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Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

San Jose, California, Us

A senior technical program manager manages multiple, simultaneous infrastructure projects with competing priorities from inception to through completion; Transfer To Operations.Lead cross-functional, international project teams. Motivates team members, facilitates team meetings and make formal project reports and presentations to various senior level audiences.Be flexible and able to develop creative solutions for complex infrastructure problems that utilize and highlight the features and functions of Netapp’s newest product offerings.Display maturity and depth in customer service. Communicate with business focused groups to develop and implement migration and upgrade solution to optimize data center footprint and demonstrate cost reduction and improved performance.Communicate clearly and effectively with team members from senior MTS resources, operations staff and highly technical, industry savvy senior management.

San Jose, Ca, Us

As program manager worked with senior resources from engineering, product management, solution management and services groups to develop test and integration plans for Cisco Wi-Fi products.Collaborated with multiple business units to drive the move to Software Defined Network solutions utilizing Cisco core products, custom written software and hosting from multiple vendors. Migrate product/solutions from hardware based to cloud based. ESXi images to Openstack. Challenges to define most suitable images/flavors for each virtualized product in a cloud ecosystem.Developed alternative solutions to consolidate and analyze BI (location) data from user devices. Relevant to service provider networks in stadiums, shopping centers and convention centers.Drove reviews of test plans to ensure coverage of features & use cases relevant to specific Service Providers. Worked with test engineers to review and tailor use cases/user stories to solutions and products.Managed the solution through the Cisco Software Development Lifecycle (CSDL) from commit through to FCS. Lead phase commits and managed the relevant documentation.Developed and maintained project plans and times lines. Worked across groups to communicate plans and updates to key stakeholders.Lead reviews of defects to highlight failure patterns, engaged with engineering and Business Unit partners to develop remediation plans and fold the updates back into the solution validation cycle.Reviewed and coordinated training at multiple levels for new products and solution to groups that owned market, delivery and management of the solutions

San Jose, Ca, Us

Drive multiple projects to guide technology upgrades for EMC and Netapps storage platforms for enterprise level storage devices. Storage and computer virtualization.Defined areas for automation projects to reduce hands-on effort and risk for system/host level storage management activities.Lead technical teams of Systems and Database Analyst in India and on-shore to plan and execute server level migrations to new technology storage platforms. Lead and planned technical training sessions to introduce new storage technologies.Managed monthly/quarterly releases through the Enterprise Release Management Organization.Manage interactions with world-wide business units to guide migrations and upgrades in a timely and cost-effective manner.Lead teams to investigate and resolve performance and reliability issues with Oracle instances in complex enterprise environments.Participate in enterprise wide release management groups to optimize release and upgrade activities across the organization.

Houston, Texas, Us

Global Program Manager leading complex projects with new technology to solve business problems.•Managed multiple software development teams to deliver platform configuration services and system software for Business Intelligence Enterprise platforms. •As a project manager led a team to deliver a very large Business Intelligence system. The system was designed and built in-house to deliver storage > 2 Petabyte .•Led division lab space consolidation efforts. Reduced lab space by 50%, updated multiple hardware platforms and introduced server virtualization for QA and development. Managed daily interactions with other corporate owners.•As Project Manager worked closely with manufacturing and supply chain groups to guide new products from development through the manufacturing process. Included participating in TOI’s, trouble shooting and reviewing test/first build procedures.•Worked with external suppliers to source, validate and provision components for new system builds. Worked with suppliers to resolve component problems (excessive failure rates) on installed systems.•Managed group Capex/ Opex budgets for multiple departments to $10 million

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed a small group of senior developers that provide software to control the cluster configuration on large NSK based business Intelligence platform. The product provided a value-add to the basic Nonstop Kernel code to manage the installation and configuration of database, client software, transaction management and operations management that forms the Neoview software layer.Managed teams that designed, developed and maintained complex configurations scripts for Business Intelligence systems. Took developed products through QA process and into manufacturing. Group owned the interface to manufacturing. The outcome was a turn-key "appliance" for the customer straight from the manufacturing/system integration floor.Managed a small QA team for a Business Intelligence product suite. Worked with development group managers to profile new products and product upgrades. Output was an updated test suite to reflect product changes. Post release reviewed customer problems to develop new test profiles; reduce re-work and number of "missed bugs".Organized and managed a 4 day "technology and ideas update" with one of the division's largest Business intelligence customers. Review their current and future requirements, have product experts and architects present to provide guidance on database design to meet customers' needs; high availability, high scan rates and concurrent load and query operations.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed a 20K sq foot data center. Data center was a central location for world wide, enterprise level production facilities for Order Processing, Logistics and customer support applications. Owned and managed the relationship with HVAC vendors, hardware suppliers and software suppliers.Managed multidisciplinary, diverse teams across four geographic regions, managed data center operations, QA and new product move to production.* Managed components of a data center consolidation program for the TSG Business division.Capital, expenses, and head count budgets.* Application consolidation and retirement projects from both IT and business relationships.* SOX compliance for supported business groups from the IT perspective.* Managed and reported Hardware and software inventories.Managed and enforced corporate security procedures for the datacenter .* Capacity planning solutions for multi-platform user communities.* Develop, manage, test, and validate group disaster recovery plans.* Served as the liaison for IT and business groups.

