BRIAN ALLEN BLISH

12559 Texas Army Trail

Telephone: (713) 890- 2724 Email: BrianBlish@outlook.com

 

Amoco – Chevron - American Exploration -  Halliburton -  Forum Energy Technology – IBM – Deloitte Touche - Toyota

PMBOK -  Prince2 -  Microsoft EPM -  UML – CPDEP -  Agile -  Scrum - Waterfall

Proven leader with over 30 years of Information Technology experience.   Software developer and entrepreneur who has worked at all levels of IT.    I’ve worked hard to keep up with the latest technologies and procedures to make sure all project that I work on exceed expectation.   I take pride in my work and believe that success is doing whatever it takes to succeed.

 

Career Highlights

Over nine years’ experience implementation and running of Project Management Offices.  This includes all of the process and procedures that are required to perform a full-gated methodology.   All Contextual, Conceptual and Detail requirements from Business to Detail Design.    Hybrid modeling techniques used to allow for single models to contain Process/Function Flow, Data Flow, State and Infrastructure information. Creation of all Processes, Templates, Training and Implementation material.   Two of the Project Management offices were created from scratch.   Two were Project Management Office implementations that had not matured.  Two of the project management offices are still in use today and still utilize the SDLC and artifacts that were originally delivered.    Also consulted to Sysco and Halliburton PMOs.     

Owner of a cloud based solutions company and project manager for cloud based solutions.    As an owner of SocialTap I worked with organization to outline there Cloud strategy and implement a cloud based Project Management methodology.  This methodology allowed for the analysis of cloud based requests and determine what solution belong in the cloud and which do not.   CMLC  Cloud Migration Life Cycle

Work Experience

Currently serving as Project Manager for a SAAS implementation of Fusion.   Previously was PM of Documentum Upgrade and a Hyperion II project.   Project manager duties include working with the Business and Technology owners to outline the deliverables.    Also work with the Project Management Office to ensure that all required Artifacts are created and documented.    Ensure that the deliverables are accurate, documented, tested and validated by the Business Owner.  

Founder of Social-Tap a mobile media development company.     Social-Tap specialized in software development and cloud strategy consulting.   For the software development we primarily specialized in utilities to make using a mobile phone safer.    This lead to the creation of ISSONROAD.   Consulting clients included HBO and Fox News.  Cloud based strategy were discussed as well as high level 3 year roadmaps.      Later started DataCenterZero.   A company who specializes in Microsoft Azure and  Amazon Web Services.   Also worked with items such as Office 365, Mindomo, SkyDrive, Google Drive, SugarSync and Purecloud.

Served as Governance Project Manager for SAP upgrade. After the project completed successfully I was moved over to manage the MDM Cloud Solution and MDM Security of the Sysco to US Foods merger. While working on these projects I was also assigned to work with the PMO to assist in the delivery of a standard way to handle both Risks and Issues at a PMO level.   

Duties:

·   (SAP)Managed the governance of the day to day activities of 3 project managers,

·   Worked with the PMs to schedule work and review budget numbers.  

(Merger)Worked with 20 vendors and 9 project managers to determine what had been committed too and where we stood with those commitments.

·   Created a financial projects report.   

·   Work with the PMO to assist in the delivery of a standard way to handle both Risks and Issues at a PMO level.   

·   Work with to create Financial worksheet for MDM

·   Created Security Requirement and reviewed with Sysco Security Group.   

Project Manager for Halliburton’s Sperry Project Management Solution.   This included implementing an enterprise level project server environment with all processes and templates required to allow for Halliburton to manager over 250 projects at one time.   This is the 3^rd largest Project Server implementation in North America with feeds to SAP for financials.    Took over the project when it had exceeded both its budget and timeline.  Implemented 90 day plan and was successful in implementing the solution within 60 days.  Worked to implement Office 365 and moved Landmark software development tools to a cloud based solution.

Duties:

·   Worked closely with the executive team to outline what they were looking for in this tool and implemented a path back to on track.    3 months later the system was implemented.

·   Worked individually with business leaders to ensure the clarity of the project deliverables and the measure for success.

·   Created standard project plan templates that allowed for plans by project type.

·   Implemented large scale custom coding for financials.

·   Integration SAP Financials with Project Server.

·   Created full project lifecycle.

·   Created Training Portal for new project managers.

·   Created project templates to allow for common look and feel.

·   PM of Office 365 Pilot.

