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RICHARD CHEN  PMP

 

(408) 821-3603

mrramen@gmail.com

 

Project Manager / Management Consultant/ Sr. Business Analyst

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

 

Credentials:

- PMP, MCSE, CGEIT, CISSP Candidate, B.S in Finance & Management of Information  

  Systems

  

Management and Leadership:

- Led cross-functional, multi-location teams of up to 20, in high paced, deadline-defined

  environments; created rewarding team environments; coached junior members  

- Managed change, issue resolution, risks, escalations, communication, project control and

  deliverable acceptance; managed external vendors and internal stakeholders

 

Methodologies and Best Practices:

- Proficient with project management (PMBOK, RUP, SDLC, Agile, RAD, others), business analysis

  (BABOK), enterprise architecture methodologies and best practices

- Demonstrated expertise with enterprise architecture and frameworks; led enterprise infrastructure,

  systems integration, software development, proof of concept and security audit projects;

 

Business Analysis:

- Managed large scale changes to organizations; performed business process redesign; defined

  training and HR requirements and transition plans; provided recommendations for IT Governance

- Translated business strategy and vision into a series of strategically aligned enterprise projects

- Facilitated business requirements gathering workshops; documented functional, non-functional

  and user requirements; conducted requirements presentation for senior executives and obtained

  sign-offs; developed business cases, plans and proposals; conducted readiness assessments

 

Industries, Verticals and Clients:

- government (Federal, Provincial, Municipal); insurance: customer and policy, underwriting, claims, 

  others (the Co-operators); financial services: credit systems, risk management, others (Credit Suisse); wireless and telecom: data services, billing, invoicing, price plan composition,

  others (T-Mobile Cingular, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, British Telecom, TELUS Mobility);

  consulting: management, operations, HR, technology, risk management, others (IBM,

  Accenture); high-tech (Xyzmo, Amdocs, SUN Microsystems, BEA, Ingenico.); e-Business (B2B, B2C); energy and utilities:  gas, electricity; retail; publishing (PG&E);

- Internal clients included Operations, Marketing, Product, HR, Engineering, Finance, IT

 

Client and Vendor Relations:

- Conducted pre-sales, sales activities and post sales professional services

- Analyzed and gathered requirements, prepared and presented proposals and offers, RFIs/RFPs

- Interviewed vendors and conducted proofs of concepts, product trials, proposal analysis and new

  product evaluations

 

EXPERIENCE

RELEASE / PROJECT MANAGER / IT DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTV, El Segundo, CA                            March’09-Current

-   Led the development of all support and enhancements projects to the Amdocs billing system (STMS) that ran on HP series equipment in the DirecTV Billing team.  This included management for all release deliveries, Q/A planning and execution with approximate costs of 3 million per release.

-   Responsible for liaising with more than 35 immediate stakeholders, including  PMO Leaders & other Project Managers

-   Investigated & evaluated new project impacts towards the Billing system. Delegation of project assignments to other PMs within the department.

-   Involved in all aspects of vendor management (HP/AMDOCS) This relationship included all facets of the SDLC from analysis/design to implementation. Daily activities would often include negotiation of both project and release cost with vendors.

-   Performed multi organization (DirecTV, HP & AMDOCS) effectiveness and time to market interventions, conducted training needs analysis, gap analysis, mission/vision planning, job design, process redesign, and leadership development work.

-   Reported weekly on status, milestones, department budget, and project tracking to executive management and stakeholders.


PROGRAM / PROJECT MANAGER, Accenture, T-MOBILE, Seattle, WA                                              Sep’06-Feb ‘09

-   Managed development, infrastructure upgrades, and proof of concept projects (15 in total, with cross-functional teams of up to 12 members) that spanned across the enterprise and were based on best of breed technologies

-   Acted as the interface between business prime, technical team and business owners; assigned resources, managed delivery schedules, ensured deliverables were met, negotiated with managers to resolve resource conflicts

-   Investigated and oversaw the implementation of best practices in technology, security, and common components and facilitated their transfer to various internal groups (Marketing, Engineering, Operations, and IT)

-   Was involved in all aspects of vendor (11 in total) relations - from business requirements gathering and analysis, product proposal and proofs of concept, to trial, customization, integration and/or implementation, with individual contracts worth up to $2 M annually; created presentations to executive team that influenced strategic direction

-   Established IT Corporate Systems PMO and developed project management framework to be used across the enterprise. It is based on Rational Unified Process (RUP), Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and other methodologies and best practices. Aligned project controls with strategic objectives for IT

