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Responsible for the migration of BMO’s Extranet, VPNs and Internet connection from the Chicago to Naperville Operations Center (NOC). The role includes UAT of 70~ business applications running over the extranets and VPNs. Migrate the primary Internet connection for North America to NOC. Work with Enterprise Infrastructure and vendors to order circuits and hardware. Submit application firewall rule changes as required for NOC. Perform required SIT to insure circuits are delivered and working. • Responsible for managing the budget and paying vendor invoices• Hold weekly status meetings with both TD & EI teams• Provide weekly status reports into TD & EI PMOs• Manage deliverables through milestones, RIDDs and Change Control• Obtain approvals from RMO and EI PMO prior to Go-Live• Lead vendor meetings to coordinate circuit orders and hardware procurement• Engage Network Services to resolve any NATting conflicts or issues once circuits are delivered• Work with TCOE to insure applications are tested and working properly during the migration

Responsible for the migration / implementation of an insurance based Policy Administration System (PAS). The objective is to migrate three existing legacy systems onto a single unified PAS platform. The new PAS system will be responsible for creating contracts, policies and archiving customer applications electronically. The effort involves managing a virtual team of developers, BA’s and IT personnel across multiple work streams. • Hold weekly status meetings with multiple work stream teams and provide weekly status reports into the EPMO• Use both the PMI and Agile methodologies to manage milestones / deliverables and participate in daily scrums sessions• Manage the migration effort for the document management (xPressions) and the Integration work streams• Track Issues and Risks and partner with WS leads to resolve any issues or roadblocks in an efficient and effective manner• Responsible for managing / tracking several work streams against a multi-million 3-year project budget

Lead the Notes to Exchange Migration Team in the planning, design and deployment of Microsoft Lync 2010 to Northern Trust partners globally. The project focused on delivering Microsoft Lync chat, desktop sharing, audio and video conferencing globally (North America, EMEA, APAC) as the foundation for the move to Exchange and Outlook. Managed the migration team in the design and implementation of an Exchange 2010 pilot in a Lotus Notes coexistence model with 200 users. Responsible for leading design discussions contrasting Exchange on-premise vs Office 365 cloud models. • Manage all aspects of the Lync migration using planning, monitoring and control process• Drive and manage the requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies and timelines, to ensure the project is launch successfully and on time meeting business objectives• Participated in the Lync application certification and remediation process to confirm compatibility of both Windows XP & Windows 7 desktop OS• Weekly dashboard reporting into the PMO (executive management) • Identify, manage and mitigate all issues and risks to minimize impact to the project scope and schedule• Develop training and the support workflow structure for both technical and business teams• Participated in the DR testing and planning strategy for business continuity

Member of the project migration team responsible for the integration of infrastructure systems of the newly acquired Milwaukee based M&I Bank. Primary focus is the integration of the Capital Markets (CM) business unit applications, network connectivity and core technologies to the BMO Harris platform. Responsibilities include participating in the Notes to Exchange migration for the CM group.• Create / Maintain Project Plan, GANTT and WBS Project Schedule for the Desktop migration project• Host weekly Working Committee meeting for the Desktop Conversion team• Gather Requirements for Application connectivity and submit Networking and Firewall Rules requests to Network Services• Work with Functional teams to troubleshoot Firewall and Networking integration issues• Prepare weekly dashboard reports for the IMO (senior management)• Remediate Out of Scope issues and submit Change Requests as necessary• Track Actions and Issues and maintain RIDD log• Engage in Business Continuity Planning and perform required Fail Over testing with LOB participation• Participate in the Procurement Process for hardware and system purchases

Responsible for the overall operation of Advocates’ 30,000 user messaging enterprise which is a hosted model utilizing Microsoft’s BPOS Exchange. • Managed the pilot of Cisco Digital Media Signage across 5-locations • Lead the deployment of Cisco TelePresence video conferencing from the design through execution phases to Advocates’ 10 hospitals• Managed the deployment of OCO (IM) and Live Meeting to 15,000 users across Advocates’ messaging environment• Developed short and long term strategic plans for Advocates’ Communication Collaboration platform.• Implemented CQI strategy to address Outlook training requirements post migration from iPlanet’s email system to BPOS Exchange• Manage a team of 3 FTEs and 6 Consultants for both operations and ongoing projects

Created a business case to move shared corporate data from a messaging platform to a portal technology with options of premise + cloud storage capability.

Consultant / StrategistPartnered with stakeholders, business analysts, and team members to understand the clients’ business requirements and leverage technology to resolve business problems. • Lead the Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization (IO) practice• Delivered IO assessments to CxOs and decision makers• Worked with clients on Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plans• Assisted clients in managing their Microsoft Software Development Product Life Cycles

Responsible for proactively leading the development, implementation and integration of Microsoft Core IO and Business Productivity solutions through Infrastructure Optimization tools. • Lead team member responsible for driving customers into Technical Adoption Programs • Responsible for managing customer Early Adoption beta pilots of Exchange 2010• Conducted weekly meetings during all three phases of POC (Validation, Evaluation, Deployment)• Developed understanding of Business Requirements• Analyzed gaps between current environment and desired state• Developed strategic plans• Maintained communication with stakeholders, team members and clients throughout project life-cycle• Created short term/long term SDLC map• Accountable for all pre-sales technical activities for the sales team• Served as technical support linkage between sales channel and internal resources to develop applications, solutions and new features as necessary to meet customer requirements• Managed project installation from contract signing through network implementation and testing• Delivered executive briefings to stake holders on Microsoft Cloud Computing technologies: Windows Azure, SQL Server, Exchange, Share Point, Office, CRM

Enterprise-wide Notes to Exchange Migration• Lead the migration for the conversion of Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange across 220 offices in North America• Identified the required staffing resources and work streams• Created and maintained the master project plan• Maintained master issues and risk log• Reported on work stream status information, risks and issues to the central PMO structure• Ensured that roles and responsibilities are clearly understood• Program time tracking and variance to plan reporting• Decomposed the initiatives into time-phased, manageable projects• Prioritized deliverables, integrated schedules across work streams, and managed cross project deliverables• Identified and resolved escalations and managed escalation process• Worked with Change Manager to develop change management and scope management procedures and managed adherence• Compiled overall weekly scorecard and delivered to project leadership• Tracked business case performance against performance metricsEnterprise Vault Deployment • Wrote a charter for the legal department, which targeted the reduction of the discovery time for the collection of email mailboxes. Moving to a server based email archive strategy allowed the legal team to search across the enterprise to fulfill discovery requests faster and more reliably. • Managed the RFP process to select a vendor for the email archiving project.• Responsible for the design, implementation, training (end-user community and support staff) and maintenance server based-email archive project where locally distributed mailboxes were moved to a centralized location for discovery purposes by the legal department.