Sr. Project Manager
Amgen
Total years of experience :26 years, 4 Months
NetApp Amgen contract for ONTAP 8 migration
02/04/13 - Present
Sr. Project Manager
Contract Project Manager, implementing an ONTAP 8 and 7 Mode SAN migration for NetApp. The customer is Amgen Biotechnology, a company dedicated to cellular and molecular biology to allow scientists to identify and develop a host of new cost-effective products.
• Currently migrating Data ONTAP 8 which offers two operating modes, 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode SAN. 7-Mode operation extends the value of the Data ONTAP 7G OS onto a 64-bit platform. Cluster-Mode operation enhances NetApp's storage efficiency value by introducing massive scalability and non-disruptive operations. With Data ONTAP 8 operating in Cluster-Mode, two or more controllers (or nodes) operate as one shared resource pool or storage cluster. The Amgen migration consists of 22 controllers over a 5 month period in three worksites; Thousand Oaks, CA, Boulder, CO, and Seattle, WA.
• Adding disk shelves to support, SAS, SATA, and high-performance SSD drives, to scale vertically to address growing capacity requirements.
• Implementing OnCommand Monitoring system to optimize monitoring, reporting and management capabilities.
• Supporting a rolling-refresh approach means the ability to manage, upgrade, and service storage infrastructure non-disruptively over the life of Amgen's data-even during normal business hours.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services County of San Diego Contract 08/07 - 08/12
Sr. Project Manager/Program Manager IV
Manager for the Infrastructure Program Management Office implementing infrastructure projects for County Of San Diego.
Selected Projects & Accomplishments
Instrumental in setting up the PMO following PMI standards and practices. Led a team of twelve Project Managers for Operations Network Infrastructure projects as well as directly managed projects from proposal to implementation. The projects I engaged on and helped to complete for the County of San Diego: • Migration of Wintel and Oracle physical servers into a VM environment. Cut delivery time and resource costs in half. A reduction from 484 physical servers to 353 virtual servers on 32 Physical hosts in 2 hardened data centers. 131 servers decommissioned as a result of virtualization.
• SharePoint 2010 Assessment project conducted a deep dive of the current environment. Test server was rebuilt to match the Production server and the CPU, SAN and Memory were increased to eradicate the latency and slowness. Customer satisfaction jumped up to 95%.
EDS/NMCI
Sr. Project Manager/Program Manager IV, NMCI Contract, San Diego, CA 11/05 - 08/07
Coordinated with IT Operations in managing IT assets at an enterprise level. Focused on hardware/server/network/ and other IT systems. Developed and maintained a consistent and efficient, repeatable and cost effective Configuration Management strategy for IT Operations.
Selected Projects & Accomplishments: • Led a process improvement effort using LSS DMAIC (Define/Measure/Analyze/Improve and Control) methodology for Configuration Management processes. CM processes included change management, version control of baselines and release management. Project followed best business practices and ITIL processes.
• Closed out Process Improvement Project with a 15% improvement in CM process.
CPS (Cooperative Personnel Services)
Project Manager, Sacramento, CA, 07/04 - 11/05
Contracted to plan and coordinate a replacement to an aging telephone and voicemail system using project methodologies. Integrated, planned, executed and controlled the project to a successful completion.
Selected Projects & Accomplishments
• Authored a Project Charter, Project Management Plan (PMP) and led a team of twelve team members through a network design analysis, product specification and scope definition.
• An RFP was issued and a Bidders Conference held. A Cisco vendor was selected for a VoIP solution. A FFP contract was developed and negotiated. The products included Cisco Call Manager IP PBX servers, Cisco IPCC Express Premium Contact Center.
ICG Communications
Project Manager, Irvine, CA. 5/00 - 5/03
Coordinator between Installation, Engineering, Sales, Contractors and Customers to deliver a project on time and within scope. Participated in pre-sale process to determine customer needs, and developed preliminary implementation plan and timelines.
Selected Projects & Accomplishments
• Conducted a yearlong inventory of all of southern California equipment and entered it into the new Service Management (SM) database to establish a new Operation Service Management System (OSS) enterprise software system.
• Establishment of Service Management improved the definition of the network and service configurations as well as speeding up ordering and scheduling future resources to meet expected demands.
FirstWorld Communications
Project Manager, Anaheim, CA. 8/98 - 4/00
Project Managed build out of new NOC's, Data Centers and Collocation sites. Authored engineering packages for installation and ordered associated equipment.
Selected Projects & Accomplishments
• Lead for the design, planning, project management and implementation of large-scale telecommunications projects determined by both Business Unit and corporate requirements.
• Increased customer retention due to identifying customer requirements, project planning, review, evaluation and overall customer support. Acted as liaison between external Customers, subcontractors, third party vendors and other internal/external groups in support of the customer goals and objectives.
ATU Telecommunications
Senior Planner, Anchorage, AK. 7/97 - 7/98
Established network design requirements for ATU's Nortel Switching Systems.
Selected Projects & Accomplishments
• Tracked monthly key components of switch capacity and analyzed forecasts and growth to determine switch requirements and exhaust date. Prepared yearly budgets and issued orders for equipment and recommended quantities.
US WEST
Infrastructure Planner, Littleton, CO. 4/95 - 6/97
Part of Management Team to design the Architect, Configurations and Models for Nortel Switching Systems.
Selected Projects & Accomplishments
• Senior Infrastructure Planner for Nortel Switching Systems.
• Led a process improvement team with Engineers and Designers to evaluate, track and implement cost savings for infrastructure architecture and technology.
• Reduced costs and development cycle times by working with Nortel vendors on improved processes.
Loral Space and Range Systems
Lead Systems Engineer, Colorado Springs, CO. 8/85 - 4/95
Systems Engineer on the CIASC contract for Site Integration and Activation at Schriever Air Force Base.
Selected Projects & Accomplishments
• Responsible for maintaining the Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC) technical baselines. Participated in Hardware and Software Installation Modification Authorization and Request Process for all CSOC installations.
• Supported a Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB) . Processed and tracked all Engineering Change Requests.
• Conducted configuration engineering services for compliance to format and accuracy to customer configuration control requirements.
Master of IT/Telecommunications Degree: Denver University, Denver, CO. 1996