IT Program / Project Manager

Senior Technical Project / Program Manager

Broadly experienced, results oriented IT Project Leader. Nineteen (19) years consulting success driving client outcomes leading projects and transformational programs. Rich technical depth in infrastructure, cloud, and application rationalization-based projects. Significant Data Center based project depth of experience.

Managerial

●Program Level Leadership / Accountability – Led Program level multi-workstream transformations and migrations, managing multiple Project Managers, collaborations, and workstreams. Stakeholder management, PMO alignment and accountability, including direct CIO reporting. Owned entire Project Delivery from inception, discovery, planning, and execution.

●Budgeting and Cost Controls – challenged estimates and monitored resource time entered to maintain/reduce project budgets/actuals. Proposed cost reduction strategies and approaches.

●Risk/Issue Management – ensured all risks/issues were well documented with mitigation plans and resolutions. Ensured the project teams mitigated risks and resolved issues within the project timing.

●Project Added Value - Leveraged project accelerator tools to compress timelines where feasible, while reducing project risk using dependency mapping to avoid project unknowns and realize zero-defect migration.

●Regulatory Compliance – pulled in subject matter experts (SMEs) to ensure compliance requirements were met. Healthcare IT and FDA qualified environment experience.

●Process Development/Improvement – recognized process needs and lead cross-functional teams to create/improve processes leveraging experience across many industry verticals and programs,

●Global Resource Management – led multi-stream programs engaging project resources and international scopes located in various locations around the world.

Technical

●Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

●Automated Discovery

●Infrastructure Architecture

●Disaster Recovery / BC

●ITIL certified

●Application Cloud Suitability / Rationalization

●Project Management Tools / Accelerators

● (MS Project, Monday, JIRA, Asana, Trello, Planview, Kanban)

●Migration Planning & Execution

●Dependency Mapping

Professional Experience

TEKsystems, Inc. supporting Acrisure, LLC. – Remote 2026

M&A INTEGRATION ANALYST

Managed multiple concurrent international M&A Integrations through Discovery and Planning phases

Used automated and manual (interview based) Discovery to ensure dependencies identified

Drove risk/issue resolution; escalated when appropriate to obtain results.

Facilitated weekly global calls for each project workstream

Ensured leadership and stakeholders had up-to-date and on-time status reports.

Collaborated with appropriate teams to create technical artifacts and presentation decks.

Led J-Flow events to ensure stakeholders were well informed to provide approvals.

Leveraged PM dashboard and toolsets (Monday.com, JIRA)

Deloitte Consulting, LLC. – remote 2021 – 2025

MANAGER – CLOUD OPERATIONS / TRANSFORMATION

Led IT / Business transformation Project Discovery and Planning phases using automated tools to deliver compressed project timelines, cost reductions, and risk mitigation for Deloitte’s clients. Also, promoted automation across projects and performed pre-sales demonstrations of automation solutions to client and program teams. Participated in large-scale transformational IT projects concurrently. Ensured confidential projects were managed discreetly.

Key project SME / PM resource leading Discovery phases for Transformation Projects

Consistently delivered Project acceleration and overall timeline reductions to baselines in projects

Drove cost saving accelerators, while also reducing overall risk delivered to client projects

Managed detailed executions, daily stand-ups, weekly status meetings with timeline pressures

Promoted automation to clients and project teams using Demos and rich data output examples

Advised client project teams on optimization of Discovery and Planning phases

Achieved zero-defect migrations in a number of highly complex transformation executions

Led Discovery non-intrusively in mission critical ultra-low latency securities trading IT ecosystems

TEKsystems, Inc. supporting Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare - Tallahassee, FL / Remote I 2020 – 2021

IT TECHNICAL ARCHITECT

Senior Technical Architect on the TMH IT planning and design team. Collaboration across broad and diverse stakeholders, clinical and professional internal clients. Trusted Advisor and consult on new system requirements, proposals, and technical / vendor platform solution evaluation / validation.

Gathering requirements for new healthcare IT solutions proposed, create System Design Documents (SDD) with complex details and component bill of materials.

Evaluate technical building blocks, costs, and TCO for proposed vendor solutions

Build Business Cases to present to Architecture boards and ensure standards compliance

Success in project outcomes with system designs I created, while compliant to TMH standards

ReluTech, LLC - Norcross, GA 2019 – 2020

MASTER SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Responsible for ReluTech’s automated Discovery approach to project cost reductions. Presented to client IT organizations examples of cost reduction by compressing migration timelines, risks, and savings realizations of optimized target states soonest.

