Paul Berryman, PMP, CSM
Paul is a passionate application development expert, able to discover the strengths of any team and maximize them for delivery excellence.
He has deep experience in leadership of teams small and large, specializing in team building, resource optimization, the strongest vendor relationships - including both product and staffing vendors. Paul is an expert in today’s trends in delivery methodology.
He is an experienced champion of Agile and DevOps application development methodologies and tools, knowing how to drive defect reduction, dependable delivery cadence, and continuous learning and improvement practices. Paul has developed, designed, written and delivered an enterprise-wide IT Agile training program and all supporting documents, coaching and mentoring.
Paul builds strong and mature teams, lasting and cost-effective vendor relationships, and brings a passion for quality to his development teams.
He has deep experience in leadership of teams small and large, specializing in team building, resource optimization, the strongest vendor relationships - including both product and staffing vendors. Paul is an expert in today’s trends in delivery methodology.
He is an experienced champion of Agile and DevOps application development methodologies and tools, knowing how to drive defect reduction, dependable delivery cadence, and continuous learning and improvement practices. Paul has developed, designed, written and delivered an enterprise-wide IT Agile training program and all supporting documents, coaching and mentoring.
Paul builds strong and mature teams, lasting and cost-effective vendor relationships, and brings a passion for quality to his development teams.
Resume
as of December, 2016
Summary of Paul's Qualifications
· IT Director and Global Application Development manager with extensive success in Agile, DevOps, team building, business solution design, roadmap development, process improvement, system delivery and support – up to $10 million project responsibility
· Specialist in large and small team personnel development; specialist in strong, lasting product and development vendor relationships providing significant savings and effective investment; off-shore team optimization and business process improvement - manage teams of 20 to 120
· Agile development methodology expert / Scrum Master / Agile Coach; Certified PMP Project Management Professional – enterprise-wide methodology owner, director and trainer
· Enterprise content management strategist, information architecture, site configuration, security, governance, social tools, collaboration, social networking, workflow, web content management
· Strong analytical, technical and problem-solving skills. Initiative and positive attitude – I have never met a technology I did not like
· Broad IT application development experience with continuously increasing responsibility
· Continuous Integration, Agile, DevOps, and Shift-Left coach for delivery teams
· Specialist in large and small team personnel development; specialist in strong, lasting product and development vendor relationships providing significant savings and effective investment; off-shore team optimization and business process improvement - manage teams of 20 to 120
· Agile development methodology expert / Scrum Master / Agile Coach; Certified PMP Project Management Professional – enterprise-wide methodology owner, director and trainer
· Enterprise content management strategist, information architecture, site configuration, security, governance, social tools, collaboration, social networking, workflow, web content management
· Strong analytical, technical and problem-solving skills. Initiative and positive attitude – I have never met a technology I did not like
· Broad IT application development experience with continuously increasing responsibility
· Continuous Integration, Agile, DevOps, and Shift-Left coach for delivery teams
Professional Experience
2011 – pres. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services New York, NY
Director, IT App Dev
IT Application Development manager for Global Economics and Research systems
· Application lead for global economist and global fixed income research teams – very senior customers with high value requirements and high-touch care
· Application owner of macroeconomic regulatory reporting system used by 1500 ratings analysts
· Technical and project leader for global macroeconomic data reporting data warehouse using Informatica, Oracle, and MicroStrategy serving all 1,500 ratings analysts
· Technical lead for India-based economist and global fixed income research support analytical team
IT Delivery Process, Standards & Tools owner and champion
· Responsible for growing and driving IT Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology compliance, efficiency and best practices including Agile development, build standards,
· SCRUM Agile methodology coach and support for continuous process improvement
· Train over 300 people per year and provide newsletters and content for support and self evaluation
· DevOps champion for 170 person development organization including continuous integration, test driven development, automated unit testing, peer code review, and static code analysis
· Enabling Agile support tools and integration for employee and vendor team usage
· VersionOne toolkit base supported by the Standard & Poor's Engineering Agile methodologies
· Responsible for feature selection, training, enablement, enhancement, and product improvements
Previously…
IT Application Development manager of Publishing, Content & Collaboration systems
· Program director on $15 Million program to prove and build new publishing content management system.
