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Remote - New Milford, Ct

Remote - New Milford, Ct

- Life Cycle Management Refreshes of both Operating Systems (Windows, Linux and UNIX/AIX) and hardware (Physical, Virtual and Cloud) that were approaching end of life support - Coordinated work of 8 Project Managers with great success working closely with customers in an Agile-like approach. Users were actively involved throughout the process, team members were empowered to make decisions, the requirements evolved as they were captured at high level but the timeframe for completion was fixed, servers were built methodically completing each step before moving to the next, testing was integrated in the process to ensure that when servers were correctly built as required while collaborating between all stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.

Remote - New Milford, Ct

Successfully led team of 5 Project Managers and 8 to 25 Wintel System Admins on iLO Remediation Project completing the work within budget and by the requested end date

Remote - New Milford, Ct

- Kaiser Permanente - Project Manager Build Coordinator of Servers, Virtual Machines, LPARS, Windows, Linux, Storage, etc. Coordinated IBM Delivery teams in building hardware solutions for Kaiser infrastructure.- Kaiser Permanente Commercial Infrastructure SOX remediation project.- State of CA Commercial Account - Child Support Enforcement - Leading server / application transition from IBM to State of CA customer. Transfer of support, hardware, application and licenses.

Remote - New Milford, Ct

Managed and oversaw all aspects of worldwide adoption and deployment for two of IBM's hardware configurator sales tool web sites and deployment of the Latin America Configure to Order project. Performed hardware and software configurator output analysis for Blue Harmony, a large SAP project and presented the recommendation to the project office. Led end-user adoption activities including organizational change, deployment readiness and support for end-users following deployment of tool upgrades and releases.

Remote - New Milford, Ct

Managed all aspects of worldwide deployment for multiple IBM sales applications including: Partner Commerce / Servers. Common Commerce Engine / Multi-Channel Sales Center tool and Blue Horizon IBM sales configurator.

Remote - New Milford, Ct

- Field Sales Force Efficiency Project: Field Sales Force was a conceptual discovery project, focusing customers on requirement development and technology designReduced costs and improved financial forecasting, funding, project tracking, status and reporting by selecting, testing, and deploying the Opportunity Approval Tracking System as a sales strategy tool in the US, Asia Pacific, Canada and Europe.- SalesOne Project: SalesOne is a web based analytic tool used by all levels of management. Expanded the reach of existing intranet sales site, using World Wide Sales One (WWS1), a Bronze Intranet Global Web Architecture (GWA) application, to all geographies and lines of business, and to sales and business development practitioners worldwide.

Remote - New Milford, Ct

Successfully deployed a support-only project serving as both IBM and Sprint IT Project Manager. Managed cross-functional teams resulting in high customer satisfaction. Supported three projects to deployment and managed four type B projects (>25,000 hours) as the IBM Project Manager. Sprint/Nextel functions at CMMI Level 3.

Remote - New Milford, Ct

EDGE on Demand is a web-based sales reporting tool used by sales force to run static as well as on-demand reports. Led project team of four to eleven developers and testers in all aspects of the software development, initial release and upgrades to the web site. Directly interfaced with business customers. Presented status reports to senior management.Overcame initial design challenges and successfully deployed EDGE on Demand in May 2004.Led two enhancements of the web application for standards compliance, user functionality requests and one maintenance release. Addressed accessibility compliance standards on the Lotus Notes component of the application.

Remote - New Milford, Ct

2001-2004 - Human Resource Web Applications : Individual Development Plan, Managerial Quickviews, Learning Simulator and Skills applications. Led two full-time developers and two database analysts.Deployed all application changes to production for web site upgrades, changes, fixes and patches. Interfaced between HR business Project Managers and the development team based in Sydney, Australia and the Solution Delivery Center. 2002-2003 - Fidelity Single Client Feed Project: HR outsourced benefits and retirement applications to Fidelity Employee Services Company for increased cost-efficiency. Led technical team from requirements gathering through development, testing and deployment to create new data feed processing. Prepared for and presented application changes to the review board for internal audit readiness (ASCA)2000 - Personal Business Commitment : PBC is a management employee performance appraisal tool used off-line in a Lotus Notes environment (e-mail) with accessibility via the internal intranet environment. Resolved pre-existing project problems and successfully deployed PBC within budget and by the due date set by the Human Resources business customer.

Southbury, Ct

1998-2000 - Cash Balance Retirement Plan Project: Corporate HR implemented a retirement/pension plan change in 1999 to a cash balance plan. Managed team of nine developers / testers. Successfully maintained functionality of former retirement plan while implementing new plan. Interfaced with human resource customer and two external vendors (Watson Wyatt & Banker’s Trust) as well as five separate programming teams on system requirements and design. Responsibilities included design, overseeing writing of the program/job specifications, coding, testing, ASCA certification preparation.1998 - AETNA Transition Project: Corporate HR consolidated retirement plan with a single outside vendor. Coding changes modified the data feed programs and the Human Resources Tracking System (retirement on-line function) Managed team of three developers and coordinated project with HR and two external vendors (Watson Wyatt & AETNA) on system requirements, overseeing coding, testing, ASCA preparation and production implementation for the transition of retiree pay-out from AETNA to Watson Wyatt / Banker’s Trust. Expanded monthly feed to Watson Wyatt to process more timely data for retirement purposes. 1996-1998 - Maintenance of existing IBM retirement system with team of two programmers/analysts

Danbury, Ct

Financial Systems - Dunn & Bradstreet Applications

Danbury, Ct

Led financial project team - Dunn & Bradstreet and TSI financial applications

Trumbull, Ct

DISC banking application maintenance

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