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Last update: 06.09.2022

Senior IT Project Manager

Company: Bootmaker Ltd.
Graduation: Master of Science (MSc); Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
Hourly-/Daily rates: show
Languages: German (Full Professional) | English (Full Professional) | Hungarian (Native or Bilingual)

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CV_Csizmadia-David_ENG.docx

Skills

Having gained extensive experience in diverse challenging projects, I learnt to apply and combine as necessary the best fit techniques from the traditional and agile project management toolsets.
With this pragmatic approach and excellent interpersonal skills, I could break complex requirements into tangible pieces, planning and tracking the work, managing risk and issues while motivating a team for smooth collaboration which is the heart of achieving project goals in our ever–changing world.

Project history

07/2021 - Present
IT Project Manager | Consultancy in Application Management
Uniper (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: Application Management
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Analysing the application management lifecycle of the systems and identifying possible improvements for IT Support processes including Incident Management, Change management and Problem Management.
  • Analysing the application management lifecycle as well as the initial and new documents and creating new or updating existing IT-documentation based on the gaps identified through the analysis for the managed applications.
  • Developing best practices to overcome and solve technical issues for business continuity in case of a disaster and verifying these practices with fully documented testing.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Reviewed the document management practices including storing, sharing, and naming of the documents, and improved with pragmatic practices, new folder structure, and systematic naming convention.
  • Followed up and documented changes to servers including decommissioning along migration of applications to new cloud environment.
  • Monitored changes to applications and coordinated the update of existing Operation Readiness documents with technical support teams.
  • Contributed to the design of processes for preparing Disaster Recovery solutions for the applications, introduced them and coordinated technical teams to prepare plans and to verify the plans with testing.
01/2020 - 04/2021
IT Project and Program Manager | IAM Integration Program
E.ON (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: Security / Identity & Access Management (IDM, FIM, AADC, AD, LDAP, PingFederate)
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Defining program governance including waterfall and agile approach.
  • Managing the program and selected projects within.
  • Cooperating with dependent projects and programs.
  • Supervising the planning and status reporting of projects in particular attention to the progress, risks, and issues.
  • Conducting regular internal program reviews with project managers and Customer.
  • Monitoring the assumptions, dependencies and risks in the RAID log and developing solutions in response.
  • Managing the program’s budget, resource utilization across projects, and the administration of delivery acceptances and change requests.
  • Coaching project managers in applying both agile and traditional methodologies in their projects.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Defined the program governance.
  • Supervised status reporting of projects in particular attention to the progress, risks, and issues.
  • Ensured documentation of the design of architecture with special attention to network specifications and servers with configuration details.
  • Steered the design of integrating identity access management (IAM) and public key infrastructure (PKI) services of the merging energy companies.
  • Managed the implementation of architecture design while coordinating dependencies on 3rd parties.
  • Supported the implementation of test and dry run environment to ensure proper Azure AD attribute synchronization via AADC.
  • Changed the configuration of LDAP server objects used in affected LDAP pools on load balancers to only allow TLS 1.2 based LDAP clients to connect.
  • Conducted regular internal program reviews with project managers and, also held external meetings with Customer.
  • Coached project managers in applying both agile and traditional methodologies in their projects.
  • Monitored assumptions, dependencies and risk in RAID log and developed solutions for in response.
  • Managed the program’s budget, resource utilization across projects and the administration including acceptance of deliverables and change requests.
08/2019 - 08/2020
IT Project Manager | New Citrix Platform with sisNET
E.ON (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: Infrastructure / Network / Citrix / Virtualization
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Acting as single point of contact for Customer.
  • Leading the project through the whole project lifecycle from project definition to post–go–live support.
  • Complying with all documentation and administrative requirements.
  • Planning project activities according to scope.
  • Managing risks and issues.
  • Forecasting and managing finances.
  • Conducting virtual and onsite meetings with Customer and project team.
  • Reporting both internally and externally on a regular basis.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Delivered servers in data room and ensured network requirements.
  • Installed and configured Citrix and sisNET with requested prerequisite applications.
  • Migrated users from current (CMO) to the new (FMO) environment.
03/2019 - 05/2020
IT Project Manager | SharePoint Farm Re–platforming
Uniper (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: Infrastructure / Network / Data / SharePoint
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Ensuring all project management aspects of the work including planning and tracking, risk and issue management, finance, resourcing, documentation, stakeholder management and regular reporting.
  • Planning the delivery of work in collaboration with the technical team and tracking, monitoring the progress to meet project boundaries of quality, time, and budget.
  • Planning and regularly updating the resource utility plan according to project requirements for optimal efficiency.
  • Managing and coordinating technical team in implementation of the tasks defined in the project plan.