Delivered Project Risk reduction as project lead in discovery / dependency mapping project phases

Clients realized decreased project timelines and consulting costs from project discovery data I delivered

Mentored client PMO teams in project acceleration and timeline rationalization

Cloud 9 Partners, LLC. - Chicago, IL / Houston, TX / Remote 2016 – 2019

CO-FOUNDER / OWNER / TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER - supporting TierPoint, Inc.

Co-Founded Cloud 9 Partners, LLC consulting firm as a specialized IT Transformation firm. I was accountable for the full lifecycle of transformation engagements inclusive of sales, proposal, project mobilization, resource management, project oversight and delivery, migration cut-over, and post go-live support. My teams delivered complex IT transformations on behalf of a major telecommunications firm as white label resources. Large-scale transformation programs were successfully delivered. My role was delivery owner, project manager, and principal consultant.

Overall project accountability to client stakeholders, project sponsors, and executive leadership

Delivered in healthcare, energy, and commercial verticals

Leveraged TRELLO Project dashboard to manage projects proactively

Exceeded goals and expectations by accelerating project timelines and under-budget

Strong collaboration with client PMO, cross functional technical teams, and stakeholders

Delivered Disaster Recovery component and process leadership as part of target state solution

Supported Organizational Change Management (OCM) and IT operationalization post go-live

EMC Corporation - subcontract supporting Holland America Cruise Line, Inc. Seattle, WA 2015

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Lead Project Management role for the application migration portion of Holland America’s Data Center consolidation program within Carnival Cruise Lines overall IT cost reduction program. I managed three (3) workstream project managers all tasked with application discovery, documentation, and application tiering for the planning phase of data center consolidation.

Managed multi-workstream project Managers delivering application tiering and planning

Close coordination with Infrastructure teams in applications to infrastructure interface links

Report to Carnival stakeholders and monthly Hollard America executives on project status

Lead application owners discovery and architecture sessions to tier rate applications attributes

Defined criticality tiers with all attributes for 90 applications to define migration wave plans

Corus 360, LLC - Norcross, GA - London, UK – Pittsburgh, PA 2014 - 2015

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER – ATADATA

I led the successful internal pilot and Beta implementations of new to market automated Discovery / Migrations software tool suite - ATADATA. This was later acquired by Deloitte.

OmniCom - London / Hammersmith, UK I travelled and resided in London, UK to drive the implementation of the ATADATA tool for a global marketing firm.

Oversaw engineering, deployment planning, and roll-out of automated discovery tool for Omnicom’s three (3) data center locations in the UK.

Reported to client leadership weekly on status, escalated engineering issues to developers, coordinated roll-out to ensure non-intrusive implementation.

Successfully discovered entire IT estate to deliver to client first accurate inventory.

Thermo-Fisher Scientific – Pittsburgh, PA I was Technical Project Manager for a global IT Discovery initiative for Thermo Fisher Scientific (TFS). Scope was a global Discovery to obtain a detailed and accurate IT estate inventory of over 10,000 servers across ten (10) global data centers. I was accountable to driving the non-intrusive roll out of the automated Discovery and presenting the detailed global inventory to TFS IT stakeholders and leadership.

Managed and Completed global IT estate Discovery leveraging a beta automation toolset of 11,000 server IT estate across 10 data centers internationally. First time TFS had an single centralized accurate IT estate accounting.

Corus 360 LLC - supporting MedAssets, Inc. - Alpharetta, GA / Plano, TX 2012 – 2014

TRUSTED ADVISOR / VP ARCHITECTURE - I was initially placed as a Trusted Advisor to the CIO, as an impartial consultant to address large SaaS software firm availability and outage issues to determine root cause and solutions. Later with a CIO change I was hired directly as VP Architecture to support new CIO on strategic improvements forward.

Evaluated Saas platform outages, determined self-induced change based failures and aged non-redundant SPOF hardware as cause

Made recommendations for redundancy, hardware scale / refresh, and Change Board needs

Launched Architecture team to develop IT standards, Roadmap, and high availability

Integrated Architecture team into PMO to ensure coordination alignment on projects

Led Change Board to ensure planned & coordinated changes avoiding self-inflicted outages

Hewlett Pckard, Inc. - Atlanta, GA 2007 - 2012

MASTER SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Senior Technical and Business consulting role in HP Data Center Transformation practice. Consulted in Data Center consolidation, infrastructure optimization, Disaster Recovery planning, and business case Development. Selected consulting engagement roles below.

