Resume of Director Project Manager

Title
Director Project Manager

Primary Skills
Senior executive with strong leadership skills and proven track record, experienced in directing multiple systems

Location
US-TX-Houston

Posted
Mar-05-07


PROFESSIONAL SKILLS SUMMARY


Senior executive with strong leadership skills and proven track record, experienced in directing multiple information technology teams to provide strategic direction, achieve maximum productivity, reduce expenses, improve business process and profitability in helping to strengthen competitive advantage

Customer Focused Leader, directing a broad array of business applications ensuring high customer satisfaction
• Create strong relationships with business partners
• Ensure the correlation of customer needs, company goals and information systems product
• Manage ROI for business customers
• Support a wide variety of products and services for customers

Technology Leader, with extensive background directing all functions within IT
• Direct multiple teams with wide range of information technology skills
• Instill leadership in team to encourage growth of the entire technology organization
• Focus department on missions, objectives and key success factors
• Define and implement strategic plans to provide a strong technology foundation for a $100 million division
• Provide direction and vision for implementation of IT methodologies including demand management for corporate IT division

Financial Leader, Adept with budget administration, risk assessment and mitigation and proven ability and foresight in understanding short term and long-term customer needs.
• Possess strong presentation, leadership, analytical and communication skills to communicate with variety of stakeholders including customer, IT teams and executive management
• Extensive involvement with business development and sales teams in managing and fostering customer relationships and identifying strategic new lines of business and business opportunities.
• MBA graduate from University of Maryland Smith School of business with concentration in operations management, strategic planning and implementation and business development strategies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


Maxim Health Services, Silver Springs Maryland
Maxim Health Systems Division
July 2006- February 2007
Application Services Manager/ Program Manager, responsible for planning, budgeting, managing, implementing and supporting Health Systems division at Maxim.
• Managed a team of project managers, business analysts, developers, QA's and other resources for executing division short term and long term initiatives
• With division leaders support re-engineered business processes leveraging information systems resulting savings of over $500,000 for 2006 and additional expected savings of over $1 million for 2007.
• Identified division business operation needs and set direction in implementation of COTS enterprise management systems solution to consolidate all information system databases for the division. Established standards, forecast and budgeted costs, performed vendor evaluations and assessment, established skill requirements, formed steering committee for implementation plan.
• Spearheaded the corporate IT division change management processes employing industry proven “best practices” approach to software development and maintenance forming a technical advisory group, development of knowledge management database and IT portfolio management and change control board overseeing all IT change management activities.
• Direct supervisor to 10 IT professionals, acting as mentor and professional development director in helping them achieve their career goals in alignment with division goals and measure their performance against the set goals.
• As member of the change control board, acted as the interim direct report for IT division development team, manage and prioritize tasks, monitor progress, meet with other division managers to identify and prioritize projects.
• Identified the need for a consolidated corporate document management solution and spearheaded a committee to evaluate and assess corporate document management needs. Lead vendor selection process and ROI analysis, which is expected to lead to over $5 million in corporate savings starting in 2008 including more streamlined and efficient document management processes.

Social and Scientific Systems, Silver Springs Maryland
Computer Sciences & Data Analysis Division
April 2004- June 2006
Sr. Project Manager
• Responsible for project planning and management of multiple long term (5-7 years) and short-term projects including conceptualization, requirements gathering and scope analysis, quality assurance, task and resource planning and management, budget analysis and planning, risk assessment and contingency planning, implementation, user training, scope and change management in a team oriented environment. Projects were web-based .Net and SQL server applications as assessment tools for biomedical research and planning and reporting information systems for NIH, USAID, DAIDS and NICHD.
• Manage complete lifecycle multiple ongoing projects/programs related maintenance, enhancement, application and product quality improvement. Manage project/program tasks and direct various teams of up to 25 IT and non-IT professionals consisting of developers, business analysts, specialists, QA and support staff in fulfilling project requirements for realization of program objectives.
• Spearheaded the computer sciences division analysis, planning and implementation of “best practices” approach to software development including formation of a cross-division technical advisory group, development of knowledge management database and processes within the computer sciences division.
• As part of corporate strategic road map planning group worked with division managers and executives and business development in identifying strategic business development opportunities, corporate strategic planning, gap analysis, proposal writing and identifying company and division strengths and weaknesses in preparation of company specific 5 year and 10 year goals.
• Direct supervisor to 10 IT professionals, acting as mentor and professional development director in helping them achieve their career goals in alignment with division goals and measure their performance against the set goals. Elected division representative of the employee owner communication committee.

