Dan Salameh resume shrt vers v1.98_d98.DOC

Daniel Salameh
Senior IT Project Manager
13450 S. Huron River Drive
Romulus, MI 48174
734-941-6796
Itmgmtds1@hotmail.com
SUMMARY
Certified PMP and a seasoned IT Project Manager
with over 15 years of experience in managing
large scale and multi-million projects which
includes expertise in managing ERP (SAP,
PeopleSoft, Oracle, MS Dynamics. Etc.) and IT
Implementation projects.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Managed programs and projects through
their entire life cycle: initiation, planning,
plans implementation to closing & delivery.
• Programs & projects included ERP
software implementation, Data
warehousing, Mainframe development,
Web development, Custom development,
Application enhancement, Infrastructure
management.
• Budgets varied from $.5 million to $54
million; team sizes varied from 5 to 120
members, team orientation included in
house, remote, multi locations & Global
(offshore) teams.
• Extensive work experience in the
Manufacturing, Banking/Financial,
Insurance (HMO, Auto, Disability, Property
& Causality, HIPA Compliance and Life),
Utilities, Publishing, State/Government &
Higher Education domains
SCORE CARD
Skills Years of Experience
Projects Management 15+
SAP Project Management 6+
PeopleSoft Project Management 7+
Oracle Project Management 6+
(HR/HCM, Financials, SCM,
Payroll, CRM, Cash to Pay,
Procure to Pay, Manufacturing
12+
IT Project Management Skills
IT Project Management
ERP (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle)
Implementation
Infrastructure Project
Management
Application Development
Project Management
Data-Warehousing & BI Project
Management
Custom Development,
Upgrades & Migration
Project Management
Vendor and third Party Project
Management
Software / Hardware Selection
Project Management
Financial Management
Budget Management
Cost Management
Issue & Risk Management
Change Management
Communication at all
Enterprise levels including C
Management
Multi-Project Management
Management & Support
Resources Allocation
Risk Management
Agile
Project Methodologies
Supply Chain implementation
Global Team Management
Education
MS in Computer Information
Systems, Buffalo State
College, Buffalo, NY
BS in Electronics / Computer
Engineering, Buffalo State
College, Buffalo, NY
Certification & Training
PMP / PMI
Hardware & Networking - SQL
Server, Informix, Oracle,
PeopleSoft, Novell
(Netware), Visual Basic, Java,
Java Scripts, C, C++, Unix,
WebSphere Application
Server, WebSphere
Communication server,
WebSphere Studio,
WebSphere Portal

Daniel Salameh
modules)
Agile/Scrum Development 14+
Waterfall /SDLC 20+
Infrastructure 8+
Procurement (RFI, RFP,
Proposals)
8+
Change, Risk & Issue Management 19+
Software/Hardware Selection 9+
Multi Program/Project Management 12+
PMO 16+
Data-Warehousing & BI 14+
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Senior IT Project Manager Dec 15 – Present
State of Michigan
• Managed a large scale IT program (49 million budget) that consists of 15 development projects.
• Upgraded three ERP / PeopleSoft projects, Upgraded the different modules from 9.1 to 9.2
including PeopleSoft HCM module (HR Core, Benefits Administration and Absence Management),
PeopleSoft Financials (GL, AP, AR, Payroll), and PeopleSoft SCM (Department of Transportation
• Coached and mentored Project Managers within the 15 projects development program on Agile
and Scrum framework.
• Controlled the Program thru its life cycle and managed the Program Financials.
• Managed six business Intelligence / BI & Data-Warehousing Projects (Agile Development) and six
Web Development & Ecommerce projects (Agile Development)
• Managed program communications (Status meetings & reporting, demos, Dashboard Reports, PPT
presentations)
• Responsible for program tracking program planning, program issue & risk management, managing
outside vendor relationships, and facilitation of meeting with the business partners
• Managed and facilitated the scrum activities and ceremonies such as the daily Stand ups,
workshops, Sprint planning, Sprint reporting & created scrum status reports and Burn down charts
Senior SAP & IT Project Manager Jun 14 – Nov 15
Consumers Energy (Michigan Gas & Electric Utility Company)
• Managed the Program/Project Financials (Budgeting & forecasting) and worked in a Matrix
organization structure.
