Project Manager Management

Louis Kolivas

VP SharePoint / Application Support at Court Square Group

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Summary

Louis is a Senior Manager with experience managing complex system, database, and software project

initiatives. He has proven ability managing and maintaining deadlines, deliverables, risk & change

management, and clarifying critical project paths. He has a strong and current expertise in software design and

development methodologies applying ITIL, Agile, RUP, Rose, Clear Case, CMM, PMP, and PMI

methodologies. Mr. Kolivas has 20 years of experience in financial services, banking, and retail environments.

He has managed medium to large business systems projects with a high degrees of architectural complexity and

is a member of the Project Management Institute and holds a PMP certification. He is knowledgeable and

experienced with SharePoint, PACE, CMMi and the ISO 9001 standard.

Specialties: Hands-on experience with: design, development, and implementation of SharePoint Solutions,

financial, multi channel, POS retail software, material handling & inventory tracking systems, and

accountability systems; business, functional, and technical requirements & specifications, policies and

procedures; investigation and analysis of operations; management of cross-functional groups within matrix

organizations. Sarbanes-Oxley schooled / compliant.

Experience

VP SharePoint / Application Support at Court Square Group

August 2013 - Present (4 months)

Manages SharePoint group designs, deployments, manages and supports application development.

A SharePoint Evangilist.

Sr. SharePoint Manager at UTC Pratt & Whitney CSC

July 2011 - July 2013 (2 years 1 month)

Defining, Designing, Developing, and Deploying SharePoint Solutions for UTC

Managed SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 training, tasks, assignments, timelines, deliverables.

Provided timely project status updates to project Stakeholders.

Identified, assessed, and minimized project risks, containing scope creep.

Identified and solved assignment issues and managed scope creep.

Responsible for architecting, managing United Technologies Corporation PW SharePoint Farm.

Accountable architecting, developing United Technologies Corporation PW new SharePoint Sites.

Sr. Project Manager at EMC / Wipro Technologies, Inc.

January 2007 - July 2011 (4 years 7 months)

Senior Project Manager managing end to end EMC products with MS Exchange, SQL, Oracle and BuRA

Validation Testing at Labs built out at EMC Validation Test Labs at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,

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Hopkinton, MA; Cork, Ireland and offshore, Banglaore, India. Project produces technical whitepaper

packages: Reference Architecture Guide, Best Practices Guide, Validation Test Results, and Applied

Technology Guide, a Practitioner's Guide, and a LOE Calculator. Cross functional team of 32 members and

12 off shore members.

1 recommendation available upon request

Project Manager at Dartmouth College

June 2006 - October 2006 (5 months)

Deployed COEUS 4.1 MIT developed, Dartmouth customized piece of software for Dartmouth Medical

School tracking of $300 million of medical school grants.

Sr. Project Manager at Chordiant Software, Inc.

December 2005 - June 2006 (7 months)

Championed Agile Method into Development Group.

Managed Financial Software deployments at Time Warner Cable.

Conducted modeling sessions for Collections Project into short Agile method iterations.

1 recommendation available upon request

Project Manager at BJs Wholesale Clubs, inc.

June 2005 - December 2005 (7 months)

Project Manager for Benchmark & User Testing for new IBM POS OS 4690 V4 GSA - Controller Hardware.

Verified integrity and correctness of terminal sales, controller sales software, and POS hardware. Verified

goals in File / Communication, Price Management, Register download, scanners, ring sales, and FTP/desktop

transfers. Updated and executed StoreGazer 2.0 System. Conducted User Testing including security

enhancements. SOX compliant projects.

Project Manager at Staples, Inc.

2003 - 2005 (2 years)

Project Manager in Supply Chain & POS Retail Commerce

1 recommendation available upon request

Project Manager at TJX Companies, Inc.

January 2003 - October 2004 (1 year 10 months)

Managed Real Estate & management Software upgrades.

Sr. Project Manager at Marketmax, Inc.

January 2000 - February 2001 (1 year 2 months)

Delivered Mission Critical CRM Client / Server, web-based, 3-Tier multi-channel merchandise planning,

collaborative, and optimization solution software suite to Amazon, Staples, Eddie Bauer, Spiegel, Marks &

Spencer, and Williams Sonoma.

Provided senior functional / technical expertise in architecture, development, and database custom

configurations. Performed customer audits and troubleshot client issues.

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Sr. Project Manager at C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.

January 1996 - December 1998 (3 years)

Deployed Mission Critical multi-million dollar 3-Tier CRM / SCM third party software.

Lead mainframe development & database design of large in-house custom projects for Transportation,

Procurement, and Warehouse Management Systems.

Developed new implementation methodologies, architectural approaches, and data models.

Languages

English (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Greek (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Skills & Expertise

Virtualization

SharePoint 2010, 2013

Project Management

Program Management

Storage Area Networks

Dell PowerEdge Servers

EMC Celerra

Sharepoint Governance

SharePoint Architecture

SharePoint

Agile Methodologies

Software Project Management

Leadership

Cross-functional Team Leadership

CRM

Cloud Computing

Vendor Management

PMP

Professional Services

Security

Management

Software Development

Testing

Change Management

ITIL

Databases

Analysis

SQL

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Education

Dartmouth College

MALS, Business, 1976 - 1980

Keene State College

Bachelor of Science (BS), 1972 - 1974

Activities and Societies: Editor, KSC Kronicle (Yearbook)

Editor, KSC Equinox (weekly newspaper)

1st place national award winner...Columbia University in Journalism, Photo Journalism

Honors and Awards

Eagle Scout

Interests

Managing high tech SharePoint projects in the Greater Boston / Hartford area, practicing ITIL, Agile, and Six

Sigma methods, downhill skiing, sailing.

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Louis Kolivas

VP SharePoint / Application Support at Court Square Group

********@*****.***

3 people have recommended Louis

"Louis is an outstanding project leader with a great attention to detail. He makes my life simple and easy. I

can forget about the non-technical details of the project, and focus on my job, because I know that Lou has

this covered."

Jeff Browning, Oracle Subject Matter Expert, EMC Corporation, worked directly with Louis at EMC /

Wipro Technologies, Inc.

"Louis is very intelligent and intuitive. He is able to easily grasp and understand new ideas and is very good

at managing complex projects and project teams. Louis is extremely personable and fosters an environment in

which cooperation and professionalism is both supported and expected. It was a real pleasure to work with

him!"

David Sallet, Solutions Designer, Chordiant Software, worked with Louis at Chordiant Software, Inc.

"Louis is a well rounded IT Project Manager who takes initiative, gets along with all levels of the

organization and works well cross functionally. Feedback on the work that Louis did for me was that he was

always a pleasure to work with; completed projects either ahead or on time and have a great knack for getting

the information he needed when he needed it. I would strongly recommend Louis to anyone who is looking

for a dedicated, personable and senior IT Project Manager."

Charu Kapoor Deshpande, was Louis's client

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