Project Management

Location:

Maple Plain, MN

Posted:

July 15, 2018

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Axel Sasso

PROJECT ROLES

Technical Project

Management

NYSE Day Trading

Technical Architecture

Service Implementation

Management

E-Commerce Architect

Corporate Network Engineer

Project Lead

LAN Analyst

TOOLS/METHODOLOGIES

PMI, SDLC, Method1, AQMS,

Six Sigma, CSPO,

UNIX/LINUX/Windows,

Active Directory, Identity

Management, CyberArk,

Sailpoint, Forefront.,

Exchange Srv., MS Project,

Server, MS Office, Visio Pro,

SQL, SMS, MoveIT DMZ,

MoveIT Central, SSO, Oracle

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Hospital & Healthcare

Retail

Insurance

Education

Financial Services

Glass, Ceramics & Concrete

Computer Software

Utilities

Warehousing

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION

University of Minnesota

Civil Engineering, Structural

Engineering

Universidad de San Carlos de

Guatemala

Civil Engineering,

Transportation Engineering

CANDIDATE SUMMARY

Axel is a senior level technical Project Manager with over 18 years of technology experience. Experience that encompasses leading and influencing other project managers, a strong hands-on technical support in LAN/WAN network administration, multi environment software installation; deployment upgrades and migrations. Additionally, he has ample experience with security applications such as Identity Management, Forefront Identity Management (FIM), Network architecture and Secure File Transfers. He is skilled in leading the design, development and implementation of infrastructure solutions to support business initiatives.

Axel excels in leading large initiatives and in managing concurrent projects. He excels in migration initiatives and working with cross functional teams and end users to strategize and develop plans to ensure deliverables are met. He is well versed in infrastructure design, telecommunications, systems architecture, security, application migration/decommissioning, application implementations, business process improvement and operations. Axel is well versed in ITIL and other process management frameworks as well as SOX, STIG and other regulatory compliance requirements. He can successfully offer change, release and risk management as well as evolving security management practices. Project Management practices include; initiating, planning, validation, executing, controlling, and closing of the project.

DEMONSTRATED SKILLS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Scrum Alliance CSPO

• Microsoft MCSE

• Cisco Router Configuration

• Introduction and Advanced coursework

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

• Technical Project Management

• Telephony Design and Operations, Intercom-E

• Certified Scrum Product Owner CSPO, Scrum Alliance Axel Sasso

CHRONOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Project Management, Consulting

Abbott Labs November 2017 to March 2018

• Mergers & Acquisitions. Implementation of an Identity Management solution to facilitate the migration of St. Jude Medical domain into Abbott’s domain. Project was the foundation stone for 7 work streams forming the Migration Program. Coaching and mentoring of half dozen Project Managers assigned to parallel these workstreams. Related to FIM, approximately 85K distribution groups were successfully migrated from St. Jude to Abbott’s domain. The completion of this project provided the green light for the remaining of the Program to continue gaining momentum.

Technical Project Management, Consulting

Express Scripts January 2016 to August 2017

• Data Center Migration – Fair Lawn NJ / Prod - Piscataway, NJ & DR - Chicago DCs, Server Migration. Responsible for uplift and migration of multiplatform servers. Worked directly with several other PM’s concentrated in converting and validating physical to virtual systems. Worked closely with cross-functional teams: PM’s, architects and engineers assigned to other workstreams such as: Security, Network, Architecture, Business, App Development, and Identity Management. Also contributed with Project Managers responsible for Data Center decommissioning and closing project.

Technical Project Management, Consulting

The Sasso Group May 2015 to January 2016

• Feral Wildlife Abatement, System Development: Responsible for developing a proactive solution to reduce feral hog population in the southern United States. Effectively designed location discovery, capture, processing and distribution processes for Texas, California and Florida. Technical Project Management, Consulting

UHG Optum April 2014 to May 2015

• Infrastructure: Data Center Migration - Connecticut / MN DCs, In multi environment. Project Management coaching of Server and Applications project managers assigned to these tasks. Responsible for uplift and migration of multiplatform servers, Active Directory migration and Citrix farms. Efforts concentrated in converting and validating physical to virtual systems. Data Center; decommissioning and closing. Close participation with project managers involved in the program, ensuring hand-off were executed as designed. Technical Project Management, Consulting

The Sasso Group July 2013 to April 2014

Target March 2012 to July 2013

• Business Intelligence: Responsible for database migration for Target.com. IBM to Teradata Infrastructure. Migration involved Web sales, Web Item and Web vendor. Coaching of engaged - on and off shore- Project Management teams, coordinating testing, migration and hand off to BAU teams. Multiple file source locations, Data cleansing, extensive data quality checks and validation performed across multiple groups.

