Senior Project Manager - FIS - Remote
(2022-01 - 2023-05)
Lead projects to develop and implement an Omni-Channel system. Including use of cloud providers NICE, Nuance, Q-Story and Service Now. Along with integrating AI through AWS.
Technical Project Manager - State Street Bank - Remote
(2019-08 - 2021-11)
Technical lead responsible for performing a full hardware and software refresh for 22 top-tier applications at State Street Bank. The applications include Active Directory, AD Federated Services, Site Minder, MS Exchange, Citrix and RightFax. Major activities Included:
- Service Now CMDB analysis and update.
- Migrations and upgrades for z/OS, Solaris, AIX, VMWare/ESX, Linux, Windows, DB2, Sybase, Oracle and MS-SQL.
- Budgets, resource planning and scheduling.
- Acquire hardware, resources, software licenses and reserve data center space.
- Server build requests, firewall requests, network changes, database designs, change requests and resolution of scheduling conflicts.
- Gathering and disseminating status updates to managers and the C-Suite.
- Perform escalations with vendors and State Steet employees.
- Researching, defining, and managing issues and risks.
- Use MS-Project and MS-Office to document, communicate and manage projects.
- Working with global resources, offices, and data centers.
Developer - Retired Well LLC. - Remote
(2019-03 - 2019-07)
I developed planning software consisting of VBA macros running on Excel.
- Designed, wrote, tested, and documented the software.
- Creation of an Ecommerce website.
Project Manager 4 - DXC Technologies - Remote
(2003-03 - 2019-02)
Clients: Sprint, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Eli Lilly, Clorox, Century-Link and Embarq. Managing projects for clients in support of their contract with DXC and the products it sells. Activities include:
- Business analysis, requirements gathering, sales proposals, cost estimations, software designs, hardware designs.
- Software development and support. Using COBOL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, MS-Access, Excel and VBA.
- Stakeholder management, MS-Project plans, scheduling, budget management, resource management. Integration of MS-Office macros and templates into the PMO.
- Identifying issues and risk then managing their resolution.
- Manage DXC, client vendors and client personnel in an international matrixed environment.
- Status reporting to managers and C-Suite.
- Updates to CMDB database, project audits, SOX compliance and CMMI level 4 contributor. Project close out and management of lessons learned in MS-Sharepoint.
- Change management using Service Now and HP Service Center.
- Developing PMO standards and documentation. Including establishing the PMO at Embarq.
- Execution of projects that include: Consolidating Oracle databases to reduce license impacts; Building Oracle and SQL databases; Building networks, including in the DMZ; Purchasing and installation of Servers, SAN, Switches, Routers, Communications Lines, Backup Servers; Creating database stored procedures; creating Java Script HTML web sites; Laptop upgrades, including recertification of software on a new OS, distribution of laptops and user migrations; management of client data and equipment r
- Effectively working in multi-cultural environments with remote personnel on a global scale and managing work in remote data centers.