  • Holding regular meetings with the technical lead and the implementer team to review results in separate stages like DEV and UAT and planning corrective actions as necessary before moving to PROD environment.
  • Updating the project plan and RAID log on a regular basis together with the team.
  • Informing stakeholders of project status including progress, risk and issues in regular meetings and weekly reports.
  • Holding internal meetings and attending Customer workshops to develop roadmap for Go–Live.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Supported the order and delivery of servers, prepared capacity extension in virtual private cloud for the new platform.
  • Ensured network requirements (e.g. firewall ports, permission via AD) for accessing and operating new platform.
  • Prepared and continually updated the documentation of architecture including firewall rules, IP addresses and hardware details for handover to service operations by project closure.
  • Managed technical changes including documentation and incorporated necessary lead times into project schedule.
  • Investigated options for optimalization of database maintenance.
  • Delivered database services including the setup of SQL and migration/copy of 17 TB database.
  • Planned and implemented Go–Live without any incident.
10/2018 - 11/2019
IT Project Manager | O365 IAM Enablement
E.ON (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: O365 / Security (FIM)
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Conducting project governance.
  • Planning, tracking, and reporting, controlling in time, quality, and budget.
  • Coordinating technical resources.
  • Preparing and participating review meetings and workshops both virtual and onsite.
  • Acting as single point of contact for the client.
  • Managing risks, issues, and escalations as necessary.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Performed audit, reorganized project governance, and moved the project from red back to green.
  • Coordinated the work of the technical team and external suppliers for successful implementation of project scope.
  • Implemented 2 Factor Authentication including Ping ID.
  • Adapted authentication scheme and created new attribute in IDM for introducing MobileIron for automatic exchange configuration.
  • Investigated solution for synchronizing distribution groups including memberships from Azure to DSC (Dynamic Service for Collaboration) environment.
  • Supported hybrid (partially cloud and on–premise) shift of mailboxes from CMO Exchange to FMO DSC Exchange with FIM and PingFederate.
  • Developed and implemented logic of black– and white–listing to enable/disable user accounts in Azure (AAD), Mail Users and managed groups.
  • Defined O365 leaver process and implemented corresponding logic in FIM.
02/2018 - 03/2019
IT Project Manager | O365 Consultancy, Packaging and Rollout
Uniper (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: O365 / Application Packaging / Rollout
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Managing the project scope, schedule, resources and budget. 
  • Ensuring project is delivered on time and in quality.
  • Monitoring, acting on risks and managing issues.
  • Conducting meetings and workshops both online and onsite as necessary.
  • Reporting to Customer, the project team and internal portfolio management on a regular basis.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Deployed O365 on specific trader computers with shared licenses.
  • Developed and deployed additional packages like language packs and OneDrive application package.
  • Prepared, tested and deployed regular O365 updates for mitigating security risk.
  • Adjusted security rules (extending SMTP filter; flagging BUs/MUs) for further business units.
10/2017 - 01/2019
IT Project Manager | O365 Consultancy, Packaging and Rollout
E.ON (>10.000 employees)
Project Domain: O365 / Application Packaging / Rollout
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Planning the work according to project scope and tracking progress for delivering project objectives on time and in quality.
  • Managing finances and resources.
  • Handling documentation and administration according to directives.
  • Managing stakeholders, holding meetings, and reporting regularly.
  • Preparing and maintaining RAID log for managing risk, issues, assumptions and dependencies.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Moved the project back to green with replanning and solving issues in finance, resources and schedule.
  • Designed, developed, tested and deployed O365 application packages (base and additional packages) via SCCM2007 in pilot to 100 machines and in mass rollout to 40 000 clients.
  • Analysed requirements and accordingly defined, prepared user support to be provided by service desk and onsite field services along pilot and mass rollout.
  • Prepared, tested and deployed regular application updates in collaboration with security representatives of Customer.
  • Supported various activities of dependent projects within the program (e.g. migration of storage and mailboxes into cloud).
08/2018 - 12/2018
IT Project Manager | Agile Network Taskforce
E.ON (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: Network / Security (AD)
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Defining hybrid (agile/waterfall) project governance.
  • Preparing proposals, planning, and pricing.
  • Identifying requirements and making sure to meet them on time, in budget and quality.
  • Coordination, documentation, and administration required for adequate project management.
  • Working closely together with technical team and 3rd party supplier.
  • Managing stakeholders with all aspects of necessary communication including meetings and reports both external and internal.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Identified the root cause and fixed slow network performance (specially around O365/Local Internet Breakout/Active Directory and DNS/Proxy PAC File).
  • Reviewed and consolidated PAC file changes.
  • Analysed the situation and elaborated solution for accessing specific web applications over Guest Wi–Fi Public IP.
  • Reviewed, replanned, and set more efficient design of routing for specific domain controllers.
  • Configured Active Directory (AD) sites and services.
  • Shrank AD Security Log File size with additional Group Policy Objects (GPO) and linked them to respective AD sites.
08/2016 - 02/2018
PMO – Scheduler | Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Transformation
