adjje5@r.postjobfree.com, 647-***-**** Philip Cabral

Professional Summary

A strategic, results-focused Project Manager with over 15 years of IT experience in private, public, not-for-profit and consulting environments. Multi-lingual, adaptive to new situations/cultures, and expertise in delivering complex global solutions and building strong stakeholder relationships. Experienced delivering projects involving a diverse range of international industries in Manufacturing, Banking, Secondary mortgage providers, Pension funds, Government, Real estate, Logistics etc. Strengths

Leading local and global multi-disciplinary technical teams of various sizes

Successfully delivered high value projects, working as part of a team and respect for chain of command.

Detail-oriented approach to data-driven project deliverables.

Strong budget management skills.

A combination of Training and work experience with best practice, multiple project management techniques and processes.

Good verbal and written communications.

Improving processes through innovative problem-solving approaches

Multi-tasking and leading high performing onshore/offshore/outsourced teams

Communicating complex issues in simple terms and motivating others Professional Experience

MITechnology consultants Canada/ Global Nov 2019 – Date Sr. Project / Program Manager

As a contract project manager managed a variety of Cloud, Azure, O365, Teams, IT Infrastructure projects, M&A Divestiture

Clients include NewSignature (bought by Cognizant), JSG inc. Hydro companies, Bombardier, and De Havilland aircraft, Sunwing group, City of Mississauga, Blakes Law firm, Brookfield, Tarion Corp, York Regional Police, Inmarsat Global and more

Managed multiple projects with Canadian and remote global teams.

Very large: O365 deployments, On Premise to Azure and cloud migrations, Teams deployment,

Cross domain network upgraded and migrations, Global PAM (Privileged Access Management) deployment, Global network, DevOps, Infrastructure and desktop deployments and upgrade.

Projects delivered using multiple methodologies, traditional, Hybrid, Iterative, Agile Call/ schedule a chat for details. ** Some names available after NDA sign off. BC Pension Corporation Victoria, BC Jan 2019 – Sep 2019 Sr. Agile Project Manager and Coach

Rescued a $3.5 M project going off rails, took it from red to green and re- baselined.

Coached multiple teams in agile product road map and expectations management.

Created deliverables, project plans, governance models, managed risk matrix.

Changed the agile methodology approach to satisfy governance needs, in doing so improved overall efficiency and team morale.

Developed an enterprise SCRUM master’s council, (CoP) to implement best practices, JIRA, and adjje5@r.postjobfree.com, 647-***-**** Philip Cabral confluence management across the enterprise.

As project manager:

Coordinated with outsourced infrastructure teams in Canada and India.

Managed changes and upgrades scheduling with outsourced provider.

Diligently managed budget

Provided frequent updates and ran steering committee meetings for internal and external teams. Morguard Real Estate, Integration office Toronto, ON Apr 2018 – Dec 2018 Program Manager

Responsible for overall technical integration strategy of the proposed hotel real estate M&A project

Worked closely with CFO’s in Canada and US to create IMO (Integration management office)

Worked closely with CIO’s/ Directors in Canada and the US to review technology stacks (Apps and Infrastructure)

Manage and map relationships across the 2 enterprises one in Canada and other in the US.

Created a JV, technical integration model source and implement ERP, HRIS, governance and other solutions needed for the business.

Create and manage multiple LOB streams, HR, Space and real estate, IT Vendors etc.

Lead working groups to review outsourced contracts for Voice, WAN, Storage, and virtualized cloud servers.

Created and managed budgets for all initiatives

Corus Entertainment Toronto, ON Jun 2016 – Feb 2018 Program Manager/ Sr. Agile Project Manager

Responsible for delivering multiple programs associated with Shaw media and Corus merger; ~ $7 million enterprise program with 3 projects and project teams up to 35 resources, I managed the program and multiple projects within the program.

Took over a high-profile ERP conversion program in critical condition; re-established project baselines, delivery cadence and set executive and stakeholder expectations restoring executive faith in the project.

