·               Project Manager for 70 Amazon Cloud application migration projects in 2015 to present. This included MS 2003 to MS 2008 conversions as well as MS 2012 lift and shifts from local servers to the Amazon AWS Cloud. Included all remediation to target Architecture standards, application shared websites, and DB configurations, Application installations and configurations, Analysis, Design, Installation, Testing and Production cutovers with multiple application teams and business units.

·               Migrated B2B portals to the cloud including complex Sportfire based portals with 100 businesses connected

·               Managed Data Center move of 200+ servers from aged Houston facility to multiple locations (Europe and US)

·               Managed an integrated technical team with resources in US and India. Coordinated multiple application and DB vendors and Technical Infrastructure teams with Wipro and TSystems.

·               Agile and PMBoK based methodology. Budgeting, Status Reporting, Financial Reporting, Offshore and US Team Management. $5mil cost savings in first year.

Air LiquideJune 2014 – December 2014

Sr. Project Manager / Sr. Business Analyst Houston, Texas

Consultant

LIMS and Citrix Implementations

·               Managed 4 LIMS Projects – Electronics, Medical, Specialty Gases and Large Industrial LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) implementations of LabWare and Web based LIMS across 50+ laboratories in the United States and Canada. Multi-vendor management of LabWare Consulting, LabAnswer, TCS Consulting, Xerox and internal staff. Integration team leadership with Oracle ERP R12 and EBS to provide LIMS information to other areas. Final North America solution implemented for all labs on Citrix platform.

·               Project Management. ERP integration. Status Reporting, Financial Analysis and Reporting, Vendor Management, Contract Negotiations. Cloud Migrations and Citrix Implementations. PMO reporting, Risks and Issues tracking. Stakeholder Communications.

·               Managed B2B portal for Texas Instruments and other major semi-conductor customers to transact with Air Liquide online.

·               Conducted daily Scrums with 2 week Sprints

ChevronJanuary 2013 – April 2014

Program Manager / Sr. Business Analyst Houston, Texas

Consultant

Land Management Software, Citrix, ESRI ARCGIS, ARCMap

•Led special efforts between 3 departments and 3 vendors to solve performance problems for an ARCGIS solution across 500 users in 6 locations in North America that was serious affecting revenue. Maintained budgets and managed resources to deliverables.

•          CHDEP project management methodology was used in this full lifecycle set of projects. Designed and implemented support operations. Citrix server design and testing, multi-vendor management, multi-departmental coordination and strategic change management techniques contributed greatly to the success of the projects improving response times nine-fold for 400 Land and Spatial analysts.

•          Full project lifecycle management. ESRI and Quorum vendor management of ARCGIS and ARCMap software for land management. Budget forecasting, Reporting, Stakeholder communications.

ShellJune 2012 – November 2012             

Program Manager and Project ManagerHouston, Texas

Consultant

Complex Enterprise Projects – Sharepoint – Financial Analysis - Planning

·               Program Manager on Shell Smart M Proactive Technical Monitoring projects. $53 million program planning budget for Shell refineries worldwide organization.  Provided modification to the Smart M Delivery Model to improve efficiencies saving the company $10 million and a created Standard Implementation Project Plan that was used on 10 separate projects.

·               Project planning of 400 tasks with dependencies for all Stage gates for projects Implementing reporting tools in North America utilizing SSP PI and SCADA data from new Global  PI integrated to reporting and control systems for refineries with common analog and digital point information for standard instrumentation. Also, developed master plans for European site implementations.

·               Created Site Implementation plans for refineries to implement new work processes and engineering tools across the Shell refinery portfolio

·               Prepared presentations for stakeholder reviews on Program Planning, Methods, Resources, and Schedules.

·               Prepared project plans, budgets and resource plans for multiple Sharepoint 2010 migrations.