• Managed the implementations through their entire life cycle from Discovery, Planning, Gap/fit
Analysis, Design, Build, test and implement
• Handled Projects included Web development, SharePoint, Infrastructure, WAN Transformation,
Wireless Network Asset Refresh, BI & Data Warehousing & third Party Software Implementation
• Maintained the Quality Assurance & testing efforts for the above implementations
• Responsible for project planning, plans implementation, & program/projects tracking,
program/project risk, quality issues.
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• Created Program/ Project metrics; communicated Program/Project status to team members, PMO
& project stats; created periodical status reports, technical & business presentations
• Facilitated status meetings, with project teams, PMO, project sponsors, users & steering committee
• Created all associated Program/Project plans, Statement of work, Business cases, Scope
statement, Program/Project charter, work plan (WBS), Quality Plans, implementation plans & risk
management plans
• Participated in requirement gathering & documentation (RAD & JAD sessions)
• Worked with team members during the program, project & development life cycle, initiation,
requirements, design, coding, testing and implementation
• Mentored / trained a large number of team members on all the different functional areas
• Managed all implementation including user acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Participated in the Creation of the Company Tailored Agile Methodology, Processes, Procedures
and Best Practices
Managed the following projects
Project 1: PJT03678 / SAP TDMS - Improve Test Data Quality
Project 2: PJT03123 / SharePoint Phases (Multi Phases/Releases. Agile / Web Development)
Project 3: PJT03267 / External Partner Collaboration
Project 4: PJT04764 / Wireless Networks Asset Refresh 2015
Project 5: PJT02643 / WAN Transformation
Project 6: PPJT02850 / GAS HISTORIAN (Gas Distribution and Gas Compression)
Senior IT Project Manager Jan 13 – May 14
RCG / Unum
• Managed program and projects through their entire life cycle: initiation, planning, plans
implementation to closing & delivery.
• Controlled the project Team size of 49 Team members with budget of 5.9 million dollars
• Managed the Program/Project Financials (Budgeting & Forecasting)
• Maintained the implementations through its entire life cycle from Discovery, Planning, Gap/fit
• Managed the Quality Assurance & testing efforts for the above implementations
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• Handled planning, Plans implementation, & program/Projects tracking, Program/Project Risk,
Quality issues.
• Developed a large scale PeopleSoft 9.1 / SCM /Supply Chain implementation. This was an
upgrade and it did include all the associated modules and features Inventory, Shipping and
Receiving, Order Entry & Purchase Orders (PO’s)
• Managed the implementation thru its entire life cycle (initiation /Discovery, Requirements, Fit Gap
Analysis, Design, Build, Test, User Training and Go Live)
• Managed and Tracked Implementation issues and implemented Scope Change and Risks
• Participated & facilitated requirements & design work sessions and managed the Implementation
Financials; Budgeting & Forecasting
Senior IT Project Manager Aug 11 – Jan 13
Kraft Foods Manufacturing Company, Northfield, IL
Budget/Size/Team Orientation: $6.9 million, 64 team members, offshore/In house/ Multi locations
Project 1: SAP Dairy Ingredient Supply Chain Optimization / DISCO project
• Evaluated the cost of the compositional elements from different dairy raw materials (based on
available supply) and selected the ones providing least cost to the company, while meeting all
finished product targets and standards.
Environment: SAP Business Suite, SAP CRM 7.0, SAP Net Weaver Portal 7.02, SAP Application Server,
ABAP, SAP Basis, ABAP runtime system, SAP SCM, UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux), SAP Advanced
Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO), Java, J2EE, Business Intelligence (BI)
Project 2: SAP OTM Configuration Changes and Transportation Business Process Changes for Release
DCM – Tactical DISCO project
• Created a tool that will automatically match plant cheese requirements with corporate inventory and
supplier availability. Since the solution is in daily buckets, it can be used by the plants. It will have
interaction with other systems and have visibility to inventory and demand. DISCO will determine
what raw material cheese POs and STOs need to be created by SAP. Once created by SAP, they
will be sent to OTM for transportation planning. Dairy.com and Werner VAS will no longer be used
for cheese transportation. These will be the first raw material and inbound orders that
systematically feed into OTM that the TOC plans.
