David Ritner, Pmp® Email & Phone Number

Strafford, Nh, Us

Strafford, New Hampshire

IBM Watson Customer Engagement Division, SENIOR PROJECT MANAGERDrove application migration projects through all phases of design, development, testing, integration, deployment and support. Use of industry standard PMI project management methodologies decreased the time needed to deploy complex system integration projects, IT outsourcing, application migration to IBM Cloud and server migration projects while increasing the overall quality.Achievement Highlights:- Led multinational teams across broad technical and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.- Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of technical and project data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.- Defined processes, tools and task list best suited to each project. Moved between agile, proof-of-concept (POC) and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Burlington, Vermont And Hartford, Connecticut

IBM Global Technology Services (Burlington VT & Hartford CT), SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, 2008 to 2015IBM Global Services Division (Charlotte, NC & Burlington VT), PROJECT MANAGER, 2000 to 2007Drove projects through all phases of design, development, testing, integration, deployment and support. Use of industry standard PMI project management methodologies decreased the time needed to deploy complex system integration projects, IT outsourcing, datacenter relocation projects and server migration projects while increasing the overall quality of the solution for F500 clients including:-- Disney Corporation-- State Street Financial-- Freddie Mac-- Continental General Tire -- Onan/Cummins-- Henkel -- Astellas-- VF Corporation-- Virgin Mobile -- AES Energy Corporation-- Sony-- IBM Global Technology Services-- IBM Systems & Technology Group-- IBM Microelectronics Division Achievement Highlights:- Led multinational teams across broad technical and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results.- Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of technical and project data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.- Defined processes, tools and task list best suited to each project. Moved between agile, proof-of-concept (POC) and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures.- Honored with IBM's “Eminence & Excellence Award” in 2014 & 2012, received IBM's "GTS Division Outstanding Contributor Award" in 2013, in recognition of outstanding project results.

Kingston & Poughkeepsie, New York And San Jose, California

IBM Corporation, SENIOR COMPUTER PROGRAMMER & TEAM LEAD Application programmer using C, C++ and Java for both IBM internal and external customers, worked at customer sites to design & develop automated service request applications, developed website for customer submission & tracking of work request, designed and developed applications for IBM to track sales engagements and track vendor suppliers for supply chain logistics team.IBM Corporation, COMPUTER PROGRAMMER & PROJECT LEADMainframe Operating System programmer in IBM product VM/ESA, Team lead for system programmers, programmer and release coordinator for MVS/ESA product "ESCON Manager"​. PL/1 & Assembler programming in mainframe program product development organization. Moved from mainframe programming to workstation programming languages C & C++. As project lead, defined schedules, provided technical guidance, maintained all Project Plans and Control Books, tracked & reported project status and achieved "Ship Dates" on schedule.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration W/Major In Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Member Ohio State Downhill Ski Team

Master'S Certificate, Project Management In School Of Business And Public Administration