Anthony Perez Email & Phone Number

Rochester, Ny, Us

Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area

Gates, Ny

As the Technical Project Manager, I was hired to bring order to projects that were severely backlogged to completion. As a Product Owner, I might use any of my skills for business analysis, requirements analysis, and architecting to help the project be successful. I was also responsible for communication with executive team leadership for all project development.Key Achievements: Managed Internet of Things product line and all software development product portfolio. Managed team of 5 developers (remote and in-house) and 3 developers offshore.Assisted in refining the processes and procedures to meet the needs of the company. Implemented Agile process and responsible for maintaining team backlog, sprint planning, and story development and acceptance.Lead and motivated project teams, of 5 - 20 people, to successfully fulfill initiatives within project parameters and budget.Developed and prioritized initiatives while developing resource plans, budgets, project plans for implementation.

Victor, New York

As the Senior Project Manager in Project Management Office, I was hired to bring projects that were severely behind schedule and budget to completion. As an IT Project Manager, I might use any of my skills for business analysis, requirements analysis, and architecting to help the project be successful. This helped set me apart from a standard Project Manager.Key Achievements: • Assist in refining the processes and procedures in PMO to meet the needs of the company.• Managed multi-million dollar projects such as SIGMA Core to fruition and to the market. Sigma Core was seven years behind and millions of dollars over budget without a market presence. Within 1 year, the product was completed and brought to market within a set timeframe and new budget that was met.• Lead project teams, of 5 - 40 people, to successfully fulfill initiatives within project parameters and budget.• Developed resource plans, budgets, project plans and managed large teams to meet project goals.• Mentored fellow project managers to teach the methodology used in the Project Management Office.• Led Cyber Security efforts to meet DFARS regulations that implemented over 110 cyber security controls.

As part of the Project Management Office, I was hired to bring projects that were behind schedule to completion.Key Achievements: • Assist in creating the processes and procedures required across the organization and PMO.• Managed multi-million dollar projects such as Presidential initiatives, UR Global, Responsive Web Design, Oracle 11G upgrade, SQL 2008 Upgrade, SQL 2012 Upgrade, SharePoint 2013 Upgrade, Web Re-architecture, and AutoSys Upgrade.• Lead project teams to successfully fulfill initiatives within project parameters and budget.• Developed resource plans, budgets, project plans and managed large teams to meet project goals.• Mentored fellow project managers to teach the methodology used in the Project Management Office.• UR Global (International) project nominated for Meliora award.• Member of the Staff Leadership Group, sponsored by Executive Leadership.

Hired as part of the senior management team to bring process and structure to the engineering department. Daily responsibilities included: managing a team of 8; scheduling and prioritization of tasks; working in conjunction with operations, marketing, support, and sales; communicating directly with clients. While managing the company’s two flagship K-12 food service programs, was also responsible for: setting long-term goals and targets to achieve business objectives within budget; managing quality assurance for products before, during and after release; and working directly with the USDA for yearly certification of menu planning products.Key Achievements: • Implemented formal software development processes and source code control; created quality assurance department, processes, and test environment; worked on implementation of company wide CRM.• Replaced manual packaging and deliver of software with electronic delivery process saving the company over 1000+ hours of labor and time, per bi-annual delivery of software to 8000+ school districts.• Increased customer renewal rate from less than 25% to greater than 70% through better communications with customer outreach and beta testing programs that better implemented customer needs.• Redesigned small-scale inventory control product to serve larger enterprises, and integrate with other product lines growing the scale from a district with 16 schools to districts of over 172 schools.• Consolidated 8 custom programming implementations of the flagship product into a singular modular framework alleviating support and engineering issues.

Recruited to establish an enterprise level web application platform; oversee companywide efforts to identify and evaluate all critical systems; design and implement security processes and procedures. Project lead and management of over-all custom solutions; grow and train development team in new programming methodologies and implement policies and procedures for best practices; develop documentation for infrastructure. Administer over 50 web servers and 20+ SQL servers.Key Achievements: • Designed and implemented a web based email and tracking system that increased performance from 1,000 emails/sec to over ½ million emails/sec. • Implemented solutions that updated web based security and transaction processing.• Migrated over 50 Coldfusion servers to Coldfusion 8 with less than an hour of downtime combined. • Developed high availability podcasting solution for the Pittsford School District.

Managed diverse team of external contractors in multiple locations; designed and developed custom web based applications and interfaces for both internal and external customers; designed and implemented interactive and simulation based learning activities and training courses; worked with globalization team to ensure level of quality. Key Achievements: • A number of my custom solutions were submitted for patent approval• Worked with executive team to document Sarbanes-Oxley documentation for CEO approval.

Recruited to design and develop IT infrastructure for a startup mortgage company. Hired, trained and managed staff off 6 full time employees. Developed architecture, implementation and design of web servers, SQL servers, application servers, clustering configuration, backup systems, firewalls, and network security; developed and executed web/marketing initiatives to better promote and increase web site traffic; Presented detailed status / future plans and direction of IT initiatives to executive staff; Wrote policy and procedural handbooks that documented web architecture, network security, and disaster recovery. Key Achievements: • Reliability of network – millions of hacker attempts, 100% success rate of network security implementation• Retention of staff – zero turnover rate in IT support staff• Development of high availability transaction processing system

Ms In Information Technology, Human Computer Interaction, E-Learning, Data Modeling

44 credits, all but Masters project GPA 4.0

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Magna Cum Laude Department Honors

Computer Science