Senior Project Manager

William A. Kassler

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Systems Integration Professional Cultivated Change, Grew Business, Reduced Cost

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** *** ***, ***, *****ty Assurance at IBM

1 yr PMP Experience at Union Bank

PMI Certified Project Manager since 2005

Application Lifecycle Management WBS

Managed Globally: Concept to Close

Adaptable: Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, IPD

Project Analyst, Process Flow, Traceability

Compliance and Audit Ready Projects

MS Office, MS Project, Quality Center

Expert in MS Excel for Data Analytics

Documentation Professional to CMMI 5

Integrity, Capable, Loyal, Personable

Creative solution “EZIEW” saved 10M

Senior IT Project Management – Quality, Communications, Cost, Technical

Highly Technical - Subject Matter Expert (SME) on enterprise benefits program, “Preferred Rewards” for Bank of America (BOA)

Extreme Organization – Utilize Structured methods like Waterfall & Agile, with lessons learned feedback, and End to End planning to identify dependencies during planning phase. Global reach includes working with external suppliers. (Union Bank, BOA, IBM)

Proven Communication Ability – United a 150 member IBM global team with project plan on “FLE”– a new application - with a schedule release in 90 days starting from a “blank sheet of paper.” Similar results at BOA.

Business Process Definition - Designed “lean” qualification process that saved IBM Supply Chain $2 million dollars over traditional test methods.

Team Oriented – True ownership of program with communication to Senior management, peers, and teams. Great partnership with other teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE _ IT PMP Consultant, Banking, Supply Chain, Test, Quality

BK Vision Management

Senior Project Manager / Consultant for Union Bank (Telecommute) (2015-Present)

• Delivered first Banking Software project in 3 months with 23 people, on schedule and under budget.

• Completed 9 concurrent projects in 8 months of varying value from $75K to $600K in mobile technology (tablet, OLB, phone)

• Combined 3 concurrent projects into a single delivery saving customer cost during qualification and deployment

• Manage the budget through estimates, approvals, tracking, and reporting.

• Designed and Created budget management tool for the PMO group utilizing data from SharePoint and CA Clarity

• Performance Issue Causal Analysis and Leadership with Functional and Performance Regression teams

Senior Project Manager / Consultant for Bank of America (Telecommute) (2010-2014)

• Delivered first Banking Software project in 3 months via Test Center of Excellence with 10 people worldwide on schedule.

• Managed 20 application $1.4 M Integrated Project 4Q 2010 with 300+ domestic and global resources (India, Mexico)

• Completed 16 projects in 4 years with a global team expanding the customer profit base and affecting 1 million customers.

• Applied learning of bank business function and processes to act as the Senior Subject Matter Expert. Consulting, Education

• Utilized Waterfall & Agile including 55 hours of Agile training, and implementing a Scrum management process.

• Respected among peers as being the “go-to” person to get “a perspective and answers” for tough problems.

IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie NY

Sr. Project Manager, Supply Chain Integration (2000 – 2009)

Created, implemented, and managed the full scope of final Quality for the IBM Corporation Supply Chain Division that manufactured computer systems from mainframes to laptop computers. Improved business effectiveness by creating a “lean test process” that reduced schedules 50%, saved $2M, and increased the final product quality on 21 projects.

• Created division wide business process, tools, and metrics to simplify and standardize product Quality and reporting.

• Global team of people reporting for 21 projects from: India, China, Mexico, England, Hungary, Scotland, Singapore

• Certified by IBM – as a IBM project management professional according to rigid standards.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Quality Assurance, Education, Automation - Continued

Sr. Project Manager, Supply Chain Integration (continued) (2000 – 2009)

• Managed Program, monitored progress, and resolved issues with team setting priorities and reviewing checkpoints.

• Best Practices for PMO via estimating, WBS, issues management, lessons learned, tools, facilitating, and education.

• Software Integration management for Web, Mainframe, Midrange using Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, and MS Project.

• Grew Integrated Supply Chain base from 3 to 13 applications merging 5 new technologies and custom applications.

• Certification ready Implementations by CMMI, ASCA, and ISO 9000, ISO9001 and Manufacturing Readiness

• Proactive giveback PM time to mentor Associate Project Managers in business knowledge and leadership.

• Practiced manager of 100K project hours, 10 direct reports, and 130 dotted line team members.

• Installed Supply Chain integrated suite of Web, SAP, MVS, UNIX, I2, SCPM, and Custom applications

• Qualified interfaces, data mapping & security of EDI, B2B, MQ, FTP, Data Warehouse, and custom functions.

IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie NY

Education Director, and Developer for IBM Research Team (1999, 2008)

• Cutting edge design and implementation for “Do it yourself” global education accessible 24x7 via Web and Wiki

• Conceived and Designed Video on Demand education for executives, continuing education, and students.

• Developed Education Strategy, classroom materials, and relevant online help by job description.

• Planned, Organized, and delivered classroom training to 300 manufacturing employees.

• Awarded for Excellence (MFS project, 1999) by the IBM Division.

IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY

Hardware Development and Integration Test Lead (1994-1999)

• Developed first IBM WEB based procedures in 1995 reducing organization printing costs by thousands of dollars.

• Led IBM Y2K test effort for Z/390 on software and hardware platforms including LPAR.

• Led IBM Cryptography test development efforts.

• Led IBM Sysplex Timer verification in hardware, software and in a sysplex environment.

IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie NY

Automation Development (1989-1994)

• Designed, Managed, and coded Macros and complete test suites for mainframe verification and Final Systems Test.

EDUCATION, Licenses, Accomplishments

PMP Certified Project Manager – (Expires 9/2019) & IBM Certified Project Manager

- Masters Certificate of Project Management [1999-2000] - George Washington University, Washington, DC

- Trained in Product Development & Life Cycle Development

- Trained in Agile, Scrum Master (Certification Pending), Six-Sigma Green Belt (Certification Pending)

- Florida Certified Mediator (2 years)

Bachelor’s Degree in Ministry [2010-2012] - Treasure Coast School of Ministry, Port ST Lucie, FL

A.A.S. degree in Electrical Technology [1980-1982] - State University of New York at Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY

Corporate Training & Transferable Skills - Six Sigma, Rational Portfolio Manager, Agile, Quality Assurance, Integrated Product Development, Waterfall Approach, CA Clarity, SOA, ISO 9001, ISO9000, CMMI, Share Point, Quality Center, Earned Value Method EVM, WWPMM, Object Oriented Programming, Defect Classification Methods, Rational Clear Case, RTVM Method, Defining Workflows, Defining Processes, Defining Use Cases, Defining Test cases, Live Meeting, MS Office & Excel

Author of five books.

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