Managed 25 resources including: PMs, Infrastructure engineers, BAs, Developers, QAs, DBAs, SMEs, and multiple vendors.

Projects included: Oracle to MS Dynamics migration, 4500 seat Skype for business conversion.

Managed complete PRI to SIP conversion across the country with outsourced voice providers, setup of virtualized Skype servers, data bases,

Managed a project to migrate a 5000-server farm V2V and P2V cloud conversion some outsourced.

Negotiated costs with multiple vendors (SIP, Cloud, Telecom) saving more than $500,000. Supra ITS Toronto, ON/ Global May 2014– Jun 2016

Sr. Program Manager

Lead and mentored multiple teams, in Canada, India, UK and US using a follow the sun model, and projects totaling over $5 million, in SASS, PAAS and conversion from Data center to Cloud.

Prepared project charter and plan / schedule preparation

Reviewed and approved, project IT Infrastructure deliverables and artifacts, ensuring accuracy and completeness.

Developed and distributed regular project status reports; lead and attended regular client project status adjje5@r.postjobfree.com, 647-***-**** Philip Cabral meetings.

Prepared project change requests

Lead a global team of engineers and external vendor resources to build and execute a $6M private cloud platform at a SAAS 70 certified highly secure facility in Ontario.

Lead a program to migrate over 1000 servers from client datacenters to this private cloud platform and Azure generating significant MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue) for the company

Lead global teams to deliver O365 migration projects (over 1220 seats)

Clients included: Ontario Colleges Application Service, Nandos Chicken, Purity Life Health Products Navantis Inc. Toronto, ON May 2011 – May 2014

Sr. Project Manager

Managed a series of multimillion-dollar projects (over $30M) with onsite and remote teams up to 45 people and budgets up to $6.5M; some projects overview: (All projects delivered using agile methodologies)

Took over distressed, student registration, Oracle to MS platforming SAAS project, converted to agile, set up a delivery cadence and promoted into production with 2 million hits at peak time with .03 second response rate.

Achieved a 700% increase in donations by leading a team replacing an older website for Canada wide non- profit. Worked with business and technical teams to clearly define the business objective, raised awareness, consolidated branding across four regions.

Program managed and successfully delivered 2 phases of the only CDM (Conservation Demand Management) program of its kind in North America for BC Hydro, using Microsoft CRM as an XRM (any to any modeled relationship. Successfully helping existing client conserve and the Hydro CO. upsell surplus to new clients with the same generation capacity.

Distributed projects and teams managing resources and vendors based in Canada, US, Sri Lanka, India

Clients included: OCAS, BC Hydro, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Lake Ridge Hospital, College of Nurses of Ontario, MTO, Street Capital Bank,

Sunwest Mortgage (Bank) California, USA Aug 2010 – Jul 2012 Sr. Technical Project Manager

Optimized a SAS platform and proprietary tools to deliver 100 % month over month growth as the bank expanded with multiple branches and external mortgage agencies across the USA.

Managed projects with 10 local and 30 remote resources to deliver network, storage exchange, Gmail for business, Server virtualization (some outsourced) upgrades.

Ingested over 50 merged entities created on more efficient integration strategies, saving months of data cleansing, increasing productivity.

Took lead on project stakeholder engagement after noting a misalignment of expectations between delivery team and core stakeholders; organized and facilitated meetings; developed communications plan.

Saved the bank over $400,000, Re- platformed the SAAS platform on 2 Datacenters west coast and Virginia for disaster resiliency allowing platform to expand vertically and horizontally.

Developed a process for validating applications and version control and provided training to project team and leadership.

adjje5@r.postjobfree.com, 647-***-**** Philip Cabral Oxford Properties Group Canada /USA/UK 1997 - 2010 Director IT – REIT

Manager IT – Global

Project leader

Certifications and Training

Fintech- Blockchain and Fintech certificate – MIT

PMP - Project Management Professional

CSM - Certified Scrum Master

CSPO - Certified Scrum Product Owner

CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

Pg. Dip - Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science Education

University of Bombay, BCom – Economics, Accounting and Computer Science References

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