ANDREW G. BIZUB

Morristown, NJ ***** 973-***-**** adwhk5@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/andrew-bizub-90071b

Delivery Lead - Team Leader - Project Manager

Extensive, successive experience as a technical professional with established consulting and management skills serving a wide variety of industries including consumer and packaged products, retail sales, textiles, plastics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, electronics, jewelry/luxury products, communications, publishing and printing; people focused. Recognized for innovative work; led cross-functional groups, able to coach and cultivate software talent. Highly motivated, dependable, and very adaptable to changing technical environments; creative thinking and enjoy tackling tough and varied business problems.

Technical Leadership: Aligned with teams across the enterprise to assess and deliver technical solutions to support client operations and initiatives

Project Management: Managed project teams (onshore, offshore, contractors); Staffing; Budget; Controls; Issue Management; Delivery

Non-technical Skills: Solid work ethic; excellent analytical, leadership, problem-solving, client management, teamwork, and excellent research skills. Ability to see the big picture as well as get down to task details. Proven team lead & experienced trainer.

Project Innovations: Completed many projects from concept to production; deep experience in full implementation lifecycle, upgrades and custom development; involved technical componentry in supporting integration, conversion, enhancements, extensions, and reporting.

Technical Expertise: 20 years of various capacities with Oracle JDEdwards (JDE) products - WORLD, One World, Xe, EnterpriseOne 9.0. 9.1, 9.2 - JDE Toolset, and EDI; strengths include managing technical teams, design and solutions architecture.

Business Analysis: Developed solutions and processes to address business needs; subject matter expert, ensured service needs understood, designed, and implemented for multiple program offerings. Solid technical writer: specifications and documentation

CORE COMPETENCIES

IT and Business Stakeholder Engagement Solution Conceptualization / Tech Design Formal Processes, Policies, and Controls Strategy, Planning, and Estimation Team Selection and Management IT Standards/SDLC/SLAs/KPIs Monitoring/Status Reporting Sales Pursuit/RFP/Oral Presentation Testing and Quality Assurance Waterfall/Agile Methodologies Workshops/Joint Design MS Office, PROJECT/VISIO - SQL - ServiceNow - SharePoint - TEAMS - WebEx – VersionOne – Azure DevOps (ADO)

Fortune 500 Involvement: CVS Health, AT&T, Express Scripts, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Sony, United Technologies, Coca Cola, Medtronic, Constellation Brands, Tiffany & Co, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), UHG, Cigna, Chubb, The Hartford

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW

Conduent Florham Park, NJ Client IT Manager (Role) 2018-2023

Director, IT Program and Project Management

Responsible for technical planning, delivery and support of client portfolios for the print mail business unit – insurance and health clients. This is a multi-faceted role involving :

Technical portfolio management engaging with client technical and business stakeholders on a daily basis

Partnering with Conduent business teams/product owners in planning and executing client roadmap. This would include delivery updates and support activities like incident management, root cause assessment and recurrence prevention.

Program manager responsible for control of large-scale programs such as disaster recovery planning and solution redesign or renovation

Manage 2 delivery teams comprised of analysts, developers, QA testers and support resources to administer ongoing system changes, provide incident/defect support, upgrades and both internal and client requested changes. This would involve:

- Review of intake for completeness and clarity

- Facilitate daily scrum sessions, removing encountered obstacles across multi-functional teams

- Working with product owners to understand prioritized backlog

- Ensure delivery and stability of solutions

Hands on project management controlling project progress while ensuring adherence to standards, change control guidelines and release processes

Responsible for oversight of HITRUST certification audit exercises for the print mail business unit

Capgemini America New York, NY Senior Manager 2014-2017

Management consulting responsibilities

Understand client requirements, assess project scope and construct roadmap for project planning and proposals

Determine staffing profiles and composition of required team. Assemble teams utilizing inhouse and contracting resources

Project control including metrics, progress and required change – responsible for all aspects of project delivery

Specific client project information

Delivery Manager/ Team Lead for Iconic American Soft Drink Brand (Feb 2016 – June 2017)

Completed assessment, estimation and assurance of delivery quality for all developed objects

Directed technical team (10) of both onshore, offshore and contract resources upgrading current Oracle JDEdwards version 8.0 to JDEdwards Oracle EnterpriseOne 9.2 employing AGILE methodology. Version One utilized for project control.

Managed successful upgrade of JDE 9.2 in Amazon Cloud utilizing AWS utilities and custom JDE development. The solution included a refit of existing interfaces, new development and replacement of existing order entry customization with SalesForce integration via Mulesoft.

Delivery Manager/Project Manager for Renowned International Fashion Retailer (Mar 2014- Feb 2016)

Conducted initial workshops with project team for discovery, gap analysis and future state solution definition

Led project team (8) of Capgemini resources and contractors in an Oracle JDEdwards Xe Accounts Receivable implementation project enabling the client to realize approximately $20M in cost reduction and increased efficiency. Primary project manager.

IBM Business Consulting Services Armonk, NY Senior Managing Consultant 2002-2014

Completed 14 projects including full end to end life cycle, upgrades, custom solutions, auditing, testing and training. All projects conducted at client site

Primary responsibility was ensuring delivery of quality project results

Hands on project and technical management

Directed technical teams comprised of onshore, offshore and contract technical resources with team sizes averaging between 5 and 11.

Oracle JDEdwards Enterprise One versions spanning Xe, 8.12, 9.0 - 9.2

Led technical teams in ensuring delivery, architected technical solutions involving retrofit, system integration, data conversion, system enhancement /custom development and post live support

Senior member of IBM pursuit team in technical SME, management and client relationship roles. This would include working with clients to understand their project requirements, confirming technical scope and estimating staffing requirements and associated level of effort

PricewaterhouseCoopers / PwC Consulting New York, NY Senior Technical Consultant 1998-2002

Completed 6 projects including (3) full end to end life cycle (conversions, interfaces, code review, testing, training and post live support). All projects conducted at client site.

Technical Lead ensuring requirements/functional specifications were translated into technical specifications that could be utilized to complete technical work in a timely and efficient manner.

Directed technical teams comprised of onshore, offshore and contract technical resources with team sizes averaging between 3 and 10.

JDEdwards WORLD and JDEdwards One World and Xe (RPG and OneWorld OMW)

Led technical teams in ensuring delivery, architected technical solutions involving retrofit, system integration, data conversion, system enhancement/custom development and post live support

Hands on development including planning/designing, configuration and implementation of EDI. Northeast EDI Lead for all PwC JDE projects

Other Key Positions: Director, Information Technology Fabricated Plastics Incorporated

Manager, Information Technology Dollfus, Mieg and Cie – DMC Inc.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Computer Science and Business Administration Union Cty College Cranford, NJ

Computer Programming Taylor Business Institute, Bloomfield College Bloomfield, NJ

Certifications: Certified IBM Consultant Certified Computer Programmer Certified Capgemini Engagement Manager (includes project and service management disciplines)

Training: JDEdwards Developer Immersion - East Rutherford NJ

JDEdwards Functional Training – Denver CO (PDM, SOM, SFC, IM, Financial Expedition)

Dale Carnegie Management Seminars

IBM Deep Blue C

Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack Release 2.0

Oracle SOA Suite 10g: SOA Essentials

Oracle Integrated Cloud Services

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