Michael Sharrow
Melbourne, FL *****
adwh9m@r.postjobfree.com
Highly focused Sr. Project Manager with over 15+ years of Project and Program
Management experience in analyzing, planning, developing, and scheduling projects on time and
under budget. Experienced in establishing and implementing a foundation for training processes,
managing all technical stakeholders and personnel. Resourceful in IT-related projects, and specializes with inclusive of
Information Technology (IT) Infrastructures, Department of Defense (DOD) and Military Project integrations such as Satellite
Systems, Special Forces Transit Case Systems, Mobile Command and Control Communications systems,
Aegis Shipboard Communications – Radio Communications Suite (RCS),
Army Ft. Bragg 82nd Airborne Emergency Operations Center (EOC),
Seal Team’s (SBU’s) along with supporting some of SOCOM’s and EUCOM communication
systems. Mike obtained, and held a "Top Secret" Clearance for many years, which is now expired.
Authorized to work in the US for any employer as a US Citizen (USC).
• Documented more than 40,800 project hours thru the Project Management Institute (PMI).
• Strong experience with LAN/WAN Integrations, large military system installations, system
performance testing, training, customer deliveries, User Acceptance Testing (UAT’s) and Go-Lives.
• Experienced w/ Project Management (PM) Methodologies with the Project Management Institute
(PMI) & the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) Series, Agile, Waterfall (Sprints).
• Versed with PM Tools MS Project, Smartsheet’s, SharePoint, Primavera, Visio,
AutoCAD 10/11/12/13.
Standard Life-Cycle Support Project Functions (Initiation, Planning, Execution,
Control & Monitoring, and Closing)
• Manage projects using MS Project and Visio
• Develop Project Management Office (PMO) procedures and workflows.
• Identify risks (Risk Register/RACI) prior/during/post project commencement and resolve project
issues throughout project life cycle.
• Regularly prepare project status reports weekly & monthly (Stakeholders &
Executives).
• Engineering Change Proposals (ECP’s) Change Management Process & Requests and utilized
specific documentation by customer for tracking.
• Use MS Project/Server to ensure all parties are informed regarding schedule, budget and Work
Breakdown Structure (WBS) Milestones on each project managed.
• Coordinate the development of documentation to enable implementation and turnover of the
system.
• Lead team/stakeholders in meetings w/ client expectations and project deliverables.
• Conduct post-project evaluation (Lessons Learned).
• Participate in Senior Management briefings.
• Provide budget and FY forecasting analysis and recommendations on all projects.
• Develop Project Management Office (PMO) and governance procedures and workflows throughout
each of the Projects.
Management Office (PMO) Governance Process.
• Maintain governance & compliance with recommended Project Management Office (PMO)
Procedures and Documentation.
• Experienced Developing Feasibilities, Charters, Statements of Work (SOW), Scopes of Work (SOW),
and Performance Work Statements (PWS) and Labor/Material/BOM
Estimates for each of the projects managed.
• Evaluate proposals/quotes against contracts, charters, statements of work or Scopes of Work
(SOW’s) for company evaluation.
Work Experience
Sr. Technical Project Manager
Health Systems Informatics (HSi) & Cruitek - Tacoma, WA
October 2022 to April 2023
(Remote)
Supporting a major Healthcare/Hospital System, Dell's EMC VxRail Hardware &
Software resulting in an upgraded & refreshed network hardware platform.
• The primary and secondary data centers, along w/ twenty-eight satellite locations were updated.
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) technology networking platform was implemented.
• Cyber security standards were established to support the federal & state mandates.
• The new network hardware allowed for greater efficiency with monitoring and supporting their robust
network.
• The data domain was supported by using Isilon (Dell's Software) solutions to manage the hardware,
and VEEAM’s (storage/backup) software.
Sr. Technical Project Manager
Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) - Orlando, FL
May 2022 to September 2022
(Remote)
Supporting the ninth largest school district in the nation.
• Managed Business Analysts, Project Coordinators, Project Mangers to implement software programs,
and to conduct organizational change management.
