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Knoxville, Tn, Us

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Manages the project management team that develops, operates and maintains Scripps Networks lifestyle category leading websites, including HGTV.com, FoodNetwork.com, CookingChanneltv.com, TravelChannel.com, GACtv.com and many others. Responsible for setting direction, driving change, and maturing project methodology and consistency across the project management and business processes. Directs project activities to ensure high quality results within defined schedules. Identifies, evaluates and recommends solutions to address changing business needs. Mentors and educates the project management staff.Introduced and championed the strategic integration of business processes, financials and project management processes for the Digital Operations organization. Responsible for discovery, design, execution and delivery of 70+ processes and reports that are the backbone of the how the organization functions on day to day basis as well as over the long term. Processes include work intake, product prioritization, resource allocation and management, project management processes, documentation management, development and operational process integration, finance reporting, budgeting and time tracking.

Key areas of responsibility include infrastructure operations for Turner’s businesses, including CNN, Turner Sports, and Turner Entertainment. Manage a large staff of system engineers responsible for operational continuity of Turner’s flagship websites including CNN.com, CNNMoney.com, NCAA.com, NBA.com, NASCAR.com, PGA.com, PGATour.com, TeamCoco.com, CartoonNetwork.com and others. Responsible for infrastructure serving software, Drupal and the internal CMS systems, content syndication, site services platforms (Cogix, IDOL, etc), core web development integration, monitoring, configuration management, database services, ad platform serving operations, ecommerce and the member services platform operations.Proactively manages and executes the infrastructure and operational project work for Turner’s customer website projects which includes resource management, project scheduling, environment infrastructure creation, infrastructure services, performance testing, application deployments and support once the sites are live. Participates in and executes on Digital Media Technology Infrastructure Operations and other DMT strategic initiatives, financial responsibility for the departmental capital and operating budgets, cost control and learning objectives.

Managed the new 2008 Presidential Election primary season development projects, General Elections project, online video player and other projects for CNN.com. Responsibilities include leading project efforts across diverse organizational teams, planning and execution, executive communication, development and infrastructure setup, mitigating risks and coordinating election simulations. Project managed the technical services infrastructure, integration, quality assurance and deployment components of the CNN.com Relaunch project. Responsibilities include managing and coordinating the infrastructure teams including application support services, network operations, server operations that build the development, reference and production environments for CNN.com. Other responsibilities include managing the overall deployment, training and support plans for the Relaunch project. Communicated status, issues, risks and actions among the program team.

Hired to turnaround a troubled development project for Turner Entertainment, known as Comedy Broadband or SuperDeluxe.com. Responsible for coordinating work efforts across various functional teams and organizations, project planning, team integration, communication, financials, deployment, support of the site and follow on releases.

As the development Project Manager and Solution Project Manager, was responsible for the development of multiple releases of a Global Notes Architecture skills assessment application used by IGS Business Consulting Services. Responsible for managing all aspects of the development and deployment of the project, including financials, requirement analysis, work breakdown, planning, mentoring, scheduling, project tracking, management of global resources, deployment and reporting.Project Manager responsible for the development and delivery of the first phase of the Financial Status and Reporting project, part of the Practitioner Enablement initiative. Responsibilities include requirement analysis, work breakdown, planning, scheduling, project tracking, cross-organizational coordination, project finances and status reporting.Project Manager responsible for the development of new releases and support of multiple IBM Learning Services back-office applications for class scheduling, student enrollment, billing and reporting. Responsibilities include leading development teams, requirement analysis, work breakdown, planning, mentoring, scheduling, project tracking, coordination of global resources, and reporting. Additional customer responsibilities include communication, and negotiation. Responsible for building and deploying the Microsoft Project Central project server to track all Learning Services projects progress.

Led a technical team in the design, implementation, test and deployment of eight releases of the IBM Global Campus application on the Intranet. Responsibilities include leading a team for requirements analysis, estimates, design, implementation, solution validation, deployment management and support of the application. Other responsibilities include project scheduling and tracking, cost analysis, team communication, risk management, change management, troubleshooting, problem resolution and customer communication. This application platform consisted of AIX, DB2, Websphere, Java and VM components. Received IBM’s highest corporate award which was presented by then CEO Lou Gerstner at the IBM Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) for this effort.Led a technical team in the design, implementation and deployment of three releases of IBM Learning Services distributed learning application on the Internet. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, estimates, design, implementation, solution validation, deployment and support of the application. Other responsibilities include project scheduling and tracking, cost analysis, team communication, risk management, change management and customer communication. This application platform consisted of AIX, DB2, Websphere and Java components.

Responsible for the design, implementation, validation and support of the TalkLink conferencing system. Activities included requirements analysis, server design, code, test and deployment of the service machines. The application platform consisted of CMS/VM, REXX, XEDIT, and VMSERVE. Member of the team that designed and deployed the original IBM Internet website. Activities included HTML, creating an OS/2 DB2 database server to track website statistics and website demonstrations. Responsible for building and deploying the department Notes Gateway to CMS/VM.

Member of a team developing custom travel expense applications for external customers including Shell Oil and Chevron. Responsible for designing and coding the OSCAR ECFORMS service machine, which is a delegate approver and router for travel expenses between LAN-based originators and VM-based approvers. Other responsibilities include code deployment, troubleshooting, problem resolution and customer communication.

As the project lead, led a small team of developers to design, code, test and deploy the IBM Italy and the IBM UK versions of the NEDS TEA application. Responsibilities included requirements analysis, external and internal designs, code, test and deployment of the applications. Both application platforms consisted of CMS/VM, REXX, XEDIT, ECFORMS and ISPF.Member of a small team responsible for the design, implementation, validation and support of NEDS TEA travel expense reimbursement application used by all IBM employees throughout the US. Other responsibilities include troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem resolution. The application platform consisted of CMS/VM, REXX, XEDIT, ECFORMS and ISPF.

Responsible for the design, development, test, deployment and support of an application table maintenance utility that was utilized by IBM employee disbursement applications. The application platform consisted of CMS/VM, REXX, XEDIT, and ISPF.

Mba

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Electronic Engineering Technology

Minor in Computer Science