Robert W. Fini Jr.

**** ************ ** ***, ******, VA 22180

acwerm@r.postjobfree.com

703-***-****

SUMMARY of QUALIFICATIONS:

Manager & Director with over 23 years’ experience working with the business owner, creating program plans, and capable teams who implement business transformation and lean six sigma based process improvement across large enterprises to improve the organization, process, procedures and teams. A veteran manager who successfully pilot’s large scale programs from design to completion and improved security, productivity, and cost reduction of the PMOs, Operations, and Engineering departments. Managed enterprise system implementations (Oracle, PeopleSoft, & SAP), infrastructure upgrade, operation center and network improvements, security WI-FI wireless infrastructure, and the associated organizational and business process improvement based on best of practice methodologies while consistently providing exceptional customer service and quality control. Possesses significant experience in the following areas:

Organizational Change Management

Conduct management and process reviews following Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve departments; staffing, processes, procedures, and tools to minimize cost and maximize customer satisfaction.

Provided cost reductions and quality improvements based on needs assessment, and cost benefit analysis.

Managed the teams and process implementing departmental improvements with work flow redesign, security upgrades, elimination of duplicate and wasteful operational activates and reports, and technology improvements.

Leads cross-functional business process improvement programs and serves as liaison between functional leaders and technical resources.

Vendor & Staffing Management

Manages the vendors and supply chain to retain the top suppliers and remediate issues to ensure a portfolio of preferred vendors is maintained to meet the organizations current and future needs.

Established and maintained ongoing governance and oversight, and acting as a senior escalation point for critical issues

Maintain and improve inter-department communication to ensure business owner needs are satisfied by services provided by internal resources and vendor suppliers. Work with quarterly reviews to ensure supply chain will meet the future demands with Just In Time fulfillment.

Project Management

Works effectively with internal and external business partners, utilizing best-practice methods to perform business-driven needs assessments, project prioritization, project management and ongoing support of business processes.

Software development and implementation for internal and external customers.

Facilitates in matrix organizations the Full Software Development and Equipment Lifecycles (infrastructure, storage, servers and communications.)

Conduct weekly Status Meetings to review Completed & Future Tasks, Issues and Risks. Create the financial control and governance documents, dashboard and weekly scorecard to review at each meeting and to submit for gate reviews.

Manage internal and contractor teams following waterfall or agile improvements to assure quality with on time delivery for software, hardware, and physical security systems.

IT Strategic Planning for Operations and Data Center

Lead the teams working with the business owners to develop the Program and Project plans, schedules and budgets to transform their organizational and business views into operational reality.

Improve profitability with full financial responsibility for my departments, programs, and projects.

Manage software, hardware, and data life cycle for multiple locations and support international development teams working in local, distributed centers providing cloud solutions.

Manage end-to-end Data Center creation and consolidation, to include designing facility ensuring a flexible capacity to support the business with SaaS, secure high availability and fail over capacity.

Maintain an efficient Security and Change Management teams and process for facilities, equipment, and applications.

Drives cost savings through design, implementation and management of full cycle data center consolidations..

Virtualization

Manage and maintain the virtualization process to improve operational efficiency, effectiveness and security.

Scope, plan and manage the implementation of new equipment to consolidate servers and provide SaaS.

Manage Full Software Development Lifecycle and remediation effort.

Contracts and Finance

Manage contract scope, budget, using Earned Value Management (EVM) performance reviews and remediation efforts to maintain budget and staffing goals across the project/program portfolio.

Create, maintain, and report the 1, 3, and 5 years budgets.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

USMC - MCCS 04/2016 – 07/16

FMS Project Manager

Guide the design process for implementing the Cloud Oracle 12.2.5 Enterprise Business Suite.

Lead the team leads and functional & technical teams.

Saved over $600,000 in four months from the original project plan

Manage the SCRUM and to develop the initial documentation (Charter, Schedule, & Solicitation for Bid) to ensure the current processes are used within the Conference Room Pilot to develop the implementation documentation.

SNI Companies – Nation Industries for the Blind, (contractor) Alexandria, VA 01/2015 – 09/2015

Change Management Program Director

Conduct management and process reviews following Lean Six Sigma methodologies to develop the Continuous Process Improvement Program. Build out the process, forms, and templates for the project teams to use. Work with the business owners to prepare and submit the documentation to the PMO to use to justify, rate and rank the projects.

Work with the consulting facilitator to develop the internal team members to productively function in a matrix team environment.

Working with multiple teams to develop the project documentation in an Oracle environment.

