Summary


PROJECT MANAGER
Results-oriented IT professional who excels at managing projects, collaborating with project teams, interfacing with clients and deploying technology to build successful solutions for clients.
Motivated achiever with 10 years of significant, progressive experience in information technology, focusing on Web-based and client/server-based applications. custom development projects and application re-hosting to remote server farms and legacy application migration into ERP based solutions.
Experienced project manager who has successfully led project teams of 10+ people from requirements-gathering through to implementation and support.
Dedicated, self-motivated achiever who is committed to success and adept at juggling multiple tasks in a high pressure environment.
Competent technical individual with over 14 years of broad based experience, from systems analyst and configuration management to quality assurance.
Solid communicator with exceptional team building skills.
Strong problem-solver who can design solutions from business process requirements through to a completed solution.
AREAS OF


Employment

February, 2009 -  2009

Provided SAP knowledge and experience in support of developing Business Transition Plans. Strategic planning use to describe, from a business process perspective, how the NAVSUP enterprise will migrate from the current technology or data or process/people environment to the environment envisioned when Navy ERP release 1.1 is in production status.

April, 2008 -  2009

PM for Finance BPO to GENPACT project, March 2008 to present. Deployed SAP variant updates to existing Delphi Business sites in EMEA as required by Delphi Business to provide the interfaces to GENPACT for Financial BPO.
PM for OCM project for Delphi NA. Added the SCM module to the existing Delphi SAP R3 infrastructure to allow all NA Production facilities to use the same catalogs.

July, 2006 -  March, 2008

Effectively Managed Projects as described below :

August, 2007 -  Present
Deployment Team Leader

Reengineered Business Processes to increase deployment metrics from 44% completed in July 2007 to 80% in December 2007 in order to complete and close out the CAFIS contract and progress to the O and M period. Approximately doubled the completed deployments in a 5 month period. It took 12 months to reach the 44% complete milestone.
Managed and developed an Asset Management tool and implemented reports using MSACCESS to provide metrics reporting to customer and senior management.

November, 2006 -  Present
Enterprise Configuration Manager

Established Configuration Management system for 3 major projects held by CSC Arabia, Ltd All of the projects were for the Ministry of Interior, National Information Center of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The project names are listed below : Civil Automated Fingerprint Identification System CAFIS
Re-engineering Project
Travelers Biometric Identification System TBIS
Established initial Configuration Management plans and processes IAW IEEE Standard 828 1990, ISO 9001, CMMI and CSC Catalyst Framework. Performed process audits, authored findings and provided recommendations for improvement and ways to meet all required processes.
Performed audits on Configuration Management process in place documenting any shortcomings. Performed corrective actions to align CM process with current standards and best practices.
Identified and implemented business process improvements for all projects. CVS was used as the code repository.

July, 2006 -  November, 2006
Senior Systems Analyst

Documented requirements, stakeholder input, analysis and initial design for the E-Gate subsystem. A automated entry system for border crossing into and out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using Biometrics Iris, fingerprints and facial identity to capture individual identity and perform verification of the individual crossing.
As a member of a team, identified technical requirements, assisted in the initial design and acceptance of alternate technology solutions.
Used Unified Modeling Language 2.0, CASE tools and CSC Catalyst methodologies to design and execute the project.
Developed MSACCESS tools to use through system requirements gathering, testing and for requirements traceability.

May, 2006 -  June, 2006
Program Manager

Promoted to Program Manager for Mechanicsburg Operations encompassing 4 contracts when incumbent resigned.
Performed double duty acting as Program Manager and Team Lead for the RRAM project.
Transferred to CSC Arabia, Ltd when the Mechanicsburg Operations Office was scheduled to be closed and the RRAM contract was not going to be renewed.

