VP of IT, Infrastructure
Resume:
MICHAEL D. POWER
**** **** **** *****, ********* Heights, IL 60004
*************@*****.***
Professional Summary
Innovative and highly qualified senior technical executive that utilizes extensive IT management and expertise for successful technology initiatives in enterprise and program roles. Proven leadership and interpersonal skills in dynamic and goal-oriented environments across multiple disciplines with a focus on business profitability and enterprise perspectives.
Career Skills and Knowledge
Executive Information Technology Management
IT Compliance – FDICIA, SOX, GLBA, Internal Audit, HIPAA, FFIEC, OTS
SDLC Management and Tooling – Application Development, Data Center Hosting, Engineering, Operations
Enterprise Technology Management – Distribution Infrastructures, Systems Integration, Interface Design and Standards
Project Management – PMO development and management, project and technical project leadership
Employment History
Northern Trust, Senior Consultant (Solstice Consulting) Sept 2009 - Present
• Reporting directly to the divisional Vice President of Distributed Frameworks, managing 45 member team of engineers and operational staff for project to decommission Chicago based data center and migrate 26 discrete architectures to new build facility in Rochelle, IL
• As 3rd program manager to manage the relocation, aligned business partner expectations and business unit deliverables within first two months bringing the program on schedule and under budget
• Delivered accurate budgeting and expenditure forecasts for hard and soft dollar resources.
• Developed and maintain effort driven master program schedule incorporating divisional support group (network, platform, storage, mainframe, etc) as it impacts and drives schedules for all 26 architecture across 7 SDLC environments.
• Vendor management and contract negotiations with Tier 1 and 2 suppliers
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Vice-President Information Technology Dec 2005 – Sept 2009
• Reporting directly to CIO, managed 60 member development, engineering, and operations staff. Established strategic practices including SDLC, application instrumentation, architecture review committees, interface and usability matrices.
• P & L responsibility of 20 million dollar IT budget delivering multi-million dollar development and systems integration programs in regulatory landscapes. Verticals included government lending programs, GL and compensation technologies, and domestic imaging ILM practice.
• Created tactical disciplines in the areas of interoperability design (user and system), perceptive networking designs, and 6 layered SDLC environmental schemas for 30 applications.
• Established product management emphasis on applications providing feature-set release and roadmaps improving customer satisfaction and product delivery by 35 percent.
• As IT Compliance Officer, matured application and infrastructure stacks thru SOX, FDICIA, and GLBA compliance as part of integration into banking division of Global Wealth Management master division of Morgan Stanley.
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• Managed with fiscal responsibility three national data center hosting migrations with in-flight hardware, operating system and application upgrades.
• Introduced .NET frameworks (MSF/MOF) into SDLC and development arenas as part of legacy system rewrite program from Oracle 9i to .NET 3.5
• Prescribed and incorporated leading infrastructure technology designs for load balancing, dynamic failover, SSL acceleration, and dynamic SDLC environments.
• Developed and executed BCM program in Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning tests with focus on Platform, Application, and Interface Recovery (PAIR)
Experian Marketing Services, PMO Director/Senior Manager Collaboration Engineering Oct. 2003 – Oct. 2005
• Managed and created 1st PMO in Experian Marketing Services.
• Managed multi divisional Time Tracking Solution providing labor vs. revenue analysis with emphasis on service delivery.
• Implemented online collaboration faculties for North America and standardized Intra/Extra policies and standards.
• Managed EMS Intranet and developed Web Services capabilities with SDLC and versioning practices.
• Managed multiple implementations of proprietary campaign management systems for Target, Brooks Brothers, Wonderlic, and Cendant.
• Managed and architected Microsoft software stack in an EC3 data center for external customer access to internal regulated data inventory.
• Architected and standardized North American SharePoint and Portal offerings using .ASP, web parts, and SQL2K.
The HIPAA Council, Senior Consultant (5 month contract) Apr 2003 – Oct. 2003
• Lead development and engineering teams for online HIPAA compliance training program for several Healthcare and IT clientele.
• Provided Business Development Management for medical associations and covered entities with compliance initiatives focusing on the social, process, and technical engineering aspects of Title II.
• Co-designed storage solution with EMC and Digex providing forms displays with .NET and .ASP technologies.
• Completed 10 city training seminar series for small to medium (fewer than 5 million yearly claims) clients.
