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Project Manager Quality Assurance

Location:
Sacramento, CA
Posted:
July 05, 2011

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Frank W. Hench

Pleasant Hill, CA ***** (moving to Sacramento area)

707-***-**** (c)

ej9m8b@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwhench

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Project Manager with over 12 years of Information Technology experience. I have

been responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution,

control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy,

commitments and goals.

Specific areas of knowledge & expertise include:

Agile and Scrum Methodology

Microsoft Project

Web Programming

Office 2007

Technology Background

Power Point

Complex Excel Reporting

Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA July 2010 - Current

Project Manager/Project Coordinator:

Project Lead for the CMG (Commercial Management Group) East LAN migration

Converted over 200 users in over 20 locations from Wachovia LAN to

Wells Fargo’s new Business Banking LAN in a time span of 6 months and

a budget of $500K.

Mercury Pro Pilot

Project Lead for a low cost/low scope real-estate valuation product to be

used for routine administration for loans secured by commercial real-state.

Created Project Plan, lead a pilot kickoff meeting, and worked with team

to run reports on a weekly basis for a two month period to make a

professional go/no go recommendation to upper management.

Other Roles

Collected weekly status updates from Team Project Leads and

Consolidated into master report to review during weekly meetings for both

the Credit Platform and Credit Management Groups

In charge of creating, updating and maintaining all audit documents for

both the Credit Platform and Credit Management Groups using the

standard EPM template guidelines.

ELM Resources, Oakland, CA July 2008 – June 2010

Technical Project Manager:

I was Project Manager for a mission critical application with a budget of $4.5-

$5.0 million, spanned 18 months, and had 25 team members at its critical points

using the agile methodology. The project team consisted of business owners,

architects, developers, QA, and business analysts and the project sponsors

were the CIO and VP of Sales and Marketing.

Worked closely with Director of Project Management to develop full scale

Project Plans.

Prepared New Sprints for 3-4 week cycles:

- Create tasks, assigning work to team.

- Created diagrams and flow charts using Visio.

- Lead and coordinated daily sprint meetings with team.

- Responsible for any impediments that occur and get them

resolved as quickly as possible.

- Make sure that projects are running smoothly and delivered on time.

- Prepared Demos using Power Point and Lead the team

presentations to Business and CIO.

Created and Updated Weekly IT Project Status reports for

the CIO on all IT projects within the company.

Created and Updated Weekly Business Scorecard for Executive Team

Meetings.

Managed Project Collaboration/Prioritization meetings with Business.

Lead/Coordinated IT Leads Weekly Meeting.

ELM Resources, Oakland, CA October 2005 – July 2008

Programmer Analyst:

Primary role was to resolve advanced production system issues managed

through our production support center. The role was required to provide direct

support for escalated research analysts, help desk analysts, and vendor service

bureau analysts to diagnose problems.

Development work, including coding fixes, developing system diagnostic tools

and the design and implementation of system enhancements. Participated in the

software development life-cycle process to design, develop, code and implement

applications.

Exercised judgment to design scalable architecture that supports a breadth of

features and integration with other applications.

Other Roles:

Worked with a team on building 4 new test environment servers from scratch in a

timely manner to help assist developers and testers with their work. These test

environments greatly helped reduce the amount of errors moving into production.

Used Secret Agent and WinPT to manually encrypt/decrypt secure files received

from our clients when needed.

Lead IT Operation Liaison – all departmental issues came to me and I would

escalate the issues to the correct people and alert the company on any urgent

system problems.

FISERV, FSC, Novato, CA February 2003 – October 2005

Company Developer:

Maintained code to provide accurate vehicle insurance rates based upon

internal and external requests and company submitted insurance manuals.

Communicated with insurance company representatives to clarify

ambiguity and contradictions in the manuals.

Quality Assurance Tester:

Created highly complex spreadsheets to compare with the rated quotes to

be certain that total premiums for all coverage match to the penny.

Reported all system/code bugs to the programmers and help assisted

them in reproducing the issue.

Mykytyn Consulting Group Inc, San Rafael, CA June 1998 – Aug 2000

Programmer:

Developed a database driven, custom online commerce solution.

Helped develop a custom billable time and expense reporting system.

Tested, debugged, and repaired several small applications.

In charge of maintenance on both Intranet & Internet site.

EDUCATION:

California State University, Chico Chico, California

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

TECHNICAL:

C, C++, .Net, Java, Javascript, Adobe photoshop, Lightwave, HTML, ASP, Visual Basic,

Excel, Word, Access, Visio, Unix, File Maker Pro, Cold Fusion, PHP, MySQL, Oracle,

Database Management, file encrypting/decrypting, Web-ex, Live Meeting, Sharepoint.

PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

(ELM Resources)

Changed career path and moved from Programmer Analyst to IT Project Manager.

(FISERV, FSC)

Received Employee of the Month within my first year with company

Promoted to Company Developer within my first year with company

I am currently working on getting my PMP certificate.

REFERENCES:

Michael Southern - Director of Applications, ELM Resources: (617) – 320-3224

Marc Urban - BizTalk Consultant, ELM Resources: (352) – 610 - 2068

Juan Frias - Senior Application Developer, ELM Resources: (415) – 309 - 2468



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