Project Manager

RORY FLAHERTY

**** ****** *****, ***** ******, OH 43035

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PROJECT MANAGER

A turnkey Project Manager with experience across all phases of the PMLC (Concept, Definition, Planning, Implementation & Closing) across the SDLC phases (Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transition) and excellent understanding of Requirements, Integration, Human Resource, Cost, Risk, Quality, Change and Configuration Management

A first-hand experience in all aspects of IT Project Life cycle as Developer, Business and Project Analyst, Test & Quality Control Lead, Release Manager, and Project Manager in 25 years of an IT career that spread across financial giants like JPMorganChase and National City (formerly BancOhio) and utility companies like American Electric Power and Duke Energy

Diverse industry experience includes Banking & Finance, Utilities, Government and Manufacturing verticals. Successfully applied commonly adopted processes and standards of Project Management in past 14 years of a Project Manager role

A genuine people person, disciplined work ethic and a ‘can do’ personality with a proven record of teamwork, leadership and customer satisfaction by delivering on time, on/under budget, and meeting client commitments with demonstrated ability to motivate team members to exceed established goals

Management experience in project execution methodology, SDLC, PMO, and Infrastructure upgrade

Successfully monitored SLAs, service provider deliverable and commitments, liaison among groups

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Core Competencies

 Project Management Requirements Analysis Liaison & Team Building

 Business & Process Analysis Gap Analysis Change Management

 Risk Management Release Management Vendor Management

 Root Cause Analysis .Net and Web development Mainframe platforms

 IT Services Delivery Competitive Analysis MIS Operations

 Application Development PeopleSoft HRMS PeopleSoft Tools 1&2

 Microsoft Office Suite Microsoft Project Microsoft Visio

 Microsoft PowerPoint Oracle Oracle PL/SQL

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EXPERIENCE

JPMORGAN CHASE (CDI CORPORATION), Columbus, OH 2006 – 2009

Project Manager

• Managed the Midwestern Territory of an Enterprise Active Directory conversion project with a $3.8million budget and eight resources.

• Responsible for the migration of users’ home drives and Lines of Business’ shared drives and all associated data from Novell Servers to Active Directory and decommissioned the Novell Servers.

• Utilized personnel data extracted from an Oracle database via MySQL to communicate to the Lines of Business which of their users will be migrated to Active Directory. Created summaries and metrics to attach to the migration request forms indicating the users and dates for the engineers to migrate.

• Maintained an issues and actions log that listed who is responsible to resolve the issue, the estimated date to resolve and actual date resolved and what the resolution was.

• Worked in the Global Technology Infrastructure GDS PMO where I oversaw the compliance, performance, and engagements of project and engineering resources in the Client Services organizations in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. This included the initial triage of incoming requests, development and tracking of key performance indicators and metrics, and helping project managers remediate quality issues.

• Developed reports and dashboard summaries of various metrics for management including performance measurement and analysis, program and portfolio analysis, and compliance to policy.

• Created and maintained Best Practices, PMO Process and Procedures, and other valuable GDS PMO documentation.

• Responded to and resolved issues beyond standard management requests as well as using independent judgment to make decisions where no clear precedents existed.

THE STATE OF OHIO, DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY (PROTEC GROUP, INC.), Columbus, OH 2005 – 2006

Project Manager

• Supervised the development of the Highway Management System (HMS) Web Time and Attendance application with a

$1.8million budget and four resources consisting of a Business Analyst and three developers.

• The .Net application was developed in Microsoft Visual Studio and interfaces with PeopleSoft, Oracle v11i and Active Directory.

• Responsible for task assignments, status reporting and billable hours of the resources in Microsoft Project. Performed application reviews and resolved reported issues.

• Developed test scripts for the Unit, System and Pilot testing phases.

• Developed training materials to be distributed to over 4,300 users at State Highway Patrol posts and non-patrol locations.

JPMORGAN CHASE (ROBERT HALF TECHNOLOGY), Columbus, OH 2005 – 2005

Project Manager

• Managed up to 14 projects derived from service requests by the Lines of Business. The budgets ranged from $2,500 - $1.3million

with a range of 2 – 8 resources per project depending on the size.

• Project requests consisted of deploying new and/or existing software applications to Line of Business workstations.

• Developed Project Scope Documents and Project Cost Estimates and presented them to the Lines of Business to gain their approval.

• Executed all aspects of the project by utilizing a system development lifecycle methodology (SDLC).

• Completed courses for Cost Estimating/Expense Capture, Tactical Resource Management and Change Management Process Overview.

AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER, Columbus, OH 1995 – 2005

IT Team Leader/Project Manager

• IT Team Leader for the Human Resources (HRMS) application group during conversion to PeopleSoft v8.0, PeopleTools v8.18 and Oracle v8i with a $12.6million budget.

• Used Microsoft Project to enter task identification, prioritization, and assignments for my staff of sixteen resources.

• Coordinated the PeopleSoft training and budget requirements for all HRMS teams. Involved working with individual team members, other team leads and the IT training group.

• Performed non-production infrastructure tasks for the PeopleSoft Financials and HRMS areas.

• An effective liaison between the functional user and technical communities in establishing common awareness and discussions of processes.

• Conducted change request, production outage, production issues and root cause analysis meetings and monitored the status of action items assigned.

