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Boca Raton, Fl

Develop overall project status strategy and various associated high-level project plans for revenue generating opportunities developed within the Emerging Markets team. Deliver projects on the Emerging Markets portfolio on-time, within budget, and ensure strategic and business requirements are met. Track key project milestones and recommend adjustments to cross-functional team leads. Perform as an internal consultant, advocate, mentor, and change agent. Communicate project strategy, direction and changes to IT leadership, Business leadership, and Operational leadership teams. Interface with Third Party Partners to understand project dependencies, key milestones and success metrics. Understand and respect the development process and timelines for third party partners, as well as build processes on how to integrate intra-company milestones. Possess extensive knowledge and expertise in project management, methodologies and tools. Resourceful on ways to mitigate risk to project schedules and bringing in schedule timelines. Coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and ensures that the work products and processes of the project teams meet the defined standards. Constantly reinforce the roles of cross-matrixed teams in delivering to their milestones and clearly communicate what the overall program will and will not deliver.

Plantation, Florida, United States

Responsible for the enterprise-wide implementation, migration, and consolidation of multiple SharePoint portal environments into one unified portal; Managed integration of enterprise applications and tools, such as Oracle, Kronos, and Success Factors into SharePoint environment; Developed migration strategy from SharePoint on-premise to O365; Managed development requests for new applications (desktop and mobile); Lead focus groups, brown bags/lunch-and-learns, and other community-based initiatives for portal adoption, learning, and outreach; Created enterprise-wide SharePoint governance; Streamlined business processes by developing custom Nintex forms and workflows; Facilitated instructor-led, desk side, and online training with portal content managers. Builds and maintains strong relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Owns stakeholder management; responsible for setting customer expectations and leading efforts to sustain customer satisfaction. Oversees and assumes accountability for all aspects of software development including user requirements, development and testing timelines. Defines project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. Estimates resources and participants needed to achieve project goals. Assigns responsibilities, monitors and summarizes progress of project. Identifies and resolves issues and conflicts within the project team. Develops and delivers progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations for team and for upper management. Develops best practices and tools for project execution and management. Leads efforts to standardize practices and consolidate tracking methods across all IT projects.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Project Manager responsible for providing support to the U.S. Department of State (DoS) Software Operations Division (SOD). Provide project management support and oversight through planning, evaluation, direction, tracking, analyzing, scheduling, and reporting for multiple projects within a cross-organizational program with DoS. Responsible for a team of 14 team members consisting of SharePoint Engineers and Architects, SQL DBAs, SharePoint Designers, testers, and Business Analysts. Thoroughly reviews IT-related data and information to ensure that tasks are completed accurately and precisely. Provide project management support for the implementation of SharePoint 2013 by project planning, budgeting, tracking and reporting.Responsible for an enterprise-wide implementation of SharePoint 2013 to include migration of existing SharePoint 2010 / SQL 2008 R2 Content Databases to the new SharePoint 2013 environment. Conduct requirement gathering sessions with stakeholders across the Department; chair weekly risk review sessions and closely monitor project progress; currently developing SharePoint 2013 Governance, Best Practices, and Style Guide for end-users, power users, and administrators.

Office Of The Comptroller Of The Currency (Occ)

• Provide support to deliver Citrix’s XenMobile MDM (XDM) solution in a dedicated instance within an isolated network within a virtual private cloud and enable on-site staff to monitor, operate, and maintain infrastructure components and issues, enroll, and manage devices and wireless technologies seamlessly for OCC• Provide management and support for XDM component to provide OCC device management controls including configuration, security, provisioning, and support capabilities to manage and control mobile devices• Provide mobile application management and Enterprise App Store capability, using XenMobile App Controller (XAC); also provides app provisioning for both enterprise and public apps as well as the front end UI, and Worx Store to present all apps to end-users• Manages the configuration and management of all components within the OCC virtual private cloud instance (NetScaler, XDM, and XAC)• Proactively communicates project progress and status to OCC stakeholders, and provide guidance to the program team to verify effective cost, schedule, and technical performance; and risk management of all tasks• Assesses scope, identify requirements, define specific activities to be performed, identify resources required, develop a WBS with LOE and detailed schedule, define dependencies and risks, develop cost estimates, identify specific artifacts, and define clear quality measurements. Lessons learned and best practices are incorporated into planning• Collect metrics to support EVM on cost, schedule, quality, and productivity using Deltek Costpoint• Plan, execute, control, track, and report on programmatic activities to include: define and prioritize activities; estimate resources and durations; track milestone events and report issues associated with meeting schedules with sufficient time to remedy any problems; generate detailed project schedules; manage cost, schedule, and performance for all contracted activities

Defense Information Systems Agency (Disa)

