Summary


iSeries AS/400 Project MANAGER
Enthusiastic, responsive professional with extensive experience in leading global IT Infrastructure projects in manufacturing, food products, apparel and distribution organizations. Excels at organizing, implementing hardware/software/disaster recovery, monitoring and management of data center environments. Takes initiative to find solutions that save resources ; adept at integrating technology that enhances business processes. Highly effective in working with diverse temperaments and team building by instilling loyalty and trust. Consistently demonstrates a positive attitude ; and commitment toward meeting deliverables and project deadlines.


Achievements

iSeries AS/400 Manufacturing Plant Server Consolidation Project manager and technical lead that consolidated 33 AS/400s to 2 mirrored systems . Engineered solution for centralized iSeries AS/400 security , disaster recovery , operations support , problem and change management and communications infrastructure .
AS/400 Data Center Move Project Manager and Technical Lead Responsible for AS/400 component of San Francisco to Westlake Data Center move . Moved development system from San Francisco Data Center to Westlake Texas Data Center .
SAP APD Infrastructure and Basis Project Project manager that lead 7 person infrastructure team over 10 month project to migrate Australia , New Zealand and Japan businesses from older proprietary systems HP3000 to SAP running on Windows and SQL Server platforms on single global instance ..
Windows Server Replacement Project Project Manager that lead 10 person , $1.7m project to issue RFP , select vendor developed and deployed new hardware standards and transitioned new servers to production over 9 months .
Business Availability Center PM that lead internal and external 7 person team that implemented HP/Mercury BAC Tools , application performance monitoring software . Determined internal support structure , selected initial applications to be monitored , installed the tool , trained the administrators , developed a process for implementing and document how future projects would integrate the toolset over 6 months .
Windows Based Document Archive Solution- PM of internal and external 10 person team that implemented Document Direct ; an Windows based report archiving solution . Guided stake holders through a process of determining report retention requirements . Inventoried and archived existing IBM Mainframe reports . Retained reports were ingested into the new product , administrators and users were trained and product was turned over to production in 6 months .

UNIX HW and OS Upgrade - 3 US Distribution Centers Project manager that lead a project team to develop and implement repeatable process to upgrade HP-UX OS and hardware for 3 $1 billion distribution Centers . Analysis was done to determine HW , OS and Database requirements for upgrade . Upgrades were performed during weekend change windows for each of LS and CO s distribution centers . Work was completed on time and under budget with no unscheduled outages .


Employment

1994 -  2009

2002 -  2009
Project Manager

Global Infrastructure Project Management - supported the delivery of infrastructure project investments by providing skilled project management leadership.
Lead project teams over 10 people, in excess of $2 million and up to 1 year in length.
Lead PMO process improvement by simplifying required Project Management Methodology deliverables
Provided support to Senior Management during Annual Operating Planning

Provided project management, Project support and mentoring for functional PM s and all of IT

1994 -  2002
AS/400 Engineering Support

Primary engineering support for AS/400 systems for 33 manufacturing locations, catalog operations and transportation facility.
managed project to Cluster 32 AS/400 s at remote Mfg. locations into 3 AS/400 s at Westlake Data Center.
Trained, supported and directed daily operations support for AS/400 systems.
Installed and implemented MIMIX mirroring software on 2 production systems
Developed, implemented and tested AS/400 disaster recover drills 2 a year.
Developed, rolled out and supported Client Access for Windows to 32 remote plants.
Managed projects on several CISC to RISC AS/400 conversions and move catalog operations from AS/400 in Knoxville to Westlake

1993 -  1994
AS/400 Technical Support

Managed and coordinated all internal system and technical activity.
Installed and Supported iSeries, AS/400 Clients.

Developed course material and taught classes.
Provided connectivity solutions for PC s running under Windows, OS/2 and Apple Macintosh.
Provided technical support for on-sight and remote MAPICS demos.

1991 -  1993
Systems Engineer

Provided technical support for IBM Dallas Fort Worth territory.
Developed AS/400 to PC connectivity solutions. Wrote proposals for new system installations.
Provided liaison between AS/400 software vendors and clients. Trained users in AS/400 and PC applications. Installed and supported OS/2 applications

Education

Skills

Software : Office, Project Server, Remedy, DB2/400, MAPICS, SAP, OS/2 Hardware : iSeries AS400 Windows/Intel, S/36, Professional Development Fundamentals of Unix HP HP UNIX System Administration and Networking IBM COMMON conferences LS and CO Leadership, Diversity and Ethics
2 Christopher C. Robinson, PMP 2