· Responsible for all evaluation, negotiation, hiring and direction of vendor, contractor, and staff resources.
· Responsible for product evaluation and selection, license negotiation, product enhancement vision and delivery, vendor management, and initial product implementation.
· Quark Publishing Systems (QPS) core platform with EMC Documentum and other systems.
2009– 2011 Global consulting opportunities
Estee Lauder Companies New York, NY
Director, Information Management & Collaboration
· Global head and program director for intranet, extranet and corporate internet web properties.
· Development lead of all-new SharePoint 2010 corporate global communications internet website, and 28,000 user global intranet portal program. Hire and Direct a global team of managers and center-of-excellence leads in user experience, web business analysis, SharePoint technical architecture, and portfolio management. Full responsibility for $3 million annual portfolio before software costs, plus responsibility for global portfolio and intranet development governance.
Wipro Consulting Services – Management consulting East Brunswick, NJ
Practice Lead SharePoint Portals – Program Manager
· Design, develop, and lead the SharePoint portals practice within the new eBusiness group at Wipro. Build go-to-market collateral. Design programs, projects, staffing, and budgeting. Build effective integrated web strategy and off-shore delivery team approach.
Clients: Global Major Military Engineering and Manufacturing companies
· Engagement manger on multi-year multi-million dollar on/offshore web portal program. Design governance, information architecture, program management best practices for global intranet center of excellence. Redesign intranet communications and collaboration portal to reach a global audience with home market security constraints on content. Design entire program from scratch, staffed with information architects, SharePoint architects, business analysts, and full onshore/offshore development team.
EMC Consulting East Brunswick, NJ
Senior Practice Consultant – Business solutions
Client: Merck & Co, Inc.
· Develop Demand management, Capacity management, Resource management and Governance process and adoption roadmap for OneMerck enterprise portal design center of excellence.
Logical Design Solutions Florham Park, NJ
Senior Consultant – Portal Solutions Architect and Strategist
Client: Exelon - largest energy Co. in US
· Lead strategy and impact analysis integrating portal capabilities with clients’ IT roadmap including 50 page analysis comparing SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) with Oracle PeopleSoft Portal fit-for-purpose as HR Portal, developing evaluation criteria via business and IT interviews and expert analysis
Client: Novo Nordisk
· SharePoint expert analyzing fit for purpose, information architecture, and IT readiness including 80 page step-by-step site configuration guide and implementation database for new Enterprise Portal, including site configuration, security settings, search settings, and web part properties
2007–2009 KPMG, LLP – Big 4 audit and accounting firm Montvale, NJ
Associate Director – SharePoint Portal Applications, US ITS
· Hire and Direct 18 staff, $3 million annual portfolio including design, project management, and application development to build and maintain all US SharePoint collaboration, knowledge and content management web portals for over 8,000 users.
· Financial responsibility for budgeting, scheduling, staffing, vendor and license negotiations.
· Business-facing hands-on SharePoint Information Architect representing business requirements and applying SharePoint best practices to meet or exceed needs. Third-party tool analysis.
2003–2007 Cendant Car Rental Group – Avis & Budget brands Parsippany, NJ
Sr. Program Manager – Enterprise Strategic Initiatives
· Manage design, staffing, and delivery of multimillion dollar IT projects that cross all organizational boundaries and leverage a fully matrixed organization.
· Program & Project Manager of $7 million, 3 year program to initiate and automate a new Insurance Replacement business channel for Avis and Budget. Reported to COO and VP of Operations. Designed and built best-of-breed new systems. Enabled web services technologies to extend mainframe rental counter architecture. Enhanced the capability of legacy systems to extend core investment. Project completed on schedule and under budget by over $600K, including over 36,000 hours of effort by team of over 100 developers and managers.
