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Cincinnati Ohio

Virtual Global Project Manager: Assignment – HP @ Procter & Gamble100% project accountability for managing large and small global virtual teams from project conception through project closure. Duties include project team formation, customer requirement gathering, capturing team effort estimates, developing WBS/project plan, calculating project financials, and creating formal legal agreements. Lead interactions with Legal, Financial, and Delivery teams along with customer, senior management and 3rd party vendors to obtain project acceptance and signoff. Once approved, organized and lead ongoing internal/external team meetings, and created multi-level status reports. Responsible for all escalations and roadblock resolutions. - Managed redesign and multiple upgrades of global intranet website development project to automate end user PC ordering strategies in 10+ languages. Platform utilized SQL Server 2008 for the database, ASP.NET 4.0 running under IIS 7.5. Application redesigned from VB to C# and JavaScript (jQuery) for client side automation. Team ranged from 10 to 40 people with a core group of 10. - Project Manager of the transition of a large global inventory tracking package involving over 200 servers and 3rd party contract and services. - Responsible for multimillion dollar Windows 64 bit platform project from pilot to new global standard. Started with small group of design engineers leading to rollout of a new stable corporate platform. Project responsible for significant End User day to day time savings on global scale.- Project Manager of eFax Portal Upgrade project to help consolidate and centralize multiple customer facing services. Project involved a thorough analysis of current system and recommending future redesign of network and platform. Managed multiple delivery teams on multiple continents.- Concurrently managed an average of 4-6 projects over course of multiyear contract.

Melville, Ny

Served as the main client facing Vendor Management System (VMS) liaison to internal and external organizations for deployments. Responsible for providing internal organizational end to end project management to ensure all milestones are met in an agreed upon timeframe.- Successfully managed multiple levels of complexity deployments and conversions that involved new interfaces with companies such as PPG, Hoffman La Roach and Applied Materials.- Developed, documented and implemented repeatable internal processes and procedures to facilitate project efficiencies saving company time and money. - Integrated VMS with Back office departments such as Billing, Invoicing, Time Capture and Legal.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Project Manager - Information Technology Infrastructure TeamResponsible for Virtual Teams and coordinating capital expenditure purchase requests and expense tracking for multiple vendors (both services and equipment): Hewlett Packard (HP), Computer Science Corporation (CSC), IBM, Sprint, and others. - Rapidly responded to IT infrastructure moves for over 25 sites (mix of very large and small sales offices, warehouses and plants with 1 to 250 people) in 14 months with an $1 million budget.- Selected to provide leadership direction for the first company owned venture in an international facility in Monterrey Mexico.- Managed enterprise wide rollouts and upgrades for electronic communications protocols for over 4,000 employees: Active Directory, Exchange and Instant Messenger (LMIS).- Ensured highest quality customer service with no interruptions by replacing outside hosting services with internal capabilities fueled by third party software saving expense charges of $20,000 monthly.- Led enterprise-wide mainframe migration rollout (after several months of planning) to zOS operating system from a previously unsupported operating system in 12 hours with no errors.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Assignment - 5/3 Bank eBusiness / IT - B2B Treasury ManagementReplaced third party vendor’s B2B internet software solution with internal capabilities by serving as a project lead for several simultaneous Treasury Management projects contributing to one overall program. Project responsibilities ranged from domestic and international wire transfers, billing, entitlements, setup of new customers and common functionality. Also, utilized ACH (Account Clearing House), and Information Reporting. Environment supported Websphere 5.1, ClearCase, J2EE, Java Beans, AIX Unix Servers, and DB2.- Removed project roadblocks by clearly identifying challenges and recommending alternatives to upper management along with best options.- Managed global information technology through outsourced resources in India as well as on-site teams of Business Analysts and Development Staff.- Enhanced strategic functionality of Internet business capabilities by upgrading ISP services after thoroughly identifying gaps and projected benefits.- Served as the key resource to define project scope by gathering business and user requirements.

