WHILNER A. MORALES, PMP, CSM, MM, Ph.D.
DIRECTOR / SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER / AGILE SCRUM MASTER
PMP Certified - (Project Management Professional), PMI
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Certified Agile Project Manager
Certified Lead Six Sigma YB
ITIL v3– ongoing certification
Doctor in Technology Management (Ph.D.)
Masters in Management (MM)
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) – ongoing
Mobile : +63-918-*******
Email : **********@*****.***
CAREER SUMMARY
I’m a Project Director / Program Manager – Certified PMP by the Project Management Institute (PMI), Certified SCRUM Master (CSM) / Certified Agile Project Manager, with 17 years of Information Technology (IT) and Project Management experience, handling teams of up to 150 people, and have been exposed to large scale global project implementation. I have a Doctorate degree in Technology Management, a Masters degree in Management, and an ongoing degree for Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Ateneo de Manila University Graduate School of Business and REGIS University, Denver, Colorado U.S.
My expertise is on program and project management, change management, risk management, software design, systems development, e-commerce, B2B, B2C, G2G, ERP, vendor management, among others. I have gathered experience in the implementation of large-scale projects for various domain, scope, stakeholders, and clients both local and international. I use Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile / SCRUM methodology in Project Management and Software Delivery,, and CMMI L5 in Metrics Standards. I have been exposed already to multiple platforms such as ERPs, SAP R3/A1/B1, Java, dotNET, ABAP, PEGA, PHP, etc. using core databases of Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, and MySQL.
In reaching the organization’s visions, I’m keen to share my knowledge, my vast expertise, and make significant contributions to the organization that I will be working with.
WORK EXPERIENCE
PROGRAMME MANAGER (DIRECTOR LEVEL)
First Advantage
September 2014 – July 2015
Industry : Information Technology / BPO / Background Screening
Implements various high risk and high security level IT Projects from conceptualization to completion.
Directs projects with a great turnaround time of completion.
Transitioned thousands of client form the legacy systems to the new platforms.
Meet targets on time with limited budget and resources.
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Consultant for various Organizations
October 2013 – September 2014
Industry : Information Technology
Managed projects in different scale and nature.
Serves as a consultant for various organization in delivering their projects from start to finish.
SENIOR MANAGER (VP) – PROJECT AND DELIVERY MANAGEMENT
MACQUARIE Group, Australia
MACQUARIE Offshore Service Pty. Ltd.
Makati City, Philippines
April 2013 – October 2013
Industry : Investment Bank / Finance / Information Technology
I handle the end-to-end delivery of projects using tools and methodologies in Agile and Waterfall hybrid.
I successfully manage and influence stakeholder expectations and coordinate new ideas set forth for a more efficient systems and processes. My responsibility also includes managing changes, projects, technology refresh, etc. of the Local Back Office Post Trade Systems (i.e. Dolphin, Nova, IStar, Penguin, CCASS, PSMS, SGX, etc.).
Also worked as a Program Management batch delivery level for the following systems (GoldenSource, CDB, SYN, WebMethods, Fidessa, CAS, iBroker, etc.).
I have developed the Delivery Management Governance Plan and Process for Batch release for the COG MOD team.
DIRECTOR, OIC / SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
TELUS Telecommunications, Canada
TELUS International Philippines, Inc.
Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines.
August 2012 – April 2013
Industry : Telecommunication / Information Technology
Manages overall complex projects delivery from conceptualization up to implementation, production support, and operations.
Plays a significant role in long-term planning, including initiatives geared toward projects and operational excellence.
Oversees overall financial management, planning, systems and controls.
Leads the development of individual program budgets.
Supervise and coach technical managers.
The head count of the team that I handled was around 135+ team members.
Project management and standards that were used were PMP, Agile/SCRUM, ITIL, and CMMI standards.
PROJECT MANAGER – ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT (AVP)
American International Group (AIG) Support Services
Makati City, Philippines.
March 2011 – August 2012
Industry : Finance / Insurance / Information Technology
Responsible on the overall project management from conceptualization, execution, up to closing of multiple simultaneous project.
Keeping the project cost and schedule variances at acceptable level with the objective of closing each phase of the project in time and at cost. Used PMI Methodologies and CMMI standards. Had the responsibility in creating all necessary plans and documents for compliance in the CMMI standards.
Documents and plans such as the project charter, project plan, project management plan, configuration plan, communication plan, systems governance plan, resource plan, etc.
