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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pa

➤ Serving as the Project Analyst for the PPG Global IT Infrastructure Organization to support IT Infrastructure Project Managers, Resource Managers, and Business Portfolio Managers manage their collective projects.➤ Aiding teams in project intakes, creating detailed project plans, and conducting data analysis of project progress by tracking resource trends, resource distribution, scheduled versus actual resource effort, and resource forecasting.➤ Utilizing Planview's PRM toolset including Project Place, PPG's chosen project management suite, to aid Project/Operations Managers in project workflow and methodology using a combination of Agile and Waterfall methods.➤ Instituting a Global IT Infrastructure-specific Project Work Flow and project requirements while ensuring adherence.➤ Coordinating all activity for projects, acting as the primary liaison to the end customer and various stakeholders to communicate project activities, and using Microsoft's PowerBI, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and OneNote.➤ Supporting long-term multi-million dollar projects by contributing to the achievement of business/function objectives through the guidance and oversight of the project management methods used to deliver quality IT solutions.➤ Working with the PPG Global IT Infrastructure team to become fully engaged in timesheet submissions to upper management to achieve a 99% timesheet submission rate for all Global Infrastructure team members.➤ Running data analyses and creating reporting for project cost analysis, resource trending, project work effort/hours versus operational work effort/hours and aiding Project Managers to complete and submit Monthly Project Summaries.

Pittsburgh, Pa

➤ Planned, directed, and coordinated activities of cross-functional teams including PPG Corporate Infrastructure, CSC Project Teams, and SC&M SAP Functional Support Team of the SAP Separation project from PPG Fine Chemicals.➤ Developed and maintained standards while managing and developing process controls for an on-going support structure for PPG's first on-premise SAP environment and achieved 100% application availability with no unplanned outages.➤ Ensured all projects were executed in compliance with developed standards and drove activities resulting in a 52-hour cutover event finishing 10 hours ahead of schedule, on budget, and with no show-stopping malfunctions.➤ Liaised with infrastructure, functional, and budgetary teams to design and construct Infrastructure Architecture diagrams/solutions/logistics for Oracle R12 Upgrade with a $220M budget over 4 global regions and SAP.➤ Procured and tracked capital spending of $2.4Mon Corporate IT Oracle R12 Projects from the Master Capital Budgets of regional R12 Projects of $14M that resulted in completing infrastructure tasks on budget and to specifications.➤ Managed cross-functional teams to perform upgrades /patching as well as conducted monthly collaboration environment meeting between infrastructure and functional team leads and technical analysts to achieve a 100% completion rate.➤ Served as a member of the Oracle gate committee that approved all North America Oracle functional changes and led as the single point of contact for PPG Oracle R12 infrastructure environments for both North and South America.

Pittsburgh, Pa

➤ Provided leadership on multiple concurrent projects and gave direction to both PPG employees and contract resources.➤ Developed and maintained fully integrated project plans that specified project goals, deliverables, staffing, scheduling, risk assessment, contingency planning, resource allocation, and cost analysis while reporting updates to management.➤ Planned, directed, and coordinated activities of cross-functional teams to deploy Avamar backup technology that improved overall backup success rate from 73.4% to the Service Level Agreement of 99.67%.➤ Applied knowledge of commonly used and emerging concepts, practices, and procedures for the product development life cycle while ensuring that team members adhered to internal standards, established methodologies, and procedures.➤ Successfully managed total backup environment globally consisting of 8 EMC-Avamar Grids, 2 Data Domain units, 2 HP LTO-4 enterprise level tape silos, and 5 Data Protector Cell managers to backup over 5 Petabytes of data weekly.➤ Led multi-functional teams to deploy UC4 Backend job executing technology that resulted in the automation and 99% success rate of backend server job execution within the Linux, UNIX, and Oracle environments at PPG.➤ Tracked yearly maintenance and capital spending totaling $5M for all backup/recovery and job scheduling while coaching or training direct reports in developing good troubleshooting and incident management habits.➤ Conducted interdepartmental weekly planning meetings serving as a bridge between infrastructure and functional teams resulting in a process control ensuring that tasks were performed during regularly scheduled maintenance.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Pittsburgh, Pa