·               Project Management expertise applied in SDLC, Stage Gate methodology, Risk Management, Change Management, Project Charter, Scope Management, Communications Management, Budget Formulation, Project Assurances, Stakeholder Communication, Steering Committees, Status Reporting, KPI Tracking, Deployment, Support Transition and Business Process Change, Project Plans and Project Phase Key Deliverables, Milestone Formulation, Lifecycle Stage Reviews, Team Organization, Resource Management, Contingency Management, Quality Assurance Deliverables.

Constellation EnergyNovember 2011 – June 2012

Sr. Project Manager - PMO Process Consultant - Business Analyst

Consultant (IS&T Company)Houston, Texas

Retail Energy Risk Management Systems – System Integration – Oracle

·               Hands on SharePoint 2010 workflow development and ATTask PMTool configurations.

·               Risk Project Manager for ETRM system implementation and related work using Agile methodology

·               Integration project manager for system integration projects supplying Risk and Supply information to Trade Floor operations

·               Special functions project manager with daily reports to CIO IT and SVP Business Portfolio and Risk.

·               Conducted regular stakeholder reviews and managed special executive projects

·               Manage multiple projects and provide business analysis on special issues.

·               Multiple Oracle implementations.

·               Manage budgets, actuals and forecast and managed IT methodology practices rollout.

·               Managed team utilizing summarized usage data from Asset management from SCADA and PI reporting systems for Supply Contango Reporting to plan supply for retail marketing.

·               Data warehouse projects management including major Oracle 10.x upgrade system wide.

·               All project management duties including status reporting, change management, stakeholder updates, financial reporting, resource planning.

Shell October 2010 – October 2011

Sr. Project Manager / Sr. Business Analyst Houston, Texas

Consultant (Wipro)

Refinery modeling software, Health and Safety Regulation, Forecasting, Economic Modeling, SCADA and System Integration

Managed projects in Shell Downstream applying expertise in project planning, stage gate methodology, budgeting, project management and business analysis duties.

Pressure Protection Manager Project – Shell Oil Products MSD division

·               Project Manager of Siemens Pressure Protection Manager project in Shell Manufacturing, Supply and Distribution division.

·               Provide PDF project management and deliverables.

·               Coordinated Siemens, Wipro, Shell IT and BAM through project stage gates.

·               Conducted stakeholder reviews, weekly status meetings, financial and PRT reports.

·               Developed project budget, PRT reports, resourcing, Steering Committee and Weekly Status meetings.

·               Developed Testing strategy and lead testing efforts with stakeholders at Convent, Deer Park and Norco.

·               Reviewed SCADA integrated data in Global PI system integration to reporting system

Base Plus Delta Refinery Model Tracking Project – Shell Downstream division

·               Project Manager of CSI Spiralsoft project “Base plus delta” for better refinery model tracking in the downstream division of Shell.

·               Provided input for functional specifications for the project and provided review comments that were incorporated into the final functional specification.

·               Conducted weekly issue resolution and tracking meetings with Vendor representatives, Shell IT and business SME’s.

·               Planned project budget and rollout at Convent, Port Arthur and then transition to global solution

·               Tested product releases.

·               Beta site management of PI and SCADA system Global architecture DSL implementation.

·               Conducted stakeholder reviews and weekly manager reviews.

·               Included modeling OSI Soft PI data tags for all refineries.

·               Technology Included:

o        OSISoft PI Architecture

o        OSISoft PI Installation

o        OSISoft Process Book

o        OSISoft Interfaces

o        Industrial Protocols (MODBUS, DNP, ICCP, OPC etc.)

o        UML 2.0

o        TIBCO

Kraton Polymers (Vinex Consultant)September 2009 – October 2010

Sr. Project Manager – PMO ManagerHouston, Texas

Consultant – Vinex Technology

Project Management - Innovation Methodology – PMO Management

·               Kraton Polymers Innovation Methodology consulting. Business Process Modeling and consulting.

·               Project Manager of Oilfield Services Innovation projects: Fissure Seal, High Pressure Cement, Low Temp Cement Innovations in drilling and wellbore maintenance. Planned budgets and tracked actual on projects totaling $15 million.

