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Joseph Pignato PMP R.E.P.
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Program / Product / Project Management Certified Expert with twenty years of continuous deployment; meeting and exceeding client goals in Corporate, Contract, and Startup environments, 12 years in Silicon Valley, CA. Achieved consistent, outstanding results while adhering to rigid deadlines and budgets. Experienced in the following industries:
Internet & New Media, B2B & B2C & Web Apps, Software Engineering, VIOP, Telco, Public Safety Command & Control Systems, City Government, DOD, DHS, Pharmaceutical & Health Care, IT Apps & Systems
Performing independently or interdependently to create, develop, and implement complex applications, systems, and technologies assignments requiring a high level of analysis and technical design skills with both large scale and JumpStart-type engagements. Effectively supervised technical staff, collaborated with management, and consulted to customers establishing program objectives, detailed requirements and recommended solutions at the business and core engineering level. A resourceful, creative, versatile individual with demonstrated success in the following areas:
PMO, PPM, Project & Resource Management, Product Development, Engineering, Software Development & Planning SDLC / Large Systems Design & Infrastructure / Web Services Development / Organization & Team Building / Broad Core Technical Development / Program, Application, Interface & RDMS Development
Professional Career
PMO International LLC § PMO Program / Product / Project MGMT, NJ, NYC, PA Aug 2001-Present
Application Development Program Manager § Web & Delivery § Contract- McGraw Hill, NJ April 08-Oct 08
• Web Design & Delivery - Provided Program and Project management direction and planning of work-streams for the redesign of “Customer-Facing” Applications & Systems responsible for a 30 Million / Year revenue stream. Reported to Director of Web & Delivery.
• Managed onshore and offshore teams of Technical Lead developers, development of new applications and technology to sunset legacy systems
• System Analysis, technical reviews for application design, creation of migration tools for ~4,000 DataLine & BMS Customers data.
• Interfaced with Business & Customer support to develop “future vision” system functionality & Human interaction Use Cases.
• Managed Business Analysts responsible for creating all software requirement, functional & design documents, Use Cases, SDLC documents
• Responsibilities include on time, on-budget management of the application development required to delivery production quality applications
• Architecture Project Portfolio MGMT meetings for stakeholder weekly status, weekly project team meetings. Provided issue management, maintained Project Portfolio Management & budget for DataLine Search, Target Leads News Research, PDM, and Bid Mgmt Systems
• Scrum trained Project Teams, daily Scrum meetings -weekly sprints, Agile iterative design, rolling wave, PMI PMBOK methodologies
• Methodologies: Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 & 3.5, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, ASP.net, AJAX, XML, Web Services, Oracle, PL/SQL, page decomposition & controls, Wireframes , Clickable Prototype, HTML, Java Script, CSS, DHTML, Legacy Client Server, VBScript
• Process: Business process modification, significant change management, training, customer migration to new systems, 3rd party SW development
PMO Program Manager § Contract- Merrill Lynch, HW, NJ Sept 07-Mar 08
• Online Application & Architecture PMO - Reporting to Online Architecture Development Group. Provided Program and Project management direction and planning of seven work-streams for the redesign of the ML Online Client Facing Web Site, managed a project team of 15 developers and analysts. Dynamic web page content delivery from Content Management System.
• Managed onshore and offshore teams of developers creating web services, web pages, and system architecture documentation.
• Managed onshore Business Analysts responsible for creating software requirement specifications, Use Cases, SDLC
• Responsibilities include on time, on-budget management, and weekly reporting to PMO for the Architecture Project Portfolio. Project interfacing with stakeholders, setting up architecture, staff, and project team meetings. Provided issue management, maintained major issues in Clearquest.
• Scrum trained Project teams, daily Scrum meetings -weekly sprints, Agile iterative design, rolling wave.
