Senior IT Project Manager on a key Federal Department of Transportation grant and co-funded research initiative: Advanced Transportation Congestion Management Technology Deployment (ATCMTD). This program focuses on integrated intelligent vehicle systems, critical support and mass transit traffic signal priority systems design and testing, data analytics gathering, real time reporting, and other key safety and congestion management proof-of-concept projects, including pedestrian awareness, safety and foot-traffic analysis leveraging key Traffic Control Management analysis tools such as ArcGIS.Tasked with managing the entire program suite budgeted for $12.0 million from the City and $12.0 million from the Federal Grant, encompassing over 17 distinctly different projects covering a mass of complex yet intertwined dependencies towards a singular goal simultaneously, which involves direct vendor management and coordination of 4 different vendors operating in multiple states and 4 different countries.Fully engaged in project and program management which includes business analyst / requirements writing for vendors, management of vendor timelines including AGILE story boards, new-technologies bench and live vehicle testing, RFP, SOW, and invoice management, and more. Additional efforts included conversion of the project to AGILE format using JIRA and Confluence by design, making me the active Scrum Master for the Program as well. This program has independent but intertwined projects within it that include new application development, existing application manipulation and modification, as well as hardware functionality modification, deployment and subsequent testing for all aspects.Full spectrum and high detailed asset management of specialized equipment projected to be distributed across over 1200 intersections and 1000 combined fleet vehicles within the city, as well as dedicated office and network equipment to balance city assets vs federal owned assets.

Senior Project Manager on several Gaming Division projects directing Amazon Web Services development and rollouts across the state, managing key artifacts, coordinating multiple vendor development deliverables simultaneously, and maintaining key communications lines with multiple divisions of the State of Colorado.Lead Program Manager engagement on Tax Division optimization initiative to modernize the development and deployment teams across the Tax division, several other State teams both Tax and Legislative divisions, as well as multiple vendors towards an AGILE methodology. This effort working with Senior Management, Scrum, Business Analyst, Legislative, and Vendor Management teams encompasses a complete overhaul of methodologies, systems, and execution on all Tax related initiatives handled by the department requiring IT interaction, from critical legislative directive to bug report break / fix issues, while ensuring all Personally identifiable information (PII) information remains secure and encrypted to State requirements.Responsible for all project artifact management and review including RACI based roles and responsibilities outlines, RAID log creation and management, and regular project status reporting delivered and reviewed by senior management within multiple State divisions including the Governor’s Office of Information Technologies. Regular and frequent engagement with up to Senior Executive staff on project and program situations on each individual initiative.

In this Senior Management role it is my responsibility to engage and oversee the outreach, engagement and management of clients for the Intellectual Property and Legal Forensic services provided by AlphaPixel. As part of that outreach and management I ensure all potential and current clients are kept up to date on the service offerings of AlphaPixel including: Intellectual Property Litigation Support, Trade Secrets Investigation, Copyright Infringement, Vehicle/Black Box Telemetry Analysis, Image And Video Analysis Forensics, Source Code Expertise & Reverse Engineering, Software Patent Analysis, Forensic 3D Scene Reconstruction, and Movement/Time Mapping And Animation.In addition to these duties based on previous expertise in web site design and editing (HTML, CSS, JAVA, etc.) I engage in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) efforts for AlphaPixel when opportunity exists for me to assist.

Senior Project Manager on the TD Ameritrade to Charles Schwab merger and integration program portfolio with an array of complex dependencies and timing based on systems, assets and personnel. Key executive stakeholder focus was on projects related to the absorption and conversion of TDA agent technologies and data into Schwab application through a Data Migration subset project utilizing Databricks, with specific attentions paid to Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Identity and Access Management (IAM) security measures, as well as Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) guidelines and requirements.With oversight of three teams of developers and testers, 7 teams of TD Ameritrade and Schwab associated personnel within the merger Program, as well as five external vendor relationships and contracts directly tied to my project, I engage all levels within Charles Schwab daily from Executive Vice President to individual developer and all points in between daily across all four time zones. Sub-projects included precision timing of inbound and outbound asset management based on intake of TD Ameritrade equipment and cross-referencing new deployment equipment from Charles Schwab as one of the most complex aspects of the project dependencies as it also required very specific IAM and multi-factor authentication and encryption imaging being required of the Technical Services team in coordination with Human Resources in extraordinarily tight timing windows.Regular engagement of critical path artifacts, meetings and repositories I work within the AGILE designed project to ensure development, delivery, testing, legal, communications and marketing, personnel, and even voice actors are in lock step with the critical path delivery timeline to ensure the merger goes off with as few problems as possible not just for Charles Schwab, but for the TD Ameritrade client base that will be integrated into Schwab shortly after the successful completion of my project.

