A highly effective Technical Project Manager with over 15 years of IT experience as a project point-man and pioneering architect reflecting outstanding leadership qualifications coupled with strong IT and business expertise. Maintaining focus on achieving bottom-line results while planning and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs.  Process and detailed oriented Project Manager capable of managing many projects of all sizes.  Superior record of delivering simultaneous large-scale, mission-critical projects on time and under budget.

 

Project Manager Skills Highlights:

·              Actively track Project Charter, Project Plan, Project Scope, Resource Plan, Schedule, Communications, Budget Management, Cost Avoidance, Change Management, and Risk Register.

·              Proven capacity to communicate, document, and mediate opposing views to measurable resolution.

·              Successful in overcoming challenging project management and/or business environments to fully complete projects.

·              Manage resources for various cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize, and plan tasks across connected project initiatives, sourced documentation and functional requirements.

·              Effective time management across multiple projects.

·              Knowledge and ability to work within PMO framework or independently to apply project management concepts from PMBOK, Stage Gate, Waterfall, and Agile methodologies.

·              Manage business IT project expectations with appropriate communication and documentation.

·              Have worked within an IT and business unit to successfully deliver project management to the organization.

·              Experienced in executing multiple technology projects while directing all aspects of project lifecycle from conceptualization to implementation to operational support handoff.

·              Strong team building and staff development skills.

·              Comfortable with speaking and presenting to all levels of management.

·              Customer focused project manager dedicated to fully owning projects end to end and delivering to customer satisfaction.

·              Experience managing project teams of internal, contract, consultant, outsourced, offshore, local, and virtual team resources.

·              Effectively indentified and outlined project critical path for focused project completion.

·              Experience running projects end to end with product vendors, integrators, and consultants.

·              Extensive work with vendor management for procurement, consulting, contract labor, and project delivery.

·              Successfully managed the full project lifecycle utilizing local, global, and virtual project teams with local and global customers.

 

RECORDS OF EMPLOYMENT

 

Noble Energy, Houston, Texas2014 - Present

Sr. Project Manager (Contract)

·               Senior project delivery member of ECRM Leadership Team.

·               Rescued failing IBM FileNet document management project including custom application development, solution implementation, taxonomy development and deployment, enterprise change management, and global rollout following SDLC.

·               Manage 3 contractors (1 Solutions Architect and 2 Business Analysts).

·               Manage a portfolio of 20 IT network and AV projects with project delivery teams comprised of consultants, contractors, vendors, and internal resources.

·               Conducted stakeholder meetings to determine project scope and ensure deliverables were in line with business expectations and company standards.

·               Managed project budgets ranging from $10,000 to $10,000,000.

·               Worked with Project Support Office in a consulting capacity to create and improve project delivery processes.

·               Created PM work flow with IT Finance team to streamline vendor procurement, invoicing, and payment.

·               Conducted several vendor RFP’s, review, credit check, selection, and award.

·               Identified project risks with mitigation options and escalated to IT leadership and business stakeholders.

·               Mentored others in PMI based and stage gate project management best practices.

·               Review, negotiate, and validate vendor contracts, credit, expenditures/procurement, and proposals.

·               Worked with SME to value engineer a cost savings of 5% and 10% on a $3,000,000 and $10,000,000 project while increasing customer satisfaction and implementing improved technology.

Direct Energy, Houston, Texas2013 – 2014

Project Manager (Contract)

·               Manage projects with onshore/offshore, internal/outsourced, and virtual project delivery teams comprised of multiple IT divisions, external vendors, and cross functional business units.

·               Partner with Direct Energy staff to effectively manage multiple projects.

·               Identified risks and created mitigation plans with focus on preventing project delays and improving system performance.

·               Engaged stakeholders and executive management to ensure projects remained aligned with strategic business goals.

·               Provide structured project management in a challenging and diverse environment.

