Project Management

BRUCE KISELL, B.SC.

TOOL KIT

MS-Office

MS-Project 2010 139 Novara Drive Winnipeg MB, CANADA RP2 2X9

MS-Share Point Ph: 204-***-**** EM: *****.******@****.**

Primavera

Clarity Seasoned Information Technology Professional with over 25

Pro-Time years’ of enterprise IT experience in progressive leadership roles

SAP spearheading regional and national design and integration

Lotus Notes initiatives. Mr. Kisell has a proven track record of conceptualizing

and implementing IT strategies that align with corporate visions and

build company value that result in sustainable, measurable and

MODELS & METHODOLOGY

PMBOK profitable growth. A key skill is balancing competing Union and Non-

PRINCE2 Union matrix resources across concurrent high-profile

engagements, while also uncovering opportunities to team build and

EMBOK

elevate moral and productivity. Leverage business and tech -solution

MoR

acumen to execute innovative initiatives toward constructing efficient

AGILE

and streamlined business and operational processes. Continues

SCRUM

improvement includes professional and international certifications

ADKAR

with experience successfully facilitating and managing

TOGAF

organizational transformation programs, corporate mergers, IT

Six Sigma integration and building “state of the art” infrastructure. Proven

expert at recovering “distressed” programs and projects to realign

AREAS OF EXPERTISE scope, budget and schedule and meet organizational expectations.

Program Management

Project Management

Contributing consultant for the development of ISO standards for

Project Management Office

Program, Portfolio and Project management on behalf of the

Systems Integration

Canadian Standards Council; providing professional development

Organizational Change

requirements for the Information and Communications Technology

Management

Council of Canada and contributing to policy development for the

IT Strategic Planning U.S. Office of Information Technology for Healthcare.

IT Operations

Cross Functional Team

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Building

Contract Management

Vendor Management PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING MANAGER American Society for

(PEM) Engineering Management

PRODUCT/SERVICE DELIVERY

IBM CERTIFIED PROJECT MANAGEMENT Project Management Institute

HP PROFESSIONAL (PMP)

SUN

CERTIFIED PRINCE 2 PROJECT Office of Government

DELL

MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONER (PRINCE2) Commerce (UK)

Microsoft

BRUNS-PAK (Data Centers) CERTIFIED RISK MANAGEMENT Office of Government

VMware PRACTITIONER (MOR) Commerce (UK)

Symantec

Cisco CERTIFIED ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Pro-Sci -ADKAR

F5 MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONER (CMP)

Citrix

ITIL V3 FOUNDATIONS TRAINING ILX Group

Brocade

MTS AGILE AND SCRUM PROJECT SIMPLILEARN

SAP MANAGEMENT TRAINING

Oracle

Sybase SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT TRAINING Aveta Business Institute

Dictaphone

Cerner

AGFA

SEIMENS 1

AllScripts

BizTalk

Quovadx (cloverleaf)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

$11.5M

M ANITOBA PUBLIC INSURANCE DATA CENTER MIGRATION AND 2013 - 2015

HIGH AVAILABILITY

TRANSFORMATION

MPI is a publically owned vehicle and driver licensing corporation servicing over 1.5M residence generating $210M+

in revenues annually.

Program Director sub-contracted by HP Canada to oversee and provide leadership for the sub-projects

within this multi-million dollar Business Transformation Office program. Achievements include:

Recovered over $1.0M in the program budget by adjusting implementation strategies, working with

vendors to refine process and re-aligning the project timelines and scope priorities.

Managed the project teams responsible for stakeholder communications and for delivering QA and

Performance testing metrics for critical business systems required to support the data center relocation

from Winnipeg to Toronto.

Managed the realignment of a distressed project while providing direction to the project teams

responsible for the design, test, build and transition two remote high availability Data Center ’s

impacting 92 business critical applications.

Managed the design and integration of two Application Delivery Controllers to support the disaster

recovery environments and business continuity / DR planning required to meet 99.99% application

availability.

Providing leadership to project managers and project teams responsible for the design, test, and

implementation of the VMware/Hyperic Centralized Monitoring project.

Providing leadership to project managers and project teams responsible for the design, test, and

implementation of the Electronic Document Management System.

MTS/ALLSTREAM PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 2012 $150k - $1.5M

MTS/Allstream is a publically traded telecom company servicing over 500k Manitoba residence and 5500

staff.

As a Senior Project Consultant and member of the Marketing Product and Services Development team I

was responsible for providing direction and strategic planning to the Marketing Business executives for

the development of new telecom products and services projects . Responsibilities included:

Managing fast pace projects requiring quick turn-a-round, new product development, and branding and

service development teams.

Providing direction to organizational project managers and cross functional specialty teams supporting

develop and deployment of new products or services for public consumption.

Consulting with Marketing Business group to plan and coordinate the release of new products and

services to the public.

$700k

WINNIPEG REGIONAL HEALTH DATA CENTER UPGRADE AND 2012

AUTHORITY WINDOWS 7 UPGRADE

Healthcare provider with an annual operating budget of $2.1B, servicing 700K+ residents and 24K+ staff.

