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Cincinnati, OH, US

Glen Allen, VA, US

• Manage IT Projects for Application migrations and upgrades for ADM (Archer Daniel Midland Company).
• Financial control including estimate, budget, SOWs, procurement, forecast and actuals for projects.
• Cross-functional work with IT Architecture, Test, Cloud, Security and Organizational Change Management (OCM) Centers of Excellence (CoE).
• Migration of On-prem infrastructure to AWS cloud.
• Implementation of SSO (Single Sign-On), MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) IAM (Identity and Access Management) technologies.
• Escalations to Steering Committee and PMO leadership upon risks and issues.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Sr. Project Manager for Matthews Automation Solutions, involving multiple teams from Sales, Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Procurement to on-site implementation engineers to design, estimate, source.
• Working with integrators, vendors and end customers for multiple projects in diverse locations across the United States.
• Financial planning and monitoring for labor, services and materials.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Worked for the National Financial Partners (NFP) account.
• Overseen the Infrastructure Projects in general and managed some of them directly.
• Worked with business leadership and technical leadership closely, with multiple projects simultaneously across groups from diverse disciplines.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Sr. IT Infrastructure On-site client-facing Project Manager for Givaudan, a major global flavors and fragrances company.
• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A): Identity Access Management (IAM – SSO & MFA), Data & E-mail migration, Telecom circuits, Software / Hardware Asset Management, End-User Computing (EUC), and Organizational Change.
• International/global IT Infrastructure Projects (new site commissioning, old site decommissioning, Data Center, Cloud, enterprise-wide software implementations and upgrades, mobile phone and laptop mobility).

95877 Bezons, FR

• Transition / Project Manager for new clients to transition them to Atos services.
• Transformation to new technologies.
• Project Management on cross-functional areas such as IT Infrastructure, Service Desk, network, voice and Data Center.
• Projects to implement new processes for clients such as IT Asset Management for Software and Hardware.
• Infrastructure migrations from Data Centers to Microsoft Azure.

95877 Bezons, FR

• Onsite client-facing IT Operations Manager leading cross-functional teams; onsite, offsite and offshore IT Data Center operations, network, EMC SAN storage, DataDomain/Veritas NetBackup backups, Windows, RHEL Linux.
• Ensure uptime and flawless execution within SLA.
• Drive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for P1 issues or others as requested by client or leadership.
• Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) with mission critical systems in disperse data centers with High Availability technologies with inter-site replication and execution of Quarterly DRP exercises.
• Daily Incident, Change and Problem monitoring with ITIL processes (Incident, Problem and Change Management) using ServiceNow with automated alerting and ticketing, including SLA KPIs.
• Monthly and Quarterly Business reviews to communicate metrics and Data Center Capacity Planning for virtualization, storage, backup, network rack space and electrical power.

95877 Bezons, FR

• Transition/Project Manager for new clients to transition them to Atos services.
• Project Management on cross-functional areas such as Service Desk, network, voice and Data Center.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• IT Project Manager for a major Financial Services account (FinTech)
• Managed six large-scale, top-priority and complex technology projects in parallel with a total project budget of over $5 million, in 5 data centers worldwide.
• Managed the complete project lifecycle from eliciting functional and technical requirements to development, user acceptance testing, implementation, through ongoing maintenance, while meeting project deadlines.
• Collaboratively created a Steering Committee deck for Project Stakeholders and Sponsors, to review project status, financials, risks and issue escalations.
• Coordinated teams to define architecture, procurement, and infrastructure implementation, software development and QA testing.
• Coordinated the development of test plans and test cases based on business requirements for functional, integration and regression testing.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Project Manager for a major Financial Services (Banking) account.
• Managed four IT infrastructure projects in parallel over 6 months with a budget of $2 million USD.
• Liaison between business and IT groups to integrate software development solutions using SDLC methodology.

CDMX, CDMX, MX

• Project: Citigroup, Inc. Project Manager for the Data Center Strategy Portfolio
• Managed two large multi-million dollar projects in data centers in the U.S. and Latin America, involving compliance and regulatory initiatives.
• Tracked several portfolios’ programs and projects, escalating red projects and issues to the global IT, and lead Steering Committee Forums to showcase program status and resolve escalations.
• Managed budget, scope and schedule to implement new infrastructure and migrate existing applications.

Norwalk, Connecticut, US

• Program Manager for all IT projects for a major retail account.
• Report all projects’ metrics, KPI, progress and issues to the PMO.
• Managed escalations to multiple internal groups and vendors.

Norwalk, Connecticut, US

• Award-winning IT Project Manager for a major retail account; projects included infrastructure implementation, migration and virtualization, SAN storage and enterprise network solutions.
• Managed the virtualization of 200+ servers across two data centers in one year.
• Followed Processes and Planning in compliance with the PMI and ITIL/ISO 20000 standards, using tools as ServiceCenter and Microsoft Project Server.
• Managed projects to virtualize physical servers and their decommission, to build new virtual servers involving Windows 2003/2008, SQL clusters, load balancing networks, depending on business needs.
• Complete datacenter environment understanding involving SAN, racking, power management, network and storage cabling, etc.

Norwalk, Connecticut, US

• Infrastructure Management Sr. Analyst, for a major manufacturing account.
• Windows Server environment Virtualization for the Hallmark Cards account, on VMWare ESX Datacenters and SAN Storage Infrastructure.
• Backup management and data restores using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
• Incident, Change and Problem Management according to the ITIL/ISO 20000 standard.

Pointe-Claire, Montreal, CA

• Management of budget assigned to IT Projects.
• Definition of requirements and analyze proposals from IT hardware, software and service providers.
• Project scope and teamworking with Headquarters in Canada and Branch Offices located in several countries in South America.
• Call Center implementation for Telemarketing and Collections features for 50 agents, using latest technologies such as Predictive Dialer with boards for Digital E1 links, SQL databases, Plantronics hands-free.
• Administration of IT services, such as SQL, Active Directory, Firewall, the Network Infrastructure and all IT resources (Servers, Workstations, and printers).
• Promote projects for the improvement of currently implemented solutions, as well as new ones, from all areas.

Miami, FL, US

• IT Service Desk management.
• Definition of standards and process for the IT area.

• Specialist in solutions for the management of large Active Directory implementations.
• Functional and Technical presentations of NetPro products to potential customers.
• Post-sales issue support.

Monterrey, Nuevo León, MX

• Visited multiple client companies implementing networking and server solutions. Also, typical PC support and maintenance.
• Network installation at costumer companies.
• Implementing Internet over many networks using Broadband Routers Firewall function and NAT to access internal Server’s ports from outside.
• Proxies such as Microsoft Proxy Server over Windows NT Server, Microsoft ISA Server over Windows 2000 and WinProxy, and using Windows’s Internet Connection Sharing.
• Server installation and administration, Terminal Server, Citrix, Active Directory, RAS, Microsoft Exchange and file and printer sharing, security and administration.
• Connections to Terminal Servers over the Internet and a VPN or a Firewall, so they can work in real time, Client-Server mode.

• Professor of Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science (Operating Systems, Structured Programming (dBase/Fox/C++) and Databases (dBase/SQL) at Engineering level.

• Small Business Network/Server/PC Infrastructure design and adviser.
• Network/Server Installation and troubleshooting.
• General Hardware & Software Technical Support for PCs and Printers, Scanners, Internet, etc.
• dBase/Fox Pro programming and troubleshooting of existing applications.

Aurora, Ontario, CA

• The project was in the shopping department. Its objective was to update the price database they had in BAAN System and the IT department performed this part.
• The practicians made domestic calls in Spanish inside Mexico and I made the international calls to get quotes and keep follow-up of the progress of the project, reporting global progress to the Shopping Manager.
• We worked very close to maintenance and stock people to check for each application of each part at the plant.

San Nicolás De Los Garza, Nuevo León, MX

• Training for students, administrative personnel and general public.
• Trainings given: LAN Networks, Windows NT, Linux, Basic Internet, Advanced Internet, Word and Excel.
• Administration of user accounts in server ccr.dsi.uanl.mx, which was a MicroVax running the VMS Operating System.
• Services running at the server: Web, mail, FTP, Telnet and IRC.
• Help Desk to internal Dial-up users.
• Preventive and corrective maintenance of PCs and network, mostly at the Direction of Computing and the University’s administrative departments.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be In Electronics And Telecommunications, Information Technology (It), Telecommunications, Analog & Digital Electronics

Associate'S Degree, Software Analysis, Design And Development (Programming)