Manager Project
Resume:
Michael Cohen
Candidate Location: Cedar Grove, NJ
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Professional Summary:
A Senior professional and experienced Project Manager with over 20+ years of experience involved in planning and executing infrastructure programs in global environments with an outstanding ability to effectively lead technical and business stakeholders at all levels in the enterprise.
Experience in managing multiple projects surrounding technology infrastructure including data center design, builds and migrations, service/server hosting, disaster recovery and business continuity, storage area networking, server hardware/operating system refreshes of varied scope, IT Security, LAN/WAN, telephony, from requirements through operationalization and turn over to support.
Strong portfolio and project management/leadership and planning skills including experience in managing projects using various structured methodologies such as SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, and others.
Experience in building new data centers to support new capabilities and Integration of networks post-merger.
Experience in technical integration of back end data sets for research, estimates, and filings, delivery of new economic data back end.
Good experience to handle detailed and complex project plans, budgets, and schedules, ensuring deliverables are met, and project resources properly allocated.
Experience in implementation of virtual server infrastructure, technical implementation portfolio analytic and list capability for flagship product (Eikon).
Experienced in analyzing complex projects, setting objectives, and managing projects to successful completion.
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate/report technical and business issues and solutions to constituents.
Highly developed communication and organizational skills, exceptional attention to detail and ability to work independently or under supervision.
Technical Skills:
Network Servers, Switches & Optical Networks, IT Datacenter design builds & standards for structured cabling, Fiber based Optical Networks, DWDN hardware platforms, Agile Development, BDD/TDD, SAAS Application Architecture, Cloud Solutions, Open Stack, SOA, IAAS, PAAS, Data Management, Big Data, Hardtop, Spark, Directories Services, TCPIP, DHCP, DNS, Cisco LAN/WAN, F5, Palo Alto, intrusion detection/prevention/firewalling, MS Project, Excel, Primavera (Project Manager), Service Now & Work Front, System Development Life Cycles (SDLC), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Waterfall, Agile environment.
Professional Experience:
Refinitiv, New York, NY Oct 2018 – Oct 2020
Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
Responsible to drive data center consolidation projects that resulted in ~$400M annual cost savings.
Led BC/DR program of cross-functional technology teams responsible, ensuring alignment with company policies. Ensured that the results are documented for auditors.
Responsible to protect revenue by executing large scope, high risk, simulation-type disaster recovery exercises, ensuring ensure resiliency against disasters to drive continuous improvement/lessons learned.
Manage the team to ensure the project was delivered on time and budget and met stakeholder’s expectations.
Developed and managed project schedules status, resources, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines throughout the project with input from the application managers, business partners and project team.
Manage the schedule and budget for the project using Microsoft projects.
Provided formal and regular communications and escalation to management and customers.
Created technical proposals, defined deadlines, release schedules, and estimated delivery dates of IT projects
Responsible to identify issues/risks and proposed solutions to governance teams for resolution.
Thomson Reuters, New York, NY Mar 2007 – Oct 2018
Senior infrastructure Project Manager
Worked with internal teams to monitor project deliverables/ milestones and resolve all infrastructure/datacenter critical path issues related to migrations and decommissions efforts.
Determined project methodology/method of working (agile vs waterfall).
Responsible for defining, documenting, and executing projects of extreme high risk, complexity, and visibility, and actively participating in all phases of the project.
Designed, buildout and delivered data center infrastructure (storage, networking, server, structured cabling, cooling, electrical)
Identified, assessed, and managed risks to the success of the projects.
Assisted in developing business cases for large projects with significant impact to company goals.
Responsible for producing all typical project documentation including; detailed project plans, work plans, schedules, project estimates, conversion schedules, resource plans according to best practices.
Created and maintained status reports for senior management/decision makers.
Ensure the quality/KPIs/metrics.
Managed the wealth, estimates, research technical roadmap/portfolios.
Highlighting divergence from scope, schedules and adjusting where necessary to reflect changing circumstances.
Lead and manage the day-to-day activities of team members including coaching, objective setting, performance management, and talent management.
Sanofi-Aventis, Bridgewater, NJ 2004 -2006
Project Manager/Infrastructure consolidation
Worked independently and partners with application managers/directors, stakeholders and system level subject matter experts to drive the work of the project team for large or highly integrated projects and programs.
Facilitated and controlled the on-time completion of multiple datacenter infrastructure deployments and data migration projects.
Worked as a Project manager for the creation, installation, testing of a web server farm, built with windows 2003/IIS.
Responsible to create, manage, and maintain, project plans related to migrating over 200 web sites to the IIS server farm.
Created all documentation to comply with life cycle documentation requirements.
Worked with business owners and technical resources to ensure proper delivery of the applications to the IIS server farm.
Developed standard operating procedures for technical staff for migrating sites to the web server farm, including naming standards, DSN standards, and directory structures.
Achieved ~$700K in annualized cost savings by consolidating web/application servers from a mix of Windows NT, Windows 2000 to a centralized Windows 2003 web server farm.
Hoffmann-La Roche, Nutley, NJ 1996 - 2004
Project Manager /Infrastructure Manager
Worked as an Architect and supported consumer facing infrastructure.
Managed all aspects of internet website infrastructure environments inclusive through hardware with respect to high availability and redundancy.
Managed hardware/infrastructure project and overall infrastructure build out including project time line, scope defining, resources/task allocations, project dependencies, and critical path issues.
Established the technology standards and process for websites.
Responsible for the management of employees (F/T, P/T) and third parties.
Handled hardware, software, and reference material purchasing decisions and recommendations within allotted budgets.
Performed good communication with global counterparts to facilitate all aspects of domain name management.
Handled ongoing responsibility for ensuring availability and scalability of environments with compliance to Privacy, Security, FDA, and HIPAA initiatives.
Responsible for the development and ongoing management of Disaster Recovery plan for all North American Pharma Internet websites inclusive through an architected DMZ solution.
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