Mason, Oh

Assignment - Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield – Midwest eBusiness / ITProject Lead (first point of contact) for multiple high profile projects that interfaced with business partners, developers from Anthem and Trizetto, system testers, business systems analysts, DBA’s, infrastructure and deployment personnel for both eBuisiness / Internet and client server applications. Environments utilized Websphere, Visual C++, Sybase, Oracle, Unix, Encina, Rational Tool Suite including ClearCase, ClearQuest and Rational Robot.- Successfully met mission critical timelines by reassigning underutilized resources to more urgent projects. - Utilized ABT Project Workbench (NIKU) to create project plans and ABT Team Workbench to track project progress along with issue tracking and reporting through Rational’s ClearQuest.- Ensured continual project status updates for both stakeholders and virtual teams through via Lotus Notes and Lotus Notes Databases.- Used Critical Path and Risk Assessments to focus staff on existing work plans and day-to-day priorities.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Information Systems / Web Technology / E-Commerce GroupProject leader for a multi-million dollar home shopping e-Commerce pilot project. Application includes Web Storefront, Order Fulfillment, and Point of Sale. Data feeds interface mainframe and client server environments. Technology utilizes driver handheld pc’s as well as Javelin portable pc’s scanners for store picking. Project involved extensive coordination with multiple vendors. Application utilized Websphere, Java, J2EE, Db2 Database on AIX Unix based systems. - Led key elements of research and design efforts for the enterprise-wide rollout across multiple divisions.- Reviewed and evaluated competitors’ websites and presented recommendations for future development to achieve new strategic advantages. - Coordinated and facilitated functional, load and acceptance testing resulting in extensive system improvements.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

eSupply Chain / SourcingServed as a member of the GEAE / Honeywell Integration Team. Defined strategic processes and recommended IT tools to streamline Direct Sourcing initiatives for merging Honeywell’s 11,000 and GEAE’s 600 suppliers.- Acted as the solely accountable leader for the development and support of multiple Internet applications that utilize J2EE, Java HTML and Oracle technologies along with hiring, training and supervising team members.- Replaced manual database load processes with automated weekly loads eliminating support costs by 95%.- Achieved GEAE Six Sigma certification and used statistical tools and disciplined methodologies to improve processes by reducing variation and defects.

Cincinna

Trucking Information System and Geographical Data Mapping SystemResponsible for overall IT Project Management utilizing estimation of tasks, quality management, contingency planning, management of customer expectations, issues tracking and meeting facilitation. Created Project Charters, Work Breakdown Structures, Change Requests and Closeout Reports.- Served as Project Manager of a multi-million dollar trucking information system by managing 25 employees and successfully completing this project on time saving the company several million dollars.- Directed the development and maintenance of multiple Internet / Web based products that allowed the company to protect and expand market share.- Acted as Project Manager for team that utilized Cognos to create a Web based OLAP drill down product that saved over $2 million.- Served as Project Manager of a Geographical Data Mapping System that penetrated a new market area for the company involving 15 people in England and 4 U.S. states.- Managed over 20 projects for Y2K that were successfully delivered on time and under budget.- Simultaneously managed multiple projects utilizing Microsoft Project and ABT's Project Workbench that enhanced reports to senior management, stakeholders, sponsors and project support office.- Developed and maintained complex state government fuel tax system on multiple platforms,

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Systems Analyst / Project Manager (1996 – 1997) Effectively managed installation of an innovative $400,000 Order Management System used by the entire company at three different facilities.- Maintained the system while training and transitioning software development from a third-party vendor to an internal senior development team in Austin, Texas.- Actively involved in all aspects of software development cycle.Analyst: Harte-Hanks (Through Assignment with Lehmkuhl & Associates) (1994 – 1996) Created a unique Order Management System for Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing. Innovative system included quotations, sales orders and production entry.- Gathered specs from client, designed and implemented software solutions, database design and testing.- Involved extensive client interaction.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

- Created, executed and verified testing scenarios for integration, acceptance and regression testing.- Utilized COBOL, IMS DB and JCL for analysis/testing of online/batch telecommunications billing software including, Cellware, MPS, Coplant and CBTJ.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Psychology - Emphasis In Human Factors