Leon R. Horman 914-***-**** Mohegan Lake, NY acym9w@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/leonrhorman

SUMMARY Accomplished, results-oriented IT Project/Program Manager with extensive

hands-on experience producing technical solutions to achieve dramatic, bottom-line results. Exemplary leader with successful track record managing diverse teams through full development lifecycle on high visibility projects. Excel in directing organizational change, mitigating risk, and driving enterprise system performance and productivity to the next level.

Highly analytical with “big picture” vision to work with management, staff and vendors to convert complex requirements into actionable project plans.

Continuously seek innovative ways to improve efficiencies, through the introduction of new technologies, systems, methods and controls.

Flexible and resourceful, using exceptional organizational, time-management and planning skills to deliver projects on time/on budget.

KEY Data Center Migrations IT Project Management

COMPETENCIES IT Program Management Office 365 Migrations

SharePoint Clarity

Business Process Re-engineering Resource Management

Systems Integration Strategic Planning

Vendor Selection/Management Implementation & Support

Financial Forecasting Agile and Waterfall SDLC

UNIX Linux

VMWARE

PROFESSIONAL The Related Companies

EXPERIENCE IT Consultant Senior Program / Project Manager 12/16-1/17

Drove the Outlook migration from on-premise Exchange to Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud platform.

Created project artifacts such as Scope, RAID logs, Communications, Project, Resource and Wave Migration Plan

Scheduled, drove and provided detailed agenda and minutes to status and other technical meetings

Worked with HR and Department heads to properly allocate O365 license types

Planned and scheduled user pilot migrations

Drove effort with technical team to resolve co-habitation issues with pilot migrations

Provided input in creating a SOW with an outside vendor to complete migration effort

Royal Bank of Canada

IT Consultant Senior Program / Project Manager 9/16-11/16

Brought on board for a short term urgent requirement:

Managed multiple projects to migrate complex applications

Migrated corporate data filers

Atlas World Wide Holdings

IT Consultant Senior Program / Project Manager 5/16-9/16

Managed multiple complex infrastructure and application migrations and upgrades for Atlas air World Wide Holdings. Projects included:

Upgrading and migrating critical RightFax application to a High Availability highly resilient cluster platform

Upgrading VMware ESX software to ESX 6. Scheduled vMotion process, hardware upgrades, performed risk, assessment, notified users, maintained master worksheet and ran command center.

Upgrading and migrating critical SFTP application to a High Availability highly resilient cluster platform. Created project plan, scheduled upgrade

Upgrading and migrating eVault for corporate exchange system. Maintain vendor relationship, create project plan

Express Scripts

IT Consultant Senior Program / Project Manager 1/15 – 5/16

Managed a large corporate effort for Express Scripts involving a major data center relocation effort. Responsibilities included:

Analyzed application requirements and dependencies for migration of UNIX, Linux and Windows servers.

Planned and scheduled multiple application migrations

Drove the migration process for multiple simultaneous applications in a defined maintenance window

Developed migration artifacts such as project plans, risks, issues and Visio diagrams

Implemented a Citrix migration to the new data center consisting of over 320 servers and 15000 users

Managed the migration of an Ab Initio application consisting of production, development and QA environments. This includes planning for the Oracle database and over 20 consumer applications

McGraw Hill Education

IT Consultant Senior Program/Project Manager 8/13 – 12/14

Managed a large corporate project for McGraw Hill Education involving the build out of new data center services and the infrastructure separation of two previously joined business units. Responsibilities included:

Coordinated the creation of VMWare, Active Directory, DNS, proxy and WSUS data center services

Planned, scheduled and coordinated application migrations from existing VMWare hosts to new platforms

Managed risk, issues tracking and mitigation

Provided project leadership and discipline to all team members

Created and delivered weekly Program status reports for C level executives

Managed a Singapore office relocation of over 100 people

In addition, simultaneously managed and drove the integration tasks for a newly acquired company. Responsibilities included:

