Phillip Oquendo Jr.
Program/Project Management
Sandy,UT
Summary
Focused Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Experienced in directing manufacturing employees and keeping efficient production in accordance with quality standards. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Project Manager, Software Development
Sera Prognostics
12.2021 - 03.2023
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
- Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
IT Project Coordinator/IT Project Manager
Willis Towers Watson's One Exchange
South Jordan, UT
05.2016 - 11.2021
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
- Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
- Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Negotiated and managed third-party contracts related to project deliverables.
- Prepared and submitted project invoices for review and approval.
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
- Coordinated material procurement and required services for projects within budget requirements.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Heavily involved in the infrastructure upgrade, server migration, migrating 5k users, Exchange Mailboxes, PSTs in outlook, Site reliability team to monitor, Data team to watch for errors, duplicates, Deduping, IP assignments for servers.
- Dynamic and static IP assigning for users, Thin clients, Boot strapping servers, Data center upgrades, rack&stack, On premise setups with certain third party vendors, Vendor risk assessment, Pen testing, Server access, Application monitoring and deployment. Data Retention processes,
- Decisions on what types of cable to be pulled, Fiber, Ethernet, Coaxial, USB. Meeting rooms with audio and visual set ups.
Field Engineer
Delta Global Services, DGS
04.2013 - 04.2016
- Interacted effectively with site engineering team and field staff to coordinate work that complied with design and construction documents.
- Identified major issues that could arise and provided solutions for these problems.
- Observed construction methods and installations, inspection and testing processes to maintain consistent progress.
- Assisted in developing cost-effective solutions to engineering problems.
- Identified any key changes to project that could affect cost, completion date and customer relationship.
- Applied expertise in comprehensive root cause failure analysis.
- Confirmed that construction progressed as scheduled and in compliance with contract specifications.
- Implemented initiatives to decrease number of quality variance caused by portable tote agitation.
- Integrated and tested [Cisco Devices] for massive upgrade of network.
Education
Computer Science
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, NYHigh School Diploma -
Jamaica High School
Jamaica, NY06.1992
Skills
- Status Updates
- Project Documentation
- Customer Needs Assessments
- Customer Rapport
- Agile Methodology
- Agile Manager
- Critical Thinking
- Task Prioritization
- Project Requirements
- Risk Management
- DevOps Principles
- Stakeholder Updates
- Best Practices
- Social Perceptiveness
- Backlog Management
- Analytics and Problem Resolution
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Project Monitoring
- Customer Satisfaction
- Risk Mitigation Planning
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Schedules and Milestones
- Change Management Process
- Agility Improvements
- Best Practices and Methodologies
Certification
- PMP - Project Management Professional #3029524
- Certified Scrum Master #001062442
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Project Manager, Software Development
Sera Prognostics
12.2021 - 03.2023
IT Project Coordinator/IT Project Manager
Willis Towers Watson's One Exchange
05.2016 - 11.2021
Field Engineer
Delta Global Services, DGS
04.2013 - 04.2016
Computer Science
New York Institute of Technology
High School Diploma -
Jamaica High School
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