Senior Project Manager for the Enroll and Activate team of the Self Service and Products division, focused on digital innovation, enhancements and marketing to consumers and businesses for an array of products leveraging traditional Agile development, and testing development opportunities leveraging state of the art productivity and experience tools such as MuleSoft. Establishing and maintaining cadence and ceremonies around releases in sprint formats, managing backlog grooming, epic and project preparation, canary releases, and other key daily operations, as well as engaging cross-team dependencies, and triage bugs to ensure smoothly daily operation of the direct team as well as any crossover between teams.Engaging a varied audience from Senior VP to Developers daily with targeted communications to guarantee all parties, stakeholders, and observers have the key information they need and want about all going on within the team’s program portfolio, leveraging JIRA, Trello, GitHub, Confluence, and other programs to provide key datapoints, fact checking and analysis where required.

Senior Program Manager overseeing the complex dependencies of the Global Expansion portfolio of PCM Trials as it launches in its first set European counties of out a target of 200 nations globally by the end of 2024. Design and documentation of a program rollout playbook, project management deliverables and methodologies linked to this program’s development, including rollout of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for global initiative were critical to the success of the program in it's early stages. Regular systems and compliance meetings with international law firms and specialized IT consultants, as well as governmental agencies to ensure guidelines around key Personally identifiable information (PII) regulations were maintained, including UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018 (as the United Kingdom was the focus of the first international office). Additional engagements included working with similar agencies, firms, and consultants in France, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Italy ramping up Phase 2 of expansion.Direct hands-on Project Manager and SCRUM Master of keystone Ops, Legal, and IS projects within the portfolio to ensure proper oversight and handling accordingly from inception to live steady state status. Engagements were Agile based, with some Waterfall and Stage-Gate methodologies as well, where necessary.Regular and frequent engagement with the entire Executive staff program portfolio updates, status decks, metrics and reports (utilizing Power BI, SQL, JIRA), and communication with vendors and clients.Oversight of all asset management and documentation for each new home office as well as for contracted home-trials nurses assigned specific equipment associated with their duties.

Relationship based Project Manager on several engagements of commercial, fleet services, manufacturing and military clients directly in the aviation and aerospace industry creating Cloud based (Azure and AWS) and localized applications tailored to each client respectively.AGILE based Scrum Master on all development projects associated with assigned clients as well as internal developmental engagements on demand, including routine aspects like sprint planning and grooming, daily morning SCRUM/stand-ups, technical debt analysis, etc.Engaged with teams spanning the globe including developers; testers; and other personnel in the European; Middle Eastern; Asian; and Indian subcontinental theaters.Total management of project including SOW review; financial backing planning and acquisition; EAC monitoring and reporting; resource management; and personnel reviews based on project engagements with reporting generated from SQL, JIRA, Power BI and others as needed.Auditing company methodologies and programs as an additional assignment looking at repeatability of tasks; efficiency of tools and systems and assisting in developing standards to ensure maintenance of ISO 27001 certifications.Deployment Project Manager of Salesforce and ServiceNow as company’s CRM and ITSM respectively, replacing older systems, then working with key management to groom both to fit all requirements and design needs.

External client facing as well as internal client-based Project and Program Management engagements run simultaneously within the commercial, fleet, government regulatory agencies (FAA) and military arenas of aviation (US Air Force) and aerospace industry, focused on navigational software development, but expanding into Financial, Operations, and internal security as well. AGILE based project management was the cornerstone of most of all projects engaged, with SDLC focus on all software development and refinement, but expectation of utilization of program and project methodologies expanded to PMI based Waterfall, SAFe (Scaled AGILE) and hybrid variations as well. Working within the Boeing and Jeppesen’s Financial Division Operations project portfolio was part of a multi-company, multi-faceted initiative that included SOW review, redlining, and management until signing to ensure transactional compliance within PCI standards, US and global banking laws accordingly. Included in the internal Operations division changes was Project Managing the rollout of NetSuite ERP into the company in 2015, then ServiceNow CRM as part of a larger Product Management, IAM, Sales and Marketing CRM suite consolidation effort.Engaged as Product Manager for Boeing’s “Digital Black Bag” (SAAS version) product in deployment to key select markets upon completion of the respective customized software development across three years of my tenure, which concluded with a massive series of 4 distinct Data Migration engagements leveraging Databricks into the newly designed systems and offerings for aviators.Certifications obtained while in this role include:Project & Program Management CertificationAGILE & SAFe (Scaled Agile) Scrum Master CertificationLean Process Excellence Certification

Focused on the daily management of the entire project life cycle from project definition through implementation in a Salesforce environment, as well as establishment of an effective communication plan with project team and key stakeholders.Critical path utilization AGILE for SDLC Project methodologies as well as RUP where necessary simultaneous rather than rely exclusively on only one method was a major component to the role because of unique cross-department requirements.Focused on Salesforce and Cloud based projects; system Integration projects; and business analysis.Other managerial activities and duties in this Delivery Manager role included: Management of global development; QA and UAT teams spanning primarily Europe; Latin America; and India and other daily duties.Hours of Project Engagement / Relevant Experience in this Role: approximately 468

