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San Ramon, Ca, Us

San Ramon, Ca, Us

Dublin, Ca, Us

• Develop and own the Infrastructure Project Plan for projects related to Corporate Application (Peoplesoft, Finance, Sales Audit), Stores Portfolio (Registers, Workflow management, Property Development), Merchant Portfolio (Global Trade Management, Demand forecasting) and IT (Storage arrays)• Provide project estimates and Bill of Materials (BOM) for Capital Expenditure Requests• Own communication and coordination across cross-functional teams – Architecture, Security & Compliance, Disaster Recovery, Network, Storage and Project teams (onshore and offshore)• Procurement of infrastructure hardware and software including tracking delivery and implementation at datacenter• Coordinate review and signoff of Final Solution Architecture and Technical Design Document with project teams• Facilitate project status and provide updates to management and leadership

San Francisco, California, Us

• Manage large scale, high risk, technology-based business projects and infrastructure projects• Manage Release installations by creating game plans, coordinating resources for implementation, managing installs, ensuring production environment is stable after deployment of code.• Create Change Requests through Remedy for staging and production changes assigned. Participate, facilitate and attend project meetings to review projects artifacts• Responsible for planning, managing and facilitating all activities and resources required to successfully complete the project goals and objectives within the project scope and deployment timeline for staging and production

New York, Ny, Us

• Management of $3M budget related to the IT infrastructure • Managing the customer, datacenter and vendor interface for all matters related to the Hardware/Software procurement, installation and build out• Work with customers and technical resources - Architects, Database administrators and Engineers to develop hardware/software requirements and project plans• Streamlined decommissioning process of obsolete hardware and ensured activities were properly planned, managed and executed • Planning and management of upgrading of over 2,000 servers (virtual and physical) to comply with company security standards (operating systems and security patches)• Selected to manage several confidential and sensitive project initiatives which required interfacing with senior management to ensure project completed on time.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for managing several e-Commerce projects using Agile/Scrum methodology. Develop schedule, manage budget, risk management, manage backlog, daily stand-ups, burn down charts and management of onshore and offshore resources.• Managed Partner Service Platform project which develops WEB Service API’s for Macy’s product, catalog, pricing and promotions for product finders guides on Macys.com with partners such as Google and Amazon• Managed the development of a new Merchandise Planning & Forecasting Application to allow Merchants to Plan, Forecast and perform What-if analysis. • Managed projects for Product, Asset, Photography, Attribute and Workflow Information Management system projects which support both Macys.com and Bloomingdale.com. • Managed migration off a legacy File-maker Product information system• Responsible for communication to stakeholders, portfolio and senior management• Program management of several project which consisted of working with cross-functional teams, managing budget, portfolio status and status to senior and executive management

Westlake, Texas, Us

Managed multiple Web projects concurrently using Agile and Waterfall methodologies with cross-functional teams consisting of engineers, quality assurance testers, technical operations, documentation, and product managers.•Create and drive product release timelines by creating and maintaining schedules using Microsoft Project.•Drive cross-functional team deliverables, schedules, hitting target milestones, and manage assigned projects according to plan.•Collaborate with product teams and external groups (Documentation, Marketing, Operations, Support) to coordinate release process, facilitate deliverable hand-offs, and ensure timely delivery of fully-qualified products to our customers.•Track and report program status to senior management, report any issues, especially those that need visibility, escalating business issues as necessary.•Experienced with Scrum software development methodology. Scrum Master on multiple projects managing backlog, project kickoff, daily meetings, burn down charts and removing impediments.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Managed team of six C++ developers and four QA engineers on a multi-user Windows based collision repair estimating system. •Developed Software Development Plan using Capability Maturity Model Level 3 (CMM 3) guidelines.•Managed a Windows project which was recognized as the first in the department to operate at CMM Level 3 successfully. •Created project schedules using Microsoft Project and tracked project status to ensure projects were delivered on time and within scope.•Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure dependent project deliverables were in-line with project such as documentation, release notes, on-line help, language translations and mainframe dependencies.•Managed project dependencies, including deliverables of a 3rd party vendor.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Worked with project and product manager to deliver features to a Windows based collision repair estimating system.•Collaborated with manager on schedule development and resource usage.•Chaired developer status meetings, escalating impediments and risks to management.•Partnered with QA team to ensure quality was within department limits.•Supported client services, alpha-beta testing, documentation and technical operations through various stages of software cycle.•Created design documents, coded using Visual C++ , built software, performed unit testing and training client support team on new features and functionality.•Coordinated closely with technical operations team on deployment of mainframe changes to production environment.•Recommended team recognition incentives to reduce defect counts resulting in a 20% reduction.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Lead team of 15 software engineers in deliverables for an online collision repair estimating system. Collaborated with manager on schedule development and resource usage resulting in projects completing on time.Chaired status meetings with engineering team to communicate project information.Worked with cross-functional teams to support the new project features from initiation to deployment.Wrote code using COBOL and CICS using ADR Datacom database.Coordinated scheduled mainframe down time with technical operations located; Established software deployment plan, back out plan and on-site technical support.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Developed enhancements to Billing and Fixed Asset systems using COBOL and CICS.Supported Accounts Receivable application using Management Science America (MSA) software.