Kurt Hines Email & Phone Number

Responsible for overseeing a team of Project Managers and having oversight on all projects.

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Greater New York City Area

At Mediacom I function as a high touch Project Manager, reporting directly to the CIO, focusing on new projects that are high profile or on ongoing projects that need triage. I specialize in implementing successful and transitional processes; maintaining detailed objective, iterative project plans; and executive level documentation.

Greater New York City Area

Oversaw 20 personnel, composed of employees and staffing resources, across North America in the Development, Quality Assurance and Release Management teams. I was responsible for setting scope and timing of releases, coordinating resources across teams, and ensuring delivery. During my tenure, I organized development from an ad hoc work effort into a scheduled, release driven process. I worked with the Product team and clients to define priorities, and keep all stakeholders informed.I also oversaw cross departmental teams on a range of projects. Responsible for forming and managing the teams from inception to completion of each project.

Greater New York City Area

•Ensured proper project communication via daily and weekly status meetings; executive level calls and emails; and quarterly in-person planning sessions.•Triaged bug reports and assigned out to appropriate development team.•Assigned duties, responsibilities, and spans of authority to project personnel.Submitted project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards.•Managed project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.

Greater Detroit Area

• Assisted small and medium size businesses with IT planning, technology deployments, Human Resources technology, remote and distributed office solutions, and Internet technologies.• Designed and implemented an off-shoring strategy for a high volume tax and accounting office, resulting in a 10 person offshore team. Put in place workflow techniques to promote a highly efficient cross-utilization of local and offshore resources, growing profit margins by 15%. • Replaced a clients desktop-based IT system with co-located server farm utilizing virtualization and RDP staff access. By utilizing this architecture in combination with my HR plan of a flextime workforce, allowed office to raise staff headcount by 25% in existing 100% capacity office, thus forestalling a 50% rent increase for a larger office space.• Increased efficiency in a client’s organization by designing and deploying a documentation and paperless office solution to support a distributed US team. This resulted in major labor savings and lower costs, resulting in a profit margin increase of 12%.

East Lansing, Mi

As a Marketing intern for the MSU Executive Development Center, my duties included various marketing tasks such as research, mailings, database creation, newsletters, and other projects.

East Lansing, Mi

As a Resident Mentor, I was a live in staff member of the Department of Residence Life at MSU. My duties included the implementation of strategies and assisting students with multi-cultural competence, learning and ethical decision making.

Novi, Mi

Commissioned Salesperson serving personal and business clients selling computers and a variety of other hardware and software.