• Methodologies: YUI, AJAX, Web 2.0, XML, C#, XSLT, Web Services, page decomposition & controls, Wireframes , Clickable Prototypes, CMS
Engineering Program Manager § Contract- IPC Command & Control Systems, NJ Mar-Aug 06, Jan-June 07
Program & Release Management - Reporting to VP of Engineering, management of firmware and software development teams, assignment of engineering tasks, Design & SW Release Manager, Chairman for SW CCB for multiple large scale high profile product design, Mission-Critical Communications Public Safety Solutions and Systems through complete software life cycle to customer delivery, SDLC
• Program & Release Management - Reporting to VP of Engineering, management of firmware and software development teams, assignment of engineering tasks, Design & SW Release Manager, Chairman for SW CCB for multiple large scale high profile product design, Mission-Critical Communications Public Safety Solutions and Systems through complete software life cycle to customer delivery, SDLC
• High-tech & development methodologies, including VOIP, E-9-1-1 Call handling and reporting Systems, Web Interfacing to CAD: Computer –Aided-Dispatch Systems and RDBMS Interfacing, TDM systems programming, firmware, software, GUI Design, Telecom / Telco concepts,
• Program Portfolio Management & Project Planning – Coordinated and scheduled next-generation product releases, including scheduling, tracking milestones, insuring timely completion, and removing obstacles Coordinated Information and issues between all parties involved in the product creation & delivery: Product Management; development teams; consultants; QA; operations resources and customer service engineers
• Project Management: Planning, Control, Execution & Closure for multi-discipline technology projects, participated with management in the analysis of customer requirements and development of high-level system requirements. Managed engineering activities required to deliver the product to customers. Scoping and scheduling of Customer Enhancement Requests. Tools used: Visual Source Safe, Rational ClearQuest., Project 2007
• Methodologies: GIS - Geographic Information System, C#, C++ GUI, C Embedded technology, ASP, VIOP, TDM, Visual Basic. VBScript
Senior IT Project Manager § Contract- Corporate IT / WWI, Pfizer Inc, NJ Aug 2006-Dec 2006
Member of Corporate World Wide Infrastructure "Operating Model" Team - Define "as-is" state and Create the "to-be" WWI state
• Member of Corporate World Wide Infrastructure “Operating Model” Team - Define “as-is” state and Create the “to-be” WWI state
• Project coordination for multiple Senior Corporate IT Management service owners, AMER, APAC, EMEA, Chairman for negotiation meetings
• Develop Corporate IT services restructure plan & financial analysis. Facilitate agreements between senior management on Services consolidation
• Transition IT services between IT organizations creating In-House “Centers of Excellence”
• Development of the Corporate “Operating Model”. Planning and support for bridging support models: BAU (Business As Usual ) Business Model & MSP (Master Service Plan) model for purposes of pricing, resource allocation, and services support, for RFP vendor outsourcing negotiations
• Technical Documentation at all levels: RFP support, Service Level Agreements, Service Level Objectives, and Packaging / Bundling of service offerings to the task assignment level to support transitioning to In-House “Centers of Excellence” & outsourcing to vendor management
• Development & Creation of PM schedules & documentation to PMI / PMBOK standards, CFR Part 11, Regulatory compliance of certified systems, IT Policies, Change / Incident / Quality Management, Project Server & SharePoint 2003, reviewed Project Portfolio MGMT SW packages
Program Manager § Contract - Stanford Research Institute International, Tinton Falls, NJ/CA Nov 2005-Mar 2006
Program Manager & Director of Software Engineering - DOD Airborne Surveillance, Military Product Design
• Program Manager & Director of Software Engineering - DOD Airborne Surveillance, Military Product Design
• Fort Monmouth, NJ, Software Engineering Center, CECOM, 15th MI Bn, GRCS2, Electronic, Signal & Communication intelligence
• Design, programming, Program and Project Management of computer systems for collection and transmission of intelligent information, SDLC
• Program Portfolio Management: Full Life Cycle Project Planning – Multiple large scale technology projects, Software Development Life Cycle
• Project Management : Planning, Control, Execution & Closure for multi-discipline technology projects, CMMI, MS Project Server, SharePoint Web
