Project Manager Information Technology

JERROLD L. KESSLER

Summary

Over ten years’ experience managing Large Enterprise Application Project Management. Extensive experience managing large enterprise projects in a business leadership capacity

Results-oriented senior Project manager, with proven ability to complete projects on time and within budget. Initiates methods to improve cost-savings and efficiency. Able to interact effectively with all levels of management, with clients and vendors. A problem-solver who excels in developing project scopes that meet or exceed client and management goals. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Experienced with brokerage firms and understand trading methods

Successfully managed complex projects ranging from 5 M$ to 18M$.

Managed team of more than 35 people.

Excellent technical understanding and hands on experience with

Managing projects with acquisitions.

Familiar with Insurance Claims and Policies

Extensive experience with Microsoft Technology

Extensive experience with Excel, MS Project Suite, PowerPoint, MS Office tools.

Experience with data center moves and Infrastructure Management.

Scrum Master

Agile Master

Worked on SAP projects for CSC and Chicago Board of trade

Extensive experience of working in 24/7 high-pressured environments.

Worked with clients like CBOT and Motorola

Experienced with MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio

Experienced writing and monitoring SOAs

Five years working with Brokerage/Investment industry

Experienced with Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Experience with Data Center moves

Experienced with windows 7 migrations

Experienced with Health C\are

Experienced with package implementation

Very experienced with waterfall

UAT testing

Tableau work with developers

Experience managing web development with companies as PWC and Motorola

Worked directly with within a heavily matrixes environment

Managed teams of Bas directly

Worked with Development, EQA, and UAT leads for status and escalation

Document project using Visio, SharePoint and MS Project

Worked and Experience in Global Data Centers

PMP certification expired 2007

PCI Compliance

Education Details

American Management Association, Chicago, Illinois Strategic Management Courses

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Computer Career Program Certification

University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin Bachelor of Arts, American History

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Master of Arts, Latin American History

Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois

Education Courses for Certification in Chicago Public Schools

Technical Skills

Communications

Microsoft Office

MS Access

Visio

PeopleSoft

MS Project

Project Workbench (Clarity)

Plainview

Project Server

Fixed assets

S1, foundry, FIS express, FIS Systematics

Wealth Management

Site Corp

SQL

SharePoint

Content Management

Object Reporting

Excel macros

MS Project Macros

Data Center Management

Digital management

Pivot Tables

Networks

Routers

Switches

Firewall

Insurance Claims and Policies

Data Migrations

Lotus Notes

Sow

Scrum

Data Warehousing

Digital Work on Android phones and handled devices

Operating Environments: IBM 30XX, DOS, SYMBOLICS, Windows, and Novell LAN, Internet Platforms, Portal, UNIX

Development Tools: SQL, Object Orientated Programming

DB Systems Oracle, DB2 SQL

Development Languages COBOL, LISP, Java, HML

Special Technologies Oracle BPM, Java, EJB, XSLT, XSL, DOM, XPath, JSF, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, XML, WSSOTSO/ISPF, Natural Language, Level5 Object, ART-IM, IQ, KAPPA Content Management

Software Packages DOS, WIN 3.11, WIN95, MS Office Suite, MS Access, Visual Basic SAP PeopleSoft MS Exchange

Project Management Software MS Project, Project Workbench MS Project Server

Professional Experience

Confidential client- Chicago IL

September – December 2014

Project Manager

Worked for a marketing agency making schedules and interfacing to customers Making sure that they had a pleasant experience

Worked on an inventory system

Made 3 months of schedules for the marketing agency.

Interfaced with customer

Made a spreadsheet of purchases of the firm could keep tack when their inventory was summing low

Worked digitally on android tablets t so the inventory could show what people bought

Taught everyone how to use the inventory system I created

Increased revenue 10%

Skills Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Java, Windows Agile In fracture

Chicago, Blue Cross/Blue Shield

Feb 2014 – September 2014

Project Manager

Managing projects for Blue Cross and Blue shield comparing with other healthcare companies

Responsibilities for many waterfalls project projects that I managed such as for medical trends for Illinois regions and a project in what each medical they project for all the patient are rated them for effectiveness

Managing projects

Projects for Marketing to show for blueclose/ bursewas

Projects as directed by VPs of Blue Cross/ Blue Shield of Chicago with Obama health care initiatives

Managed infrastructure project

Mentored jrProject manager

Used BI

Environment: Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Java, Windows Agile

