Project Management Manager
Resume:
Richard Rizzi
Nineteen Essex Court
Port Washington, New York 11050
*******@*****.***
SUMMARY
While continually working in a managerial capacity within various enterprise technology environments, I possess thirty years of Project Management experience for both infrastructure and application initiatives servicing the financial, legal, insurance and pharmaceutical sectors. Drawing on my early experiences in both networking and systems engineering I am a self-starter who adapts and assimilates to new technological environments quickly. I have excellent communication skills and have used my talents to lead global teams from diverse backgrounds, both domestic and off-shore to successfully complete projects under strict production deadlines. I use good judgement and have excellent organizational skills.
My skillset includes hands on experience utilizing PMBOK standards, ITIL models and various Project Management methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM. I've maintained single project stream budgets of up to $5 Million and combined program budgets of over $25 Million
In addition to my Project Management proficiencies, I have expert level skills in Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, Visio, Project and PowerPoint and possess an extensive background in company operations including budget and cost analysis, designing and implementing processes addressing day to day operational tasks as well as governance requirements.
SKILLS:
Application & Framework Proficiencies:
-Microsoft Office WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, SharePoint, TEAMS
-Atlassian JIRA & Confluence
-ITIL Certified
-PMBOK Processes (Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM)
-Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
-HaaS & SaaS solutions
Soft Skills:
-Project Management, Project Scope & Tracking
-Vendor Management Services
-Onsite, Virtual & Offshore Team Management
-Business Analysis, Budget Forecasting & Cost Analysis
-Contract Negotiations, Procurement, Supply Chain & Logistics including, RFIs \ RFQs \ RFPs,
-Presentations for C-Level, Town Hall, & Staff Instructions
-Team Leadership & Mentoring
EXPERIENCE:
Moelis
(06/22 – Present) Vice President - Senior Project Manager
Project Managed internal and 3rd party engineering teams in the tactical execution of key strategic initiatives supporting the bank’s IT functionality and global presence.
-Architected the project structures that defined goals, scope, budgets, timelines, and deliverables addressing business operational objectives for the IT infrastructure buildouts and colleague relocations to new offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Mumbai, New York, San Franciso, & Tel Aviv
-Collaborated with sponsors and stakeholders to create comprehensive project plans, supporting documentation, and the identification and managing of dependencies, to track the progress of projects focused on addressing security vulnerabilities.
-Instrumental in driving engineering activities to complete complex cross departmental upgrades of applications, an operating system upgrade (WIN10 to WIN11), and the migration from SCCM to INTUNE.
Altice USA
(12/21 – 06/22) Senior Project Manager
Technology Delivery Manager for in-house developed customer facing and back office operational products.
-Liaison between business stakeholders and technology developers to assist in the design, development, testing and deployment of application requirements providing leadership and organizational input through the entire SDLC process.
-Utilizing a mixture of waterfall & agile methodologies provided effective scheduling, procurement, licensing, change management and communication processes ranging from daily SCRUM meetings to Town Halls.
-Managed a number of corporate-wide initiatives including efforts to upgrade all mission critical applications to new more secure LDAP authentication processes.
-Reported directly to the Director of Application Development providing daily reporting of QA testing status as well as constant monitoring of risks and issues.
Marsh
(05/16 – 12/21) Senior Project Manager
Working within a global PMO provided leadership and organizational management throughout the entire SDLC from proposal to production, successfully delivering over a dozen internally created mission critical applications which provided services a 100K colleague organization.
-Managed projects contributing to the successful deployment of various corporate software upgrades, including Microsoft operating systems (WIN7 to WIN10), productivity tools from Microsoft (Office 2010 to 2016, 32bit to 64bit versions), Cisco (Communicator to Jabber), and various applications from the Adobe suite.
-Maintained cost control for assigned projects keeping them within budgets while providing regular financial reporting to C-suite sponsors.
-Lead both onsite and virtual teams to control risks and address constraints effecting project progress.
(07/15 – 05/16) Consultant \ Senior Project Manager
Responsible for planning, executing and supporting a portfolio of merger & acquisition projects to integrate the people, networks, systems and software applications of previously independent organizations into the corporate environment.
-Managed an entire portfolio of projects being responsible for the preparation & tracking of budgets, creation of project plans and coordination for staff work schedules to address the integration requirements of 14 new company acquisitions over a 12-month period bringing 3,000 new employees into the corporation.
-Spotlighting M&A work:
oPrimary Manager for the migration of 800 new employees, their hardware and software infrastructure and all the contents of their 9 offices and 2 associated datacenters spread across Texas, USA.
oContributing Manager to the migration of a UK based acquisition of 12,000 new employees across 27 locations
-Worked with senior engineers to develop and execute the processes to deploy various information security initiatives to meet corporate compliance requirements including the deployment of standardized configurations for antivirus, hardware encryption as well as network & systems monitoring for malicious vulnerabilities.
Alphaserve Technologies
(03/13 – 06/15) Managed Services Project Manager
Created and successfully implemented the complete PMO infrastructure and associated processes for the company’s Managed Services division. Utilizing a combination of Waterfall & Agile methodologies designed the processes to deliver within budget & time the requirements for various products and services to a worldwide clientele from the financial, pharmaceutical and legal industries.
-Reporting directly to the C-Suite, worked with engineering staff to establish the day-to-day operational practices for an 8-man Enterprise Tools Provisioning Team along with their supporting 40-man NOC team with personnel in New York, Pennsylvania, Portugal, & India charged with the implementation and maintenance of various enterprise level CA monitoring tools.
-Project managed the successful completion of over 75 on-boarding \ off-boarding product deliveries within a 24-month.