· Manager of 30 on/off-shore TCS programming and project lead consultants in Mumbai, India.
· Specialize in building teams and strengthening global relationships. Skilled in both PMLC and SDLC.
1998–2002 Prudential Securities, Inc. – Financial services brokerage New York, NY
Vice President (Senior Project Manager)
· Manage all applications and programmers in support of mainframe and client-server applications of a full-service securities account sold by a 5,000 agent field force, and an interest-bearing settlement-option account holding $2 billion in assets for over 75,000 insurance claim beneficiaries. $3 million annual IT portfolio. Recruit, develop, and manage performance of 25 programmers, consultants, and project leaders/managers. Note: all managers in my group were promoted at least once while under me, including one to junior officer (Associate Vice President).
· Received three promotions in two years – Assistant VP, Associate VP, and VP.
Director, IT App Dev
IT Application Development manager for Global Economics and Research systems
· Application lead for global economist and global fixed income research teams – very senior customers with high value requirements and high-touch care
· Application owner of macroeconomic regulatory reporting system used by 1500 ratings analysts
· Technical and project leader for global macroeconomic data reporting data warehouse using Informatica, Oracle, and MicroStrategy serving all 1,500 ratings analysts
· Technical lead for India-based economist and global fixed income research support analytical team
IT Delivery Process, Standards & Tools owner and champion
· Responsible for growing and driving IT Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology compliance, efficiency and best practices including Agile development, build standards,
· SCRUM Agile methodology coach and support for continuous process improvement
· Train over 300 people per year and provide newsletters and content for support and self evaluation
· DevOps champion for 170 person development organization including continuous integration, test driven development, automated unit testing, peer code review, and static code analysis
· Enabling Agile support tools and integration for employee and vendor team usage
· VersionOne toolkit base supported by the Standard & Poor's Engineering Agile methodologies
· Responsible for feature selection, training, enablement, enhancement, and product improvements
Previously…
IT Application Development manager of Publishing, Content & Collaboration systems
· Program director on $15 Million program to prove and build new publishing content management system.
· Responsible for all evaluation, negotiation, hiring and direction of vendor, contractor, and staff resources.
· Responsible for product evaluation and selection, license negotiation, product enhancement vision and delivery, vendor management, and initial product implementation.
· Quark Publishing Systems (QPS) core platform with EMC Documentum and other systems.
2009– 2011 Global consulting opportunities
Estee Lauder Companies New York, NY
Director, Information Management & Collaboration
· Global head and program director for intranet, extranet and corporate internet web properties.
· Development lead of all-new SharePoint 2010 corporate global communications internet website, and 28,000 user global intranet portal program. Hire and Direct a global team of managers and center-of-excellence leads in user experience, web business analysis, SharePoint technical architecture, and portfolio management. Full responsibility for $3 million annual portfolio before software costs, plus responsibility for global portfolio and intranet development governance.
Wipro Consulting Services – Management consulting East Brunswick, NJ
Practice Lead SharePoint Portals – Program Manager
· Design, develop, and lead the SharePoint portals practice within the new eBusiness group at Wipro. Build go-to-market collateral. Design programs, projects, staffing, and budgeting. Build effective integrated web strategy and off-shore delivery team approach.
Clients: Global Major Military Engineering and Manufacturing companies
· Engagement manger on multi-year multi-million dollar on/offshore web portal program. Design governance, information architecture, program management best practices for global intranet center of excellence. Redesign intranet communications and collaboration portal to reach a global audience with home market security constraints on content. Design entire program from scratch, staffed with information architects, SharePoint architects, business analysts, and full onshore/offshore development team.
EMC Consulting East Brunswick, NJ
Senior Practice Consultant – Business solutions
Client: Merck & Co, Inc.
· Develop Demand management, Capacity management, Resource management and Governance process and adoption roadmap for OneMerck enterprise portal design center of excellence.