CVS Pharmacy- Chicago

Mar 2013 – Sept 3013,

Project Manager,

As a project manager managed infrastructure projects, and 3 application projects and mentored other PMs on project methodologies

Problem Plans

How to create dependencies

Mentoring PMs

issue resolution

Used BI

Skills MS project MS office Visio Communication

Worked Digitally

FIS- St Petersburg, FL

Jan 2013 - Mar 22, 2013,

Project Manager

Managed printers and sent the different locations

Managed everything using digital management

Made sere checks were printed and send to different locations

Stocked new FIS locations and made sure everything worked

Used MS and Excel Macros for costs and turnaround sheets

Kept tight project plans

Used BI

Worked on digital iinput for printers using Android phones

Skills Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Java, Windows Agile

Sykes- Tampa FL

Jan 2012-Dec 2012,

Project Manager

Managed a desktop Windows 7 upgrade for Europe in England, Ireland, Spain, Brussels, France and Holland

Upgrade involved 400 computers and the purchase and installation of VM storage with business owners, network, architecture, and business analysis to get this project com[pleated

Managed testing results for windows environment

Replaced over 200 computers that run Windows 7 with the company’s applications

Put windows 7 on over 500 computers

Worked with managers, architects, and network resources in the project

Price Waterhouse- Tampa FL,

Jan 2011 -Jan 2012-

Project Manager,

New Portal: PW News

Managed both off-shore and on-site resources

Rescued the project that was 6 six months late

Completed Phase 2 of the project in 3 months’ time and got the project back on track

Interacted with executives, managers and subject matter experts for project documentations.

Completed testing Phases 1 and 2

Used Content Management

Environment: Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Java, Windows Agile

Dain Rauscher, Incorporated, (RBC Wealth Management) Minneapolis, Minnesota and St Petersburg FL Oct. 2008 to Apr. 2010

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Back Office Replacement Project

Worked with business analysts and operations management to identify all processes

Developed mapping for more than 1200 processes required by the Operation Group. Eliminated those not needed for back office testing.

Interacted with executives, managers and subject matter experts for requirement documentations.

Coordinated appropriate order of all processes and a comprehensive reporting of all failures with Mercury Test Center, to make all testing defects viewable for report

Worked with Stakeholders to process the flow diagrams

Skills: Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Java, and SharePoint Agile Infrastructure printers

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Productive Data Solutions (PDS) Denver, Colorado

4/2006 to 12/2007

Project Manager

A consulting company providing project and business management for many of the largest Fortune 500 companies, in addition to state and local governments and local industries.

Motorola, Schaumburg, Illinois

In dual capacity as Project Leader for Applications Group, and Program Manager for Operations Group, rescued large project ($15 M) in trouble and over one year late. As Program Manager for Motorola’s Web and Platform teams, managed all projects and issues

Project encompassed three aspects: New Portal, Natural Language System, and new Data Center Move.

Managed all facets of the move including testing all the servers and storage.

Performed parallel testing when all data was moved

Researched and composed several requirement documents to streamline and automate processes.

Worked with internal corporate resources, outside consultant (CSC) and off-shore consultant (in India) to create a project plan and new completion date acceptable to all parties; developed weekly reports for management

Data Center moves

Including data base and all data migration

Created problem-solving methods to coordinate project milestones with new deployment dates

Installed new Portal for web project and new content management system.

Assisted in the interview process for new implementation specialists.

Developed Issue and Testing discrepancy Logs, as well as time sheets for consultants for the Operations Group

Used content Management

Skills: Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Java, SharePoint, UNIX, Agile Data centers Infrastructure

Proceed, Chicago, Illinois

2005 to 2006

Project manager

Specialists providing project management services PMOs).(including full life-cycle information technology initiatives) and establishing Project Management Offices (

Alliance, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities for project plan that helped client to assist New Orleans in their recovery of their medical systems. Created new process to assist company in managing their projects.

Responsibilities included requirements gathering, specification writing, development, testing, and implementation.

Responsible for a web-based system to merge client’s tasks with those of the New Orleans Health Commission, together with their separate due dates

Created project plan and associated documentation to accompany client’s medical system replacement documentation

Environment: Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Agile

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), Chicago, Illinois

2001 to 2005

Project Manager

A leading futures and options-on-futures Exchange, with more than 3,600 members trading 50 different futures and options products through open auction and/or electronically. The Exchange’s 2003 volume was a record breaking 454 million contracts.

