Tim Jeffreys, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Senior Agile IT Project Manager for WestRock, the second largest American paper and packaging company with $15B in annual revenue and 50,000 employees in thirty countries. Managing company-wide effort to replace unsupported Windows 7 devices in hundreds of locations and upgrading thousands of devices to latest Windows Operating System. Responsible for projects’ initiation, execution, and closing. Managed projects using Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Project.►Led project kickoffs, wrote project charters, documented scope & requirements, created detailed plans, schedules & work breakdown structures. ►Used agile methodology. ►Analyzed risks and developed mitigation plans. ►Effectively communicated budget, schedule, and quality status to leadership & stakeholders.►Planned and managed capital budgets.►Managed engagement with vendor for hardware purchases, consulting, and technical staff augmentation.

Greater Atlanta Area

Matrix Resource IT Project Management consultant to WestRock, the second largest American paper and packaging company with $15B in annual revenue and 50,000 employees in thirty countries. Managed project integrating acquired company, Victory Packaging, into WestRock’s enterprise productivity systems. Led company-wide effort to replace unsupported Windows 7 devices in hundreds of locations. Responsible for projects’ initiation, execution, and closing. Managed projects using Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Project.►Led project kickoffs, wrote project charters, documented scope & requirements, created detailed plans, schedules & work breakdown structures. ►Used agile methodology. ►Analyzed risks and developed mitigation plans. ►Effectively communicated budget, schedule, and quality status to leadership & stakeholders.►Planned and managed capital budgets.►Managed engagement with vendor for hardware purchases, consulting, and technical staff augmentation.★Representative Projects★►Managed migration of acquired company with 1648 employees in 52 locations in North America to WestRock’s enterprise platform: replacing approximately 1100 Windows 7 machines with new hardware and migrating users to WestRock’s standard Win10 OS image and O365 Email system. Conducted testing on over fifty applications (desktop & mobile) to ensure compatibility.►Member of global ransomware response team leading remediation efforts that included recovery progress tracking, malware scans, and facilitating restores from backups and machine rebuilds on 6000-plus servers.

Greater Atlanta Area

Matrix Resource IT Project Management consultant to S&P 500 company, WestRock, the 2nd largest American paper and packaging company with $15B in annual revenue. Managed projects integrating dozens of acquired plant locations onto WestRock’s enterprise systems for SharePoint and Computer-Aided Design. Led data center AWS Cloud migration & consolidation projects, and company-wide Windows 10 upgrade. Responsible for projects’ initiation, execution, and closing.►Used tools/processes best suited to each project, implementing waterfall or agile methodologies depending on project specifics & client objectives. ►Led project kickoffs, wrote project charters, documented scope & requirements, created detailed plans, schedules & work breakdown structures. ►Analyzed risks and developed mitigation plans. ►Effectively communicated budget, schedule, and quality status to leadership & stakeholders.★Representative Projects★►Managed project to migrate acquisition’s 300-plus On-Premises SharePoint sites to WestRock’s cloud-based Office 365 SharePoint environment. ►Managed multiple data center migrations to AWS cloud-based and centralized on-premises locations. ►Managed project to implement Windows as a service (WaaS), upgrading 20K+ unsupported machines to current Windows 10 build.►Managed projects to integrate two competitor acquisitions on WestRock’s centralized Enterprise Computer-Aided Design system (ArtiosCAD), allowing easy collaboration between offices.

Greater Atlanta Area

Successfully completed and implemented over 40 projects directing cross-functional teams of up to 30+ domestic and international developers, programmers, analysts, DBAs, and other IT and Business professionals. Managed teams across many challenging, multi-faceted technical, business, sales, delivery, financial & manufacturing projects that included major system enhancements, major feature upgrades, & new product development.Used tools/processes best suited to each project, implementing waterfall or agile methodologies depending on project specifics & client objectives. Managed all phases of software development lifecycles (SDLC):►Led project kickoffs, wrote project charters, documented scope & requirements, created detailed plans, schedules & work breakdown structures. ►Analyzed risks and developed mitigation plans. ►Effectively communicated budget, schedule, and quality status to leadership & stakeholders.★Representative Projects★★System Integrations/Migrations: ►Corporate-wide manufacturing IT system standardization following company acquisition to allow multiple printing facilities to route orders and products using disparate systems and hardware.►Major upgrades of eCommerce/Web-based applications used by financial institutions including Wells Fargo & BB&T, with updates to WebSphere & WebMethods and enhancement of Java infrastructure. ►Implementation of SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) Single Sign On (SSO) to give Bank of America (BAC) customers access to Harland Clarke's check ordering platform from the BAC web environment.★Enterprise Implementations: ►Customization & installation of Aptean's Pivotal CRM product for Sales & Marketing to increase demand for Harland Clarke solutions and build strong client relationships.►Implementation of Hewlett Packard's Service Manager (ITIL) product to support enterprise-wide Request Management for technical help desk support & IT Change Management.