• Projects included the following, Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Canvas
• Learning Management System (LMS), Connect Orange, CPSI, Documentum, Everbridge, Florida
Department of Education FLDOE-FLEID, Financial Aid, Florida State Reporting, Human Capital
Management (HCM), SAP, Skyward, Microsoft’s Single Sign On (SSO), Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC), Parental Rights Legislation, and Pearson.
Sr. Technical Project Manager
Tupperware - Orlando, FL
February 2022 to May 2022
(Remote)
Focused on customer success and managed several projects to include:
· Global Zoom roll out: Worked with Lumen for the execution of the project through
Tupperware
(Lumen, and SIPCOM PM) Prioritization of the Markets internationally, which required managing over 68
Tupperware sites in forty-six countries, with multiple sites at these locations.
This region consisted of
· EMEA, APAC, North and South America’s. As the PM, authored a white paper explaining the technical
aspects of the Zoom Rollout Project.
· Remedy force Project rollout in Asian Pacific (APAC) region: Key role interfacing with the Markets in the
Asian Pacific (APAC) region to meet project requirements.
· Global Disaster Recovery: These project requirements were implemented using
Microsoft’s Project. This design was meant to be migrated into the cloud and considered an IT
Infrastructure project.
· Windows 10 Cloud Migration – Americas: The biggest challenge for the PM was one of the Tupperware’s
Plants. This Plants network and the manufacturing software, required upgrading to meet today’s robotics
functionality. The S/W system was currently running on an outdated operating system and platform. That
system was to become obsolete (Sun-setted).
· Windows 2008 servers – Americas, it was necessary for the PM to facilitate the remaining servers to be
migrated into the Cloud environment with updated software. This meant conversions to Office
365 Cloud Migrations.
· PMO Committee Infrastructure Portfolio Projects – Projects were tracked within
Smartsheet’s.
Program Manager/VP of Operations
Ballast Point, LLC - Dover, DE
January 2021 to January 2022
(Remote)
Program Manager of Operations, tasks were associated with managing multiple departments, staffing
mangers, overseeing Project Managers, and managed large projects within the company.
· Extensive knowledge of the industry finances and employee output while understanding and striving
to meet the company’s strategic goals, mission, and values.
· Lead departments and operations of the company.
· Budgeted, Monitored, and controlled costs for multiple programs and projects worldwide.
· Worked with Human Resources (HR) to implement and refine company policies and procedures,
Guiding, directing, and evaluating the work of managers and executive team members, Creating and
implemented a strategic plan, leveraging company output to improve ranking in the competitive business
and landscape.
· Identifying, assisted with hiring trainers, and developing leaders within the company, and setting them
on a path for management.
· Developed a Project Management Office (PMO) to assist in hiring qualified
Project Managers to perform and manage internal & external company projects & initiatives.
Sr. Technical Project Manager/Engineer (Remote)
Oracle Corporation - Orlando, FL
August 2015 to December 2020
Supported both the federal government and healthcare systems by Managing over fifty projects
simultaneously, with major clients, vendors, stakeholders, and internal technical teams to troubleshoot
and resolve complex. hardware/software technical implementation issues. This occurred at the program
level for Oracles’ large customer base world-wide.
· Clients consisted of Corporations, US Federal Government, US Department of
Defense (DOD), Healthcare Agencies,
State and Local governments, academia, and universities, foreign governments, and foreign companies.
· Applied industry expertise to improve all aspects of project planning and resource management. This
ensured that these projects were executed to specification, and within an established period and budget.
· Owned and resolved technical issues for customer/client utilizing Oracles’
Project Management software,
PM Tools, and platform. Acted as a lead subject matter expert for software and technology concerns.
· Managed technical issues real time. Escalated core designs, reliability, and maintenance problems or
bugs to Oracle’s developmental teams for major fixes. Daily interaction with
Oracle clients and stakeholders.
· Assisted other Project Managers in managing go-lives for the newest product launches like v12.2 for
Montgomery County government and other government entities. Oversaw User
Acceptance Testing
(UAT), beta test and resolved issues using SQL Scripts and Java.
