Project Manager Management

Stephen O. Adams, Jr.,

MCNE, CTE, IBM PM

**** ******* ***** ***** ********, GA. 30083

Phone: 770-***-**** Int’l: +231-********* E Mail: *********@*****.*** ~olu@wat lib.com

Summary

A seasoned, team oriented business executive with a highly successful track record in start up and

turnaround situations. More than 20 years progressive experience in all phases of Operations and Project

Management with particular strength in feasibility and analysis. Recognized for exceptional organization

building skills and the ability to motivate others to achieve individual and organizational goals.

Profile

Strong managerial background with emphasis in Operations and Project Management.

Key areas of responsibility include:

Strategic planning MIS Development/Systems Implementation

Technical Project Management Project Management

SCRUM Methodology Budget Preparation and Cost Forecasting

Operational/Business Strategic Planning New Business Development

Data Center build and Management Quality assurance & Control.

Agile Functional

Extensive customer facing

Skills

Successfully managed a diverse group of technical staff, enterprise deployment, strategic road map

development, E business planning and deployment and legacy to distributed computing transitioning.

Provided consulting services to clients throughout the U.S. and Latin America through all phases of multi

million dollar projects.

Adept at prioritizing and completing multiple projects within strict budgetary/time restrictions and

customer/corporate specifications. Exceptionally strong in business process re engineering,

feasibility/projections, negotiation and arbitration, crisis resolution, start up management and business

valuation.

Areas of expertise include telecommunications, computers, contract negotiations, business development

projects and executive recruiting/training and management. Responsible for $90M in sales and an internal

budget of $10M. Aggressively negotiated multi million dollar contracts with Fortune 500 executives

Spearhead all facets of daily activities, from HR, to financial and operational functions. Possess excellent

interpersonal, communication and leadership skills; received IBM Best Practices Award and Unisys

Technical Competency Award. Served on Unisys and IBM Technical Advisory.

Experience

JM J ENTERPRISE (ATLANTA, GEORGIA) JAN. 2015 PRESENT

PROJECT MANAGER

Providing project management consultancy to the organization in its effort to deploy a new POS system. Managing

negotiation with vendors and supervising the staff in the deployment. Interacting with stakeholders to develop

training process to ensure success of the new environment. Mitigating interventions to avoid scope creep and insure

project is delivered in accordance to schedule. Enhanced original project plan to alaign with the organization

timeline and objectives. (Note this is a 6 weeks intervention)

WEST AFRICA TELECOMMUNICATION CORP SEPT., 2006 –NOV. 2014

CHIEF TECHNICAL STRATEGIST/ PROJECT MANAGER

Supervise all aspects of business development and corporate expansion. Provide guidance to corporate board and

executives on expansion regime. Manage corporate relationship with regional government. Negotiate all contracts

with key players in the sector for co location, interconnection and other related activities. Managed multiple projects

across corporate regional domain.

LIBERIAN TELECOMMUNICATION AUTHORITY (LTA) JULY – 2005 TO AUGUST 2006

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

Supervise the development and demarcation of spectrum for the republic of Liberia. Played a lead role in

harmonizing GSM frequencies and mitigating discrepancies in assigned frequencies. Worked with the

commissioners in defining cost basis for spectrum pricing. Implemented several studies on errant use of Liberia

scarce spectrum resource. Provided technical guidance to commissioners of the LTA on spectrum management and

manage the spectrum harmonization effort.

UNITES STATES ARMY RESERVE COMMAND – CONSULTANT (USARC) March 2003 July 2005

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER – Data center consolidation initiative

Provide guidance to the Army Reserve command on all aspect of technology acquisition. Evaluate and validate

vendor design scheme for the initiative. Utilizing Gartner TCO tools to develop comprehensive understanding of

USARC distributed computing environment and make recommendations on strategic IT direction. Develop budget

based on customer defined project objectives. Produce plan to facilitate risk mitigation. Manage and facilitate all

facets of the projects status, to include weekly reviews and updates to key stakeholders. Utilize MS Project for

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scheduling development, tasking, cost monitoring and resource forecasting and management. MS Project/waterfall

methodology to track all deliverables. Manage enterprise server team in developing and prototyping backend servers

for the USARC project. Manage SAN design team in prototyping EMC SAN solution for the USARC project.