• Coordination of multiple large scale high profile product design projects through an understanding of high-tech & development methodologies
• Development of Custom Program & Project Management Office Best Practice Methodologies and tools for PMO startup & continuance
• Development of RFPs, RFP Responses, SOW documents, Creation of Technical Documentation at all levels, Software Requirements, Functional
Digital 5 Inc § Networked Media Product Development, Lawrenceville, NJ - Startup Aug 2004-Dec 2004
Program Manager § Contract Clients: AOL, Netgear, Agere, Broadcom, Netflix, Delta, Medion, Rhapsody, vTuner, Real
• Series B Startup Company. Program Manager for Product Development Group developing configurable networked Audio/Video digital media products and configurable middleware / firmware, reporting to VP of Technology & Market Direction. Direct responsibility for all New Product Launches with customers and internal resources, Project Portfolio Management of ~30 client & engineering development projects. Managed issues for multiple QA environments: In-house, Offshore, Content Providers, Hardware MFGs & Distributors to assess new product maturity for “Product Launch” approval. Managed Project Portfolio SDLC New Product Development & Launches: MP101Radio@AOL wireless, MP115 Audio/Video wireless, NAS-Network Server. Product Launch of MP115 Radio at AOL Radio streaming content interface.
• Development Technologies: Embedded Firmware, Internet Video & Audio streaming file formats, WMC, DRM Digital Rights Management, Berkley DB, UI Design, C, C++, XML, 802.11b,g, Ali & Sigma Design chip platforms, codec, DSPs
• Compliance/Certifications: DLNA, INMPR, UP&P, DivX, MS Cardea, FCC
Sensor Technologies Inc § DOD Product Development, Tinton Falls, NJ July 2003-May 2004
Program Manager & Director of Software Engineering § Contract Clients: Department of Homeland Security (TMF MD, Roosevelt Roads, PR, St Thomas, VI), US ARMY Central Command Software Engineering Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ.(CECOM SEC, CIPO, I2WD), Computer Science Corporation (CSC)
• Program Manager and Director of Software Engineering - Direct leadership, management, and supervision for multiple development teams responsible for all aspects of Product Design, R&D development, and deployment of advanced systems and Web Services applications. Reporting to VP of Operations. Delivery Order Project Portfolio rated 97% overall by SEC. Duties include management of a 6 million dollar portfolio engineering development budget, schedules, finances, performance, program & design reviews, and team development of assigned programs. Managed a team of 15 PMs & Engineers. Additional responsibilities include business development leadership, execution for assigned business units, direct customer interfacing for funding and program status, new proposal development & execution utilizing skills in customer requirement recognition & definition, and the ability to develop and discuss core engineering technical solutions. Chairman CMM Steering Committee. Use of Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) & Government Off The Shelf (GOTS) as design components.
• Development Technologies: SDLC, GIS, Web Services, JSP, J2EE, JavaScript, IBM WebSphere, Visual Basic, VBScript, C++, XML, Oracle and SQL Server, 802.11B, SEIWG RF transmission, IBM WebSphere, Knowledge of: (CORBA, .Net, C#, ASP, UML).
PMO International LLC § IT Technology & Engineering, San Jose, CA
Aug 2001-July 2003
Principal / Consultant § Contract Clients: Applied Materials, Symmetricom, Synopsis, City of Santa Clara CA, Advanced Technology Solutions, Natividad Regional Hospital, and Health Care of the Redwoods, Compuware, and Modis.
• Conducted Best Practice business analysis and technical assessments of diverse technology arenas, analyzing and developing solution criteria Development of RFP, SOW documents, project management plans and staffing requirements for multi-discipline technology projects. Solid record of accomplishment of personally successful technical and project plans completed for Fortune 500 and 1000 companies and small businesses.
• Developed business & technical plans for employing new technology and security solutions covering a wide range of technology
• Project Management – Systems, Databases, Web Services / Intranet / Content Management / SDLC
• Databases – Oracle, Informix, Unify - Data Modeling, ERWIN, Re-architected data flows for the existing database to meet the HIPPA compliance.
• Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery Strategies any system, Redundant Hot Databases
• HIPAA Health Care Compliance – PM, Infrastructure analysis, Gap Analysis and Solution research, technology integration, Systems & EDI
• Led Microsoft Migration Team – NT to XP - regression testing for home grown Applications
• Developed Project Plans for Web Design & Integration, Network Analysis and Design – HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, PERL CGI programming
City of Santa Clara § Contract - IT Systems / RDBMS Development, Santa Clara, CA Feb 2001-July 2001
Senior Production Database & Systems Engineer
• Lead Engineer & Project Manager for the City of Santa Clara, CA. ERP installation & migration for production utilities and finance database on site at City Hall. Informix databases, Siebel interface, Oracle datamart database. Successfully migrated live City of Santa Clara production finance system on schedule to a new released ERP front end and database and successfully balanced all financial information. Customer Information, Radix dial in meter reading interface, daily-billing runs, Check reading software inputs, daily invoicing to customers. Upgraded and configured new releases of database and UNIX server software in a production environment. Configured DEC multi-processor UNIX production and test servers including kernel tuning. Developed new raw disk production database layout and expanded the RAID5 production array. Supported and tuned Informix and Oracle production databases and all interfaces. Developed graphic programs detailing the real-time production resource demands for database, user, program and server resources, and peak usage periods. Developed programs to calculate daily database disk usage in bytes, days / weeks of disk space remaining. Extensive technical documentation supporting proposals for upgrades of all software, hardware, and system tuning changes. Developed UNIX kernel sub-system tuning guide.
D2K Inc § Intelligent Logistic Network, San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley dotcom startup) Nov 2000-Jan 2001
Senior Engineering Database & Systems Engineer
•Data2Knowledge Staff Leader of the “Engineering RDBMS Team” Reporting to the Director of IT. Performed engineering assignments requiring extensive collaboration, problem solving and debugging in tandem with software engineering to develop the company product; peer-to-peer database Intelligent Logistic Network (ILN). Tasks at the database level for new software through all types of intrusive product testing. Install, configure, and support for all engineering databases company wide. Oracle, Informix, Sybase, DB2 installations and tuning of different release levels on all industry versions and release levels of UNIX OS and server hardware, Unix subsystem kernel tuning. Developed programs for instant recovery of RDBS to original state after invasive engineering testing of product on all types of databases, & use of IBM Domino interface, Designed PVCS Software Change Request database. Dot-Com Company closure.
BreakThrough Software Inc., B2B / B2C Software, San Jose, CA (Silicon Valley dotcom startup) May 2000 - Oct 2000
Senior Software Engineer
• Clients: Sprint USA, Earthlink, HP, Econex, and Nova.
• Staff Member of the “Startup Software Engineering Team”. Worked in collaboration with principal Software Architects. Designed software for a web based B to C e-Commerce application. HTML / Shell, Perl, WebC, Programs in UNIX/ MS. Modified source code to customer needs & applied customer style jpeg branding to the application. Software uses secure server over the network from ISP. Fully automated the build / release process. Programmed installation / upgrade / retrofit software for E-Commerce applications with the latest SW code features, for deployed live ISP clients while also preserving user’s personal site modifications. E-Commerce site customizations for ISP clients during upgrades. Source Safe code repository. Migrated Live E-Commerce ISP users to new software releases. Dot-Com Company closure.