Greater Atlanta Area

Recruited by MCI to manage and enhance the financial applications I had created as a consultant. Oversaw creation of the Financial Application Development department which grew to include supervision of three managers, 25 staff, and a $4M capital budget. Developed and supported the applications and data warehouses that closed over $1 billion in revenue monthly. I not only managed resource and budgetary aspects of the projects, but played an active role in requirements gathering, design, and platform and technology selection. Key Achievements: ★Improved performance and productivity of applications as data volumes doubled annually. ★Managed the development and operation of multiple critical financial applications, all of which were found valid and accurate by external audit: ► Close Application – Used by Revenue Accounting department to close monthly books and report financial results. PowerBuilder, Sybase, C++, mainframe SAS, Perl, and Unix scripts. ► Traffic Applications – Used to report and forecast minutes usage for financial reporting. ► Close Assistant – Replacement for Close and Traffic Applications. Written in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET with Oracle 9i database. ► Financial Data Mart – Data warehouse of Billing and Traffic System data for Ad Hoc reports, analysis, & research. ► Local Reporting System – Used to report full lifecycle of local service minutes and circuits. Developed in Visual Basic 6.0. ► Branch Performance Reporting System – Used by commissions to compensate sales reps. ► Multiple data warehouses for reporting detailed circuit information specific to unique billing platforms. Oracle, PL SQL, Brio. ★Oversaw migration from Sybase to Oracle and from PowerBuilder to Visual Studio .NET. ★Maintained team morale and loyalty while meeting project deadlines and service level commitments during periods of dynamic challenges: Merger with WorldCom, audit, and restatement leading to successful emergence from bankruptcy in record time.

Greater Atlanta Area

Key Achievements: ★MCI Web Development Team Technical Lead, 1996 ► Led MCI's adoption of internal web-based business applications. Defined program objectives and demonstrated potential applications to end-users and senior management; evaluated Web technologies and tools; helped configure Netscape Web Server on Silicon Graphics UNIX box; designed and coded security manager for MCI’s web site. ► Developed Web applications for MCI, including Java applets, CGI programs using Perl, and database-enabled Web pages. ► Designed and managed a commissioned-sales bonus application using Web-based data input forms (input to CGI Perl programs, checked against a Sybase database w/ error and notification messages via e-mail, and creation of data file for processing). ★MCI Revenue Reporting Project Manager, 1994 - 1995 Developed PowerBuilder/Sybase application to allow the MCI financial group to close the monthly books. Designed and coded accountant-friendly spreadsheet interface combining PowerBuilder, Sybase, Formula One spreadsheet objects, and Microsoft Visual C++. Year-long project included: ► Analysis/design of database model ► Design/coding of object-oriented features and application framework ► Development of user data entry and reports interface and writing Sybase SQL stored procedures ★Following implementation was promoted to Project Manager; responsible for Phase II development project featuring multiple enhancements to the PowerBuilder/Sybase financial close system. Managed developers, scheduled projects and tasks, supervised assignments. Projects included: ► Streamlining the interface between mainframe and client/server systems (incorporating processes performed in a FoxPro system into the PowerBuilder system) ► Converting database server from NT to UNIX ► Performing all analysis and design ► Designing test methodologies and supervising testing

Greater Atlanta Area

Key Achievements: ★Systems analysis and software developer for credit scoring and portfolio management applications.★Established and led committee to research off-loading mainframe development to PC/Workstations. Evaluated tools for editing, compiling, testing, version control, CICS and MVS JCL emulation. Successfully presented hardware/software solution to executive management, which was implemented. ★Developed PowerBuilder/SQL front-end of PROBE credit portfolio management system sold to banks and utilities. ★Designed/coded mainframe-to-PC interface system for delivery of credit bureau information to remote PCs using COBOL II, CICS, and LUTYPE 6.2 (APPC) protocol on SNA network.

Greater Atlanta Area

Key Achievements: ★Supervised Billing Information System Testing Execution Team. ► Designed and executed system test, diagnosed problems, and supervised resolution. ► Coordinated efforts with other teams developing multi-application customer billing system. ► Administered Change Management for all code modifications. ★Technical Lead, Labor Distribution System Development Team. ► Led all technical aspects of Batch and CICS COBOL II system during initial development and two releases: design, documentation, production JCL, code reviews, system and unit testing. ► Analyzed code and JCL streams to improve run-time, maintenance and security of system.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Key Achievements: Developed on-line system to track sales tax charges based on customer, location, and service. Established system requirements with users, designed the system, wrote technical specs, and coded on-line CICS COBOL application programs. Developed EDS' first physical inventory system (required after merger with General Motors). Established inventory procedures and system requirements with users, designed the system, wrote technical specs, and coded on-line applications in CICS COBOL, coded batch reporting programs in COBOL. Converted Assembler-based order-entry system to CICS COBOL for Arrow Electronics, the second-largest electronics distributor in U.S. Added capabilities such as automatic warehouse selection and developed a user-friendly menu-driven interface for Arrow sales staff.

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems, General

Computer Information Systems

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History