Project Manager Quality Assurance

Flynn Kroft

Email: abpif6@r.postjobfree.com

Address: * ********** *****

City: Ballston Lake

State: NY

Zip: 12019

Country: USA

Phone: 518-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $110,000

Primary Skills/Experience:

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Educational Background:

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Job History / Details:

Flynn L. Kroft, PMP

3 Whispering Pines Ballston Lake, NY 12019

Phone: 518-***-**** Cell: 518-***-****

e-mail: abpif6@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Objective

Seeking management position delivering high-quality and value-added solutions to our clients.

Experience Summary

PMP certified Project Manager with over thirty years of experience as an Information Systems professional designing and implementing business solutions for a wide variety of clients. Areas of expertise include over twenty-two years of project management and mentoring combined with twelve years of technical (systems, applications and database) support management. I have managed several large system development projects on a variety of platforms, managed other Project Managers in a Project Management Office environment with multiple projects while mentoring a consulting staff of over 50 developers and support staff. I am proficient in planning; coordinating and implementing high level initiatives that help achieve a client's strategic business objectives.

Methodologies / Tools

PMBOK

Microsoft Office Suite

Visio

Program Management Office

Project Management

Project Risk & Assessment

System Development Life Cycle

e-Development

Microsoft Project

Capability Maturity Model

Lean Six-Sigma

Niku Workbench

Functional Areas

Energy Markets

Government

Manufacturing

Insurance

Insurance

Banking

Development / Maintenance Platforms

Web-based JAVA, Oracle, Windows, Sybase, Unix & Solaris

Client Server-based Visual Basic and C++

Mainframe-based CICS, IMS, IDMS, VSAM and DB2

Professional Experience

New York Independent System Operator - N Y I S O (Sr. Project Manager) February 2007 - September 2012

Served as the Project Manager for over 25 corporate projects and initiatives. Projects included several compliance modifications, modeling software upgrades; implementation of a new outage scheduling application; implementation of various infrastructure and operations projects; and completion of software certifications for our main modeling engine. I played an integral role in completing the DOE Smart Grid proposal. I also designed implementation of Documentum, re-established monthly Project Management Working Group meetings, worked with the Product Manager on budget preparations, generated and presented bi-weekly executive dashboards and assisted in the generation of the annual product plan. Other initiatives include assisting in development of a long-term report distribution and worked to establish standards and procedures to follow when procuring and working with an outside development vendor. I also worked on the team that totally revamped our problem resolution system and procedures including installation of a new comprehensive tracking system.

PMI March 2006 - present

PMP certification in August 2006. Instructor in local PMI chapter's PMP Exam Workshop class since 2007, teaching two sections in 2011 and 2012. Updated class materials for PMBOK 4th edition. In 2012 will be bringing the local chapter class into NYISO and will teach several sections.

Compuware (Sr. Project Manager) November 2005 - February 2007

Served as the Project Manager for several New York State Police headquarters' projects. Projects included a statewide installation of video teleconferencing hardware, network and software; development of new systems for installation in state trooper automobiles; interfaces between various software and hardware platforms allowing upgraded communications between troops throughout New York state; and a system upgrade for headquarters to track internal financials. Also helped establish a Project Management Office and provided baseline measurement metrics to track all NYS Police projects.

Ajilon Consulting (Sr. Project Manager) July 2005 - October 2005

Served as the Project Manager for the New York State Department of Taxation & Finance. Project objective was to complete a thorough performance test on a new release of a web-based front-end mainframe application. Major responsibilities included coordinating and scheduling tests, interacting with various technical and systems groups within the client site to identify problems and gain swift resolution and communicating timely status and results reports. Executed NYS project management methodology including completing a full risk assessment, project planning, status reporting, issues management, change management, quality assurance techniques and deliverables acceptance.

CMA, Inc. (Sr. Project Manager) October 2002 - June 2005

Served as the Project Manager and Business Analyst for the New Jersey Women and Infant Children (WIC) program. Led development and support teams for the Operations & Support contract that includes daily processing and report generation, month-end reporting, analysis of reports, communications, cost estimating, training, staffing, planning, risk assessment, issues management, status reporting, change management, quality assurance techniques and management of test regions / scripts. Responsibilities also included completing detailed business requirements for system enhancements and value-added process improvements.

Previous Professional Employment

Keane, Inc. (Sr. Principal Consultant) September 1994 - October 2002

Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield - Dir. Systems/Database Support March 1988 - September 1994

GTE (Systems Support Manager) November 1983 - March 1988

Carrier Corp. (Sr. Systems Programmer) April 1981 - November 1983

SofTech, Inc. (Software Engineer) June 1979 - April 1981

Education

B.S. - Computer Science: June 1979 SUNY - Oswego

A.S. - Business Admin. - August 1974 Onondaga Community College - Syracuse

PMP Project Manager Certification August 2006

PMP Preparatory Class Instructor

August 2007 - present Other areas of study

Energy Markets, Project & Risk Management, Client Relations, Business Analysis, SDLC, Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt), Capability Maturity Model.

References: Available upon request

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