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

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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™.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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..

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.