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Oak Brook Terrace, Il

Program / Project Management consultant working in the Utility Communications organization. Projects completed and currently managing have included the following:- Firewall deployment effort to 100 locations within the region of Commonwealth Edison (project was one year in duration)- Security Controls project - deploy a security baseline configuration onto all appliances / devices within all operating companies and conduct two rounds of software patches on the devices (project was 18 months in duration)- Infrastructure refresh for a east coast region system that reduces energy demands on customer devices during. Deploying multiple new pieces of hardware and upgrading the network topology. Testing is a key component of this refresh effort to ensure that all customer and test devices will be able to receive the wireless communications and then to process the data as planned.- Data Center Governance - multi-year project focused on data center compliance to managed standards. Deployment of ongoing maintenance standards across eighteen regional data centers. - Identity Access Governance - full system upgrade to a new platform and software provider. System to be deployed in a phased approach for both non-regulated and regulated systems.

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Responsible for the planning efforts related to the projects initiated for the functional areas of Core Network Engineering and National Network Security. Responsible for the successful hand-off of projects from planning to the execution phase to one of four project managers working on the portfolio of projects. Planning management role has direct project/program management responsibility for large complex projects in the portfolio.Role had responsibilities in the development of global best practices pertaining to the ongoing development of the organizations project management practices.

Schaumburg, Il

Providing project management services for US Cellular Corporation in their National Network Engineering group. Managing their Extranet Evolution project.

Greater Chicago Area

Program / Project Manager for IBM managing medium to complex projects in the area of service transition and the transformation of customer's information technology computing environment. Roles:Infrastructure Tower Project Manager: Directed (10 member) team of project managers, architects, network/storage engineers, facility planners, and system admins to build the data center environment for incoming systems and applications.•120 Server, 40 Network Cabinets| 1,000+ servers| 20 Network, 6 SAN switches| 4 High Capacity Storage Systems| 5,000 network, 2,000 storage connections • Budget approximated at $7 million.Tower Project Manager – Remote Server Takeover: Managed a global team of 20 resources to transition support for 60+ servers on the customer’s premise. Conversion completed in 3 of 4 consecutive weekends.Program Manager – Server Remediation: Engaged on a troubled project as the Program Manager to remediate approximately 5,000 servers to operational standards. Global team of 60 project managers, system administrators, architects and procurement specialists. • Increased from 200 servers the first 12 months to 4,000 of 5,000 servers in less than a year. Budget managed in excess of $4.5 million.Data Center Relocation Tower Manager: Supervised three highly skilled project managers to complete the migration of the global entertainment television division to a service provider data center. Senior Project ManagerTurned around a struggling project into a successful effort for the migration of systems and applications for a financial services company. Through joint meetings and requirements discussions the team was able to demonstrate the path to success. Reduced future migration down time by 66%.Managed cross-functional (15+ resources) team of architects, steady state resources, testers, system administrators, and a project manager to perform a server consolidation project for a major national retailer (800+ locations).

Responsible for integrating the corporate strategic direction to the IT strategic planning efforts in order to support the organization's goals.Included the review of departmental plans, new vendor investigation, and assessment of financial opportunity.

Greater Chicago Area

Formed this new department with a staff of fifteen individuals (Project Mangers, System Administrators, and Support staff) to implement new technology offerings to assist the corporate staff or regional customer service organizations improve operational efficiency or increase revenue generation. Managed a $3 million budget across multiple projects. New technology deployments consistently had a ROI payback between six to twelve months and saved the organization millions of dollars on an annual basis.

Greater Chicago Area

Developed new systems for the customer service organization to reduce human resource cost or to improve operational efficiency. Implemented a workflow management and POS system that reduced customer activation time during peak periods from 24 hours to less than 15 minutes

Mba, Management Information Systems, General

B.S., Finance (Dua Major Economics)

Activities and Societies: Finance Club, Economics Club