May, 2001 -  June, 2006
Senior Business Analyst

Provided 5 potential leads for new work to my Senior Program Manager. This information was obtained by attending meetings with US Government Senior Executive Service members and NAVSUP leadership.
Functioned as Project Manager for the following projects : Added Company 2 and 3 functionality as unique companies to the Lawson ERP structure with their own set of business rules and processes. Managed the deliverables of modified Micro Focus COBOL code, libraries, screen changes and testing of the final product.
Managed the data cleansing, data validation and data loading of new Company 2 and 3 inventories into Lawson ERP. Reconciliation was performed with the customer providing the raw data to be loaded after the load process was complete. Increased total assets housed under Lawson ERP from $1.5M to $3.0B in assets in all companies.
Application re-hosting of Lawson ERP was preformed from a local US Navy server facility to an EDS server farm located in Oklahoma. Added CITRIX as the secure log-on to Lawson ERP. Added Lawson Portal, a web based method as the primary means of accessing and using the system.
Member of ERP integration team for LAWSON ERP product versions 7.x and 8.x. Specifically the Supply Chain Suite and LAWSON portal. Member of team that provided the system architecture and design to integrate legacy US Navy Supply System IT environments with the LAWSON ERP product.
Trusted advisor of Senior NAVAIR leadership. Provided Customer Relationship Management support for all NAVAIR engagements. Participates as an active member of the NAVY Total Asset Visibility process and is sought out by Senior NAVSUP TAV leadership. Member of the US NAVY Total Asset Visibility Steering Committee.
Senior Functional Analyst for the first and true Supply Chain Management system being used by the United States Navy. Expert for LAWSON Supply Chain Suite Application version s 7.2.3 to 8.0.1.3 and Environment 7.3.3 RRAM Program is currently in process being absorbed by the US Navy ERP project converting to SAP.

Provided data mapping to the US Navy ERP team, RRAM is scheduled to be 1 of the first legacy applications to be migrated to US NAVY ERP SAP solution. Performed data mapping to Oracle 8i and 9i tables used by Lawson ERP to support adding additional customers requiring new business rules to the existing Lawson forms.

Provided ad-hoc management reports to senior leadership of NAVSUP, NAVSEA, NAVAIR and NAVICP. Developed ad-hoc and other special reporting using SQL queries against Oracle version 8.i and then 9i relational databases for in-house use. Developed or programmed Access databases in support of the RRAM project.

June, 1999 -  May, 2001
Audit Manager

Project Manager for 2 separate Automatic Voice Response AVR system upgrades. Automated Voice Response system used onsite supported a 100 person payment processing operation with call center for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Upgrades allowed authorized individuals to make payments using credit cards or ACH transactions from their bank accounts in addition to obtain general information about their Child Support accounts.
Project Manager for all Business Process improvements and 5 major software changes to the Payment Processing Imaging system used to process checks, capture and store images of checks and documents. Dealt with vendors and internal programmers on system life cycle development, deliverables, testing and integration of the product.
Project Manager to develop a standard hardware/software package used at 7 similar sites in the line of business. Gathered requirements, obtained all stakeholders requirements and developed changes to the existing software products to standardize their capabilities and increase functionality throughout the line of business.
Co-Author of Change Management and Risk Management sections of the Corporate System and Network Operations Manual used by all Imaged based operations in the line-of-business.
Met or exceeded all operating goals during a full start-up of an image based payment processing operation. Developed life cycle testing criteria for all software, systems and sub-components, performed the testing. Integrated and tested 5 sub component modules.

March, 1975 -  February, 1998
Chief Petty Officer

Member of Management Operations Center during a 2 year shipyard period. MOC is the equivalent of a current Project Management Office. Processed, scheduled, notified shipyard departments when work was authorized to begin and closed out over 4500 line items of scheduled work on budget and on schedule without any major accident or injury due to work scheduling.
Performed as Project Manager for 3 Special Equipment Installation or Removals and equipment verification of performance when loading special equipment prior to a scheduled long-term deployment. The equipment was scheduled for delivery, installed, performance was tested and validated. Equipment maintenance period for the deployment started. Equipment was removed upon completion of the deployment and configuration returned to normal operations.

While attached to NROTC Unit CORNELL University acted as a full university teaching assistant for 2 university-wide open classes. Delivered sections of courses, prepared and graded exams and assisted students with labs and office hours.

Project Management Institute, certified Project Management Professional PMP

Project Management Professional, PMP certified
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CLEARANCE
SECRET dated 3 December 2001

1976 -  1998

Education

Training

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