Fini FM TR – (full time) Vienna, VA 10/2013 – 12/2014

Senior Program Director

Conduct management and process reviews following Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve departments; staffing, processes, procedures, and tools to minimize cost and maximize a secure environment with higher customer satisfaction.

Communicate technical information to non-technical users with written and verbal communication. Use customer relations skills as a team player, combining excellent analytical and leadership skills to implement business plans at the tactical level.

Worked with customer executive and management teams to develop and manage the entire bid process (RFI & RFP through implementation to contract completion) to the federal government for small and medium companies.

Designed and implemented CRM applications (Oracle and MS Dynamics) within agile processes and customers agile teams organization, facilities, and processes.

Created and manage high to low level governance over the vendors and supply chain. Reduced the duration to identify/onboard top suppliers and remediate issues to ensure a portfolio of preferred vendors is maintained to meet the organizations current and future needs.

oWorked with internal resources to develop risk and issues logs enabling robust mitigation and disaster recovery plans.

oImproved communication of internal business owners with core vendors through Oracle Identity Management implementation ensuring secured communication to and from vendors.

Provided strategic planning and execution workshops leading to 5 year analysis based roadmaps. Reviewed with Earned Value Management (EVM) training actual to expected performance.

Developed and implement corporate equipment, and telephone & infrastructure systems, data center and satellite office moves (Project Plan, Schedule, Task Lists, Risk and Issues Log) Department of Interior.

Compliance and Risk Management:

oDeveloped Risk Management and compliance programs from Plan Proposed Stage to completion covering plans to modernize and secure customer’s applications suites and service processes.

Convergenz - Fannie Mae (contractor) McLean, VA 05/2012 - 09/2013

Senior Project Manager

Managed components of the Securitization Utility Operational Data Store project a large scale organization and business process improvement to manage resale of bundling loans.

IT PMO – Guided the team from planning to post production upgrade of SAP Business Objects XI release 2 to 3.

Manage the teams providing the data migration covering application development for the COTS upgrade, client push application, and testing environment.

Created the test environment, 240 reports, and 12,000 historical instances into release 3 format.

Quality Assurance and Governance: Project deliverables were executed and delivered on time and within budget using the Project Quality Office (PQO), Architecture Review Board (ARB), and Change Management. Used the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) to report status and maintain project momentum as we create documentation from the Document Traceability Matrix.

Experis - Freddie Mac (contractor) Gaithersburg, MD 08/2011- 03/2012

Senior Project Manager

Managed teams implementing Oracle Identity Federation (11g web environment) enabling vendor/customer access through our E Commerce web portal, and upgrades to the Enterprise Credential Vault Management and other business process and remediation efforts.

Facilitated meetings with stakeholders, resource managers, and business owners and managed software development, data integrity, security, testing, and implementation.

Created documentation and used release management to reduce project risks, address issues, and manage releases.

Represented projects performance in weekly and gate meetings and provided updates to projects Planview Portfolio and Project Plans, Schedule, Score Cards, Risk and Issues Logs, Dashboards on SharePoint and EPPM.

ALTA IT - Capital One (contractor) Richmond, VA 02/2011- 04/2011

Sr. Project Manager

Managed Internet Software Development teams (18 and 24 members) in an Agile / SCRUM environment upgrading the web sites. Improved the business processes to prepare data and track progress for the SCRUM with Clarity (CA PPM) and SharePoint.

SONA Networks – Amtrak Police and Security Department (contractor) 02/2009 – 02/2011

Sr. Project Manager – ARRA Virtual Fence and Washington Consolidated Projects

Increased physical security at the North East Corridor stations through system modernization of a 3,000 camera CCTV system and constructed the Washington operation and data center (with high available (auto-failover) software, hardware, and databases). Maintained cost and quality control with s strategic plan which spawned the repeatable core implementation templates used in the NE corridor implementations.

Controlled with the Amtrak representative cost estimation and budgeting of this multi-site program. Reported on variances and maintained Risk and Issues Log, Score Cards, and contributed to the department Dashboard.

Created multiple location hosted environment with automated fail over across fiber backbone for continuous support in a disaster event. Created new Oracle data warehouses to store CCTV video and alerts in Philadelphia and Washington locations. Implemented PCI operations with respect to access control in compliance with NIST 800 directives.

Managed the creation of bid process documentation for upgrading the NYC SCADA system a $1,000,000 effort.

Technology: Multi Hosting Centers Distributed Environment, SharePoint meta data, Remedy, Fiber switches, routers, servers (load balancing), gigabit fiber network storage devices, CCTV cameras, wired and wireless network devices, firewall, gateway, large screen monitor systems, power over Ethernet, Primavera, and SCADA systems.

