Seth Gillespie

☆ Responsible for multiple large, cross-functional projects within multiple global data centers.
☆ Manage and direct the activities of high profile global projects within schedule and budget.
☆ Deliver IT projects consistent with strategic development objectives.

Significant Projects/Accomplishments include:

➢ Executed successful data center migration projects in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
➢ Launched reinvigorated, multi-data center, cross-functional disaster recovery program.
➢ Resolved company-critical network latency issues with the coordination of multiple teams.

Developed enterprise project management systems and processes across a wide range of customer interfaces, including those specific to migrations and functional upgrades of EPM 2003/2007/2010 production, development and beta environments.

• Worked around incredible deadlines to manage software infrastructure updates affecting thousands of employees.
• Launched an operations and enterprise wide documentation project to facilitate issues, risks and customer requests.
• Proactively engaged technical and business stakeholders to better understand specific needs and deployment timelines.
• Responsible for real-time, highly visible customer requests and troubleshooting within tight turnaround times.
• Participated in critical decision making processes within enterprise project management practices, scoping and support.
• Authored first-ever best practice documents, procedures and workflows for the benefit of project and portfolio managers.

• Championed the first successful implementation and rollout of an Enterprise Project Management system.
• Provided best practices, training and policy within selected Project Management Office (PMO) accounts.
• Worked with multiple groups in the coordination of software and web-based projects from concept to go-live.
• Actively and successfully managed several internal and external IT projects in a high pressure environment.
• Managed risk through proactive planning, team participation and mitigation assessment from start to finish.
• Planned, directed and coordinated activities of software and hardware deployment projects to ensure that goals and objectives were accomplished within the agreed time frame, quality and budget requirements.
• Used both traditional and non-traditional project management tools and techniques for project success.
• Worked with team members to coordinate software deployment life cycles and release schedules.

As a key Northern California Deployment Project Manager was responsible for multi-million dollar hardware & services contracts for a nationally recognized billion-dollar organization.
• Held responsibility for a successful eight month, multi-million dollar hardware and services contract.
• Negotiated, managed and deployed required mission critical technology and services initiatives.
• Partnered with clients on needs, guided proposals to approval and implemented solutions with success.
• Generated nearly $1M in new revenue within the first four months on the job by being flexible and goal oriented.

• Successfully assisted in a four month relocation contract for a progressive technology-focused company.
• Was a key contributor in the success of day-1 network and infrastructure access for hundreds of employees.
• Created a master Project Plan, authored first of its kind project documents, workflows and process maps.
• Produced digital dashboards for management, including quality project documentation and detailed minutes.
• Led multiple technology initiatives at the fast paced Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm and LucasArts campuses.

Coworkers commented: "Wow, we never did that before," "I could really see the positive results of your planning," and "Your presentation skills are awesome."

• Managed and implemented local and global software projects including requirement specifications gathering.
• Led cross departmental IT projects that focused on the consolidation of services, systems and resources.
• Successfully led, planned, documented and scheduled multiple high-priority projects; both large and small.
• Reduced overall implementation time through standardized project management methodologies.
• Collaborated with internal and external groups for cross-platform development and system-wide upgrades.
• Facilitated processes that involved the effective use of detailed planning, scheduling and communication.
• Fostered conflict resolution to successfully manage cultural change relating to process improvement.
• Provided leadership to team members in addition to positive management of stakeholder expectations.
• Championed numerous software projects through initiation, change control and retirement.

• Recommended and developed multiple large scale enterprise databases for Pfizer’s research sites.
• Led in the management of software development and quality efforts on each system deployed.
• Managed growing business needs by implementing hardware and software solutions within the time constraints given, the limited resources available and with high quality results.
• Improved project success through gathering and translating business requirements into systems specifications to meet the combined needs of the business group and the IT department.
• Led efforts in the documentation of software installation scripts, testing and execution deliverables.