·               Manage IT infrastructure projects including Storage, SAN / NAS (NetApp, Hitachi, and EMC), Virtualization (VMWare), Mobility (Active Sync, BlackBerry), Data Center, SQL, Oracle, and business application environment build outs. 

 

Wood Group, Houston, Texas2012 – 2013

Project Manager

·               Manage IT infrastructure, data center, security, and business application projects from initiating to closing ranging from $10k to $2+ million with durations of 1 to 12 months including teams from 2 to 25 team members (sponsor, stakeholders, architects, SMEs, implementation specialists, legal department, corporate communications and procurement).

·               Managed global project teams across 5 continents

·               Managed data center storage migration project (NetApp and EMC), mobile device management solution deployment (AirWatch), data center transformation, business acquisition full IT integrations, VMWare, Cisco network implementation/upgrades, Citrix application migrations, business office build outs, AV implementation and integrations, Cisco VoIP implementation/upgrades, blade server implementation, storage upgrades, security, business application deployment, business application environment migration, and desktop migration (MS Windows 7 / Office 2010).

·               Participate in ITIL focused organization working to realign IT processes to better meet business needs.

·               Work with business management to define project requirements that matched business goals.

·               Effectively manage multiple projects with varying ranges of duration, budget, complexity, resources and scope.

·               Participate in the implementation of new PMO and education of the business on the values, processes, and execution plan of the new project management framework.

·               Advise customers of various technical solutions for business needs and worked with business to define appropriate plan forward and project scope in line with business goals, strategy, compliance, and business requirements.

·               Maintain project change management and risk management registers working with the business within project management framework.

·               Track project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical path requirements.

·               Conducted Lessons Learned meetings at major project stage gates and project completion.

·               Act as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

·               Manage project scope and stakeholder expectations throughout project life cycle.

·               Manage internal resources, vendors, contractors, and suppliers throughout project life cycle.

 

Carbo Ceramics, Inc., Houston, Texas2011 – 2012

Project Manager / Senior Systems Engineer

·               Actively managed several large projects including storage, VMWare, Exchange 2010, IT process, IT documentation, security audit and remediation, SOX controls and compliance.

·               Managed several smaller projects related to the legal hold process, legal and HR investigations (email, shared drive, backups, local machine), McAfee antivirus upgrade, Bitlocker rollout, Windows Patching processes, Barracuda Networks load balancing and email filtering, Avamar backup grid implantation / upgrades, and documenting / implementing best practices within the Server, VMWare, and NetApp storage environment.

·               Project responsibilities included: planning, budgeting, cost controlling, scheduling, communications, risk management, architecture, resource management (internal, vendor, and consultant), execution, deliverables, documentation, and close out.

·               Supported the corporate server, storage, and database infrastructure, data center, and remote office IT infrastructure.

·               Worked with cross functional IT Operations team to review the document the change management processes and procedures and identify strengths and weaknesses.

·               Acted in the capacity of liaison to IT management to “road map” the direction of the IT department.

·               Mentored and assigned work packages to Junior Systems Administrators. 

·               Managed vendor relationships and engaged them when needed for project delivery.

·               Worked with various business unit leaders on technical needs, defining technical requirements from business needs, reporting status and results, and remediating issues. 

 

Service Corporation International, Houston, Texas 2010 – 2011

Infrastructure Project Team Lead / Senior Systems Engineer / Primary Storage Architect

·               Infrastructure Project Team Lead, Senior Systems Engineer, Primary Storage Architect on the server, storage, and database team that supported the corporate server, storage, and database infrastructure, data center, and remote office IT infrastructure.

·               Lead infrastructure, security, data center, network, application deployment, and SOX controls projects as Infrastructure Project Team Lead including NetApp and IBM storage implementation/upgrade/decommissioning, VMWare upgrade/migration, MS Active Directory security/OU restructuring/upgrade/migration, blade and rack mount server implementation/upgrade/replacement, data center transformation, data center network upgrade, SQL Server database clustering, SharePoint / K2 Blackpearl implementation, business and web application implementations, Kerberos implementation, server and storage security, shared drive security/access permissions, SOX controls/compliance, and security audit and remediation.