North Coast Medical Inc, Health Care IT Infrastructure, Morgan Hill, CA 1999 - 2000
Information Technology Department Director / Manager
• IT Department Manager / Director - 37 million / yr Health Care Products Company. Reporting to CFO. Management of IT department staff, IT technology and infrastructure decision-making, budget planning, documentation, selection and purchasing of all IT network equipment, software packages, systems and upgrades. Successfully developed software and implemented their Y2K ERP Installation and migration / conversion of all company systems and 15 years of company financial and inventory data completed Dec 1, 1999. Designed new data model extensions with heavy use of data modeling, data mapping, DB extensions, and ERWIN. Successfully balanced all data and financial figures between the new and existing systems. ERP Installation & data migration, ERP modules GL, PO, INV, RCV, HR, Payroll, Check Generation, and automated INV system. Developed automatic upload to UPS web site with package level detail for out going shipments. Personally programmed all conversion programs to migrate and clean data from an ISAM database running on SCO platform and ported to an Informix database running on HP9000 V11.0, UNIX Kernel tuning / applying patches, UNIX Scripting, O.S. upgrades, hardware upgrades Processors, Memory & RAID1 Array, upgraded network. Improved factory throughput to 120K daily. Left for engineering position at a Startup Company.
Nagra USA Inc, Conditional Access Digital Video Broadcasting Systems, San Jose, CA 1996 - 1998
Systems Engineer / Customer Service Field Engineer
• Clients: Bell South, Lockheed Martin, Americast (LA), C-Cube Microsystems, and Divicom
• 100% Travel. Systems Engineer for large scale Digital Video Broadcasting Systems including: designing software programs, installation, configuration, debugging, training and support of large-scale digital video broadcasting systems with core Oracle program database. Primary engineering contact for the Conditional Access System for Client Engineering Community & Set top box engineering team on engineering and technical issues. Creation, configuration, updates, and troubleshoot errors for Systems and Oracle databases. Networked bays involve Oracle hot backup, ~30 redundant & timed program feed systems using SCO UNIX, DEC UNIX, DEC VMS, RAID5 arrays of 30+ disks and MPEG interfaces to DVB technology transmission systems.
Unisys Corporation (Formally Burroughs Corporation) 1987-1996
Program Manager, Programmer IV § Engineering & Information Technology
Received upward promotions throughout tenure § 3 Awards for Professional Excellence.
Convergent Technologies, San Jose CA (Unisys - Silicon Valley startup subsidiary - plant closure) 1990 - 1996
Senior Systems Analyst IV / Programmer IV § Strategic Corporate Technology Programs
Program Management
• Program / Project Manager - Database design, development, and code development for applications for all storage and data transfer program interfaces at the San Jose plant for management of all engineering data for new product releases, engineering bill of materials. Provided code reviews and hands-on programming. Project and User Group team building for teams of 30 - 40 people.
• Program / Project Manager for the closure of the Unisys Flemington Plant. Migrate / port all mainframe MRP product information and transfer data, IT data and equipment and implement in disparate Convergent Technologies plant system apps and MRP application.
Software Development
• Project Manager - Development team for design of DLLs and install scripts for MS PC client / server application and the interface to an ORACLE DB in UNIX platform. Technology: DLLs, ODBC, OLTP, and Windows messaging technologies to interface with legacy mainframe order entry applications environment, delivery of compiled code on schedule.
• Lead Programmer & Project Manager - Hands-on design, programming, and implementation of applications for the San Jose Plant. Ported all data from ASK ManMan MRP system to Unisys BAMCS MRP System. Ported all data from UNIX UNIFY database to Corporate Mainframe Engineering Database, responsible for data mapping, extraction, and data reformatting and uploading of all data.
Unisys / Burroughs Corporation, Flemington, New Jersey 1987 - 1990
• Project Manager & Lead programmer - Corporate marketing AI Product Model Generator at the Flemington plant. Prolog on Unix platform
• Chairman of Corporate Advanced Design and Manufacturing planning and implementation committee
• 20 US and European plants. Corporate representative at the Flemington Plant for Office and Manufacturing Automation Strategy. Developed Surface Mount Technology at the Flemington Plant. Hands on designing the first SMT prototypes at Unisys Flemington, developed PCB IC chip place/route strategy, SMT CAD library, Supported ASIC design development & simulation and EE circuit simulation libraries, CAD hardware modeler and simulation timing files. Supported CAD environment for 40 - 50 electrical engineers.
