Project Manager Management

Kenneth L. Wilkins

Summary of Polished professional with over 17 years of active I.T. Project

Qualificatio Management and Big 5 Consulting experience with the proven

ns ability to strategically manage, influence and secure enterprise

project solutions. Possesses strong leadership and delivery

skills in all aspects of I.T. Project Management including

System and Software Implementation, Business Operations, Process

Management, Strategic Planning and new Methodology

Implementation. Superior communication and management skills

with an enhanced ability to work in multi-cultural environments,

across varying skill sets, and under rigorous timelines and

budgets.

Experience

2011-2013 Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribal Committee

Ronan, MT.

Senior Project Manager/Consultant

Responsible for managing the fielding/deployment phase of large

scale projects/programs of varying complexity.

Responsible for comprehensive planning of systems deployment,

resources and tasks within scope.

Assign resource assignments along with hiring in a

multi-cultural ethnicity.

Monitor/track/report progress against multiple project plans.

Lead dedicated and non-dedicated resources to accomplish project

fielding/deployment phases.

Interacts with Internal/External Senior Management Client side

and Organization Side.

Ensures that adequate and appropriate planning is provided for

remote hardware and communications facilities to develop and

implement methodologies for analysis, installation and support

of distributed processing client/server systems.

Performs IT material management, including install planning,

provisioning requirements determination, acquisition,

distribution, accountability, and issue for consumption,

retention or disposal.

Strong knowledge base of SEI CMM/CMMI and ITIL methodologies.

Organization and direction of on site surveys for system

fielding/deployments

Analysis of hardware requirements and preparation of

specifications for hardware acquisitions

Preparation of engineering plans and site installation Technical

Design Packages

Ensure the preparation of drawings documenting configuration

changes at fielding/deployment sites.

Responsible for System Rollout Sign Off and Operation turn over.

2010-2011 IBM (Baxter Pharmaceutical) Deerfield Beach,

FL

Transition/Project Manager/Contractor

Responsible for the planning, development and implementation of

new Production Architecture, the transition of Core Business

Applications, data base conversions, system monitoring

configurations and migrations as well as new network design.

Managed the consolidation and relocation of two Enterprise Data

Centers. This included business requirements, system

architecture design, SLA and Policy re-engineering along with

Business Rollout Strategy.

Strategically managed the Virtualization Transition from Stand

Alone and Mainframe Platforms to a Midrange Virtual Platform

utilizing VMWare. Responsible for implementing Enterprise System

Level monitoring at the network, hardware, OS and data restore

areas utilizing IBM Tivoli technology at multiple sites.

Established all Business Continuity guidelines and parameters

for RTO and RPO requirements to ensure Zero Liability to the

business. Aided in the development and rollout of Enterprise

Business Continuity Plans and annual maintenance program.

2008-2010 Sernda Labs, Inc

Deerfield Beach, FL

Transition Manager/Senior Project Manager

Executive Transition Manager/Project Manager for Data Center

Relocations,

Enterprise Infrastructure Virtualization Implementations,

Enterprise system monitoring and Strategic Outsourcing

Projects.

Manages clients and transition teams (TMs, Senior Architects,

DPE, PE) to plan and manage the project scope, budget and

deliverables.

Responsible for solution refinement, project plan development,

project execution and issue management. Provides reporting

metrics on an Executive level.

Manages a portfolio of approximately 3 to 5 active projects

concurrently across diverse cultures and multiple locations both

nationally and internationally.

Manages the strategic engagement for the following organizations

: Transition/Transformation, Complex Engagement, Technical

Competencies and Vendor Management.

2006-2008 IBM (American Express, Ameriprise & Disney Company)

Boca Raton, FL

Senior Project Manager/Contractor

Responsible for the planning, development and implementation of

Production Architecture, the transition and development of Core

Client Business Applications and two Data Center relocations.

This included business requirements, system architecture design

and Business Rollout Strategy.

The project teams are 95% virtual comprised of resources located

across the world; including US, India and South America. One of

the challenges of this engagement was the extensive coordination

and communication within language diverse teams and a 24x7 work

week.

Managed implementation of the Disaster Recovery Program

including high availability failover capabilities limited to

zero downtime and 100% data integrity. Implemented all data

retention and migration strategies as well as implementation of

enterprise system monitoring and agent configurations. Managed

and fulfilled compliance initiatives for operating within the

guidelines of Sarbanes Oxley and PCI DSS Compliance standards.

Strategically managed the Virtualization Transition from Stand

Alone and Mainframe Platforms to Midrange Virtual Platform

utilizing VMWare. Responsible for implementing Enterprise System

Level monitoring at the network, hardware, OS and data restore

areas utilizing IBM Tivoli technology at multiple sites.

2005-2006 World Avenue, Inc.

Boca Raton, FL

Senior Project Manager/Consultant

Responsible for the re-engineering of the Production System

Architecture and Disaster Recovery initiative. This included

business requirements, system architecture design, quality

assurance and implementation strategy.

Implemented PCI Compliance and Data Security strategies and

program.

Responsible for the design and implementation of a Secondary

Data Center to be used as a fully redundant dual production

facility. Responsibilities include network and system design,

failover capabilities, system monitoring, data backup and

storage strategies as well as Operations Management Processes.

