George D.

Corbett III
Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481 SUMMARY IT professional focusing on application of technology to business challenges in the areas of Application Development, Enterprise Infrastructure consolidation, standardization and migration of systems globally. My experience spans multiple industries including Financial and Educational Services and the Software industry. My roles have been diverse and multi-dimensional managing, designing, developing, implementing, maintaining and supporting mission critical platforms from a Development, Production Support, Operations and Infrastructure management perspective. My strengths include strategic and tactical planning, outstanding leadership abilities, budget planning and execution, firm knowledge of infrastructure and application development (SDLC) project life cycle methodologies, extensive business partner interaction, people management, results oriented, on/off-shore management/team building and a builder of strong cross-functional working relationships. Identifying, defining and resolving operational, business and application issues across a global enterprise Extensive experience establishing and upgrading critical process and procedure policies across operational, application and business units Developing solutions through creative and collaborative problem solving Maximizing profitability through the strategic application of technology globally Proven ability to deliver and support mission critical web based, client/server and mainframe applications applying systems analysis, technical design and development skills. Extensive program/project management experience including communication planning, people management, risk management, scope definition, resource planning, extensive vendor management and selection, resource scheduling, budget creation/tracking and managing concurrent projects simultaneously utilizing matrixed and functional techniques. Excellent budget management, leadership, communication, negotiating, conflict management and influencing skills, earning respect across the enterprise (978) 987-4210 gdc3runner@gmail.com

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SKILLS: MS Office Suite, Program/Project Management, SDLC, VB, JAVA, .NET, C/C++, JSP,
Websphere, Webservices, Sharepoint, Linux, Windows, UNIX, AIX, HPUX OSs, Dell, SUN, IBM, HP hardware platforms, VMware, Vsphere, Mainframe (AS400), HP, NetApp and EMC Storage, SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Citrix , ServiceNow, Active Directory, MS Exchange, VPN, DNS EXPERIENCE Kronos Inc., Chelmsford IT Program Manager (5/2009 present) Lead teams from 2 35 resources both onshore and off on highly visible application and infrastructure initiatives Collaborate, plan, design and execute directly with IT Core Technology, Security, Development Directors and Enterprise Architect, to plan, design and implement the most efficient, secure and cost effective solutions globally Strategic responsibilities include Global IT Transformation consolidation, standardization, build out and migration of a Tier 1 datacenter to a Tier 3 co-location facility. Including vendor and colocation selection, budgeting, negotiation and managing to a timeline and budget Planned, coordinated and implemented the repacking of the Corporate datacenter after all production systems were successfully migrated to the co-location site Planned and implemented the Corporate campus consolidation, standardization and migration from 15 disparate rooms to the Tier 1 campus datacenter

Oracle Financial upgrade initiative lead the project to upgrade the Oracle Financials platform from 10.X to 11.X in conjunction with a hardware upgrade. The result being enhanced application capabilities and a cutting edge, high performance more secure hardware platform Managed the initiative to implement the ServiceNow Incident and Change management ITIL based tracking system. Activities included vendor evaluation and selection, planning, documentation, training, implementation and post implementation SME for questions and issues Managed the corporate Active Directory initiative to reduce the number of individual AD domains from 72 to its current state of 7 AD domains. Managed the initiative to upgrade MS Exchange for 2007 to 2010 enterprise wide Managed the integration of 2 corporate acquisitions, activities included personal on boarding, application integration and server/storage standardization, consolidation, elimination and virtualization when appropriate Contributor/Chairperson of the following review boards - Planning and Review Board (Chair), Change and Release Board, Project Management Office and Technical Review Board Successfully migrated/consolidated 4 remote site data centers to the corporate co-location site Utilizing SharePoint 2010, planned, gathered requirements, resourced, tested and implemented a portfolio management and request for change site to track projects and changes globally PM responsibilities have included Project and/or Program budgets, requirements gathering, vendor negotiation and management, project planning and tracking, risk management, cross functional team management, influencing, status reporting, people management and C level briefings

Cengage Learning, Boston, MA Project Manager (1/2009 4/2009) - Contractor Project managed the upgrade/replacement sustainability effort for the Cengage Contact Management System utilizing Agile Project Management techniques Generated required project management documents, (Charter, Scope Statement, Requirements, Project Plan, Milestone Reporting, WBS, Communication, Risk Plans, Project Closure documentation Presented Senior Management with cost, duration estimate and recommendation summaries to enable a decision to be made to repair or replace various product lines Vendor evaluation and SOW generation for new Contact Management System (CMS) - JIRA Evaluation of infrastructure components (hardware, licenses, networking, storage, OS) needed for optimal performance of proposed CMS Established Change Control Procedures across development, QA, stakeholder and management teams Requirements generation for proposed CMS with vendor and internal application development teams

Fidelity Investments, Boston MA Capacity Manager/Project Manager (2005 2008) Provided a leadership role in the sizing/analysis, procurement, justification, budgeting, prioritization and implementation of mission critical hardware (virtual and physical) throughout the enterprise. Established and documented SLAs across the Technology division support teams to provide accountability of task/project completion Managed the implementation of 10 to 25 infrastructure deployment projects concurrently. Lead technical and business unit teams through the implementation process utilizing project and risk management principles, influencing and collaboration utilizing MS Project to track scope, time and cost Generated and presented documentation to Senior Management t decision making business stakeholders to enable decisions and prioritization for to secure capital and/or development funding Generated infrastructure design documents and presented to business unit and Senior Management decision makers depicting the before and after look of an enhanced , new or upgraded platform PMed infrastructure build-outs utilizing standard Project Management documentation Established agreed upon milestone dates to insure System, Technical Design documents and Test Plans were delivered on time

