Project Manager

DARRELL VAN HORN

ROLES:

• Business Analyst

• Project Leader

• Change Management Manager

• Requirements Management

• Disaster Recovery

• Project Manager

• Program Manager

TOOLS/METHODS:

• Life Cycle Project Manager

• RUP

• P.R.I.S.M

• (PRIMARY REPOSITORY for INFO SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT)

• Requisite Pro

• MS-Office Suite

• MS-Visio

• MS-Project

• Clarity

• SDLC

• Waterfall Methodology

INDUSTRY APPLICATION:

• Banking

• Financial Services

• Consulting Services

• Telecommunications

• Healthcare

EDUCATION:

• BS Business Management

• Grad. 1982

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• Certified Project Manager

• Project Management Institute

• Obtained 2006

• Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

• Obtained 2011

ADDITIONAL TRAINING:

• ESI International

• Project Portfolio Management In a Time of Rapid Change

• Agile or PMBOK?

• You Can Have both

• Computer Associates

• Visibility into meaningful metrics

• Meeting Enterprise goals through PPM

• Beyond Mandates Best Practices

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• Diversified Business Communications

• The Knowledge Management Institute Access

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

An accomplished Information Technology Project Manager with demonstrated success directing engagements that improve business functionality with positive impacts to the bottom line. Extensive experience in managing full project life cycle, including Initiation, Planning, Execution, Controlling and Closing. Proven ability to lead and motivate teams in order to maximize productivity. Results-oriented professional, with track record for consistently delivering effective solutions based on critical time and budget constraints. Strengths include proven customer focus, attention to detail, excellent communication, organization, and business analysis.

SKILLS INVENTORY

Project Management:

• Project Planning & Development

• Communication Management

• Resource Management

• Program Planning & Management

• Scope Development and Management

• Management of Implementation/Deployment

• Risk Management & Mitigation Strategies

• Issue Management & Action Plans

• Strategy Planning & Development

• Project Budget Management

• Project Milestone & Timelines Management

• Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Analysis/Design:

• Technical and Business Use Cases

• Operational Analysis and Process Improvement

• Work with the subject matter experts to identify the business requirements

• Create technical requirement specifications

• Mentored peers

• Facilitate requirements review and sign-off sessions

• Execute test cases and track results using a defect log and test results reports

• Schedule and facilitate meetings, minutes, tasks, and resources

Quality Assurance:

• Organized and monitored a regression testing schedule

• Created test plans and test cases for unit, system/integration, regression, and user acceptance testing

• Execute test cases and track results using a defect log and test results reports

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Senior Project Manager

Technology And Management International, LLC February 2011– Present

Privately Held: Defense & Aerospace industry

To provide technology and project management services to the government services industry. Part of the requirements for this management process this will include but not limited to:

full stakeholder communication, attention to detail, being a facilitator between technology and business organizations, problem solving, analysis, issues and risk management, managing costs, and driving projects from inception to closure, The reports needed to provide status will include, but not limited to the creation of BRD, JRD, SA, VR, PDP, IPD, JST, PDP, Estimate Reporting and various reports as needed.

Project Manager

Client: Armendar Consultants LLC, April 2008 – June 2010

To provide short term project management services to various clients.

Creation of detailed project plans that are customized to the project/product.

Controlled project scope and prioritized issues to make appropriate recommendations to senior management on best alternatives to reduce risk and to meet aggressive project timelines.

• Monitored project deliverables and progress through continuous communication with project members

• Prepared reports on project progress, problems, Audits, capitalization of assets, Resource allocation in a complex matrix environment, and reports based on company standards as it relates to the internal and external requirements

Created and maintained work breakdown structures and work packages while employing CPM techniques to ensure cost, schedule, and scope compliance

• Worked with client and internal Server farm management on development of a project plan to consolidate various cluster and backup production sites.

• Developed project financials including resource planning, cost, and percent complete ensuring acceptable margins as provided for the various internal and regulatory Audits.

