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Bedford, Tx, Us

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

• Senior Program Manager for Raytheon Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Special Projects, leading complex ERP deployments across SAP S/4HANA, Kinaxis RapidResponse, Product Lifecycle Digital Thread (PLDT), and Enterprise Cyber Security Remediation (SURGE).• Project Manage Raytheon’s enterprise-wide SAP S/4HANA Infrastructure migration, ensuring integration with existing systems and alignment with business goals. This includes sourcing infrastructure System Integrators and professional technical staff. Manage the staffing and financial plans for the Infrastructure team.• Led the infrastructure deployment of Kinaxis RapidResponse for advanced supply chain planning, optimization, and demand management. Worked closely with supply chain stakeholders to enhance end-to-end visibility, streamline planning processes, and improve scenario planning and risk mitigation strategies.• Developed and maintained comprehensive project plans using MS Project and Jira, including Epics, Features, and Stories, collaborating with system owners and teams to ensure accurate tracking of delivery milestones and sprint progress.• Engaged with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, system owners, and enterprise architects, to ensure alignment of solutions with organizational objectives and delivery timelines, fostering clear communication and expectations.• Proactively managed project risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies and escalating concerns to senior leadership as necessary to ensure timely resolution and avoid project delays.• Held accountability for project budgets, ensuring financial oversight, cost tracking, and adherence to time accounting requirements, consistently delivering projects on time and within budget.• Provided expert consulting on data center consolidation, delivering support services that improved operational efficiency and reduced infrastructure costs.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Role: VP of Project Management Office• Built a corporate Project Management Office (PMO) from the ground up. Delivering Oracle OUAF Customer Information Systems (CIS) and Infor & NetSuite Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for utility customers. • Developed Hybrid Agile Methodology resulting in a 25% reduction in labor cost.• Developed and implemented a PMO strategy to align with the company’s overall business objectives, including project delivery methodology and standards, program management office (PMO) governance, and process improvement initiatives.• Led cross-functional teams in developing and implementing new processes for managing projects across all departments within the organization.• Provide strategic direction on project portfolio planning efforts by providing input into resource allocation decisions based on the current and future priorities of the organization.• Served as an internal consultant regarding best practices for project/program management within the organization and provided support to other organizations when needed.• Responsible for project management and financial responses to Requests For Proposal (RFP). • Developed multi-vendor partnership proposals to deliver highly complex multi-disciplined programs.Role: Vice President of Technical Delivery• Manage an off-shore team of 30 designers, developers, and DBAs specializing in Oracle Utility Application Framework (OUAF).• Managed a global team of six technical architects to ensure project deliverables and customer satisfaction were met.Role: Strategic Account Executive• Responsible for account management, business development, and project delivery for specific accounts resulting in $10MM in new revenue.• Responsible for customer satisfaction and overall contract delivery performance – deliver on time, on budget, and as specified. Maximize Gross Profit by right-shoring work and minimizing rework.• Manage contract financial performance.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

• Manage an off-shore team of 30 designers, developers, and DBAs who specialize in Oracle Utility Application Framework (OUAF).• Developed automation and standard delivery methodology resulting in 35% reduction in labor cost and 50% reduction in time to market.• Manage a global team of six technical architects to ensure project deliverables and customer satisfaction was met.• Responsible for both strategic and tactical delivery methodologies of the team. This was done through automation, continuing education, hiring of resources, and project delivery alignment.• Responsible for account management, business development, and project delivery for specific accounts resulting in $10MM in new revenue.• Responsible for customer satisfaction and overall contract delivery performance – deliver on time, on budget, and as specified. Maximize Gross Profit by right-shoring work and minimizing rework.• Manage contract financial performance.• Manage contract delivery risks, issues, and challenges – enable team success by equipping and empowering them by setting goals and objectives.

