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Johnston, Ia, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Leading the final push on an enterprise wide desktop OS upgrade project as a Senior Program Project Manager. This infrastructure delivery project involves several thousand desktops, users, and facilities across the country.

Montréal, Quebec, Ca

Joined the Project Management Office operations as a Senior Project Manager.Assisting enterprise clients in their application modernization and transformation efforts, primarily on IBM i (formerly AS/400) systems.

- Program Project Manager Team Lead for the infrastructure desktop upgrade of 4th largest Health Care System and the largest non-profit HCS in the US with a network remediation requirement of over 90,000 workstations, many hardware models and more than 1,000 dependent applications. - Provided expertise to reduce operating costs through hardware and operating system standardization. - Addressed critical gaps in patch management environment. - Assisted in the upgrade of the heritage SCCM infrastructure and software to Current Branch. Worked closely with vendor, Microsoft, to use best practices - Lead Program Project Manager and Escalation point for the rollout of Win10 Operating System image to desktops, laptops and appropriate servers.- Effectively coordinated work between multiple teams and over 200 dedicated project resource techs and technical project managers.- Coordinated testing and application interface requirements with the Application UAT Environment Teams.- Facilitated application remediate between vendors and the enterprise application owners/teams. - Worked closely with the Application Teams and Stakeholders to address all challenges and mitigate risks. - National effort with multiple regions including:• Division -Midwest (Iowa, Nebraska, and Bismarck, ND)• Division -PacNW (Washington and Oregon• Division -National (Corporate IT and Business Offices)• Division -Southeast (Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Eastern Ohio)• Division -Texas (Texas)• Division -Fargo (North Dakota and Minnesota)- Expertise and Services Provided:• Productivity Tracking.• Oversight of hardware and WIN10 OS deployment.• Engagement of Site Directors.• Communication input to Steering Committees.• Site/Facility Deployment Planning.• Site/Facility Communication.• Application scope, testing, and remediation tracking.• Escalations. - Conducted close collaboration with End Users Staff, Facilities, Application Owners, Vendor Management, and other teams.

Provided IT administration, budgeting and support on a volunteer basis due to furlough and layoff resulting from COVID cutbacks at my previous employer. I continue to support and work with NAMI Iowa in an IT role as a freelance consultant and administrator on a volunteer basis.

Montréal, Quebec, Ca

Engagement Manager for expertise resourcing staff augmentation and applications services with IT client side project fulfillment. Directed and managed multiple teams of developers in three different countries. increased team efficiency and improved reporting metrics to senior leadership. provided mentoring, coaching and review to team members. Improved deliverables and enhanced delivery schedules. Met crisis with calm. Daily SCRUM standups, promoting Agile principles as well as used Waterfall for legacy programs. Improved operations all around.

Managed all internal networking, desktop, application and hardware computing services for state office, including Office 365 rollout and migrations with Azure and SharePoint integration. Continue to provide expert consulting and support on a part time basis as needed.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Project Manager II - Healthcare Industry▪ Served as Application Interface Manager on project team to upgrade over 2500 servers running health care applications in 95 different facilities on a Windows Server 2003, or earlier, operating system (OS) ▪ Worked with application owners and site IT directors for application upgrade or remediation and migration to a newer Windows OS hosting servers▪ Identified hardware specifications for applications by working with vendors and support teams and procured new hardware as needed ▪ Tasked site IT teams to rack/stack/cable new hardware and monitored same▪ Identified applications capable of running on virtual machines or those requiring physical environments▪ Ordered virtual machine server builds as required for application migration▪ Scheduled application cutovers and migration to new physical or virtual hardware▪ Obtained verification and approval from end users that application was accessible and running as required through User Access Testing ▪ Used application migration specific playbook to plan, schedule, execute, monitor and validate migrations in joint collaboration between application vendors, application support teams and application end users for physical to physical, physical to virtual and virtual to virtual migrations▪ Managed multiple small projects concurrently all in different phases of the project lifecycle.▪ Developed project processes and templates as needed.

Supervisory IT roles in project management at healthcare provider.

The local Project Manager lead in large healthcare establishment for the Microsoft-led Project Win upgrades for CHI Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa, an exceedingly challenging effort due to the complexities of the health care software and hardware environment along with the shear numbers of computers, systems and diverse user needs that are involved.

Independent technology contractor and consultant operating under Advisor Services, LLC and Advisor Tech Services, LLC. Small business tax advisory and consulting, personal tax preparation, e-fling and consulting operating under Advisor Tax Services.National technology clients included Native Staffing, Siemens, NuFocus, PrismPoint and Aureus Group. Federal, state and local governments contracts were also fulfilled under subcontracting arrangements, including hardware and printer support at U.S. Naval Air Station and a Federal Aviation Administration offices.Small business advisory services to regional home health care provider network and metropolitan area attorneys, CPAs and project managers.Services included computer network installation, management and upgrades; MS server upgrade and monitoring; accounting systems installations and training; budgeting and cost analysis; and, planning and proposal development for IT expansions.Business and tax services included individuals, corporations and trusts.

Worked closely with National Campaign Manager and Iowa Campaign Manager to insure campaign infrastructure ran smoothly and that all field staff could do their jobs efficiently.Opened new field offices.Provided housing coordination for campaign volunteers.Completed daily analysis of all field organizer voter contacts.Provided custom reporting from ngpVAN to upper campaign staff.Researched opponent weaknesses and provided critical intelligence as needed.Answered headquarters phone - the all-in-one front desk service.Assisted press staff with logistical support and local contacts.Maintained expense documentation for paid field staff and verified same.Supervised the development of field staff and precinct captain training material for all Iowa precincts.Provided audio editing for "last minute" radio ads.Interfaced with local rental car agencies and maintained information on vehicle allocation for staff.Provided on-the-spot emergency assistance tire change for handlers as needed.Removed trash and waste from staff restrooms as needed and flushed when required.On-call 24/7.Helped elect a wonderful candidate to the Vice Presidency of the United States of America.

Developed full multi-media and interactive e-learning software and training productsLed teams of graphic artists, programmers and content experts in the development of all productsNegotiated a five-year contract with the IRS to provide e-learning softwareDeployed products in over 7,000 training locations worldwide by IRS each year of the contract

Managed operations with over 500 employees located in multiple offices operating in multiple statesDesigned, built, installed and administered LANs in all offices with custom-built and configured workstationsEngineered and Administered, at various times, networks using IBM OS/2 Server, IBM LAN Manager, Novell, LanTastic, and Windows Peer-To-Peer softwareDeveloped and provided comprehensive employee training programsGrew company from one office to the fifth-largest independent tax preparation and e-filing firm in the nationNegotiated sale of company operating assets to Fortune 500 company

Bachelor'S Degree, Double Major: Political Science, History

Ma, Politcal Science, Public Administration, History And Accounting

Ba, Political Science, History Double Major

Phd Candidate - Psychology, Psychology

Ma Candidate, International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Law, And Foreign Affairs

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science, History

Masters Candidate, International Law And Relations