Created local services such as Active Directory, WiFi access, and print and file services

Implemented a secure ipSec VPN tunnel between the two companies

Migrated user e-mail, contacts and calendar content from Google mail to Office 365

Migrated targeted company registered domains to MHE ownership

Coordinated efforts with the Strategic Program Office for program visibility and synchronization

McGraw-Hill Corp., New York, NY 7/12-8/13

IT Consultant Senior Program Manager

Managed the execution of a major data center migration; including the build out of a co-location facility to accept critical DR applications knocked off-line by Super Storm Sandy and the migration of application servers from a defunct data center. This $29M budget effort includes the analysis and review of application requirements, dependencies, latency and prioritization as well as the detailed planning of server migrations and resource allocations. Responsibilities included:

Produced complex weekly CIO status reports detailing milestones, progress, issues, and cross functional dependencies.

Monitored cost to ensure adherence to program budget.

Conducted and produced PowerPoint presentations for Senior Level Steering Committee and DR Council meetings.

Managed and directed the progress of 6 project managers.

Managed project schedules and spearheaded resolutions when falling behind. Ensured project plans are up to date, accurate and tracked appropriately.

Scheduled server moves,( Windows, Linux and UNIX) installations, application verifications and sign-offs.

Performed risk and issue management.

Managed Technical Support Transition to third party for the Data Center and Network business segments comprised of over 500 employees, 12 data centers and 9 different departments. This $1B effort was successfully completed on schedule despite the storm that hit the northeast. Accomplishments are:

Drove team efforts to resolve roadblocks and critical issues.

Managed and directed the progress of up to 15 project managers

Produced program status reports and PowerPoint presentations to C level executives detailing milestone progress, issues and risks.

Ensured project plans are accurate, on schedule and tracked appropriately.

Validated transitioning resource, knowledge transfer and Operational Readiness plans leading to a successful and timely Service Commencement Date.

Managed risk, issues and change management for the associated towers.

Spearheaded transformation efforts to expand existing, and led migration to, utilizing best of breed tools.

Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, N.Y. 10/11 – 7/12

IT Consultant Senior Technical Project Manager

Manage technical infrastructure projects for the Investment and Advisory Wealth, and Content Business Unit portfolios.

Led efforts to create a DR environment for a critical high revenue application ($2.5M) including requirements gathering, scope and technical detail documents, DB (SQL, Oracle and Informatica) replication POC’s and capacity planning for future expansion.

Simultaneously lead eight technical projects comprising complex server, SAN and network integration.

Coordinated efforts between the business unit and technical architect translating business requirements into effective solutions.

Managed project reporting, budgeting, time sheets and resource allocation through CA Clarity Portfolio Management tool.

Created detailed project plans, resource forecasts, scope and technical documents.

Time Warner Corp., New York, NY 5/11 – 10/11

IT Consultant Senior Program Manager (Program cancelled by new CTO)

Oversee Time Warner Corporate IT project portfolio including data center build-outs and implementations of Shared Services projects ($23M) for Tax, HR and Common Communications by highlighting dependencies, timelines and requirements across multiple departments.

Influenced the development of the Shared Services PMO department through the implementation of Clarity for IT Governance. Leadership team member in the definition and mapping of Project Management IT Governance based on ITIL processes.

Led team for obtaining RFP’s for the exploration, analysis, and implementation of accepted ITIL Service Management processes.

Created MS Project plan displaying milestones, inter-dependencies and timelines of all projects dependent on shared services implementation

Provided complex weekly program status reports for CIO and Vice President of IT displaying milestones, progress, issues and cross functional dependencies.

Thomson Reuters Corp., New York, NY 2006 – 2011

Program Manager/Infrastructure Project Manager, (2009-2011)

Managed a portfolio of projects specific to the needs of the Enterprise Content/Sales and Trading business unit with a staff consisting of seven senior project managers.

Facilitated complex multi global data center migrations ($3M) involving 7 different business units, overseeing 20 individual projects to consolidate data centers reducing overall annual costs by $5M.