2002-2005 Internet Billing Company

Deerfield Beach, FL

Consultant/Senior Project Manager

Reported directly to the CEO and is responsible for the

re-engineering of daily operations of the 24/7 Production Data

Center, Network Operations, Application Development and all

internal Corporate Technology. Responsibilities included the

management and direction of Production Support, Network

Management, Database Management, Infrastructure Support, Desktop

Support, System Architecture & Design and Software Quality

Assurance.

Developed and implemented the internal processes and standards

that supports and manages the enterprise operation. These duties

included the design and deployment of a highly redundant and

secure network architecture, standardized NT 2000 operating

configurations, enterprise level backup and recovery, as well as

the client rollout methodology.

Planned and managed the Data Center Relocation to new site

facility including the design, facility footprint and recovery

objectives. The migration initiative consisted of 192 production

servers and 64 desktop user seats in Corporate Technology. This

was a zero downtime project supporting real-time financial

transactions.

Instrumental in the development and implementation of PCI DSS

Compliance Program. Initiated the development of enterprise

system level monitoring at the network, hardware, OS and data

restore areas utilizing NetIQ technology. Developed and

implemented the system monitoring criteria for client

transaction functionality and validation.

1999-2001 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Atlanta, GA

Principal Consultant

Project Manager/Lead

Project Lead: MSF Ventures Technical Infrastructure Build & Data

Center Consolidation

Responsible for the planning, initialization and implementation

of the technical infrastructure, platform application rollout

and the postproduction support initiative for a 20MM Internet

financial portal project within the Latin American Banking

Industry.

Consolidated the current infrastructure with the newly

architected environment in the BellSouth e-center. This

consisted of the consolidation of two data centers, 162 servers,

backup and recovery systems as well as Network Center

Operations.

Developed pre- production support processes in the areas of

system management, business continuity, change management and

code migration for client.

Devised and implemented an enterprise business continuity plan

for infrastructure operations and application development groups

within project parameters, including data backups, storage and

system recovery procedures.

Project Lead: Barnes & Noble Data Center Consolidation &

Relocation

Developed the Data Center relocation and systems migration

strategy as well as corresponding contingency plan encompassing

location, facilities, hardware & network requirements and data

migration strategy.

Assessed and developed a 10-person technical team for project

initialization and all phases of relocation and data migration

execution.

Devised and initiated the Project Proposal with corresponding

Service Level Agreements, Performance Metrics, Vendor Agreements

and future Capacity Planning

Transitioned two Data Centers to a centralized location in New

York and re-architected the NT environment into a Unix based

platform. Managed the relocation of the new environment

consisting of 80 servers to an outsourced hosting facility in

Virginia.

Successfully relocated enterprise technical infrastructure from

New York to Reston, VA with zero impact to business operation.

1998-1999 Security First Technologies Atlanta, GA

Senior Project Manager/ Director of Business Continuity &

Operations

Development and Implementation of Business Continuity Program

Developed all Disaster Recovery Plans and functional teams, this

included all phases of the Disaster Recovery Life Cycle, Normal

Operations, Emergency Response, Interim Processing and

Restoration.

Planned and implemented the Advanced Recovery Solution utilizing

EMC's SRDF technology (systems, network and telecommunications,)

for Data Center site recovery. Plans encompass a zero fail-over

solution in a multi-tier client/server environment.

Initiated focused team approach to disaster recovery training

and change management for Security First Technologies as well as

their bank customers.

Project Manager for Citibank Migration to New Data Center

Facility

Planned and managed the migration of Security First Technologies

premier customer, Citibank, to a new Data Center location. This

included the development of relocation Service Level Agreements,

relocation project plan and joint staffing with client, customer

interface to Citibank senior management and development of an

advanced recovery solution and migration technology with

Comdisco.

Responsible for the development and implementation of the

Business Continuity Program for Citibank migration and full

Contingency Plan while residing in the S1 Data Center.

Strategically planned and implemented the change management

process for the Citibank Business Continuity segment in the S1

Data Center.

1994-1997 Clark & Washington, P.C.

Atlanta, GA

Project Lead/Operations Manager

1992-1994 Coin Dealership Systems,

Inc. Atlanta, GA

Customer Implementation Project Manager

Technical Windows NT, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows Mobile,

Experience Linux, Redhat, Suise

IBM Tivoli, VMWARE, IBM System Z Enterprise, IBM Power VM,

GSMRT, Maximo, DB2, IBM System Storage solutions.

Veritas Netbackup Enterprise Data Center Edition

Unix, Solaris 7,8,9i, HP-UX, AIX

Solaris System Administration 1& 2

TCP IP, ATM, Frame Relay

Micromuse Netcool/Concorde Reporting, Virtual Sessioning, HP

Openview

EMC SRDF Technology

Visual Source Save & PVCS Change Management

Microsoft Project, Primavera P3, PMOffice Enterprise, Manta

Project Executive

SAP, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards, Ariba E- Procurement

WAFS, (Wide Area File Systems) Riverbed

PCI Data Security Standards and Compliance

Education 1991 Virginia Tech

1999 Georgia Tech I.T. Project Management Certification

1999 Georgia Tech I.T. Management and Process Program

2000 Georgia Tech Business Process Management Certification

National & Local Member of PMI Project Management Institute

National Member of the Disaster Recovery Institute

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