John Antonacci Email & Phone Number

United States

St. Louis

PMP and ACP Certified PractitionerResponsible for Development Operations across the IT enterprise - (SDLC, Development Guidelines, Processes, Practices and Tools).Managing our efforts to implement a DevOps tool. (vRealize for automated deployments of Dev and Test environments). Managing the PMO - Project Managers supporting IT enterprise wide initiatives.Managing Database Engineers supporting other engineers and DBA's across the enterprise setting standards and providing SQL support via code reviews, consultation and coding expertise.Managing Data Warehouse Engineers (ETL) supporting our Enterprise Data Warehouse initiative.Managing UI/UX Specialists responsible for defining UI/UX best practices and style guides for our website.

Saint Louis Missouri

PMP and ACP CertifiedResponsible for leading the organization in our SDLC transformation from Waterfall to AgileResponsible for establishing an Agile Project Management Office. Defining all aspects of the Agile PMO (process, practices, tools, artifacts, training, mentoring and coaching)Managed a team of Project Managers responsible for managing all of the software development initiatives.Managed a team of Business Analysts responsible for gathering and documenting requirements.Release Management. Defining the processes, practices, workflow and tools to ensure successful production deployments.

Managed a global team of Web developers (9 direct reports, 4 consultants) supporting the eCommerce applications. Team size has varied from 13 -17 with a mix of both on and off shore resources. Aggressively managed poor performers and established higher expectations for all, drafted new job specifications to reflect the raised expectations. Actively managing to do more with less, standardized the developer workstations and tools, removed non development tasks by shifting those responsibilities to the appropriate team, improved code quality by establishing an integrator (gatekeeper) for bi weekly code deliveries and updating the design and code review processes and requiring business/functional testing and sign-off early in the deployment cycle, improved our speed of delivery by refining our development processes to be more Agile. Responsible for establishing team goals and objectives, marketing our value and success, making resource assignments, reviewing progress on deliverables, disciplining and motivating, performance evaluations/reviews, hiring and firing and mentoring and training as well as leading key projects myself. Currently managing the project to address all backlogged Web D&E (backlog of 500 requests in March 2009 we have reduced that backlog to under 200) as well as our high priority Web Security Project to address critical security vulnerabilities.

PMP CertifiedManaged the application development team (10 - 15 resources) responsible for the maintenance and support of the SSA Global Technologies, Accounts Payable and Procurement (SSAGT A/P P/O) applications, assigning tasks, reviewing deliverables, resolving conflicts, motivating resources, addressing design issues and managing change control. Managed the backlog of Remedy tickets (over 100), eliminated the backlog allowing future tickets to be resolved in a timely and efficient manner and within the established service level agreements. Managed the batch-processing window reducing the processing time by over 25% resulting in greater on-line availability and productivity for our customers. Managed the entire workflow including several implementations of vendor software releases and updates, the year 2000 initiative, numerous implementations of re-engineered business processes, and all enhancements and defects. Provided 24/7 on-call production support. Trained both the functional and technical staff on the application. Supported the conversion of the SSAGT A/P P/O applications to the Oracle Financials 11i system (21 million dollar project). Managed a local cross-functional team of 15+ resources both employees and contractors who worked closely with the global team consisting of 30+ resources from multiple consulting companies and USPS I/S service centers. Managed various deliverables (master file conversions, data extracts, interfaces, batch processing) throughout the SDLC. Served as the subject matter expert (SME) for the SSAGT A/P P/O applications, performing GAP analysis and defining system requirements. Worked directly with the Oracle implementation team in defining the batch-processing requirements and providing expert guidance and recommendations on performance monitoring and tuning. Managed the integration and development of the interfaces between the Oracle Fixed Asset system and the Infor Global Solutions, Vehicle Operations application.

Key member of the team responsible for the maintenance and production support of the Patient Billing System. Analyzed, designed, coded and tested enhancements and fixes to the Patient Billing System.

Bachelors Of Science; Bs/Ba, Business Administration; Management Information Systems (Mis)

Bachelor Of Science (Ba) With Emphasis In Mis, Management Information Systems, General