·               Conducted IT infrastructure security incident response, email investigations, and legal holds with corporate Legal, IT Security, and Corporate Security teams.

·               Worked with IT management to identify project and operational infrastructure risk.

·               Managed and supervised the project workload of onshore, offshore, and outsourced team members.

·               Acted as technical and project liaison for offshore team members.

·               Mentored Junior Systems Administrators. 

·               Managed vendor relationships and engaged them when needed for project delivery and architecture. 

·               Worked with various business units on technical needs, IT project needs, IT direction, and related change management issues. 

·               Architected technology solutions to meet business needs.

 

Global Industries, Houston, Texas 2008 – 2010

Technical Project Leader / Server and Storage Architect

·               Technical Project Team Lead, Server and Storage Architect on a Server/Storage/Database team that supported the corporate server, storage, and database infrastructure, data center, remote offices, and multiple vessels across the globe.

·               Managed infrastructure, security, application, and compliance projects including NetApp storage implementation, VMWare implementation and upgrades, data center build out and migration, MS Active Directory security restructuring, group policy security and configuration deployment, blade server infrastructure implementation, shared drive security, SOX audit remediation, SOX controls creation, ePolicy Orchestrator upgrade, MS Exchange migration, and business and web application deployment.

·               Responsible for technical projects - planning, architecture, communications, executing, budgeting, scheduling, risk management, documentation, and close out.    

 

KBC Advanced Technologies Inc. 2005 – 2007

Sr. Systems Administrator / Technical Project Leader

·               Sr. Systems Administrator and Technical Project Leader for the operations group in support of all aspects of the computing environment for KBC worldwide.

·               Actively managed client and vendor relationships.

·               Managed IT infrastructure projects including data center consolidation, NAS storage implementation, virtualized remote site server implementation, Cisco VOIP upgrade, backup system implementation, desktop-laptop / OS - MS Office rollouts, IT Infrastructure for physical office build outs, MS domain controller migration, Blackberry server upgrades, Firewall and VPN implementation and upgrades, email filtering, and MS Exchange migration.

 

ConocoPhillips 2001 – 2005

Sr. Deskside Support

·                                                                   Supported windows clients, desktop applications, pc/laptop hardware, local and network printers.

·                                                                   Involved in supporting and managing the Legal Department’s Computer Infrastructure.

·                                                                   Appointed member of the North American Incident Support Team.

 

 

Other Employment:

MI Systems Inc. (2001 - 2004) - System / Network Administrator and Desktop Support

Contracting Solutions Inc. (2000) - IT Infrastructure Consultant

Tek Systems at Schlumberger (2000) - Information Technology Consultant

VeriCenter, Inc. / Formerly Penta, Inc. (1999-2000) – IT Technical Education Sales Manager

NewData Strategies / NDS (1997-1999) - IT Technical Education Sales Consultant

 

PM TECHNOLOGY & METHODOLOGY EXPERIENCE

Project Management: PMI Methodology/PMBOK, Visio, MS Project, Clarity, Oracle Primavera P6 and Primavera Portfolio Management, Stage Gates, ITIL, Waterfall, Scrum, Agile, SDLC

Prototyping: Visio, Excel

Knowledge Management: SharePoint, FileNet, Remedy, Altiris, Wiki

 

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATES, & CERTIFICATION

Texas A&M University – College Station, Texas

Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance

Bachelor of Science, Agribusiness

 

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute - Member (Active)

ITIL v3 Foundation Certification

Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Risk Management

 

CompTIA Security+ ce (Current)

VCP - VMWare Certified Professional (Expired)

NCDA – NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (Expired)

MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Expired)

CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate (Expired)

CCDA – Cisco Certified Design Associate (Expired)

CompTIA A+ (Current)

CompTIA Network+ (Current)