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  • Overall Experience: 14 Years  
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John R. 

Technology Leader

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Willing to travel to client location: Yes  

About Me 

Global Experience Innovation Revenue Growth Cost Avoidance Creative, results driven technology leader offering more than 20 years of experience in international operation
Global Experience Innovation Revenue Growth Cost Avoidance Creative, results driven technology leader offering more than 20 years of experience in international operations with top-tier global and emerging companies in all areas of Information Technology project management and operations. Documented record of accomplishment in initiating, developing, and executing programs driving data center consolidation, transformation, innovation, revenue increases, and cost savings. A key player in major technology initiatives with Texas Instruments, PepsiCo, Dell, and Cisco Systems. Highly experienced in Microsoft Project, MS Project Server 2010, MS SharePoint Server 2010, Jira, Confluence, Bit-Bucket, MS PowerPoint, MS Office, HP PPM, Primavera, Adobe Acrobat, Visio, Clarity, Rational, Remedy and ServiceNow. PMP, CSM and ITIL certified.
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Portfolios

Program/ Project Manager IT M&A and Governance

Website Link: novartis.com

Role:

Leading teams of offshored engineers from Wipro, HCL and BT to migrate infrastructure and application/ database services from Novartis over to the divested company Alcon. Effectly plan and execute daily migration operations of the planned deliverables with the seccussful followup of user exceptan

Leading teams of offshored engineers from Wipro, HCL and BT to migrate infrastructure and application/ database services from Novartis over to the divested company Alcon. Effectly plan and execute daily migration operations of the planned deliverables with the seccussful followup of user exceptance.

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Skills:

Tools: MS ProjectMS-VisioOutlookSkypeOne NoteSharepointServiceNow

Project Manager Lead Global Apple Products Implementation

Website Link: ti.com

Role:

Led teams of engineers to migrate physcal infastructure to support the deployment of Apple products globally to the AWS cloud. Daily duties of the project were to plan, track, and execute the delivery of the AWS migration of services, the stand-up of the JAMF services, the review, purchase of lic

Led teams of engineers to migrate physcal infastructure to support the deployment of Apple products globally to the AWS cloud. Daily duties of the project were to plan, track, and execute the delivery of the AWS migration of services, the stand-up of the JAMF services, the review, purchase of licenses, and product user exceptance and selectionof all Apple apps and services. Led the global launch of Apple Mac Pro to employees as a service option over a windows PC.

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Skills: Just Another Management Framework - JAMFAWSAWS Cloud

Tools: MS ProjectOutlookJIRAConflunceGithub

Program Manager Global Transformation

Website Link: pepsico.com

Role:

HCL Employee for PepsiCo to lead the global transformation of infastructure, human resourses, and applications services globally. This was a senipr role leading over 30 project managersand 200 engineers. Daily duities involved infastucture migration planning from 52 global datacenters into 4 glob

HCL Employee for PepsiCo to lead the global transformation of infastructure, human resourses, and applications services globally. This was a senipr role leading over 30 project managersand 200 engineers. Daily duities involved infastucture migration planning from 52 global datacenters into 4 global super data centers. Led the human resorses transformation from localized to offshored resourses and well as the application and database transformation.

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Skills: Swing

Tools: MS ProjectMs Office 365ConflunceJIRA

Project Manager IT Services

Website Link: dell.com

Role:

Project Manager leading engineering teams to build and deploy Dell Financial Services EMEA. Daily duties involved planning, tracking project deliverables on time and under budget.

Project Manager leading engineering teams to build and deploy Dell Financial Services EMEA. Daily duties involved planning, tracking project deliverables on time and under budget.

Skills: Program ManagementProject Management

Tools: MS Projectoracle primaveraOutlookMs Office 365

Employment

Project Manager

2018/08 - 2019/12

Skills: Project Management

Your Role and Responsibilities:

Project Manager for M&A and Governance, Led the divestiture of Alcon from Novartis

Project Manager for M&A and Governance, Led the divestiture of Alcon from Novartis

Sr. Program Manager – M&A and Governance

2017/08 -

Skills: Video ConferencingNetwork Security

Your Role and Responsibilities:

