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Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Working on the Resource Management System Program to replace the GTAA legacy RMS system with a modern solution. Responsible for delivery and testing of key applications to be customized to fit the GTAA business needs. Working with other PM’s to manage deployment of a combination of complex software packages for a mission critical system. Responsible for planning and coordinating work of multiple vendors with onsite technical team to deploy complex packages in small window available for system maintenance. Working with vendors to implement and maintain a release management process to facilitate controlled deployment of smaller work packages.

Toronto, Canada Area

Worked as a Sr. PM for Buchanan Technologies. Spearheaded various IT projects for small, medium and large customers, responsible for all items relating to scope, budget, schedule & communication. Projects budgets from $250k - $2M.Projects Details:✔Implementation of SharePoint for 2013 to be used to transition from aheavy paper based process to online for document management. Worked complete lifecycle from business requirement gathering, through design, implementation, validation, deployment, training and support using multiple agile sprints to complete the project. ✔Custom App development - Working with a client requiring complete redesign of a homegrown application to match the company expected growth and flexibility requirements. Worked with development team to gather and document requirements, and present the new design.Managed a team of 15+ developers, including an offshore team to implement the new design. Managed complete agile development lifecycle, from design, development, testing, user and technical documentation, delivery and UAT support and implementation (Azure) and transition.✔SharePoint 2013 Implementation - migration from SP 2007 to 2013 for a 700+ person government agency. Responsible for a team of architects and developers to complete discover and design component, through implementation, training, migration and the knowledge transfer. ✔O365 migration - responsible for design and execution of a migration of 400+ individual public company for migrating from Google to O365. Worked with technical team to design, plan and execute the migration. ✔Support Centre Transition - working with large global company to transition to the Buchanan Service Desk for all aspects of technical support. Integrated to enterprise wide 3rd level and Application Management Support.✔Custom SP2013 development - Managed an offshore development team to gather requirements, develop and deploy custom development solution for SP2013 for a large government organization.

Toronto, Canada Area

Served as Senior Project Manager part of the MyWorkspace Windows 7 Migration Program for Royal Bank of Canada in order to migrate 70,000 assets from Windows XP to Win 7. Responsible for Migration Command Centre team of 40+ resources. Worked as part of IBM core Sr. PM Team to establish all program initiation activities including governance and communications processes. Worked with IBM and RBC team to integrate IBM migration team activities with existing RBC PMO and migration deployment teams. Worked with RBC technical team to integrate the Command Centre support activities into the technical solution.✔Created weekly reports for Program sponsors and executives✔Facilitated daily migration progress report calls for Line of Business (LoB) Executives✔Established Command Centre leadership team of Project Coordinators and Technical team leads to lead team CC agents through migration process.✔Created Command Centre Agent technical process documentation and migration checklists for Night of Migration and Next Day Support.✔Created training plan for onboarding new agents in order to support the aggressive migration schedule.✔Defined and documented the T Minus schedule for migrations.✔Worked with the field technician management team to establish and refine the process for nightly migrations and Next Day support, including technical checklist, communication frequency and escalation process for various levels of standard and critical issue escalations.✔Created Requirements document for customized migration tracking tool for Command Centre.

Spearheaded a software delivery program for a legacy custom POS application for an international Tier 1 Retailer. Managed 3rd level production maintenance of the application as well as 24/7 Help Desk for all 1200 locations. Led a team of project managers, business analysts, developers/architects, and QAS. Implemented processes to support a seamless transition of software through beta and pilot to rollout and support by help desk. Developed and maintained change control management methodology, worked with the governance team internally and with the customer.***Value Added*** ✔Successfully executed 3-5 annual concurrent modernization and enhancement projects for a large US retailer, each consisting of full SDLC on a legacy POS System.---Modernizations projects included migration from DOS to Linux, and subsequent migrations of flat files to MySQL relational databases, and refactoring of legacy spaghetti code.✔Instrumental in reducing the delivery time by 30% and providing a 25% increase in functionality.✔Played a key role in minimizing critical software issues which resulted in decreased store outages.✔Championed help desk support for a 24/7, leading a team of 15 troubleshooting hardware and software issues.✔Set up and maintained Command Center facilities as required for peak support

Orchestrated the planning and execution of a software delivery project POS and reported directly to the program manager. Project managed 8-10 resources with an approximate budget of $1.5M. Coordinated the activities of the project team members and worked with technical analysts to ensure business requirements matched standards, quality assurance and delivery. Developed, managed and monitored project work breakdown structures, schedule, and communication plans. Constructed mitigation plans for project risks and facilitated problem solving, conflict resolution, and various other activities for projects.

Partnered with large customers to understand current environment and business needs and identify solutions. Worked with customer and team for an optimal solution to satisfy business needs and transitioned the requirements to the delivery team. Oversaw all aspects of relationship management. Conducted research on emerging technologies and solutions for cutting edge solutions; addressed customer security concerns. Fuel and position planning, account development, and services management.

Toronto

Championed projects ranging from $150 – $350K, supporting teams of 3-6; working on up to 10 concurrent projects. Managed SDLC, scope, feasibility, risk, budget and resources. Spearhead strategic consulting engagement management, relationship building, and resource optimization. Benchmark and establish strategic and tactical business plans, budgets, policies, and programs. Collaborated on the development and execution of forward thinking concepts to deliver IT processes most efficiently. Instrumental in the implementation testing and rollout of centralized MS Enterprise Project Management Solution for managing multiple projects, resources and budgets. Helped develop processes to transition projects to the support organization through documentation and training sessions. Worked with Executive team to define and implement Change Management process. Partnered with existing customers to identify future requirements and opportunities.

Toronto, Canada Area

Integrated an established PMO methodologies, processes and structure. Liaised with customers on software customization and hardware rollouts and partnered with multiple vendors. Collaborated with the internal sales team supporting throughout sales cycle, helping define customer requirements and scope out work required for the project. Liaised with Sales to grow sales channels through partners and Value Added Resellers. Lead team on office start up activities for Toronto office including site selection, equipment procurement, networking etc. set up.