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Highlights of Achievements
• Program Management Offices, 8+ years: Product Development, Digital Network Media, R&D DOD Tactical Internet, Corporate Enterprise Projects, IT Systems, Networks, RDBMS &, SDLC, Agile & Scrum Iterative Software Design
• Program Management of Application Development Team, .Net 3.5 application design to sunset legacy systems
• New Product Development / Launches: MP115 & MP101 Radio@AOL interface Audio / Video wireless, NAS Server
• Developed PM procedures & tools and templates for streamlining Program & Project Management activity and reporting. “Product Maturity” assessments for release to client. Management of 6-10M Project budgets & Metrics.
• Management of QA teams: Internal local & Off Shore QA, Client QA, Distributor QA, MFG QA, & Metrics
• Project Audit & Oversight: Engineering Projects, Project Plans, Budgets & Project deliverables to Client
• Consolidated Engineering Process & Information flows of information & data at the Plant & Corporate level
• Engineered digital video broadcast systems/Infrastructure-Divicom, Bell South, Americast, Lockheed Martin
• Management of $6 -10 Million in Program Development Resources for Government Military & DHS Development
• Directed R&D development of Web Services Distributed Tactical AMDS System for CECOM, SEC, U.S. Army
• Program Manager – AMDS System, HLS & DHS Team at TMF Largo MD, Roosevelt Roads PR, St Thomas VI
• Chaired Corporate Advanced Design and Manufacturing committee involving 20 US & European plants
• IT Director / Manager, 37 Million/YR company: Developed successful Y2K migration of all data & systems
• Consultant to Gershon - Lerman Technology Group Council, NYC, PMI Member - New Prod Dev, International Dev
Key Skills
• Masters Science Project Management (NJIT), PMP § Project Management Professional Certification / PMI
• 12 years Program PPM & Project Management – Product & Software Design, Online Web, System Analysis, CMS
• PM MGMT Teams of 15-40, Proficiency in MS Project & Project Server 2003 & SharePoint, MS Office, Windows
• Interactive Media Product Development & Web Services Design & Integration – Build & Release / Integration
• IT Services “Operating Model” Development & Migration: In-House to Outsourcing Vendor RFP transition planning
• Technical Documentation – RFPs ~10 Million+, R&D Proposals ~1 Mill+, PM Plans, WBS, SOW, Metrics
• Languages– C, PERL, 4GL, Unix Shell, Lisp, Pascal, Prolog, SQL, Java Script, HTML, J2EE & C++ Knowledge
• 15 years UNIX O.S (all flavors) Programming, PERL, 7 years C, Kernel tuning, Shell [HP,DEC, SCO, AIX, Solaris]
• 10 years DBMS design / Data Modeling, SQL, Programming data extraction/interfacing, Tuning, ETL, ERWIN
• 5 years MRP / ERP Systems & Migration, 10 years-Oracle, Informix, Unify: Configure, Interface, Migration
• 8 years 4GL Application Development – Database modules, functional design, screen development
• 3 years Wireless / 802.11, SEIWG, RF transmission - 9 years Network HW / SW, LAN, 3Com, Proxy Servers
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Education
New Jersey Institute of Technology § Newark, NJ, Masters Certification Project Management
* Cost Estimating for Capital Projects, Project Management & Control, Contracts, Artificial Intelligence, Speech & Vision Recognition
Project Management Institute § PMP, Project Management Professional International Certification
* PMI Registered Education Provider - PMI Global Standards, New Product Life Cycle focus, PM Training Classes in-house
Rutgers University § New Brunswick, New Jersey, BS / BA Computer Science / Design Science
* Inter-disciplinary degree, internship Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, Electro-Mechanical, CAD Multilayer & Thin / Thick Film Design
Additional Education § UC Berkeley – C++ * San Jose City College – CGI Programming, Java Script, Advanced Oracle * Unisys – GUI Concepts and screen design * Unisys – Database design, data modeling * DB performance tuning, Web Interface, Dynamic 4GL * DOD Security Secret Clearance 2006 * 3 Awards for Professional Excellence *
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