ALAN G. ATWOOD, PMP

Newark, DE ***** 302-***-**** adb4b7@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/alan-atwood-13090a10

CERTIFIED PROJECT MANAGER

Experienced project manager with extensive experience in a variety of industries including financial services, chemical, manufacturing, government, engineering and research domains. Skillful at modeling, documenting and creating consensus around requirements; authoring statements of work (SOW), timelines, risk management analysis deliverables; driving projects to completion on time and on budget. Effectively translates the gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders and collaborators.

CORE STRENGTHS

Risk Management Information Security Project Management Cloud Technologies Application Delivery Budget Management Quality Assurance & Testing Vendor Management Software Development Agile & Waterfall Methodologies Infrastructure Domains Incremental Delivery e-Commerce & e-Payment Continuous Improvement Risk Mitigation & Control Driving the Scrum Cycle

CAREER SUMMARY

Suez Water Technologies Solutions – Trevose, PA 2019 – Present

Global Teams Project Manager (Consultant)

I manage a portfolio of commercial engineering projects, planning, managing, and executing an enterprise configuration, pricing, and quotation platform. This includes collaborating with stakeholders to develop the IT roadmap, business plans, ROI, and benefit stories while leading the execution of programs and projects. I monitor and track the performance metrics for commercial platforms, productivity, and benefits. I also engage IT areas Salesforce, ERP, Infrastructure, Commercial, and Risk including Modeling, designs and delivers solutions to meet Engineering requirements. This includes User Story authorship, system, logical and flow diagrams, and other documentation as needed, which in turn feed IT’s technical designs and documentation.

Leading and participating in activities to optimize processes including evaluating critical-to-quality (CTQs) against platforms to transform business processes for driving growth or productivity.

Owning engineering applications in a dev-ops environment, simultaneously leading new development and providing operational support for existing applications

Managing project and technical resources, leading through focused approach including structured meetings with agendas, outcomes and next steps; daily scrum meetings and regular status updates

Accomplishments

Teaming with the Business Process Improvement Group, IT and vendors to evaluate requirements to develop a launch plan for a customized software product, two years in the making within six months; completed the project on time and budget, encompassing the full scope.

Bridging gaps between the needs and objectives of the IT and Business Process Groups, aligning their understanding of the overall product roadmap, clearing the way to continue the project with a shared vision and objectives.

WL Gore & Associates – Wilmington, DE 2018 – 2019

Global Teams Project Manager (Consultant)

Engaged to consult/troubleshoot projects with issues. Planned and executed a variety of simultaneous projects. Projects included:

Gore Medical Vents & Stents Salesforce Community, an e-Commerce project managing a team of 20 with a budget of 10MM

Performance Salesforce Webstore – e-Commerce project managing a team of 30 with a budget of 15MM

Medical Document Imaging System & Upgrade – Drove enterprise upgrade of mission-critical imaging software and infrastructure managing a team of 12 with a budget of 20MM

Chemical Regulatory Reference System – provided expert advice and execution skills to the business successful implementation of mission critical compliance software. Managed a team of 15 with a budget of 8MM, bringing the project to completion in 30 days to meet a compliance deadline.

Accomplishments

Collaborated with the software vendor and business unit to implement a 3MM project in 90-days; the implementation was on-time and budget and functional with all business needs being met, enabling the company to continue critical compliance related activities.

Led a compliance driven medical imaging project to successful implementation with a remote team; completed complex project negotiations and identified, scheduled, and executed key deliverables; the project was delivered on time and within budget and ensured the company met documentation compliance requirements.

The Chemours Company – Wilmington, DE 2017 – 2018

Program Manager – Computer & Internet Security (Consultant)

Brought on board to operationalize security projects that were stuck in vision/planning stage. Developed a division roadmap for the Internet Security Group including charters, plans, and oversight while executing the authentication, authorization, and data access control. Project work included Agile or Waterfall planning and delivery, test group and validation, site-by-site planning, remediation, and launch. Projects included:

MS Multi-Factor Authentication $5.6MM – deployment of security critical access two-factor access control system

MS Identity Manager $12.5MM - security critical Identity Management project, enforcing access control to company data, resources and applications.

Process Control Firewall Rules Remediation $15MM – project updated access rules protecting research/production processes

USB Encryption using Digital Guardian – data leakage control project, encrypting data storage on generic USB drives and tying access to corporate security access controls. $3.5MM

Secure USB Deployment using Data Locker $7MM

Security Access Awareness Program $8MM – worked with a small team to evaluate vendors, eventually partnering with SANS institute to deploy an enterprise wide security education and awareness program.

Network Access Control product evaluation – provided detailed cost/benefit, ROI and feature/function analysis for corporate decision to deploy Forescout NAC solution, protecting enterprise network perimeter.

Accomplishments

Used expert influencing, planning, business consultation and execution skills to complete more projects in my 15 months than had been completed in the previous 5 years.