·   PM of Rally and TFS movement to a total cloud based solution.

Project management over all major infrastructure project.  This includes the implementation of a datacenter from scratch.   Forum is five oil and gas companies that have combined into one.   

·   Implementation of VOIP for remote offices in San Antonio

·   Outline Mobile Media strategy

·   Implemented cloud based solution to host companies until migration into the datacenter could be achieved.

·   Worked to determine which applications would move from the cloud based solution into the new datacenter.

·   Implementation of an Office 365 global strategy.

·   Reviewed AWS for retail services platform. 

·   Created SharePoint Mobile strategy

·   Migration of 5 datacenters into 1 primary datacenter

·   Implementation of datacenter hardware

·   Perform Risk analysis on all systems to be implemented into the new Data Center.

·   Outlined Security Standards for new Datacenter

·   Created Mobile Security Strategy

 

Responsible for the development and evolution of the PMO concept within the Gulf States organization.   This included everything from the SDLC to the deliverable templates.  I managed 14 project managers and 6 BA’s with a portfolio of over 68M a year.    

Job Duties:

·   Day to Day management a team of project managers, BAs and Process Improvement Analysts.

·   Created Project Manager Scorecard to help identify the performance and help outline possible mentoring opportunities.

·   Created and managed the governance and prioritization process as well as worked closely with the steering committee responsible for the Enterprise Level project.    

·   Provided continual process updates and escalation of risks/issues with their suggest resolutions to the governance teams.  Continually look for opportunities to improve the risk and issue resolutions. 

·   Implemented gated approach to ensure documentation did not fall behind.

·   Responsible work working with executive level resources to clear roadblocks for projects in need.

·   Lead continual effort to streamline existing processes and develop new processes to expand, enhance and optimize information gathering and reporting.

·   Manage overall program performance to ensure delivery transparency, predictability, risk management and value realization while identifying and managing key program internal and external dependencies

·   Implement both Waterfall and Agile(Scrum) methodologies to better optimize project performance.

·   Implementation of project recipes for project sizing and required artifacts.

·   Implemented a weekly project managers with the following agenda.

o   Project Status by PM

o   Review resource changes and impact

o   Review Enterprise Project Calendar

o   Discuss project bottlenecks.

o   PM Resource Negotiation

·   Project Manager of Pick-to-Light solution.    Solution that allowed for physical lights to indicated which parts go into which vehicle.  

·   Project Manager of Microsoft Azure Review.

·   Project Manager of Project Server implementation

Technology Project Manager for Chevron Pipeline Division.  Worked primarily in the Pipeline division and managed several EMIS projects as well as PODS related projects.    Trained in CPDEP methodology.

Duties:

·   Update to custom Pipeline Reporting System

·   Lead effort to create a custom reporting layer of the Pipeline Database (PODS).

·   Upgrade to PODS System

·   Selection and implementation of EMIS Tool

Site Manager for MW2’s HP Practices.   This includes managing all activities of other Project Managers that report to MW2.  Review and approve all documentation and project related activities.   Work closely with HP representatives to negotiate and extend contracts.  Managed 80+ employees.   Houston Practice Closed.

Duties:

·   Management of 82 contract developers and project managers.

·   Work closely with the Project Managers to ensure that all projects were on track.

·   Weekly meetings with HP to outline the current project status and ensure that MW2 was meeting their needs.

·   Adhere to all HP SDLC standards and processes.

·   Managed resource billable

 

Project Manager for the Enterprise Reporting Group.   The Enterprise Reporting group supports the reporting MAS data stores and their associated Web based reporting systems.  My primary function is to oversee all projects to ensure that the full lifecycle is followed.   Also responsible for Departmental budget and reporting on actuals.  Reporting Group Disbanded

Duties:

•                                            Setup reports to display project status and budgets.
•                                            Created RDLC(Report Development Life Cycle)
•                                            Worked with 4 Project Managers to maintain project and budget status.
•                                            Setup and maintained Project Central environment.
•                                            Create standard reporting project plans for Project Central.
•                                            Implementation of Executive package.   This package included all relative project information in a dashboard format.

 

Innoventry was an eCommerce .com startup that utilized web based systems; Biometrics and ATM technology to provide check cashing capability. Started as Manager of Production Systems and quickly implement a project management office. There were 10 Project Managers with 15 Business Analysts.    Promoted to Director of PMO and Production Support.    Later was promoted to VP of Development and Production Systems with 82 developers.   Managed development of the Phase 1 solution and continued to management the day to day operations of the PMO.   

