Debra Giusti, PMP
San Mateo, California 94404
(650) 578-1457 – home
(415) 269-1457 – cell
Objective:
Senior IT Project Manager and Resource Manager; worked with more than $20 million in project budgets and managed more than 1000 project team members worldwide. Project experience will add value to your company!
Summary:
Senior IT Project Manager, PMP certified, 10+ years of Structured Project Management experience, 15 years IT Programmer/Analyst and Manager of IT professionals.
Skilled in building functional teams and interfacing technology with all levels of executive management and non-technical business partners.
Extensive experience managing diverse teams in globally dispersed locations and specialize in team-building, mentoring and relationship management.
Have extensive experience managing the strategic planning and execution of IT infrastructure projects.
Professional Experience:
VISA
Project ManagerFeb 2011 to Apr 2011
Lead telephone meetings with geographically dispersed team.
Create project documents in preparation for presentation to funding committee.
GENENTECHJan 2009 to Dec 2010
Supply Chain Systems Project Manager
Co-Managing the $5million SAP system migration between Genentech and Roche with team members in Basel Switzerland, Singapore, India and 3 US states.
Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, assigning tasks, allocating resources.
Communication interface with Supply Chain Systems and non-technical teams, providing direction to help them achieve their service level agreements.
Develop and maintain a metrics “dashboard”. Taking raw data and turning it into information that gave management detailed visibility to why and where infrastructure projects are delayed.
GREATER BAY BANK (acquired by Wells Fargo)Oct 2005 to May 2008
Senior IT Project Manager(Infrastructure – Network Services)
Created a PMO. Developed and implemented project methodologies, deploying industry best practices in a balanced matrix organization. Implemented process improvements and documentation standards that would sustain a Securities and Exchange Commission audit.
Collaborating with executives and business stakeholders to turn a business need into an IT project including attaining the required technical (network services) resources, determining the project schedule and delivering an on-time solution with a geographically dispersed team.
Assumed responsibility for the annual IT Disaster Recovery test event. Lead the team of 30 to 50 IT and non-technical users in planning for a local disaster and complete recovery.
Projects include: all network services (SQL Server) infrastructure projects, including an upgrade to Microsoft Exchange mail server, the bi-annual mainframe infrastructure code release, 3rd party vendor software upgrades, the data migration when the mainframe was outsourced to a 3rd party vendor, the relocation of the IT Network services data center
Hiring manager to junior PMs, mentor in project methodologies, and supporting their career path to become PMP certified.
GAP, INC. Sep 2000 to May 2005
Senior IT Project/Program Manager
Lead cross-functional, product development projects in a strong matrix, high-transaction, Supply Chain IT organization to deliver systems’ solutions on time and on budget to our customers and business partners with a geographically dispersed team.
Managed all phases of a project and software development lifecycle (SDLC) in accordance with the Project Management Institute’s project management methodologies.
- Managed all project resources including attaining project funding from an Executive Council, managing and reporting the project expenses, and allocating and managing the project’s human resources located in Europe, Japan, India and US.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to create the project Scope, Charter, Risk Management, Project Plan, Issues List, Management Status Dashboard, Budget and Resource Plan, Stakeholder Impact Assessment.
Managed multiple projects simultaneously and delivered solutions with teams of 10-80 systems professionals. Provided Post Install Reviews to resource managers for project team members.
Developed a Budget and Resource Tracking tool used by project managers and executives to monitor project progress and keep projects on budget.
Projects include: Business Continuity Planning (BCP) initiative, Flow-Through Logistics Warehousing (JIT), Store POS polling system, Euro Currency Conversion, ETL/Data Warehouse conversion (Teradata).
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORMay 1993 to Feb 2000
Contract Programmer/Project Manager working as a licensed business partner with IBM and Computer Associates to do systems and 3rd party vendor data migrations at these companies:
Olympus America, Nellcor – Puritan Bennett, Copart, Benefits Consulting, Apple
SOFTWARE PUBLISHINGJan 1990 to May 1993
Senior Programmer/Analyst – Manager Application Development
Developed, implemented and enforced coding conventions and documentation standards.
Responsible for 3rd party vendor software implementations and upgrades to the existing applications.
Lead project teams and managed all phases of the projects from gathering user requirements to post production support and documentation.
I owned ongoing tasks for the AS/400 including upgrades of hardware, management of DASD, application of IBM OS/400 upgrades and performance tuning.
As manager of the application development staff, I assigned tasks, created performance appraisals, compensation management and mentor in career development.
Education:
Project Management Institute credential Project Management Professional (PMP), 2005
Cprime - Certified Scrum Master (CSM), 2011
San Mateo County Paramedic 1980-1992
University of Urbino Semester Abroad – Urbino, Italy 1977
A.S. Degree in Computer and Informational Sciences, City College of San Francisco – 1977
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