Project Manager

Gbenro A. Samuel-Ojo, PMP

*** *** ***** ******, #**. Staten Island, NY 10304

Phone number: 718-***-****; Mobile: 347-***-****

*******.******@*****.***

Objective: Seeking a position as Project Manager

Personal Profile:

I am a competent, self-motivated, energetic, team player, customer-oriented and mission-focused professional with over 10 years of experience, responsible for guiding projects to success in terms of quality, schedule, and cost. Possess sound experience in Project Execution, and knowledgeable in Project life cycle; from Initiating to closing. Proven leadership skill; involving managing, developing and motivating teams to achieve project objectives. Hand-on in building positive customer and stakeholder relationships, assessing and managing project risk, and promoting continuous process improvement. Possess significant knowledge of concepts, standards, analytical and evaluation methods as they relate to requirements. Dedicated to maintaining high quality standards and have strong computer skills including Microsoft Word, Project, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio.

Summary of Qualifications:

• Proficient in formal project management methods, including risk management, change control, and resource-loaded scheduling.

• Experience on performance-based projects, including EVM analysis and reporting.

• Exceptional written skill including ability to author client communications and strategic analyses.

• Strong Organization and Time Management skills; manage and develop project plans.

• Possess ability to lead/drive internal and external meetings.

• Strong MS office skills - MS Project, Visio, Excel, and Word.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to interface with senior-level stakeholders in both Information Technology and the business units to partner on project scope, risk mitigation and issue resolution.

• Experience with deployment, rollout or implementation projects. which include:

High level coordination with internal and external project team members.

Responsible for creating and maintain project schedule and ensures timelines and deliverables are being met.

Prepares project status reports.

• Lead infrastructure-related projects such as network upgrades, hardware procurement, core Technology application deployments (such as email upgrades), and deployment and/or facility build-out.

• Aided in definition of systems strategy, developing systems requirements, designing and prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures, and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines

• Experienced in Microsoft Windows operating systems, which include 2000 server, server 2003, Server 2008, Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000 Professional, and office productivity suites; Microsoft project 2007& 2010, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Visio.

• Windows files and folders security, backup and recovery, which include volume shadow copy, and Active directory backup.

• Knowledgeable and experienced in working principles of Routers, Hubs, switches, ATM, Ethernet, Firewalls, Frame relay, ISDN, VPN, CSU/DSU, FTP, DNS and DHCP

• Cisco router installation, configuration and management. Routing protocols include; RIP, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP4.

Principal duties and Responsibilities:

• Directed project at site and communicates status regularly, often involving multiple internal and external stakeholders. Directly manages all aspects of project life cycle. Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed upon time, cost, and quality parameters.

• Managed all projects utilizing project management methodology.

• Lead projects specific to a particular industry or technology.

• Responsible for all project management activities including planning, budgeting, tracking and reporting.

• Ensures solution meets specified requirements.

• Provided consultative services to Client to ensure solution is efficient and meets Client’s needs.

• Lead and facilitates meetings and workshops as required. Develops and performs presentations for the project team.

• Facilitates documents and organizes initiative planning meetings where teams work out the tasks and timeline for initiatives.

• Participate in strategic planning and long term project roadmap.

• Responsible for conducting assessments and evaluations of project performance through the independent analysis and interpretation of objective and subjective evidence including project status reports, quality assurance and configuration management audit results, and discussion with project team members.

Education:

• MS., Information Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (In progress)

• BS., Science Technology, Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos

Certifications

• PMI Project Management Certification (PMP #1497592)

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

• Certified Solaris Computer System Administrator (Solaris 8)

• A+, Windows/DOS Certified Service Technician

• Network+, Certified Network Support Technician

• Server+, Certified server maintenance and administration

Professional Experience

Techead One, New York, NY

Project Manager

January 2009 to Present

• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end. Create, documents defining project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goal in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.

• Responsible for developing master project management plan, work breakdown structure, site surveys, findings reports, and quality management.

• Ensures best practices to reduce costs and manage schedule and performance.

• Establishes milestones and monitors adherence to master plans and schedules identifies project problems and obtains solutions, such as allocation of resources or changing contractual specifications.

• Responsible for the administrative, operational, financial management, and leadership of projects within guidelines established by the program manager.

• Monitors project to ensure scope of work, schedules and budget are well defined, maintained and accomplished.

• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

Unisys Corporation, New York, NY

Client Infrastructure Representative / Project Coordinator

April 2000 to November 2008

• Managed all projects, tracked time allocations and resource usage.

• Lead in implementing/applying standard processes for scope/change management, risk management, issue management, quality assurance, estimate variances and project baselines.

• Ensured project closed effectively through production turnover, documentation of learning and provision of feedback on project resource performance.

• Ensured project satisfied all required policy, audit, financial and technology guidelines.

• Responsible for planning, executing installation, maintaining and repairing company and multi-vendor systems which include hardware, software and networking products as well as operating systems. Installs and optimizes HW/SW/Networking product and configurations at customer sites. Diagnosed and resolve product performance problems. Ensures customer satisfaction by advising customers on preventative maintenance and configurations which may impact product performance. Takes responsibility for potential or desired follow-up services (Sales/Systems Engineering) or problem escalation. Maintains a functional understanding of company service solutions.

General Communications Corporation, New York, NY

Field Service Engineer

March 1998 to April 2000

• Building and configuration of personal computers to meet clients’ requirements. Installation, and setting up of new PCs and printers at customers homes and providing necessary basic training.

• Diagnosis and rectification of faults associated with personal computers, laptops and printers.

• Provided first line support for desktop systems and ensuring efficient resolution of user queries.

• Assembling, configuration, upgrading of PCs, installation of operating systems and network operating systems and associated components.

Training:

New York University, New York 1998

• Data communications, System Novell LAN, and LAN Workstation fundamentals

Career Vision School, New York 2001

• Sun Solaris computer systems administration, Oracle 8 Database Administration,

• Introduction to Java 2 programming and Introduction to C++ programming.

Unisys University 2001 - 2007

• Dell PowerEdge server installation and maintenance, Dell/EMC Clariion CX200, CX400, and CX600 installation and administration, Netapp Filers Installation, configuration and administration.

• Egenera BladeFrame Installation, configuration, and administration.

Smartforce/Skillsoft

• Linux System administration, Solaris 9 system administration, ICND (Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices) and Windows server 2003 Systems and network administration.

Professional Affiliation:

• ACM Association of Computer Machinery (Member)

• IEEE computer society (Member)

• PMI Project Management Institute (Member)

References: Available upon request.

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