Plano, Texas, Us

Customer: PepsiCo• Manage $24MM multi year USA Enterprise network upgrade program. Upgrade over 750 sites and 1,300 circuits over three year program. Migrate current network provider to Verizon. Lead the migration management activities including: migration, construction, and decommissioning. Site readiness includeded router hardware, site construction, and ensuring network demark extensionts are in place. Responsible for managing multiple vendors, to deploy a complex set of requirements over a short period of time.• Lead the Service Improvement Plan for Network Service Provider (BT) to ensure that conctract requirements and business expections are met. This program included the oversight of 34 Service Improvement requirements, the project plan to meet schedule requirements, and overall quality oversight and controls.

Plano, Texas, Us

• Lead the planning, design, development, testing, and deployment of large cross functional, international - complex projects. Portfolio value was in excess of $50M.• Lead the delivery of large complex infrastructure/security projects across JCP data centers and sites across the USA and the world - Cisco networks, wireless, UCCE, Stealthwatch, and UCS compute platforms; EMC VMAX and NetApp storage; compute platforms include Windows, RHEL, OEL, AIX, Solaris, and mainframe; other technologies deployed include Netscaler, VMWare, etc. • Demonstrated leadership in the following areas: Responsible for creating an infrastructure project intake/capacity management process; Lead the IT deployment, security and expansion of our new Bangalore facility, hosting up to 1,100 associates. Lead the development of new stream lined processes to automate customers infrastructure capacity requests. Lead the Peak Sales readiness effort for the Infrastructure team - driving closure to Infrastructure risks and issues that may impact JCP's ability to sell.• Responsible for the financial and budget management for the Infrastructure team - from annual planning/budgeting, to project estimating, to executive review and approval, and from project initiation through project execution and closure. Total budget was over $50M including hardware, software, internal/external labor, and maintenance renewals.• Develop new efficient processes to track and report on projects (all in queue), those being delivered, status, level of effort, etc. Developed Infrastructure capacity charge back process allowing each IT team to pay for capacity requested. • Responsible for initiating the procurement of all hardware, software, services, and maintenance for infrastructure team. Manage the evaluation processes, budget impact, and execution of purchases.• Awards: Founders Award and multiple Certificates of Appreciation for delivering projects successfully.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Responsible for planning and delivery of several enterprise Infrastructure and Data Center upgrade projects including Citrix Program (Xen Workstation, Xen Desktop, & Xen App upgrades) and Data Center UPS Power Upgrade. Planned and managed other projects including backup analysis, telepresences, VoIP phone upgrades, and several software upgrades and migrations including MS Office 2013, IE11, Java, and MS Dynamics Great Plains.• Managed all phases of these projects including planning, budgeting, vendor management, communication, delivery, risk/issue management and closure.

Dallas, Texas, Us

• Lead the planning, procurement, and implementation of VCE VBlock 700/EMC XtremIO platform at Production & Disaster Recovery Data Centers. Managed services SOW development, updates, and execution along with vendor management. Worked with architects to analyze existing and best practice architectures; made recommendations for improved technologies designed to improve business operations through automation using VMWare.• Managed projects and guide all project participants and stakeholders throughout business technology initiatives; managed all phases of the project lifecycle.• Collaborate with customers to assess business needs and communicated requirements to internal business groups responsible for development, testing, and other technical deliverables; ensure that all development efforts aligned with customer expectations.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

• Managed multiple enterprise infrastructure projects covering Production Automation, Capacity Performance Management, and Monitoring & Event Management; developed systems aligned to strategic initiatives to improve IT service performance.• Led business case and project development, including establishing project scope and schedules, architectural planning, risk and dependencies assessments, issue analysis, ROI analysis, and cost estimations.• Defined project requirements for financial management, including tracking and vetting the financial performance of individual projects. • Managed and reported project statuses against defined milestones. Propose and implement required changes to project resources and deliverables with executive management.

