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Project Manager Engineer

Location:
West Des Moines, IA
Salary:
95,000
Posted:
August 06, 2015

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Resume:

CATHARINE WINDUS

**** ***** **** *****

Clive, Iowa 50325

********@*****.***

515-***-****

Certifications: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, PMP training, Business and Leadership Training

Technical Skills

Skilled Network Systems Engineer

An accomplished, results-oriented Senior Project Manager with 8 years of experience directing large scale projects.

Electronic Medical Records implementations and support and auditing

MS Project, Planview, Stamp, Crystal Reports, Visio, SharePoint, Office Products

Windows Network Administration, Networking, PC Troubleshooting, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Help desk management, Telephony, IP, DNS, archiving, imaging and backups.

Project Methodologies: PMBOK, Agile, Waterfall, SCRUM

Management and supervisor for Technical and non technical resources

HIPPA, PHI and Personally Identifiable Information Security and compliance

Experience

Contract reporting to Frank Vedder at Berkley Technologies

5/4/2015 –Current Personally Identifiable Information Project Manager at Berkley Technologies

Responsible for the PII( Personally Identifiable Information) Security implementation project across multiple systems that have PII data exposure at BTS, to identify and protect personally identifiable information

Scope management, collecting project requirements, defining project scope, creating a work breakdown structure, and validating and controlling a project's scope

Identified all applications and determined whether or not each contains personally Identifiable Information

Identified the type of Personally Identifiable Information in the database

Implemented a common tool that will enable encryption at the database/data repository level

Show progress related to audit findings in 2015.

Provided an enterprise solution for protecting data.

Identify opportunities and places to remove unnecessary sensitive data

Finalize a solution vendor, help estimate, plan and execute the implementation of this project across all impacted systems.

Manage the design and development work under project’s delivery deadlines.

Help document analyze and document business requirements.

Manage a mix of employees and contract resources to achieve the success of the project.

Wells Fargo, West Des Moines, IA CONTRACT- reporting to Scott Hays October 2013 to January 2015

Project Manager 4

Project Management of Active Directory GPO Remediation Project

Technical Project Manager for compliance projects and initiatives for the Computer DLMP Team. Managed through tracking and monitoring audit, risk and compliance activities specific to compliance for large scale initiatives and corrective actions through closure, including prioritization of work efforts. To ensure standards and governance are reflective throughout compliance processes and appropriate reporting metrics were established and in alignment with other enterprise initiatives.

Distributed Lifecycle Management Program (DLMP), the remediation of non-compliant items.

Coordinate and remediate non-compliant audit checks on Wells Fargo servers, resulting in server security level brought to the corporate compliance base line

Coordinate migration of current servers into new OU structure with newly created baseline GPO's that meet today's baseline standards

Ensured timely and appropriate communication of key project information

Project Risk Management

Project Quality Management

Project Time Management

Hyde Telecom/Marco Inc, Urbandale, IA August 2012 to October 2013

Operations Manager

Directly managed resources

Recruitment of service personnel.

Manage service metrics to ensure profitability and customer satisfaction.

Work with the PMO group to develop project schedules

Monitoring project status and technical processes, provide solutions for greater efficiency

Train and mentor staff to deliver a high standard of customer service.

Coordinate incoming requests for service

Demonstrate effective problem solving, decision making and communication skills.

Lead, coach and mentor technicians and PM's.

Create business processes, best practices, standards, templates and operating procedures to optimize IT project development.

Streamline policies and procedures to cut down on waste, reduce expenses and improve operational production.

Handle escalated problems and develop quick resolution to ensure on time production.

Recruit, hire and train employees including performance appraisals, recommended promotions and recognition.

Analyze operations and production components to ensure optimization.

Assign schedules, coordinate staff and allocate resources to ensure efficiency and productivity are maximized.

Collaborate with Telephony engineers and Trainers to ensure projects meet strategic initiatives.

Wells Fargo, West Des Moines, Iowa CONTRACT - Reporting to Donna Steltzer March 2011 to August 2012

Project Manager 5

Manage multiple projects in a matrix environment

Communicate effectively with all levels of organization

Metric Reporting

Scope/Issue Management

Process Improvement

Requirements Management

Create and publish project artifacts/documentation

Facilitate planning and project status meetings

Secure appropriate buy-in/sign-off throughout project life cycle

Training and Mentoring,

Semantic view reporting project for Wells Fargo Mortgage

Aviva, West Des Moines, Iowa CONTRACT- Reporting to Dan Tweedt

Project Manager November 2010 to March 2011

Active Directory integration

Metric Reporting

Scope/Issue Management

Planning and directing schedules

Plan merger of Active Directory with US and North America networks

Wells Fargo, West Des Moines, Iowa CONTRACT – Reporting to Bruce Banwart March 2009 to November 2010

Project Manager 3

Active Directory project

Preform audits and investigate user accounts to verify they are in correct OU

Preform audits and investigate computer to verify they are in correct OU

Implemented standards and governance are reflective throughout compliance processes and appropriate reporting metrics

CIC Associates October 2008 to March 2009

Network Engineer/Medical Records EMR Supervisor

Redact health records to remove HIPAA and PII. Verify the proper forms are signed according to

Office protocol. Run reports to verify appropriate access to records with HIPAA and PII information. Log and report improper access to HIPAA and PII records.

Implemented common process for managing the security of EMR patient records and release of information.

Provide leadership and vision for the IT department including strategic planning of information systems.

Create operational policies, procedures, standards, guidelines and best practices.

Meet with executive management and board members to conduct presentations on operational strategies and enhancement projects.

Ensure compliance with all government authorities including OSHA safety standards.

Streamline policies and procedures to cut down on waste, reduce expenses and improve operational production.

Encompass Health October 2002 to September 2008

Network Engineer/Help Desk Manager

Executed through refreshing, upgrading, and decommissioning identified servers to ensure business continuity and reducing risk through migrating to supportable infrastructure.

Lead teams in the design of new applications, configuration of system upgrades and development of new IT tools.

Manage deployment and support of internal infrastructure system ensuring that periodic tasks are completed by each team member.

Manage IT training for IT staff members and end user training on software and desktop systems.

Assess new innovative technologies, mission critical systems, security, and communications and business continuity.

Network administration of 42 mission critical Windows 2003 servers

Education

Hamilton College Des Moines, Des Moines, IA

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Des Moines Area Community College

References:

Gerard Moorcroft

Technical Project Manager

Cell 704-***-****

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Mindy Rutter

Technical Project Manager

Mobile: 515-***-****

Lisa Stocker-Ross

Business Trainer at Wellmark

Mobile: 515-***-****

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