Rene Simons Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Fully Retired!

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Responsible for the support and promotion of a Enterprise Web Content Management Platform (OpenText TeamSite, Live Site Display Services, and Live Site Content Services)• Lead a team of Software Engineers and Developers who were responsible for supporting, maintaining, and providing custom solutions via TeamSite, LSDS, and LSCS• Managed the product backlog using CA Rally• Lead and facilitate Agile Ceremonies• Interact with customers to gather requirements and ensure customer satisfaction• Ensure that the product met the customers needs and facilitated research on new Web Content Management solutions on the market both open source and proprietary solutions• Responsible for growing the team with respect to their leadership skills and ensured that the team worked as a cohesive unit and communicated well with both internal/external team members and the customer

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Lead a team of 15 DevOps Toolchain Engineers and Developers supporting a Jenkins and Azure DevOps Server pipeline.• Responsible for maintaining two backlogs using CA Rally• Lead and facilitate Agile Ceremonies (Daily Standups, Iteration Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospectives)• Coach Agile practices and ensure that the User Stories and Tasks are properly defined and sized• Assist in removing roadblocks and keep the projects moving forward

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities:• Create project documentation such as project roadmaps, agile stories, funding reports.• Maintain clear, up-to-date project artifacts, and reporting.• Track and set delivery priorities to meet expectation documented in the project roadmap and budget plan.• Insure both technical and non-technical stakeholders/team members are fully engaged and understand what needs to be or is being done.• Understand how to deliver changes in a network infrastructure environment to know when something is going in the wrong direction and make corrections.• Develop and manage the project budget; be able to identify when and/or if additional funds will be required on a running forecast, why they are required, and create/submit funds requests.• Lead and mentor project teams in delivering infrastructure projects in an agile environment use key things such as planning, retrospectives, standups, backlog grooming secessions.• Set, observe, and re-evaluate project priorities frequently to ensure the project will be delivered as planned.• Have the network delivery and project background experience to identify project problems, pull people together to identify solutions, and set actions in place to bring the project back in line with goals.• Coordinate changes with team, affected business partners, and vendors.• Handle change calls to provide leadership representation, take action if things go wrong, and document the change activities.• Conduct escalations where needed to ensure the project(s) continue to deliver.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Assigned to the Infrastructure PMO as an Infrastructure Project Manager. Responsible for managing the installation of hardware in multiple remote data centers. Worked with Project and Enterprise Engineers on developing the Engineering Work Orders. Submitted and secured approvals for numerous change requests, developed project schedules and timelines, and managed the project budget using MS Project, Project Web Access, SharePoint, and HP Project Portfolio Manager. Worked with vendors on hardware/software quotes and submitted purchase requests. Submit requests for IP Address assignments, VIPs, and DNS record changes. • Implemented a $19,000,000 Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) solution that spanned 2 data centers and 4 reservation centers. The solution included 32+ Gateways and Routers, 6 Checkpoint Firewall Clusters, 406 T-1 circuits, 18 DS3 circuits, 4 HP C7000 Chassis, 64 BL460 gen8 Blades, 8 BL660 gen8 Blades, and 128 VMs. The project required managing several network, systems, security, SAN storage, and voice engineers ensuring all tasks were performed on schedule and performed in accordance with the Systems Engineering Work Order. Ensured that the Change Management processes and policies/guidelines were followed. Provided daily and weekly status reports to the project stakeholders and executive management.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked in a global environment managing teams in Bangalore, India, UK, Malaysia, and various locations throughout the US. Assigned to the Banking and Research / Risk Technology line-of-business as a project manager to manage several operations type infrastructure projects which included; SAN/NAS Storage expansion, data migration, implementing new Oracle 11g R2 / Red Hat Linux 5.5 database clusters, applica-tion and web servers, virtual machine instances, and decommissioning legacy systems. Developed a custom Program / Project Dashboard on MS SharePoint 2007 site to track the project health and status using SharePoint list and custom JavaScripts and JQuery.

London, England, Gb

• A member of the Project Delivery Application Sourcing (PDAS) PMO team. Managed multiple IT pro-jects for Shell Oil which included; decommissioning legacy applications, piloting and implementing a Ricoh @Remote™ solution, implementing a mailroom shipping solution, implementing a 15 million record FileNet imaging system, and migrating systems from Shell’s data center to 3rd party hosted sites. Worked through a stage-gated process aligned with the business strategy and the project delivery framework. • Collaborated with various Global Function Groups and vendors to implement networked devices in Shell’s data center. • Gathered user/project requirements and developed the Project Charter, Business Case, Benefits and Risk Analysis, Functional and Technical Requirements Document, Implementation Plan, Budget Projection, and Project Plan.

London, England, Gb

• Managed multiple projects and facilitated weekly project meetings between BP representatives and various vendors/service providers.• Performed as business analyst and project manager for requirements discovery, creation of initial schedules, budget and resource estimates for projects considered strategic to BP’s internal infrastructure.• Presented Earned Value project status reports to business owners using MS Project 2003, MS PowerPoint and various Excel and Word Templates in addition to entering project status in Planview.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Directed high-profile projects for the Corporate CIO. Projects included implementing an Enterprise IT Governance Center and a CRM solution. The IT Governance Center helped control IT costs by highlight-ing duplicate projects and projects that were not aligned with the company goals. The CRM solution al-lowed the sales staff to expand cross sales and acquire a better understanding of the customer needs, which improved customer retention.• Developed budget, resource estimates, and project schedules for both development efforts. The governance project was budgeted for approximately $256,000 and 1 programmer. The CRM project was budgeted for $7,000,000 and 2 programmers. Consistently kept project on schedule and within budget.• Collaborated with 11 business units to design custom workflows and data views.• Assisted developers in creating workflow processes and dashboards capable of displaying project and cus-tomer data in various formats. The dashboards enabled upper management, program managers, and project managers to make sound project/business decision based on the information presented. Saving the company several thousands of dollars by eliminating duplicate efforts and working on projects that were aligned with the company goals.

Houston, Texas, Us

• As a project manager, managed the implementation and development of global Application Service Provider (ASP).• Responsible for documenting network, application, and performance requirements then worked with system engineers to gain requirements approval by technology leaders and business owners.• Developed budget, resource estimates and project schedules to support the production environment, which included redundant HP servers, Cisco devices, Citrix server farms, multiple in-house applications, and Microsoft Back Office products.• Second line operations manager, responsible for the day-to-day ASP operations and the operations team, which consisted of 4 functional managers and 28 system engineers and technical analysts.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed 7 person team of highly skilled IT professionals working to analyze, research , develop, design and document new business solutions for clients nationwide. Traveled 60%. Deployment of solutions for real estate closing software, coordination of disaster recovery for failed servers and databases, project management, system migrations and upgrades. Performed employee evaluations, interviewing and hiring process for the team. Met with principals and upper management on a regularly scheduled basis to discuss current and future growth. Responsible for departmental budgeting.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Responsible for designing and deploying an enterprise messaging solution.• Worked with technology leaders in gathering requirements to properly size the infrastructure and MS Ex-change Server 4.0.• As the team lead, ordered hardware and software then traveled to various sites to build and integrate with the corporate messaging solution.• After the installation of the entire solution, managed the messaging support team which consisted of 2 MS Exchange Engineers and 3 - 2nd level technical analyst.