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Debbie MacGregor

Sr. IT Project Manager

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IT Global Manager, Information Technology Infrastructure, IT Security, SDM

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Professional Accomplishments

26 years in IT Global Management

23 years of experience in Portfolio management, End to Portfolio Systems Development Life Cycle (CDLC)

Troubleshooter, called in to get projects back on track, budget, time, and resource issues

Weekly vendor, project team, and Key holders reporting of Budget and analysis of goals

Risk identification and management/ Vendor management.

Created project-specific documentation.

ITIL/Agile/Waterfall methodology/MS PROJECT/SharePoint/Jira/Microsoft 365/Smart sheet's

Networking, Security, Routers, Switches, LAN, WAN, and MPLS

32 Years of Management experience

24 Years of IT and Project Management experience

Manager of 10-500 Network Engineers worked with Worldwide Recruiters for talent acquisitions. Worldwide employment agreements.

Professional Experience

Prudential New Jersey (Remote)

Consultant/Sr. Project Manager 10/2022 – 6/2023

Iris Software

This was a Data Center move project infrastructure-based. Prioritized to bring the project of 196 B2B VPN tunnels moved or disconnected from old data centers to new colocation. The project was behind 12 months when I started. With a review of Project data and artifacts, prioritized a new schedule that was completed on time. SDM work was requested and oversaw the updating of Standards and documentation for the project and for use after the project was completed.

Agile, Scrum, and waterfall

VPNs, Circuits, Azure

Teams, SharePoint, One Drive, Exchange, Jira

Cisco's preferred network

Cloud migration from on-prem.

Pearson San Antonio, TX (Remote)

Consultant/Sr. Project Manager 12/2021 – 6/2022

Javen technologies

Global company setting up and breaking down offices. Over-saw work in the US offices setting up the network and shutting down. Ordering Circuits, network equipment, WAP, and wiring of offices. Cloud migration from onprem to AWS. Guided worked exclusively on Network infrastructure and followed all company policies for network and security.

ITIL, waterfall, and agile methodologies.

Weekly project reporting calls setup

AWS migration from onprem devices. VMware

Audit of network devices

Recycling of EOL and EOS devices.

Ceridian Minneapolis, MN (Remote)

Consultant/Sr. Project Manager 07/2021 – 10/2021

Gavin Heath

The Project was defined as an M365 E3 to E5 migration for an M&A in the AU region. This payroll company had many domains that added to the complexity of the project. Migrations had to be done twice as the company had many employees in all regions of APJ. The migration also included moving all users to Ceridian domain and moving all users from Teams meetings to Zoom. Oversaw Change management or user changes (36 pages). Daily calls, working sessions, and stand-up calls. Cloud migration Oracle to Azure and Azure endpoint. Okta to Zscaler and Defender of 400 accounts plus users of 1100 employees. Another project migration of G-suite to M365 went smoothly.

Oracle Cloud, Azure, and Azure endpoint.

Okta, Zscaler, defender

G-suite to M365

Change Management, user changes

Teams to Zoom, Exchange updates and Changes

Daily calls, working sessions, stand-ups.

Arrow Electronics Centennial, Colorado (Remote)

Consultant/Sr. Project Manager 02/2020- 5/2021

Ash Group

Reinvigorated long-standing ongoing M&A integration projects and brought them to a close. Oversaw budget and kept projects on track and within budget. Used change management and followed Project protocols to help keep the timeline. M365, and O365 migration of 2,000 users in India to Greenfield then updated exchange for company users. Assisted in reporting on project progress, budget, and possible issues. Worked on desktop/laptop procurements, refresh projects, sending out emails, facilitating returns and RMA’s. Set up global meetings and facilitated meetings taking notes and action items, and managed the group approval on tasks, before ending a call. Involving the Security department in all new processes and getting approval. Managed the VPN change meeting with the internal network committee to approve and work with Engineers. Worked well with the time differences across the world, Australia, Japan, China, and India call all in one day.

M&A migration of M365 and O365

Budget, risk, and mitigation plans, SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)

Change management

SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint

Creation of project templates

Time zone management

Call center software change

Desktop Laptop Refresh

Security procedures MFA

Azure endpoints

Synoptek LLC Denver, Colorado

Sr. Project Manager/Program Manager 02/2019- 03/2020

Working on a minimum of 42 projects at a time; all infrastructure/cloud projects. Managed Services and infrastructure upgrades. Planned and assigned a group of 16 engineers to projects. Planned and conducted kickoff of projects, site survey, IT and Security assessments. Guided a high-level timeline for kickoff, milestones, and procurement of equipment, circuits, and PCs. The company used MS Project for detailed plans and then shared them with the engineer and client. Oversaw change order creation, established maintenance windows, and monitored work during the window. Conduct weekly and bi-weekly status meetings. Goal - is to give the client the best experience during the project.

MS Project

Cisco's preferred network

ITIL, Waterfall, and Agile

VMware, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure and endpoint.

