Leonard Silberstein Email & Phone Number

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Sr. Project Manager/Consultant/PMP (certified) • Manage teams• Provide contracting services (private and government)• Allocate, coordinate and motivate personnel and resources to successful project completion

Silver Spring, Maryland Usa

The Client requested my return to insure continued optimal functionality of 70,000-employee payroll system (see prior experience, 2003 - 2011) during transition from National Institutes of Health (NIH) to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and provide expertise for upcoming legally-mandated enhancements.

Washington, Dc - Newark, De

SME/Program Manager for utility SAP conversion.Managed and coordinated project teams to build SAP replacement of utility’s legacy billing system:Supply engagement expertise for offshore development and local design/functional teams.Provide independent, unbiased clarification of stakeholder perspectives. Balance local, state and national requirements into seamless solution. Insure smooth transition from Project to Functional stages.• Lead product teams ensuring project milestones were achieved on time and budget.• Organized training and held weekly production reviews. Provided ad-hoc updates for senior management as required.• Delivered final product on time meeting client specifications.

1506 Woodlawn Drive, Gwynn Oak, Md

Managed research and development of new print management system from initial design to completion. Supervised and scheduled design, testing, and implementation of print management system to re-route user data requests, creating client savings of $20,000,000/yr. Schedule and plan milestones, goals and deliverables. Identify and resolve project issues expediently. Design, maintain and close technical and project documentation from Statement of Work (SOW) to User Acceptance Sign-off (UAS).• Lead product teams ensuring project milestones were achieved on time and budget.• Organized training and held weekly production reviews. Provided ad-hoc updates for senior management as required.• Delivered final product on time meeting client specifications.

Silver Spring, Md Usa

Provided leadership from initialization through implementation of 70,000-user payroll system upgrade and outsourcing. Manage client relationships for teams of consultants, IT professionals, analysts, project assistants and other professionals assigned to a client work site or project. Provide strategies for risk analysis, risk mitigation and contingency planning for multiple scenarios. Demonstrate initiative to investigate and define project risk areas.• Planned, prioritized, assigned and managed projects administered by the Product Management team, assigning to contract or client personnel for completion.• Facilitated weekly sessions and unit evaluations to assess progress, resolve problems and decrease "meeting fatigue". • Provided strong presentation and organizational skills along with customer-centric service attitude, manage upper-level management stakeholders, company management and project team expectations for agreed upon project performance.• Ensured project goals and objectives were accomplished in accordance with outlined priorities, time requirements, and funding conditions. Designed and maintained project documentation, from Statement of Work (SOW) to User Acceptance Sign-off (UAS).

Portland, Or

Successfully restructured client's electronic inventory process from a stand-alone legacy system to an Oracle/SQL integrated application. Hands-on, end-to-end involvement with legacy system analysis and upgrading to Oracle/SQL by leading multi-location team in deadline-defined, high-paced environment. Assess and evaluate teams and individuals by client-specific metrics. Provide presentation, organizational and customer-centric service skills.• Managed research and development of new system from initial design to completion. • Developed schedule and reporting of goals, milestones and deliverables; performed team and individual evaluations and assessments.• Increased productivity and accuracy of group work by 100% through improvements in communication and documentation. • Identified and resolved project issues expediently.• Tracked and reported on financial aspects of program down to bi-weekly consumption ("burn-rate") status. • Provided alternate pathways for mitigation of risks and appropriate contingency management.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Provided day-to-day running balances for all departments for this internationally-renowned collection of hospitals. Saved millions of dollars in ad-hoc research requests.

Columbia, Md

Designed, wrote, tested and installed nationwide standardized mainframe-Win95/NT software to allow user-initiated programs to generate ad-hoc extract files via job submission to internal reader. Extensive task definition, project management, and systems application experience, from user requirements to functioning code (design through Production implementation with full SDLC deployment). Participated in estimating activities as needed for IT project estimates using Earned Value Management method for all appropriate IT tasks affecting work stream. Assume primary responsibility for the logging of effort by the technical team. • Provide scheduling of estimated of effort.• Established record of successfully completing projects ahead of schedule and under budget.• Driving force behind companywide shift from centralized concentration of data to user-accessible information allowing for 35% faster response and increased customer satisfaction.• Created schedule and implementation regimen for PC replication and update via Norton Ghost procedures, using both pull-initiation and centralized push overlay.

Member of international implementation team for on-site installations (NYC, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt)

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