David B. Email & Phone Number

Plainfield, Il, Us

Plainfield, Il, Us

Northern Trust (Chicago (Naperville), Il)

Lead project team to successfully deliver project objective and benefits providing required oversight to ensure control of scope, schedule, resources and cost.Provide structured project management leadership by establishing governance, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities for all project team members, defining phases, and identifying deliverables/milestones.Develop project plans, provide executional leadership, and track progress on project goals.Identify and manage areas of risk and dependencies including contingency planning and developing project health restoration plans.Ensure adherence to the company's project standards, IT controls, risk and regulatory requirements.Provide timely communications on project status and health including scope, schedule, resource, and/or budget as well as articulate key risks/issues and associated impacts.Manage stakeholder expectations and motivate project team.Partner with stakeholders to plan for and manage project resources.Facilitate discussions and working sessions across the various teams involved in the project.Establish and execute against project communication plans.Escalate in a timely manner to the appropriate party or parties to address decisions needed, the removal of roadblocks and other obstacles or constraints.

• Architected an GCP project which used SAP ETL (Data Services), GCP BigQuery, and GCP Cloud Storage (Nearline & Archival) for an application to publish a monthly report and store archival drug information• Architected an AWS project which utilized AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service), AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management), AWS EC2, AWS RDS (Oracle & SQL Server), AWS S3, & Snowflake (as a SaaS Offering) for data warehousing solution.• Delivered data center migrations involving fifteen (15) application-stacks in a ‘like-for-like’ infrastructure approach into Prime On-Premise or Prime Cloud (AWS & GCP). • For each project, I also setup standardized reporting and monitoring using cloud-native tools (like AWS CloudWatch)• Utilized Salt Stack for managing and automating complex multi-tier IT environment deployments• Leveraged Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions as needed and requested by management.

• Architected a project on Azure for a new SAP application-stack involving SAP S/4 HANA Public-Cloud, SAP BRIM modules, & SAP Solution Manager• Architected an On-premise to AWS migration project for a SAP application-stack involving S/4 HANA Public Cloud, SAP BW, & SAP Solution Manager• Architected a project on GCP for a new SAP application-Stack involving SAP S/4 HANA Public Cloud, SAP Business Objects, SAP Solution Manager, and SAP BW on HANA• Partnered with Engineering, Networking, Security & Compliance, as well as SAP Basis leads to deliver an Infrastructure-As-Code solution using Terraform, Python, & GitHub to improve the delivery of VM’s depending on the SAP module being installed on them.• Accountable for final Scope-Of-Work (SOW) authorship along with documenting services solutions principals, overall solution architecture, operating model, and alignment of the technology to business objectives of the customer

Remote (Global Reach)

• Led discussions with Senior and C-Level stakeholders to document business and technical requirements as well as provide regular Project Communications on current projects.• Develop project & resource plans, Risk Assessments & Issues logs, as well as manage stakeholder communications on a regular basis.• Work with key business and technical resources to map business and technical landscapes across the enterprise• Led the Testing & Training effort for a global rollout of the Americas Sales Tool into EMEA (Europe/UK), AsiaPac, and Latin America.• Experience in managing and guiding the cloud & Data center operations teams as well as SAP Basis resources to support business applications• Expertise in Team Coordination and IT Governance of globally dispersed teams and technical resources to complete objectives as well as workplace transformations and workplace transformations• Managed various product lifecycles and quarterly releases as part of Dell’s Cloud portfolio as well as Dell internal IT projects.• Helped managed the effort to continuously develop (CD) and continuously Improve (CI) and prepare the global configuration services assembly lines as part of quarterly release cycles.• Analytical Skills, Attention to Detail, Business Planning, Cross-team Collaboration, Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Critical Thinking

Lisle, Il / Remote

• Analytical Skills, Attention to Detail, Business Planning, Cross-team Collaboration, Interpersonal Skills, Oral Communication, Critical Thinking

Lisle, Illinois / Remote (Us Nationwide Reach)