Lead Architect - AIG Insurance New York, NY.

Led Engineering team in Business Case development for global data center consolidation program. Reporting to global CIO and CIO board (30 group CIOs) –

Supported Discovery, analysis, and business case development to present HP proposed Data Center consolidation project approaches.

AIG awarded HP the data center consolidation framework as a result of our teams developed business case. AIG ultimately realized $200M annualized savings.

Program Manager - DOMTAR Montreal, Quebec Canada

Delivery Program Manager for M&A based Paper Mill integration into DOMTARs IT ecosystem.

Managed multiple workstream PMs in cross-functional team to plan and deliver 58 paper mills discovery, migration detailed planning, and integration cut-overs of plant IT infrastructure.

Reported to CIO and steering committee in monthly formal reviews

Status reporting, escalation, ownership of the planning and integration execution

Travelled to remote paper mills to ensure implementation cutover success

Data Center / DR Advisor - Abbott Labs - Waukegan, IL

Evaluated / developed application Tiering to identify attributes and DR recovery tier needs

Consulting on Data Center infrastructure for upgrades needed or dedicated DR support

Corus 360 – supporting Lowes Companies - Mooresville / Winston Salem, NC 2006 - 2007

Technical Architect - lead role for Lowes Long Range Disaster Recovery initiative. Lowes needed to improve and mature their data center DR capabilities.

I engaged in a project to validate design, document, and test a PoC for DR failover orchestration.

Successfully proved orchestration PoC failing over 300 DEV servers in 30 minutes.

Fulton County Government - Atlanta, GA 2004 – 2006

DEPUTY DIRECTOR / CTO - IT Leadership responsible for all IT technology, infrastructure, and support for Fulton County Government. Lead a team of 85 IT engineering, telecommunications, network and support function professionals

Implemented ITIL / ITSM based service Desk to improve internal customer IT service Delivery

Rolled out IT Change Board to reduce outages

Developed comprehensive Disaster Recovery and replicated storage ILM to enhance DR capabilities for country

Fulton County went from ‘FAIR’ ranking in 2004 to tied for 2nd in all counties nationwide in the digital counties awards in 2006 for the DR program attainment, and service delivery I led.

Architected and procured video arraignment platform and enhanced VOIP as a response to the courthouse shootings tragedy

Won BellSouth Innovation award as a result of VOIP project attainment

TEKsystems supporting The Home Depot Marietta, GA 2003 - 2004

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT - Contract to support Home Depot Supply acquisition. IT portfolio / architecture review as part of M&A business case development.

Bovis / end Lease Inc. Atlanta, GA 2001 – 2003

VICE PRESIDENT – IT ENGINEERING - Responsible for IT engineering teams in server and mid-range systems engineering as part of Lend Lease two year global data center consolidation program.

Overall technical leadership for multi-year, multi-phase global data center consolidation program

Developed primary target data center build for server and mid-range platform consolidated infrastructure

Collaborated with PMO and ensured alignment with project plans on-time delivery / escalations

Migrated 750 physical servers from Sydney, AU and London, UK Data Centers to Atlanta Data Center

Led engineering and development of global high-availability CITRIX thin-client environment

Recognized by global CIO for delivering mission-critical migrations with no business impact during high visibility cut-overs

Viewlocity, Inc. - Atlanta, GA 2000 - 2001

GLOBAL IT DIRECTOR - IT Leadership role in startup B2B software firm.

Recruited IT Managers in London, UK and Singapore.

Developed and implemented LAN / WAN network to support high growth

Rolled out support process and service desk

LEP Profit / Geologisitcs, Inc. - Marietta, GA 1998 - 2000

IT DIRECTOR - Led all IT infrastructure support in national logistics firm.

Modernized legacy network and green screens with Active Directory and end-user PCs

Matured support process and RS6000 SP complex to support Peoplesoft roll out

Drove cost savings of $500K in annual network costs by Moving to Frame Relay network

BEERS Construction Co. / SKANSKA - Atlanta, GA 1996 - 1998

IT DIRECTOR – IT leader for construction firm during the Atlanta 1996 Olympics period. Acquisition by SKANSKA increased my scope.

Supported mission critical Olympic stadium and Centennial Olympic park venue builds

Consulted to SKANSKA sister firms in aligning for IT standards and process

Travelled to Stockholm, Sweden to speak at SKNSKA global IT forum on best practices

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