• Price Sign Application Upgrade - revamping previously developed application to resolve ongoing pricing sign issues. New upgrade streamlined processes, reducing rework as byproduct. Axel Sasso

Technical Project Management, Consulting

Allianz Life Insurance November 2010 to March 2012

• Full Network upgrades, 3 Principal Data Center Migrations, Circuit replacement and provisioning: Responsible for Data Network, Data Center Refresh, US Enterprise Telephony Upgrade and Security Work streams.

• Infrastructures refresh efforts included NEXUS 7K’s, 5K’s, 2K’s and Nokia FW’s. Manage take over from AT&T to Verizon.

• Migration included circuit provisioning into three data centers and 9 remote sites, including international sites. Methodologies: SDLC

NYSE Day Trading

The Sasso Group, LLC August 2010 to November 2010

• Cook’s Financial, Santa Clarita CA

• The Sasso Group, LLC

• Sage Consulting

Technical Project Management, Consulting

Capella University March 2010 to August 2010

• MS Project Server, People Soft Projects, HR & Financials software enhancements to meet client increased functionality requirements.

• Methodologies: Compass: Capella's Operational Framework for Project Management Technical Project Management, Consulting

Ameriprise Financial January 2010 to March 2010

• Acquisition / Integration Program. The program objective is to integrate 1300 Advisor resources to Ameriprise Financial communication systems.

• The scope included absorbing new advisors with Identity management consisting of three work streams: e-mail migration and archiving solutions, Blackberry services and former e-mail Vault archive migration.

• Tools leveraged to fulfill migration and validation requirements; SSO, AQMS Framework which envelops Clarity, Open Workbench, Managed File Transfer systems and Operational Readiness processes.

• Methodologies: Ameriprise Quality Management System Operational Framework for CMMI Level III certification.

• Turned over project to BAU processes

IP Telephony International Upgrade Project Management, Consulting Corning, Inc. April 2009 to July 2009

• Global Voicemail Upgrade. Voicemail systems upgrade of domestic and international sites. Cisco Unified Call Manager, Cisco Unified Personal Communicator and Cisco Emergency Responder

• Building of cross organizational relationships, scope definition, resource allocation, risk assessment, contingency plans and driving working Project Plan (MS Project) to task levels.

• Primary implementation objectives included hardware and software upgrades ensuring minimum business interruptions.

• Daily progress updates with technical teams leads, business unit leads and vendors. Weekly stakeholder - Steering Committee reports.

• Additional responsibilities included management of third party vendors and service providers. Hand off project to Service Management PMO.

• Turned over project to BAU processes

Axel Sasso

Technical Architecture, Consulting

Independent Consulting May 2008 to April 2009

• Consulting services performed for independent customers. Network security assessments, disaster recovery, remote access, working closely with customer to streamline their business processes, security, disaster recovery and business continuity processes. DR / BCP projects in Santa Clarita, CA. Technical Project Management, Consulting

Capella University January 2008 to May 2008

• VMware - Virtual lab environment restructuring project. Design, validation, implementation and rollout.

• Training end users of virtual environment used for Capella Master of Science Information Technology and Bachelors of Science Information Technology online programs.

• The new high available environment leverages leading VMware GSX 3.5 technologies and highly available storage solution.

• Solution included application security hardening, contract negotiations, partnership championship, implementation as well as training of content and authoring systems.

• Additional services included development of strong negotiations and the creation of interdepartmental synergies for streamlining workflow processes.

• Leveraging of Capella Project Management Compass Methodology, tracking through MS Project Server 2003 and Document Management Systems.

Technical Project Management, Consulting

Ameriprise Financial September 2006 to January 2008

• Small Business T Integration Program. Identity Management, SSO.

• The purpose of business T Integration program was to ensure Ameriprise Financial data integrity, client data privacy and asset assimilation by technology groups.

• Business software inventory verification, technology assets migration to Citrix environment and application decommissioning.

• SOX compliance by enforcing of Information technology general controls/key control matrix and ITIL.

• Closing project by integrating all information in Ameriprise system of record database and preparation of Governance recommendation for the creation of a supporting group for small assets request and operations

• Methodologies: Ameriprise Quality Management System Operational Framework for CMMI Level III certification. * Completed project on time and within budget. Moved to next assignment.

• Infrastructure support, intake process for supplemental midrange hosting – Data Center Migration.

• Ameriprise division from American Express compelled the creation of autonomous technology capabilities.

• Integration with Identity Management.

• The scope of this project included: SSO, Implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley Act key control matrix for ITGC - IT General Controls which namely rely on: user access management, authentication/sign-on, batch scheduling, backup and recovery, incident management, validation, physical security, operating systems integrity, change management and system development lifecycle (SDLC).

• Additional tasks included physical security, middleware utilities, distributed computing platform infrastructure, contracts, Storage, service level agreement negotiations/enforcements, database management and finance (project intake and billing) applied to Performance Managed Hosting Services

• Methodologies: Method 1, PMBOK, AQMS Framework.

• Completed project on time and within budget.