PHILIPS (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Maintaining project schedules and regularly checking their validity against project scope including baselines, contractual agreements, and obligations.
  • Checking the health of project schedules on a regular basis and guiding project managers to ensure good quality in planning.
  • Creating regular reports from project schedules (e.g. deliverables and milestones, critical path, earned value) in support for project and program leadership.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Identified potential scheduling delays and recommended corrective actions.
  • Replanned critical projects in collaboration with project managers and the technical team.
  • Facilitated regular scheduling meetings with project managers to coordinate schedule maintenance and ensure adequate level of quality.
04/2017 - 09/2017
IT Project Manager | Primary and DR Site Enabling and Relocation
E.ON (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: Infrastructure / Network / Re–Location
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Managing all aspects of the project from planning to communication, resources, risks and issues, dependencies, and change.
  • Ensuring that the project is meeting expectations and proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
  • Coordinating the work of the project team.
  • Following project lifecycle and delivering all required documentation.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Managed orders, shipments, and installation of workstations (computers, monitors, peripherals) and servers.
  • Ensured network requirements with particular attention to firewall settings.
  • Planned and coordinated relocation and decommissioning of personal computers, monitors and servers.
  • Supported various testing activities for example for the setup of UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply).
04/2017 - 07/2017
IT Project Manager | ZScaler Connection to PING Fed
E.ON (Energy, water and environment, >10.000 employees)
Project Domain: Security (PingFederate)
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Being responsible for the end–to–end delivery of the project.
  • Ensuring adequate documentation of all aspects of the project for quality and transparency.
  • Managing the project scope, schedule, resources, and budget.
  • Maintaining assumptions, risks, dependencies and managing issues.
  • Reporting regularly to Customer, project team and portfolio management.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Configured SAML 2.0 connection between PingFederate and Zscaler, where users are identified with user IDs and authenticated with IWA (plus Username/Password as fallback).
  • Established direct connection to the PingFederate domain without any proxies in between.
12/2016 - 03/2017
PMO – TnT Risk and Issue Manager | Cloud Modernization
ALSTOM (Industry and mechanical engineering, >10.000 employees)
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Ensuring that the Project Risk logs are updated.
  • Briefing the Programme on the status of Risk Management and associated response actions in Risk Review Board.
  • Facilitating risk assessments and reviews.
  • Preparing and providing risk briefings, reports, and documents required for PMO reviews and management decisions.
  • Supporting Project Managers and Stakeholders in their understanding and use of the risk management process.
  • Supporting other staff so they can contribute to risk management activities effectively, including providing training as required.
  • Undertaking Quality checks and providing feedback to the Work stream leads and Risk Owners.
  • Ensuring that staff complies with risk and issue management policies and procedures.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Maintained risk, issue and change management processes to ensure all projects comply with project control mechanism.
  • Identified, assessed, categorized, and logged risks with description including cost impact and response plan in the risk management tool (PPMC).
  • Monitored and managed assumptions, risks, and issues in collaboration with assigned project managers.
  • Created regular reports on risks and issues for management information.
  • Conducted regular review meetings on project and program level.
11/2015 - 11/2016
Project Specialist – Deputy PMO Lead | SAP Modernization
KION (Industry and mechanical engineering, 5000-10.000 employees)
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Developing, implementing, and maintaining effective schedule management process.
  • Coaching project managers in planning activities and monitoring the execution according to the project timeline.
  • Regularly checking the health of project schedules and guiding project managers to ensure good quality in planning.
  • Reporting from project schedules on project and program level.
  • Managing risk and issue log in collaboration with project managers.
  • Assisting the creation and review of project status reports in particular regard to their quality and communication toward management and Customer.
  • Supporting various PMO activities including resource management and change management.
  • Being stand–in and acting on behalf of the PMO lead with all relevant responsibilities.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Created project schedules and ensured good quality in collaboration with project managers.
  • Supported smooth operation of the project management office.
10/2014 - 01/2016
PMO – Scheduler | Complex Modernization
PORTIGON (Banks and financial services, 5000-10.000 employees)
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Maintaining project scheduling, reporting processes, and suggesting amendments for improving efficiency and productivity.
  • Attending and leading scheduling status reviews.
  • Providing overall support on schedule management.
  • Analysing and ensuring schedule quality in respect to baseline and planned dates, milestones, tasks, and dependencies.
  • Creating regular reports from project schedules (e.g. deliverables and milestones, critical path, earned value) in support for project and program leadership.

ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Maintained project schedules and regularly checked their validity against project scope including baselines, contractual agreements, and obligations.
  • Developed custom reports on request for the management.
  • Replanned the program in collaboration with project managers and subject matter experts (SME).

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