Implemented an enterprise wide security awareness education project in six months; evaluated education platforms, selected vendors, and launched the program in six months, resulting in a positive management reception and a lessening of positives in internal phishing testing.

State of Delaware – Dover, DE 2013 – 2017

Chief IT Consultant, Legislative Software Suite – Division of Legislature (Contract)

Engaged to plan and execute a complete overhaul of legislative software solutions in place for the State of Delaware. Served as business process improvement consultant, IT process, project and procedure expert. Drove RFP creation, contract negotiation, and selection of a vendor partner. Collaborated with vendor to devise and implement an upgraded roadmap for a dated suite of systems based on Lotus Notes to move from a fully segregated thick client system to a web-based system, focused on the security and confidentiality of data. Project segments included:

New Application Suite including a hybrid IAS/SAS content managed, public website using Amazon Web Services, Thunderstone Search Services.

Customized legislative tracking system –System tracked the progress of Acts, Bills, Laws, and other legislative instruments through the legislative process from start to finish.

Constituent Services Application through MS Dynamics CRM – served as Customer Service and Consumer Privacy expert as the legislature converted from a paper-based to automated CRM system.

Secure Grant-in-Aid System – implemented a secure online grant application system utilizing CRM workflow.

Delaware Legal Code Reference System – online, searchable encyclopedia of current legislation

Citigroup – Newark, DE 2011 – 2013

E-Payments Vendor Manager (04/11 – 03/13)

Coordinated with bank security and vendors for the vendor design, implementation, and delivery of a secure and reliable e-payment system; handled the information security compliance regarding key strategic e-payment assets. Project segments included:

Security Compliance – actively managed security compliance for six e-payment vendors, directing internal and external security audits, reviews of findings, remediation planning, execution and re-test.

Quality Assurance – coordinated and executed security screenings for each e-payment the six e-payments applications above; monitored and resolved issues ensuring compliance with the application’s security requirements.

Managed vendor relationships, ensured that all work was completed on time, on budget, and to specification.

Requirements Manager (11/11 – 03/12)

Managed the identification, development, and finalization of project requirements. Reviewed the vendor delivery process while collaborating to resolve legacy requirement issues and ensure timely delivery of project segments. Communicated the project schedule and timeline to developers.

Served as an interface between the business and system developers to ensure a shared understanding of software changes

Optimized of the requirements process using Joint Application Development Reviews

Created extensive requirements documents using Visio, MS Excel and MS Word

Homenet Automotive – West Chester, PA 2011

Project Manager & Analyst (Contract)

Managed a $5MM project for the creation of a comprehensive sprint plan for SCRUM based e-commerce project; implemented the planning sessions with developers and business partners, created data process flows, and functional specification documents.

Trained Business Analysts to identify and deliver clear, testable requirements for the developers.

Created clear, concise User Stories using Rally

Created detailed plans laying out complete sprint cycles for Scrum based project

Led requirements planning sessions, daily scrum sessions, and test review sessions

Wells Fargo – Philadelphia, PA 2009 – 2011

Business Analyst – International Trade (contract)

Analyzed a variety of projects including current and future state data flows and diagrams, business processes, project plans, process flow diagrams, SDLC analysis, and functional specification documents.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACCESS GROUP - Private Student Loans, E-Commerce (Wilmington, DE 2/2009-8/2009)

Utility Services Project Manager: Exelon (Kennett Square, PA 3/07-12/08)

E-Commerce Development Team Manager: Corporation Service Company (Wilmington, DE 2006-2007)

Project Manager / Business Analyst, E-Commerce, Comsys - Contracted to JP Morgan Private Bank (Newark, DE 2005-2006)

Project Manager / Business Analyst, RFID Security/Loss Prevention projects - Checkpoint Systems (Thorofare, NJ 2004-2005)

Project Manager / Business Analyst, ADA Compliance Card Project: H.L. Yoh - Contracted to Bank One (Wilm, DE 2003-2004)

Project Manager / Business Analyst, Retail Online Banking: The Bancorp Bank (Wilmington, DE 2002-2003)

Site Content Analyst / Project Manager, Commercial (B2B) E-Commerce, Info Systems - Contracted to AIG ( Wilm, DE 2001-2002)

Project Manager, Intranet Projects, Onsite Technologies - Contracted to MBNA (1Newark, DE 1997-2000)

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

University of Delaware – Newark, DE BA – English, Business & Technical Writing

Certifications

Project Management Institute PMP Certified & Agile (ACP) Qualified (1500+ hours of Agile Project Management)

Digital Mosaic, Inc. Business Analysis Certificate

TECHNICAL SKILLS

MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, & Visio Jira Rally MS Project TFS Salesforce CPQ

.Net MS SQL ServiceNow Azure AWS Digital Guardian Data Locker

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