-   Prepared business case, defined project approach, created project plan and detailed estimates for a major enterprise initiative focused on migration of enterprise Retail desktop units to thin client solutions (SunRay).It was valued at $47M

-   As the result of the management study aimed to improve productivity of developers, considered various options, conducted cost benefit analysis, created business case and facilitated adoption of Team Foundation Server to be used by 150 developers across the company. NPV of the project was estimated at $2.2M

-   Facilitated proposal development and presented them to Clients; was involved in pre-sales and sales activities; assisted resolution of strategic and operational issues early on during the engagement

-   Managed external vendor in implementation of a credit risk management system; gathered business requirements; ensured that RBC Project Management Framework (PMF) deliverables were met; performed security audit

-   Various project implementations including: Retail Technologies, Billing & Payment Process Reengineering, Documentum EMC storage of all internal documents & customer information, Enterprise Product Catalog (AMDOCS), Enterprise Customer Hub (AMDOCS), Thin client solutions for CARE & Retail.


PROJECT MANAGER / Sr. BA, Accenture, MORGAN STANLEY- INDYMAC- STATE STREET            Dec 04’-Jun’06

-   Articulated business requirements as use cases for different components for the Risk Weighted Asset (RWA) calculation system.

-   Assessed Credit Risk strategies with various internal credit tools and implemented Basel II strategies to augment Credit availability.

-   Implemented Rational Unified Process (RUP) for data sourcing project.

-   Used UML methodology for gathering requirements and creating use case and class diagrams.

-   Worked with Investment Professionals, Financial Analysts as well as other business teams on requirement gathering.

-   Identified data requirements from source systems and defined ETL processes for extracting data from external systems.

-   Mapped hierarchies to be set up in the system for all counterparties (including counterparties to Account), collateral issuers and guarantors to determine the level of implementation.

-   Mapped financial data, general ledger data, loss event data, transaction data and people reference data from source to target database for creating a central Risk Data Repository (RDR) as required by Basel II reporting regulations.

-   Rollout of Basel II risk-based Credit capital calculations in the Risk Cache for FX, Metals, Credit Derivatives and Swaps products.

-   Incorporated Unified Change Management (UCM) in compliance with Configuration Management.

-   Managed requirements in Rational RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members.

-   Actively involved in developing and coordinating Functional and User Acceptance Testing.

-   Reviewed the system level test cases written by the testing team and prepared the UA test cases for end-user testing using Rational Test Manager.

-   Reported bugs using Rational Clear Quest and maintained version control with Clear Case.

-   Reported weekly on status, milestones and project tracking to project management and stakeholders.

-   Environment: RUP, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Test Manager, MS Visio, UML, SQL, Oracle 8i, TOAD.


MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT, Accenture, AT&T, Atlanta, GA                                                            Jun’04-Nov’04

-   Analyzed strategic goals, operating environment and technology infrastructure for M&A of two large telecom companies and developed program portfolio of 18+ enterprise projects valued at over $64.5M, spanning across the entire company (Customer and Policy, Underwriting, Claims, etc)

-   Advised VPs / CEO about feasible technology choices and benefits they would bring to business. Consulted management team about options to resolve operational and human resources issues 

-   Conducted meetings with C-level executives to establish technology strategy; performed risk assessment and created risk response plan for a major infrastructure change.

-   Developed portions of Enterprise Risk Management consulting product offering

-   Performed security assessments, identified issues and suggested their resolution


TECHNICAL CONSULTANT, Accenture,  Information Services, KLA-TENCOR, Milpitas, CA                Nov’03-June’04

-   Remaining time spent in R&D group designing, developing and customizing various software products and working with clients in order to establish their priorities, scope of work, integration points, data conversion and other activities

-   Managed transfer of organizational knowledge from headquarters in Milpitas to the acquired Candela Instruments Fremont division (application core modules, development standards, environment setup, configuration, issue resolution, etc.)

-   Acted as technical team lead on Accenture proof of concept, managed delivery schedule, issue resolution, and project progress, as well as software development, customization, configuration and integration activities on Client’s site.

-   Recognized by management for consistently providing solutions to seemingly insurmountable technical and customer problems

-   Successfully led the reanimation of several multi-million dollar software development projects, including a customized email engine and a customer loyalty program

-   Consistently recognized for exceptional performance by management, clients and customers


IT CONSULTANT/BUSINESS ANALYST, IBM - Various Clients, Bay Area, CA                                  Dec’01-Feb’03

-   Developed technology solutions to solve various business challenges of clients

-   Experienced in full life cycle system development, from requirements gathering and business case development to rollout and maintenance.

