Mary Cunningham-Hamson

**** ***** **** ** *******, TX 78641

Telephone: 512-***-**** (Home); 813-***-**** (Cell) Email: ac4yas@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Profile

A highly experienced IT Program Director with experience and expertise in the industries of Telecommunications, Supply Chain and Banking. Has experience with establishing and building out PMOs and has built a reputation for successfully handling complex initiatives or failing projects and is regularly consulted for advice on best practice and solutions, Confident with the interpersonal and negotiation skills to liaise and operate collaboratively at all levels. A consummate professional with the determination and drive required to succeed.

Career Summary

• IT PMO Management

• Program/Project Management

• Development Manager

• Datacenter Migrations

• New Product Launches

• Product Trials & Launch

• Introducing Advanced Technologies

• Private Network Buildouts

• Project Turnaround

• Tactical Planning

• Large Scale Development Initiatives

• SDLC (Systems Development Lifecycle)

• Business Case Development

• Budget Management

• Vendor Management

• Stakeholder Management

• Executive Reporting

• IT PMO Construction

Career Summary

Oct 2006 - Present SYNIVERSE TECHNOLOGIES, TAMPA, FL 2015 – Present IT PMO DIRECTOR

• Established the IT PMO defining the project framework across the CTO organization.

• Manages a diverse team of project managers around the globe; 3 team members to date have received the President’s Club award

• Successfully managed 3 datacenter migration initiatives, 2 in the United States at a total cost of

$8.9M with a $13M/year Opex savings and one in Germany at a total cost of $6.3M with a

$10M Opex savings.. Migration strategies employed were P2P, P2V and fork lift. All programs delivered on schedule and within budgets

• Successfully lead technical cross functional teams from around the globe to realize program objectives.

• Syniverse 2017 President’s Club award recipient

2009- 2014 IT PROGRAM MANAGEMENT MANAGER

• Managed a range of complex projects and programs, driving coordinated operations and timely completion within budget and to the required standard. These initiatives included: o Production system platform migrations for A2P messaging products from Santa Clara, CA to a facility in Dallas, TX and a geo-redundant site in Chicago, IL, with UAT systems migrated to a third site in Sunnyvale, CA

o UK Datacenter consolidation effort, migrated production systems out of six datacenters into two new facilities

o Buildout of an AP POP facility in Singapore and Hong Kong to support a GRX and NetScout deployment

o Migration of the corporate disaster recovery site for all legacy systems from SunGard in Philadelphia, PA to a new facility in Dallas, TX

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o Intra-datacenter facility consolidation, a cost savings initiative to centralize product silos o IPX network buildout for a new networking product launch and corporate WAN o Large scale systems initiatives for capacity buildouts and improvements to systems availability, maturing systems from active/disaster recovery to implementing geo- redundant and active system, including introducing load balancing where appropriate o Several cross-platform migrations, with the most sensitive being for a networking line number portability product, WLNP, a Sun to Linux platform migration o A corporate initiative program, LTE, including support of customer trials, product assessments and training

o M&A initiative to migrate new products, personnel and customers onto an internal ticketing system and consolidation of messaging platforms o Development of a Tier One customer report for executive visibility insuring product stickiness

• Influenced change, identified areas for improvement and implemented effective processes and procedures which maximized efficiency and productivity

• Managed a team of Project Managers, promoting a culture of knowledge sharing, competency and continual improvement

Projects/Programs undertaken:

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2008-2009 MANAGER OF IMPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT

• Managed Implementation Managers effectively to ensure professionalism and competency when dealing with customers regarding product launches

• Provided support to numerous Roaming and Networking products

• Supervised the NRTRDE launch, an Industry Fraud detection solution

• Developed and implemented new Job Descriptions and Quarterly Objective criteria

• Executed ‘Pit Crew’ processes geared to accelerating customer implementations 2006-2008 SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Managed the commercial launch of new Messaging and Roaming products, including integration into billing and reporting systems and processes

Projects Undertaken:

• Launch of Roaming Service Bureau (RSB), a bespoke product developed specifically for a Tier One customer

• Extensive Messaging platform upgrade for Tier One takeaway

• New Messaging product launch which included a hosted SMSC and Over-the-Air (OTA) update service

• Development and implementation of a Mobile Data Roaming customer-facing provisioning tool

• Critical capacity upgrade to improve performance and scalability of the Messaging platform 1996-2006 TECHDATA CORPORATION, CLEARWATER, FL

2005-2006 PMO MANAGER

• Established and managed the IT Project Management Office. Launched a PPMsystem to manage the company’s project portfolio.

• Managed Testing Services and IT Training staff

• Drafted IT testing methodology and redefined test lab infrastructure and services to achieve reduced outages and back out efforts

2004-2005 PROJECT MANAGER

• Managed the assessment for roll out of SAP across North America, including conducting gap analysis to assess fit, costing and timing of effort 2001-2004 EC Development Manager

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• Managed a development staff consisting of (3) mainframe developers, (4) .Net developers, (1) business analyst and (1) distributed architect. The team was responsible for developing and supporting the web sales and toolsets

Education and Qualifications

Masters Business Administration

University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

Specialization: Management Information Systems & Finance Bachelor Business Administration

University of Houston, Houston, Texas

Specialization: Finance

IT Certifications and Competencies

PMP certification (2000-2010)

Scaled Agile 4.5 Certification (CERTIFICATE ID: 852*****-****) MS Project / Project Server, MS Office, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Access and Workbench

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