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Buffalo, New York, United States

• Manage development staff and performance of the EIT Document Services portfolio while building and maintaining close relationships with cross functional teams supporting Document Services, Claims, FEP/Blue Card.
• Assigned IT Lead on many strategic initiatives where the IT Lead supports the PM and ensures the development for project execution stays within scope and budget, delivers a high-quality product on time, and meets all.
• Govern and oversee of all aspects of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within the team. Ensure the team is following the defined process, creation, and review of required deliverables, while measuring the.
• Transformed the development team from a Waterfall development methodology to Agile. Trained in eSDLC and MS Azure DevOps, and then led the team through the creation of DoR/DoD, story point definition and assignment.

Buffalo-Niagara Falls Area

• Senior IT Manager/IT Site Lead for two DRS locations; Buffalo, NY and Horsham, PA. Executed the IT strategic planning process. Held technical and operational responsibility for business applications. Directed projects.
• Project Manager on several enterprise ERP implementations/migrations (COPICS/ProIII/Oracle EBS/Deltek CostPoint). Provided strategic direction and coordination of all project goals, risks, resource management.
• Spearheaded major technology projects such as: o Multi-site/multi-endpoint VTC/TP installation, configuration, and implementation o MS Exchange installation and migration projects, and multi-site AD domain migrations o.
• Evolved DRS’ IT Service Management; worked with executives and IT leadership throughout DRS to use ITIL/ITSM concepts to define standards, guidelines, policies, and a service catalog.
• Created and implemented all SOX-related procedures and controls within the IT Department. Successfully led the company through multiple internal PWC audits and external KPMG audits.
• Built and managed App Dev teams across Enterprise by overseeing ERP installations and migrations, PLM systems installations/migrations, data warehousing, application development, SharePoint administration and.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Held increasingly responsible roles on complex software/hardware/networking projects across a range of platforms, environments, and stakeholders. Performed development, implementation, maintenance, and production.
• Project Manager and IT Lead for Lawson Payroll and HR Suite implementation. Ensured project met $600K budget and milestones were reached on schedule. Performed system and BSI Tax Module installations, wrote programs.
• Project Manager and IT Lead of the conversion of Payroll and HR systems from an IBM mainframe to UNIX platform. Managed a team of Systems Analysts to ensure programs were fully tested and that the conversion plan was.
• Played an integral role in the conversion of the company's ERP system from the mainframe (COPICS) to an ERP system (ProIII) on the UNIX platform. Aided with business process definition, data file conversions, program.
• Acquired a wide variety of Sybase DBA skills as well as a wide variety of HP-UX skills as a result of many years of conversions, script writing, projects, and installations.