to work in conjunction with Bloomburg and Knight Ridder. Tested Software, logging bugs and worked with market analysts to insure it’s proper functionality.

American Express Help Desk / Technology procurement – Contractor 200 Vesey St. New York, NY. 10280

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Provided Technical oversight to Procurement Dept. and Initiated meetings with Dept. Managers to translate proposed Corporate needs and validate they were in alignment with executive goals.

Responsible for allocation of Purchase Order's in collaboration with Procurement dept. for all acquisition of IT assets and oversaw that acquired assets were installed and configured as per desired specs.

Authored new centralized tracking software to include purchases and all levels of service executed by Procurement Dept. to include time stamp, performance for completing customer orders and assurance they met all quality standards and policies, producing performance charts for analysis, summery of open orders, and new order projections that allowed scheduling and resource allocation to be met upon delivery.

Monitored all installations and connectivity handled by AMEX IT Dept. turnaround and/or circuit install and testing for their part of the equipment allocation process as part of the central tracking debugging process to further tune effective prioritization, communication and daily workload Management.

Maintained and Provide accurate and explicit documentation on all phone conversations, meetings, Equipment Installation and Verification needed to complete customer Service reports. Communicating all issues to Upper Management, appointed Technicians, and vendors regarding deliveries and “other” responsible parties for the completion of each project.

Merrill Lynch Project Manager– Contractor 250 Vesey St. New York, NY. 10281

Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

Project Manager for Directing the relocation of Merrill Lynch Data center from World Financial Center to 570 Washington street. a portfolio infrastructure encompassing energy, and IT facilities improvements. Controlling program and individual budgets across entire project.

worked with procurement who devised startup and operations budget (POA)Plan of action, time and projected completion. from program initiation through finalization. Conducting weekly meetings with managers focused on identifying and resolving technical and budget issues that might have a negative impact on progress.

Provided point of contact for all program related communications with stake-holders, developing clear and concise weekly/monthly reports detailing schedule, budget, technical issues, design changes, information request, and program risks. Oversaw start to finish of contractors, calendar time lines, budget management, resource tracking, reschedules when timelines conflicted and mediation of remedial strategies.

Reported daily to Merrill lynch (PMO) Senior Operations, setting goals and Drafted documentation for each phase of completion. Collaborated with all Members of Sr. Management to discuss and answer Questions of every stage of project.

Investigate problems and assign the right contractors from Merrill lynch approved short list, and regularly invested myself by conducting site visits to evaluate, measured and encourage quality control as per plans spec. and goals.

Supervised Final Resolution of all Technical issues that arose during the project which include air climate handlers, raise panel flooring, rack installs, fiber optics, TP and Token Ring Connectivity. Followed by Server installation, Network and Server Connectivity and data migration. Addressed all network issues with computer profiles, Account Lockouts, etc. Tested Software programs to insure proper functionality.

R&M Associates (DCI Inc.) 330 Philips Ave. Hackensack, NJ. 07606

IT Manager/ IT Governance

Sept. 1991 - Apr. 1993

Directed IT Governance for a dozen large clients, negotiated and secured management contracts with IT point of supply exclusivity for PC’s and Mac's. Scripted and Configured numerous client workstations, and servers. Surveying company-wide technologies for functionality, appropriated upgrades and configuring Network connectivity down to each individual workstation. Performed server and security audits, system backup procedures, and recovery processes to maintain clientele business continuity strategies.

Instituted, standardized document hierarchy of System Administrative privileges, commands and utilities given to our helpdesk for Mainframe, Midrange, LAN Security Systems and resource control. Oversaw the implementation of new technology solutions, identifying project requirements, designed Cad Drawing of new organization-wide IT structure and defined the IT/IS architecture. which was presented to each client as part of their systems integration portfolio, overview and monthly performance statements reports.

Divested 6 failing IT predecessor contractors and produced centralized resolution center responsible for 7 key areas most problematic for company-wide operations, Which oversaw backup Archival library for all client Systems, Applications, Operating Systems and redundant hardware.

Designed and administered database documenting/dispatching of Electronic tickets of all incident calls taken, provide maintenance activity of printers, router, line, workstation nodes, mainframe sessions, and other technological assets. Produced records for troubleshooting methods and scenarios as well as documentation for server locations.

Reduced 11 inherited software development projects down to 3 in 2 months and completing the remaining within 4 months. guided the design and implementation of antivirus solutions and system/network monitoring and Integration.

Provided support to technicians, System Integrators & Testing Departments on all IT and networking issues. Reviewing network layouts, resolved equipment redundancies, and improving network reliability and flexibility.

Maintained extensive records of inventory, fulfillments and monthly performance reviews, Handled all management functions.

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