Joseph Blumenfeld, PMP

Sr. Project Manager Infrastructure

Cooper City, Florida 954-***-**** ac3b1x@r.postjobfree.com

IT Project management professional with progressive experience in managing projects in enterprise PMO environment in different size organizations. Demonstrated success managing matrixed information technology teams in an enterprise and non-enterprise industries. Led key technical projects involving infrastructure delivery and vendor relations. Successfully met business objectives, directed global IT teams, established project timelines, and provided financial oversight on projects with budgets of $1M+. Adroit influencer, generating buy in from leadership across multiple business units on initiatives such as process re-engineering, implementation of information technology hardware/software and compliance. Successfully managed teams of 15+ resources. Exhibits exceptional interpersonal communication, analytical skills and dynamic problem-solving skills.

• End to End Project Management

• Budgeting and Cost Estimating

• Compliance (PCI level I)

• Security - Vulnerability management (Qualys), IAM, SSO

• Systems and Application Integration

• Systems and Application Integration

• Linux, Windows and VM deployment

• Customer & Sponsor Focused Delivery

• Integrated Stakeholder Management

• Vendor Relationship Management

• Infrastructure Project Management

Project Management tools: Microsoft Office MS Project SmartSheet Sharepoint Daptiv Visio Service Now SDLC Project Management Life Cycle (PMBOK) Waterfall Project Management

Infrastructure projects types: Data center migrations, Server refreshes and other Microsoft implementations, ITSM, Compliance, Security, and System Integrations

Career Highlights

Sr. IT Project Manager/Team lead Kaplan, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2016- Present

Hand-on Sr. Project Manager spearheading projects of various sizes covering the project life cycle. Led cross functional teams through the development of projects, including scoping, estimating, planning and scheduling. Full responsibility for project execution, including ongoing management of risks/issues/change control, communication, and reporting. Some responsibilities and activities are as follows:

Worked with internal clients to clearly identify project scope, requirements, dependencies and deliverables.

Collaborated with Technical staff to develop cost, resource ad delivery estimates

Consistently conveyed the technical, budget, schedule progress and risks of the project to senior management

Developed and implemented IT Infrastructure programs to improve IT ROI, time-to-market application releases, and data protection.

Implemented a sunken IT assets infrastructure refresh program producing savings of $2 million in licensing fees.

Established a project selection process with an executive oversight committee and project approval process enabling the enterprise to redirect freed capital to new projects.

Created project proposals, manage capital budgets, develop project schedules and monitor progress against business requirements and technical support plans.

Effectively prepared and presented monthly executive operating steering committee presentations to communicate project goals, successes and future deliverables for the infrastructure team.

Projects managed (partial list):

ITSM implementation (Asset, CMDB, Service Desk and Contract modules) with a budget of $ 1.75M

F5 (load-balancers) upgrade in three data centers in different geographical locations.

Information Assurance &Vulnerability Mitigation (InfoSec) effort for 3500 servers spanning five data centers. Effort was driven by PCI compliance. (PII and Credit Card data). Tools used: Qualys, IAM (OneLogin, FIM, ADFS and Ping Federate (SSO)

Server Operating refresh (Windows 2008-2012/2016)

PMO Manager/Sr. Project Manager Great Healthworks, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2014-2016

Worked and managed a newly formed PMO for a mid-size company composed of 4 Project Managers and 2 Business Analysts

Provided a continuous alignment of project scope with strategic business objectives

Maintained effective communication to keep all stakeholders involved with the project

Initiated, coordinated, and enforced systems, policies, and procedures

Run IT infrastructure projects to improve IT ROI, Data protection, and compliance

Member of IT steering committee advising CIO on multiyear plan.

Increased server virtualization rate from 10% to 75% (VMware) by planning and executing $1.5M data center relocation project of 2000 server assets hosting 145 business applications in Prod, DR and Dev/QA testing data center environments.

Projects managed (partial list):

PCI level 3 certification (including gap analysis and remediation)

IT asset infrastructure refresh and Carrier program producing savings of $3.7M in annual telecommunications costs. Consolidation and implementation of Firewall Rules for Production and Disaster Recovery Web Centers.

Upgrade data center which included data and servers’ migration, telecom carrier (internet, voice), implementing new proprietary CRM (Budget $1.5M).

Major call center upgrade of Cisco UCCX to UCCE phone systems

Manager of IT/PMO MardiGras Casino, Hallandale, Florida 2007-2013

Managed daily operations of a small IT department during a transition/expansion into a casino

Managed a large program for Information Technology casinos systems (Slot management, Point of Sale, Door Access Control, Biometric, Surveillance, Accounting, Help Desk and security related systems) during a period of 20 months with $1.6M budget

Implemented implement and integrate casino and hotel systems). Examples are Hotel system that included Reservations system, POS, Room access control, VOD, Mini Bar system, Security and other system. Budget $3.75 MM

Operating systems –VMWare and Windows 20XX including other Microsoft products like (SCOM, SCCM, Active Directory and many others). Participated in refresh OS upgrade projects.

Negotiation and implementation of a multi-year telecommunication service bundle (internet, voice, long distance and video conferencing) which yielded saving of $800K per year.

Consolidated the purchasing power for all three properties to achieve cost savings of $500K annually.

Project Manager The Millennium Group, Plantation, Florida 2005-2007

Project managed:

Managed a large project to deploy 250 Microsoft Windows 2003 servers and 30,000 imaged laptops to the Broward County School District. Project lasted 7 months and involved 30 direct reports and 30 cross-functional team members.

Negotiated favorable terms with suppliers (equipment leasing) and telecommunications providers, yielding saving of $250K in FYI 2005 and $180K in FYI 2006.

Championed standardization of hardware and infrastructure device lifecycle, from purchase to disposal. (Cost savings of $129K during FYI 2005).

IT Supervisor Broward County Government, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1999-2001

IT Manager Elcotel, Inc., Sarasota, FL 1996-1999

IT Manager University of Maryland - SSW, Baltimore, MD 1990- 1995

Education and Certifications

M.Sc. Business and Management of Information Systems, University of Baltimore

B.S, Computer Science, University of Baltimore

PMP, Project Management Professional, (ID#: 1617724)

MCSE, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (NT, 2000, 2003), (ID#: 3539326)

ACHDS Certified Help Desk Specialist, (ID#: USA06KBK)

CSCS, Certified Security Compliance Specialist (Vendor certification)

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