Project Lead
Resume:
DENNIS A. GALVIN
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SUMMARY
Technical Project Lead with over 25 years of experience in all phases of application development.
SKILLS INVENTORY
Project Management:
Management of multi-million dollar projects
Manage and monitor day-to-day project tasks, and reprioritize tasks as issues arise.
Planning, executing and implementation
Assembling Project Teams
Coordinating tasks of team members
Coach, mentor, motivate and direct project team members and contractors
influence them to take positive action and assume accountability for their assigned work.
Infrastructure and Systems project management
Management of third party and off-shore resources
SDLC Methodology knowledge(Waterfall, RAD,Agile,Interactive, Incremental)
Ability to meet business needs in a complex IS environment
Conducting and leading project meetings
Effective internal and external relationship building
Ability to work on multiple projects at once with demand driven deadlines
Think logically and analyze application and business process requirements.
Maintain positive inter-team communication and interaction.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Languages: COBOL (15+ years), COBOLII(10+ year), CICS, (15+ years) JCL(15+ years) ,NATURAL(10+ years)
• Data Bases: DB2 ,Adabas, CA-Datacom
• Case Tools: Excelerator, XLII, Xpediter, Cool-Biz, PBCS, Endevor, NIKU, Clarity, Workbench, Fileaid for DB2,NDM, FTP, TSO/ISPF, QMF, Easytrieve, Dyl280
• SDLC Methodology: Waterfall , RAD, Agile, Incremental, Interactive
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DST SYSTEMS, INC., Kansas City, MO 2001 – 2010
Software Development Technical Project Lead
I coordinated and managed IT project development from beginning to end ensuring adherence to departmental standards and best practices. Defined and verified objectives, scope and deliverables. Determined and assigned tasks, maintained Project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS). Tracked milestones and adjusted project plans and resources as needed, scheduled and lead team meetings with both technical team and business analyst. I was involved with several mergers (ING, Putnam, and The Hartford). Regularly met with regulatory compliance insuring all projects met guidelines thereof .Used WATERFALL SDLC on all large scale projects, and RAD for smaller projects
Managed a team of 6 technical associates, I was responsible for assigning work, approving vacation, approving time cards, performance reviews, merit increase recommendations.
Initiated and led offshore (Bangkok) development project in an effort to review, revamp and standardize processes and procedures for primary architectural changes, resulting in saving on average 800 hours for projects requiring architectural changes.
Created a more functional Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) which was subsequently used on all projects in the department.
Delivered the Plan Indicator Phase I project, on schedule and under budget. This project included Mainframe, Desktop, Web and Voice components. This was accomplished while all other current project were requesting extensions and were not able to meet budgets and timeframes, I turned down extension offers and meet all original scheduled deliverables
Enhanced Participant ACH Contribution system to allow employee contributions to 401k to be processed through any bank chosen by the investment plan. Prior to enhancement investment plans could only use a single bank. This was a 20000+ hour project over 3 years with 40 associates working on it at various times in the project life cycle. It involved components for Mainframe, Desktop and WEB.
Developed and implemented a “Roth Deferral” application in accordance with regulatory compliance. This project was error free through all implementations stages
Facilitated and participated in weekly conference calls with senior level management at both existing and potential clients.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA – Department of Social Services
(Child Support, Food Stamps, ADC) 1998 – 2000
Senior Disaster Recovery Technical Lead
Provided Y2K contingency planning.
Analyzed and evaluated all Mainframe applications.
Modeled all systems and identified critical paths which allowed for the proposal and solutions to contingencies at critical paths. developed Adhoc programs to help facilitate contingencies at critical paths
BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1997 – 1998
Healthcare insurance provider.
Software Project Tech Lead
I managed a team of 12 technical associates, I was responsible for assigning work, approving vacation, approving time cards, performance reviews, merit increase recommendations.
Guided detailed design phases of software development, prioritized plan, and reported the deliverables being met to management.
I Carried out duties of Programming Manager in Manager’s absence.
I Participated in department short and long term planning.
SDLC Methodology Waterfall
PHYSICIANS MUTUAL, Omaha NE 1995 – 1997
Healthcare and Life insurance provider.
Project Tech Lead – New Development
Responsible for leading rewrite of Claims Payment System, using Interactive SDLC
I designed and Lead the development project at physicians mutual for their new consolidated claims payment system. This was for 18 months with a team of 6 programmers and 2 BA. I also designed the relational database and all the tables therein for the project
I Convinced upper management to update the Claims Payment system from batch reporting to a fully integrated online CICS with instantaneous access to information.
EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Associates of Arts - Des Moines Area Community College, Des Moines, IA
Business Administration, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
ADDITIONAL TRAINING:
PM Development Courses
• Meeting Client Expectations
• Building an Environment of Trust
• Project Management (DST)
• Project Management (BCBSSC)
• Crucial Confrontations
• Employment Law
• Getting Started as a PM
• Leading Change
• Making Meetings Work
• Performance Management
• Six Thinking Hats
• Valuing Differences
• Presentation Advantage
• Adapting to Change
• Communicating and Listening
• Feedback Fundamentals
• Improving Personal Productivity
• 7 habits of Successful People
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