Open To Work
David Diaz
Northville
Summary
Dynamic Project Manager with extensive experience at Lear, excelling in IT infrastructure and application development. Proven track record in risk management and stakeholder engagement, successfully leading virtualization projects that enhanced operational efficiency. Adept at strategic planning and fostering cross-functional collaboration to drive continuous improvement and achieve project milestones. Strategic-thinking project manager with several years of experience in budgeting and forecasting and risk management. Observant and resourceful professional dedicated to delivering project objectives within stipulated time, resource and budget constraints. Outstanding collaborator comfortable working with others in executing projects to achieve company objectives.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Lear
01.2019 - Current
- Management of the site server virtualization for Lear global manufacturing plants to update current infrastructure to support a virtual environment including the replacement of servers as well as core switches.
- Management of the installation of a centralized backup device for Lear global manufacturing plants.
- Creation of a multi-year project plan to migrate Lear’s current Windows 7 workstations to Windows 10.
- Project to decrease Lear’s footprint at 3rd party Data Centers with the end result of decreasing the overall cost of operation.
- Project to migrate, decommission or secure legacy operating systems that exist within the corporate environment.
- Program to deploy virtual firewalls to the Global infrastructure to replace legacy hardware as well as new instances.
- Projects to integrate companies acquired by Lear into the companies IT infrastructure.
- Projects to update existing infrastructure to meet the newly defined standards at multiple locations.
- Methodology: Waterfall, Agile
- Technologies used: MS Project, Sharepoint, MS Office Suite, Daptiv, Brightworks
Program Manager
Infomatics
07.2017 - 01.2019
- Management of the site server virtualization for Lear global manufacturing plants to update current infrastructure to support a virtual environment including the replacement of servers as well as core switches.
- Management of the installation of a centralized backup device for Lear global manufacturing plants.
- Creation of a multi-year project plan to migrate Lear’s current Windows 7 workstations to Windows 10.
- Project to decrease Lear’s footprint at a Third Party data center with the end result of decreasing the overall cost to the company and remove unused systems from the Lear infrastructure.
- Methodology: Waterfall, Agile
- Technologies used: MS Project, Sharepoint, MS Office Suite, Daptiv, Brightworks
Project Manager
KForce
04.2017 - 07.2017
- Monitor and Control of project deliverables
- Risk identification
- Risk Remediation
- Issue Escalation
- Project plan management
- Monitor and Control Project budget
- Methodology: Waterfall
- Technologies used: MS Project, MS Project Server, Sharepoint, MS Office Suite
Project Manager
Modis
12.2016 - 01.2017
- Creation of Project Charter
- Hosting of project meetings and engaging stakeholders
- Creation of projects in Microsoft project
- Maintenance of project plans and guiding the project team to meet project milestones
- Creation of project scorecards for executive management
- Iterative process of project implementation.
- Working with SMEs to validate and document specifications needed for implementation of the proposed solution.
- Methodology: Waterfall, Agile
- Technologies used: Clarity, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Office Suite
Project Manager
Metric-X
05.2016 - 09.2016
- Enterprise Architecture Project Manager responsible from inception to closure of assigned projects/Programs.
- Enterprise License Agreement Renewal
- Identity Access Management Program Charter Creation
- Responsible for assisting with Problem Management and closure of steady state issues
- Participating in Architectural design and review for new initiatives being considered by Oakland County.
- Methodology: Waterfall
- Technologies used: Clarity Workbench, Clarity Service Center, SharePoint, MS Office Suite
Application Project Manager
Vision IT
09.2015 - 05.2016
- Interfaced with customer to develop monthly sprints from items in the current backlog
- Worked with engineering teams to obtain hours needed to work on specified backlog items and created a project plan to present to client
- Negotiated with client if sprint hours exceeded total available engineering time to create a mutually agreed upon release
- Managed daily stand ups, identify issues with engineers, escalated issues to client and upper management
- Managed change controls for product release to production
- Generated accurate reports for upper management and clients to review status of sprints
- Worked as BA for sprint related items.
- Hyundai EV project which entailed initial proposal including engineering time needed and costing.
- Jaguar/Land Rover RSSO project which entailed management of multiple sprints to provide increment growth in functionality for the client.
- Jaguar/Land Rover HRE project which was the delivery of a small single sprint project that delivered a COTS software package to the client to meet their contractual obligation for their employees.
- Methodology: Agile, Waterfall
- Technologies Used: JIRA, MS Project, SharePoint, MS Office Suite
Remediation Project Manager
Cybercoders contracted to Federal Mogul
06.2015 - 09.2015
- The Manhattan Warehouse project was a remediation initiative in which open issues which were placed into a backlog creating a list of items to be re-mediated based upon impact, importance to business and time required to complete.
- The project required tracking of open software issues.
- The creation of a virtual distribution center within SAP was required to re-mediate a local warehousing issues and provide a complete end to end solution for the client’s needs in regards to expediting packaging of warehoused goods.
- Methodology: Agile
- Technologies Used: MS Office Suite, SharePoint
Project Manager
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Pontiac
09.2009 - 01.2015
- Ricoh Managed print project migrated the current BP print architecture.
- GCRO (Gulf Coast Recovery Organization) The project stretched over 2 years.
- The delivery of servers for a database migration.
- Numerous other small to medium sized projects were also completed during this time frame.
- Technologies used: VMware Server, Microsoft Server 2008, Microsoft Server 2012, Ricoh Managed Print Services, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL 2012, PPMC, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, SharePoint
Education
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Skills
- IT Infrastructure Project Management
- Application Development Project Management
- Schedule Development/Control
- Cost Estimating/Control
- Issues/Risk Management
- Vendor Management
- Resource Management
- PM Methodologies
- Program Management Office
- Risk management
- Project management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Change management
- Virtualization technologies
- Strategic planning
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Resource allocation
- Continuous improvement
- Process optimization
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Team leadership
- Conflict resolution
- Software development lifecycle
- Compliance monitoring
- Project planning and development
Skills Experience Areas
- IT Infrastructure Project Management
- Application Development Project Management
- Schedule Development/Control
- Cost Estimating/Control
- Issues/Risk Management
- Vendor Management
- Resource Management
- PM Methodologies
- Program Management Office
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workWork Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
On-SiteRemoteSalary Range
$95000/yr - $200000/yrTimeline
Project Manager
Lear
01.2019 - Current
Program Manager
Infomatics
07.2017 - 01.2019
Project Manager
KForce
04.2017 - 07.2017
Project Manager
Modis
12.2016 - 01.2017
Project Manager
Metric-X
05.2016 - 09.2016
Application Project Manager
Vision IT
09.2015 - 05.2016
Remediation Project Manager
Cybercoders contracted to Federal Mogul
06.2015 - 09.2015
Project Manager
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
09.2009 - 01.2015