Project Manager

EARL L. BATTEY, CSM

214-***-**** ********@*******.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/earlbattey

Skilled Project Manager with a proven record of success leading all phases of IT application and infrastructure projects over multiple platforms and programming languages.

Seasoned Application Manager with vast understanding of large-scale software development over multiple system platforms and utilizing a variety of database management systems. Capable of managing both local and remote development teams.

Proven Communicator leveraging technical, business and financial knowledge to communicate with business and IT stake holders across their respective teams. In depth client relationship management abilities and strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Known for ability to produce high quality deliverables under budget that meet or exceed timelines.

EXPERIENCE

Cirro Energy (NRG Energy), Plano, TX 2014-2018

Project Manager- Texas Retail Small Business Area

Client management to leverage best practices, projects and efforts across NRG TX Retail Small Business brands (Cirro Energy, GME, and Reliant). Managed dozens of projects (both capital and maintenance). Accountable for developing Project Charter and Business Case deliverables, planning and conducting kickoff meetings, developing Project Estimates for labor, budget and NPV forecasts, establishing agreement on the deliverables with key stakeholders, developing and maintaining project schedules and plans. Working with Creative and Technical teams to implement full life cycle components and deliverables. Serves as single point of contact to resolve issues across broad cross-functional teams.

Managed the Goal Zero Web Upgrade project to upgrade and migrate Goal Zero E-Commerce platform from Infogenix to SIDE Commerce Cloud environments increasing functionality and ability of Goal Zero to offer more products and increase revenue.

Led the effort to migrate NRG Texas Retail Oracle 11 databases to Oracle 12c – successfully upgraded almost 100 application and database systems to Oracle 12c from Oracle 11 which was no longer supported. Managed cross-functional teams to complete the migrations and upgrades on or ahead of schedule.

Managed the project to migrate the Green Mountain iEnergy application and databases from a 3rd party cloud host to NRG’s Skybox datacenter. Savings of $250k in annual hosting costs. Successfully completed the project before deadline and under budget.

Guided the Broker Portal 2.0 Project which was a web application upgrade to improve business operations, sales tools functionality, and products and analytics for the Retail Broker team. Project resulted in improvements to the iEnergy and Gateway applications that resulted in increases of almost $3 million to EBITDA.

Managed the Convergys IVR Upgrade project to successfully select a call center IVR product NRG Retail would use (Edify) and then implemented the upgrade on time and under budget.

Cirro Energy (Dominion Resources), Plano, TX 2004-2014

Project and Applications Manager 2009-2014

Managed dozens of full-life cycle capital and maintenance projects. Managed the Radiant, Reviewer, REAC and Cirro Web Retail application teams. These teams were tasked with Customer Billing, Order, Scheduling, and Forecasting, Gas Operations and customer facing Web Account Management respectively. Managed the development teams, coordinating with the business clients, scheduling work assignments, budgets, and operations. Duties included full life cycle operations from analysis, design, development, implementation and general support of all projects, enhancements, and maintenance work needed for these applications as well as vendor management. These applications were on both Java and Visual Studio platforms with both Oracle and SQL Server back ends.

Managed the Nodal Rewrite project which dealt with changing Cirro’s applications to support the new ERCOT Nodal Market operations. This was a large project that dealt with every system and application in the deregulated ERCOT energy market. Successfully completed the project on time and under budget allowing Cirro operations to work from day one of the new Nodal Market.

Managed the Dominion Retail Windows 7 Migration project to successfully upgrade and migrate Retail applications and systems to Windows 7 from Windows XP.

Implemented the REAC Phase 2 Capital Project which was a project to increase the functionality of the Retail Gas Accounting and Closing (REAC) application used by the Richmond, VA Gas Trading group. The changes resulted in savings around monthly accounting operations and closing and was completed on time and under budget.

Application Manager 2006-2009

Managed the Reviewer Java application development team, meeting with clients to determine priorities for projects, enhancements and support, scheduling work assignments for the team, overseeing full life support for Reviewer, budget and operations. Ensured timely completion of projects and development and support efforts for the application.

Senior Software Engineer 2004-2006

Performed analysis, design, development, implementation and general support for a Java based application (Reviewer) used as the deal capture, order and customer management, scheduling and forecasting system used. Accountable for full life cycle activities and support of Reviewer.

American Electric Power (AEP), Dallas, TX 2000-2004

Information Consultant

Provided analysis, design, development, implementation and general support for web intranet applications developed in .NET as well as Microsoft Access applications. Responsible for full SDLC activities in support of various business groups at AEP.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Texas A and M-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum Alliance 2017

PMP Exam Preparation Course – Project Management Academy 2015

Leading from the Future for Directors and Managers – Leadera

Six Sigma for Leaders

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Project and Office SharePoint Visio Visual Studio Web Development JAVA J2EE JavaScript

VBScript HTML DB2 Oracle PL/SQL SQL Server UNIX SAP SDLC Use Cases Agile Waterfall SOA Easy Projects Service Now

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