Monique Kirton

• Managed multiple projects including High Speed Lightower Circuit Conversion Project with budget of (40M), Enterprise Storage Conversion Project of (2.7M), Compromise Security Assessment Project, File Migration to Cloud and numerous other mayoral project initiatives
• Manage collaboration and accountability with development teams, vendors, and operations personnel to develop and implement infrastructure projects in timely manner that is consistent with business needs
• Facilitated project meetings, and PMO related documentation as it relates to each project and program
• Manage and supervise Field Service Project Managers, Internal Engineers and Deployment Engineers working on same project
• Manage programs, including junior PMs and vendors under using portfolio environment
• Partner with Technical Leads to build and department’s project/program portfolios, including overall capacity plan
• Managed, developed and implemented integrated approach for effectively planning and managing departmental initiatives
• Identify and manage project risks and communicate information to stakeholders and leadership
• Leverages change control forms to manage project changes throughout project/program life cycle
• Manages development of RFP with procurement team to ensure successful vendor selection

Technical & Infrastructure Project

• Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance
• Managed 4 project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies and exceptional leadership skills

• Responsible managing Enterprise Storage Migration Project (2.7M)
• Facilitated all project meetings, and all PMO related documentation as it relates to each project
• Managed and supervised Field Service Project Managers, Internal Engineers and Deployment Engineers working on same project
• Single Point of Contact for providing project updates and feedback to senior leaders and upper-level management
• Functioned as Single Point of Contact for vendor management

• Managed 6 project teams in Real Estate & Infrastructure Project environment using program & exceptional leadership skills
• Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors
• Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems
• Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance
• Served as technical liaison, supporting engineering, management, procurement, sales and marketing, quality assurance and supply base
• Devised test plans to validate accuracy of IT projects

• For Corp Real Estate initiatives new and existing infrastructure buildouts, including servers
• Managed, planned, coordinated, and facilitated over fifteen projects simultaneously coordinated and facilitated projects
• Coordinated and managed IT Project Budgets for all projects
• Implemented projects totaling 13.5 million dollars
• Interfaced with Corporate Real Estate Senior project managers, Business Unit Owners, and vendors
• Supervised Network & Voice engineers on all aspect of project
• Managed preparation of IT budget and oversee provisioning and procurement of Voice and Network circuit and equipment orders
• Managed multiple projects simultaneously from project inception to completion & lesson learned
• Executed and implemented projects such as Data Center consolidation, relocated associates and restack network equipment
• Implement Waterfalls and PMBOK methodologies
• Maintained best practices and project methodologies
• Secured IT project resources and track all tasks and deliverables
• Managed IT project plans via Planveiw Enterprise, MS Project, Visio, and Microsoft Excel
• Reported to upper management status of project
• Functioned as “front door” for implementation of VoIP, Avaya Phones, Wireless LAN Controllers and Cisco switches

• Provided project updates and project meeting feedbacks to HRA’s Assistant Deputy Director and Deputy Director on over 15 projects
• Functioned as lead project liaison, facilitated assistance and training on Enterprise Vault to over 1600 users, including all deputy and assistant deputy commissioners, center directors, managers and staff of HRA
• Conducted resource planning and budgeting; tracked cost to ensure adherence to budgetary limitations
• Managed projects migrations such as Oracle 11g, HP and Hitachi Proof of Concept implementation and many other ongoing projects in Management Information Systems department at HRA

• Dynamic entrepreneur who utilized creativity, leadership and teamwork to design and execute solutions that created customer values
• Created and implemented innovative ideas, tasks and strategies that lead to business success
• Developed and overseen marketing and budgets for business.

• For Network Security new and existing initiatives
• Manage Program budget, risks and issues using risk templates and problem-solving techniques
• Resolved risks and issues in timely fashion to prevent minimal to no impact upon committed timelines
• Managed IT/Security project plans using SharePoint, MS Project, Visio and Microsoft Excel
• Reported to upper management status of project using PowerPoint presentation
• Used MS Project, Excel, and Visio for creating all documentation

• Demonstrated leadership by managing multiple projects from initiative to completion
• Provided project updates and project meeting feedbacks to New York City Department of Buildings CIO, Assistant CIO, and Acting Commissioner
• Attended all business-related meetings, lead presentations and facilitated meetings
• Provided guidance and supported business partners engaged with project, follow best practices and project methodologies
• Executed project and managed project team using Work Break Down structure and project schedule
• Performed resource management including forecasting resource requirements and resource consumption analysis

• Managed infrastructure projects successfully from conception to implementation
• Created project plans, schedules, and timelines for all projects
• Allocated resources, tasks and set up start and finish dates with actual start and finish dates for each project
• Coordinated and lead daily project initiation meetings and officiated status updates meeting for stakeholders and senior managers
• Conducted resource planning and budgeting; tracked cost to ensure adherence to budgetary limitations
• Worked with projects such as Oracle 9i to Oracle 10G Migration, LAN Closet Expansion
• Used F5 Load balancers to maintain internet users’ connection and balance site traffic while primary site was brought down for testing / Used 2par InServ Storage Server for storage and back up Oracle 9i data / all work was performed successfully with little to no end user complaints / configured and tested successfully BGP traffic to run on 3 Cisco 7206XVR routers for Chicago, New York and Texas sites