Director, IT Program/Project Management

ZSOMBOR BURANY, B.Sc., MBA, MPM

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IT DIRECTOR PMO/CONSULTANT

$5 Bn in Programs & Projects Delivered Successfully

PMO Executive with degree in Program/Project Management, certified ITIL and expert in ERP, SDLC and PMLC. Extensive experience in strategic development and project execution of large-scale, enterprise-wide programs. Complete accountability for Governance, Stakeholder/Relationship Management, Financial Accountability and Change management in a Matrix organization. Expert in all methodologies and has implemented $ Billion+ projects over multiple platforms. Excellent presentation and communications skills. Ability to step into complex situations and navigate large projects and organizations. Proven areas of expertise include:

Strategic and Business Planning

Program & Project Management

ERP & Enterprise Technology Transformation

Consulting & Organizational Development

Process Improvement & Best Practice

Data Transformation & ETL

Data Governance & Controls

Infrastructure Management

Outsourcing & Data Center

Budget Development & Cost Containment

Vendor Management, Contract Negotiations

Application & Mobile App development

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Banking & Financial Services

Life Sciences & Health Care

Telecommunications

Government

Manufacturing & CPG & Retail

Insurance

NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS - Delivered large scale, mergers and divestitures;

Superior Acceptance & The Associates

Beneficial & The Associates

Avco & The Associates

Allergan & Ocular Sciences

Eli Lilly & Hyperion

Ocular Sciences & American Hydron

Seagram & GuinnessUDV to form Diageo

Reid Dominion Packaging & Waldorf

Polygram & Universal Studios

Gilby & United Distillers

UDV & Guinness to form GuinnessUDV

BPB & St. Gobain

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS Dec 2015 – Present

BioSoft Inc.

Managed team of 150 resources consisting of 5 program managers, 20 project managers and 120+ developers, analysts and administrative staff. Services include end to end program/project management including business case, requirements, development, reporting, testing, implementation and ongoing post implementation support. Full financial accountability, average annual pipeline C$200 + million. Reporting to C level and Board of Directors.

Programs;

oBCE Group – Developed and posted Bonds on Bloomberg and Luxemburg for U$360 million and U$645 million. (ISIN numbers: CAC42580AA54, CH1417175234) plus two more coming at U$800 & U$900 million. Managed team of 7 and coordinated with Executives, Lawyers, Auditors and government representatives in US and UK. Extensive regulatory reporting, KYC, CIS and compliance. Primarily delt with Mellon, Kaiser and Scotiabank.

T-Span Inc. – Implementation of ODOO ERP, Asset Management, Data Warehouse & CRM. 1 program manager, 5 project managers, 16 technical resources. Implemented Data Centre with redundant locations in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver. Reported to C Suite and Board. Managed budget of $17.5 million. Work was done both onsite and remote.

CCC Group – Implement DataCor ERP & CRM solution concurrently in three distinct lines of Business (Colborne, Elmira and Toronto). This program had failed ‘Go Live’ prior to BioSoft involvement. I realigned the project, addressed all failures, coordinated with executives & ownership. Program was delivered in 7 months. Every milestone, timeline and deliverable was achieved – a perfect program.

Multiple Data Centre Builds – Accountable for end-to-end construction, commissioning, and operation of multiple telecom communications data centres in GTA (151 Front, OS2, Brooklin, 720 Elderberry, NewMarket). Managed all designs, construction, equipment, software, procedures, vendor contracts and operations.

Large Scale, Transformational Municipal Projects – York Region, Durham Region, NewMarket, Stouffville, Brooklin, Oshawa and Aurora. $250 million program, with 200 resources. Build systems, governance, processes, infrastructure, and services. Establish and maintain relationships with senior most government officials – CAOs, Mayors, Commissioners, MPs & MPPs, Municipal Corp CEOs.

Telecom Operational Procedures – Design and implement operational procedures for all aspects of telecommunications (provisioning, escalations, scheduling, inventory management, CRM, billing)

Welded Tube – ERP Systems upgrade & rollout. Addition of complex costing to 6 facilities in US and Canada. Accountable for all aspects of project (budget, reporting, requirements, development, QA, training). Multiple projects delivered over 3 year timeframe.

PCL Construction – Share Management System – develop & deploy Share Management system for PCL’s 8,500 employees. Work directly with CEO, CFO, CIO and designated SME on this highly confidential program. Fully accountable for all deliverables, budgets, resources and timelines.

PCL Construction – Egnyte share folder development to manage quotes, bids and ongoing workload. Build management tools and interfaces to other applications.

EXECUTIVE, PRACTISE LEAD Sept 2013 – Dec 2015

Ericsson ● North America

Managed team of 1,000+ resources across 30+ countries. Worked with all levels of management including senior most executives in all major Telcos (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Rogers, Bell). Delivered hundreds of customer facing presentations and reported to executives and board members at major clients as well as internally. Had full financial and delivery accountability for major projects, some up to U$1 billion in size. Two largest programs were;

T-Mobile (Sep 2013 – Nov 2014) – Landed U$900 million (‘UnCarrier’) transformation project on behalf of Ericsson. Managed all aspects of the program including governance, reporting budgets, deliverables and resourcing. This program directly resulted in T-Mobile’s surge in growth to surpass Sprint in the US and become the 3rd largest carrier behind AT&T and Verizon.

