Jose Vazquez, Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

I converted to a full-time employee after years in a contractor role. I have held multiple roles as a project manager, technical support, or a team member that supports the myriad number of activities that encapsulate project success from the moment a prospective client seeks our help, to project planning, execution, tracking, delivery, and tactical or strategic change management. The main projects areas which I have lead, or supported, as a project manager include: * HR Transformations* Merger/Acquisition, including ERP system consolidations* Health Care company mergers and new systems adoption* Project Management Office (PMO) Assessment and Relaunch* Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Program, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA)* Call-center implementations that include local, nationwide, and international components* Vendor management

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Help narrow the official selection from hundreds of submissions. Provide advice and support for the creation of the annual festival’s official program and thematic reels. Serve as talent liaison. Support year-round events in multiple capacities.

Teach project management courses for the MBA Graduate School and the PMP certification program at the Nova Southeastern University H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship Executive Education.

Doral, Florida

Define and implement a global program for the enterprise Human Resources Capital Management System future state from all current solutions of the 11 brands that make up Carnival Cruise Lines.* Surveyed current Shoreside and Shipboard solutions and practices, 40 different solutions in all* Consolidated and analyzed survey results to prioritize current-state and recommend best future-state solution to IT Global Corporate Vice-President and HR Corporate Vice-President

Boca Raton, Fl

Manage Office Max merger plan development for seven merchandising programs, analyze risks and cross-organization dependencies, and maintain business continuity. The programs covered include Pricing Strategy and Execution, Retail and Ecommerce Advertising and Promotions Strategy and Execution, Business-to-Business Pricing Strategy and Execution, and the Markdowns-End-of-Life.* Liaised with The Boston Consulting Group to define all pre-Day 1 goals and roadmaps.* Created short-term strategies needed to reach synergy goals of $163 million during the first year.* Developed long-term strategies to integrate systems, tools and processes within 24 months.* Collaborated with vendors, Finance and Marketing to launch Business Solutions initiatives.* Supported American and European PMO’s to improve the project management framework.

Ecuador And Florida

Develop new project management curriculum for professional continuing education courses and conduct instructor-led e-learning courses using virtual teleconferencing technology.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area

Develop course materials for the "Introduction to Computers and their Applications" course and facilitate the course to undergraduate students in the Discipline-Based Dual Language ImmersionModel® setting in which the course is offered 50% in Spanish and 50% in English to help accelerate the immersion of non-native English speakers into the English language throughout their undergraduate academic program.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Engaged with vendors and insurance carriers to implement cardholder products for banks (HSBC and Citi) in the Latin America & Caribbean region. Leveraged cross-functional group capabilities to help calibrate service models for the new products. Led internal and external communication initiatives of the new product definitions and created the train-the-trainer presentations to train the MasterCard account managers and support call centers.* Improved delivery time by 20% to meet customer’s changing deployment deadlines.* Created and translated official bank documents from English to Spanish, overseeing Portuguese.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Led large-scale projects integrating a multi-version, hosted, financial platform to the portal or web pages of five major global financial investment and planning distributors and carriers, such as Raymond James and the multi-phase merger between Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney.* Successful implementation allowed client financial premiums of $2.6 billion yearly average.* Interfaced with the Development, Quality Assurance and IT teams to certify deployments.* Liaise with Support/Ops Team to maintain service availability of greater than 99.75%.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Designed and deployed a call center and a vendor-hosted help desk. Coached for collaboration, removed obstacles between Product Owners and Development during sprints, while frequently pruning the product backlog for the e-learning/ marketing platform that incorporates Salesforce, a shopping cart and other cloud-based tools. Managed call center and help desk vendors.

Led technology initiatives to sustain 10% ROI by deploying and integrating electronic record systems. Managed vendors and the tool-selection RFP processes. Trained users on tools. Integrated and deployed the following electronic systems:* ADP to minimize payroll errors and ensure on-time payments to the workforce* Kronos to promote company-wide time and attendance values and control labor costs* iCIMS and Taleo to market and onboard applicants while reducing costs and enhancing the user experience

Developed portfolio plans for FDA exclusive-rights submissions from non-existent project data.* Managed and implemented the design of 35 generic drug projects using Microsoft Project.* Trained team on PMO methods and use of MS Project to automate project management.

Consulted with COO to create PMO documentation showcasing Pharma Cope’s planning maturity.* Developed plans to audit and recover thousands of dollars of improper use of grant awards.

Professional IT Architect (Sep. 2006 - Nov. 2007) Under the directive of the CEO, led remotely from home the multi-business initiative to consolidate multi-vendor and in-house ERP systems using PMO processes from eight large IT groups. Optimized budgets, and managed the data migration, training, and system deployment.* Cut support cost by $500K and boosted Project Management process accuracy by 50%* Led process improvement for portfolio management in dynamic multicultural environmentRequirements Management, Product Manager, Global Software Group (Jun. 1998- Sep. 2006) Managed virtually the fast-paced, 24/7, global support team for the DOORS Requirements Management tool that housed software and technical requirements used to build various telecom products across the Automotive, Government, Communications and Infrastructure divisions.* Saved $162 M/year by digitizing processes and procedures to support best practices in teams across India, China, Australia and USA and decrease defect insertion by 75%* Authored roadmaps, deployment plans, and UAT to increase system uptime over 95%* Remotely managed teams in India, UK, Canada, and Mexico supporting 5,000+ engineers* Trained the software Trainers across Australia, China, Poland, Scotland, Russia, and Canada* Completed One-Year International assignment transferring operations to off-shore team* Co-led next generation RM Platform best-in-class market scan and vendor RFP process

Standardized and tested software for the automated payload checkout between the space shuttle fleet with flight payload and the first module of the International Space Station, Destiny.

Master Of Science (Ms), Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace Engineering