Environment: SAP Business Suite, SAP CRM 7.0, SAP Net Weaver Portal 7.02, SAP Application Server,
ABAP, SAP Basis, ABAP runtime system, SAP SCM, UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux), SAP Advanced
Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO), Java, J2EE, Business Intelligence (BI)
Project 3: Kraft Sales / Nielsen Pricing Infrastructure and tools project
• Established a disciplined pricing infrastructure for Kraft North America. Leveraging Nielsen’s
unparalleled granularity and breadth of data in conjunction with their pricing domain expertise to
provide Kraft a fully integrated solution building on the foundation of tactical execution
• Expanded model coverage: product coverage for 90% of Kraft’s national volume and customer
level elasticity reports for 80% of Kraft’s retailers
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• Provided in-depth domain knowledge, drive implementation, distil advanced research, and support
key customers & core business opportunities with custom analyses.
• Managed Vendor relations and created Contracts, RFP’s, RFI’s, and contract administration
Senior IT Program Manager Apr 11 – Jul 11
HyperGen / Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI
• Worked on PeopleSoft 8.9, PeopleSoft 9.0, Runner Address Cleansing software and handled Multi
Project Management
• Managed the Address Cleansing project & the PeopleSoft upgrade projects thru entire life cycle
• Developed all the project plans including SOW, Business Cases, Charters, Work plans,
Communication plans, Risk Management plans
• Responsible for tracking, performance analysis, value added, feasibility studies, Earned value
analysis, team building, team motivation
• Created weekly & monthly status reports, dashboard reports, scheduled, facilitated status meetings
• Managed the PeopleSoft Role security activities & the upgrade from 8.9 to 9.0
• Sent Request for Information (RFI), evaluated hardware / software vendors’ proposals & created a
score card system for vendor evaluation
• Created Change Management plans & risk management plans
• Participated in the project / program requirement gathering using JAD/RAD sessions & other
techniques
• Completed fit gap analysis & participated in the design phase and developed training,
communication, test & implementation plans
• Mentored & trained team members on project management & several technical areas
• Participated in the Procurement process
Senior IT Project Manager Apr 10 - Apr 11
Motorola, Mastech, Chicago, IL
• Managed 12 Infrastructure & Development Projects / Motorola separation (Motorola is preparing to
separate into two companies.
• Responsible for multi project management; managed projects thru their life cycles from initiation,
planning, plans implementation to closing & delivery
• managed resourcing, budgeting, forecasting, change management, risk management & issue
management
• Handled Program & Project Communication Management / Status meetings, status reporting,
technical presentations, dashboard reports, & Management summary reports
• Managed twelve projects varied from small, medium to large / complex projects
• Created all project plans & documentations, used several utilities, specialized programs/databases
& software such as Performa, NSR database, PI tracker, MS Project, epmo, icsr tracker
Senior IT Project Manager Aug 07 – Apr 10
AT&T
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• Managed a large PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solution upgrade (People Tools 8.42 to 8.49,
PeopleSoft Applications FSCM 8.4/8.8, HCM 8.8/8.9/9, EPM 8.8, CRM 8.9/9) for a major Higher
Education Institution in Chicago Illinois (PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solution 9.0).
• Responsible for management of large PeopleSoft HCM upgradation for a major
telecommunications company (PeopleSoft HR, PeopleSoft Payroll, PeopleSoft BenAdmin,
PeopleSoft Benefits, PeopleSoft eRecruit, PeopleSoft eDevelopment, PeopleSoft ePerformance,
PeopleSoft Payroll, PeopleSoft Compensation Planning, People Tools Specific (8.49 and 8.50),
People Code, Application Package People Code, Component Interface, Page Designer, Integration
Broker, App Engine, Approval Rule Sets)
• Managed a large AT & T (Development Program) Hoffman Estates, Illinois
• Managed program and projects through their entire life cycle: initiation, planning, plans
implementation to closing & delivery.
• Architected solutions that suits the needs & requirements for a large number of client s in different
line of business
• Managed the implementations through its entire life cycle from Discovery, Planning, Gap/fit
• Managed Planning, Plans implementation, & program/Projects tracking, Program/Project Risk,
Quality issues.
• Used People Tools 8.42 to 8.49, PeopleSoft Applications FSCM 8.4/8.8, HCM 8.8/8.9/9, EPM 8.8,
CRM 8.9/9
• Handled PeopleSoft security administration, people tools utilities, configuration manager, change
assistant, change impact analyzer, performance monitor, project migration, compare reports
• Provided overall Production and Implementation Support for PeopleSoft Application Integration and
Solutions
• Managed & supervised the Installation of PeopleSoft Applications FSCM 8.8, HCM 8.9 & CRM 8.8
on People Tools 8.45/46
Senior IT Project Manager Jan 07 – Aug 07
Hyatt Hotel Corporation
Team size: 15
Budget: $1.9 million
• Managed multi Project & Program Management including managing projects through their life
cycles from Project initiation to Project closing
• Created all associated project plans including project charters. Work plans, Risk Management
plans, Knowledge Management plans, QMS plans, Communication plans, test plans &
implementation plans
• Established and tracked program performance metrics, requirements analysis, program planning,
managed program timeline and budgets, and mastered project management processes and best
practices.
