Ace Virtual Agency

Event Producer/Lead Tech/POC

Beast Club

Co-Founder/Director of Community Events and Experiences

Beast Node

Executive Assistant/Event Director

LinkedIn Creator's Club

Community Manager

InkedInsomnia

CEO/Creative Director

West Seattle Thriftway

Customer Service Representative - Bakery, Espresso, Floral

Kelsey Lipps Events Planning

Event Planner/Coordinator

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Getinge

Project Manager IT Applications Americas

Bloomberg LP

Senior Project Manager

Paramount Home Entertainment

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

Technology Infrastructure process manager 

Deutsche Bank

Delivery Project Manager for Data Center initiatives including requests to build physical or virtual hosts and perform host upgrades or migrations across multiple regions. Being tasked with all migration server projects due to prior System Administrator roles in past jobs along with network troubleshooting expertise for both US and UK. DC migrations across multiple regions. Work with various operational teams, assisting in the planning and execution of milestones ensuring commitment dates are met.  Ensure projects relating to regulatory compliance or risk are appropriately prioritized and performed as needed.  Provide regular status updates to the business and management as well as maintain tracker tool for ad-hoc reporting and inquiries.  Troubleshoot issues with delivery or configuration and perform quality checks including ensuring accurate updates of the configuration management database.  Running point on all VOIP black box upgrades for all US region including all trouble shooting calls for migration issues that arose during installs. Managed resources and budgeting for the black box upgrades for remote office sites along with vendor management for all phases. PM for post upgrade issues coming from AVAYA upgrades from VOIP rolls after migrations from black box server projects for phase II. Run point on network setups (switches/routers/patches/resourcing/configuring/racking). Submit and update requests using a variety of tools including Service Now, Incident and Change Management as well as custom delivery systems.  Create and maintain key operating procedures and policies globally.  Responsible for running heat map reports from SAP – Business objects database systems and creating monthly reporting to business lines utilizing word and PowerPoint. Communicating all open Risks between the business and technology on a daily/weekly basis with solutions to regain timelines committed to early in project infant stages.

Senior Technical Project Manager - Regional US

Barclays

Operated as technical lead for compliance including assembly of terror watch lists and implementing and testing changes to the business system resulting in a decrease in false alerts.  Managed the development of standards around data quality for all compliance touch points globally.  Assisted in the rollout of two new Sanction applications and created and produced monthly metrics for senior management.  Developed new standards for onboarding overseas Barclays Group users as part of an Investment Banking consolidation project.  Primary point of contact for all queries relating to terrorist list entries produced from OFAC, EU, UN and UKHMT government lists. 
Notable Projects:
Migration of Barclays Group users into Investment Banking domain – Lead Project Manager
Organized and managed process to onboard Barclays Group users onto multiple domains enabling access to all Sanction/AML applications.  Collaborated with various IT support teams in order to complete a 100+ user onboarding project. Co-managed the lifecycle of user migration from beginning until end of full scope of work. 
Vrisk & OEDQ (Financial Crimes Sanction applications)
Assisted in the implementation of a global solution, consolidating multiple applications into one for the full lifecycle of the application.  Led technical support for applications.  Produced reporting and metrics to measure rollout successes and highlight areas of improvement. 
Office 2007 Deployment –Project Manager
Successfully deployed Office 2007 across entire Compliance Financial Crime organization globally.  Created deployment plan, performed hardware analysis and system upgrades, developed UAT plan and executed testing, and worked with various operational IT teams to ensure successful rollout.   
Data Quality Control standards
Defined standards including Service Level Agreements (SLA), New Product Services (NPS) and Gap Tracking processes. Assisted in the definition of standards for all Compliance IT groups for threshold reporting.

Compliance Project Manager

Barclays Capital

Oversaw break-fix and provisioning teams comprised of new joiners, loaner laptops, blackberry deployment, workstation repairs, visitor desktop setups and all repairs to Data Center equipment and upgrades. Responsible for the successful completion of server repairs within SLA and upheld critical time schedule for outages within any Data Center.  Produced monthly metrics on both desktop and server break-fix related issues to drive down reoccurring issues and highlighted upkeep of key server platforms.  Produced governance and control policies for hours of operations and escalation procedures of all server break-fix tasks. 
Notable Projects:
Datacenter Migrations – Project Manager
Spearheaded effort to migrate two disaster recovery sites for Barclays’ to become an active - active datacenter model. Overseeing HP chasses and blades to replace old out of date hardware. Heat map planning sessions to reduce carbon footprint within datacenters. Planning, reporting and assuring project deliverables were met and all Risks recorded and communicated to the business with new timelines. 
Windows XP Desktop Integration – Project Manager
Spearheaded effort to migrate two disaster recovery sites to Barclays’ Windows XP platform, coordinated all business testing, application issues due to migration with the business user community and utilized all areas of IT support for major outstanding integration issues identified by the business during testing. 
Global User Life Forum (GULF)
Key US lead for desktops on the New Joiner/Leaver process in the GULF project.  Trained all US staff on newly adapted tracking program for all laptops provided within the US region.

Head of Desktop Provisioning and Break Fix for Americas project management 

Chilton Memorial hospital

IT service technician

Computer Learning Centers

System administrator Manager

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL
Strategic and forward-thinking Technology Project Management & IT Manager with a career history of effectively managing technical operations and supporting organizational goals while elevating productivity and driving key milestones. Diligent and resourceful in uncovering solutions that meet all business needs; skilled at balancing resources and forging cross-disciplinary relationships to align business and technology objectives. Leverages IT support and compliance AML/Sanctions experience to optimize business operations and enhance functionality. Dynamic team leader and change agent capable of critically evaluating and responding to rapidly evolving technology environments while effectively spearheading complex technical projects and facilitating cross-functional collaboration.
Areas of expertise:
IT MANAGEMENT – LIFECYCLE PLANNING – WATERFALL AND AGILE  - STRATEGIC PLANNING – PROJECT MANAGEMENT – DELIVERY MANAGEMENT - HP SERVERS AND BLADE CHASSIS/BLADES AND ALL OTHER UPDATED HARDWARE INCLUDING ANY NETWORK OR SAN DEVICES – DC INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING ROUTERS/SWITCHES/PATCHING/RACKING/CONFIGURING -DMZ NETWORKS – SERVER MIGRATIONS WITH STATIC ROUTING REQUIRED – NCP IP TOOL SET SKILLS FOR IP RETENTIONS - COMPLIANCE AML/SANCTIONS – TEAM LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT – BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT – PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS – NEEDS ASSESSMENT – VENDOR RELATIONS – DESKTOP SUPPORT – RISK MANAGEMENT – BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT – DEPLOYMENT – DATA QUALITY CONTROL – DATA CENTER MIGRATIONS – SOLID UNDERSTANDING OF UNIX, AND WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS


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