-Tasks included extensive client face time as part of the discovery process as well as work with engineers to properly deploy our monitoring tools on over 10,000 devices worldwide.
-Responsible for the strategies utilized to complete over 40 internal organization initiatives including; the deployment of product upgrades, improvements to accounts receivable & payable, change management, ticket handling, analytical and sales presentations.
-Created both internal and external business analytical reports in Microsoft Excel, Visio & PowerPoint based on data reflecting historical technical problems, as well as delivery cost and revenue results.
InfoHedge Technologies
(07/08 – 02/13) Project Manager
Utilizing fundamental ITIL practices, assisted in building the PMO, Operations & Procurement areas of a start-up organization engaged in providing a full line of technical support services to over 100 worldwide domiciled Hedge Funds, Alternative Investment and Private Equity firms via a SaaS hosted platform methodology.
-Project managed client onboarding to the company’s SaaS platform fulfilling infrastructure requirements, data migrations, physical relocations, and new office buildouts with a primary focus on new startup funds.
-Worked to integrate customers into the firm’s disaster recovery services as well as the implementation of Microsoft Exchange, File Storage, Archiving, and trading applications including Bloomberg, Citco, Trader, & Geneva.
-Managed the buildout and periodic expansion of our internal infrastructure at (2) offsite datacenters.
-Designed and managed all aspects of the company’s supply chain, procurement & inventory functions along with their associated accounts payable / receivable responsibilities.
-Improved the company’s vendor management systems to be accountable for all SLA & OLA agreements.
-Helped to develop and maintain preferred service level agreements with Microsoft, Dell, Cisco, Lenovo, Symantec, Sun, EMC and VARs including Insight, Ingram Micro, Tech Data, & CDW.
-Working with Sales helped to create marketing tools including acting as presenter for numerous national and local alternative investment industry showcases.
Richard Fleischman & Associates
(10/02 – 05/08) Data Integrity Manager
Directed the efforts of two teams fulfilling the company’s SLA obligations to over 400 Hedge Funds and Alternative Investment financial firms headquartered in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut areas, as well as their overseas branches.
-Created the procedures for, and supervised a team of, backup administrators which monitored and performed the break-fix repairs for the data archiving needs of 400 separate client domains.
-Managed all the back-office coordination and documentation for a team of engineers performing regular preventative maintenance on over 2,500+ servers and 6,000+ workstations.
-Project managed the creation and implementation of numerous in-house SQL based products that streamlined workflow and improved customer satisfaction including devices for SLA contracts, change management, client billing, procurement, and vendor agreements.
JP Morgan-Chase
(6/01 – 08/02) Consultant - Network Infrastructure Engineer
Responsible for managing projects involving the merger of two separate bank networks including the design, build-out, client/server relocation, and hierarchical IP addressing schemes for (2) newly created 10,000+ sq ft. datacenters housing over 3,000 servers.
-Provided 1st and 2nd level support concerning connectivity issues and Cisco router / switch configurations.
-Project manager for infrastructure & application moves-adds-changes while supervising both in-house staff and union trade personal in implementing cabling and computer installations.
Goldman Sachs
(10/00 – 5/01) Consultant - Network Operations Engineer
Maintained, documented and provided troubleshooting support at both the infrastructure and desktop levels for the copper & fiber cabling of the Investment Banking Division’s network throughout its NY and NJ campus, (5 buildings - 26 floors), supporting 100+ Cisco routers & switches as well as 2,000 servers of various platforms.
-Member of the engineering and support teams for two major projects. The first to design, remotely install, and support “work at home” configurations providing for over 200 senior employees. The second to develop the test environment for the corporation’s wireless infrastructure utilizing Cisco Aironet access points and network adapter technology.
-Responsible for the purchase and installation of the division’s BRI & PRI WAN circuits throughout North and South America.
Marsh
(01/84-10/00)
Guy Carpenter Incorporated, (Division of Marsh)
(07/99-10/00) Assistant Vice President / Network Operations
Provided Helpdesk / Desktop / Systems support for hardware and software issues to the local 800 member staff while being directly responsible for the daily operation of the company’s global data back-up and restoration facilities.
(10/97–06/99) Assistant Vice President / Manager Technical Procurement & Administration
Unit Manager responsible for all the logistics and day-to-day operations of acquiring and distributing the computer technology for a 3,000-employee division located in 63 separate business units worldwide. Maintained all correlating accounts payable/receivable, inventories, and consulting expenditures, purchasing forecasts and capital budgets, and helped develop the company’s Vendor Management Service facility.
Willcox Incorporated, (Division of Johnson & Higgins \ Merged with Marsh)
(01/88 - 09/97) International Reinsurance Dept
Supervised 3-member Helpdesk team providing 24hr PC and back-office documentation support to a 250-person Reinsurance broking division with office throughout the USA and 16 foreign offices.
Johnson & Higgins (Merged with Marsh)
(01/84 - 12/87) International Reinsurance Dept.
Supervised all accounting, contractual and computer technical support for a 7-member broking unit generating Property & Casualty revenue of over $4M annually from an international clientele.
EDUCATION:
Columbia University, School of Continuing Education, New York, New York
Executive Masters of Science Degree in “Technology Management”
New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York, New York
Various Project Management coursework
Certificate in “LAN Administration for Microsoft Windows NT”
Coursework relating to TCP/IP
Pace University, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, New York, New York
Bachelors of Science Degree in “Professional Computer Studies”
Magna Cum Laude / GPA: 4.0 Concentration - 3.75 Overall / Dean’s List 4 out of 5 full time semesters
Undergraduate Certificate in “Personal Computer and Multimedia Applications”
CUNY Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New York
Associate of Liberal Arts Degree
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