Duties: Director of PMO

·   Implementation of a Project Management Office from scratch.

·   Implement hiring standards for Information Technology.

·   Setup Financials for quarterly Investor Review.

·   Created and managed the governance and prioritization process as well as worked closely with the steering committee responsible for the Enterprise Level project.       Provided continual process updates and escalation of risks/issues with their suggest resolutions to the governance teams.  Continually look for opportunities to improve the risk and issue resolutions. 

·   Responsible for ensuring effective allocation and use of project resources, tracking to the business cases, managing the project plan and timeline, highlighting issues as they arise, helping remove roadblocks and ensuring that the goals of the project are met. This will require working with different people, across multiple functions and locations at different levels in the company.

·   Creation of custom SDLC to allow for faster implementation of fastrack projects.

·   Implementation of Quality Management Office.

 

Duties: of VP of Development and Delivery

·                        Lead team of developers on projects to enhance the existing production systems.

·                        Managed Financials of 14 development teams.

·                        Worked with Support Teams to identify mission critical projects.

·                        Presented Quarterly Production Performance Reports to Inventor Management Team.

·                        Implement both Waterfall and Agile(Scrum) methodologies to better optimize project performance.

·                        On Executive Committee to review production and performance standards.

·                        Reported directory to CIO.

·                        In charge of Corporate Shutdown.

Started Telecheck as a Project Manager and was promoted to Manager of Check Cashing IT.

Duties:

•                                            Managed all mission critical projects.
•                                            Worked closely with executive committee to review project status vs. budget and review cause and affect scenarios for requested changes. 
•                                            Implemented automated check validation solution.
•                                            Member of Project Management Committee to determine project prioritization.

Pacific Gas and Electric was the principle supplier of power to the state of California.

Duties:

•                                            Project Manager for all Infrastructure projects.
•                                            Project Manager of Data Center Relocation to Houston.

 

The Hunter Group was a consulting company that specialized in J.D. Edwards. Team Lead for all J.D. Edwards OneWorld new Implementations.  This included creating implantation processes for the new OneWorld package.  Original Member of phase 1 Beta implementation group for J.D. Edwards.  Worked closely with JDE to create installation processes.  The JDE practice at the Hunter group was finally dismantled.

Deloitte and Touché is big four consulting firm that utilized a technology group to provide IT solutions to its large customers. Started as Project Leader for AS/400 Projects.  This included full lifecycle methodology using Project Workbench.  Meeting with customers to determine project requirements.    Held weekly project status meeting with customers to control expectations.   Worked closely with managing partner for project bid’s and project budgets.   Promoted to Practice Lead for Client/ Server based projects and Japanese Business Unit. 

Baytank is provides storage of hazardous chemicals. One person IT department.   Implemented and maintained 300 node Novell network.  Also implemented J.D. Edward World Solution.  Developed Gas compliance system.

American Exploration was a natural gas corporation.   Maintained three AS/400’s as well as their connection to an 800 node Novell network.  

 

IBM was at that time the leading computer manufacture in the United States. Wrote software to enhance the communications between mainframe , Mini and PC’s using Appc.   This allowed for the push of software updates.

 

Education

IT Infrastructure Library Certification(ITIL)     December 2006

Project Management Institute - Project Management Professional (PMP) 1998

Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 1997

             Novell – Certified Network Engineer (CNE) 1996

Bryant – Computer Programming 1984

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate 2015 – Udemy Complete Nov – 2015.

 

Available upon Request.

 

 

Software

Visual Basic, HTML, Windows, Linux, Websphere, Biometrics, Voip, PHP, MqSQL ,Peoplesoft  Star Team, Visio, PowerPoint, SAP, Visual Basic .net, Appian, Fuego, Savvion, K2, SharePoint , Navision, SAP

Databases

MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2,

Operating Systems/ Web Tools

Windows, Sun Solaris Unix, Redhat, Suse Linux, Apple OSX, Microsoft .net, Macromedia,  Webi, Apache, IIS, Java, J2EE and WebLogic

Project Management Tools / Methodologies

MS Project, Project Central, MS Project Server, Niku  Project Workbench, Clarity, RDPP, SDPP, 4D, PMI, OOA, OOD, Catalyst, PMBOK, Prince2, Microsoft EPM, UML,CPDEP, Agile, Scrum