Am the single point of contact for projects, programs, Cloud Implementations, and Migration projects. Engage with different internal technical teams to deliver various IaaS, Non-SAP, & SAP-related technical projects to meet client delivery expectations. I finalize the agreed cloud-based technical infrastructure architecture solution, organize internal & customer resources, deliver value, and minimize potential obstacles and risks. *Establish and implement technical project methodologies and processes within work teams relating to solution installations and migrations*Establish project plans and baselines, manage schedule and resource load, assure plan is integrated with each team and follows internal project methodology.*Manage project operation budget*Use my strong SAP technical background & ability to communicate with stakeholders and gatekeepers effectively• Developed an architecture for customers to use with SAP to securely leverage virtualized F5 load-balancers.*Lead and developed project team members*Integrate with other projects to support a holistic program approach*Work with business partners to understand business process needs and analyze requirements*Facilitate resolution of cross-team business issues amongst business and delivery groups

Naperville, Illinois, United States

• Managed the On-premise and cloud infrastructure estate for BP's Enterprise Application's. This included >300 servers (physical and virtual), > 1 PB of storage, networking, backup/recovery, and disaster-recovery components.• Architected and delivered a detailed sizing, cost model, and migration-plan to move BP's five (5) strategic SAP BW application stacks from Oracle to SAP HANA• Architected and delivered a migration of a SAP BW application-stack from Oracle to SAP HANA as a proof-of-concept to validate my HANA reference architecture hosted on AWS.• Led IT Infrastructure projects related to M&A as well as divestitures• Architected a nearline storage solution to move "warm" and "cold" data from within Business Warehouse applications to longer-term storage platforms.• Delivered the cloud-based Infrastructure used to host Enterprise Applications on AWS (EC2, RDS (Oracle), S3, multi-region DR)• Delivered an ETL solution leveraging SAP Data Services to ingest data from non-SAP data sources into an SAP BW on HANA solution• Delivered five (5) On-Premise to AWS business application migrations. On AWS we utilized Direct Connect, EC2, RDS (Oracle), & Elastic Block Storage (EBS)• Conducted research into solutions, products and evaluations of emerging technologies, then translating them into roadmaps and leadership presentation materials• Partnered with cross-functional teams (IT Operations, Security, & Compliance) to develop a secure network architecture to host internal DB Servers, APP Servers, & WEB Servers.• Was the “Go-To Person” to implement new infrastructure and new technologies in support important enterprise applications.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

Delivered Projects• Delivered a project to migrate on-premise Office 365 (SharePoint, Exchange, Lync (now called Teams)) to Azure• Architected and Delivered the on-premise Infrastructure used for a “Virtual SAP” solution using VMware, HP Proliant Servers, NetApp Filers, & HP Networking infrastructure. Result delivered a 50% reduction in time needed to stand-up on-premise application-stacks.• Managed and tracked spend actuals (people & (CapEx) equipment), possible accruals, as well as Operational Expenses (OpEx).• Delivered the cloud-based Infrastructure used to host Enterprise Applications on AWS (EC2, RDS (Oracle), S3, multi-region DR)• Managed an annual budget of between $5m & $10m USD to deliver the yearly Infrastructure Portfolio for Enterprise Applications.• Architected and delivered over forty (40) different end-to-end Enterprise Application projects (SAP, Open Text, Documentum, & others). Each project included significant infrastructure deployments to support them (Compute, Storage, Backup, DR, Networking, ensuring security & compliance standards)• Delivered cloud infrastructure for five (5) On-Premise to AWS business application migrations. On AWS we utilized Direct Connect, EC2, RDS (Oracle), & Elastic Block Storage (EBS)• Worked with cross-functional teams from IT Operations, Security & Compliance, as well as Enterprise Application stakeholders on a set of DR offerings based on different classifications of RTO/RPO requirements.

Naperville, Illinois, United States

•Acted as the primary interface with business application projects that generated new demand for data center resources. I helped to determine sizing & non-functional requirements as well as developing budget, costing, & delivery timeline estimates.•Developed & reviewed PO-ready bill of materials used to procure needed IT equipment as well as to be used by our build/implementation teams along with the corresponding architecture & delivery designs•Performed Project Manager duties for implementing IT infrastructure changes within the Data Center as well as providing oversight of these implementations & architecture designs all the way through to Operational handover to the operations teams•Responsible for creating and running reports to provide to BP management on Availability and Capacity KPI's and other data center metrics•Regularly engaged with key 3rd-party suppliers like Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp, Oracle (Sun), VMware, & others to stay abreast of their current offerings to determine if they warranted use within our data center

Lisle, Illinois, United States