1. KEVIN E. McCAFFREY
10 Pymm Court
Stony Point, NY 10980
Mobile: 845-641-8077
Email: KEMcCaffrey@prodigy.net LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-mccaffrey-87bba022
SUMMARY
Driven IT professional with record of delivering IT solutions of varied complexity, scope and budget.
Strong relationship builder capable of seeing the big picture and advocating for stakeholders.
Creative and adaptable problem solver.
Well rounded and experienced in a wide range of IT skill areas.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
EXPERIENCE
Associate Director – IT Portfolio, Project Management Office (PMO); Starwood Hotels
Stamford, CT (Nov. ’11 to present)
IT Portfolio Manager (March ‘14 – present)
Highly effective, creative and experienced IT leader who successfully delivered $20MM in value-add projects.
Created and tuned 5 teams of IT PMs tasked to successfully deliver key business solutions for Security, HR,
Sales, Property Management Systems(PMS), and Legal areas.
Personally delivered new to market projects for Sales and Digital teams that generated over $200MM in
incremental revenue.
Built and evolved team effectiveness of up to 10 project manager direct reports through goal setting,
measuring, coaching, collaboration, team building and hiring/firing.
Envisioned and led task force of 5 teams to address 2000 support ticket backlog in 4 weeks for Identity Access
Management (IAM) rollout.
Executed on planning, kickoff and management $6MM Identity Management System (IDMS) initiative to
centralize and secure identity, role and access management using Oracle OIM build out.
Shepherded completion of series of 4 SPG Loyalty project initiatives designed to protect Starwood from
fraudulent activities, bolster security and protect customer Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
Provided governance and oversight of PM resource to track and maintain PCI compliance including setting of
security standards and providing necessary audits including yearly penetration tests and ASV scans.
Drove and delivered $2MM enterprise-wide initiative to upgrade corporate browser standard to IE11
Transitioned project management methodology of waterfall teams into product based Agile methodology for
Starwood’s Internet Sales and Catering (ISAC) solution.
Led team of 4 project managers to implement updates and installation of Starwood’s signature Property
Management System (Galaxy/Lightspeed)
Managed Finance project efforts for rollout of SAP capabilities to individual properties.
Standardized PMO process and procedures into PMO Playbook and developed documentation and training
for Agile, Scalable Agile Framework (SAFe) and Waterfall.
2. KEVIN E. McCAFFREY
10 Pymm Court
Stony Point, NY 10980
Mobile: 845-641-8077
Email: KEMcCaffrey@prodigy.net LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-mccaffrey-87bba022
IT Project Manager (Nov. ‘11 – Feb. ‘14) – Contractor – Starwood Hotels (via eVantage Technologies)
Delivered on 2 month push to market for Starwood/Apple partnership to deliver virtual loyalty and stay
cards on Apple iPhone using iOS Passbook.
Executed on build out of new API services for third party mobile SPG Loyalty app.
Managed complex updates to 23 Starwood systems for key initiative to provide SMS communications and
marketing to Starwood customers.
Partnered with Legal team and successfully delivered new document management solution using Oracle
UCM.
Associate Director IT, Enterprise Web Management; Sharp Electronics Corp. (SEC),
Mahwah, NJ (Jan. ’01 – Sept. ’11)
Orchestrated $20MM consolidation of Enterprise Web Solutions to SAP Enterprise Portal in 10 months.
Drove COSO/JSOX compliance through 6 month rollout of SAP Identity Access Management Solution.
Managed teams of up to 25 total FTEs including development, DBA, BA and QA functional areas.
Led consolidation of web development team from Sharp Canadian unit into US business unit in 6 months.
Sr. Project Manager; Prodigy Communications Corp., White Plains, NY (Jun. ’99 –Dec. 00)
Project Manager; UUNet - An MCI WorldCom Company, Purchase, NY (Aug. ’98 – Jun. ’99)
Sr. Information Systems Analyst; GTE Corporation, Stamford, CT (Nov. ’93- Aug. ’98)
Staff Programmer; Prodigy Services Company, White Plains, NY (Mar. ‘89 – Nov. ‘93)
Programmer; Pergamon Press Inc., Elmsford, NY (Jul ‘87 – Mar ‘89)
EDUCATION
M.S. Computer Science
Iona College, New Rochelle, New York
B.A Computer Science
Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
CERTIFICATIONS
PMI Project Management Professional – PMP #1765743– Completed 2015
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – ID#: 000459880 - Completed 2015
SAFe Agilist (SA) Certification – ID# 37835357-1308 - Completed 2016