Senior Project Manager Resume

Title
Senior Project Manager

Primary Skills
Software Engineering, QA, Application and Database design and implementation, IV&V, Governance, Business Analysis

Location
US-MA-Barre

Posted
Feb-12-09


Professional Profile

* 26 years of experience in IT encompassing Software Engineering, QA, Application and Database design and implementation, IV&V, Governance, Business Systems Analysis and for the last 10 years, Program and Project Management.
* Successful with major corporations including EMC, Availant/IBM, HealthSource, EDS, GTEI, Staples, Digital Equipment Corporation, Zayre Corporation and Benjamin J. White Consulting
* Certified Project Master by Villanova University 2003
* ITIL Certified 2005, EMC STF certified 2008
* Expert at tailoring PMBOK processes to specific project requirements and at integrating PMBOK processes with SDLC process for maximum quality, timeliness and budget conformity while minimizing risk
* PMO and Oversight Consultant to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
* EMC Global Education Program Manager for world wide Project Management curriculum development , assessment, scheduling and maintenance
* Senior Project Manager consultant, Analyst and Course Developer for Advanced PM impact course development at EMC Global Education Services and Development
* Proven track record in leading complex, mission-critical, software product and infrastructure development efforts from initiation through close
* Solid technical skills on multiple computer platforms encompassing many Software and QA Engineering disciplines
* Expertise in MS-Project, MS-Office suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio), Clarity and SQL
* Significant experience interfacing with all IT functions and leading diverse teams.
* Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, analytical and communication skills honed through years of rigorous experience
* Successful career applications of methodologies including: SDLC, CMM, TQM, PMI and PMBOK, EDI X12

Relevant Experience


EMC
Franklin MA via TAC Worldwide

GS Global Education Program Manager and Project Management Consultant
7/08 - 12/08

Project Manager for EMC 2009 PM Program Definition Project.

Became the prime contact in Mercer Road for all GS PM training needs and the prime Mercer Road conduit to, and influence over, EMC PMO training-related activities

Successfully applied program and project management skill sets to the GS 2009 Project Management Program

PMBOK best practices applied to all activities


* Identified, planned, and managed, all aspects of GS PM training including curriculum content, course customization, class scheduling and delivery methods, budget planning and management, new course development, reporting and evaluation of consumption and quality, learning paths, and competency assessments
* Identified program risks and mitigation strategies, program issues and escalation to Mercer Road management and the PMO as appropriate to minimize program exposures.
* Successfully initiated, planned, monitored and brought to successful completion the Global Education 2009 Project Management Program for EMC world-wide
* Assisted EMC PMO in facilitating PMP, ITIL and STF certification training efforts for Americas, Europe (EMEA) and the Far East (APJ)





Relevant Experience (Continued)



Massachusetts ITD PMO/Capital Project Oversight
Boston MA via Sapphire Technologies Consulting

Senior Project Management Consultant
Mass. ITD Capital Projects Oversight Project Manager
1/07 - 6/08

The Massachusetts IT Division PMO serves 85 state agencies that encompass 85,000 employees.

My services encompassed artifacts and deliverables for all phases of project management for the Commonwealth's ITD Capital Project Oversight Program Development Project.

Assisted Commonwealth's PMO in developing a Project Management Methodology.

Numerous presentations regarding findings and proposals were prepared and delivered to the Commonwealth ITD Executive Management Committee.












Highlights included:
* Gathered and refined requirements for Capital project Oversight Development Program

* Developed Project Plan for Capital Project Oversight Development Program

* Analyzed various state and federal government PMO and oversight models to assist in developing oversight model for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

* Developed oversight tools for the Commonwealth including:
* Capital Project Quality Assurance Form
* Capital Project Standards Compliance Form
* Capital Project Artifact Guide
* Capital Project Health Check Forms (all phases)
* Capital Project Risk Register
* Capital Project Issue Log

* Developed and conducted workshops for Commonwealth PMO and Customer Outreach groups
* Requirements Engineering Presentation
* WBS and Project Estimating Workshop
* Risk Management Workshop
* Advanced MS Project Workshop
* Survey of artifacts from RUP, PMBOK and Prince2
(Lecture paper to Customer Outreach Managers)
* Survey of testing methods for IT projects
(lecture paper to Customer Outreach Managers)

* Provided consultative services to ITD Project Managers

















Relevant Experience (Continued)



EMC
Southborough, MA via JAC, LLC

Project Management Consultant
7/05 - 9/06

Responsible for Project Management, research, analysis and course development for EMC major service areas.

Effective collaboration with EMC's PMO
and Global Education and Development
functions. * Provided full range of Project Management services including Stakeholder Management:, requirements gathering and refinement; WBS, schedule development and risk management leading to delivery of eight advanced Project Management Impact courses
* Courses involved extensive research and analysis encompassing products and services in EMC NAS, SAN, CAS, SRM, Backup, Recovery and Archive, Replication, and Migration business and technical domains
* Platform focused research and analysis included EMC Celerra, CLARiiON, Symmetrix and Centera
* Courses Developed and Delivered:
Managing EMC Technology Projects - General Module
Managing EMC NAS Technology Projects
Managing EMC SAN Design projects for CLARiiON
Managing EMC Symmetrix Replication Projects
Managing EMC Backup, Recovery and Archiving Projects
Managing EMC Data Migration Projects
Managing EMC Storage Resource Management Projects
Managing EMC Content Addressed Storage Projects ( Sarbanes Oxley )
* Performed EMC and ESI PM course curriculum comparative analysis

Availant Corporation
Cambridge and Waltham, MA

Senior Project Manager
Associate Director,
HACMP Engineering
7/00 - 5/05

Responsible for P&L, Project Management and people management for five successful releases of IBM HACMP software systems.








