Luis Rivera, Mba, Csm Email & Phone Number

Addison, Texas, Us

Key responsibilities: management of the portfolio of IT projects; management of IT project managers within the PMO and embedded within IT departments; managing larger, riskier, high-profile, and longer term IT projects.Directing the development and implementation of IT project management methodologiesConfiguration and operation of the IT Portfolio and Project (PPM) system; strategic planning and implementation for enhancing IT project management maturity; executing project activation and ongoing portfolio prioritization processes; and ongoing reporting of IT project activities.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Instruct Project Management courses within the core curriculum of the Project Management program at the graduate level.Mentor and guide students to achieve a thorough understanding of the course material.Utilize PowerPoint and other instructional aides to the students. Developed the online curriculum for Project Execution and Closeout in the core curriculum.Consistently rated by students on evaluation questionnaires as “Excellent” and “Would take this professor again”.

Alpharetta, Us

Project leader for infrastructure initiatives within the organization that pertain to Azure Cloud, AzureAD, SD-WAN, Office 365, Tenant Migrations, and Telephony. Scrum Master responsible for facilitating the Workday team using Azure DevOps.

Plano, Tx, Us

Plano, Tx, Us

Responsible for oversight of infrastructure programs & projects in support of business driven initiatives up to $2M. Examples of such efforts: Active Directory Migrations, Azure, Exchange to Office 365, Enterprise DDOS Implementation, Data Center Migrations, Application Migrations, SQL Migrations.Plan, direct and coordinate activities of infrastructure projects to ensure that goals and objectives of projects are accomplished within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.Work closely with the Senior Management team to assure that project deliverables are consistent with Enterprise & Business Segment goals and objectives.Ensure that the project teams are fully functional and productive. (On shore and off shore)

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Manage and coordinate with over 20 people (local and global) on various infrastructure projects. Projects consistently delivered on time and within budget.Highly effective leader at cultivating organizational values and goals within and across teams. Conduct site visits to the international locations in order to ensure the technologies are meeting corporate standards and policies.Responsible for developing international infrastructure engineering designs, specifications, and cost estimates; prepare written reports, presentations and technical specifications for upper management.Serve as a liaison between the application teams and infrastructure teams with weekly status updates on tasks, issues and milestones.

Established strategies and priorities for the overall enterprise NOS infrastructure by analyzing and understanding future application needs and hardware capabilities. Responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining and improving the company’s hardware and software infrastructure to include, but not limited to, administration and management of messaging servers, directory services, Network Operating Systems, internet mail, Citrix Metaframe, Backup/Recovery, NAS, SAN and other technology services.

Led the planning, deployment and support of Intel server and messaging architecture. Provided vision and leadership to ensure a stable and scalable technology foundation supporting Footstar’s aggressive growth objectives.

Responsible for maintaining and improving the company’s Intel System infrastructure. Provided technical support to the organizations host systems and advise the organization on technical issues surrounding the use and application of these technologies.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Headed IT services, overseeing all network, Novell servers, GroupWise messaging, backup, security, infrastructure services corporate-wide. Pivotal member of the staff, driving all technology planning and execution.

Mba, Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics