Project Management and IT Leadership

An IT project manager and leader with proven people leadership abilities, experience and results.

Ability to evaluate, develop and lead IT professionals – driving accountability and responsibility while delivering results.

A change leader and champion – leading IT and non-IT organizations through process, organizational and methodology changes to improve and evolve to meet the current business climate.

Passionate about developing others – co-workers and associates – helping them achieve their career goals and perform at the best of their ability.

Dedicated, resourceful and motivated leader with a can do and get it done attitude who is able to lead others to produce measurable results.

A former business owner and operator who initiated, led and trained business teams on business process analysis, problem solving, project planning and execution.

A business, community and church leader with appointments to executive boards and leadership positions throughout my career.

Major Accomplishments

Reduced expenses and run rate in Nationwide Distribution Solutions by over 57% and $2 million between 2002 and 2005 by improving our processes, eliminating redundancy and making our applications more efficient. The major savings were accomplished by replacing a third party piece of software that contributed $500,000 annual savings and eliminated a third party software dependency.

Owned and operated a Business Consulting firm – mentoring and training business owners, executives and their teams – coaching and guiding more than 50 business owners to grow their businesses through education, application and implementation.

Project manager and Infrastructure Delivery Consultant delivering a variety of large to small projects for business units across the Nationwide enterprise – Claims, CSB, Finance IT, NW Bank, I&O and PLD.

Corporate Year 2000 Project Manager for Motorists Insurance. Project was completed on-time and with zero outages.

Held project, team and resource management leadership roles my entire career. Promoted within 3 years as an application developer to a team leader role. Promoted to successive levels of management and leadership positions throughout my career – both personally and professionally.

Employment History

ComResource, Columbus, OH 2011 to 03/2017

Consultant, IT Project Manager

Enterprise Project Management and Enterprise Solution Delivery methodology to projects assigned within Infrastructure Delivery and Delivery Services.

Infrastructure Delivery Consultant

Responsible for leading more than 80 projects and project teams implementing projects of various scale, complexity, and duration to deliver information technology and business solutions and services to the organization.

Coordinating and delivering infrastructure projects, including: servers (acquisition and build), middleware, database, network, web and application development components – including new infrastructure build-out in the new Grandview Yard buildings.

Responsible for overall project management – initiation, planning, execution and management of projects based on the operating plan, architecture and strategic goals including mandated regulatory and compliance rules.

A change champion and leader helping our team transition to Agile/iterative delivery methodology.

CIM/ECIF October Release Project Manager

Coordination and management of developers, analysts and testers (QA) using C, Java, EJB, XML, web, and mainframe components and cross-platform teams on Nationwide’s customer-facing Customer Information Management (CIM) application.

SoA Capacity and Configuration Management Improvements

Certified Business Coach 2006 to 2010

Pickerington, OH

Owned and operated a Business Coaching franchise. Started and ran all aspects of my own business coaching consulting practice.

Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH 2000 to 2007

Held the following positions/titles:

Project Lead, IT Application Development – for Agency Back Office systems

Specialist, Business Consulting & Analysis – for Agency Back Office systems

Division Manager, IT Application Development – for Agency Compensation application team

Drove enterprise project management, solution delivery and run support for Distribution Solutions staffs.

Managed staffs of 5 to 15 direct reports and oversaw $1.5 to $3.8 million budget to research, plan, install, integrate and maintain hardware and software to support the Sales Applications Back Office applications in Distribution Solutions. Team comprised of business and systems analysts, project leads and developers.

Conducted strategic planning for application and department direction including system upgrades, software releases, operating and line item budgets.

Developed and reviewed RFPs, conducted ROI analysis and negotiated and reviewed contracts.

Controlled purchasing and resource management for our team and applications.

Tracked expenses and maintained budget integrity.

Conducted staff reviews, performance evaluations and determined salary increases (administration).

Led project teams, application development and run support units. Managed between 50 to 70 small and medium sized projects per year using Microsoft Project and Clarity. Tracked and repaired 110-150 production ad-hoc requests and defects annually. Responsible for analysis, design, issue/risk tracking, planning and implementation of software changes.

Motorists Mutual Insurance until 2000

Columbus, OH

Held the following positions/titles:

Application Developer – Property & Casualty, Life and Accounting/Actualrial application areas

Project Manager – Life application systems – responsible for development and run support

Sr. Project Manager – Managing application Project Managers

Development Center Manager – Managed senior application support staff (DBAs, Project Leads, Analysts, Sr. Developers and Project Managers), and administered the corporate application development methodology.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Defiance College

Master’s Certificate in Project Management, George Washington University

Introduction to Project Management, 2001

Advanced Concepts in Project Management, 2004

Project Leadership, Management and Communication, 2005

IT Risk Management, 2006

Project Scheduling and Cost Control, 2006

Software Testing for Better Project Management, 2006

Certified Business Coaching Training – ActionCOACH global, US and territory training

Performance Coaching, Franklin University, 2005 – coached a Franklin MBA student

Recent Coursework Completed:

Management Information Systems (MIS): A Survival Guide (EdX-2016)

Introduction to Project Management (EdX-2016)

Analytical Problem Solving and Design Thinking (EdX-2016)

Life Office Management Association – Passed LOMA exam parts 1, 2 and 6

Knowledge

Administrative & Financial: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Access), Lotus Notes, Constant Contact, Salesforce, QuickBooks, Social Networking (LinkedIn, Facebook, Meetup)

Project Management: Clarity/Open Workbench, Systems Development Methodologies (SDLC), Project Workbench, Pert Chart Expert, Nationwide ESDm (Overview, Initiate, Solution Scoping, Requirements), Business Analysis Diagramming (Entity Relationship, Data Flow, Use Case), ITIL, Agile, SCRUM

Programming/Technical: Unix, Client Server, COBOL, MVS, JCL, DB2, IMS, Oracle, SQL, Web Development (DNA, ASP, COM), TSO, ISPF, Windows, Adhoc Reporting/Query Tools

Other Accomplishments

Peace United Methodist Church 1995 to 2009 Held multiple chairman and leadership positions (Finance, Council on Ministries, Pastor/Staff Relations)

Fairfield County Central Committee 2006-09 Elected as party precinct representative

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