• Creation of off-shore testing team, training them on client products and delegating duties to the team. Setting up remote-testing capabilities, managing daily communication and status reporting from the off-shore lead.

• Developed complex process plans to ensure that the upgrade and re-engineering of the product is completed with as few issues / punch list to minimize time constraints.

• Defined Project Plans using MS Project Plan, setting up deliverable expectations for both US and off-shore team members; managing budget, cost and timelines on all projects

Program Manager

Client: AT&T R&D, January 2008 - April 2008

Middletown, NJ

Waterfall development methodology for software development

• Expert in executing multiple projects ranging from software, infrastructure, financial and product development when using the Capitol Project Tracking System, ExpressOne & PRISM reporting Tools.

• Highly experienced in program/project management. Including but not limited to the waterfall method.

• Execution expert in interim management and management of turnaround/crisis situations (organizational upheaval, acquisition assimilation and recovery from poorly managed projects) at the financial, organizational and project level.

• Professional expertise in leading projects under higher quality standards in fast a paced environment.

• Responsible for complex budget, forecasting, development, Infrastructure, cost, resource capacity, vendor contracting using the Portfolio Admin tools.

Program Manager

Client: Prudential Financial, February 1996 – April 2007

Iselin, NJ

• Engaged in a Two year rotation as a Program manager as part of Enterprise Development

Program Manager.

Data Center Program Manager

• Responsible for the Implementation of the new Data Center

• Implementation and design of Data and voice cables (Cat3, 5, 5e, 6 and 7)

• Planned the design of the Data Center LAN and physical Security Infrastructure.

• Negotiated, Qualified, and selected a Managed Network Services Provider to monitor the network, 24 x 7.

• Design of Data Center & Server Room Wire Management

• Designed and managed the virtualization and migration of Applications into the new Data Center.

• Reporting and implementation of Voice, Video and Audio Cabling

• Drove the development of the Service Delivery Model for the IT Organization based on ITIL Service Management.

• Created the Project Communications Plan.

• Designed the Project Plan, Schedules, and Financials.

• Consistently delivered IT deployment projects on-time, on-budget and with minimal disruption to critical business processes.

Disaster Recovery / Business Continuation Project Manager

• Estimated emerging customer needs and develops innovative solutions to meet them.

• Developed solution approach Plan (SA) that solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business.

• Led in the development of business strategy.

• Engaged in the development of and managed business plans to achieve objectives.

• Lead large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives.

• Translates highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences along the project plan stakeholders.

• Engaged and participated with the senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches.

• Directs cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams.

Implementation Project Manager

• Lead Business Strategy, End-to-End Planning, Change Control, & Execution.

• Gather requirements, complete gap analysis, approved vendor contracts.

• Engaged in the management of large scale deployments for middle to large corporations.

• Planned process, scope, risk, quality, compliance, communications & schedules

Resolve issues, report status, lessons learned & project closure.

• As part of project implementations projects, applications (Microsoft products, multiple hardware and COTS software products included by not limited to operating systems) translated highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences along the project plan stakeholders.

• Generate Business Requirement documents, project charter & Consolidated Project Plan, scope, cost analysis & budget, Solutions Approach, Joint Requirement documents, agendas, Risk & Issues logs & accurate status reports

• Produce metrics framework, detailed MS project plans with schedule set key tasks & milestones, phases, resource allocation, duration, dependencies, deadlines & constraints; format critical path WBS GANTT charts & build project documentation using MS Office, Excel, Word, MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, Productivity tools

• Solid experience building teams, managing resources & staff located in multiple time zones: 30+|- Cross-Functional SME Subject Matter Experts, Analysts, Architects, Consultants, Vendors, Coordinators, Database & Systems Administrators, Designers, Developers, Engineers, Managers, Network & Telecom, Programmers, QA, Training, Security, Specialists, Business & Technical Resources Hyderabad, India

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