Project Manager with Over 10 Years of success leading large-scale teams, work hands-on to complete extremely complex projects
Professional training in various Agile Project Management methodologies, work through all the phases of project life cycle
Senior Software Developer heading up successful development teams, advanced knowledge of in-demand programming languages, writing code and developing systems for Finance and Government applications
Database Administrator with comprehensive experience managing SQL and Oracle databases, strengths in troubleshooting and maintaining servers and systems to support smooth business operations
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
California State Treasurer’s Office
Sacramento, CA
01.2016 - Current
Work with Public Finance Department (PFD) with capacity of Project Manager to provide leadership and manage PFD ongoing projects
Manage Project Schedule, execute Project Charter, prepare Meeting Agendas, summarize Meeting Minutes, conduct Change Readiness Surveys, compose high level Requirements and Traceability Matrix. Document Work Order Authorization, track Project Issues, prepare Change Control Plan, Scope Management Plan, Governance Plan, Configuration Management Plan, and Requirement Management Plan.
Put project controls and checks in place. Incorporate PFD reviews and comments throughout project. Drive overall success of project using various project management tools.
Assist Public Finance Department team during assessment stage, work on groundwork for Change Management activities. Assess changes in infrastructure, review organizational characteristics, identify and address impacts to existing procedures and staff functions.
Plan and execute Change Management activities, prepare Change Management Charter, formulate core change agent team, perform Stakeholder Analysis, prepare Communication Strategy.
Work on Business Analysis, Continual Change Initiative, and Alternative Analysis. Assess existing business process, identify alternative solutions, propose procurement and staffing strategy, write solution requirements, identify different stages during project execution.
Prepare training strategy, plan sponsor involvement, assess people change and end user impacts.
Work with Project Readiness Assessment group, prepare Transition Plan, assess organizational readiness, collect inputs and dependencies of Change Management.
Manage four dimensions (awareness, understanding, enablement, ownership) of change model to ensure commitment for change and increase ability of enterprise partners to sustain and build upon changes.
Ensure project is on track to meet desired objectives set by change management, prepared master tracking sheet to give overview of change activities to help tracking progress and dependencies, ensure project milestones are reached.
Conduct surveys and interviews using survey tool to assess readiness and awareness of planned IT changes in organization.
Develop and communicate timely Project Status Reports, manage vendors, write IV&V Assessment Reports.
Work with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft SharePoint.
Track Project Performance, manage communications, produce meeting agendas and meeting minutes, prepare Risk Plan.
Senior Software Developer
California State Treasurer’s Office
Sacramento, CA
07.2010 - 12.2015
Designed reusable and reliable code for use within distributed cloud environments
Developed software system using include HTML, XHTML, CSS, ASP.NET, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, SQL, C#, and Crystal Reports Writer
Developed software using Microsoft Visual Studio, Oracle Form Builder, and PL/SQL
Built Data Models, performed software design requirements analysis and database design
Monitored ongoing operation of assigned programs and respond to problems by diagnosing and correcting logic and coding errors
Collaborated with project managers to select coding milestones on pre-release software project development
Translated customer requirements into written use cases
Updated old code bases to modern development standards to improve functionality
Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
Documented technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired developers
Participated in software testing to verify reliability of software products
Database Administrator
California State Treasurer's Office
Sacramento, CA
04.2004 - 06.2010
Produced high-standard database solutions to meet stability, reliability and performance metrics
Created optimal technical solutions to user needs with in-depth system analysis
Administered, supported and monitored databases by proactively resolving database issues and maintaining servers.
Wrote and maintained technical and functional specifications to document database intentions and requirements.
Analyzed business reports for prompt communication and ongoing support
Documented analysis results and provided performance improvement feedback.
Developed custom database objects, stored procedures and provided application support
Followed standard practices for migrating changes to test and production environments.
Designed and implemented SQL queries for reporting and complex solution development.
Maintained complex SQL queries, views and stored procedures in multi-database environment
Managed workload independently but collaborated with colleagues to complete larger scale tasks in distributed team environment.
Defined hardware requirements and plan storage capacity to manage systems and infrastructure.
Implement security measures to protect vital business data.
Install and configure middleware in Windows environments.
Set up and controlled user access levels across databases to protect important data.
Work with staff to develop and implement procedures to prevent data loss and maximize system availability.
Develop scripts and processes for data integration and maintenance.
Senior Network Administrator
California State Treasurer’s Office
Sacramento, California
01.2000 - 03.2004
Performed development, testing, implementation, and configuration for all Windows servers
Participated in deployment of all Windows servers in both test and production environments
Responsible for testing and deployment of all Windows server updates and patches and performing all 3rd party software updates for all Windows servers
Primary contributor in development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of procedures for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Solely responsible for design, implementation, and management of all system backups
Conducted all activity relating to installation, management, and maintenance of in-house application software packages running on Oracle database and Microsoft SQL database servers
Maintained network performance by performing network monitoring, analysis and performance tuning
Implemented corrective plans of action for network availability and latency
Configured networks for smooth, reliable operation to meet business processes and objectives
Performed day-to-day LAN and WAN administration, maintenance and support
Established network specifications, analyzed workflow, specified security requirements
Troubleshoot network problems and escalated problems to vendors
Upgraded network by working with vendors to develop, test, evaluate, and install enhancements
Identified and immediately resolved issues with network devices
Backup company data to distributed storage centers to avoid data loss
Implemented network security measures to minimize network vulnerability
Planned annual budgets to fund IT projects and to control spending
Provided on-call support of network engineering duties
Maintained network hardware and software and monitored network to support network availability to end users.
Managed data backups and disaster recovery operations to comply with business continuity initiatives.
Maintained applications to keep software current with necessary software updates and upgrades.
Installed, configured, and support local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) and Internet system
Monitored system performance and responded to alerts
Managed computer operation scheduling, backup, and storage
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