Vivendi Universal, Enterprise Application Engineering Director Jun 2001 – May 2003
• Responsibilities included oversight of engineering and development initiatives for web applications and business systems including SDLC, infrastructure, and environment management. Matured models from source control to production in a steady-state support model managed to a 99.99 SLA.
• Managed architecture, application, DBMS, deployment, and engineering teams directly.
• Managed all aspects of concurrent migration from local hosting (Main Distribution Frame) to enterprise hosting solution and SQL 7 to SQL 2000 migration on production environments.
• Responsible for system maturity modeling including global 1200 node distribution WAN, dual managed hosting sites (domestic), disaster recovery, multiple development and QC sites (domestic and UK).
• Planned and implemented migration to .NET and grid technologies from .ASP and commodity technologies respectively.
• Technical oversight for all contracts, RFP and legal support, SAS 70 and other designations in SLA and MSA mediums client facing.
• Identified new technologies to incorporate to the web site as well as lead technical design for new branding and service offerings.
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Exodus Communications, Engineering and Project Management Director Aug 1999 – Jun 2001
• Managed multiple web system implementation projects ranging from small to medium company B2B, to Fortune 100 companies designing and establishing worldwide Ecommerce solutions and B2C, C2B portals in multi-hosted architectures. Web hosting and implementations in a management/senior technical role include Merrill Lynch, Best Buy, McDonald's, Ford, Orbitz, ServiceMaster, AdOutlet, Arthur Anderson (iFlourish), General Motors, Plastics.net (Commerx), Pullman Bank and Trust, Ethnic Grocer, iParenting, Grainger, eRegister, and Catalyst
• Developed and sat as Chairman of Engineering Steering Committee that defined the daily operations and procedures for all engineering and project management staff.
• Reporting directly to the VP of technology, responsibilities included managing project management team and engineering teams directly. Management over career development, utilization schedules, and consultant maturity for the professional services group as well as resource management and fiscal maturity.
ServCom, Director of Technical Business Management Oct 1995 – Jun 1999
• HP (formerly Compaq Computer Corporation) 06/1998 - 06/1999
Developed, implemented, and managed onsite testing facility at Compaq HQ. Managed multiple high visibility and confidential hardware and software projects for systems and operating systems integration testing for multiple laptop platforms. Saturated existing client by designing new testing solutions for near end of life software in regression formats. Positioned 35 full time software engineers in first 6 months with new system. Implemented 3 total lab environments spanning laptop, enterprise desktop and server platforms that transparently acted as extensions of key Compaq internal business units. Critical success was understanding the business needs and translating it into technical solutions that provide satisfactory ROI schedules to the business units in preferred currency. Managed CD reprographics distribution system to web based VAR new product release package for Enterprise Computing Division.
• Exxon (EUTeC) 10/1995 - 06/1998
Managed global Windows 95/98 and Windows /NT technology rollouts for Exxon Production Research, Exxon Ventures, and other divisions totaling 47,000 users and systems worldwide. Managed global thin client rollout of 22 servers and 900 clients. Repaired internal software distribution process, prepared infrastructure and deployment strategies for OVVM to Outlook conversion with iForms, and intra/internet implementations. Responsible for overall project completion and management of engineering staff. Managed budgets and customer expectations. Interfaced and reported to executive management on weekly basis. Developed and defined scopes for all project based work. Develop proposals, negotiated customer sign-off, and developed steady state support models. Commonly interfaced with onsite help desk facility and coordinated technology rollouts with functional engineering and department heads.
• HP (formerly Compaq Computer Corporation) 08/1993 - 08/1995
As member of dedicated server team for the Information Management group, responsibilities included management of the build teams and their respective progressive functions for product to market. Servers managed from assembly to delivery and 3 year support for worldwide customers. Tier 2 project management on high visibility projects including operating system integrity testing (OSIT) of Proliant series of servers, (first team to beta /NT on Compaq hardware), Compaq internal server migration program, and migration of the second largest Banyan Vines network to Windows /NT 3.51.
Professional Certifications: CHT Certified HIPAA Instructor, CHP, CHSS Certified HIPAA Professional, Certified HIPAA Security Specialist, MCT Microsoft Certified Trainer (4.0)
Professional Associations: Gerson Lehrman Group Technology Council, IAMOT - International Association of Managers of Technology, Councils of Advisors - Communications and Web Technologies Board
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