• Represented the Enterprise Application Services area at change control meetings with other IT application areas to insure that there are no cross-impacts between them.

• Project Manager for the Integrated Time Reporting system. This system incorporated several time reporting applications for different entities throughout the company. The team consisted of five full time staff members and two members shared with another group. Responsible for primary support of the time reporting systems.

• Project Manager for the Multi-Day Time Reporting system. Responsible for the development of several online programs to replace an existing application. Involved in the design of new DB2 tables, developing them using Platinum.

• Attended a course in PowerBuilder in order to support a client server version of the Multi-Day Time Reporting system.

• Worked on an Employee Self Service application developed for the Intranet that allowed employees to view and edit their personal information. Utilized Java and TCP/IP to connect to the mainframe to execute CICS programs to access DB2 tables and VSAM files.

• Developed online and batch programs for the Cook Nuclear Plant time reporting system. This system utilized a package called Tenera that performs DB2 and CICS functions.

FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, Charlotte, NC 1994 – 1994

Systems Developer 5

• Worked in the Corporate Trust division on a stocks and bonds application called CSS-II.

• Modified several COBOL II programs for the bonds division to change report layouts and gather new data for the reports.

• Enhanced job streams to run more efficiently, resulting in shorter runtimes and less resource usage.

• Converted EasyTrieve report generating programs to COBOL II programs.

• Analyzed all reports of the Corporate Trust division and surveyed the recipients to determine which reports could be archived to generation datasets, or deleted, or printed for hard copy filing. This reduction in report processing resulted in a 75% overall savings in monthly printing costs.

DUKE POWER COMPANY, Charlotte, NC 1992 – 1994

Project Manager/IT Professional II

• Managed a team of four programmer/analysts to produce the Duke Power Address Book, an application for an employee information repository, and a $1.1million budget. The application was developed using COBOL II, CICS, PL/I and DB2. Part of the application is available to the entire company while another part is available only to information coordinators and security administrators via RACF security.

• Managed a team of three programmer/analysts to develop an automatic payment system for the telecommunication department to allow telephone companies to send their billing information on cartridges. The data is validated and inserted into database files to create a uniform format between each telephone company. Electronic vouchers and both online and printed reports are produced.

• Handled the conversion and addition of area codes within several telephone company database tables for the telecommunication department.

METRO INFORMATION SERVICES, Charlotte, NC 1991 – 1992

Senior Consultant

• Consulting assignments to NationsBank and Duke Power Company. Duke Power converted me to a fulltime employee.

• Created several report programs using EasyTrieve Plus.

• Helped create online programs for the Direct Deposit Accounts system.

BANCOHIO NATIONAL BANK, Columbus, OH 1988 – 1991

Programmer/Analyst II

• Worked on the credit card, private label billing, and customer information reporting and collections applications. The programs were written in COBOL II, CICS, DB2 and VSAM.

• Developed programs to create a more efficient communication system between users at different locations.

• Participated in development and design meetings, writing functional specifications and creating report layouts.

BANK ONE (COMTECH SYSTEMS, INC.), Columbus, OH 1987 – 1988

Programmer/Analyst

• Performed analysis and programming of customer information files, marketing, automated teller machine applications, and annuity and pension systems. The applications used COBOL II, CICS, DB2 and VSAM.

• Modified CICS programs, online panels and batch jobs. Created reporting functions using Lotus 1-2-3.

LYKES PASCO, INC., Dade City, FL 1986 – 1987

Programmer

• Worked on a team to code, convert, and test and implement the accounting, labor distribution, payroll and equipment management applications from DOS/VSE to an OS/MVS environment.

• Wrote supporting documentation of the changes to the operating environment and applications. Helped train users at remote sites to understand the new screens and functionality.

F.E. MYERS COMPANY, Ashland, OH 1985 – 1986

Programmer

• Performed analysis and programming for accounting, payroll and personnel systems. Environment was DOS/VSE using COBOL, IMS and VSAM.

• Discussed report designs with users to gather their input and needs.

• Developed batch programs and jobs to produce reports and data files.

MANAGEMENT & TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management:

o PMBOK , Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC), Project Management Office (PMO)

o Forecasting and Budgeting, Scope and Project Cost Estimation

o Tools: MS Project 2007/2003, MS PowerPoint

• Technical Skills:

o Software Engineering: SDLC, Waterfall, RUP, Web Services

o Business Analysis: Use Case Analysis, Feasibility Study, GAP Analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

o Languages: PL/SQL, PeopleTools & PeopleCode, JavaScript, COBOL, CICS

o CASE Tools: MS Visio

o RDBMS / Databases: Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2005, DB2, MYSQL

o Reporting Tools: MS-Access, PeopleSoft SQR

o Office Tools: MS Office Suite 2003 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio)

o Operating System: Windows Vista/XP/2000/ NT, UNIX

o ERP: PeopleSoft Applications, HRMS, HCM, Benefits, Reporting

EDUCATION

DeVRY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Columbus, OH

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems

• Degree received October, 1984

• GPA: 3.2/4.0

• Honors: Presidential Honor Society and Dean’s List

Professional Training:

AEP-IT Project Management

PeopleSoft Business Process Design, PeopleTools I & II, PeopleSoft HRMS, PeopleSoft Benefits

Pursuing PMP Certification

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