Leslie L. Cline

                        Senior Project Manager

 Cell:  484 620 9725        Office:  610 631 1018         Email:  leslie@bilectron.com

 SUMMARY_____________________________________________________

 

 MAJOR QUALIFICATIONS___________________________________________

 

·         Successful data center migrations for Lowe’s Hardware, both production and disaster recovery, Federal government client and Verizon business.  Both moves required infrastructure and network builds, assessment, procurement, planning and execution.  Responsible for multiple teams including infrastructure, network, Intel, Unix, mainframe and storage.

o        Production move consisted of

§         2 mainframes

§         500 servers (Unix and Intel)

§         6 EMC storage arrays

§         5 IBM tape libraries

§         Teradata system

§         Miscellaneous hardware ware

o        Disaster Recovery move consisted of

§         200 servers (Unix and Intel)

§         1 mainframe

§         3 EMC storage arrays

§         2 IBM tape libraries

§         Miscellaneous hardware

·         Managed team of up to three hundred resources including contractors, vendors and client employees.

·         Provided expertise for requirements definitions for several projects.

·         Responsible for providing project documentation on all projects including schedules, issue/action/risk logs, executive presentations, project policies and procedures, organizational charts, communications plans and best practices documents.

·         Skilled at resource management, issue resolution and risk mitigation.

 

 

Work History_____________________________________________________

 IBM/Lowe’s, Wilkesboro, NC, 10/07 – 1/08

Project Manager

 ·         Project Manager for Lowe’s Disaster Recovery Migration Project.  

·         Provided expertise on resource management and allocation, risk mitigation, communications, project plans, project deliverables, actions/issue resolution, scheduling, contract negotiation, policies and procedures, project documentation standards, quality assurance, executive presentations, organizational structure, contract requirements and best practices.

·         Coordinated precise scheduling for all migration events including all equipment and resources for the data center migration on an extremely accelerated schedule with for a high profile client.

·         Responsible for resource allocation, deliverables review, procedures, documentation standards, vendor contracts, issues/actions/risks resolution and mitigation, move event coordination, executive status reports and presentations for the successful move of all production data and equipment as well as test, development and infrastructure technology.

·         Environment – Mainframes, Tape Libraries, Network, UNIX, AIX, Intel, Teradata,  EMC Storage

 

Sun Microsystems/Verizon

Program Manger

 

·         Program manager for data consolidation migration project assessment and delivery model providing expertise on project initiation, process, risk mitigation, communications, project plans, project deliverables, actions/issue resolution, scheduling, cost, quality assurance, contract negotiation, policies and procedures, project documentation standards, executive presentations, organizational structure, contract requirements and best practices.

·         Responsible for assessment delivery with a targeted reduction 40% of servers over 32 groups within the Verizon Business community.   Required porting from various Solaris versions to S10, VMWare solutions, Linux porting viability as well as relocation from 14 locations to 4 enterprise data locations.

 

Federal Government Agency, 4/06-9/06

Project Manger

 

·         Project Manager for Federal Government Agency Migration Project. 

·         Provided expertise on resource management and allocation, risk mitigation, communications, project plans, project deliverables, actions/issue resolution, scheduling, cost, quality assurance, contract negotiation, policies and procedures, project documentation standards, executive presentations, organizational structure, contract requirements and best practices.

·         Responsible for migration planning for all equipment and resources for a server and data  migration effort into a new Enterprise Data Center on an accelerated schedule for a federal government agency..

 

IBM/Lowe’s, Wilkesboro, NC, 2/05 – 12/05

Project Manager

 

·         Resource Project Manager for Lowe’s Data Center Migration Project. Responsible for over 400 resources including vendors, contractors and Lowe’s employees. 

·         Provided expertise on resource management and allocation, risk mitigation, communications, project plans, project deliverables, actions/issue resolution, scheduling, contract negotiation, policies and procedures, project documentation standards, quality assurance, executive presentations, organizational structure, contract requirements and best practices.

·         Coordinated precise scheduling for all data center migration events including all equipment and resources for the data center migration of a 100 million dollar facility on an extremely accelerated schedule with for a high profile client.

·         Responsible for resource allocation, deliverables review, procedures, documentation standards, vendor contracts, issues/actions/risks resolution and mitigation, move event coordination, executive status reports and presentations for the successful move of all production data and equipment as well as test, development and infrastructure technology.

·         Environment – Mainframes, Tape Libraries, Network, UNIX, AIX, Intel, Teradata, Jukeboxes, EMC Storage, Groupwise, Novell

 

Bilectron, Inc.,        Norristown , PA , 9/02 – 1/05

Program/Project Manager

 

·         Managed engineering consultant contracts for the THEMIS satellite program for NASA.  Evaluated and advised on scheduling issues, design reviews and test procedures.  Provided consulting expertise on resource issues, fault assessment, risk mitigation and project issue resolution.  Consulted and advised on program management, statement of work, procedures, schedule, risk management, cost, quality assurance, organizational structure, user acceptance testing, contract requirements, resource management and resource allocation.  