·               Project Manager of Elastic Nonwoven Innovations in Medical, Performance Fabrics and Geo-textiles.

·               Project Manager of NEXAR new polymer Innovations in ERV, Water Management, and Military applications. Prepared budgets, forecasts, and tracked projects totaling $10 million.

·               Contributed to Shell PDF deliverables such as Project Charter, Scope document, PCP workbook, Stage Gate project plan milestones on various Shell-Kraton related innovation initiatives. Knowledgeable on all current Shell PDF deliverable templates and assurance requirements for projects.

·               Principal consultant organizing new PMO organization defined new roles and PMO process workflows and developed templates of required deliverables.

·               Reported to executive management SVP, COO, CIO on new market development projects.

·               Conducted executive reviews. Weekly meetings with SVP level executives and Monthly reviews with C Level executives

·               Created and maintained budgets and forecasts for multiple projects simultaneously.

·               Designed and implemented project management approach for top Innovation projects totaling $324 million Contribution Margin over 5 years.

·               Designed Innovation Management Performance Management reports for SAP Netweaver Portal.

·               Business Analysis and designed workflow solution for Sharepoint 2010 application to manage projects.

·               Provided guidelines on technical solutions to support the Innovation methodology.

·               Provided guidelines working with market managers to define requirements for daily operational project management technology.

·               Sharepoint 2010 application deployments

·               Principal Consultant managing project schedules between Research and Development and Market Development resources on the top 6 Innovation projects:

o        Oilfield Services – Fissure Seal Project

o        Oilfield Services – High Pressure Cement Project

o        Oilfield Services – Low Temp Cement Project

o        Elastic Nonwovens Platform Projects

o        NEXAR New Polymer Project

o        Slush Molding Project

o        Protective Films Project

o        PC Cable Covering Innovation Project                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Horizon Wind Energy EDP Renewables (Alitek Consultant)August 2008 – September 2009

Program Manager and Sr. Project ManagerHouston, Texas

Asset Management/Operations Projects EMS and OSISoft PI, SCADA and IT Security, Renewable Energy             

·               IT Manager of multiple concurrent Trading, Asset Management and Operations Projects.

·               Functional PMO manager for several IT projects enforcing SDLC methodology.

·               Project budgets from $2 –$25 million. Prepared budgets and tracked actuals.

·               Managed creation of 4 new data centers and central control monitoring center in locations in US, Spain and Portugal for enterprise operations.

·               Analysis and composition of Opportunity Definitions and detailed Project Charters.

·               Managed due diligence and RFP process with multiple vendors on several projects including EMS, SCADA (AREVA), Web based operations monitoring, Trading interfaces, Reporting Datamarts, OSISoft PI and SQL Server data integration for combined report analysis.

·               Managed North American SAP HR system switchover and related complex ETL integration programming extracting information from Oracle RDBMS for migration to SAP input streams.

·               Provided analysis and managed multi-million dollar North American infrastructure project relocating data center and adding 50 servers for operations and DR.

·               Managed Procurement department vendor management systems development.

·               Managed multiple project schedules with MS Project and documentation with SharePoint.

·               Managed multiple vendor teams simultaneously integrating front to back office workflow data  and application development projects.

·               Reported to both IT Director with dotted line to Director of Asset Management and Chief Energy Officer.

·               Developed and interpreted organizational goals, policies, and procedures, and created and reviewed project plans.

·               Analyzed workflow and assigned or scheduled work to meet priorities and goals.

·               Managed and co-programmed an EMS website using Agile principles on 2 week iterations which was used as the production EMS display for visiting dignitaries.

·               Designed and prototyped Preventative Maintenance programs with real time data via OPC for Smart Signal system preparation.

·               Managed complex global and North American communications projects and infrastructure projects

·               Multiple projects included:

o        EMS Project (joint project with EDP in Portugal) AREVA

o        SCADA Project (12 Windfarms)

o        Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Project

o        OSISoft PI Performance Management Project

o        Vendor Management System Project

o        Project Server Implementation

o        OATI Scheduling System Automation

Shell Trading February 2007 – August 2008

Program Manager and Sr. Project Manager – ConsultantHouston, Texas

Business Analyst

Fast paced Energy Trading, CAISO MRTU, Nodal, ERCOT ISO EMS projects

·               Project Manager of Shell Trading IT projects in multi-location trade floors formerly Coral Trading.

·               Conducted stakeholder reviews, financial reports with budget and forecasts, resource and vendor multiple vendor management. Conducted weekly status reviews.

·               Managed/co-design of a group of middleware (Web services and TIBCO) to exchange data in the workflow between Nuclues, PowerLink, and nMarket trading applications.

·               Managed CAISO MRTU systems development efforts to accommodate technology changes being implemented by the ISO.

·               Managed new implementations of nMarket, Nucleus (new reports), and EMS (Monarch) and OSISoft PI systems to accommodate LMP market efforts from zonal to nodal implementation in CAISO and ERCOT.

·               Provided analysis for EMS infrastructure requirements and designed DR scenarios for EMS system continuous operation.

·               Managed a team of 18 FTEs distributed across several IT departments issuing assignments related to LMP project efforts. Accumulated budget approximately $9 million. I interacted with multiple department managers and developed executive level status reports for stakeholders and the steering committee monthly recently.

·               Routinely worked hand in hand with The Structure Group, Sungard Consulting, Accenture, and IBM consultants.

·               Implemented Shell’s CMMI certified PDF project methodology on multiple medium size project efforts.

·               Provided Q&A / SME expertise on testing power scheduling, trading systems integration, dashboard and reporting systems centered around implementations of PowerLink (inhouse), Nucleus, nMarket and various PL-SQL based reporting systems.

·               Managed, co-designed and tested an outage manager application in .Net with SqlServer 2005 backend utilizing Agile methodology in cooperation with an outside vendor programming shop that automated 3 hours/day out of the daily trade floor workflow.

·               Met with department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.

·               Business analysis on data integration and workflow between disparate trade floor systems.

·               Large Oracle implementations and Tibco System Integration projects business analysis and project management.

·               Included complex infrastructure projects tested by Regional power authorities and ISO organizations.

·               Multiple projects from front to back office including

o        NMarket (Settlement System) Project

o        Nucleus (Transaction Capture) Project

o        Coalesce EMS Project (California)

o        Outage Manager Project

o        CAISO MRTU Compliance Project

o        ERCOT Nodal Compliance Project

o        Endur / Nucleus Gap Analysis project

o        Endur Upgrade Planning

o        Credit System Implementation

o        Accounting System Implementation

o        Reporting System projects

o        Settlement system projects

o        Middleware Integration projects with Tibco

o        Contract System project

o        Trading Operations workflow analysis

o        Trading Dashboard project

o        Texas ISO QSE project

o        MISO, PJM, NYISO compliance projects

o        Universal SCADA HMI project with OSII Monarch system

o        OSI Soft PI projects

Sungard SystemsFebruary 2006 – November 2006

Sr. Project Manager – Consultant                 Houston, Texas

Product Management / Dev Ops/ QA and BA

Product Management

·               Provided business analysis and recommendations for the future direction for Sungard’s Power Scheduling products. Multi-market ISO – ERCOT, CAISO, MISO, PJM and non-ISO areas. 

·               Commitment in this product area will involve $ 3 mil with organizational resources locally and offshore. 

·               Reported directly to the Sr. VP Product Management to provide consulting advice to establish leadership goals/vision as well as development operational objectives. 

·               Reviewed legacy systems code to design new enhancements in future products namely Entegrate modules.

·               Worked with customers and User groups in presentations and hosted meetings and conference calls to discuss issues, resolve problems.

·               Consulted with other companies like Accenture onsite to solve critical production issues requiring technical expertise and political tact as a liaison between business drivers, Big 5 consulting executives and development operations.

·               Consulted with users, management, vendors, and technicians to determine programming needs and system requirements.