Projects focused exclusively on the Networks and Telecom Departments, the primary support for CBOT’s entire infrastructure. These projects and the degree of responsibility for each follows::

PBX Replacement Project Managed all facets of this $7 M project from RFI stage through implementation exceeded users’ expectations

Project Management Office (PMO) Participated in initial creation of CBOT’s PMO, an enterprise-wide project structure designed to monitor all project activities

Managed infrastructure projects including routers switches, networks and firewalls

Master Antenna Project Managed project from kick-off through implementation. The goal was to increase bandwidth for users’ cell phones during trading hours. Although all work was conducted only on weekends and after-hours, project was delivered on time and within budget

Billing Systems Replacement Initiative Project Managed all facets of the project: to move from an antiquated mainframe billing application to an open-architecture system

Upgrade Billing System Managed all facets of project to upgrade from a client server to a Web-based billing system. Project was delivered on time and within budget

Data center move to Northbrook IL

Managed a Cisco project for CBOT as the company was getting ready to take over their own infrastructure from Cisco

Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Managed project to keep CBOT compliant, with included the creation of Visio diagrams of all financial processes

Data warehouse creation for ad-hoc reports

Managed all CBOT network projects such as ALN WAN and storage. This was performed after hours to not impact trading

Environment: Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Java, SharePoint, UNIX, MS Office, telecom, PeopleSoft, and Agile

Kraft Foods, Glenview, Illinois

2000 to 2001

Project Manager

The largest food and Beverage Company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world. Many of its brands are marketed in more than 155 countries.

Merger of Kraft Foods with Nabisco

Monitored master project plan and coordinated the work of 12 project managers at both Companies to assist with project controls and deliverables for the merger. Created Master Schedule by linking and integrating project milestones

Environment: Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Java, UNIX, Office,

Computer Science Corporation, El Segundo, California

1997 to 2000

Consultant

A consulting company with over 78,000 professionals who integrate technologies and solutions customized to meet the individual business goals of its clients.

County of San Diego, San Diego, California

Jan 3 – May 15, 2000

Project: Management Office (PMO)

Assumed initiative for the creation of a County-wide PMO for which no project controls or consistencies had been developed

Established policies and procedures for Project Office, controls for project artifacts and an integrated Master Schedule as well as cost tracking for all projects

Built and managed PMO infrastructure to encompass project scope, project milestones and project costs. Created Master Schedule that linked all integration project milestones of all County projects. Developed (for use in over 40 current County projects) Policies and Procedures, Controls, and Cost Tracking

Bank One, Chicago, Illinois

Feb 7 –Dec5 1999

Project: ARC

Rescued a web-based application development project required for replacing a Y2K-deficient system in less than eight (8) weeks of time. Project was delivered within schedule, scope, and budget

Budget Car Rental, Lisle, Illinois

Project: Desktop Refresh–

Jan 6 - Jun 12 1997

Integrated four (4) separate yet inter-related projects required for rolling out thousands of desktops and ensuring that the roll-outs were implemented in a timely manner

Heller Financial Systems, Chicago, Illinois

Jun – Sept 1998

Project: Legacy Application

Delivered a faltering project. Legacy application was re-assessed, renovation estimates formulated, and a Statement of Work created for quick execution.

Responsibility included staffing the renovation and testing teams, which exceeded 25 full-time resources

CSC Clients :( partial list):

JAN – DEC 1997

Y2K Compliance Assessments and Project

CBOT, Chicago, Illinois

Established and managed an enterprise-wide integrated Master Schedule for all Y2K projects and related efforts.

Mentored Department Managers with the creation of baseline project plans, issue tracking, estimate modeling, resource allocation, and testing methodologies

Wisconsin Electric, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Produced plans for all phases of the Y2K effort. Authored Statements of Work and Project Quality Plans and assisted client in selecting renovation tools

First Chicago Bank, Chicago, Illinois

As Project Control Officer, assumed responsibility for maintaining all Y2K project plans.

Monitored the reporting from First Chicago NBD’s Human Resources and Finance Departments for Y2K compliance

LaSalle Partners, Chicago, Illinois

Led technical team as Y2K Subject Matter Expert. Managed estimates for and results of conducting an organization-wide Y2K assessment for a suite of corporate systems

Environment: Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Project Workbench Java, UNIX, mms Office, PeopleSoft Agile

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