Apex Systems – Qwest Communications (contractor) Ballston, VA 2008 – 2008

Lead Program Operations Manager

Created and updated business processes and systems supporting the CPO office interface to GSA and Federal Departments/ Agencies including the training materials and job aids on SharePoint and the E-Commerce Web Portal.

Controlled concurrent projects using Enterprise Project Portfolio Management skills.

Managed Change Management process as we:

oReviewed and improved performance data with statistical and business reports using root cause analysis to exceed our Service Level Agreements (SLA’s.)

Prepared the Dashboards, Risk and Issue Logs and presented to the departmental management team. Reviewed with Earned Value Management (EVM) training actual to expected performance.

Technology: SharePoint, IBM Main frame, Cisco Switches, firewall, gateway.

COMSYS – Sprint (contractor) Reston, VA 2006 – 2007

Senior Project Manager

Created or modified applications impacting most of the company’s systems using a 25 member team for the E-Commerce Multi-Channel in Store Returns & Pickup program.

Exercised Portfolio Management control of projects cost/spend rate, governance, and resource allocation with CA Clarity (now PPM)

Maintained communication with Stake holder and business owners with weekly meetings.

Sourcing and Contract / Vendor Management of the NASCAR TV and Radio project.

TekSystems – Amtrak (contractor) Gaithersburg, MD 2004 – 2005

Implementation Senior Project Manager

Managed implementation of the Paperless Time Tracking payroll system for the 7,000 conductors and engineers nationwide with software development and construction at 86 stations installing 200 kiosks and the large network upgrades; LAN, MAN, and PRI.

Performed Vendor Management by searching for and contracting outside vendors to perform the stations upgrades.

Maintained and co-presented the performance of the project and vendors through Risk and Issue Logs, Remedy ticket system, Dashboards, Score Cards, and Audit reviews with the OIG.

Performed Portfolio Management of over 87 projects to allocate resources and capital to control the burn rate.

Technology: SaaS, multiple data centers, routers, telecom & electrical service upgrades, Generators, HVAC, Servers, Storage devices, and kiosks (thin client.)

A_SI Inc (full time) Plano, TX 1991 – 2004

Operation Manager & Senior Program Director

Managed domestic and international teams implemented ERP & CRM (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, & JD Edwards One World), organizational improvement, security, and secondary systems as RUP, Remedy, and DOORs with SaaS and created and managed Operation / sales center and PMO:

Created and managed the Enterprise Project Management Office and was the single point of contact for full software and hardware implementations of these ERP solutions at the client sites.

Created and managed the Enterprise Vendor and Supply Chain Office, built the processes and team of 20 associates.

Office created and maintained all bid documents, statements of work, contracts, and negotiated pricing with supplier organizations. Office maintenance of all documentation ensuring quality and delivery compliance.

Supported Hospitality customer in consolidation of Network and Call Centers from three to one.

IT Strategic Planning: Created and maintained annual, 3 & 5 year budgets for IT department and implement monthly adjustments: Annual Operating Plan (AOP), budgets, Earned Value Management System (EVMS), New Business Investment (NBI) and Estimate to Complete / Estimate at Complete (ETCs / EACs).

Created, constructed, and managed consolidation program from four to one Call/Support/Operations Center.

Managed Change Management Process Improvement in the development and implementation of governance and transition plans for migrating from Mainframe to Open Systems.

Performed Portfolio Management of projects for the functional leadership up to 10 million per project, implemented systems modernization through CA Clarity (now PPM) and Primavera.

Managed IT service and Training departments to increase profits.

Managed ground station and installed Internet II GigaPop for Dallas/Ft. Worth (OC 192,) and installed networks for MCI.

Sr. Industrial Engineer & Engineering Manager (full time) Ft. Worth, TX 1979-1991

Installed COTS and created Software Systems (Business to Business (E Commerce), and facilities improvement through implementing PERT/EVM, Six Sigma, Kanban, Just in Time, inventory control, manufacturing and warehousing systems.

Managed 25 team engineering for multiple manufacturing plant improvements with review and pre-construction planning, construction, and final inspections of operational lines, new building and remediation construction, and Just in Time, Six Sigma, ISO, Access Control Systems (ACS), Intrusion Detection Systems, CCTV security, and disaster recovery of the disperse systems both Head Quarters and remote locations.

Promoted individual professional and team growth through mentoring and structured training sessions.

Education

Master Business Administration, University of Dallas, Irving TX, 1991

Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Engineering), Youngstown State University, Youngstown OH, 1979

PMI Project Manager Professional (PMP) Certification (Qualified to sit for test.)

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification May 2015

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