Development Operations

·               Project Manager – Worked with the Director of Development Operations rolling out RUP as the official methodology providing walk through examples of OOAD analysis and constructed UML templates and modeling examples for the Analysis and Design deliverables including Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Application Domain and Master Class Models, Data Models, Functional Specifications, Requirements Specifications. 

·               Evaluated tools for UML implementation including Rational Rose, Requisite Pro, Enterprise Architect and plug-ins for these tools providing recommendations for a soon to be developed PMO strategy.

·               Developed performance standards and evaluated work in light of established standards.

Quality Assurance

·               QA design, documentation and testing on multiple projects

·               Technology for all projects included Java to .net C# code migration and extensive Oracle RDBMS system implementations. Included Nucleus system and Entegrate system business analysis and project management duties

JP Morgan Chase BankMarch 2005 – December 2005

Sr. Project Manager – ConsultantHouston, Texas

Treasury Services Automation

·               Functional Project Manager and Business Analyst on multiple Treasury Services projects.

·               Developed resource plans, project roles, charters, full iteration plans, task plans, project budgets and head count phasing. 

·               Presented multi-million dollar proposals to executive VPs on project directions and obtained approval quickly from a steering committee of executive member of 3 separate Fortune 10 Bank organizations – JPMorgan, Chase, and BankOne. 

·               High profile projects included: Access Cash Online system – for larger customer finance and payroll departments to work with accounts on-line.

·               Global Contract Generator – Dynamic contract creator program with advanced document merging and workflow features for Sales and Legal departments. 

·               Mediated the BankOne/JPMorgan steering committee for Global Document Management System features. 

·               Crafted Functional Requirements and Use Cases within their PDF methodology. 

·               Reported progress and risks/mitigation to three high level offices of VP staff and important stakeholders in three merging organizations Chase, Bank One and JPMorgan in NY, Chicago and Houston.

·               Analyzed workflow and assigned or scheduled work to meet priorities and goals.

·               Participated in staffing decisions.

·               Extensive Java project and advanced imaging coding for document storage management

IBS Energy SystemsAugust 2004 – March 2005

Manager –Texas RegionHouston, Texas

·               Managed product development and provided onsite and Webex demos on projects for the elecTRXS power transactions system which included power schedules, bids, shadow settlement processing and data extract report features for smaller power marketing enterprises.

·               Managed and co-designed middleware integration adapters utilizing IIS w/ Web Services to enhance product viability.

·               Debugged and tested all these applications extensively in Visual Studio 2003 in C# and Visual Basic recommending code, data model and XML interface changes.

·               Attended ERCOT hosted retail and wholesale committee meetings participating as a leader in the Commercial Operations Subcommittee – Data Extract Working Group. 

·               Participated in the data analysis and Business Intelligence layer design in the ERCOT EDW (electronic data warehouse) project as a representative for several market participants determining data flow efficiencies, redundancies, latency characteristics, interface architecture and performance strategies, report view definitions, table definitions, outlier parameterizing, key relationships and middleware messaging data flows.

Suez Energy Marketing Inc.            November 2002 – August 2004 

Trading Systems ConsultantHouston, Texas

EMS / ERCOT QSE/ Power Scheduling Operations

·               Participated in analysis of different multi-million dollar systems application options for EMS operations. 

·               Contributed in requirements gathering, design, coding supervision, implementation and support of real time trading scheduling system.

·               Provided reports and presentations to executive management and affiliates on technology organization issues and risk mitigation strategies. 

·               Planned and implemented fallback recovery systems operations for two ISO operations interfaces. 

·               Worked with a team of local resources delivering several web services based applications for wholesale energy trading ERCOT (Energy Reliability Council of Texas). These programs qualified Suez for ERCOT QSE operations.

·               Projects included Generation Control/AGC, SCADA, ERCOT QSE Level 1-4 software systems, OSISoft PI Historian installations, ongoing support with local resources and myself. 

