Mirza Beg

US Citizen 703-***-**** adg9u7@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Accomplished Program/Project Manager with extensive technology and business management experience across government, commercial, and education sectors with key emphasis on telecommunications, business analysis, process development, risk and change management. Managed a team engaged in planning, managing, and executing varied software development, customization, or IT systems development projects. Mentoring staff provide technical oversight and track attainment of project milestones. Reporting budget expenditures to project owners. Creative problem solver with demonstrated ability in leading cross-functional teams to deliver sustainable solutions and project results. A true team player and proven self-starter who can quickly adapt to changing environments and project demands. Worked with the hiring team to manage, train, develop, and evaluate staff. Oversee gathering of information to determine project parameters and specifications and to budget human, financial, and other resources. Education

• M.S. Telecommunications Design and Engineering, George Mason University 2007

• B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University 1997 Certifications and Training

• Certified Agile Service Manager (CASM) training completed 3/2017

• Security Plus training completed in 3/2017

• Cloud Computing 8/2016.

• PMP training completed in 11/2014

• ITIL V3 Foundation 9/2012

• Cisco Storage Networking Solutions Support Specialist (CSSS) 11/2007

• Cisco Data Center Network Solutions Sales 9/2008

• EMC Proven Professional Associate (EMCPA) 11/2007

• Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNA) 6/2004 Professional Experience

2/2020 – Present Amazon/Akraya -Program Manager III, Herndon, VA

• As a Global Program Manager working on AWS Direct Connect Centennial 100G project. Manage the resources in all global Data Centers, work with architecture design team, gathering project requirements, ordering Bill of materials, ordering fiber/cables and making sure the Data Center AC power requirements are completed. Assign engineers to the project, schedule change management for deployment. Provide weekly Report on all Global project’s activities and monthly report to upper management for whole project status. 6/2019- 9/2019 Neovera – Senior Technical Project Manager, Reston VA

• As a Senior Technical Project manager leads Infrastructure with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Cyber Security for Watch Guard for planning and implementation of assigned projects. Working with NOC and Change management team for assigned changes.

• Managing all architecture, budget and billing client requirements and working with Jira for all incident tickets.

12/2018 -4/2019 Altruista Health- Senior Lead Technical Project Manager, Reston, VA

• As a Senior Technical Project manager leads SAS base company for planning and implementation of assigned projects. Facilitates and defines project scope, goals, and deliverable. Defines project tasks and resource requirements; request resources. Assembles, manages and coordinates project staff.

• Assigns and monitors work of program and project management staff, providing technical support and direction. Develops or refines all related processes, procedures, and governance required to operate and execute programs and projects successfully in a global environment. Acts as point of escalation to drive collaboration with program and project team members to resolve conflicts and project issues and drives them to resolution.

• Manages project budget with an understanding of how funds will be utilized and expended over time for current and future projects. Establishes program metrics, monitors effectiveness and results of programs and adjusts accordingly· Tracks project deliverables using appropriate tools such as One Drive, Confluence, MS Project, SharePoint, Jira.

09/2017 –12/2018 American University - Senior Project Manager (PMO), Washington DC As a Senior Project Manager, responsible for successfully delivering technology projects for various areas of the University including; Library, Network infrastructure, Information Security, Database, Server & Virtualization and Software development. Excellent skills in interpersonal and written communications to successfully and implementation of project goals.

11/2009- 4/2017 Verizon - Transformation Manager, Ashburn, VA

• Working as the Principal Portfolio Manager for OpenText-GXS client, a portfolio account of generating $13M/yearly in revenue to Verizon.

• Experience with project management skills to plan, manage, and execute a wide range of federal business initiatives in multiple projects which includes expert experience providing oversight of all stages of the project life cycle to ensure, mitigate, or prevent schedule and cost.

• Responsible for the planning, management and progression of the IT transformation activities in an efficient and effective manner with particular focus on identifying and securing efficiencies and improvements in service delivery across the enterprise.

• Leading complex projects. Extensive experience in handling communications, planning and coordinating within the organization in multiple offices and at different leadership levels.

• Change Manager, worked on customer change management HP System management 9 and Verizon Global Change Management Verizon tool for internal change management with 99.8% meet or exceed SLA (Standard/Priority and Emergency) Changes. Attend customer daily CAB/CEB to represent Verizon with any change related activities. Average 3000 changes per year. Provide monthly report to customer for all Verizon Changes. Maintained 99% accuracy rate analyzing Request for Change risk factors, schedules & critical paths. Designed and built customized Business Objects metrics reports; monitored Change Management reports website to ensure data was accurate, current and relevant for upper management analysis.

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7/2007 – 5/2009 CDW – Lead Solutions Architect, Herndon, VA

• Responsible for architecture designing Data Center 3.0 Solutions for customers with technical focus primarily around Cisco. Provided engineering services for customer implementations, support and maintenance for WAN and LAN. Provided pre-sales support for large scale technical implementations. Developed and fostered close relationships with the following vendors: Cisco (WAAS, ACE, Nexus), Cisco ASA Check point firewall, F5, Riverbed.

3/2006 – 6/2007 KForce – Lead Senior Network Engineer, Washington, DC

• Part of VOIP infrastructure team for Computer Science Corporation project for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Responsible for installation and configuration of Cisco routers/switches, and Avaya VOIP phones and Check point firewall. Provided technical support for LAN/WAN issues. Led a team to deployment VOIP Avaya gateways and Cisco switches for 2000 nodes in 8 Plus locations in Washington DC, Detroit, MI and other states.

12/2003- 3/2006 Sprint Corporations- Lead Senior Network Engineer, Reston, VA

• Installation of high-speed circuits including IP, MPLS based VPN using RFC2547, MLPPP, MLFR, L2TPV3 tunnels, Frame Relay, ATM for GigE. Fast Ethernet T1,E1,E3,T3, OC3, OC12, OC48 & OC192. Configure Cisco routers for customer networks. Resolved escalated trouble tickets. Acted as mentor for junior engineers. Extensive hands-on experience with IP, DNS, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint firewall and BGP4. Worked on DNS, BGP4, Static, IP Class of Sevices. 5/1997- 8/2003 UUNET/MCI - Sr. Lead Network Engineer III, Ashburn, VA

• Installation & troubleshooting of high-speed circuits including GigE, Frame Relay, HDLC, ATM, and HSSI (T1, T3, OC3, OC12, & OC48). Assist customers in configuring CSU/DSUs (Larscom, Kentrox, and Adtran). Responsible for Cisco router configuration, IP sub netting/design, DNS/BIND assistance registering and configuring zone files for client's domains, QA/support for customers with over 1000 nodes.

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