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Texas, United States

Frisco, Texas, United States

Project Manager/Coordinator - Bausch March 2021 – PresentProject Manager/Co on the Bausch Health Azure migration project. Lead Application migration coordinator. Responsibilities include application migration planning and execution of application data gathering, blueprint creation, planning tasks, milestones, coordinating IT and Field support across N..

Frisco, Texas, United States

• Project Manager - FLNA AIM and TLM Projects Aug 2019 – March 2021Project Manager for PepsiCo Frito Lay North America IT projects; led planning and Led IT functions
• Led and executed 2 $1MM+ infrastructure projects for Frito Lay Manufacturing sites. This includes financial forecasting, planning tasks and milestones, coordinating leadership, financial, IT and Field support across N..
• Leading IT functions including server decommissions, server security scans and remediation for 36 sites, which includes over 140 servers. This ensured servers were compliant with strict PepsiCo security guidelines.

Frisco, Texas

• Project Coordinator for PepsiCo Frito Lay North America IT projects; led IT functions; Server decommissioning, Security assessment and server remediation tracking; provided project reporting
• Leading FLNA Server refresh decommissioning process and tracking for AIM and TLM projects, included over 200 servers; partnered with PM’s, Infrastructure teams and field TA’s to gather timelines, server details.
• Leading FLNA infrastructure, database and configuration security scans and remediation; reviewing server details, submitting and tracking security scans and remediation requests; working with project, infrastructure.
• Responsible for running, distributing several AIM weekly reports; FLNA AIM Interdependency, FLNA AIM Project Status Report and FLNA AIM Actions and Activities; These reports provide project information to project.
• Held several KT sessions for teammates and Project managers to discuss server decommissioning, server/db scans, remediation and ServiceNow processes.

Plano, Texas

• Project Manager | Digital SpecialistDigital governance lead and project mgr; Headed planning sessions, resources, project timelines, process workflow, documentation and implementation overview for website and mobile.
• Coordination lead of the overall implementation of dozens of website and mobile app promotions for several global billion dollar brands such as Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay, Gatorade and Mountain Dew
• Led IT support and digital asset review for website and mobile app promotions to ensure PepsiCo business and IT guidelines are followed and go-live deadlines are met.
• Handled assessments for new and existing website and mobile app developers to ensure vendors meet US and PepsiCo guidelines and to certify them as PepsiCo preferred providers.
• Led 3rd party assessment and initial risk assessment partnering with Information Security Team to ensure all IT risks are mitigated and governance standards are followed.

Plano, Texas

• Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Coordinator for the Frito Lay North America Sector for over 30 sap resources and 70 engineering/support resources; Led overall project mgmt duties, led planning meetings, execution.
• As DR project lead, planned, led and executed the completion of 7 successful Frito Lay NA andPepsiCo support center disaster recovery exercises.
• Authored Business Continuity project plans, recovery timelines, resources schedules and processtemplates to be used across other N. America Foods (Frito-Lay) sector sites, gaining dozens of manhours and over $1000’s of.
• Led several GSM/CMS projects for data governance managing technical updates, created automatedupdate process achieving 100’s of hours and $10,000’s of savings across multiple teams annually.
• Trained and onboarded several new team members and cross functional teams helping create astrong DR team and support staff.

Plano, Texas

• Project Management and Disaster Recovery coordinator of SAP and related application impactedprojects; coordinating resources, securing approvals, schedule outages, lead planning meetings, runbridge lines and execute.
• Created processes and communication documentation; created SAP shutdown and resumption activities as a repeatable process and implemented across other functional teams.
• Co-authored outage management and communication process
• Led communication SAP impacted activities to End users and Stakeholders.
• Executed day to day SAP and cross functional application requests for prod and non-prod environment.
• Change Management Lead; Secured outage and maintenance approvals, ensure outages fall within our guardrails, schedule and lead regression test efforts.

Plano, Texas

• Disaster recovery lead, insured production stability, resolution of incidents, taking Oncall and daily incident resolution responsibilities.
• Coordinated monthly Middleware for SAP outages and annual SAP N. America disaster recovery exercises for 30 SAP functional teams and dozens of infrastructure and engineering teams.
• Led all Control-M batch scheduling creation for 30+ SAP Functional teams.
• Investigated and identified root cause of large amounts of incident tickets and found resolution.
• Developed resolution to large amounts tickets, significantly decreasing incidents by 1000’s per month.

Bradenton, Fl And Plano, TX

• UNIX/HP/AIX administrator, Infrastructure and batch scheduling support
• Served as technical team lead for over 20 team members, creating, organizing and leading training sessions for Plano, TX and Winston-Salem, NC teams over a 12 month period.
• As team lead, held interviews and onboarding sessions for potential and incoming employees.
• Led transition effort for Tropicana data center by acting as mentor and trainer for several transitioning employees.
• Owned batch scheduling responsibilities for several billion dollar PepsiCo Brands, such as Frito-Lay, Gatorade and Tropicana.

Salinas, California Area And Dallas, Texas

Mainframe support, tape operations and documentation programmer