Senior IT Project Manager for IT infrastructure and facilities construction projectsProjects encompass a broad range of IT activities including IT construction projects, network upgrades, data center consolidation and converged engineering upgrade projects.

Project Management for IT Infrastructure capitol construction projects - responsible for the delivery of IT, Networking, Application and AV solutions provisioned within newly constructed NYU medical center hospital locations and medical practicesConstruction Project Management focused on IT and AV delivery supporting capital projects for NYU (Specialized in IT proliferation and project oversight associated with new construction as part of the NYU’s Real Estate Development and Facilities portfolio expansion. Projects encompass activity at more than 150 properties throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Long Island and Queens, Westchester and New Jersey)Manage resources from various disciplines including networking, telecommunications, low voltage cabling, AV, applications services, clinical systems, ancillary services and point of sales (Responsible to engage cross functional teams, coordinate timelines and make project assignments based on construction scope requirements)Project oversight of daily activity across campus transformation medical center program work streamsActively involved in the scoping, analysis and budget development as well as staffing assignments for IT disciplines for capital improvement construction projects at NYU Langone medical center locationsPartner with various vendors including construction supervisors, architects, architectural designers, real estate management and IT disciplinesSkilled at developing detailed project plans (NYUs corporate project management tool has MS project tasks manager integrated)Routinely lead various project meetings along with maintaining detailed meeting minutes (weekly team meetings and project status meetings are held frequently)Budget oversight for program projects from creation through approval acquisitionZero-Based budget creation and oversight from inception thru project fundingOversight for project materials management (ordering, warehousing and delivery coordination)

Technical Project Manager supporting the Bank’s Market Risk and Credit Risk Technology lines of business - This includes managing budgets; procurement of hardware; coordination of racking; stacking; cabling; server builds; and planning of application migration from current environment to new infrastructureResponsible for the financial forecasting of the capital spend for infrastructure projects within the Market Risk and Credit Risk lines of businessPerformed “Total Cost of Ownership” analysis which allows application teams to determine cost drivers that can be used to leverage cost saving synergies from storage and server consolidations and decommissionsDelivered several major physical to virtual migrations (P2V) onto the bank’s “Compute Hosting Platform” virtual cloud and VMWARELead on program to migrate risk application platforms from Solaris and AIX to Linux based physical and virtual environmentsResponsible for program to design and implement Market Risk technology Netezza data warehouse solution within a rigid schedule - Successfully implemented this cumbersome appliance which required constant cross-functional oversight between in-house network teams, SA’s, Netezza DBA’s and IBM’s solutions providers to ensure successful deliveryManaged datacenter migration for Liquidity Risk Technology applications to provide a migration out of several Manhattan based data centers which were ear-marked for closure. Controlled project budgets and maintained detailed work breakdown structure (WBS) worksheets and distributed project burn status to corporate finance weeklyDefined and maintained technical resource time management according to technical infrastructure project budget requirementsPresence and ability to communicate and promote strategic vision to all levels from senior management to end userFollowed Six-Sigma “DMAIC” PM methodology and skilled at creating detailed project plans in MS Project

Managed a 24X7 support team of seventeen responsible for providing essential shared services to treasury suite of applications.First and second level support ensured that the integrity of all production environments were maintained to the highest standard at all times. Escalations were required in the event that any process or system might be jeopardized.Software build and release management provided a gatekeeping role around the software lifecycle and automated the movement of object throughout all environments including production.Incident management provided the team with the ability to analyze, correct and determine the root cause of anomalies and hazards to the operations of the applications we support and to ultimately prevent disturbances from impacting the business.Disaster recovery coordination service performed on a semi-annual basis prepared the team to confidently migrate operations to our secondary data center location in the event or a true disturbance in our primary location. Batch processing support was performed on a daily basis. Monitoring more that 4000 jobs on a daily basis was a 24 hour exercise that required he highest attention to detail. Any delay or disturbance could easily prevent the business from having access to critical systems required to maintain corporate financial obligation.

In September 2002, I became responsible for the change and release management for the Treasury Technology application suite. The responsibilities were varied: Production release coordination and scheduling was done on a bi-weekly basis; Coordinating and performing builds of source objects versioned in PVCS; Custodian for change management procedures within the group; Submission of formal change requests for production implementations.Member of change and release management team responsible for scheduling and coordinating software releases for Merrill’s Corporate Technology Group (CTG). This group was responsible for all production implementations and maintenance releases within the CTG organization of approximately 200 applications.Business Analyst for the development of an internal change management tracking application implemented to track software change requests. Worked closely with developers and aided in the design of this proprietary “Change Request Infrastructure Management System” (CRIMS).

Facilitated a change management process for a new PeopleSoft Accounting system developed and implemented by KPMG.Responsible for the migration of files throughout the KPMG development life cycle. Automated file migrations were facilitated seamlessly through the life-cycle using unix shell scripts and PVCS version control commands. Implemented and administrator for “Teamtrack”, a web based issue-tracking software.

Responsible for packaging and versioning all software that was delivered to all Bell Atlantic Mega-center workstations using IBM Distribution Manager. Automated deployment of desktop software from host based push was delivered to over 7000 workstations.Change control administrator responsible for compliance to ISO 9000 policies.

Novell network administrator.Designed and implemented a Lotus Notes infrastructure in both test and production environments. Provided support for Lotus Notes and "escalated" when necessary to Lotus.

Assisted the MIS Manager/Controller of a small manufacturing company with all IT related deliverables. Engineered and administrated the first LAN/WAN for this small firm.

Promoted through the following positions during this period: Military Student (Feb., '81); Maintenance Technician (May, '82); Shift Supervisor (Jan., '84); Work Center Supervisor (April, '84); Crew Supervisor (June, '86).Responsibilities during this period were varied; The following highlight was notable during my naval career: Supervised crew of Electronics Technicians - as many as 22 persons between Apr. '84 and June '86. Responsible for preventive and corrective maintenance of HF and LF transmitters, multiplexers, modems, encryption devices and other communications equipment.