• Worked with internal and external clients to create and support the strategic vision for the program,
and assisted clients with business case preparation, strategic and tactical planning as necessary.
• Managed projects communication including meetings & periodical reporting
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OTHER IT & ERP RELATED PROJECTS
Senior IT Project Manager 2004 – 2006
ABN AMRO Bank
Team size: 46
Budget: $2.6 Million
SAP & IT Project Manager 2001 – 2004
Downers Grove
IT Project Manager 2000 – 2001
Ernst & Young
Team Size: 45
Senior IT & SAP Project Manager 1992 – 2000
Ramzey Technology Inc.
Team Size: 40
Senior Project Manager 1990 – 1992
Telco Service America
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Methodologies, Processes & Procedures: PMI, Method I, Fusion, RPM Express, CRM, SDM/SPI,
Waterfall ISO standard, SDLC PMO, Yourdon, Event Driven Customer/Production/Tech/Help Desk Support
procedures, Process Reengineering, Iterative OO, Rational Rose, SEI CMM CMMI, Structured RAD life
cycle, QA & QC, EDP Auditing, Feasibility studies, Cost/Benefit Analysis, CPM, PERT, Sampling,
Prototyping, Statistical Analysis, Six Sigma, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Disaster recovery & Business
Continuity, JD Edwards
• Agile
Iteration planning, Feature events cost & duration estimation, Features prioritization, Iteration Risk
Management plan, Agile change management, Agile issue management, Agile team building, iterative and
incremental software development methodologies. Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Crystal, Dynamic
Systems Development Method (DSDM), Lean Development, and Feature-Driven Development (FDD).
Coaching Agile teams, Mentoring Agile Teams, Iteration Life Cycle, Backlog, Master backlog, Agile test
planning, Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Product backlog, Scrum, DSDM, Unified Process, FDD,
Small, Cross-functional Teams, Iteration Planning Meeting, Feature Selection, Task Planning, Iteration
Adjustments, Warning Signs, Refactoring to Patterns, Agile Project Management Tools, Iteration Planning
and Tracking, Burn down Charts, Daily Stand-up, Agile Team Collaboration
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Over 9 years of managing agile projects and utilizing the most popular frameworks for implementing agile
such as Scrum. Agile / Scrum best practices were used at my most recent Consulting Assignment for
Consumers Energy (Michigan Gas & Electric Utility Company). My Roles and responsibilities as a Senior
Program / Project Manager as they relate to Agile and Scrum did include but not only the following:
1. Participated in Setting up Agile / Scrum best Practices, Methodology, Processes and Procedures
within a PMO for a large number of Organizations
2. Managed a Large number of Agile / Scrum Projects / Sprints thru their entire Life Cycle
3. Created all the needed Project Plans and Artifacts during Sprint 0
4. Created, populated, updated and monitored the Project backlog (features, Sprints, User Stories)
5. Managed and facilitated all Sprint activities including Sprint planning, Daily Scum Meeting / stand-
up, Sprint demo’s and Sprint retrospective
6. Managed All Sprint Communications and reporting including the Creation of the Sprint Burndown
charts
7. Worked with a large number of Agile/ Scrum Project Management and Development Software tools
such as JIRA & LeanKit
8. Worked closely and molded with entire Sprint team such as Product Owner, Agile Coach, Agile
developers and the rest of the team
9. Agile / Sprint Projects did involve SharePoint Development, BI and Data Warehousing, Web
Development and Ecommerce
10. Most of the Managed Agile / Scum projects were in a Matrix Organization Structure
11. In addition to all of the above the following were done and were part of my roles and
responsibilities:
Iteration Life Cycle, Backlog, Master backlog, Agile test planning, Inception, Elaboration, Construction,
Product backlog, Scrum, DSDM, Unified Process, FDD, Small, Cross-functional Teams, Iteration Planning
Meeting, Feature Selection, Task Planning, Iteration Adjustments, Warning Signs, Refactoring to Patterns,
Agile Project Management Tools, Iteration Planning and Tracking, Burn down Charts, Daily Stand-up, Agile
