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2800 Veronica Drive Barry Michaels Home Phone: 269-983-6799
St. Joseph, MI 49085 Cell Phone: 269-369-3807
E-mail: barrymich@yahoo.com
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
I am a results driven project manager that that has worked with a diverse group of businesses managing medium to large software
development,integrations and data migration projects. I possess excellentorganization,management and communication skills.Iam a
team player that takes the initiative to lead and focus the team’s objectives in order to exceed customer expectations. I manage projects
by facilitating interaction between the business and technical resources in order to get full project participation.I foster customer loyalty
by ensuring that customers fullyutilize the value of our solutions and services .As a professional services practice manager I know the
value in keeping resources optimized. I am extremely resourceful and relish taking on challenging opportunities.
EXPERIENCE
Johnson Controls, Inc 2011 – Present
Is a global manufacturer thatprovides products and solutions for the Automotive, Holland,Michigan
Building HVAC and Power Solution (Batteries). I am part of the Solution Delivery Services Team
which is responsible for the development,modification,data warehousing,reporting and maintenance
of over 100 global core manufacturing support applications
AE Global Solution Delivery Services Manager – Webtechand Business Intelligence
 Web Technology, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Projects – Manage the resource teams responsible for
building our data warehouse and developing reporting solutions.
o This includes Data Modeling,ETL, Load Scheduling and Performance Monitoring
o Developmentof User Interfaces gather data and managing business process
o Dashboard reporting solutions for real-time monitoring ofmanufacturing and financial KPI’s.
 Procure, Manage and schedule resource staffing for all projects with a focus on on-time and on-budgetimplementations.
This includes maximizing resource utilization
o Manage a team comprised of 25 - 30 on and off shore technical resources
 I instituted and successfullyimplemented PMI/PMBOK® based projectmanagementprocess methodologyfor managing
all developmentprojects
o From project initialization,through discovery, design,development,scope /change control managementand
implementation.
 Provide managementstatus reports for the weekly projectand resource staffing.
 Customers and resources are located world-wide which requires flexible time-zone collaboration and availability
 Office 365 projectis focused on the migration ofDocumentum eRoom’s to SharePointSites (3400 migrations)
o Led the evaluation and selection ofour vendor migration partner
o Managing all aspects ofthis global projectfrom planning,staffing and vendor management
Personify, Inc. (Formally TMA Resources, Inc.) 2003 - 2011
Is a software developmentand professional services organization thatdevelops an “ERP” Rosemont, Illinois
software (Personify) that supportthe business needs ofprofessional and trade associations. Vienna, Virginia
Principal Practice Manager
 Practice Manager for a team of 20 projectmanagers,business analysts and technical resources thatsuccessfully
managed projects for the following organizations: American Academyof Orthopedic Surgeons,Radiological Societyof
North America,American Society for Clinical Pathology, American Bar Association, Institute of Food Technologist, The
YMCA’s of Dallas,Minneapolis, Charlotte and Raleigh, to name a few
 All projects employed a structured implementation methodologyand included the following activities:
o Project resource and budgetplanning for the entire implementation and development
o Discovery – Requirements gathering and Business Process Analysis
o Technical Design and developmentbased upon discoveryrequirem ents
o Data analysis, template and scriptdevelopmentfor migrating data from legacy systems
o Many projects included additional 3rd party integration (CMS, CRM, SFA, and Credit Card processing)
o Defining and facilitating customer – end user training and user acceptance testing
o Go live supportand issue management
 Responsible for maximizing resource utilization and revenue realization
 All projects utilized a combination ofdedicated, external and off-shore resources
 Managed project objectives and expectations including risk management
 Focused on projectdeliverables,timelines while adhering to budget guidelines and constraints
 Maintained projects plans and provided weeklyteam and sponsor status reports with “dashboard” overviews
 Promoted interactive communications between all resources on the projectteam
 Typical project implementation projectwas over $1mm and lasted 10 – 18 months

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IPC Print Services, Inc. – Division of Journal Communications, Inc. 2001 - 2003
The companyfocuses on the printing of Monthly Journals,Digital Distribution,Peer Review Saint Joseph,Michigan
and FulfillmentServices.
Project Manager – Business Solutions
 Responsible for defining,cultivating, negotiating and closing business opportunities
 Managed the custom developmentof our web-based solution thatsupported our fulfillmentservices,Online Journals
and Peer Review solutions thatgenerated $7,000,000 in revenue from 2001 – 2003
 Established and implemented a companywide structured phased projectmanagementmethodologyprocess
 Implemented the SDLC for all products and services,from business requirements gathering to productlaunch and
implementation
 Provided internal and external producttraining and subject matter expertise on all web-based productservices
Gartner, Inc 2000 - 2001
Is an information technologyconsulting research and analysis thatprovides Stamford,Connecticut
“Best Practices” subjectmatter expertise
Senior Product Development Manager
 Defined and implemented the productdevelopmentand sales supportprocesses for this start-up division
 Managed the developmentlife cycle of all products and services,from requirements gathering to productlaunch and
implementation using a SDLC methodology.
 Led the developmentteam to an on-time launch of:
o Gartner eMetrix Supply Chain Suite 2.0 (Initial productoffering – front-end web-based information “Dashboard”
and query-tool integrated to the customer’s data structure/warehouse)
o GAT (GAP Analysis Tool) developed to supportour system integration partners
 Led the team in defining the $3,000,000 developmentgroup budget
 Developed the sales and clientsupportresource-planning model
Trans Union, Inc. 1989 - 2000
Is one of the “Big Three” consumer creditand scoring companies.They also provide Chicago,Illinois
predictive modeling solutions for insurance,employmentand consumer marketing.
Senior Product / Project Manager
 Facilitated and managed all phases of our new business and e-commerce development initiatives.
 Managed the developmentofthe system infrastructure thatallowed us to easilydeploynew business solutions in less than
50% of the time it took for existing legacy systems
 Created and led the development in creating a data mining system used to rapidly identify product opportunities
o The web based data mining application helped expedite product development from six to two months
 Managed the database and application development that integrated various middle-ware software utility tools, including
interactive visual presentation software
 Defined the $2,000,000 budget requirements for the Internet product development, delivery system and marketing
initiatives
Product / Project Manager 1997 - 1999
 Created the business strategyfor Internet product and service opportunities
 Managed, recruited and led developmentteams made up ofcross-organizational participants in the developmentof
productand services
 Nurtured and strengthened business relationships byproviding consultative information processing solutions thatsolved
their unique business needs
o Increased revenue for our transaction based fraud detection solution (Fraud Detect©) from $1,500,000 to
$2,500,000 (1997 – 1998) and from $2,500,000 to $3,500,000 from (1998 – 1999)
 Developed the ROI analysis models on all productand service initiatives
Manager of Model Development 1995 – 1996
 Managed twelve-member team consisting of programmers, business analysts and production support personnel.
 Implemented a new process development structure that increased our ability to develop and implement score model
applications from six to two weeks
EDUCATION
M.B.A. with an emphasis in Marketing and Accounting
Keller Graduate School of Management,Chicago,Illinois
B.S. in Economics
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,Illinois
PMP Certification
Pursuing ProjectManagementProfessional (PMP) Certification through PMI – Taking the exam October, 2014
PMI Member since 2002