Project Manager, Program Management, IT Infrastructure, Data Warehouse

Thomas J. Orban, PMP 336-***-**** (cell) ***.*****.***@*****.***

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Key Accomplishments:

I've use information technology projects to resolve critical business

issues in multiple sectors; including financial (banking, credit card

processing, insurance, & investments); medical laboratory;

retail/distribution; and manufacturing.

I've managed IT programs and projects; created budgets, charters, WBS,

RFIs, RFPs, performed analysis; designed, tested and rolled out solutions;

defined & mitigated risk; established and managed budgets (for departments,

programs & projects); and created/managed program & project schedules.

I've mentored, led & trained staff from business units and IT; located

locally, onshore, and offshore.

These efforts have installed and migrated tools, databases, networks,

large and small servers, multi-tiered storage & SANS, and led data

center/network construction & migrations (US & Japan) on both internal &

external Clouds; using proprietary & PMBOK techniques with Waterfall &

Agile methodologies.

Key Skills:

< 20 years+ managing multiple concurrent technical projects.

< Accomplished in software & hardware research, acquisition and

implementation.

< Management of risk with persistence and determination & identified and

proactively resolved problems.

< Instrumental as a liaison between technical staff, management and the

business (including C level).

Certifications/Professional Associations:

< Master Project Manager (MPM) (inactive) Member & Fellow of American

Academy of Project Management (AApM)

< Certified Project Professional (PMP), (2009 - 2015) Project Management

Institute (PMI) PMP # 1298336

< Certified Scrum Master (inactive) Scrum Alliance

< Network and Systems Professionals Association (NASPA)

Professional Experiences:

Nissan North America, Inc. Franklin, TN

Sr Project Manager (Contract) 5/2013 - Present

As a member of the Corporate Project Office, Infrastructure PMO, I am

leading five facilities IS Infrastructure projects in three states; and up

to five solution providers/vendors per project. Project included:

. Facilities - I'm currently leading the IS infrastructure tasks for the

greenfield construction of a 1.5m sqft warehouse; including a new

fiber WAN; 2 computer rooms/MDFs, 30 IDFs, a new LAN, telecom & AV

cabling; servers (windows & AS400), printers, & workstations; and

wireless access points.

. Facilities - I recently completed leading the IS infrastructure tasks

of a greenfield 150k sqft manufacturing building, and a 75k sqft

warehouse including a new fiber WAN; LAN/data, telecom, AV cabling;

and servers (windows), printers, & workstations; and wireless access

points.

. Facilities - I recently completed leading the IS infrastructure tasks

for the relocation of a 100k sqft warehouse including a new fiber

WAN; LAN/data & telecom cabling; servers (windows & AS400), printers,

& workstations; and wireless access points.

. Facilities - I recently completed leading the IS infrastructure tasks

for the ground up renovation of a manufacturing building and a

warehouse expansion; including a new fiber WAN; LAN/data, telecom & AV

cabling; servers (windows & AS400), printers, & workstations; and

wireless access points.

I used Windows Office Suite 2007, MS Project 2007, MS SharePoint Server

2007 for document sharing & control, CA Clarity PPM for project time

collection/reporting and portfolio reporting.

First Citizens Bank, Inc. Garner, NC

Infrastructure Program Manager/Sr Project Manager (Contract) 2/2013

- 5/2013

As a member of the Corporate Project Office, I led 4 projects addressing

various audit concerns. I'm responsible for all tasks from project

initiation through close down, managing issues & risk, and weekly/monthly

status reporting, including financial performance. I provided input into a

Corporate Project Office Reengineering effort.

Project included:

. Security - I led the replacement of the mail gateway appliance and the

Web Proxy Server (2 projects).

. Security - I led the implementation of RACF security for a variety of

MQ Queues and Mainframe external connections (2 projects)

I used Windows Office Suite 2010, MS Project 2010, MS Sharepoint Server

2010 for document sharing & control, CA Clarity PPM for project time

collection/reporting and portfolio reporting & HP Service Manager for

change control.

Fidelity Investments, Inc. Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC

Program Manager/Senior Project Manager (Contract) 4/2012 to

12/2012

As a member of the IT Database Group, I led a small program consisting of

9 projects tasked with mitigating the affects of corruption on 9 key Oracle

& Sybase databases. These databases exist in and are coordinated across

three geographically separate data enters.

Team members participated from multiple US and off-shore sites. I planned,

monitored, controlled and provided status on this program with multiple

concurrent IT projects.

The program and projects consisted of:

. I led nine project teams implementing 3rd party products; Oracle

DataGuard, Flashback, XIV Snapshots; and creating new recovery

procedures. Several of the projects required the migration of

databases from EMC to XIV storage.

I used FMR and PMBOK techniques (Iterative methodologies) and a variety of

tools for planning, communicating and reporting. These included MS Office

suite 2007, MS Project 2007 and HP's PPMC.

LabCorp Holdings of America, Inc. Burlington, NC

Program Manager/Senior Project Manager (Contract) 11/09

to 4/2012

As a member of the IT Project Management Office, I led 3 Programs and

several individual projects. I contributed to the growth of a young PMO,

created PMO procedures and standards, and mentored early & mid-career

Project Managers. I organized, planned, monitored, controlled and provided

status on these programs and projects.

The Programs and Projects included:

. The definition and creation of a Portfolio of Infrastructure

projects.