Capital and Application project budget accountability Engaged Capacity Planners to provide a before and after capacity analysis benchmarking. Managed off-shore resources (Ireland, India) in order to complete infrastructure projects on time and on budget Hardware Decommission Manager responsibilities included; o Established guidelines to evaluate, track and report enterprise-wide decommission initiatives. How to guide created, communicated and enforced across operational, business and development areas enterprise-wide o Established and published guidelines for power, space and tracking of movement, elimination, and virtualization of infrastructure components enterprise-wide o Managed an initiative to identify, recommend and document infrastructure virtualization opportunities enterprise-wide. Execution of the plan resulted in a 21% reduction in space utilization and 32% reduction in power utilization across 3 datacenters o Utilized influencing, negotiating, conflict management and leadership skills to ensure top priority projects were completed on time and on budget o Negotiated with business units for needed resources to complete infrastructure and application implementations due to the decommission initiative in a timely manner o Managed on and off shore resources to accomplish the program goals o Chaired a weekly meeting with impacted managers to report progress regarding tasks to be completed and completed on priority 1 and 2 decommission projects. o Incident tracking and reporting o Monthly Senior Management reporting of server decommission rates/trends. o Presentations outlining infrastructure swaps and recommendations for management review

Director of Operations Operations Support (2002 - 2005) Managed a team of 15 Level 2 technical support staff (on and off shore) responsible for 24X7 production support, implementation support coverage and day to day problem resolution for 3 large trading sites (Investor, Institutional and Capital Markets). Directly supported a Level 1 Help Desk and led the establishment of policies and procedures to better report, define and code incidents to enable faster response and resolution time Established and documented firm SLAs on response time, platform availability and critical business report generation with upstream and downstream subsystems using influencing, negotiation and collaboration skills Established problem tracking procedures to enable more efficient research and resolution of outstanding issues Managed a team of 3 Release Management/Implementation resources who on a daily, weekly and/or monthly basis implemented break-fix, partial and full platform releases into production Formalized and implemented Crisis Management procedures to better serve the customer/users, senior management and the support team. Streamlined and documented the incident management process across business units to enable more timely analysis and resolution of the most critical operational issues Established procedures to manage break-fix issues (operational and application) across business, QA and development teams in the technology division Utilized influencing and leadership skills to ensure top priority projects were completed on time and on budget Provided weekly/daily status reporting and presentations where required to Senior Management regarding platform SLA status and issue resolution progress PMed off-shore resources (Ireland, India) to complete enhancement and break-fix DB, Network Configuration or Operations incident and RFCs. Extensive business unit (in-house and external clients), application and QA teams, vendor management, influencing, conflict management and negotiation skills were necessary to maintain a stable environment. Managed the upgrade of (3) tier 3 production platforms with new hardware (SUN, HP) and infrastructure components. Presentation documents generated to gain approval and justification of capital expenses to

Senior Management. Attention to detail, collaboration, influencing and risk management skills were extensively utilized throughout this critical 15 month project. Presented updates on a bi-monthly basis to Senior Management on the behavior of the old platform and the progress building the new platform Conducted 2X/year formal performance and training plan reviews with all FTEs, hire/termination responsibilities

Director of Development/Program Manager (1995 2002) Managed development and QA teams (on and off-shore, 25+ resources) from initiation through the implementation of large web, client/server and mainframe brokerage application projects. Managed Support/Rapid Development team (3-5 resources) from initiation through implementation of incident fixes and enhancements to existing products. Utilized Rapid Development methodology exclusively for these application enhancements and fixes Managed the integration of new mainframe, client server and web based applications into existing complex environments working across multiple business units and technology teams for buy-in, resource commitment and expertise to complete successfully. PMed application build-outs utilizing standard PM documentation and established Change Control Procedures. Utilized multiple PM methodologies (Traditional/Waterfall, Agile). Collaborated with application development teams, business units and vendors for requirements definition Attention to detail, motivation, collaboration, influencing, planning, negotiating and risk management skills were extensively utilized throughout all development projects Extensive business, vendor and external user interaction to ensure a quality product was delivered. Provided support for applications after implementation into production, recommending functional improvements and next generation technical enhancements. Created proposal upgrades for next generation application infrastructure Conducted 2X/year formal performance and training plan reviews with all FTEs, hire/termination responsibilities Supervised Service Company/Kemper Securities, Boston MA 1988 1995

Project Manager/Senior Developer Functioned as both an individual contributor and a project manager on the Multiple Asset System (MAS). Responsibilities included Dividend, PIP/SWP FundServ and ACAT processing and the NSCC liaison as well as extensive customer interaction and production support responsibilities. TRAINING: ITIL 2.0, Series 7 (Short), CMM, Project Management, Leadership, Influencing, Motivational and Negotiation Techniques, Meeting Management, Conflict Management, Risk Management EDUCATION Villanova University Project Management for IS/IT Professionals Certification Mastering Project Management Certification Project Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification (Q1 2009) Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT BS Education Mathematics Computer Processing Institute, Bridgeport, CT Computer Programming Certificate