JOHN P. O'DONNELL, PMP

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Randolph, NJ 07869

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PROJECT MANAGER

PMP Certified Project Manager and Project Lead for diverse industries including: Pharmaceutical, Financial and Insurance. Skilled at leading critical global projects across multiple departments and varied technological platforms in highly diverse cultural and geographical environments.

Expert in strategic and project planning, systems analysis, quality control, tracking of results

Solid understanding of and experience with PMBOK, SDLC, Waterfall & Agile methodologies.

Experienced cloud implementations and service provider management.

Highly knowledgeable in infrastructure design and implementation.

Proficient in ITIL service processes.

Excellent at creating and implementing technical and operational plans and strategies.

Competent liaison between management, clients and personnel.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Merck, Branchburg, NJ 2016 - Present

Project Manager, Consultant

Manage Global IT Automation projects

Responsible for managing multiple projects for Infrastructure and Application development using Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Oversaw IT Automation implementations for Linux, Windows, Oracle Database and Amazon Web Services.

Implemented Application to interface with CMDB.

Manage international team resources.

Maintain program management status reports.

Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development, Edison, NJ 2010 – 2015

Project Manager, Consultant

Manage IT projects and service delivery implementations.

Project Manage Laptop Replacement and Windows 7 Upgrade.

Led Citrix Metaframe implementation, TrackWise implementation and Windows server implementations.

Oversaw implementation of cloud service and migration from existing Co-Lo environment.

Manage hosting vendor relationships.

Liaison with IT Security, Legal, Quality Assurance and Finance groups to ensure hosting provider compliance to Daiichi policies as well as HIPPA and SOX requirements.

Implemented several processes which streamlined service provider management.

Developed and maintained Installation Qualification/Operational Qualification (IQ/QQ) documentation.

Maintained Change Management and Configuration Management process and ensured ITIL compliance.

SCHERING-PLOUGH CORPORATION, Kenilworth, NJ 2001 – 2010

Principal Analyst/Project Manager

Managed Windows Server Engineering Team global project implementations.

Led Windows Server Engineering and Implementation of IIS, Citrix Metaframe and Application Server Infrastructure for several global projects including: Laboratory Information Management system (LIMS), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Web methods.

Led project to re-architect Building Management System (BMS) environment. Centralized and consolidated servers, which saved $500K per year in maintenance and support costs and $750K in implementation costs.

Implemented SAP ERP module to support local site.

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Facilitated the successful migration of 5 TB of departmental file shares from Veritas File clusters to NAS infrastructure. This eliminated old technology and improved end user access.

Managed project schedules, budgets, resources and customer communications.

Developed and maintained Installation Qualification/Operational Qualification (IQ/QQ) documentation.

Maintained Change Management and Configuration Management process and ensured ITIL compliance.

Implemented several processes, which streamlined and enhanced engineering services, including: KPIs, peer reviews and scorecards.

Managed Remote Access for employees and business partners to Schering-Plough. Managed staff of 3 and project resources from other departments.

Managed the designed and implementation of a Secure File Transfer system using Cyclone Interchange.

Implemented a DMZ web portal environment, which allowed controlled access for business partners to Schering-Plough Research applications in the core network. The environment consisted of Plumtree v4.0 and Metaframe XP terminal servers.

Rolled out Broadband access with Cisco VPN client to Schering-Plough Research Institute employees, which saved $1M per year by eliminating dial-up costs and used more cost effective broadband access.

Oversaw implementations at hosting service provider. Designed and implemented phases for internet facing web applications and vendor implementation of SOPs and IQ/OQs to support the environment.

Designed architecture and developed rollout plan to allow 3rd party help desk access to remotely support Clinical user population.

HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE, INC., Nutley, NJ 1996 – 2001

IT Lead Analyst

Project leader responsible for end user support in corporate Customer Service Center. Managed staff of 12 and project resources from other departments.

Project Manager for implementation of SMS, which became corporate standard for desktop inventory collection, remote control and software distribution.

Electronically upgraded 4,000 desktops to MS Office 97, Norton Antivirus, Netscape SAP, Y2K O/S patches and Lotus Notes.

Managed migration of 4,000 desktops to Windows NT 4.0, and 120+ Netware Servers to NT Server.

Presented technology changes to customers and management.

Conducted weekly meetings with technical staff and customers on project status.

Developed standardized desktop environment.

Oversaw Netware server upgrades and consolidation projects.

EDUCATION

M.S., Computer Science, Pace University, New York, NY

B.A., State University of NY at Plattsburgh

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Project, MS Office Suite, MS Outlook, MS Visio, Confluence, Jira, Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server, MS IIS, Cyclone Interchange, VMWare Virtual Center, MS SMS, MS SQL, C, C++, Pascal, Assembler, Microsoft Access

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional ID# 1353609

AFFILIATIONS

Project Management Institute

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