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Wheaton, IL, US

Independent Contractor providing Program and Project Management Services

Chicago, IL, US

This project was to provide Program Management services to facilitate Corporate Office and IT Operations upgrades for Chicago, London, New York and Highland Park locations. The consolidation of the Data Center and migration of applications to the AWS Cloud repository was completed. The objective was to move most of the work force to a remote work.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

The objective of this project was to provide Program Management services for a 4.5MM upgrade of their Development and Production HP Mainframe systems. These systems are the backbone of their operation supporting all Domestic and International locations. Procurement of $1.4M of Server equipment – These were HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 systems.Change Management.

Downers Grove, Illinois, US

Facilitate Data Center migrations for two North American locations. These migrations include mainframe and stand alone devices, software applications and data storage.

Chicago, IL, US

Responsible for the leadership on a Transparency Program Governance Team. These objectives enable to the use of Jira and complex Epics, Stories and Team alliance to ensure project completion success. Oversee Scrum Session to ensure Web Demographics objectives are achieved and the collective team has the resources and direction to collaborate on this new.

North Chicago, Illinois, US

Responsible to develop a single source of truth database to facilitate the migration of a recently purchase company of 24,000+ Users. The database, a MDR (Master Data Repository) was SharePoint based and SQL supported to provide connectivity to both organizations Active Directory, Workday, SCCM and varies IT repositories that provided detailed information.

Downers Grove, Illinois, US

• Responsible to manage three major projects:
• Mainframe Migrations – Responsible to coordinate the migration of Mainframes and DASD devices from client locations to Data Center locations. Provided leadership by leading resources to follow an organized Project Plan.
• Mainframe Software Upgrade – Many of the clients of Ensono are major data and financial institutions and they require the maintenance and update of software applications to the latest version. Application team reviews.
• PMO Project Manager Training – Provided collaboration to develop a Project Manager Training program. This program helps to ensure there is a consistent approach to managing Mainframe project migrations and.

Chicago, IL, US

Responsible to provide Sr. Project Manager leadership for a 17M SQL Refresh, Application Refresh and a major application used by United Airlines. These SQL and OS refresh devices run the core applications that United Airlines utilizes to run the daily operation to move 535.000+ people a day. I work with Application, Network, Engineering and Security teams..

St Louis, Missouri, US

• Michael is a Senior Leader with over 27 years of experience in a variety of Information experience combining leading-edge technologies with sound business leadership. He has specific expertise in establishing global.
• Career Development – Conducted training classes to teach industry best practices while using Agile and Waterfall Project management methodologies.
• Business Development – Established an MSA with United Airlines to address the operational IT needs for this growing organization.
• Software Development and IT Operations (McDonald’s Corporation) – Responsible for the ongoing software development and deployment of the RFM database responsible for supporting 40K Global restaurant POS operations. In.
• Digital Menu Board Deployment – Coordination of the new Outside Menu Boards to all US restaurants. Third party coordination to obtain permits and organize infrastructure to support digital menus selections and POS.
• Marketing/IT Project Deployment – Manage Marketing objectives to achieve Agile Sprints completion.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a professional services and investment management firm offering specialized real estate services to clients seeking increased value by owning, occupying and investing in real estate. A Fortune 500.
• Leadership: Develop working relationship between newly acquired business and the JLL IT departments. Coordinated business partnering and IT workshops to increase business knowledge within IT, and led teams in migrating.
• Consolidation Savings: Captured $2.3M cost savings after consolidating the IT operations of the newly acquired organization.
• Process Improvements: Utilized the existing SharePoint repository to utilize a OneNote collaboration methodology to manage Microsoft Project plans with supporting documentation.
• Dashboards: Built KPI dashboards that improved the accuracy, transparency, and compliance of applications being migrated. Utilized additional dashboards to show progress of the multiple office migration progress.

Chicago, IL, US

Hand-picked to lead a migration team that was challenged to move 267 software applications from the Houston Data Center to the new, state of the art NDC Data Center, located in Elk Grove, Illinois. In addition, facilitated the retirement of 2700+ servers and infrastructure devices to complete the closure of the Houston Data Center. The challenge, migrate.

Deerfield, IL, US

This project had a primary objective to upgrade both the Corporate and Store Users to the Windows 7 operating system. My responsibilities included: Establish detailed team member roles and responsibilities for each sequence of the Upgrade phases.o Data mining of Users, hardware, software, upgrade locations.o Establish Change Management communications and.

Chicago, IL, US

The Kraft Marketing department introduced a new piece of software, EMM, in late 2012. This software was designed to interface with SAP to ensure purchasing of advertising media was in compliance with the Kraft financial controls. The objective here is to fix the outstanding EMM software issues and retire the legacy software applications. In addition, the.

Chicago, IL, US

Kraft Foods, now split into two companies, (Kraft Foods Group and Mondelez). I am now working for the North American based Kraft Foods Group. My responsibilities include the development of the Project Management Office and migrating all Kraft Foods Group WAN connections from a shared Mondelez agreement to a solely, Kraft Foods Group managed arrangement.

Chicago, IL, US

Kraft Foods is splitting into two companies, one based in North America and one Global. My responsibility is to manage multiple project managers to ensure a smooth transition to the new Kraft companies.

Chicago, IL, US

• Global deployment of Windows 7 Operating System to the technology User Community of Kraft Foods.Utilization and deployment of Application Virtualization of 2000 Business and COTS software applications..Development of a.
• Utilize Microsoft SMS to gather current information on all software and hardware currently be used.
• Develop global guidelines for equipment standards and software image configurations.
• Created reports to validate capital expenditure budgets for hardware and software purchases.
• Develop and maintain the operational requirements to ensure all locations achieve compliance of the established Sarbanes Oxley objectives.
• Establish guidelines for each region regarding the procurement of hardware and software.

London, CO

• Responsible for a wide range of corporate functions which included integrating IT solutions to support 50,000+ employees in 44 countries with 53 offices in an enterprise environment.
• Develop IT business solutions to achieve the established business objectives for a global market research firm.
• Negotiate and coordinate the global purchase agreements for all hardware and software used by this market research firm resulting in a $400k capital expenditure savings.
• Develop and test a global disaster recovery plan to ensure business continuation in all regions.
• Migrated Data Center locations in North America, United Kingdom and Asia Pacific.
• Develop and maintain the operational requirements to ensure all locations achieve compliance of the established Sarbanes Oxley objectives.

London, CO

I was responsible to manage multiple global IT projects to ensure consistancy of operations in all global locations.

Bachelor Of Science, Business And Finance

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