IT security assessments

Card access, MFA, Video cameras, alarm system

SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)

First Data Corporation Englewood, Colorado

Consultant/Project Manager 08/2018- 02/2019

Tekmark

Working through EFTPS on IRS payments and updated tax codes for taxpayers. Managed the Infrastructure and Security department for software updates. Supervised the initial project requirements and worked with the BoA to produce the Business Requirements documents. This defined the Project Requirements that were presented to the project board. This was software project work, Mainframe, and Midrange applications for taxpayers. Security Clearance for Government Work.

MS Project, Excel

Clarity, Resource Utilization

Facilitate all meetings with BoA

Lessons learned documentation and presentation.

Software life cycle

Catholic Health Initiative Englewood, Colorado

Consultant/Project Manager 03/2017- 07/2018

Access Data

Planned 12 high-profile projects concurrently overall cost just over 15 million dollars. Managed an inventory of data center equipment using Solar Winds scans and hands-on confirmation. Prepared and developed Build of Materials from quotes from our vendor, Cisco. The primary project was defined as the WAN Distribution Block, allowing for traffic to traverse the local WAN and not go out to the National WAN. Oversaw 3 Data Centers upgrade of equipment and introducing an Intranet/Extranet DMZ.

MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Clarity, Service Now, SharePoint, MS Outlook, Visio, and Solar Winds.

ITIL, Waterfall, Agile

Project work, setting up weekly status meetings, reporting to Key holders and vendors.

Cisco Catalyst 6880, Palo Alto Firewalls, racking and wiring, Wireless Access Points.

IT Security, Network Engineers, Network architects, and Accounting

Site readiness, updating EOD, EOL, and patching.

WAN, LAN, - National and Regional WAN

Clinical Application Portfolio

Site Survey

Data center’s

Vendor management

Lessons learned.

Info Crossing Broomfield, Colorado

Consultant/Project Manager 08/2015- 02/2016

Wipro/Insight Global

Managed migration of Network equipment for Corning into Data Centers. Change orders and a complicated ticketing system are used. Created Project plans and high-profile client issues. Oversaw Stabilization plan for 7-Eleven to get the project back on track and move forward without issues. Communicated major milestones, identified potential risks, and conducted regular status meetings to review project activities and prioritization procedures. Worked closely with customers to complete the appropriate task and to get the project on track. Analyzed project processes and escalated when needed. oversaw cost risk management. Planned Server Migrations for 3 separate clients. Strengths in team leadership, developing and managing technical project implementation plans. Fifteen years of Infrastructure and Networking experience.

MS Project, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Clarity, Service Now, SharePoint, MS Outlook

ITIL, Waterfall

Project work, setting up weekly status meetings, reporting to Key holders and vendors.

Data center’s

Vendor management

Travel to client site.

Education

Westwood College of Technology graduated - 1999.

Computer Science Networking

President of the Student Body

University of Colorado at Denver No graduation 1999

BA English

Relevant Experience

Trustwave LLC Greenwood Village, CO 80112

Sr. IT Project Manager 03/2012 – 01/2013

DAM consulting Littleton, CO 80122

Consultant/ Network Engineer 04/2013 – 5/2015

JD Computers 5981 S Spotswood St Littleton, CO 80122

Consultant/ Network Engineer 04/1997 – 01/2012

United Personnel Greenwood Village, CO 80110

Consultant/ Sr. IT Project Manager 11/2001 – 4/2003

FirstWorld Communication Greenwood Village, CO 80110

Manager/Network Engineer 02/2000 – 11/2000

EDS Golden, CO

Network Engineer Y2K 4/1999 – 1/2000

Industries

Data Centre, Health Care, Government

Management Consulting

- Security Analysis

- Program Management,

- Business Cases Implementation & Analysis,

- Equipment audit, EOL/EOS analysis

- Clinical Application Portfolio

Project Management Methodologies & Tools

- PMI-PMBOK, Agile, Waterfall

- Six Sigma, ITIL, Smartsheet

- Change Management

- Agile, Continuous Improvement

- Remedy, Service Now, Clarity, Microsoft Excel

Leadership

- Change management

- Project Manager

- Collaborative leadership

- Negotiation & Conflict resolution

- Vendor Management, RFP, RFW

Cloud Services

- Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle

- VMware servers, routers, firewall

Compliance

- HIPPA, PCI Compliance

- International Labor laws

Data Centre Technologies

- Routers, Switches, Firewall

- circuits

- audits

- SolarWinds

Project Management Tools

- MS Project, MS PowerPoint

- MS Visio, MS Excel

- Jira, Service Now, Smartsheet

Network/Communications

- testing, structured cabling

- Routers - HP, CISCO

- Switches - HP, CISCO, Layer 2

- Firewalls – Juniper, Cisco, Check Point, FortiGate, Fortinet, Palo Alto

- UNIX, ACT, ORACLE, SUN, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Visio

- SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

Certifications - (no current certification)

- A+, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP Past certification)

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