John H Morrison
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Roles: Experience Summary
Project Manager Effective Information Technology professional with
Data Center Operations over 20 years of extensive expertise in project
Finance/Budget Administration management, business administration, computer
operations, and facilities management. Throughout
Vendor Management his career Mr. Morrison has demonstrated the
Facilities Management ability to lead and to influence at all levels of
Service Availability the organization. Mr. Morrison brings end-to-end
Management project management experience, leading a data
center relocation project from one state to another
delivering the project successfully without
Tools/Methods: customer interruption ahead of schedule and under
budget. He also brings experience managing internal
Clarity computer operations teams with resources across the
Project Management country. Mr. Morrison has extensive developing and
-MS project planning large initiatives including development of
MS-Office Suite the business case, resource plans, project
ITIL timelines and project budget. His organizational
Visio Basic skills and personnel management ability were keys
Requirements Management to the success of his departments and projects.
Skills Inventory
Industry Application: Project Management:
Financial/Banking Services Planning and Development
Credit Card Clarity Project Administration
Manufacturing Risk Management
Education Resource Management
Vendor Management
Education: Budget Administration
Project Closure
University of Solution Analysis
Pittsburgh-Engineering Facilities Administration
Lehigh University-Business Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity
and IT Security/Risk Management Experience
Quality Assurance:
SDLC/Agile/Waterfall Process Familiarity
Additional Training: Disaster Recovery Site Management
ECPI-IT Technical
Various Business Courses
Chronological Summary of Experience
Project Manager-Consultant
Advantage Corp-Wells Fargo/Wachovia Merger-Wholesale Dept.
April, 2011 to October, 2012
A. Project Lead working on Wachovia to Wells Fargo Network
Enterprise Messaging migration.
. Led Wholesale Dept project meetings to identify and process
SMTP gateway servers and devices from old to new Wells gateways
. Used Clarity to create work orders and track progress.
. Documented and maintained database and spreadsheets to measure
progress.
. Used aggressive "Out of Box" processes to accomplish targets
. Co-ordinated engineering resources to complete assignments.
. Co-ordinated LOB resources to identify and complete migration
B. Senior Project Manager-Consultant
. Project lead working on Wachovia OS Remediation effort, as
part of Wells Fargo merger. Project was to identify and
remediate operating system inconsistencies.
. Used Clarity to create work orders and track progress.
. Lead LOB/Engineering project meetings to identify and correct
OS inconsistencies.
. Documented and maintained database and spreadsheets to measure
progress.
. Used aggressive "Out of Box" processes to accomplish targets
. Co-ordinated engineering resources to complete assignments.
C. Lead Project Manager-Consultant
. Worked as project lead, on the Access Management project.
This was beyond 40 hr work week listed above and was an
additional assignment
. Interviewed LOBs and documented project to centralize access
management capabilities thruout the company.
Service Consultant -- Client Interface
U.S.Government, April 2010 to August, 2010
Providing client interface support, data collection and organization
services. Working as part of a team to QA data and verify collection
statistics for government data base.
. Independent client interaction and support.
. Documented statistics and verifed accuracy
. Strong interpersonal and organizational skills utilized to complete
assignment
Microsoft Suite Applications-Business Skills Refresher
In Home Traning, February, 2009 to January, 2010
Retraining on the Microsoft Office Suite of products to maintain business
and technical expertise.
. Excel
. Word
. Access
. Powerpoint
. Project 2007
Service Availability Manager - Project Manager - Infrastructure Support
Client: Bank of America, January 2005 to February 2007
Provided project management, solution analysis, and problem resolutions to
the business channels utilizing Bank of America's project management
methodology.
. Managed a project to complete the analysis of the call center
environment functionality to support future growth.
. Led team to determine project scope.
. Developed, managed, and updated the project plan to reflect up-to-date
activity. Provided weekly status updates to sponsors.
. Identified and recruited resources.
. Established lines of communication to the team and senior management.
. Daily and weekly project meetings
. Continuous review of issues and risks to maintain forward progress.
. Proactively determined data sources and data configuration.
Manager of Operations, Facilities, and Administration
Client: Fleet Credit Cards/ Bank of America, January 1997 to January 2005
Responsible for Credit Card Data Center Operations, including management
of data center projects, financial administration and facilities operation
and co-ordination.
. Developed the program to relocate the data center from one state to
another. Planning included development of the business case,
preparation of the resource plans and the timelines and creation of the
project budget.
. Managed the execution portion of the plan, successfully delivering
under budget and on schedule.
. Lead an Information Risk group, responsible for all user access to
company systems, applications, and networks.
. Developed and managed merger and transition activity
. Developed and implemented disaster recovery plans for the data center.
. Managed multiple data center departments across the organization
. Developed and maintained delivery standards and operational SLA's
. Led a 7x24 data center operation.
. Managed 45 people in a coast to coast operation
. Responsible for Helpdesk Operations
. Led the day-to-day Financial Administration for the entire IT
department.
. Responsible for Vendor Management
. Responsible for budget and invoice processing
. Responsible for contract reviews and analysis.
. Responsible for Disaster Recovery data center
Operations Manager
Client: Advanta Corporation, May 1988 to Jan, 1997
Managed the production data center operations for all company IT functions
and development.
. Managed all data center projects including expansions and enhancements,
including development of the business case, resource plans, project
timelines and project budget.
. Led a 7x24 data center operational team
. Monitored all application performance and reliability
. Developed a reliable personnel organization.
. Coordinated Disaster Recovery planning and testing
. Developed the Information Technology budget process for the department.