Also do risk assessment, risk mitigation, and risk reduction strategies, while implementing controls for the project.
Regularly reports the project status using standard project metrics, keeping the variances to the acceptable limit.
Project handled are in different platforms such as Java, VB, DB2, Oracle, etc.
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER – IT PROJECTS
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Philippines.
Makati City, Philippines.
September 2006 – March 2011
Industry : Information Technology / Government / Inter-Agency
I manage and directs the DTI’s Project Management Units for DTI’s various national and inter agency IT Projects such as the Philippine Business Registry Project, Business Name Registration System, and Business Profile Management System.
My primary responsibility includes; Spearheading Inter-Agency coordination and presentation; Designing and architecting systems for business solution related in business registration and facilitation; Coordinating with solution providers and subcontractors; Evaluating project performance; Implementing system to project stakeholders of IT system nationwide; Presenting to public and private partners nationwide, among others.
The Philippine Business Registry is an IT project that aims to integrate all systems of National Government Agencies and Local Government Units related to business registration with the vision of having a virtual one-stop-shop in starting up a business.
The project stakeholder involves 47 national government, 45 local government units, 15 DTI regional offices, and private counterparts like PCCI, local business chambers, and leagues of cities and municipalities.
This Project Aims To Contribute Significantly To The National Competitiveness Of The Country.
Also responsible in implementing and maintenance of other DTI core systems like Business Name Registration System and the Business Profile Management System.
Technologies used are JAVA, JCAPS, ORACLE, Sun Solaris OS, and SMS Mobile.
These IT projects were funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB), Commission on Information and Communication Technology – National Computer Center (CICT-NCC), in cooperation with The World Bank Group – International Finance Corporation (WB-IFC).
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
Philippine and Scandinavian IT Services, Inc.
Makati City, Philippines.
February 2006 – November 2010
Industry : Information Technology / Commercial / Various Industry Domains
I am responsible for planning up to the delivery of projects to the customer in the agreed time, cost and quality standards.
I use the latest industry wide used project methodology framework.
Projects that I handled here are mostly offshore web solutions and IT software development, which are based in Denmark.
I am in charge of the web development department and IT software development department.
The technologies I used in this company are based in PHP, .Net, mySql, and MS SQl environments.
PROJECT MANAGER CONSULTANT
Sandstone Technologies, Australia
Sandstone Technology Software, Philippines
Makati City, Philippines.
August 2005 – February 2006
Industry : Commercial Banking / Finance / Information Technology
I lead various teams of systems developers in the creation of a Banking and Finance solution for a multi-national firm.
Most of the company’s clients are in Australia and UK banks.
The systems that were developed are created in a J2EE architecture and MS SQL server backend, using a proprietary framework named Festival Authoring Tool and Eclipse as the IDE.
I am also responsible for personnel development, formulating their career objectives, planning and organizing the people management aspect.
PROJECT MANAGER / BUSINESS PROCESS ARCHITECT
Maynilad Water Services, Inc.
Quezon City, Philippines.
October 2002 – August 2005
Industry : Information Technology / Utilities
I supervise a team and also serve as a technical consultant in re-architecting and implementing new automated systems and processes for the company.
I also conduct research, feasibility studies and interviews for these improvements and documents existing plus re-designed business processes.
Including in the tasks is identification of problem areas and opportunities for process improvement, analyze business requirements vis-à-vis the systems to be implemented and also formulate procedures to monitor usage and effectiveness of new processes.
Generally, I design and implement computerized systems that will suite the company's needs in various platforms such as web-based system in JAVA and Oracle backend.
PROJECT MANAGER / SYSTEMS ANALYST / DEVELOPER
Rodars 22 Company
Quezon City
October 2000 - October 2002
Industry : Information Technology / Commercial / Various Industry Domains
My main contribution in this company is to plan and deliver projects of a fairly complex nature to agreed time, cost and quality standards within the company’s project methodology framework.
My responsibilities include the development of project plans, tracking of progress against plans and manage changes to the plan among others.
I manage the development, testing and delivery of all project modules.
I also ensure that the projects objectives are achieved within the time, cost and quality constraints.
I am very much involved in analyzing and the actual development of application systems for clients in various environments such as Visual Basic in Oracle Backend.
Our clients are mostly from Manufacturing, Production, Finance, and Real Estate Industry.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER /ANALYST / TEAM LEADER
Datamag Systems, Inc.
