Program and Project Management Experience
- Program Management and Stakeholder Collaboration: developed programs, planned budgets and timelines and defined the project scope as it relates to the company’s goals and objectives with the resources available
- Contract Management: Managed technology contracts and development agreements, ensuring full compliance with business requirements and commercial terms and conditions
- Project Planning and Timeline Management: Developed comprehensive project plans outlining tasks, timelines, and dependencies. ed closely with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables
- Team Coordination and Documentation: Facilitated effective communication and collaboration among worldwide cross-functional teams, ensured alignment of project teams
- Risk Management: Work directly with multiple teams to identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies. Monitor and manage risks throughout the design, utilities, security, network, and the construction process and maintained the Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID) log
- Reporting and Documentation: Generated regular progress reports for executive stakeholders. Maintained accurate documentation of project activities, decisions, and changes
- Change Management: Worked to effectively orchestrate Changes to minimize risk to the outcomes of activities required to be accomplished for the project yet in concert with other operational needs outside of my projects
- Technical Management: Hands-OnExperience and Knowledgeable in most IT Technologies
- Team/Department Management: Resource Building, Recruiting, Hiring and Operational Management
- Contract Management: RFPs, SOWs, Selection of Vendor/Contractors, Contract Management/Compliance
- Financial Management: Budgeting for multi-million-dollar projects operations and analysis
- Data Centers and Buildings (New, Relocation, Expansion and Decommissioning)
Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures Program and Project Manager
Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures Project Manager and Program Manager
- Lead the full lifecycle of IT integration projects related to M&A, from initial assessment through post-integration handoff.
- Conduct detailed discovery and readiness assessments focused on infrastructure, systems, and application landscapes.
- Develop and execute comprehensive integration strategies for acquired entities.
- Align integration activities across internal teams, technical leads, and business stakeholders.
- Oversee and track planning, execution, and success metrics of the integration process.
- Ensure all integration activities comply with legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations.
- Facilitate knowledge transfer and support transition to steady-state support teams (Business-as-Usual).
- Partner with architects and technical teams to drive solution design, infrastructure planning, and system migrations.
- Use data analysis to support decision-making and ensure integration initiatives stay on schedule and within scope.
Network and Infrastructure Project Manager
- Plan, design, and implement network infrastructure projects.
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals
- Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and resource allocations
- Manage day-to-day project operations and coordinate with cross-functional teams
- Communicate project expectations clearly to stakeholders and team members
- Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies
- Ensure all project documentation is complete, current, and properly stored
- Conduct testing to ensure network systems meet performance and security standards
- Collaborate with vendors and suppliers for hardware, software, and services
- Prepare and present project status reports to leadership and stakeholders
Data Center and Infrastructure Project Manager
- Collaborated closely with project stakeholders, to understand their requirements, provide expert advice on effort estimates and overall project feasibility and secure appropriate resourcing from business and IT teams
- Provide timely project updates and visibility into any factors impacting scope, schedule, or cost to sponsors and stakeholders
- Create and maintain project artifacts including stakeholder presentations, project charters & plans, status reports, risk management reports, retrospectives, etc.
- Bring knowledge of both Waterfall and Agile Project Management methodologies, processes and tools, including scope management, schedule management, cost management, quality management, resource management, procurement, change management, risks management, issues management
- Managed office buildouts including the design and implementation of office network and infrastructure including circuit provisioning, hardware rack and stack / configuration, wired and wireless LAN installation and testing, conference room technology installation and testing (AV and schedulers), large meeting room AV installation and testing, Wi-Fi Deployment and coverage for the sites
- Worked with Royal Caribbean and Renaissance Cruise lines for 5 years deploying new data centers shipboard and rollout of satellite dishes and POS applications
- Experienced with data center operations and public cloud, including infrastructure, database, networking, telephony, voice, call centers and information security
Sr. IT Consultant, Sr. IT Instructor and NOC Deployment Manager
- Providing technical expertise in the design, planning, deployment and technical support for network operations centers (NOCs), trained over 4,000 network professionals, providing NOC and Active Directory training services for Fortune 1000 companies, military organizations and government agencies
- Instructing, Consulting and Project Management – design and deployment of Network Monitoring Management Systems 500 – 55,000 devices to be monitored, e.g., VISA, US Navy and Fortune 1000 companies
- Integrating NOCs into client data centers for government and commercial organizations
- Consulting with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and stakeholders to understand training needs in an expeditious environment
- Evaluating client and vendor existing training to identify opportunities to maximize the effectiveness of learning, through re-design
- Creating and updating internal processes, templates, and versions to minimize future content development time
- Acting as principle for development of storyboards and scripts, while converting them into appropriate interactive modalities and managing overall content enhancement within our LMS
- Migrated/Relocated 10,000 client employees for IBM, Royal Caribbean and ADT through the years in phased, coordinated moves, working with the Real Estate group, IT Workstreams and vendors (furniture, cable, etc.)
- Activities resulted in timely closing of leases and smooth transitions and no interruption to business
SKILLSET AND TOOLS USED
- Planview, Clarity, Microsoft Project Online, Microsoft Project, JIRA, ServiceNow
- Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, GoToMeeting
- Microsoft Office 365 and Desktop versions Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook
- OpenAI ChatGPT, Canva, Midjourney, MS CoPilot, TechSmith
- Progressive WhatsUp Gold, SystemTools Hyena, MS SQL, Oracle