 

OutWeb, Atlanta , GA , 6/03 – 10/03

Project Manger 

 

·         Consulted on State Government Health Care contract that was overdue, over budget, mismanaged to bring it back into line.  Provided consulting expertise on requirements, organizational structure, schedule, procedures, resource management, issues resolution, functional specifications, test requirements, plans, environments and overall project evaluation.

 

PHEAA ( Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Association), Harrisburg , PA,

4/02 – 7/02

·         Implemented project procedures, standards, communication plan, deliverable schedule, developed a full set of business requirements, a detailed project schedule including work breakdown, resources and delivery dates and conducted an evaluation of the technical architecture.  Reviewed functional specifications, change control procedures, development and testing requirements, procedures and environments.

 

Bilectron, Inc., Annapolis , MD , 8/99 – 3/02

Program/Project Manager

 

·         Managed engineering consultant contracts for the NASA EO1 space launch.  Evaluated and advised on scheduling issues, design issues and test procedures.  Responsible for the design and management of Bilectron’s website located at http://www.bilectron.com/ Project tools.

 

American Psychiatric Association, Washington DC , 9/99 - 10/99

Program/Project Consultant   

 

 

State Of Michigan , Treasury Dept., Lansing , MI , 9/97 – 7/99

Project Manager/Consultant   

 

·         Independent Quality Assurance Project Manager for statewide collection system project utilizing PMI standards and procedures.  Managed teams of software developers, business unit subject matter experts and project managers.   Full project team totaled 175.  Conducted risk assessment and facilitated resolutions for issues and risks associated with all deliverables. Consulted, reviewed and approved all functional and technical requirements, deliverables, scheduling, resource management, procedures, testing, database selection, help desk requirements and contractual issues for financial/collection commercial software application from third party vendor.

 

J. P. Morgan, Newark , DE , 3/97 – 9/97

Project Manager

 

·         Managed all resources required for a technology “restack” to merge 1000 employees displaced by fire into an existing facility, including facilities management, telecommunications, hardware and software divisions and several outside contractors to move existing employees to temporary spaces in order to “restack” the area for a greater number of personnel.  Coordinated precise scheduling of project involving 20 divisions of J.P. Morgan and three facilities.   Project completed 29% ahead of schedule. 

 

 

UNOCAL 76 PRODUCTS COMPANY, Rodeo, CA, 4/94 – 11/96

Project Manager   

 

 

 

Windows-O/S2 Conference, Emeryville , CA / Boston , MA , 1993

Project Manager

 

·         Coordinated and registered over 35,000 attendees for major computer conference in the Boston World Trade Center .  On-site coordinator/supervisor of all temporary employees, catering events, meeting facilities, and specific client requirements. 

 

 

Aero Packing Computer, Napa , CA , 1992

Consultant/Business Analyst     

 

·         Evaluated computer software application and hardware requirements.  Procured and installed IBM system; Windows.  Trained staff to use and maintain the system. 

 

 

Converse Environmental, San Francisco , CA , 1992  

Assistant Project Manager 

 

·         Liaison between project managers, text processors, graphics personnel and field staff.  Developed and maintained field databases, supervised and scheduled technical field activities.  

 

KEYWORDS

 

PMI Standards and Processes, PMBOK, PMP Certified, Project Office, State and Federal Government, Customer Relations Management, Data Center Migration, Relocation, Team Building, Meeting Facilitation, Quality Assurance, In-Process Reviews, Documentation Reviews, Technical Reviews, Project Reports, Work Breakdown Structure, Software Development Life Cycle, IBM migration methodology, Scheduling, Cost Reporting/Analysis, Conflict Management, Communications Planning and Management, Risk Management, Data Conversion, Disaster Recovery, Issue Management and resolution, Leadership Skills, Process Improvement, Project Control, Change Control, Status Reporting, Infrastructure, ITIL, IT Infrastructure Library, RAD, RUP, Coordination, SOW Evaluation, Project Charter Documentation, Quality Assurance,  Issues and Action Registers, Priority Allocation, Design, Development, Installation, Deliverables, Multitasking, Analytical Skills, Problem Solving, Program Manager, Contract Negotiation, NASA, Client Liaison, Task Assignment, Team Motivation, Self-Motivated,  Diplomacy, User Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Oral and Written Communication Skills, Organization, Resource Management, Financial Software Development, Healthcare, Legislative, Migration, Data Center, Relocation, Teradata, Mainframe, UNIX, AIX, Intel, EMC Storage, Novell, Groupwise, Technology Restacks Organizational Structure Coordination, Internet Project Development, Contract Requirements, Analysis, Procedures, Extensive Travel, Relocation, Client/Server, Oracle, Sybase, RDBMS, Applications Development Tools, Help Desk, DB2, Maximo, LAN, WAN, Help Desk, CMM, Windows 98, 2000, NT, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project 98 2000, MS Access, PageMaker, WordPerfect, Visio, Lotus Notes, Eudora, Internet Explorer, FTP, TCP/IP, PC Anywhere, Maximo,  ABC Flowchart, Lotus Notes, Superbase, Paintshop Pro

 

 

EDUCATION  

BA, Southwestern University, Georgetown , TX  

Additional Relevant Training                                                                                                                   Project Management course, Skillpath Seminars                                                             

Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification