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Tell Us About You/Your Company or What Type of Work You Do if Seeking Employment: Project Management

Post Your Resume (Remove Your Home Address, Phone and all Personal Information ie. SSN, DOB, DL#****Failure to Comply will result in your account being banned! This is not a site for commercial advertising. If you are not looking for employment you need to be a Sponsor. Click on the Advertising Tab for more information!) Protect Your Privacy and DO NOT POST YOUR PHONE NUMBER OR HOME ADDRESS. YOUR RESUME WILL POST TO THE INTERNET - DO NOT PUT ANYTHING ON YOUR RESUME THAT YOU DO NOT WANT OTHERS TO SEE!: Senior Certified Project, Program Manager, and Consultant with broad expertise in all phases of project lifecycle planning and implementation. Highly skilled in solving complex engineering, operations, and IT problems along with managing budgets, risk, and vendors Depth of experience complemented by international leadership of large outsourcing and infrastructure projects. Diverse experience in many industries including technology, consulting, and aerospace. Natural leader with the unique ability to empower and motivate teams. Big picture focus and flawless execution. Proven areas of expertise include:

• Budget planning/management • Proposal/project planning and WBS development
• Telecom network/IT systems integration • Relationships development management
• Software development/implementation • Global Project Team
• Program management • Risk assessment/management
• Vendor Selection & Management • Negotiations with Clients & Vendors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
UNISYS GLOBAL OUTSOURCING & INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES – Bluebell, PA 2006-2008
Senior Project Manager
• Planned the implementation of the Proof of Concept, and Pilot of Dubai, UAE, a $3M international security project including Maritime Seaport, airport, cargo, & personnel security systems with a 6 person team.
• Led a 25 person internal team that managed a Unisys Enterprise wide Project Management Methodology. Personally insured compatibility with PMI PMBOK, ITIL, and IBM RUP Processes.
• Led an 18 person team to define, plan and implement a Proof of Concept/Pilot of Desktop Virtualization for Capital One Call Centers that resulted in a 2,000 seat $3M pilot project.
• Negotiated Service Desk Management Agreement with Amgen Pharmaceutical and planned and implemented the full service desk, with Peregrine 6.0 ServiceCenter Incident Management system with a 5 person team. Identified requirements, scheduling, and Risk Assessment definitions from a PMO Environment resulting in a multi-year service desk contract for $4M per year.
• Planned and implemented a complex, enterprise wide, Infrastructure Asset Management project for Quest Diagnostics. Negotiated a fifth service to a 5 year contract to create an asset reuse/disposal program to help Quest improve its use of assets and save dollars while remaining HIPPA compliant.
• Planned and managed budgets and implementation of Emergency Operations Center, emergency telecom system, and to oversee the original recovery from the largest natural emergency and disaster to be suffered in the USA at New Orleans, LA. This led to a subsequent flawless Evacuation in early 2008. Hired and managed 4 vendors and some of the seven 16- person teams designated to perform recovery. Responsible for tracking all costs and bringing collections current.

BEARINGPOINT, UTILITIES PRACTICE – Atlanta, GA 2005-2006
Manager Consultant
• Provided daily communication with the Business Unit PM to assure good coordination with Business Unit resources that were also required for test of the releases of AMR Itron IEE application solution.
• Held weekly team meetings to discuss and track all risks/issues, changes in estimated and required resources, costs, and schedule impacts. Managed 1 vendor and a 14-person team.
• Responsible for managing the IT resources necessary to test the various releases of IEE (Itron Enterprise Edition) MDMS (Meter Data Management System) that Itron delivered.

UNISYS GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS – Bluebell, PA 2000-2005
Senior Project Manager/Lead Program Manager Consultant
• Skillfully mentored international business partners and Project Managers in over 40 nations to improve schedules and client relations.
• Orchestrated the generation of a wide range of telecom and technology proposals, business cases, and strategic presentations for various divisions of Unisys marketing efforts.
• Developed outsourcing and offshore implementation plans for various internal Unisys clients. Increased divisional services gross margin by nearly 4%.
• Planned and project managed the successful compliance of the division with Sarbanes Oxley, section 404.
• Proposed and implemented a one-call Call Center System for BellSouth with costs coming under 5% of budget and completion 2 weeks ahead of schedule by using a Global Project Team.
• Successfully planned and implemented a $9.5M, four sites, CTI Remittance Processing System for Qwest Communications and improved gross margins by 10%.

COMPUTER TASK GROUP – Norcross, GA 1999-2000
Lead IT Program Manager Consultant
• Planned and directed the BellSouth/Accenture/EDS e-business/IT Integrated Dispatch System (IDS) program. Effectively completed project resulting in all $40K repair trucks performing an added two calls per day at no added cost. Managed 28 person team and one vendor.
• Directed the project analysis, budgeting, and development of an IT Pilot Project proposal that resulted in the addition of $6M of new business for Accenture Consulting.

WORLDPORT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. – Kennesaw, GA 1998-1999
Programs Director
• Developed PMO, and recommended Global projects prioritization plans.
• Managed Global resources ensuring completion of international backbone with available funds.
• Directed IT programs concept definition, organization budgets and planning structure for International Fiber Optics Network Portfolio of programs for 14 switch locations at $6M per project.
• Personally generated the initial set of processes and procedures for Operations, Engineering, and Programs/ Projects Management as the company started doing business.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. – Roswell, GA 1997-1998
Program Management Director
• Provided program concept for Long Distance Program and subordinate projects to BellSouth Telecommunications Company with a $25M budget and a 75-member team spread out across BellSouth States.
• Structured the unbundled Network Elements Program/processes with a $10M, 30-member team.
• Successfully directed a 6-person team, $500K project to improve BellSouth’s volume and revenue forecasting. Enabled BellSouth Forecasters to accurately project Market Share volume and revenue.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Experience in project and program management roles for aerospace companies and military contractors.

SPECIALIZED SKILLS
Software: MS-Project 2007, MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Visio, SharePoint
Methodologies: Systems Development Life Cycle, (SDLC), ITIL v.3, PMI-PMBOK, Various Corporate

EDUCATION
Master of Science, Management – ROLLINS COLLEGE – Winter Park, FL
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration – FLORIDA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY – Orlando, FL

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Requested by NASA classes in Business Development, Contracts Management, and Engineering Project Management and received Outstanding Instructor award.
• Selected by Project Management Institute (PMI) Board of Directors as one of three PMP Project Managers to serve on the International Ethics Committee; one of eighteen International PMP Project Managers to write, and define the content and configuration of test questions for future PMP exams; and a team member to revise the Cost, Risk, and Quality Management sections of the 2004 republication of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
• Frequently published author in Project Management Journals including a variety of topics, including Earned Value Management Systems, Soft Skills implementation, etc.