Currently testing EMC Geospan technology to validate COOP functionality. Coordinate technology integration and

deployment. Develop ‘What If’ scenario for disaster recovery, COOP and backup for the project.

Unisys System and Technology Group – Atlanta, GA Jan 1999 – March 2002

ARCHITECT DIRECTOR/LATIN AMERICA AND PACIFIC ASIA

Manage eight clusters, each comprising one manager and 10 15 functional team members as well as 1,500 technical

employees. Provide oversight and administration of an IT budget of more than $10M. Spearheaded all daily

activities, including: employee/customer relations, financial and operational functions. Develop/manage training and

strategic planning, solution development and employee motivation programs to help region grow from $10M to

$90M in sales in two years

Utilized Gartner TCO tools to develop comprehensive understanding of customer distributed computing

environment and make recommendations on strategic IT direction.

Develop budget based on customer defined project objectives.

Produce plan to facilitate risk mitigation.

Manage and facilitate all facets of the projects status, to include weekly reviews and updates to key stakeholders.

Utilize MS Project for scheduling development, tasking, cost monitoring and resource forecasting and management.

MS Project/waterfall methodology to track all deliverables.

Serve as Client Focus Manager responsible for growing client relationships focused on the delivery of IT

infrastructure. Deliver product presentations to prospects at technical and senior management level and manage call

center service solutions.

IBM Global Services – Atlanta, GA Jan 1993 – March 1999

IBM Global Services – P2 Design/ Republic of Israel Feb. 1995 – Sept. 1997

Manage over 100 engineers in the development, testing and validation of the Intel Pentium II chipset for the IBM

Intellistations and Infinity products Server lines. Supervise all testing and provided C level update on project

progress. Deliver quarterly update of project to Senior IBM Vice Presidents and Intel and Microsoft corporate

executives. Successes full deliver project on target at a cost of more than 100 million dollars. Responsible for

developing short and long range financial plans, budgets, and business plans for managing a high profile Assassin

project. Accountable for the overall fiscal operations including adherence to corporate wide polices and procedures.

Partner with and provide consultation to Senior Managers to develop and implement strategic plans and budgets.

Responsible for the corporate review and analysis of all facets of the Assassin Project. Coordinate the

implementation worldwide trial across multiple corporate domains and cultures.

IBM Technology Solution Services – Atlanta, GA Jan 1994 – Jan 1995

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Manage global prototyping for telecommunications network; develop and transition network for global deployment,

resulting in acquisitions of $50M in new revenues.

Manage key aspects of $35M Georgia Pacific Product, Forestry and Distribution unit migration from a Mainframe to

a client server distributed computing model. Project involved more than 125 actual hands on sites across the U.S.,

Canada and South America

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER August 1993 –June 1994

Develop budgets based on customer defined project objectives. Produce plans to facilitate risk mitigation. Manage

and facilitate all facets of the projects statuses, to include weekly reviews and updates to key stakeholders. Utilize

MS Project for scheduling development, tasking, cost monitoring and resource forecasting and management.

Manage Worldwide Windows 2000 product prototyping for IBM, Microsoft and Intel with an operating budget of

$9M. Directly responsible for managing all phase of the project and a staff of more than 100 engineers in 11

countries and thirty Fortune 100 companies.

Manage WorldCom telecommunication enterprise realignment project. Supervise the design, prototyping, and

validation of WorldCom’s’ internal communication structure globally. Deploy enhanced design and generate savings

in excess of $22M annually.

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Microbilt, Inc., Financial Division – Atlanta, GA Jan 1990 – Dec 1993

Technical Manager

As Senior Analyst, managed company’s networking infrastructure; also developed and implemented WAN electronic

banking for Wachovia, Low Country Financial and Liberty Bank, resulting in $4M in new annual revenues.

Education

Bachelor’s Business Administration

Mercer University, Macon, GA

Master Certificate, Project Management

George Washington University, Washington, DC

Professional Development

George Washington University

Master Project Management

IBM Advanced Technical Training

Irvin, TX

Unisys Senior Executive Training

Bell, PA

IBM Chip Development Product Training

Matam Research Center Israel

Affiliations/Memberships

Member of PMI (Project Management Institute)

Atlanta, Georgia

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