Scotts Valley, Ca, Us

• Manage multiple international IT infrastructure projects, including delivery of an enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) application.• Led the delivery of IT infrastructure for a new manufacturing plant build-out; designed, planned, deployed, and contracted the delivery of infrastructures and SAP integration services.• Managed enterprise Disaster Recovery readiness efforts; handled cross-technical tower coordination and overall RTO/RPO management to meet corporate business requirements.• Oversaw a global Active Directory migration of user accounts from a Windows 2003 domain to 2008.• Conducted technology implementations and migrations for several large international offices located in Hong Kong, Hodaka, Taiwan, USA, Switzerland, and Sweden.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Led enterprise deployment of ServiceNow, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to support IT Service Management (ITSM) across the global business enterprise, including operations in North and South America, Asia, and Europe.• Directed corporate IT and vendor activities in support of several concurrent workflows, including development and configuration, discovery, CMDB, integrations, knowledge, training, and communication. • Developed project plans and managed all project-driven activities, including scheduling, time accounting, budgeting, and risk management to ensure the alignment of initiatives to corporate priorities.• Collaborated with cross-functional subject-matter experts to resolve infrastructure planning, design, implementation, and support issues.• Oversaw the implementation and governance of infrastructure facilities and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes for enterprise deployment of replication vault servers, server and network management, and deployment of global training rooms for over 600 end users.

Kansas City , Ks, Us

• Managed multiple large multi-million dollar Data Center infrastructure projects for a $13 Billion customer account; planned and supervised technical initiatives for server, storage, and network refreshes, migrations, virtualization, business intelligence application deployment, storage, backup, and other automation technology implementation and governance.• Lead enterprise wide Data Center upgrade, consolidation, migration, and transformation. Directed vendor hardware and services RFQ processes, including scope definition, vendor qualification, vendor scoring and analysis, and technical proposal response for service contracts.• Oversaw a program management budget of $5.5 Million; financed all program resources and assets, and communicated budgeting metrics and reports to corporate senior management.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

• Managed multiple multi-million dollar enterprise level Information Technology infrastructure projects supporting Energy Future Holdings (EFH), including Luminant (Wholesale & Generation), Oncor, TXU Energy, and EFH Corporate.• Led a project to implement a Generation Control System (GCS) - a new secured infrastructure for power generation and delivery to the electrical grid, meeting NERC/CIP Security standards.• Oversaw the development of Nodal, a new infrastructure to manage power generated, bought, sold, and traded using Tibco middleware, Hyperion Financial Management system, and Oncor Data.• Gathered customers’ technical requirements, proposal development, and managed on-time, on-budget delivery of projects; managed project schedules, costs, risks, vendors, and technical teams responsible for technology development.

Paris, France, Fr

• Managed multiple multi-million dollar enterprise level Information Technology infrastructure projects supporting Energy Future Holdings (EFH), including Luminant (Wholesale & Generation), Oncor, TXU Energy, and EFH Corporate.• Led a project to implement a Generation Control System (GCS) - a new secured infrastructure for power generation and delivery to the electrical grid, meeting NERC/CIP Security standards.• Oversaw the development of Nodal, a new infrastructure to manage power generated, bought, sold, and traded using Tibco middleware, Hyperion Financial Management system, and Oncor Data.• Gathered customers’ technical requirements, proposal development, and managed on-time, on-budget delivery of projects; managed project schedules, costs, risks, vendors, and technical teams responsible for technology development.

Falls Church, Va, Us

• Managed IT Infrastructure contract and projects supporting Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS), servicing North and South Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah.• Deployed servers and desktops to more than 2,000 users with no downtime to operations responsible for generating $1 Million in daily revenue.• Directed highly-sensitive enterprise projects including the migration of over 4,000 workstations to Active Directory 2003 and Exchange 2003 from Novell and Lotus cc:Mail.

Falls Church, Va, Us

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering/Industrial Management

Master'S Degree, Industrial Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Business/Managerial Economics

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