-   Worked with project teams and information architects to develop business process models.

-   Generated models to depict business processes and information flows.

-   Provided production assistance after project implementation.

-   Experience working with business users to analyze and document business requirements and system functional specifications.


NETWORK ENGINEER, EXODUS. Santa Clara, CA                                                                             Aug’00-March’01

-   Optimized several subnets and implemented Fiber Distributed Data Communications between key routers, switches and network storage devices. 

-   Upgraded key Extranet, Intranet and Internet Gateway devices to accomplish a more scalable Fiber Optic transition.

-   Revised and implemented  security policies and protocols

-   Represented and reinforced technical support department by handling level three support calls and emails.


NOC ENGINEER /LEAD Webvan., Foster City, CA                                                                           March’99-July’00

-   Planned, built and managed 7x24x365 HP Openview Network Operations Center (NOC). Provided written documentation as reference for the build. Designed Network Operations Center work space and procured equipment for use in the NOC

-   Built & managed Dell and Compaq servers to be used onsite for proprietary software applications


QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST/LEAD Hewlett Packard., Santa Clara, CA                                  Jun’97-Dec’98

-   Led team of 5 QA Engineers to create automated test suite and ensure compliance of 16 client and 4 server applications on 4 platforms with established specifications

 

EDUCATION

 

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Candidate, (ISC)                                  Present

 

-   Focus on IT Strategic Alignment, Value Delivery, Governance Framework, Risk Management,                       Resource Management and Performance Management

 

Advanced Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Use Cases Workshop, IBM                                       2007

 

Effective Negotiating®, Karrass                                                                                                         2007

 

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute                                           2008

 

Enterprise Architecture Seminar, Accenture                                                                                     2006

 

 

Bachelor of Science, California Polytechnic University                                                                    1998

-   Majored in Finance & Management of Information Systems, graduating in top 10% of the class

-   In-depth knowledge attained in Systems Analysis and Design Methodologies, Development, Networks, Databases

 

 

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

 

-           Operating Systems: AS400/iSeries, MS-DOS 6.22, Windows Server & Small Business Server (SBS) 2000-2003 and Windows Vista/XP/NT 4.0.

-           Hardware Platforms/Networking: PC based servers and workstations, StorageTek/IBM 3494 tape libraries, Channel technologies (Fibre, SCSI, iSCSI, Escon/Ficon), PC diagnostics/repair, Sonic Firewall, VoIP technology, TCP/IP and VPN setup/configuration.

-           Network Systems: MS Proxy Server and MS IIS Server.

-           Desktop Application Software: Exceed, PcAnywhere, MS Office, FrontPage, Project, Visio, Lotus Notes, Adobe Products, Sunbelt iHateSpam, disk repair, utility and optimizer software.

 

      Conceptual/Working Knowledge of:

-           Programming: RPG (ILE, III, II), CLP/400, SQL/400, REXX/400, COBOL/400, UIM/400, QRY/400, DBU/400, API’s, VISUAL BASIC, C++, Java, CGI, .NET, ColdFusion MX 7, Unix Shell and Patrol Scripting (PSL) and HTML.

-           Network Storage: Symmetrix/DMX, CLARiiON, Celerra, Centera and FC Switches/Directors (Connectrix/McData/Brocade/CISCO), HP StorageWorks (XP, EVA and MSA Disk Arrays) and IBM System Storage (DS and ESS Series). SANs, EMC

-           Network Application Software: MS Exchange Server 2003, MS SQL Server 2005, TSM (ADSM), BRMS/400, HTTP Server (Apache), Client Access, Rumba, ROBOT/400, BPCS, MAPICS, Infinium, Siebel, JDEDwards, DataMirror, Gentran, Harbinger (Premenos EDI), System 2000, Microsoft Retail Management Software (RMS), CommVault Galaxy, KVS Enterprise Vault, CMHC Systems, Symantec Backup Exec, Trend Micro Client/Server/Messaging Suite, Sunbelt CounterSpy/Messaging Ninja, Intuit Track-It and Avaya IP Office.

-           Database: DB2, MS SQL and Oracle.

-           Desktop Application Software: Exceed, PcAnywhere, MS Office, FrontPage, Project, Visio, Lotus Notes, Adobe Products, Sunbelt iHateSpam, disk repair, utility and optimizer software.

-           Enterprise Management: EMC Control Center suite, CA Unicenter, Tivoli and BMC Patrol product suite.

 

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