R. Brendan Kelly

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Cumming, GA 30041-8123 ac69da@r.postjobfree.com

IT Management Professional – Project /Product/ Program / Delivery Manager

Proven IT leadership and management spanning 20+ years. Established track record of success in managing development and delivery of projects; simultaneously ensuring high team morale, high productivity, high quality, and on-time/on-budgets. Performed in wide-ranging roles as Program, Project, and Delivery Manager in public corporations, private companies, and government environments.

Process Analysis & Redesign

Resource & Costs Management

Budgeting & Planning

Cross-Functional Team Management

Project Management & Tracking

Project Risk & Scope

Agile, Extreme, & Waterfall Methodologies

Change Control Management

System Solution Architecture

Professional Experience

CashMarq Global Consultants, Sr Program/Project Manager (2016 - present), Menlo Park, CA./Cumming, GA

Experience with Waterfall and Agile Software Development Life Cycle in Blockchain environment.

Working with the engineering and quality assurance teams on design, implementation and testing

Answerable for project budgeting, reporting, goal setting, assessment of most staff and program, staff development, participant selection and working with key stakeholders.

Demonstrated leadership and critical thinking in the implementation of complex programs and projects

Managed multiple projects across all lifecycle stages around the world.

Prepared material required for senior leadership meetings and provide updates on projects

Accountable for overall deliverables, schedule, stakeholders, risks and issues for executive management.

Bridge2 Solutions, Senior Project Manager (2012 - 2015), Alpharetta, GA.

Prime contact interactions between internal and external technical resources including development and delivery of enterprise grade software solutions in financial settings.

Lead for software life-cycle methodology including scheduling, assigning and monitoring tasks, deadlines and milestones for all stakeholders and resources, following established project management methodologies. (SCRUM).

Effective management of scope-creep, changed requirements and missed deadlines through change management, risk management and control processes established.

Excellent ability to organize and work effectively with project teams of staff from internal and off-shore department as well as those of the clients and other partners.

AT&T {Wireless}, Senior Project/Program Manager (2008 - 2011), Alpharetta, GA.

Initiate, Coordinate, Budget, Managed, and Delivered IT products and solutions for company owned retail stores. (Software, Hardware, and Infrastructure Solutions)

Research, Development, and Implementation of financial security sensitive solutions for encryption standards & compliance mandates.

Analysis, comparison, & development of enterprise-wide IT monitoring solutions for level 1, 2, & 3 support teams.

Program Management using multiple methodologies and standards for development.

Product Management for vendor selection, implementation, configuration and production control.

Project risk analysis, assessment, planning, and management, interfacing with all levels of management.

Project status tracking and reporting to IT and Executive Management.

Manage multiple stakeholders on the project and other duties as assigned.

AutoTrader.com, Senior Project Manager and Delivery Manager (2004 - 2008), Atlanta, GA.

Solution Delivery Manager – Full life-cycle development (SDLC) responsibilities within a dynamic web (Java, J2EE, Ajax, Flex) environment to deliver large-scale multiple projects lasting months to a year or more.

Financial Management – Multimillion annual project and resource budgets with ultimate accountability for strategic planning, forecasting, and fiscally responsible delivery.

Leadership and Facilitation – Direct accountability for client articulation, satisfaction, and success.

Success Measures and Focus – Client satisfaction, forecasting, and key measures of success.

Tactical Project Management – Superior skills crisis project management, adept in turning red projects green.

Vendor Management – SLA and compliance for third party vendors.

Technology Project Management Methods – Ensure compliance with CMMI and SDLC processes and tools.

Strategic Visionary – Manage complex programs at the corporate and enterprise functional levels offering significant financial impact to the business bottom line.

Georgia Department of Corrections, Office of Information Technology, Program Manager (2001- 2004), Atlanta, GA.

Efficiently oversee Enterprise Software Development and Technical Support Systems simultaneous projects.

Apply process improvements for client server, thin-client (J2EE) enterprise, and mainframe applications.

Administration of computer hardware and software for 200+ sites throughout our WAN.

Carry out complex testing design and quality analysis with business owners and decision makers.

Strategic Planning for Agency’s Office of Information Technology.

Close collaboration with the Technology and Business Teams, Architects, DBAs, QA, and Business Owners to complete and validate system requirements.

Chief liaison with technical team, business partners, internal as well as state budget and regulatory agencies.

MCI WorldCom. Y2K Project Manager (1998-2001), Atlanta, GA.

Successfully managed multiple-concurrent projects targeted to mission-critical Y2K compliance.

Implemented process improvement measures, targeted to full software development life cycle.

Project delivered ahead of schedule and below budget, maintaining $8 million/day industry.

Data model knowledge applied to solutions for Y2K issues.

Strong analytical skills employed in definition and documentation of deliverables.

Interpersonal skills demonstrated in interaction with customers, technical peers, and corporate executives.

Leveraged technical experience in ensuring balance between value to the customer and technical requirements.

Syntellect, Inc. Project Team Leader (1994-1998), Roswell, GA.

Replaced manual workflows with UNIX based solution.

Effectively communicate technical information to customers.

Supervision of five-member team that monitored operations for telephony.

Development and maintenance of databases for 300 Pay-Per-View cable companies.

Reported budget and status information monthly for executive management.

Education

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. M. A. Organizational and Structural Sociology.

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. B. A. Communication & Finance.

Program, Project, and Delivery Manager Roles

Manager responsible for leading and managing people processes and projects.

Partner with business and IT to deliver solutions that meet the business needs.

Self-motivated, effective listener and communicator, service oriented, willing to take risks, have high standards, assertive, decisive, demonstrate initiative, readily takes on more responsibility, goal and detail oriented, and responds easily to change.

An organizer, administrator, and supervisor of people, processes, and technologies, combined into a comprehensive plan.

Provide business and technical functions needed to successfully achieve what the customer expects to receive.

Technical Skills

Demonstrable knowledge of enterprise network infrastructures.

Tools used for code management, code versioning, and checking in code including

GIT Version Control

Apache Subversion (SVN)

Jira Request Management Tools and Jira Version Control

Concurrent Versions System (CVS)

Solid understanding of rich Internet applications and deployment models.

Versatile with Java/J2EE frameworks and architecture patterns.

Solid understanding of database technologies and data modeling techniques.

Technical Environments

Agile, Extreme, and waterfall development methodologies.

Blockchain, Java, J2EE, JSP/JavaScript, JSF, Ajax, Flash, XML, HTML.

ETL Processes and Data Transformation.

JIRA, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office.

Magic, Quality Center/Test Director, WinRunner, LoadRunner.

Business Intelligence – SAS, Data Warehousing, Visual Sciences, LNX Codes, In-Line & 1x1 Tagging.

Content Management Systems – Rhythmix. Search – SEO Optimization, Internal Search Systems (FAST).

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