Managed 10 to 15 staff among three teams.* Supported Unix / NT operations, Oracle / Sybase DBA, and NSK support and DBA services.* Technologically supported the interface between the division's development and business groups.* Provided capacity planning and budgeting services for NSK, Unix, and NT-based application and development groups.* Served as the development manager for a company-wide, Web-based payroll interface that integrated application-level services across NT and NSK platforms. * Designed and developed an education package for new staff members in conjunction with a local education specialist.* Organized departmental-level recruiting teams to visit schools that provided competitive computer science and information management (IM) curricula.

Managed 10 to 15 staff among three teams.* Supported Unix / NT operations, Oracle / Sybase DBA, and NSK support and DBA services.* Technologically supported the interface between the division's development and business groups.* Provided capacity planning and budgeting services for NSK, Unix, and NT-based application and development groups.* Served as the development manager for a company-wide, Web-based payroll interface that integrated application-level services across NT and NSK platforms.* Designed and developed an education package for new staff members in conjunction with a local education specialist.* Organized departmental-level recruiting teams to visit schools that provided competitive computer science and information management (IM) curricula.

Managed a team of 5 platform and DBA staff that supported a large distributed SQL application. Application and database were partition across 4 nodes, each was node situated in a location central to geography. Early implementation of a cloud computing.Drove staff training/education support scheduling and update schedules. Developed, agreed and communicated maintenance schedules.

* Lead multidisciplinary, diverse teams across four geographic regions.* Manage the following:* A data center consolidation program for the TSG Business Division.* Capital, expenses, and headcount budgets.* Application consolidation and retirement projects from both IT and business relationships.* SOX compliance for supported business groups from the IT perspective.* Hardware and software inventories.* Develop and manage the following:* The security process for production systems and the data center.* Capacity planning solutions for multi-platform user communities.* Develop, manage, test, and validate group disaster recovery plans.* Serve as the liaison for IT and business groups.COMPAQ COMPUTERS (became Hewlett Packard in

Houston, Texas, Us

Introduced Severnet technology into the production environment.* Worked with NSK hardware and software development groups to resolve beta and pre-release hardware and software package problems in a managed production and QA environment.* Collaborated on the design and deployment of the first purely Internet-based solution for Tandem distributors: low-cost access to sales (configuration), marketing collateral, support and support planning, and pricing tools from geographically dispersed locations.* Supported the rollout of a major order entry application on an NSK platform, the first deployment of a geographically distributed application and database using client server technologies.* Coordinated the deployment of a centralized Clarify / Sybase application running on a single Unix server to a dispersed, expert user population. The application was network-intensive on a newly deployed, geographically diverse frame relay network.* Designed capital and budgetary tools for application rollouts and sustaining operations.* Developed sizing and capacity-planning skills for NSK and Unix-based environments.

Houston, Texas, Us

Introduced new technologies into the production environment. Worked with R&D and product management groups to provide a reference for sales and marketing.* Worked with NSK hardware and software development groups to resolve beta and pre-release hardware and software package problems in a managed production and QA environment.* Collaborated on the design and deployment of the first purely Internet-based solution for Tandem distributors: low-cost access to sales (configuration), marketing collateral, support and support planning, and pricing tools from geographically dispersed locations.* Supported the rollout of a major order entry application on an NSK platform, the first deployment of a geographically distributed application and database using client server technologies.* Coordinated the deployment of a centralized Clarify / Sybase application running on a single Unix server to a dispersed, expert user population. The application was network-intensive on a newly deployed, geographically diverse frame relay network.* Designed capital and budgetary tools for application rollouts and sustaining operations.* Developed sizing and capacity-planning skills for NSK and Unix-based environments.Other Significant AccomplishmentsManaged and lead organizations of 35 people.Managed cross department Capex and Opex budgets to $10 million.Lead division lab space consolidation. Reduced lab space by 50%, updated multiple hardware platforms and started the introduction of virtualization for QA and development.Software Package & TechnologiesMicrosoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Project, Visio,Outlook, .net), C/C++, C#, TAL, TACL, Python, Perl, Linux, HP-UX, SQL, MYSQL,HP / Tandem - NSK OSS,SQL/MP,SQL / MX, , OSS, TCP/IP stacks, performance subsystem, Tandem Application Development Suite, Openview, Openview Service Desk; NCI Source Code Control; Xypro security products; Clarify problem management application.

Houston, Texas, Us

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