PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Technical Project Manager, Technical Solution Manager, Project Lead.

Proven success in all aspects of project management, requirements management, solutions delivery, system analysis, data analysis, problem solving, change management, testing, and regulatory adherence.

Extremely customer centric, with the ability to focus on the bigger picture.

Ability to remain calm and focused in critical and demanding situations.

Ability to simultaneously manage multiple high priority, high impact, high value projects.

Trainer/mentor with the skills to motivate peak performance with local or global teams.

- Excellent project management skills

- Exceptional team development/leadership skills

- Proven record of delivering projects on time and on budget

- Broad knowledge of the SDLC in product development and IT environments

- Exceptional problem solver

- Champion of Continuous Process Improvement

- Hands on engineer experience developing hardware and software

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Elite Metal Masters, Saylorsburg, PA 2019 - current

Project Management Consultant

- Document work process

- Standardize estimating process

- Instill lessons learned and identify continuous process improvements

- Document employee expectations

- Standardize client notification

- Business development

- Build overall project plan and tracking system following PMBOK

Sanofi contracted through K Force, Swiftwater, PA 2017 - 2019

Project Leader 4

- Delivered $4M dollar data center infrastructure refresh project following PMBOK like PUMA process

- Met client goal managing project with minimal direction

- Developed integration plan and end to end waterfall schedule encompassing new infrastructure install, turn up and cut over of GxP network hardware infrastructure, network equipment, network software, storage, virtualization systems, backup, user and group shares, enterprise applications, and manufacturing applications.

- Led managed and monitored receiving, installation, turn up and port by port cut over to new network, minimizing outages through risk analysis, mitigation and collaboration of >30 resources, across functional IT organizations, industrial operations and production users

- Developed, executed, maintained change management plan using SNOW and internal process.

- Quick ramp on companies IT architecture, technology and PUMA processes

- Identifying transversal impact of systems and application ownership following a structured approach using forensic data analysis

- Continual collection and application of lessons learned

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain waterfall schedule identifying critical path and completion forecast

- Hold design reviews, publish review notes, obtain approvals

- Drive war room sessions to close cross tower design/implementation issues

- Execute plan driving development of project documentation

- Coordinate Project Steering Committee meetings staying aligned with project sponsors

- Develop and present Steering Committee meeting content

- Maintain effective communication with team and stakeholders using enterprise tools and meeting minutes in Sharepoint, Onenote and Planview

- Maintain issue and risk register facilitating identification and communication

- Assess risk through team collaboration creating mitigation plans for high risk dependencies

AT&T Contracted through Cartesian, Bedminster, NJ 2010 - 2017

IT Technical Project Manager, IT Technical Solution Manager

- Led solution and planning of 16 ($75K to $700K) cloud transport infrastructure and software projects each with >10 resources for global datacenter expansions using waterfall(Prism) and agile(Rally)

- Coached/collaborated with PMO, documenting process for Cloud infrastructure projects

- Led planning, execution and deployment of 7 ($0.5M to $4M) with >15 resources for IT application update projects using waterfall (PRISM)

- Led infrastructure impact analysis on 300+ applications with >60 resources, initiating funding and creation of infrastructure projects

- Concurrently managed as many as 8 parallel projects in highly matrixed global organization

- Analyzed resource loading data by application across VP Tower to balance application impact across release cycles reducing portfolio estimate by 60%

- Analyzed legacy fulfillment codes to differentiate products for ordering, billing, journaling to migrate products to target architecture

- Developed test approach to validate legacy fulfillment code operation in target architecture

- Ramped quickly on processes and associated tools to deliver projects in 4 different IT program teams

Responsibilities:

- Maintain biweekly project status for Governance Board

- Communicate using enterprise tools and meeting minutes

- Managed project budgets at portfolio and project level

- Managed requirement and design reviews maintaining review notes and document signoff

- Led collaboration with project teams to detect and investigate dependencies early reducing delivery risk

- Assessed and recommended mitigation plans for high risk items

- User acceptance test planning, execution and approval

- Managed and maintain communication for VP level issue escalation meetings

- Authored user and system level requirements, end to end business scenarios

- Led cross functional debug/root cause analysis of end to end test defects

- Led transversal analysis of systems to solution features

Dialogic Corporation (Dialogic, Intel, Eicon), Parsippany, NJ 1989 – 2009

Technical Project Manager, System Test Manager, Test Engineer

- Led/planned/deployed using Theory of Constraints method, >$15M, AdvancedTCA based 500 Port Multimedia Platform program to production. Named Internet Telephony 2006 Product of the Year; 2008 R&D 100 Award for the most technologically significant product; Frost & Sullivan 2007 Global Excellence Award

- Led/planned/deployed using waterfall PMBOK like process > $5M project features in software and hardware SKUs to production

- Managed international launch customers software feature request planning and deployment

- Led internal software issue resolution planning, integration, testing, deployment of IP gateway interface products

- Established software feature release methodology reducing unpredictable 2 to 3 month release cycle to monthly release

- Developed/published interoperability matrix supporting integration of a diverse product set

- Authored white paper and tech notes

- Solved highly visible technical issues on site at customers premise

- Solved highly visible hardware production issues

Responsibilities:

- PMO development team member

- Presented product status and future roadmap at key customer sites

- Managed weekly program review of 3 key customers

- Presented program status, plan exceptions and mitigation to senior management/stakeholders

- Drove planning of feature and system test execution to single plan

- Led software defect triage assignment to appropriate resources

- Managed launch customers transitioning to IP telephony

- Designed/established system test and integration lab with 7 direct reports

- Developed product training plan for new hires

- Established/tracked group budgets

- Developed hardware and software (C, Assembler)

- Supported hardware interfaces from business requirements, through system requirements, development, test, system test, continuing engineering to obsolescence

- Control Board member with sign off on bill of materials, drawings and change documentation

Other relevant experience:

Project Management Methods: Waterfall(project plan, schedule development, business requirements, system requirements, test requirements, release) Theory of constraints, Agile(epics, user stories, requirements)

Requirements management

Electronic circuit development

Software development, SDLC

Test development

Test execution

Test management

Defect management

Customer management and support

Escalation management

Resource Management

Regulatory related: FCC Part 98, Part 68, ISO 9001 internal auditor, GxP

Telephony technologies: CAS, R2 CAS, ISDN, VOIP, 3G324, SIP, H323, H245

Video codecs: MPEG4, H.263, H.264

Audio codecs: G.729, G.723, GSM, EFR-GSM, G.726, Oki, G.711

Bus interfaces: AdvancedTCA, PCI Express, PCI, cPCI, ISA

Operating systems: Windows, Linux, UNIX,

Programming languages: Assembler, C, C++, BASIC

Software tools: Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Video Editors, Clear Quest, Visio, Cool Edit, Visual C++, AutoCAD, REQPRO, VTune, Doors, Quality Center, Rally, GeodIS, Planview, SNOW

IT Project Management Process: PRISM, PUMA, Agile SCRUM with Rally

IT Project Management Infrastructure: Netware ESX, SAN, NetApp, DataDomain, NetBackup, Simplivity, Comvault, Veritas, Database migration, VM migration, Physical migration, NAS migration, Storage migration

Home Construction: Architecture, design, drawing, plan, elevation, electrical wiring, plumbing, hydronic heat design, framing, siding, roofing, flooring, kitchen design, permitting, bull dozer operation, backhoe operation

Radio: repair, refurbish, design, RF circuits, AF circuits, antennas

Extra class amateur radio, licensed since 1976

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