Uniformed Law Enforcement Officer (LEO)
Palm Bay Police Department – Uniform Operations - Palm Bay, FL
January 2009 to December 2015
As a Law Enforcement Officer (LEO), he was delegated the responsibilities and duties of crime
prevention and responding to calls for service (CFS). He conducted investigations, served arrest warrants,
apprehended suspects, and performed traffic control duties. Last two years of service was on the Youth
Services Unit (YSU) & Gang Task Force Unit. (Michael was injured “in-the-line-of-duty” and forced to retire
from Law Enforcement).
Program Manager
Mohawk Industries - Lexington Park, MD
January 2006 to December 2009
(Remote)
Directed the implementation, training, and installation activities for large, medium, and small
communication systems projects worldwide. Assisted writing of government contracts, & RFP’s
· Leveraged and interfaced with the following teams on contracts: Red/Blue Teams,
Marketing, technical teams, engineers, technicians, marketing and product development, training
development, technical writing, proposal writing, & procurement to meet contractual obligations.
· Focus retention on Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
· Managed Network Connectivity
Sr. Technical Project Manager
Dictaphone Inc. - Melbourne, FL
August 2002 to January 2006
(Remote)
Supported Healthcare systems, as the Sr. Project Manager, was Director of the
Project Management Office (PMO). Assisted with project implementations, training, and installation
activities for large, medium, and small hospital information systems projects worldwide. Emphasis was on
scope management, time management, risk management, cost management and issue management.
Assisted in the design and implementation for over. six-hundred Information Systems projects totaling
over $65-$100 million, utilizing wireless and wired IP. networks over ATM technology, carrying VOIP,
video, data networks for use at over two hundred civilian hospitals nationwide.
Executed PMI/PMP methodologies.
Sr. Project Manager
Dura Industries Inc. - Lexington Park, MD
January 2000 to December 2002
Managed contracts for various system projects and divisions. Responsibilities included customer
interfacing, interaction with technical teams, managing other project managers, engineers, and
marketing departments, and assisted with product development, technical development teams.
· Created incremental build schedules/strategies, and financial analysis for sales, and profit margins.
Analyzed and supported sub-system budgets costs versus actual cost.
· Managed, evaluated, and negotiated all subcontract provisions and terms and conditions prior to
contract award. Prepared and managed RFPs for bid-packages ranging in value from
$5M - $45M.
· Managed System projects totaling over $20M utilizing wireless/wired IP networks over ATM technology
and utilizing T-3 circuits/lines on subcontract proposals.
Project Manager
C-CUBED Corporation - Lexington Park, MD
January 1990 to December 2000
Managed programs, personnel, and project tasking for Systems Integration Division
(SID). Created multi-million-dollar budgets and tracked project expenditures, equipment, materials, and
consumables. Specialized in the installation of encrypted communications equipment.
• Procured, assessed, and configured network hardware including bridges, routers, multiplexers, time-
plexed hubs, gateways, network and mail servers, and encryption devices.
Documented findings in the form of test and evaluation plans, engineering diagrams and engineering
change proposals (ECPs).
• Managed and served as Subcontracts Manager for the Army Special Operations Command Network
(ASOCNET), Emergency Operations Center Portable LAN project (EOC),
• Task Unit Vans Portable LAN (TUV P-LAN), and SOC-KOR Deployable LAN system (SOC-D)
• Managed the Network Operation Center (NOC) LAN/WAN for the Information Technology Branch of the
Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWC-AD), and the Naval Electronics Systems Engineering
Activity (NESEA) Base
Education
BA in Criminal Justice
Keiser University
AA in Criminal Justice
Keiser University
AA in Criminal Justice
Eastern Florida State College, Institute of Safety and Law Enforcement Police Academy
Competencies
• COM Networks, EU-COM Networks, Aegis Cruiser Missiles (Radio Communication Suites)
• 40, 800+ PMI Hours. Soft Skills: Knowledgeable in Cloud, Java, SQL Scripts,
• SIPERNET Networks
• DISN Networks
• DISA Networks
• Defense Security Pentagon Networks
• Waterfall
• SQL
• Visio
• PMBOK
• Test cases
• Jira
Certifications and Licenses
PMP
MCSE
• Data Defense Networks, Motorola Network Encryption Systems (NES) - Pentagon, Novell Server Systems Admin, SATCOM Networks
• NT Server 3.51, NT Workstation 3.5.1, Network Design and Implementation, DARPA Networks