Summary of Qualifications

Certified Scrum Master

Project Management Certification

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Goal orientated individual with 10 years’ experience in project management.

Proactive risk manager and problem solver, ability to perceive issues quickly and address concerns.

Skilled relationship builder, maintains excellent rapport with clients and team members.

Effectively delegates and motivates project team. Do not micromanage.

IT Infrastructure upgrades, relocation and consolidation.

Computer skills: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat Pro and internet research.

Professional Experience

KMF Development, Inc. Inverness, IL 2008 – Present

Project Manager

oManaged up to 11 projects simultaneously with budgets up to $2M, project size consisted of 21 to 33 offsite contractors, additional contractor team(s) required when infrastructure moves or installs required in commercial projects. Awarded the majority of network & phone work.

oFacilitated residential real estate investor short sale projects.

Utilizing Waterfall and Agile/Scrum - Scope, planning, implementation, monitoring and control, control management and risk management.

oProjects were all Banking and Legal based. Each Project contained both aspects, Banking and Legal being processed as separate legs of the project, each addressed by separate teams. The first legal team provided the needed “infrastructure” portion of the project. The Banking leg of each project dealt with loss mitigation, short sale acceptance and negotiations with all the banks and any other liens against the asset. The legal teams worked with the bank’s assigned legal team or assigned firm to delay or disrupt the legal process to give our bank negotiating team(s) additional time to complete their tasks. A successful project is one that our bank team (s) and our legal teams, working in concert, transition an asset, within budget, to the project owners and within the desired profit margin range to KMF.

oCreated an Excel system which reduced project implementation, legal and closing documentation creation time for the real-estate short sales by 90%.

oAutomated the lender and bank interface reducing legal fees by over 50%.Negotiated and budgeted agreements with negotiators and attorneys.

oEstablished the risk management procedures for each investor short sale.

oClient IT Infrastructure : Full network management responsibility. Wide area networks, Local area networks, Wifi, all Servers: Email, Applications and Databases, end user equipment, all cabling, phones, furniture, modular/build outs.

oClient IT Infrastructure : Matrix management structure, stakeholder management, communicated regular status updates, budget, managed scope to close plus artifacts.

Peoples Home Equity, Inc. – Amerihome Mortgage Chicago, IL 2002 – 2008

Senior Residential Mortgage Loan Officer

(5 year IT non-compete agreement after NTI was sold,

I moved to this company, Amerihome, a client of NTI for 5+ years.)

oShort term loan acquisition projects that ran an average of 3 months. All run in parallel to generating new clients via phone. You never left your desk and phone.

oLimited negotiation with A, B an Sub-prime lenders for interest rates and communion.

oCoordinated activities of and between processors, underwriters, escrow agents, title companies, attorneys and realtors. You insured your commission based salary.

oClients were acquired by using multiple line dialer software to contact purchaed leads. All activity with calls was collected and saved per the category we selected during the call. Failed connections were automatically recalled at definable intervals during that day. Calls that connected required caller information and follow up status from immediately providing a new mortgage, to scheduling the next call and to removing them from the call list. A minimum daily calls had to be made and call statistics were monitored daily and weekly, and sometimes hourly. Multiple pieces of software were interfaced, pre and post dialer, to keep you continually dialing/calling until you refinanced someone’s home mortgage.

Network Technologies, Inc. / Advanced Business Technologies Arlington Heights, IL 1987 – 2001

IT Project Manager

oFacilitated division hardware and software projects utilizing Waterfall and Agile methodologies as required to produce and manage the scope, design, implementation, monitoring and control, budgeting and risk management.

oIT Infrastructure moves,upgrades and new installations.

oFull time staffing consisted of 10 computer technicians and computer engineers.

oPart time staff for corporate upgrades and relocations consisted of up to 38 computer technicians.

oIncreased Legal and Medical Division revenue by over 100%

Utilizing qualified technicians / engineers,

negotiated more advantageous hardware contracts,

Improved system efficiency through basic industrial engineering review.

oDecreased sales expenses 20% by reallocating sales into geographical zones.

oDecreased the delivery process by 50% by integrating a monitor and control sub-system.

Unisys Computer Systems (Previously Sperry Corp) Elk Grove Village, IL 1983 – 1986

Senior Systems Analyst

oA major designer of a Worldwide Manufacturing Inventory Control System (ICS) all designed utilizing Waterfall methodology, SDLC

oReceived the Unisys Presidents Award for my contribution.

combining European and American inventory control systems into

one centrally located system in the US.

Decreased costs by optimizing the European and US Tariff regulations in the warehouse selection process of US and/or European warehouses.

Decreased physical inventory quantity and costs.

Data Base Administrator - DBA

oDesigned a Database Monitoring System for large scale mainframe databases for Illinois Bell Telephone (a Sperry customer)

Wrote a program to capture the amount of reads and writes (IO’s) over defined intervals per each individual group of data (CITY) on a physical hardware device (HARD DRIVE)

Wrote a procedure to move a CITY from one HARD DRIVE to another during zero activity period.

Wrote as program to balance the maximum CITY I/O activity to 50% while limiting the HARD DRIVE capacity utilization to 70%.

Resulting in decreased overall HARD DRIVE access time, increased CITY access response time and decreased HARD DRIVE units purchased.

oDatabase customer planning, logical design, physical design, coding, user testing and implement utilizing Waterfall methodology SDLC. Support planning for the new database implementations for manufacturing accounts sold in the state of Illinois.

Education

Manhattan College, New York, NY, B.S. in Business Admin. / Quantitative Business Analysis

Pace University, New York, NY, Master Level studies in Business Administration.

DePaul University, Chicago, IL, Master Level studies in Data Processing.

DBA - Data Base Administrator, extensive education – Unisys (Computer Manufacturer).

Computer Programming Education, Unisys – COBOL, FORTRAN Assembler, UNIX and C++.

Computer Programming Education, Unisys - PERL (for an artificial intelligence project).

MCSE – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Project Management Specialist Certification.

CSM – Certified Scrum Master

Working on a CSPO – Certified Scrum Product Owner.

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