·               Managed infrastructure project to support 10 power plant operations connecting to the generation control center in North America.

·               Managed data center move of EMS related servers and communication equipment to new headquarters.

·               Managed, tested and debugged these production applications in .Net extensively and designed enhancements coding mathematical and XML processing changes. These development efforts strictly followed Agile principles with 2 week cycles with an integrated team of 5 developers, SMEs, analysts.

·               Directed daily operations of department and coordinated project activities with other departments.

·               Business Analysis on Day Ahead trading and Real Time data needs from power plants

·               Other projects included

o        ISO Compliance Project (QSE Level 4)

o        OSISoft PI Real Time Data Project

o        Scheduling System Project

o        Multiple SCADA projects

o        Monitoring System Project

Duke Energy Trading and MarketingAugust 2001 – September 2002

Multiple Project Manager Houston, Texas

Trade Floor Systems and Web Services

·               Provided technical design, programming and supervision of both local and offshore resource and project budgeting/tracking on development projects for automated web based OASIS systems, OATI Nerc Tagging automation, ERCOT QSE MOS XML API systems, Generation Control/AGC (EMS) and Control Area automation with real-time web interfaces.

·               Defined core job functions and department organizational charts redesigning IT department programming services for the Vice President of Gas and Power Trading Operations and the Director of Business Technology Services. 

·               Coordinated Project Management priorities and provided continual executive updates reporting directly to the Vice President of Trading, and Vice President of Corporate IT.

·               Developed and interpreted organizational goals, policies, and procedures, and created and reviewed project plans.

·               Project Manager of Power Scheduling System

·               Project Manager of Generation Control Center Project (12 plants) – AGC Control

·               Project Manager of EMS system installation and customization

·               Project Manager of multiple SCADA system installations

·               Business Analysis on OATI, Endur, Outage management, Position management

·               Projects included

o        Generation Control Center Project (12 plants)

o        Multiple Trade Floor Vendor System Projects

o        OSISoft PI Real Time data Performance Management Project

o        OATI Transmission Reservations Automation

o        Endur (OLF) Business Analysis

o        Endur Implementation and Integration Automation

Dynegy March 2000 – August 2001

Manager System Integration                Houston, Texas

Manager Application Development Services

·               Projects included

o        Deal Entry Project

o        Multiple System Integration Projects

o        Accounting System Project

o        Power Scheduling Project

o        Dashboard Reporting Project

BMCNovember 1999 – March 2000

Project Manager Customer Service Web                 Houston, Texas

Williams Gas Pipelines Company             March 1999 – November  1999

Lead Design/Functional PMHouston, Texas             

Capacity Modeling/Gas Scheduling

·               Projects Included

o        Gas Scheduling System Project

o        Capacity Modeling Project

Texas Eastern              March 1998– March 1999

IT Manager / Lead DesignHouston, Texas

Multi Product Pipelines Scheduling Projects

And Web Services

·               Projects included

o        Batch Scheduling Software Implementation

o        Multi-pipeline SCADA systems

o        Nominations Project

o        Scheduling Project

o        Allocations Project

o        Reporting System Project

PROS Strategic Solutions             July 1993 – March 1998

Senior Technical Consultant             Houston, Texas

Revenue Management Projects

Continental Airlines – Revenue Management                          March 1992- July 1993

Manager Revenue Management Automation   Houston, Texas

Continental Airlines June 1987- March 1992

Manager Corporate Security AutomationHouston, Texas

Fraud and Anti-Terror Profiling Automation

McDonnell Douglas March 1984 – January 1987

Technical Support Specialist Austin, Texas

EDUCATION:

Bachelors Degree 1984

University of Texas Austin, Texas

Major:  Government – specializing in demographic research, Census block statistical analysis and public policy decision support. Ongoing Post Baccalaureate work in Computer Science and current industry seminars in programming languages, Design topics and DB and OS Technology including Advanced JAVA, Unix Shell, OO design. Minor:  Economics combined with 15 hours Accounting including Cost and Financial Accounting.

Skills