. I represented IT interests in architectural design/planning

meetings, weekly construction meetings and monthly owner reviews

for:

o Construction & implementation of a multi-node MAN including

upgrading 5 network rooms, and the migration from dedicated

data & voice fiber to the MAN.

o Construction & installation of new power switches, UPS, CRAC

units, data circuits, a VoIP system, a new Campus LAN, AV in

multiple conference rooms, and Building Physical Security, as

part of the expansion of two tier III data centers.

o I led the deployment of new data & voice circuits and equipment

during the expansion of an 110,000 sqft medical lab.

o I led the installation of data and voice circuits & equipment

during the construction of a new lab project in Tokyo, Japan.

. Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) for medical

records was customized & implemented using internal & Microsoft

resources.

. Several IBM P-Series upgrades from P6s to P7s.

. The migration of our Internet presence into the cloud using internal

& AT&T resources.

. The establishment of DR for a remote site.

. The integration of a major acquisition's infrastructure into our

existing data centers.

I used LabCorp and PMBOK techniques (waterfall & Iterative methodologies)

and a variety of tools for planning, communicating and reporting. These

included MS Office suite 2007, MS Project 2007, SharePoint, and

ChangePoint.

State Farm Insurance Co, Inc. Bloomington, IL

Project Manager/Planner (Contract) 4/08 to 8/09

As a member of the IT Project Management Office, I led team planning

efforts including the development of work breakdown structures; risk

analysis and requirement gathering; creation of critical path networks and

schedules with up to 2500 activities for 110 employees, and $5M project

budgets. I organized, planned, baselined, monitored, provided status, and

controlled multiple IT business intelligence projects.

I monitored projects, mitigated risk and provided status, and determined

alternative courses of action needed to ensure successful project

completion.

Projects included:

< The off-shoring of support for 60 existing applications (COBOL, Java,

Oracle)

< The solicitation of RFIs, RFPs, and the performance of product

evaluations.

< Research projects considering data architectures.

< A DB2 Data Warehouse replacement by Oracle.

I used State Farm and PMBOK techniques (waterfall & Iterative

methodologies) and a variety of tools for planning, communicating and

reporting. These included MS Office suite, Primavera, Primavera Timesheet,

MS Excel, and Cognos Reporting.

Web Selling Assistants Inc. Wilkesboro, NC

Owner/President/Entrepreneur 2/05 to 12/08

I formed and developed a business with 2 commercial locations & 6

employees. I established and operated a brick & mortar retailer, including

an EBay sales channel and a packing and shipping center; and a website

design and implementation service.

I created:

< A business plan, formed a NC Corporation, acquired investment capital,

found business locations and negotiated leases

< Prepared the sites for business and installed electronic point of sale

devices

< Located wholesale & foreign manufacturers of goods to be sold,

negotiated the purchase of those goods, determined/established supply

chains, and stocked the stores.

< Installed an accounting system, set up and managed chart of accounts,

entered and managed AR, AP and other journals.

< Developed and ran daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual

financial and business reports,

< Evaluated results and modified activities as needed.

< And most importantly, I provide service that delighted my customers.

Lowes Companies, Inc, Wilkesboro, NC

Director/Department Manager, Technical Services:

4/99 to 2/05

I delivered multiple large & complex projects for enterprise systems

(Mainframe, UNIX based Data Warehouse, all disk, tape & SAN storage, some

network, and the OS', databases, utilities and tools to support these

infrastructures).

Project included:

< A Data Warehouse Implementation Project which included development &

implementation of all production ETL & operations processes ($17M, 40+

technicians)

< A SAN Implementation Project which included installation of all hardware

& software, plus the migration of all production data from dedicated

storage to the SAN ($2M, 8 technicians)

< A project to update the recovery solution for this Fortune 50 Company.

Infrastructure included 2 Z Series mainframes, 60 P Series, and 55 Intel

servers. Storage included 25TB of MF EMC/DMX storage, and 20 TB on an

EMC Connectrix SAN, backed up via EMC SRDF, and a remotely mirrored IBM

VTS.

< Many installation projects to increase hardware capacity and redundancy.

< Many projects to upgrade to new releases of OS', databases, utilities &

tools.

< A change management project for all data center and infrastructure

changes.

< Managed the installation and rollout of Remedy for configuration, change

and incident management.

< Participated in the setup of a data center at the new corporate

location.

< Participated in the planning for relocating the primary data.

I led the mainframe systems programming team, the storage management team,

the large UNIX system admin team, and the DB2, UDB & Teradata DBA teams.

I served as a customer member of the NCR/Teradata Service Focus Team. The

team served to influence NCR's service direction and enhance issue

resolution. I recommended and sold NCR/Teradata on the need to distribute

software electronically.

Other Companies - details available on request:

MasterCard International, Inc., St. Louis, MO - Manager Technical

Services

First Data Resources, Inc. (FDR), Omaha, NE - Application Development

Manager

Associates Bancorp, Inc, South Bend IN - Senior Manager/Director

Technical Services

Electronic Data Systems Corporation (GM/EDS), Lansing, MI - Account

Manager/Technology Manager

Reynolds Electric & Engineering Co (REECo/DOE), Tonopah & Las Vegas,

NV - Lead Programmer/Analyst

Education:

Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO. 18 hrs toward MBA (incomplete),

3.8/4.0 GPA,

Courses in Organizational Behavior and Marketing,.

National University, San Diego, CA. BBA in Accounting, 3.2 /4.0 GPA .

Courses in Business, Accounting, and Data Processing Management

Other:

Comm. College Courses in COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly Language, Bus Analysis.

USMC Professional Courses in COBOL, JCL, EDL

2010 - IT Risk Management (Global Knowledge on-site training)

2012 - SDLC, HP-PPMC, Demand Management, Budgeting, Business Continuity,

Agile Methodology (60 hrs to satisfy PMI recertification requirement)

Military Veteran - USMC

Security Clearances:

DOE - Q Clearance (inactive) DOD - Secret Clearance (inactive)

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