Senior Consultant engaged in this critical Data Center upgrade sub-project as the key delivery

stakeholder in the design and implementation of multiple upgrades to the e -Health infrastructure. Directed

and managed infrastructure integration teams for the development of a “PHIA” compliant RIS/PACS

interoperability data center that shares diagnostic imaging information between AGFA, SIEMENS and

Fujitsu PACS systems.

Recovered over $200k in savings by effectively managing the development and implementation .

Managed the Windows 7 upgrade project team in the development of end user impact analysis and risk

management plan then executing pilot site implementations and user training for the corporate wide

implementation of the Windows 7 operating system upgrade from Windows XP.

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Managed risk assessment and strategic planning on large-scale upgrade program for 18,000 users, 95

sites, and 1000+ “COTS” and compatible/non-compatible clinical applications across the WHRA.

2010 – 2011 $3.7M

ST. BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORDS

SYSTEM

One of Manitobas largest teaching hospitals with over 180 departments and services and over 4,000

health care professionals.

Senior consultant providing leadership to the implementation teams required to support the design and

build of a “PHIA” compliant, high-availability/redundant tier 4 data center server and network infrastructure

environment.

Recovered $750K in savings resulting from effective planning and early delivery, effective vendor

negotiation and closely managed functional design and integration processes.

Managed the development of a disaster recovery solution that protected the Allscripts Electronic

Patient Records environment (EPR).

2007 – 2010 $17M

DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES OF PROVINCIAL RIS/PAC

M ANITOBA INTEGRATION

A non-profit corporation, specializing in public diagnostic imaging and laboratory services for 77 sites,

servicing 1.2M+ residents.

Senior Delivery Consultant sub-contracted by IBM Global Services for this province wide digital

radiography integration project. Managed solution designed for the Tier IV primary data center and a Tier

III secondary data center. Provided leadership to the project integration and planning teams delivering the

disaster recovery solution, provincial network infrastructure, and all new provincial support models for the

AGFA and SIEMENS Radiology Information System (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communication

System (PACS).

Stakeholder impact included 1.2M residences, 5000 medical and clinical staff and 12 health regions by

mediating environmental change and governance with regional executives and clinical support teams.

Recovered $600K in capital cost-savings for provincial RIS/PACS Project through development of

multiple time- and budget-resource allocation plans, re -purposing assets and successful negotiation of

vendor support contracts.

Managed the design and implementation of the core data center synchronization and alignment with

regional data stores covering 15 primary care hospitals and 58 ancillary health centers ensuring end -

to-end interoperability via Provincial Data Network (PDN).

Managed the organizational change management team to provide overviews for development and

deployment of operational process/workflow change.

$9M

WINNIPEG REGIONAL HEALTH TIER IV AND TIER III DATA CENTER 2005 - 2006

AUTHORITY BUILD

Healthcare provider with an annual operating budget of $2.1B, servicing 700K+ residents and 24K+ staff.

Contract Project Delivery Director managing the highly available data center and data security design

development. Manage the evergreen build and transition-to-production of a Tier IV Primary Data Center

and Tier III Secondary Data Center. Managed and mobilized project teams in partnership with IBM Global

Services and Bruns-Pak Data Center design specialists.

Recovered over $300K in cost-savings for client through adept planning and prudent negotiation for

vendor procurement and support services.

Successfully transitioned the new environment into production and managed the technical and

operation change.

Provided client with support agreements, service level agreements and a three -year technology

utilization road map.

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$15M

M ANITOBA GOVERNMENT (ICT) PROVINCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE & 2004 - 2005

DATA CENTER IMPLEMENTATION

Province of Manitoba – ICT is responsible for managing all technology innovations for the 16,000+ civil

service.

Sub-contracted by EDS Canada for the Senior Project Consultant role in the strategic planning, resource

management and oversight of the development and deployment of two evergreen centralized primary and

secondary data centers; consolidation of 235 distributed site data stores, upgrading 16,000+ user

environments and transformation of 2000 distributed printers and 2000 applications into the centralized

data centers.

$1M - $3M

POWER CORPORATION I.T INFRASTRUCTURE, 2000 - 2004

INTEGRATION AND DATA CENTER

UPGRADE/RELOCATION

Power Corporation – is a publically traded Fortune 500 company specializing in financial investments and

insurance.

Senior Project Consultant responsible for initiating, resourcing, developing and executing implementation

plans for managing the delivery of multi-million dollar, multi-facility IT infrastructure projects for the

financial services division with associated offices across Canada as well as in US, China, UK, and

Ireland. Most systems involved were identified as ‘mission critical’ and required internationally planned

and coordinated outages during transition.

Planning and managing the decommissioning of the IBM out-sourced Tier III data center, relocating and

consolidating 106 ‘mission critical’ financial, investment, WEB and operational servers to the client ’s

primary data centre.

EDUCATION

College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

MASTERS OF ENGINEERING (In Progress)

California Coast University, Santa Ana

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS

ADMINISTRATION

Course work at University of Winnipeg/Technical University of Nova Scotia/

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology/Red River College/Certified Trainers

COMPUTER SCIENCE Certificate from Red River College, Winnipeg MB

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT ISO/TC-258 (PROJECT MANAGEMENT, PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND 2011-PRESENT

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT) STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT FOR

STANDARDS COUNCIL OF CANADA

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL OF 2012– PRESENT

CANADA

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT U.S. OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR HEALTHCARE 2012– PRESENT

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