Axel Sasso

Technical Project Management, Consulting

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota November 2004 to September 2006

• SSO, Identity Management, Design and implementation of highly available secure file transfer system (SFTS); movement of files from any source to any destination location, internal/ external to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota.

• Assignment leveraged Cyber Security, Identity Management and Governance, Identity access management, LDAP/E- Directory schema extensions within standard operating environments and AS2 technologies.

• Design servicing 5 BCBSMN affiliates, business units, trading partners, business partners, vendors and providers.

• Connectivity/ transfers methods as required by the Minnesota health collaborative consortium and SOX IT General Control’s.

• Empower Business Analysts across all business units to readily implement secure file transfer requests with minimal IS intervention

• Engagement scope included architecture design; hardware, OS and UNIX (korn shell) upgrades; Security hardening, validation, Lotus Notes application development /database designed to automate implementation of connectivity requests.

• Updated systems implementation times improved to 5 minutes per customer.

• Completed project on time and within budget. Moved to next assignment. Technical Project Management, Business Development StoneArch Software November 2003 to August 2004

• Content management, software implementation. Developed business opportunities in Latin America. In Central America, worked directly with representatives of the office of the Vice President of Guatemala and their PROINTEC program. Servicing small and medium size corporations attain competitive certifications to engage international markets

• Translated document control system code from English to Spanish. Engaged international companies across three continents and developed an ISO packaged solution valuable to Latin American markets

• Signed first international customer.

• Project completed. Moved to next assignment.

Technical Architecture, Consulting

The Sasso Group, LLC January 2003 to November 2003

• Consulting services performed for independent customers.

• Network security assessments, disaster recovery, remote access, middleware utilities and applications, migrations, validation.

• Identification for new products and revenue increase

• Worked closely with each customer to better understand and streamlined their business.

• Developed security processes for all hardware, operating systems and application within customer’s infrastructure Service Implementation Management / IT Lead

Qwest - Internet Hosting Solutions August 2000 to January 2003

• Recruited by Director of Internet Services to meet multiple objectives: customer infrastructure implementations Acquisition, Mergers and management.

• Revenue, product development, security, interdepartmental interactions, disaster recovery.

• SAS70 Type II certification readiness, and to achieve superior customer satisfaction for Qwest Cyber Centers

• Worked closely with each customer to migrate, implement infrastructure, applications, disaster recovery, security hardening, validation and remote access. Determine their needs and provide “Turnkey” web hosting solutions in a Tera POP facility

Axel Sasso

• Liaison between hosting customers and Qwest internal organizations, from engineering teams; network, internal and external security, NT, UNIX, Lotus Notes, SAN and DR teams to Product Management and upper management for Hosting Solutions

• Whether customers ran multimedia, corporate intranet/extranet or e-commerce applications, led each project to ensure reliable and scalable foundations that adhered, strictly, to the highest level of security standards

• Specifically, designed solutions and provided state-of-the-art hosting for mission-critical Web sites and enterprise applications.

• Provided compelling alternatives to developing, deploying and staffing customers’ own Internet data centers.

• Hosting division restructuring, personnel reduction by layoffs E-commerce Architect

Cranespharmacy.com March 2000 to July 2000

• Design and implementation of secured infrastructure for online pharmacy website

• Worked closely with customers to define, design and integrate customers’ website with Cranespharmacy.com.

• Enabled website load balancing and high availability solutions

• Defined and implemented security policies as well as disaster recovery processes and procedures.

• Provided secured connectivity with content and fulfillment providers.

• Implementation of load balancing technologies, leveraging of middleware utilities, validation, domain name servers, system management servers, SQL, Microsoft system management queue and Oracle database.

• Content privacy through VeriSign certificates of authority, adherence to HIPAA requirements, implementation of Cisco IOS through access control lists and point to point virtual private networks

• Cranespharmacy.com and Qwest Internet Solutions.

• Startup Company lost funding

In Closing:

Axel’s specific project management activities and deliverables include: Detailed project plan and schedule outlining critical path, work activities, milestones, deliverables, resources, and dependencies Requirements definition including business analysis and fit/gap analysis. Ample experience with design and architecture documentation, risk and issue logs, risk and issue management plans. Stakeholder identification and stakeholder management, Communications plan. Organizational change plan Facilitation of vendor solicitation, evaluation, and contracting processes to engage an implementation partner. Validation plan and validation results including defect tracking. Training plan and training Transition plan for post-implementation support. Regular status reports, Regular budget reports including actual spent, forecasts and estimates. Timely escalation of issues and risks, provide day-to-day project oversight to functional and technical teams. Working in conjunction with the sponsors, functional managers, and implementation partners. Axel can quickly identify risks and offer issue resolution while maintaining appropriate communication to all necessary parties regarding goals, objects and project status. His superb interpersonal and technical skills coupled with his knowledge and experience with Project Management techniques make him an functional project manager able to successfully bring projects through to completion. Filename: Sasso, Axel_STAR_06_26_18.docx

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