Directly managed the progress and advancement of up to 12 globally located project managers.

Performed resource allocation, power and space forecasts and created complex MS Project plans including, integrated timelines, milestones and project inter-dependencies.

Created senior level management Steering Committee PowerPoint presentations, led “deep-dive” MS Project Plan reviews and maintained budget adherence.

Responsible for a portfolio of infrastructure projects specific to business unit requirements meeting business needs for customer products.

Collaborated with business segment managers to create and maintain the annual budget ($6M to $9M) for project portfolio.

Analyzed requirements and created scope presentations to senior level management resulting in additional annual revenues of $1.5M.

Provided financial forecasting, actuals and resource management.

Conducted and created a business case for the closure and migration of 6 global mainframe and distributed data centers in major cost reduction effort resulting in the closure of two data centers and annual savings of $10M.

Technical Infrastructure Project Manager, PMO Department (2006-2009)

Managed multiple complex projects (up to 6 simultaneously) in a highly matrixed global organization. Gathered business requirements and converted them into strategic plans expanding business product capabilities. Created and managed all required documents, including scope, risk assessments and closing certificate, managed communications with all levels of stakeholders, scheduled all tasks and resources, and monitored project progress. Provided progress and PowerPoint presentations to all levels of management.

Increased data center capacity by 25000 square feet after completing a $13.8M data center build out project implementing a shared services infrastructure that included budgeting, scheduling and vendor management. This involved the implementation of Virtualization, Blades, networking and storage.

Completed the infrastructure rollout for new financial products ($3.5M) on time and under budget producing annual revenues of $2.5M. This product was widely advertised by senior management and committed to within strict timelines.

Planned the power down and successful power up of a major data center. This project consisted of directing over two hundred technical personnel, coordinating the effort with multiple business units and over two dozen vendors, and a carefully planned recycle of over two thousand hardware devices during a short weekend schedule increasing data center power and cooling by 25%.

Assumed control of a troubled project and completed it successfully on time and under budget reducing customer authentication times by 50%.

JPMorgan Chase and Co., New York, NY 1993 – 2005

Project Manager, VP, Visualization & Transaction Group (2004 – 2005)

Directed a matrixed team of 6 geographically diverse professionals to implement real-time global solutions supporting merger between JPMorgan and BankOne. Developed project plans, allocated resources, processed service requests, created support/work schedules, and supplied metrics to upper management.

Led successful design and managed the implementation of a Windows-based performance tool reducing client configuration SLA’s from six to 2 days. Developed comprehensive documentation and training.

Seamlessly migrated 2 heritage alerting tools in a fixed timeline, resulting in an estimated $1.5M in annual licensing and support cost savings.

Solutions Engineer, VP, Enterprise System Management (2001 – 2004)

Guided 8 professionals and matrixed resources in implementing an end-to-end Web-based performance and alerting tool to support critical bank applications.

Built and managed a lab of Unix and Windows servers for POC exercises

Managed implementation of a global Windows-based infrastructure, entailing configuration of Mercury Topaz and IBM’s Tivoli software, enabling real-time monitoring and preventing $millions in loss and downtime.

Automated performance management and capacity planning for all Investment Bank applications by planning, configuring and implementing Sun UNIX, Windows 2000, Web services and SAN infrastructure to support the BMG Patrol Performance Management tool.

Service was commended by multiple department heads for providing an accurate server sizing for applications, eliminating large expenses from overbuilding infrastructure.

Prior Experience Includes: Marine Midland Bank, Manager of Network and Systems Management; ATT, Senior Operations Engineer

TECHNICAL Platforms: UNIX, Solaris, Windows 2000, VMWare

SUMMARY Software: MS Project, MS Exchange, Visio, PowerPoint, MS Excel

EDUCATION New York Institute of Technology

B.T., Electrical Engineering Technology, Summa Cum Laude 3.78 GPA 5/2001

A.A.S., Electrical Engineering Technology

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