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Pacific Gas & Electric – Senior Project Manager 

Project Background

Mandated by Federal and State Regulators and in response to the energy crises of 2000, the $20 MM Market Re-design and Technology Upgrade (MRTU) initiative focuses on improving/upgrading the Business Processes and IT systems to assure delivery of power and to create a “stock-market” like trading system for energy.  Most complex IT effort associated with bidding, scheduling, and settling energy procurement transactions. 

Scope

Served/Serving as Sr. Test Manager and Sr. Project Manager responsible for development and implementation of the Back Office Energy Procurement settlement transactions.  Directed project management and control including, planning, scheduling, implementation, resource acquisition and on-boarding, resource leveling, budget control, Software/Hardware Architecture, Infra-structure, Transition to SOA/Middleware Architecture, project costing and forecasting. 

Staff:  6 direct reports, 25 - Matrixed reports.  Budget:  $10 MM

Technical:  Legacy, Vendor Application, Middleware, Client Server, Hardware, Software

Wells Fargo Bank – E-commerce Portal Project Manager 

Project Background

Strategic E-Commerce initiative to link vertical business portals for the purpose of cross-selling financial products and services.

Scope

Deliver a Single Sign-On authorization of the wholesale banking portal with the Private Banking and Business Banking portals.  Coordinated design, development, and implementation.  Project included both Project Management Life Cycle and the Product Development Life Cycle including multiple design, development, and testing teams, legal and compliance, marketing, sales and enrollment, and three customer support channels.

Staff:  3 Direct Reports - 42 Matrixed Reports.  Budget $2.8 MM

Technical:  E-commerce, Portal Management, Client Server, Security, LDAP, On Line Help

Barclays Global Investors - Project Manager  

Project Background

Expansion of the existing Institutional Money Management website to include Customer Account Information, and Customer Trade Information

Scope

Deliver project scope, objectives, approach, risks, milestones and budget Piloting the company's first SDLC Best Practices, including QA and UAT procedures, to ensure the project quality met or exceeded Business Sponsor expectations. Delivered e-commerce solution on time and within budget

Staff: 6 Direct Reports, 3 Matrixed Reports.  Budget:  $2.0 MM

Technical:  Integration Legacy - Client Server through Gallego XML, conversion Legacy databases, linkage Legacy based Customer database - to real time Customer Account Information

California State Automobile Association,  Sr. Project Manager Managed a

Project Background

Company's largest Strategic IT initiative - $ 400 MM, revamping/replacing the entire Auto Insurance business process and related systems and databases

Scope

Directed project team of 15 analysts to detail Business Requirements, UI simulation, and Use Cases as part of a $400MM core auto-insurance system replacement effort.  Effort included detailing the integration of all legacy systems and third party interfaces.  Teamed with 22 project managers to plan the inter-organizational requirements, deliverables, dependencies, milestones, entry and exit-criteria for all enterprise departments, subsidiaries, third party vendors, and government agencies.  Portfolio included 120 different insurance business processes, 485 UI screens, linkage to three major subsidiaries, 10 third party vendors, 40 interfaces with legacy databases, and three state agencies.  Project included responsibility for establishing traceability for Requirements and corresponding QA test conditions through linkage of Requisite Pro and Mercury Test Director

Staff:  15 Direct Reports/Business Analysts

Robert Half International - Program Manager - Sr. Project Manager. 

Project Background
 
In less than 12 months, teamed with RHI’s IT Director and Executive Management in turning around a troubled $120MM core enterprise application and infrastructure integration project.  Project included all core systems, from client facing to Peoplesoft Reporting Tools

Scope

Designed/implemented critical project application development methodology (customized SDLC/RUP), program management processes and Master Project Scheduling that positioned the project to successful completion.  Teamed with 15 project managers to establish a 7,500 task Master Project Schedule from Requirements to Implementation.  Master Schedule included all inter-organizational requirements, deliverables, dependencies, milestones, entry/exit criteria, third party vendors, and infrastructure configuration changes.  Portfolio included 7 software release iterations, Quality Assurance, UAT, Alpha and Beta testing and coordination with and linkage to the implementation plan prepared by Accenture Consulting. 

Wells Fargo Bank - Business Analyst.
Developed the high level functional requirements and first draft business requirements for internet banking including automation for all front office and back-office operations. Managed/developed the Data Dictionary for the common internet banking software architecture.

SBC Internet Communications - Project Manager.
Prepared the project plan for the roll-out of DSL services for the state of Nevada including business requirements, system requirements, and implementation plans.

Bank of America - Project Manager.

Project Background

Prepared systems review of back-office transaction processing operations. Recommended improvements for system integration, policies and procedures, and system maintenance.

Bank of America - Project Manager. 

Project Background

As part of the Merger with Security Pacific National Bank, this project included the integration of the Trust Department into the Bank's operations, and to upgrade the units system access and data access security to the Banks/Regulatory Standards Scope
Managed a project team of 25 system and operational professionals responsible for planning, designing, and implementing system information security and system access security for Trust Operations.  Project included data scrub, and third party vendor application integration

Staff:  25 Direct Reports, Budget: $4.5 MM

Technical:  Legacy

Charles Schwab - Sr. Project Manager.
Prepared and directed the development of the project methodology, business rules, requirements, and templates for the Q/A project functions. Negotiated cross-organizational ground rules for tracking/reporting standards & definitions.  Directed, developed, and managed Decimalization Project Office web site from requirements to implementation. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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