Richard A. Lorenz

IT Senior Project Manager

Career Objective:

To provide clients with dedicated and focused IT project management services, thru my leadership, team building abilities and national /international experience.

IT Technology Expertise:

Pre-Sale Support – Support sales AE’s with technical pre-sale activities (requirements gathering, solution analysis and proposal architecture. Creation of project pricing matrix’s based on internal and external vendor resources. Creation of Customer Statement of Work (SOW) documents.

Project Management: - Excellent negotiation skills, acquired through extensive interaction with clients, project teams and partner vendors. Conversant in project tracking, financials, strategy, project planning, business case development, back end billing and customer presentations.

Staff Management: - Career experience in managing and motivating technical IT support staffs.

Career Experience Examples

McCollisters Transportation., Raleigh, NC

Technical Project Manager

Provide pre-sale technical support to internal sales executives

Manage Service delivery Team for MTS

Analyze Client Requirements and provide project and technical solutions

Authored Statements of Work for customers and created project budget financial spreadsheets.

Prepared Project Plans for management and delivery of projects.

Worked with resource management to staff projects for service delivery.

Deliver multiple relocation projects (small/large – single/multiple phase.

Provided backend project closeout support. (financial and customer facing).

Butler America, LLC., Raleigh, NC

Technical Project Manager

Provide pre-sale technical support to internal sales executives

Authored Statements of Work for customers and created project budget financial spreadsheets.

Prepared Project Plans for management and delivery of projects.

Worked with resource management to staff projects for service delivery.

Deliver multiple relocation projects (small/large – single/multiple phase.

Provided backend project closeout support. (financial and customer facing).

Butler International, Inc., Raleigh, NC

Technical Project Manager

Managed IP video camera installation project for national LEC client at 6 of their customer service locations

Managed Network Assessment Project for a national commercial real estate management client.

Managed a 265-network node branch implementation project for regional banking customer.

Managed 10 Phase data center Relocation Project (320 Cabinets) for a Storage Solution client.

Managed 2 Phase data center Relocation Project (30 Cabinets) for a national catalog distribution client.

Managed a PC video conferencing deployment project for national pharmaceutical customer.

Managed a 500-network node software and hardware upgrade project for national electronics manufacturing customer.

Managed a 360-network node branch conversion implementation project for regional banking customer.

Managed a 65-network node DSL implementation project for national Trucking Corporation.

Managed Network Installation project for a national liquor distribution client.

Managed Physical Security Assessment for national health hotline client.

Managed 1500-node customer network for stock market trading service provider.

Managed Frame Relay to ATM 680 site network backbone conversion project.

LUCENT Technologies

Network Engineer – Network Installation

Responsible for network design of ATM backbone replacement solution for the U.S. Government.

Developed and documented preliminary design integration of ATM solution into existing architecture.

Provided Systems technical and analytical support to ensured network performance.

Responsible for hardware, software and site integration, testing and acceptance.

Responsible for onsite installation and cabling of Pair Gain T1 line concentrators, Cisco LS1010 ATM Switch’s, Ethernet Hubs, and Cisco 2511 Terminal Servers.

AT&T

Technical Project Manager – Global Network Implementations

Responsible for technical implementation and management of complex customer global Frame-Relay and ATM Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions.

Manager – CFO/FSO Data Services

Responsibilities included developing technical project plans, defining requirements, scheduling projects and implementation of customer enhancements of corporate financial systems.

Managed PC/LAN internal customer support group, which included a technical staff of 12 technicians.

Project Managed Data Center Disaster Recovery planning.

Manager – Consumer Products Information Services

Managed a technical support group staff of 20 technicians and 10 supervisors responsible for both network engineering and project management for the deployment and installation of the customer networks.

Project Manager – Software Application Development

Performed and acted as both project manager and systems analyst for major software applications.

Responsible for requirements gathering, enhancement negotiations, maintenance request tracking, release scheduling, user acceptance testing, implementations and satisfaction measurements.

Education: PMP Certified – Project Management Professional

NYU - New York, NY

Data Processing Institute - New York, NY (Computer Operations)

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