Gregory Horton

Stone Mountain, GA ***** • 404-***-**** • adxzuu@r.postjobfree.com •

Senior Technical Project Manager/Agile Project Manager

Visionary business leader and executive program manager with comprehensive experience coaching and mentoring teams to achieve organizational strategies and implementation goals. Thrives in high-pressure and fast-paced situations; possesses aptitude for optimizing performance and motivating colleagues. Highly motivated to contribute experiential wisdom and proven leadership to a challenging new opportunity as a senior officer.

Areas of Expertise

Data Center Infrastructure Implementations (builds, refresh, data warehouse, networking)

Advanced MS Word

Advanced MS Excel

MS SharePoint

Advanced MS Project

PMBOK Project Lifecycle Methodology

Advanced MS PowerPoint

Certified Scrum Master

Advanced MS Visio

Certified Agile Product Owner

Certified SAFe® Release Train Engineer

Cisco Network Implementation

AWS Cloud Practitioner (Presently Enrolled)

Cloud Migration Implementation

Professional Experience

CONTRACT SENIOR TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER, Global Payments, Atlanta, GA June 2021 to June 2023

Build new production infrastructure for the data warehouse platforms housing fifty-eight (58) large databases and 300 TB of data for the corporate enterprise at two data centers. Refresh all existing hardware and software, build out and configure a disaster recovery (DR) facility, and move the new data warehouse platforms to a newly built secure enterprise network infrastructure.

Developed the planning and managed the project team to upgrade the infrastructure for Data Warehouse platforms at the Allen Data Center and Atlanta Metro Data Centers to include procurement, building, implementation, and quality assurance testing on time and on budget.

Migrated Data warehouse /ODS storage environment in Allen DC from XIV and Pure to Infinidat and set up encryption for data at rest.

Established a Disaster Recovery facility for the Data Warehouse platforms that manages the transmission of monetary files to Phillips 66, 7-Eleven, Citgo, and Marathon within the Atlanta Data Center and provide for continued file processing and back-end processing should the Allen data center go off-line. Resolved a 16-year Single Point of Failure (SPOF).

Configured failover to the Atlanta data center DR environment to fully support transaction processing and the back-end processing of the Heartland Global Payments applications, whether necessitated by a disaster occurrence or a planned failover to execute maintenance of the infrastructure or applications.

PMBOK Project Management Lifecycle Implementations

Coached Agile Framework Projects

SENIOR TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER, IBM, Atlanta, GA September 2019 to June 2021

Managed and concurrently executed up to 25 multi-million dollar domestic and international complex IT infrastructure projects to support 1K+ business applications that generated billions of dollars in revenue.

Data Center Infrastructure Implementations (builds, refresh, data warehouse, networking)

PMBOK Project Management Lifecycle Implementations

Cisco Network Integrations Lifecycle

Lowered Mean Time to Implementation (MTTI) by 55% over the lifecycle of large domestic and international projects/programs while simultaneously managing up to 20 teams. Employed tools and applied metrics to track and manage end-to-end project/program management.

Introduced cost-cutting measures to reduce project/program implementation by 30%. Applied personal knowledge of business, industry, and technology to incorporate process improvements and/or develop strategies and architectures across functional groups.

Refreshed the Data Warehouse platforms with upgraded hardware, software, and PURE storage to meet all PCI encryption requirements for financial transactions using Waterfall methodologies.

Managed and Coached Agile Framework Projects

SENIOR TECHNICAL PROGRAM / PROJECT MANAGER, AT&T, Atlanta, GA August 2005 to September 2019

Managed all phases of programs and projects through the lifecycle of the program/project. Directed project/program team(s) with dotted-line authority to deliver completed project and/or service. Implemented program or project budgets from $100K to $15M and delivered cost reporting. Assessed, planned for, and managed risks including mitigation and contingency plans. Minimized issues, jeopardies, escalations, and focused on problem resolutions.

Skillfully managed concurrent complex projects and/or programs, some spanning multiple regions, functions and/or business units. Performed detailed planning including program/project structure, staffing, estimating, and managing resources. Allocated resources, detailed schedule, analyzed critical path, consolidated project plans into larger program plan, and negotiated conflict resolutions.

Selected Projects

Data Center Infrastructure Implementations (builds, refresh, data warehouse, networking)

Managed Circuit Implementations (WiFi, Call Center, Fiber)

Managed multi-tier teams implementing international technology projects for complex IT infrastructures hosting 500+ business applications. Generated $1B+ in revenue.

Implemented prototype of nationwide first responders’ technology infrastructure. AT&T won multi-billion-dollar government contract to connect all first responders (medical, fire, and law enforcement). Brought project in on time and under budget.

Built complex infrastructure to enable simultaneous nationwide rollout of all new iPhone products to retail stores. Completed project on time and on budget.

Led project to create and document new processes and procedures to increase efficiency when managing complex domestic and international projects.

Created custom automated project management templates which cut cost and reduced the MTTI for multi-million-dollar programs.

Assembled factory teams with diverse skills and expertise. Added value for clients with Agile approach to facilitate companywide move from waterfall methodology. Cut costs and improved Time-to-Market delivery.

Established a Disaster Recovery facility for the Data Warehouse platforms for failover to include building new infrastructure using the Waterfall methodologies. Cisco Network Integrations Lifecycle

Cisco Network Integrations Lifecycle

PMBOK Project Management Lifecycle Implementations

Managed and Coached Agile Framework Projects

Additional Experience

MEMBER, National Veterans Memorial and Museum Advisory Committee

MEMBER, American Legion

Educational Background

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Applied Finance and Decision Sciences

Walden University, Minneapolis, MN

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science

Distinguished Military Graduate

The Citadel, Charleston, SC

Certifications

SAFe® Certified Release Train Engineer

Scrum Product Owner Certified

Scrum Master (CSM) Certified

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Practitioner (in progress)

Software Engineering Certificate, US Government

Combined Arms Services and Staff School (CAS3) Certificate, US Government

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