* P&L responsibilities included overall responsibility for generating $10.5-11.5M in annual revenue, all revenue and cost forecasting, as well as managing within budget every year resulting in exceptional margins
* Responsible, as most senior PM, and later as Associate Director of HACMP engineering, for successful project execution of five successful (on time, high margin, high customer satisfaction) IBM HACMP releases worth accumulatively near $50,000,000 in revenue for Availant.
* Developed and matured a project management function implementing several best practice elements for Availant. Among these were requirements focused project planning and integration; effective scheduling methodologies; early warning based risk management; and team building approaches goaled for effective team dynamics and high retention rates.
* Managed technical staff including principal to junior levels of project managers, software engineers, QA engineers, release engineers and support engineers. These duties encompass ongoing performance coaching, mentoring, career counseling, and full yearly 360 reviews augmented by goal check-ins on a quarterly basis. People management responsibility to upper management included ongoing team ranking, salary and bonus action input








Relevant Experience (Continued)


Consulting Assignments via :
Sullivan and Cogliano,
Computer Express Inc.,
Computer Merchants Inc.,Software Connections Inc

Project Management Consultant
Y2K Technical Consultant
Consulting Senior QA Engineer
05/96 - 07/00
Demonstrating my skills as a consummate IT Generalist particularly in areas of Project Management, Requirements Engineering and Analysis, Solutions Design and technical individual contribution.



* Developed Global Test Plan and security, GUI, and Network test plans for first release of Availant Manager (Availant via Sullivan & Cogliano)
* Performed Analysis, Project Planning, Test Planning and Test Execution for third party product Y2K certifications. Products included BAAN Front Office, GEMSAFE, TAXWARE system and Perl and JAVA applications (GTEI via Sullivan & Cogliano)
* Provided Project Management consulting, systems analysis, work and data flows, and remediation programming services on VAX VMS platforms utilizing DCL, VMS Basic, and IBI Focus to support various retail infrastructure systems. DFD work done in Visio and project scheduling in MS Project (Staples via Computer Express)
* Project Lead and Principal Programmer for Digital Sales Compensation system (OMEGA) U.S. Mapper component (Digital Equipment via Computer Merchants)
* Reengineered the Healthsource claims processing system into an automated EDI IDX compliant with ANSI X-12. Provided process and workflow analysis using VISIO and from that analysis a solution design for an ALPHA VMS platform. Also provided coding, testing and documentation services (Healthsource via Software Connections)

Electronic Data Systems
Waltham, MA.
Advanced Software Engineer
4/95 - 5/96
* Re-engineered the CMIS Batch Automation process. This involved requirements gathering and refinement, analysis, solution proposals, coding, testing and implementation. Primary platform VMS and primary languages DCL, C, and VMS Basic using CDD and RMS.

Digital Equipment Corporation
Maynard, MA.

Principal Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Programmer Analyst
3/86 - 2/95

* Over nine years of service to Digital I provided full lifecycle development services, and, from 1991, hands on project management services for critical infrastructure systems including U.S. Order processing, U.S. Data Warehousing, World Wide Sales and Marketing, Digital Software Supply Business and Internal Auditing Systems.

* These systems were based on VAX/VMS or Alpha/VMS platforms and utilized programming languages including C, VMS Cobol and BASIC interfacing with screen packages DECFORMS, FMS, SMG and file systems based on RMS or Datatrieve. Many of these systems used relational database solutions based in RDB. For these systems I provided full relational database design and implementation services.


Experience prior to 1986
* Zayre Corporation - Programmer Analyst (1985 - 1986)
* Benjamin J. White Associates - Consulting Programmer Analyst (1983 - 1985)




Education

EMC Storage Technology Foundations
Pink Elephant ITIL Certification Training EMC GSAP Program August 2008
Certified in ITIL foundations 2005
International Institute for Learning Advanced Project Management and Kerzner Best Practices in Project Management 2005
Harvard University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Tufts University Consortium
Program for Negotiation for Senior Executives 2004
Villanova University
Villanova Certificate in Project Mastery 2003

Boston University Improving Supervisory and Management Skills 2002
Central New England College Certificate in Data Processing 1983
40 credit hours 3.95 average in courses covering programming languages, data structures and algorithms and structured systems analysis and design
EMC Global Education and Development internal courses
1985 - 1986
In order to successfully complete the eight Advanced PM Impact courses for EMC, I consumed and based my research on the following EMC training:


NAS Foundations
NAS Backup Concepts
Networked Storage - NAS Basics
Network Appliance Basics
Celerra Fundamentals
Celerra Features and Functions
Celerra Foundations SAN Planning & Design Concepts
SRM Solutions Design Concepts
ControlCenter Foundations
Symmetrix Basics
Symmetrix Fundamentals
Symmetrix Foundations
Symmetrix Solutions Design Concepts Information Lifecycle Management
ITIL and EMM Overview
Centera Foundations
SRDF Foundations
TimeFinder Foundations
Digital Equipment Corporation - internal courses and sponsored seminars
1986 - 1995
Over the course of nine years, at an average of one course per quarter, I had accumulated over 900 hours of state of the art technology training. An outstanding feature of this training was that it was immediately applied in a professional context. These courses included:


Distributed systems development
Developing software in complex environments
Requirements engineering
Six-Sigma and continuous process improvement for software engineering
Using VMS features from:
C,
VMS Cobol,
VMS Basic
Advanced DCL programming
ULTRIX - UNIX features and programming Data modeling for DB design
RDB/VMS application programming
Advanced RDB/SQL
Data Dictionary - CDD
Object Orientated Design Concepts

Certifications
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