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Topeka, Ks

se2 is a Business Unit of Guggenheim Partners. Responsible for oversight of various projects to ensure information concerning context (i.e., deliverable, risks, issues) are communicated to from clients. Involved with improving the consistency, predictability and efficiency of the organization's project delivery capability. Encourage and mentor in best practices and keeping client-focused - outward and upward that there business requirements are consistent with expectations.

Los Angeles, California

Client: 5Square SystemsCoordinated and consolidated multiple IT infrastructures and software development environments into the company’s headquarters. Provide technical architecture direction and oversight in developing the company’s new business requirements. Implemented the use of WIKI from Wikipedia to enable Subject Matter Experts and developers to share ideas and publish information over the Intranet. Negotiate vendor support and maintenance contracts with Oracle, Corio – shared services, Sun and Altova.Client: Raytheon CorporationProvide project management directives by reviewing and writing Request for Proposal’s, Statement of Work’s and Requirements documents. Efforts focused on RFID technologies, International Trade Compliance, and Supply Chain Balance Scorecard packaged solutions. Integrate customer delivery timeline and budget based on vendor and outsourcing personnel resources into the Enterprise Applications.Client: Telstra CorporationProvide the evaluation, oversight and development of the in-house IT project management methodology from Infosys, Inc. These processes and procedures centralized all business units to use the same CMM-SEI Software Development Life Cycle. It maximized process efficiency and provides overall company-wide cost reductions. In conjunction, performed facilitated quality project assessment sessions to integrate these new processes into on-going and existing enterprise-wide projects and determined corrective actions to justify a “go forward“decision. These assessments covered a wide variant of projects from multi-terabyte data warehouses and sales transaction solutions within their telecommunication business.

Pasadena, California

Direct the operation of the customer-based ASP web-hosted Java application for managing, marketing and valuing intellectual property. Collaborated with the executive management team and was responsible for the oversight of the business and technical requirements of the company’s Information Technology hardware and commercial software products. My responsibilities included managing software development lifecycle projects, OEM vendor relationships and IT Solution’s offshore consultant resources. - Administrated Quality Assurance disciplines on Class, Use Case, Sequence, Collaboration, Deployment, Technical Design specifications and Test Script documentation. - Responsible and accountable for Rational Unified Process methods, project status, budgets and expenses, training programs and staff performance evaluation and objectives. - Directed technical architecture for the company production web site using fault-tolerant SUN enterprise web servers, load balanced application servers and clustered fail-over database arrays.- Directed the overall organizational strategy for organically growing and expanding the Software Engineering departmental staff. - Established and maintained relationships with Sales Representatives from targeted Information Technology vendors and created RFI proposals for CRM and Context Management Solutions. - Implemented internal Policies and Procedures and process integration strategy for Software development, Quality Assurance, Corporate and Office technology groups. - Managed projects of internal staff and offshore consultants both in the U.S and India for all large-scale enterprise projects based in the US and Japan.

Los Angeles, California

In this consulting role, I was responsible for delivery, negotiating and managing client hardware and software deliverables. My annual sales revenue quota for the company was 3.5MM utilizing 30 to 50 software developers both on-site and offshore delivery. Client: Bank of AmericaMy primary objectives were to provide technical project oversight in the area of call center telephony solutions. The client needed back-end integration with its legacy bill payment systems with a front-end customer-driven web solution. Client: Honeywell Automotive and AerospaceMy primary objectives were to oversee every project started and delivered to the client as well as maintenance and support on existing packaged or customized software in production. These groups consisting of internal staff providing on-site functional business analysis, technical software development, data warehouse implementation, web authoring and publishing. In addition, I established and implemented procedures to design, code, and test mission critical business applications utilizing the on-site support and offshore software development center. Manage the back-end integration of North America SAP SD, MM, PP, QA, Financials and Worldwide Intranet and Extranet Application Development Groups.

Los Angeles, California

In this consulting role, I was responsible for delivery, negotiating and managing client hardware and software deliverables. My annual sales revenue quota for the company was a 2.5MM utilizing team of 15 to 30 for on-site delivery. Client: Kaiser PermanenteThis Healthcare organization needed a technology solution of capturing union employee’s labor hours from their respective locations. Multiple unions and hospital rules were data driven along with integrated interfaces with their mission critical accounting systems. The objectives for this project were to direct the business analysis primarily focused on the process of recording work-related time by the exempt and non-exempt staff members in the Southern California Region. Client: American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)The Association organization initiated the Membership Processing Information System II business analysis to be conducted by joint partnership of IBM and CTP. The organization set the objectives for this project, and they were to provide a basis for assessment and prioritization of current and new user requests. Also, this project provided information required to identify and evaluate alternatives for evolving the MIPS application, and provide rigorous model of membership processes, data, organization, and strategy in order to confirm the system support required and to communicate this understanding to both the Data Center and user personnel. Client: Hughes Aircraft CompanyThe Radar Group needed to develop an Electronic Timecard System using Sterling KnowledgeWare's ADW software for the full systems development lifecycle of analysis, design, and construction. The objective of this project was to develop a corporate wide time reporting system for salaried professionals. I worked with the developers to get the project back on track and had the project delivered on time and within budget.

Glendale, California