Rogers Ignite (Nov 2014 – Dec 2015) – Delivered $300 million IPTV program on behalf of Ericsson. Manage complete transformation of TV services including all form factors, content delivery, customer experience, billing, service delivery, support processes, hosting, regulatory compliance & governance, and business process changes. Managed 250 staff and over 70 vendors across multiple platforms and organizations.

Sr. PROGRAM/DIRECTOR - Contract June 2012 – Aug 2013

BMO Financial Group

BMO Financial Group - Commercial Lending System

Sr. Program Manager, managing UAT, Use Cases, Test Cases, Regulator Compliance & Governance components of large-scale Commercial Lending System Implementation for 950+ branches across Canada. This was a complete replacement of BMO’s commercial customer management system that handles 100% of corporate and business accounts.

Sr. PORTFOLIO DIRECTOR June 2011 – June 2012

Research In Motion

Accountable for full program portfolio life cycle of cutting-edge products and services for consumers and business clients. Portfolio of programs ($200 million +) within PMO. Reported directly to SVPs and CIO on a program-by-program basis. Responsible for reporting, compliance, budgets, resourcing (approx. 200 staff), deliverables, C level relationship management and third-party relationships. Portfolio included a wide range of programs and projects from PCI Compliance to R&D to infrastructure.

R&D, operations, support, business processes, supply chain, operations, capacity, user experience, product launches…)

Manage CIO readiness for major product and platform launches.

Launch large-scale, cutting-edge programs to advance RIM as a market leader.

Manage ERP, CRM, EDI, Content Management, DW build, BI reporting, advanced e-Commerce, Web, Mobile, Cloud, Infrastructure, Search & Recommendation, DR, data center builds and network nodes. Includes wide range of mainframe, server/network, mobile and communications technology.

Payment Service – horizontal platform for use by multiple RIM and 3rd party services for customer and consumer billing. Payment instruments supporting CC and 3PP processing such as PayPal, as well as gift cards, rewards etc.

PCI Compliance – established PCI compliance and data governance for payment services instruments such as Credit Card processing, PayPal, Carrier Billing, Gift Cards and Gifting & Begging.

VVoIP Hosted Service implemented communications between all devices (calls, email, video, messaging). Deployed 7 large communication data centers at key hubs (Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris, Dallas, Chicago, Toronto, Amsterdam…).

AppWorld (Client and Server) – (Similar to Apple Store) Continuous development of product features. Re-architecting server components of application to manage large growth in DB enquiries. Migrate to new BB10 platform and adopt application to run outside of BB devices.

AppWorld Enterprise – For business to manage distribution of Smartphone applications to employee devices.

New Business Applications – Targeted on-boarding and development of business and consumer applications. Development of APIs to existing products to assist developers in new product launches.

AppWorld Corporate – allows businesses to distribute Smartphone apps to customers and sell products through configurable AppWorld portfolio for any product.

BlackBerry Store (BB10) – Permits the sale of any product or service through Smartphone and interact with user based on personal preferences and popular activities of social network.

Infrastructure – Manage application and infrastructure capacity for organic growth of search and recommendation engine.)

Merchant of Record (project Mocha) established RIM as the merchant of record in three key locations; Canada, USA and Luxemburg. Implement PCI compliance. Manage Solution design, business requirements, development teams, security, data compliance & governance and remediation. This allows consumers from any country to purchase products and services directly from RIM, thereby substantially increasing margins.

Sr. PROJECT MANAGER IV - Contract Sep 2010 – May 2011

TD Bank ● Toronto

$220+ million project to replace 100,000+ XP computers with latest Windows platform. Managed team of 20 internal resources and Microsoft vendor relationship. Developed new standard image for deployment. Transitioned 8,500 business applications to new platform. Developed deployment/implementation plan for all 9 major TD lines of business. Ran QA and Pilots before each rollout.

Sr. PROJECT MANAGER – Contract Jul 2009 – Aug 2010

ACG ● Toronto

Projects;

Banking (Commercial & Securities) ● Toronto, New York, Minnesota

Delivered Counter Party Data Warehouse (commercial & securities management CDO, CDS, Swaps). Worked with third party QSA to assess DMZ & PCI compliance and Data Governance. Developed web based access and reporting. End to end delivery including modeling, data integration, stewardship, reporting, stakeholder management and vendor management. Integration to personal and corporate credit history including pattern spending for debit and credit cards. $10 million project, managed multi-location & offshore delivery team of 40+.

CIBA Vision Design and develop track and trace functionality for BPCS 5.1

Mobile App - Healthcare Productize application, build technical collateral, develop ROI

Mobile App - EMS Connect for ambulance services on windows mobile and blackberry.