Systems Alliance Inc., Sparks Maryland
Web Technologies Division
Nov. 1996- April 2004

Systems Alliance Corporate Offices- Project Manager
• Served as the interim acting director of web technologies professional services division in 2003-2004 responsible for budget and resource planning, hiring and staffing, strategic planning and directing the web development division in fulfillment of project deliverables for all company internal projects and customer projects in various industries including hospitals, government, e-commerce, banking, publishing and manufacturing.
• Successfully managed multiple active and ongoing projects/programs related maintenance, enhancement, application and product quality improvement in partnership with customers in various industries including government, hospital, manufacturing, banking and e-commerce.
• Directed and managed teams of up to 20 IT professionals in successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects consisted of developers, graphic designers, QA, support staff and project managers.
• Responsible for complete SDLC project planning, successfully directed and managed all phases of implementation of IT solutions including conceptualization, scope and requirements analysis, quality assurance, task and resource planning, budget analysis and planning, risk assessment and mitigation, project planning and monitoring, scope and change management in a team oriented environment.
• Worked extensively with marketing and business development team, executive management and strategic clients for the planning and development of strategic solutions and new product offerings for the company flagship product.

Senior Application Developer
• Lead technical developer for development of a web based workflow and business process automation application as a central component of account executives' order fulfillment system for the $5 Billion/year cosmetic manufacturing division of P&G.


Ciena Corp., Linthicum, MD
March 2000-Sept. 2000

Web Application Developer, Consultant
• Re-architected several Intranet and Internet applications for human resources and marketing departments. Initial phase of the project included migration of online application from MS-Access to SQL Server. Re-architect the Intranet applications from a two-tier system to a multi-tier design employing minimally presentation, business rule and database layers. Designed and developed Intranet based job application processing for marketing and human resources department

Legg Mason Wood Walker, Baltimore, MD 21202
Nov 1996-March 2000

Application Development, Consultant
• Project technical lead for development of multiple web based intranet applications for management of mutual funds and stock trading at Legg Mason, including design and development of multi-tier application and components implementing company business rules, industry regulations and integration with back end accounting systems and third party components using Microsoft MTS, ASP and SQL server. As part of a development team, designed and developed a distributed accounting and portfolio management system for asset management departments at Legg Mason including the user interface GUI, backend database, fee calculation sub-system and a reporting module.

Florida Institute of Technology, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD; Distant Learning, Florida
Jan 2000- Present

Instructor, Management Information Systems
• Prepared course curriculum, lectures and class projects, teaching various aspects of today's information technology departments including best practices, software design, database systems and project management.

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26505
May 1992-Aug. 1996

Research and Development
• Designed and developed a neural network based system for translation of natural language to computer commands and developed a neural network based voice input interface system for remote computer operations.

Morgan Shirt Corporation, Morgantown, WV, 26505.
June 1986- November 1988

Programmer & Analyst
• Designed and developed a database system for management of inventory; material spread preparation, product tagging, shipping and bookkeeping. The system provided the material spread layout and inventory requirements from sales orders and sales forecasts.


EDUCATION


Master's of Business Administration, RH Smith School of Business, College Park, MD, December 2006. Special concentration in operations management, business development, strategic planning and implementation and entrepreneurship.

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 1988

• Emphasis on neural networks and adaptive systems, microprocessor design, microprocessor based systems, multi-valued logic and software design and architecture methodologies.

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 1983. Emphasis in microprocessor based and digital system design and architecture.

Certifications
Master?s of Business Administration, RH Smith School of Business, College Park, MD, December 2006. Special concentration in operations management, business development, strategic planning and implementation and entrepreneurship.




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