Logical Design Solutions Florham Park, NJ
Senior Consultant – Portal Solutions Architect and Strategist
Client: Exelon - largest energy Co. in US
· Lead strategy and impact analysis integrating portal capabilities with clients’ IT roadmap including 50 page analysis comparing SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) with Oracle PeopleSoft Portal fit-for-purpose as HR Portal, developing evaluation criteria via business and IT interviews and expert analysis
Client: Novo Nordisk
· SharePoint expert analyzing fit for purpose, information architecture, and IT readiness including 80 page step-by-step site configuration guide and implementation database for new Enterprise Portal, including site configuration, security settings, search settings, and web part properties
2007–2009 KPMG, LLP – Big 4 audit and accounting firm Montvale, NJ
Associate Director – SharePoint Portal Applications, US ITS
· Hire and Direct 18 staff, $3 million annual portfolio including design, project management, and application development to build and maintain all US SharePoint collaboration, knowledge and content management web portals for over 8,000 users.
· Financial responsibility for budgeting, scheduling, staffing, vendor and license negotiations.
· Business-facing hands-on SharePoint Information Architect representing business requirements and applying SharePoint best practices to meet or exceed needs. Third-party tool analysis.
2003–2007 Cendant Car Rental Group – Avis & Budget brands Parsippany, NJ
Sr. Program Manager – Enterprise Strategic Initiatives
· Manage design, staffing, and delivery of multimillion dollar IT projects that cross all organizational boundaries and leverage a fully matrixed organization.
· Program & Project Manager of $7 million, 3 year program to initiate and automate a new Insurance Replacement business channel for Avis and Budget. Reported to COO and VP of Operations. Designed and built best-of-breed new systems. Enabled web services technologies to extend mainframe rental counter architecture. Enhanced the capability of legacy systems to extend core investment. Project completed on schedule and under budget by over $600K, including over 36,000 hours of effort by team of over 100 developers and managers.
· Manager of 30 on/off-shore TCS programming and project lead consultants in Mumbai, India.
· Specialize in building teams and strengthening global relationships. Skilled in both PMLC and SDLC.
1998–2002 Prudential Securities, Inc. – Financial services brokerage New York, NY
Vice President (Senior Project Manager)
· Manage all applications and programmers in support of mainframe and client-server applications of a full-service securities account sold by a 5,000 agent field force, and an interest-bearing settlement-option account holding $2 billion in assets for over 75,000 insurance claim beneficiaries. $3 million annual IT portfolio. Recruit, develop, and manage performance of 25 programmers, consultants, and project leaders/managers. Note: all managers in my group were promoted at least once while under me, including one to junior officer (Associate Vice President).
· Received three promotions in two years – Assistant VP, Associate VP, and VP.
Areas of Knowledge and Software Skills
· Agile Scrum Master
· DevOps for development teams
· Shift-left defect prevention
· Test Driven Development
· CI/CD tools
· Parasoft / Nolio / Jenkins
· VersionOne expert
· SharePoint 2007 and 2010
· Enterprise Content Management systems (ECM)
CERTIFICATION
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Scrum Master
Information Organization & Access Certification (AIIM)
EDUCATION
Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH
B.A., Psychology with Music minor – Cum Laude GPA 3.54
Computer Processing Institute Bridgeport, CT
Business Computer Programming Certificate -- Number 1 in Class
· DevOps for development teams
· Shift-left defect prevention
· Test Driven Development
· CI/CD tools
· Parasoft / Nolio / Jenkins
· VersionOne expert
· SharePoint 2007 and 2010
· Enterprise Content Management systems (ECM)
CERTIFICATION
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Scrum Master
Information Organization & Access Certification (AIIM)
EDUCATION
Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH
B.A., Psychology with Music minor – Cum Laude GPA 3.54
Computer Processing Institute Bridgeport, CT
Business Computer Programming Certificate -- Number 1 in Class