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Louisville, Ky, Us

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Project Manager for Advanced Engineering for Charter Communications. Most recent projects are Fiber To The Prem and Docsis 3.1.Managing large,critical projects for the Advanced Engineering Team. Managing cross functional engineering teams, located throughout the US. Provide weekly reporting to executives for assigned projects.• Assigned a large project already in progress, previous PM had no schedule/plan defined, was removed. Within a week, had all deliverables defined, created plan for all cross functional engineering teams, moved teams out of red status, keeping teams on schedule. Coordinating system integration efforts with IT PMs and leading teams to deliver as scheduled.• Worked with Program Team: coaching and providing guidance for delivering technical products, providing IT/engineering status, issues and risks. Provide reporting for Executives.• Assigned to Program Manage a trial, feeding into larger initiative of deploying to customers. Created the project plan, PM the efforts for cross functional engineer/IT teams. Coordinated activities with vendor for releases to meet our requirements. Coordinated hub teams for deployment. Leading teams through Lessons Learned and driving process to define efforts for customer deployment.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Project Manager for Access and Network Engineering at Time Warner. Most recent projects are Fiber To The Home and Docsis 3.1. Managed projects within IT and Engineering, from initiation to successful roll outs. Managed cross functional teams across the US. Assigned to larger project initiatives, with deployments across the US. • Guided teams in test efforts for a true end to end test for all integration efforts on projects.• Tracked product certification efforts for multiple engineering teams.• Projects consisted of hardware/software upgrades, server consolidations/decommissioning, development of new products. Deploying to various departments or many regions across the US.• Worked some larger initiatives with the Product team, where Engineering drove the efforts and timeline. Defined with Product Team the scope and deliverables. Created the project plan. Managed all cross functional engineering and IT teams. Tracked the status, issues, risks, providing reporting back to the Program team and Executive Management. Led teams through successful, end to end testing. Worked with Program team in defining the User Acceptance Testing, Operational Readiness test and deployment tasks. Assisted with Customer Care, Support Team and Field Techs preparation efforts. Managed the deployment efforts to first home.

New York, New York, Us

Project Manager for IT, Billing and Engineering. Perform Project and Program management for IT and Engineering, managing deployments to all regions across the US. Created standards and processes for IT development team that didn’t have any standards in place, created the Quality Assurance and Business Analyst teams with standard processes in place. Created project intake process for prioritizing, tracking and providing updates to the requestors. Performed Sox Audits for IT, created processes to ensure department successfully passed all audits.• Projects consisted of application enhancements/upgrades, server consolidations and decommissioning, LDAP Migrations, roll swaps, email outsourcing, etc. Managed customer facing projects, where deployment consisted of roll out to customer facing teams in the field • Appointed for technical assistance, to company review board for standardizing company-wide initiatives.• Program managed the Billing Upgrades. Defined and managed tasks for IT and Engineering. Coordinated efforts with billing vendor PM tracking releases and required patches. Coordinated with various departments for their test efforts, training and ensure they were ready for deployment. Managed efforts to prepare Customer Care and Field Techs. Create deployment plan and ran team though tasks on day of deployment. Upgrades completed on time, with no major issues, no customer outages and upper management was always pleased with the results.

Associate Degree Of Appied Science, Information Technology

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