Starting with the young Venture Capital backed company with only 15 stateside employees and being one of two Senior level Service Delivery Managers within the Global Service Delivery division, this was a highly diversified perpetually client facing Delivery Management program which requires active engagement focused on relationship management, Project Management and Portfolio Management as the key functional day-to-day components for a successful engagement within a Remote Managed Services company.Additionally, acting as both ongoing Product Manager for Datavail’s B2B SAAS solution for my portfolio of clients (initially for the entire client roster as the company grew), as well as client champion internally, the position balanced multiple roles at the project, business control and management level was a daily expectation.Additional operational and relationship management components included: Project and Program Management (internal and external) utilizing both AGILE and Waterfall methodologies on projects ranging from Data Migrations (20+ over 9 years for clients) through to ERP, CRM, WMS, CMS, etc. rollouts (20+ ServiceNow, 20+ Oracle Suite, 15+ Salesforce, 10+ JDE, 5+ ADP and Kronos, etc.) and more where appropriate; Crisis and Escalation Management, Disaster Management; Contract Initiation; Review; and Negotiations; Accounts Receivable ownership for billing and invoicing senior support; Status Reporting and Mitigation planning; and others.Hours of Project Engagement / Relevant Experience in this Role: approximately 8,424Certifications Earned:ITIL v3 and v4 - coursework completed through Koenig Solutions

When first envisioned, the idea behind Intellectual Icebergs was to get very intelligent people to make interesting conversation about technically complex concepts. As the production of the show progressed, the scope broadened to cover topics of social complexity, and to help these guests relate their knowledge in a more accessible manner. Jim Vance's friendly, congenial manner of asking questions was a great addition to the show, both by acting as an excellent foil for the conversations, and by providing Intellectual Icebergs with a better handle on the kind of information that people are interested in on any particular topic.

Engaged as a Director of Services this role was with a small yet highly productive IT solutions development firm responsibilities included personnel contract management, Statement of Work administration, management of local and remote personnel and projects (including account reviews), project plan development, monthly budgeting of time and resources, review of technical assessment for development needs, functional requirements formulation, creative team design processing, and risk assessment. In addition to these, responsibility for reviewing and analysis of government regulations and requirements pertaining to the industries in which clients were required to operate under, and how the impact proposed projects fell to this role. Further responsibilities included being actively engaged in helping the firm sign new clients and boosting revenue. This broad-spectrum functionality was specifically focused on HDTV / cable television, digital / VOIP telephony and broadband industry clients.Major rollout initiative engaged as direct PM of a ServiceNow deployment to a client in the absence of their in-house PM, leveraging the client’s personnel as a dotted line team.

Engaged as a contract consultant in the role of Senior Project Manager on the specific Denver Post “YourHub” community based social web site the role's responsibility focused project leadership from initial scoping through to final delivery.Project scope included the complete redesign after The Denver Post’s acquisition of the site, development and then deployment into a live status. The eventual evolution of the site became the Denver Post’s original online web presence with both full daily reporting in digital format, as well as expanded versions of articles and editorials, and exclusive content.

Serving as an Client Project Manager, functionally a hybrid Project Manager and Business Analyst for up to 28 global clients which the technical team managed and maintained. Expectations in the PM role to clients included data center migrations, rollout of software suites, and more.Later assignment as dedicated Project Manager on a top 10 automotive manufacturer’s data center, critically responsible for the operations and processing of their manufacturing plants in-country, as well as their entire financial division processing for vehicle loans and accounts. Engagement of this account included a massive multi-location data center migration and consolidation, network enhancement, cybersecurity protocol deployment, and centralized ERP deployment as well as coordinating a WMS deployment (ADP) and integration. Responsibility for complete asset management control and documentation as well as inventory for hot-swap or emergency needs for both the Colorado network infrastructure center and the client’s remote backup network centers in two other states.Critical responsibility for review and analysis of governmental regulations and requirements pertaining to the industries in which our clients are required to operate under and how they impact proposed projects. Additionally, responsible for the team's technical assessment of feasibility, requirements, technical alternatives to the request, and cost analysis as well as engaging project budgetary and resource/time management this assignment managed the clients on a day-to-day basis for all functional requests and information processing. Human Resource management of the team’s performance reviews, new hire interviews, and other direct staff management functions.Certifications Earned:George Washington University; Raleigh, NCProject Management CertificationProgram Management CertificationSubject Matter Expert Certification: IT Security & IT Security AuditingAwards: Service Excellence Award Winner – November 2000

As the Project Lead on several internal projects the role's responsibility focused for technical assessment and team assembly to project closure responsible for periodic updates, milestone management, and other standardized project manager oriented duties. The assignment allowed opportunity to work with executive staff members on updating project progress, budgetary analysis, and resource needs. Client work entailed dealing with government entities including the Department of Defense and Department of Energy.

Cibr2000 Division specifically

Specifically assigned to Jones Intercable during their development, testing and deployment of the early renditions of cable based internet provider services in direct competition to Comcast (prior to Comcast purchasing Jones Intercable).

Initially Random Access out of Denver, CO working specifically on the US West Corporate Sales team until Entex purchased the company and moved locations to Aurora, CO before closing the Colorado branch.Also worked with the Training Access team on specific program instruction opportunities.

ROCK group responsible for convincing disgruntled customers MCI was still the best option for their long distance service (retention of clients attempting to quit).