Stephen C. Sistare
Senior IT Project Manager
Summerville,SC
Summary
Seeking position requiring a highly trained and experienced Project Manager/Team member. Skills include planning, executing, and evaluating projects to comply with timelines, budgets, and client satisfaction. Work efficiently within team environments, as well as synthesize progress among varied internal and external infrastructures. Identify issues that might reflect need for adjustments to ensure project management goals are achieved in a quality manner. Utilize my leadership training to benefit the entire organization through collaborative team accomplishments.
Overview
6
6
Certifications
12
12
years of post-secondary education
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior IT Technical Project Manager
Boeing
09.2018 - 05.2021
- Reason for Leaving Boeing: major economic restructuring and downsizing at Boeing included outsourcing IT.
- Project Management: Led multiple (5-10) infrastructure projects at a time.
- Built and managed project teams to include planning, execution, and evaluation.
- Developed schedule plans using Microsoft Project.
- Led technical teams to manage progress to comply with goals, efficiency, and achievement of project plan.
- Analyzed and reported schedule-performance to leadership teams.
- To increase business capability and efficiency in a secure environment, directed phases of infrastructure projects utilizing cloud infrastructure such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Microsoft Azure.
- Upgraded Data Center (saving Boeing $1.5 M per year).
- Brought subsidiaries into the Boeing network while providing support to transition server resources to the cloud environment.
- Enabled various computing options for customers during the migrations.
- Analyzed documents computing infrastructure hosting requirements.
- Acted as process prime interface for coordinating the implementation of computing infrastructure designs.
- Program-managed consolidation projects including mergers and acquisitions, Oracle upgrades, and other application specific upgrades.
- Worked with MSR Focal to track computing hardware and software, to ensure that all elements needed to implement are defined and requested.
- Identified and successfully addressed impacting services and resource gaps.
- Worked with risk assessment, government, and compliance oversight.
- Training/Leadership Activities: Led and developed training for new IT Project Managers and mentored them to the IT department.
- Focused on teambuilding and supported collaboration during after work activities with the team.
- Worked with Boeing executives and external stakeholders to plan and execute the agenda for the Boeing Veterans Day Ceremony; participated in the Upstate Salute on Veterans Day by representing Boeing and connecting with other Veterans making the transition from a military career to the civilian workforce.
Application Infrastructure Services Team Leader
Boeing
08.2013 - 09.2018
- Led Agile teams at Boeing; Served as liaison between service integrators and IT teams to refine the product and incorporate features based on market demands; Partnered with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the server solution development process.
- Ensured the product team understood the direction and vision; Collaborated with teams to discover and deliver the best solution to the market.
- Effectively negotiated sprint goals with the team, which resulted in slashing delivery time of physical and virtual Servers by 20% in a single quarter, resulting in annual savings of $700,000.
Systems Operator
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC
01.2011 - 09.2013
- Analyzed data and produced essential technology reports for Senior Management.
- Coordinated payroll processing, IT support, backups on servers utilizing the Keane system in batch processing.
- Also; served as a Safety Officer for one year.
Comcast
North Charleston, SC
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Trained all new hire installers; educated over 2,000 customers on how to use computers, telephones, and cable equipment.
Waffle House
North Charleston, SC
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Recruited, trained, controlled inventory, ensured health inspections processes were viable for improved ratings.
- Excelled in management to expand and improve services and ratings, also achieved all bonuses and financial incentives for recognition of superior performance.
Wal-Mart
Charleston, SC
01.2005 - 01.2006
- Managed human resources and departmental development.
- Processed onboarding activities for over 300 employees, consulted with vendors (such as banking), analyzed data and compiled monthly audits.
- For 500 employees, ensured appropriate implementation of annual performance review processes as well as processing of designated salary changes.
- Developed and implemented Computer Based Learning for conducting store policy training programs for all employees.
Communications Officer
United States Air Force
Oklahoma City, OK
05.2002 - 03.2005
- Planned, designed, built, managed daily operations and maintained communications systems, to include maintaining $5 M worth of military assets.
- Promoted to Temporary Flight Commander.
- Other Employment (These are not true Project Management jobs, but I cannot underplay the valued experience from these varied service deliveries that is relevant to my success in leadership and integrating Project Management tasks within a variety of internal and external infrastructures).
Education
Graduate courses in doctoral Leadership program - Organizational Leadership
Charleston Southern University
Charleston, SC 08.2019 - Current
Masters - Project Management
The Citadel
Charleston, SC 08.2016 - 09.2019
BS - Information Technology
American InterContinental University
Schaumburg, IL 06.2010 - 01.2012
Masters - Human Relations
University of Oklahoma
06.2004 - 01.2005
BS - Human Factors Engineering
US Air Force Academy
06.1997 - 01.2002
Skills
PMP
Waterfall
Agile
Leadership
Relationships
Team building
Motivator
Organized
ServiceNow
IBM BPM
Jira
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Excel
Certification
Project Management Professional
Timeline
Scrum Product Owner
04-2021
A+
01-2021
Graduate courses in doctoral Leadership program - Organizational Leadership
Charleston Southern University
08.2019 - Current
Senior IT Technical Project Manager
Boeing
09.2018 - 05.2021
Project Management Professional
01-2018
Masters - Project Management
The Citadel
08.2016 - 09.2019
ITIL
08-2013
Application Infrastructure Services Team Leader
Boeing
08.2013 - 09.2018
Net+
01-2012
Sec+
01-2011
Systems Operator
Medical University of South Carolina
01.2011 - 09.2013
BS - Information Technology
American InterContinental University
06.2010 - 01.2012
Comcast
01.2008 - 01.2010
Waffle House
01.2007 - 01.2008
Wal-Mart
01.2005 - 01.2006
Masters - Human Relations
University of Oklahoma
06.2004 - 01.2005
Communications Officer
United States Air Force
05.2002 - 03.2005
BS - Human Factors Engineering
US Air Force Academy
06.1997 - 01.2002