Project Manager Management

Ralph Elisano

*** **** ****** ~ Emerson, NJ *****

201-***-**** acef3v@r.postjobfree.com

CORPORATE TECHNOLOGY & REAL ESTATE STRATEGY

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPACE PLANNING IMAC RELOCATION NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

“Transforming the User, Facility, and Technology Experience Through Focused Project Management”

Accomplished, engaging, and process-minded Facility & Technology Relocation Leader with a proven history of leveraging technical expertise, project management, and communication skills to drive successful facility, space planning, telecommunications, and user relocation projects in multiple industries including New York’s fast-paced financial industry. Unparalleled experience leading large-scale user moves, network cabling, technology roll-out, data center launch, and facility upgrade projects for Mercedes Benz, DTCC, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Citi Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Prudential. Respected manager and mentor of technology consultants, third party vendors, and hired personnel. Strong business development and communication abilities, capable of forging strong ties with executive-level clients, consultants, and vendors to understand needs, align goals, and drive implementation success.

Leadership

Project Management

Partnership / Engagement

● Executive Communication

● Relationship Management

● Business Development

● Estimation (RFP, SOW, SLA)

● Scheduling / Vendor Coordination

● Cost Control / Risk Management

● User Relocation/IMAC

● Facility/Office/Data Center Build

● Cabling/Infrastructure

Key Differentiators

Facility Projects. Interfaced with IT floor support, architects, network engineers, and business leaders to plan and execute successful relocations of varying scale, office/telecom/network build-outs, LAN closets, HVAC, maintenance, and structured cabling infrastructure solutions (Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney).

Large-Scale User Relocations. Organized, coordinated, and executed all of Morgan Stanley's/Smith Barney's merger-related activity; included multiple large-scale office configurations and technology/personnel relocations in both trading and non-trading environments (600+ users over a weekend).

Technical Staff Management. Managed, mentored, and trained 18 regionally-distributed move management and cabling consultants engaged in on-site implementation activities (Morgan Stanley).

Relationship Management. Forged strong business partnerships with executive business managers (corporate services, IT/floor support, network operations, multimedia, and business units), facility personnel, engineers, telecommunication architects, and vendors at Morgan Stanley, UBS, DTCC, and Mercedes Benz.

Large-Scale Distributed Telecommunication Projects. Led UBS’s nationwide telecommunication replacement/deployment/decommissioning across 350 branch offices and campus locations (spanned Cisco/HP switches, routers, WAN accelerators, terminal servers, modems, power, and circuit upgrades). Facility Drawings. Extensive experience working with architectural floor plans, telecommunications and electrical drawings.

Professional Experience

MERCEDES BENZ, Montvale, NJ JUN 2013 PRESENT

Data Center Coordinator (Launch/Delaunch)

Manage the secure build out (launch) and decommissioning of storage hardware at data center locations; included responsibility for project planning, project launch queue development, vendor oversight, and coordination of technical and facility-related activities.

• Interface with vendors to initiate leased equipment replacement/extension/delivery as well as ensuring completeness of all racking, stacking, cabling, and wiring work is completed on time.

• Optimize and maintain comprehensive floor and rack plans and asset inventories; includes assignment of new equipment positions and necessary technical work.

• Lead decommissioning and asset disposal process; includes responsibility for physical removal, data deletion, and de-cabling activities for decommissioned systems.

• Prepare facility for build out; includes floor tile preparation, cut outs, replacements, and reallocation.

DTCC (DEPOSITORY TRUST AND CLEARING CORPORATION), New York, NY SEP 2012 JUN 2013

Facility Planning Consultant

Managed and coordinated the planning, implementation, and lifecycle support for Data Center facilities; includes responsibility for network equipment and cabling deployments, installations, migrations, and consolidations.

• Monitor and maintain daily ticket system (Service Now) for deployment requests and schedule accordingly.

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• Provide network and server support in the problem resolution process within the Data Center, diagnosing the nature of problems and initiating documented actions.

• Manage third-party contractors and vendors; including electrical contractors, cabling vendors, and building engineers.

• Consult and forecast with teams members on future growth and recommend cost efficient options.

UBS (via CSC), Jersey City, NJ JAN 2012 SEP 2012

Project Manager/Consultant

Provides project planning and oversight of a nationwide telecommunication replacement, deployment, and decommissioning project; included responsibility for developing specifications/statement of work as well as project scheduling, cost control, and quality oversight.

• Perform ongoing review of project status; identify project risks, develop, recommend and implement risk mitigation solutions.

• Interface with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to projects such as technical requirements, business requirements and schedule.

MORGAN STANLEY/SMITH BARNEY (VIA HUDSON COMMUNICATIONS), New York, NY SEP 2002–MAR 2011

Corporate Services Project Manager - Infrastructure Planning

Drove success within Morgan Stanley after Hudson Communications won a large contract to manage IMAC activity for all New York area sites; including responsibility for facility coordination and leadership at Morgan Stanley’s Jersey City facility (2004 -2011).

• Oversaw the planning, implementation, and ongoing support for large-scale telecommunications, space-planning, and facilities initiatives; includes overall service level agreements (SLA), project management (PM), resource procurement, scheduling, technical staff coordination, invoicing, estimating and payroll.

• Supervise third-party contractors and vendors; including electrical and moving contractors, cleaning staff, handymen, porters, building engineers, and union workers.

• Integrated project activity within Morgan Stanley’s IT service center system and billing systems

• Coordinated and managed the installation, consolidation, migration of numerous Data Center Technology and cabling infrastructure projects including; Cisco switch/router deployments, refreshes, carrier/circuit installs and extensions.

• Manage, coordinate and schedule with vendors, the procurement of all networking hardware, cabling products and associated data center material.

• Developed business contingency plans (BCP) at various campuses as well as developing and maintaining Morgan Stanley’s disaster recovery site in Brooklyn, NY.

Leading Edge Communications for Morgan Stanley, NY APR 1995 SEP 2002

Telecommunications Consultant/Technician

• Oversaw the design, organization, installation, and maintenance of Morgan Stanley’s network cabling infrastructure and equipment for a multitude of departments and buildings; included responsibility for day-to-day IMAC management on both trading and non-trading floors.

• Provided technical guidance on the installation of power, data cabinets, network equipment, servers, Cisco switches/routers, and cabling (T1, ISDN, BRI, COAX, UTP, Fiber, Lan/Wan.).

• Interfaced with client executives to provide cost and material estimates.

• Supervised and trained union electricians.

Additional sales and account management experience with Allnet Communications Service, Inc (1995 – 1995) Secaucus, NJ., Neptune Orient Lines (1993-1995) and Evergreen America Corporation (1989-1993), both in Jersey City, NJ.

Education & Professional Development

ST. PETER’s COLLEGE, Jersey City, NJ

Bachelor of Science in Management & Marketing –Economics Minor, 1989

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

MS Excel, Word, Visio, Power Point, CAD, Telecommunication/Construction

Category 6 Installation, 2000

Certifying & Troubleshooting LAN Cabling Systems, 1997

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