IT Infrastructure Project Manager

Howard L. Quoyeser

Sr. IT&S Project Manager

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SUMMARY

Invaluable experience successfully leading all aspects of large I.T. projects. Including

implementing automated distribution solutions; SDLC; vendor management; selecting, managing

and training staff; managing project budget; establishing and monitoring productivity goals; and

leading cross-functional teams on key projects; designing the layout, processes and procedures

for a common operating environment. Proven leadership skills gained from managing large

worldwide data migrations and hardware standardization.

EXPERIENCE

BP

Sr. IT&S Project Manager Jan 2010 – Present

End of Service Life (EoSL) Citrix

• Coordinated SDLC communication, testing and publishing of Citrix applications for

Business/Technical owners for 500+ applications resident on Americas Citrix farm.

• Managed technical documentation.

• Worked with client and packager to perform testing, customization of BP production Citrix

applications.

• Coordinated work in the UK, US and India to meet deadlines.

US University Relations Intern Project

• Managed the delivery and retrieval of BP kit to over 200 summer interns.

• Created interns NTID, shared drive requirements, email account and application

installation needs.

• Coordinated with each businesses “Business Tag” to obtain location of each interns new

cubicle location.

• Trained team of 4 techs to build, deliver and set up kits to 21 local and remote sites.

• Worked with 41 different BP business units to deliver 180+ BP kits on the first day the

interns started work.

• Accounted for all equipment issued and returned with BP depot and IBM management.

IT&S Infrastructure Build – New Office Buildings at Eldridge 1 and 3

• Managed the IT&S design and delivery of infrastructure at Eldridge 1 and 3.

• Delivered a new and fully functional BP office environment with over 300,000 sq. ft. of

Class A LEED architected office space with fully functional cafeteria.

• Provided state of the art BP1/Vanilla wired and wireless networking, IP Telephony,

TelePresence, AV/VC conference rooms, HP printers and plotters.

• Managed vendors such as HOK, IBM, AT&T, T-Systems, Siemens, LD Systems, Melton

Data, CompuCom, Black Box, HP.

• Improved and strengthened the working relationship with WLPM.

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• Provided detailed and accurate reports showing project progress and financial spend to

date.

Tulsa Data Center Closure

• Coordinate migration of Finance related business critical applications which are vital to

BP's business and any unplanned downtime would result in significant financial,

reputation and regulatory consequences.

• Manage risk through reduction strategies of like-for-like, application mirroring, common

testing framework, and incumbent application team integration whenever possible.

• Approached each migration using common templates centrally stored for application

discovery, individual application migration project plans, and test plans.

• Removed all NON ES Tulsa applications from hosting services in Tulsa and

decommission related equipment as maintained in CMBD.

• Maintain coordination with project governance teams on all business owned projects that

will result in decommissioning in Tulsa to ensure migration program control and visibility.

• Validated Disaster Recovery (DR) applications functionality thru testing in pre-migration

on new environment and ensure DR plans are updated by the plan owner and reflected in

eBRP as required.

• Provide the migration infrastructure team with bulk build requirements in modified TIP

format on a monthly basis two months in advance of requirements delivery.

• Engage with Telecoms and Network teams ensuring migration bandwidth exists between

facilities and systems communications are captured to derive firewall rules, KEON access

and service accounts.

National Pro Source

Technical Project Lead Aug 2002 – Dec 2009

Anadarko Petroleum Corp, Halliburton

• Managed migration of over 2,500 pc’s to Windows XP operating system from Windows

NT and Windows 2000

• Performed technical due diligence capturing business demographics of users, computer

assets, engineering and business applications

• Developed processes and procedures to standardize different desktop hardware and

software

• Developed Gap analysis to show improvements/degradation using current/proposed

environment

• Asset inventory control for temporary use equipment

• Developed communication plan for all business units to coordinate the migration of their

data, applications and hardware

• Active Directory account administration

• Citrix administration and troubleshooting

• Facilitated applications testing and standardization

• Coordinated software packaging for business units

• Support global user community 24/7

• Hardware break/fix

TEKSystems

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Technical Consultant/Project Lead June 1996 – July 2002

IBM, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Scotia Bank, Compass Bank, Sterling Bank, Equiva

(Texaco and Shell), Dupont, Conoco, Exxon Pipeline, BHPBilliton, General Motors, AIG, CNA

Insurance, Liberty Mutual, United Technologies, Carrier Air Conditioning, Lennox Air

Conditioning, Pratt and Whitney, Sikorsky, Hamilton Sundstrand, Chevron Phillips Chemical,

Monsanto, Baker Hughes Inteq, Baker Oil Tools, Macgregor Medical, HCR Manor Care, St Luke’s

Episcopal Hospital and Memorial Herrmann Hospital

• Migration planning to separate 6,500 end users from parent companies’ IT infrastructure

to a common operating environment

• Coordinated nationwide hardware upgrade at 370 sites across the U.S

• Project Lead for migrations from Lotus Notes, MSMail, CCMail and GroupWise to

Exchange 5.5

• Team Lead on the separation of the Conoco/Dupont network

• Third level MS Exchange 5.5 operations support on an NT4 network

• Statistics, metrics and analysis of MS Exchange organization.

• Developed processes and procedures to migrate different desktop hardware, software

and email

• Hired, managed and trained migration team members

• Developed/performed asset inventory for computer hardware, software and peripherals

• Developed/performed personnel due diligence survey

• Written training materials for end users

• Developed communication plan for all business units to coordinate the migration of their

personnel, data and hardware

• MSExchange 5.5 WAN design and architecture

• Third level MSMail 3.2, MS Exchange 5.0 and 5.5 operations support on an NT4/Novell

4.11 networks

• Troubleshooting issues including integration between Exchange 5.0/5.5 Outlook Web

Access (OWA), Outlook 97/98, MSMail and Lotus Notes clients

• Re-homed FaxSr and Faxination faxing solutions

EDUCATION

Texas Tech University

Bachelor of Science

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