Mobile App - Field Services for government, inspection, construction

Mobile App - Retail for POS, Assisted Shopping, Loyalty Programs, Line-Busting, Gift Registry…

Hiram Walker - Designed Bulk and Barrel Inventory Management system to forecast and manage blending and aging of over $6 billion of inventory, sometimes aged for 50+ years. Applications included JDE & BPCS ERP, New Oracle Data Warehouse, Full two-way ETL process,

Dir. Application Delivery Aug 2007 - Jul 2009

HP/EDS ● Toronto

Responsible for all aspects of application delivery across Canada. Managed staff of 300 developers, 40 project managers and 8 program managers. Annual billing of approximately $260 million.

Projects;

TD Bank Bring helpdesk function in-house from offshore. Retrain support staff (150 people) to handle inbound calls & VIR.

CIBC Retail Manage delivery teams and SMEs. Staffing for support and ongoing web and back-office development. Online banking, web and custom applications and infrastructure consolidation.

RxTrakker Managed development of real-time Hospital patient tracking (Medical history, location, audit, special needs, speech impairment, allergies).

UHN Managed delivery of ongoing operations, projects and support.

Marks Work Warehouse BPO and data centre hosting, IT operations, support and ongoing development. Utilized best shore services.

HP/EDS Integrate departments during merger & provide delivery training. Worked on multiple proposals (Aveos, Toronto Hydro, Shoppers, Global Live, RIM…). Established Cloud & Mobile Applications center of excellence and managed design & development of SaaS products.

HP Internal Supply Chain Consulting and internal support for HP manufacturing and retail using newly acquired EDS talent base. Leverage ‘Design for Run’ model for modernization, support and ongoing operations.

Molson SAP enhancements (new module implementation), ongoing support and development.

Xerox Custom in-house mainframe support (BPO), custom development and all IT operations support.

Mobile Field Service Automation - Managed development of real-time Inventory, Electronic Work Order, Repair Services, Scheduling, Inspections, Asset Management, Location- Based-Services.

CAMI Managed delivery of ongoing operations and support.

US Steel Managed delivery of ongoing operations and support

DIRECTOR, PMO 2000 - Aug 2007

ACG ● (Global Projects)

Planned and managed end to end delivery of complex projects and high-profile mergers.

Projects;

Toronto Stock Exchange Developed client wealth tracking and management applications.

BMO Bank AML Data Warehouse. Design, develop and implement fraud event management process for operational risk & compliance PCCG group. Implement ETL & Data Governance processes. $20 million project.

First Marathon Securities Custom application development for MF financial systems & compliance reporting.

Credit Union Central Ontario Implement and managed MF and infrastructure upgrades, application modernization, data warehouse design and implementation, BI reporting and operations support. Develop custom applications and online web interfaces.

Mitsubishi Bank Developed financial reporting & automatic reconciliation applications.

The Associates Finance Managed technical component of acquisition of Superior Acceptance ($1 billion). Accountable for migration of back-office applications and data from AS/400 to Unix environment. Set up 150 branches across Canada with new infrastructure (hardware, cabling, communications, support and training).

CIBC Securities Custom application development, transaction processing & reconciliation. Audit enhancements to track dataflow and integrity. Managed team of 3.

Superior Acceptance Finance AS IT manager, established PMO. Accountabilities included PCI & credit card systems, infrastructure, AS/400 operations, applications, data warehouse, third party interfaces and vendor relationships. Implemented Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning.

Baird McGregor Insurance Developed policy and claims management system using VB.net.

Nosaba Insurance Web, .net based custom insurance and branch management system. Clients could receive online quotes and manage personal accounts. Branches & agents could manage accounts through portals. Central visibility of all branch activity.

Eli Lilly Multiple ERP implementations (BPCS & SAP), warehouse management system, web and custom development, BI & Data Warehousing, ongoing support. Developed and implemented Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plan.

Canadian Medical Labs Support all applications, interfaces to OHIP, samples handling, testing & QA, Billing, HR, Finance & Admin, Supply Chain, Logistics. Managed all projects, S370, servers and IT operations over 4 years.

Ocular Sciences Managed divestiture from Allergan and end to end merger with American Hydron. Relocated/built new facilities, new infrastructure including call center, data center offices, labs, warehouses. Relocated and retrained personnel, migrated data and applications. Developed and implemented Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plan.

Astra Zenica Multiple ERP implementations (BPCS & SAP), warehouse management system, web and custom development, BI & Data Warehousing.

GlaxoWelcome ERP implementation, compliance tracking, custom application development, ongoing supports and maintenance.

SKILLS

Technology: Mainframes, Midrange systems, Network & Server, Personal Devices

EDW, ETL Metadata, BI, DB, SQL, Oracle,

Productivity Tools: All MS business tools (MS Project, Excel, Word, Power Point, Visio, Share Point…)

Misc: Access, Process Mapping, PMLC, SDLC

ERP Systems: SAP, WinERP, BPCS/PRMS, Manugistics, Oracle, JDE, DataCor, ODOO, NetSuite

Languages: English, Spanish, Hungarian (fluent)

German, Italian, Serbian, French (basic)

Secondary: Kennedy Collegiate Institute

Post Secondary: DeVry University, B.Sc – Project Management & Computer Systems

UofT Rotman – MBA

ITIL Certified; 136006

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