Team Collaboration
• Project Management Software: MS Project -Workbench –Timeline, MS Office (Visio, Excel,
PowerPoint, and Word) Primavera, MS Project Server (2003/2007), SharePoint (2003/2007), Office
Portfolio 2007, Quality Center 11 defect module; TFS Team Web Access (2012), Jira to manage backlog
and sprints, Clarity / EPMO / DPMO & project reporting
• OS: OS/MVS, OS 390 , DOS, UNIX, AS400, DX10, Windows 2000/NT/98/XP, Windows 3.1, Novell
(Netware), Banyan Vines, 3 Com, HP-UX 11i, Linux, Solaris 10, Windows NT
• DBMS & related: DB2, IMS, Sybase Oracle, Informix, Natural ADABAS, MS Access, PowerBuilder,
FoxPro/FoxBASE, Crystal Report Generator, Dbase, Erwin Case tools, Forest & Trees Oracle 8i, 9i and
10g , Oracle 11, R12, People tools, Peoplecode,reporting tools (nVision, Crystal, Query, SQR, etc.),
Business Objects, Informatica, ETL , First Logic, Data warehousing, Data Integration, Data Mining and
Master Data Management
• Business Intelligence / BI /Data Warehousing
BI Platform .NET SDKs, SAP Business intelligence / BI, BI Platform Java SDKs, · Data stage , BI
Dashboards, Microsoft Reporting Services / SQL Server Reporting, · Informatica Power center (upgrading
to 9.5), · Exadata, · BOBJ, · Neteeza TwinFin, · rePortal – including Crystal Reports, Microsoft Reporting
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Services / SQL Server Reporting / (SSRS)/ SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2005,
Report Server, First Logic, Informatica, SQL, Queries, Data Marts, Complex Queries, SQL commands,
Oracle 10g, Oracle 11, Data Alerts, Data elements, Data Integration, DB2, IMS, Informatica Power Center
8, Informatica Power Center 9.5, data governance, data migration, service-oriented architecture (SOA),
B2B data, exchange, and master data management (MDM), Big Data, data feeds, data services, data
quality, profiling, MDM use cases, Oracle Exadata Database Machine X3-8, database deployments,
extreme performance and scalability, Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW) and
consolidation of mixed workloads, Oracle Exadata Storage Servers, InfiniBand switches, fast transaction
response times and high throughput. Oracle Exadata, database appliance, OLTP, OLAP, Oracle Linux
distribution), and storage software, Data acquisition, Exadata Version 2, Data Integration, Data mapping,
Data midstream, Data Objects, Data Services, Data Validation, Business Objects, SAP Business Objects,
IBM Info Sphere Data Stage, Version 8.7.0 .
- Define/Support Migration Architecture, Migration roadmap, Migration program structure
- Experience of working on Migration tools like Informatica
- Collaborated with different functional teams to define migration workflows, requirements, and high
level acceptance criteria.
- Defined approach for data governance and security
- Defined Data Analysis (DAN) architecture
- Maintained communication with programmer stakeholders
• Programming Languages & Related Software: VB, C, C++, Java, Java Scripts, COBOL, CICS,
IMS, TSO, ISPF, BAL, COBRA, DOS, OS/MVS, VSAM, ISAM, FORTRAN, ASSEMBLER, PASCAL, RPG,
JCL, PL, Basic, RPG, RPG 4, Oracle HR, PeopleSoft
• Applications: Banking –Insurance – Financial - Manufacturing Applications - Financial Applications
- Accounting Applications - Billing Applications -Inventory Control Applications - Options & Stock Exchange
Applications - Payroll Applications - Distribution Systems Applications - Engineering Applications - Human
Resources & Personnel Applications, Educational Applications - Marketing Applications - Student Records
& Personnel Applications, Health / Life Insurance Applications - Banking Applications
• Web Development related technologies: Java Beans, HTML, XML, RUP Netscape Application
server, Biz Talk, Java(JSP/Servlet, JDBC, JNDI,J2EE/EJB), ASP (VBScripts, Perl5,CGIXML/XSLNE
framework(SOAP, MSXML), Rational Rose, MS Visual Studio, Mercury Win Runner/Load Runner, LDAP,
Macromedia, Event Driven, RUP, Iteration, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Communication
Server, WebSphere tool kits, WebSphere portals, Data warehousing, Data Marts, Data Mining, Unified
Modeling Language (UML)
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