Axians Redtoo Employee for NVS –(Connectivity) Leading teams of people for IP Telephony (IPT, SIP, UC) Video Conferencing (VC) and network migrations (WAN, LAN, LAN Sec, WOS, DDI, and WLAN) over to Alcon for the divestiture of the two companies. (Alcons divesture from Novartis) Daily involvement i
Axians Redtoo Employee for NVS –(Connectivity) Leading teams of people for IP Telephony (IPT, SIP, UC) Video Conferencing (VC) and network migrations (WAN, LAN, LAN Sec, WOS, DDI, and WLAN) over to Alcon for the divestiture of the two companies. (Alcons divesture from Novartis) Daily involvement in stakeholder management for these projects for Novartis, Alcon and the vendors (AVISPL, WIPRO & HCL). Leading Project planning, timelines, deliverables, and weekly/daily meeting for these stakeholders and projects. (Governance) Led a team of auditors and engineers to review all of the Novartis Global Audit and compliance to enforce compliance and audit remediation. Areas under review include Access Management, Security Compliance, Network Security and Configuration Management Compliance.
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Program Manager – I.T Operations

2015/01 - 2017/08

Skills:

Your Role and Responsibilities:

Matrix Resources for TI -program responsibility leading a team to renovate the IT infrastructure of the main corporate campus. The TI corporate campus is a 2 million square foot facility with 19 IDF rooms, 2 MDF rooms, and the Big Tex Data Center a tier 2 DC with 10,000 servers 6 core switch pairs a
Matrix Resources for TI -program responsibility leading a team to renovate the IT infrastructure of the main corporate campus. The TI corporate campus is a 2 million square foot facility with 19 IDF rooms, 2 MDF rooms, and the Big Tex Data Center a tier 2 DC with 10,000 servers 6 core switch pairs and 15 PBs of storage. The IT PM role coordinated the Construction effort with the various vendors (IT and non-IT) to drive the IT initiatives of refreshing the IDF rooms, the MDF rooms, and the migration of the Big Tex Data Center to a green field DC. This role reported to the IT Ops. Director.
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Senior Manager - Global Data Center Transformation

2014/01 -

Skills:

Your Role and Responsibilities:

HCL Technologies for PepsiCo - Led 50-person project team in largescale data center transformation for PepsiCo with a $100M IT budget. Project included more than 15,000 servers, 50 PB of storage (VMAX/VNX), and large network and security installation re-work/upgrade. This role served as the liaison
HCL Technologies for PepsiCo - Led 50-person project team in largescale data center transformation for PepsiCo with a $100M IT budget. Project included more than 15,000 servers, 50 PB of storage (VMAX/VNX), and large network and security installation re-work/upgrade. This role served as the liaison between HCL (a managed service company) and PepsiCo management. This role reported to the Sr. Director of Global Technology.
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Senior Program/Project Manager - IT PMO/CoE

2012/01 - 2014/01

Skills: Business Intelligence

Your Role and Responsibilities:

JRI Technical for Dell - Led development team to build and deploy Dell Financial Services Europe EMEA (DFS), a Europe-wide infrastructure, software, and banking center rollout. This role involved implementing PMO/CoE processes such as KPI modeling, project governance, ITIL governance, compliance, an
JRI Technical for Dell - Led development team to build and deploy Dell Financial Services Europe EMEA (DFS), a Europe-wide infrastructure, software, and banking center rollout. This role involved implementing PMO/CoE processes such as KPI modeling, project governance, ITIL governance, compliance, and new project development/acceptance. Directly managed extensive Business Intelligence (BI) platform deployment for Dells equal logic storage platform using Splunk 8.0 / SQL RAC DB to collaborate storage and other devices to gather business intelligence of storage performance using IoT technologies.
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Education

2013 - 2014

2006 - 2010

Skills

Agile Software Development Amazon Relational Database Service Application Lifecycle Management Atlassian Confluence Business Intelligence
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Tools

MS-Office MS Project JIRA Conflunce Github
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Hobbies

I love to help children. I have been a board member for the gift of adoption fund for many years which is a non profit charity that helps babies and children in impoverished countries get adopted by suitable parents here in the Dallas /Fort Worth area. In addition to that I love to run and run about 5 miles a day. 

Achievements

  • Led the first production launch of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), Cisco’s first server platform that now earned the company a commanding lead in the computing platform industry.  Produced significant new revenues and saved Cisco millions in costs.
  • Led a development team to build and deploy Dell Financial Services Europe EMEA (DFS), a Europe-wide infrastructure, software, call center and banking center rollout earning Dell Inc., millions in new revenue from financial services throughout Europe.
  • Led ambitious PepsiCo Data Center Transformation project worth $1B+ in capital expenditures to HCL

Certification

PMP, CSM, ITI

Preferred Languages

English - Native/Bilingual Spanish - Basic