Ortigas Center, Pasig City.
July 1997 - October 2000
Industry : Information Technology / Commercial / Various Industry Domains
I served as the Project Team Lead in a group for the development and implementation of Client-Server Systems. I analyze and design automation systems such as Electronic Business Permits and Licensing System for Local Government Units and other related systems.
I also performed systems programming and web design with graphics layout.
A total of more than thirteen (17) years of work experience in the field of Project Management and Information Technology
SKILLS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PMP – PMI Project Management Standard
CMMI
ITIL V3
Six Sigma – Yellow Belt
SKILLS
SOFTWARE
PROGRAMMING LANGGUAGE
ABAP/4
Java
Java script
J2EE
PHP
Visual basic
.Net
Borland Delphi
Structured Query Language (SQL)
ERP / SAP
ABAP/4 Workbench
SAP- ISU Industry Solutions for Utilities
ISU - Master Data configuration
ISU- Device Management
ISU - Customer service
ISU/CCS Systems
IUT210 - Master Data and Basic Functions
BC470 - Form Printing with SAP
WEB DEVELOPMENT
JAVA
JSP
HTML
DHTML
XML
Eclipse
Macromedia Flash
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Ajax
Operating System
Windows XP / 7 / 8
Windows Server
LINUX
MAC OSX
IOS
Android
RDBMS
Oracle RDBMS
MS SQL
My SQL
MS Access
Office Application
Microsoft Project Manager
MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
Microsoft Visio
TOAD quest software
Reporting tools
Crystal report
Quick report
G
IS / Mapping
AutoDesk MAP
AutoDesk MAPGUIDE
AutoDesk GIS Design Server
Graphic software
Adobe Graphics Tools
Corel Tools
3D Designs
3D Animation
Mobile Apps
Android Apps
IOS Apps
HARDWARE / INFRA
Network layout and design
Network cabling
Server installation
Trouble shooting
TRAINING AND SEMINARS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TRAINING
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Course
George Washington University
Project Management : Strategic Course
George Washington University
e-Government Project Management
Commission on Information and Communication Technology
National Computer Institute
Introduction to Program Management
AIG, Talent Connection
ITIL v3 Certification Course
TELUS Training Center
Yellow Belt Six Sigma Training
TELUS Training Center
SAP TRAINING
SAP- ISU Industry Solutions for Utilities
SAP Philippines, Makati
BC470 - Form Printing with SAP Smart Forms
SAP Philippines, Makati
IUT110 - Introduction to ISU/CCS Systems
SAP Philippines, Makati
IUT210 - Master Data and Basic Functions
SAP Philippines, Makati
IUT220 -Device Management
SAP Philippines, Makati
IUT250 - Customer Service
SAP Philippines, Makati
ABAP/4 Development Workbench Training
BayanTrade Co., Libis
ORACLE TRAINING
Oracle Optimization Performance and Tuning
Oracle Philippines, Inc
Oracle SQL and Database Administrator
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
JAVA, J2EE, JSP Training
In-house training
Maynilad Water Services, Inc
Visual Basic Training
Independent instructor
Quezon city
GIS - AutoDesk MAP / MAPGuide
CIM technologies, Inc.
Linux and MySQL Administration
Leverage Systems Technologies, Inc.
OTHER TRAININGS
Anti Money Laundering – Insurance Company
Basic of Insurance and Reinsurance
Economic Sanctions for Insider Trading
Time and Stress Management
Stock Market Basics
Global Anti Trust and Competition
Information Risk Awareness
Asia Manila Financial Markets
Anti-Bribery and Corruption Training
EDUCATION
MASTER IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA)
ATENEO DE MANILA - GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Makati City, Philippines
REGIS UNIVERISTY - GRADUATE SCHOOL
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
20013 - Present
DOCTOR IN TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (PH.D.)
Technological University of the Philippines
Manila Campus
2007- 2013
MASTER IN MANAGEMENT (MM)
Technological University of the Philippines
Manila Campus
2002- 2007 : Graduated 2007
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
Technological University of the Philippines
Taguig Campus
1998-2000 : Graduated 2000
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Technological University of the Philippines
Taguig Campus
1995-1998 : Graduated 1998
PERSONAL DATA
Birthday : November 15, 1978
Birth place : San Pedro, Laguna
Religion : Christian
Civil status : Single
Age : 36
Weight : 205 lbs
Height : 5’ 7”