Serves as Project Manager responsible for the implementation of a Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Store (MAS)• Manages the procurement and integration of an MDM-MAS capability that includes providing the technical support to install, and train DISA System Administrators and provide technical support• Manages the MDM capability to ensure that it provides the mobile device and user level controls necessary to enforce security policies within and for the use of mobile devices• Support over-the-air (OTA) electronic software distribution of MDM agents, applications, remote data-wipe capabilities, remote device configuration management, and asset/property management capabilities• Provide management support for a Mobile Application Store (MAS) that provides an online digital electronic software distribution system which works in coordination with the MDM• MDM-MAS solution includes data-at-rest and data encryption (VPN), as well as secure containerized applications• Serve as Project Manager responsible for the implementation of an enterprise-wide code checking solution of DISA Program Executive Office – Mission Assurance (PEO-MA)o Static code checking for mobile apps: assess code during code development to find defects as early as possible in the software lifecycleo Use dynamic run-time checking continuously throughout the development of the application for debugging and analyzing run-time behavioro Byte-code/binary code checking: provides a sandboxed environment that enables the Government to conduct security conformance checking and functional testing on the application to determine if any deviant behavior is occurring outside of the prescribed architecture and functional description of the application

Small Business Administration (Sba)

• Developed business case and strategy for SBA mobility implementation (MDM, tablets and smartphones)• Developed policies and procedures governing the use of tablet and smartphone mobile devices• Manages a unified MDM architecture that secures, monitors, manages, and supports accredited mobile devices across the enterprise• Drafted and coordinated mobility transition plan (BlackBerry devices to iOS and Android devices)• Provided consulting services in the areas of solution development and business requirements for Program Offices n relation to their business processes and needs• Managed all software products throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); these tasks included, but were not limited to, requirements gathering and analysis, documentation, design, testing, implementation, quality monitoring, and configuration management• Analyzed and made recommendations to improve software processes• Frequently met with Office of the Chief Information Office (CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and other subject matter experts (SMEs) to effectively manage projects and communicate with customers to ensure the successful deployment of software application and infrastructure• Provided project management support for implementation of Common Application Services Environment (CASE) infrastructure for enterprise and external use• Developed DBA enterprise-wide System Development Methodology (SDM) Guide and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)• Provided project management support of enterprise-wide Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) implementation• Developed, designed, and implemented Microsoft Project 2010 Server for SBA OCIO• Managed SharePoint development efforts (contractor and Federal staff) of various OCIO-internal applications• Developed custom InfoPath-based forms and SharePoint Visual Studio Workflows for iPad requests

U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md)

Provide project management support and oversight through planning, evaluation, direction, tracking, analyzing, scheduling, and reporting for multiple projects within a cross-organizational program with over $5 million in life cycle costs under the Census Bureau’s IT Project Management Office. Thoroughly reviews IT-related data and information to ensure that tasks are completed accurately and precisely. Works with clients and management providing technical advice and validation of programming requirements. Resolves fairly complex and non-routine issues related to information systems, exceeding customer expectations. Provide project management support for the Decennial SharePoint 2010 Implementation in a portfolio environment in support of project planning, budgeting, tracking, and reporting to include: 1) using Microsoft Project to track actual resource hours and costs; 2) perform resource leveling; 3) track actual ODCs; 4) produce Earned Value Management reports; and 5) provide guidance on SharePoint development and design.

Small Business Administration (Sba)

Development of SharePoint risk assessments, business and process flow diagrams. Prepared functional specifications to create solutions based on customer requirements while analyzing the impact on the existing environment. Provide consulting services in the areas of solution development and business requirements for organizations in relation to their business processes and needs. Definition of architecture principals, styles and standards for systems across the enterprise. Provided management to virtual and local teams. Apply SDLC life cycle management and Quality Assurance (QA) to the development and design of software. Analyze system needs in terms of bandwidth, physical storage space, and processing power needed to access data. Worked with senior management to initiate, plan, design, develop, and implement the Small Business Administration’s SharePoint 2010. This is a multi-tiered, high demand, high availability system that will be used Bureau-wide. Oversaw development efforts using subordinate staff and a team of contractors to implement the use of an Intranet portal, My Sites, document management, and collaboration sites. Using SharePoint Designer 2010, created custom master pages and navigation. Possess strong problem solving skills. Responsible for troubleshooting application level issues of all difficulties using a variety of resources as well as making decisions and recommendations based on my findings. Mentored other less experienced web developers. Managed all software products throughout the Software Development Lifecycle. These tasks included, but were not limited to, requirements gathering and analysis, documentation, design, testing, implementation, quality monitoring and configuration management. Have analyzed and made recommendations to improve software processes. Frequently met with IT staff and subject matter experts to effectively manage projects and communicate with customers to ensure successful deployment of software applications.