Leslie Cline

• Contracted as a remote project manager for storage implementations
• Implementation of VNX, VMAX, Data Domain, Avamar, Isilon, Xtremio IO, Networker, etc
• Data migrations
• Resource and customer management, issue resolution, cost forecasting, scheduling
• Managed as many as 15 projects simultaneously
• Key Activities:
• Identified resources required, assigned responsibilities and coordinated project staff directly and indirectly to ensure successful completion of the project
• Tracked project deliveries using project management tools
• Reported on project progress and communicated relevant information to superiors
• Tracked and resolved critical issues to minimize project risk factors., Lowe's Production 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, VMWare, Intel, Teradata, Jukeboxes, Storage, Groupwise, Novell

• Contracted as the project manager for a disaster recovery project of the production systems of existing and newly acquired business units across multiple data centers
• Short term remote position to bring the project back into schedule and scope compliance
• Key Activities:
• Identified deliverables, coordinated resource reallocation, consulted on scope issues, risk assessment/remediation plan, issue management plan, communication plan, project plan.

• Contracted as the project manager for the data center migration/consolidation project of the production and test of the State of Florida's insurance company
• Responsible for deliverables including Migration Strategy document, project plans, building the resource team, identifying and assessing all risks
• Environments - Network, Storage, Backup, Firewalls, Citrix Farm, VMware, Exchange, Active
• Directory, UNIX/Linux, AS/400, Disaster Recovery, IBM Tape Library
• 143 applications hosted on 1000 physical and virtual servers
• Key Activities:
• Identified deliverables, SOW development/review, identified resources, produced project plans, issues/action plans, risk assessment/remediation plan
• Presented and received approval from State of
• Florida officials for project funding and implementation.

• Contracted to replace a project manager for the discovery phase of a production data center migration
• Responsible for deliverables including Migration Concept document, project plans, vendor quotes (servers, storage, backup and network) in a seven week time frame
• Environments - Network, Storage, Backup, Citrix Farm, VMware, Call Manager
• Key Activities:
• Led discovery effort for deliverables, participated in SOW development/review, identified resource requirements, produced high level project plan
• Provided issues/action, risk assessment/remediation guidelines and plans.

• Contracted to replace a resource on a Verizon sell off of assets requiring the relocation/migration/ consolidation for approximately 170 applications to/from 6 data centers
• Responsible for bringing 50+ application/server groups back into schedule compliance to meet contractual deadlines for production and relocation of existing Verizon assets to multiple locations
• Environments - SUN, VMWare, Citrix, Linux, Windows

• 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, security standards, ITIL 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, VMWare, Intel, Teradata, EMC Storage

• 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 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, ITIL, security, 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.

• Project Manager for Lowe's Production 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, VMWare, Intel, Teradata, Jukeboxes, EMC Storage, Groupwise, Novell