Manage innovative IT projects involving education, engineering, software development/integration, online learning management systems and the like.
Victor “Rocky” Lira
5620 Don Felipe Court, Albuquerque, NM 87105
Email: rocky[at]rockylira.com Home Phone: (505) 877-0038 Cellular: (505) 659-8544
Personal Summary
A highly experienced Information Technology (IT) Project Manager, and team lead professional with a strong business background and a broad spectrum of IT experience and skills. Manages operating budgets, IT Plans, organizes internal procedures and communicates effectively at all levels to varying constituents. Has supervisory experience and passion for large scale IT projects.
Education:
University of Phoenix (2002-2004), 18 credit hours obtained.
Professional Accomplishments Awards and Special Skills
DOE Q-Clearance (1990-1994) 20+ years IT experience, 7 years Supervisory
Advisory Board Member, Standards Development sub-committee (2001-2002), State of New Mexico Telecommunications Standards Development sub-committee member (1997-1999), Kentucky Education Technology Commission
“Technical Excellence” customer achievement award (1990), Tektronix, Inc.
State Traffic Records Coordinating Committee (STRCC) member (2002-2004), State of New Mexico
Enterprise Architecture Committee member (2002-2004), State of New Mexico Statewide Immunization Registry Manager (2007), State of New Mexico
Microsoft BizTalk 2004 and Visual Studio
Expert Microsoft Office including Project and Visio
8 years Project Management with various IV&V experience Received award letter for saving Department of Public Safety $600k on failing software (2003).
Work Experience (1994-Current)
6/2007 to Current NM Higher Education Department
IT Project Manager Digital Education and Learning, IDEAL-NM
• Project Initiation (writing project plan, schedule, communications plan, identify resources/ budget, project certification);
• Project Management (track deliverables, determine acceptance criteria, change control procedures, develop status reports/timelines/work breakdowns, coordinate team meetings);
• Contract Management (manage LMS contractor, write online course development/design/evaluation professional service contracts);
• Budget Management (manage 5 program budgets in excess of $12m);
• Program Communication (prepare and present program presentations to large and small audiences, legislators and various levels of stakeholders);Manage five program budgets in excess of $12m;
• Prepare and present project presentations to various large and small audiences including state legislative representatives.
1/2007 to 6/2007 NM Department of Health
Program Manager Statewide Immunization Information System
• Supervise data collection staff, helpdesk personnel and health care administrators/trainers;
• Overall responsibility for operations, policy, IT planning and strategic direction for consolidating child immunizations into a single data repository;
• Manage professional service contracts;
• Develop program IT Plans associated with repository requirements and client access;
• Coordinate written and oral progress reports to agency CIO and program directors;
• Organize statewide training plan and coordinate execution of IT plan directives;
• Implement new technology for increased security, data accuracy and accessibility;
• Conduct program presentations to various health care providers statewide.
7/2006 to 1/2007 NM Human Services Department
Business Process Analyst Medicaid Claims Processing
• Build Medicaid claim processing test plans and make recommendations for streamlining claims processing;
• Conduct system testing utilizing new automated system interface;
• Develop technical operations manual, design change log and test plan guide;
• Conduct periodic project assessments;
• Provide project status reports and conduct face to face project meetings with agency CIO and IT team.
1/2005 to 12/2005 NM Public Regulation Commission
IT Project Manager Insurance Financial System
• Initiate damage control process for COTS software implementation project;
• Redesign software implementation plan;
• Coordinate refinement of client business cases and requirements;
• Analyze function gap between client requirements and COTS system limitations;
• Initiate project management process including development of project plan, schedule, WBS, governance structure, change control process, acceptance criteria, timelines and communications plan;
• Manage software developer and IV&V contractor deliverables;
• Develop system test plans;
• Provide project status reports and conduct face to face project meetings with agency CIO and Program Directors;
• Present project status at monthly IT Commission meetings;
• Assist staff with go-live transition plan and training of new system.
1/2003 to 12/2004 NM Office of Chief Information Officer
IV&V Consultant/Project Mgr. Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS)
• Initiate damage control process for a failing COTS software implementation project;
• Review software functionality, data structures/business process and FBI certification requirements;
• Manage software vendor contract deliverables;
• Develop gap report on software specifications and program requirements;
• Conduct weekly project meetings with agency staff, project stakeholders and software vendor;
• Coordinate system testing and acceptance/non-acceptance procedures;
• Project Management - develop project plan, schedule, WBS, governance structure, change control process, acceptance criteria, timelines and communications plan;
• Developed Justice Architecture and strategic planning document to meet FBI certification requirements;
• Implement change control processes to integrate new automated traffic citations, DWI citations, accident reports and offense incident reports with CJIS;
• Coordinated effort with multiple state agencies to unify data collection requirements, standardize data exchange format (XML) and identify reporting needs of the various stakeholders in a common infrastructure;
• Presented new architecture concept to various state agencies and law enforcement entities statewide, ready for implementation.
3/2002 to 12/2002 NM Energy and Minerals Department
IV&V Consultant Document Imaging Project
• Develop IV&V task plan including schedule, risk assessment process, use case framework and communications plan;
• Collaborate with stakeholders and quality assurance team to define business cases, performance expectations and mitigate differences;
• Analyze project management plan while integrating IV&V tasks into plan and project schedule;
• Develop system test plan and user acceptance test results;
• Present test results to agency management team, vendor and project manager;
• Document system deficiencies, lessons learned, risks moving day forward and closeout report;
• Present closeout report to steering committee.
6/2001 to 6/2002 NM office of Chief Information Officer
IV&V Consultant Multi Agency Network
• Develop requirements for phase I of a multi-agency network in Carlsbad, New Mexico;
• Coordinate stakeholder meetings to determine bandwidth requirements and performance expectations;
• Develop IV&V task plan including risk logs and mitigation procedures;
• Integrated IV&V checkpoints into project management plan and project schedule;
• Validated network termination points and verified network performance was at or better than expectations;
• Present system deficiencies, lessons learned, risks moving day forward and closeout report.
2/1999 to 12/2001 Power Solutions, Inc.
Owner/Operator IBM Computer Workstation Sales
• Managed own company selling IBM Reduced Instruction Set (RISC) computer workstations to northern NM clients, specifically Los Alamos National Laboratory;
• Conducted sales presentations and technical demonstrations of equipment to clients;
• Provided point of sale product sales;
• Prepared sales invoices, collected product orders and maintained company records.
7/1997 to 2/1999 Kentucky Department of Education (KDE)
Team Leader Kentucky Education Technology system (KETS)
• Supervise 5 Microsoft Professionals supporting the state of Kentucky’s education department with IT support;
• WAN/LAN coordinator for semi-annual conference;
• Coordinated competitive BID for KDE and 1800 schools statewide to include servers, desktop computers, printers, communication switches/hubs and firewall solutions;
• Presented technology solutions at educational conferences nationwide.
6/1993 to 6/1997 NM Department of Health
IT Manager Public Health Division
• Supervise 5 IT staff;
• Develop RFP’s for various IT products and services;
• Develop process flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams and network topologies;
• Introduce agency to their first email system (Lotus Notes), LAN/WAN connecting 34 statewide health offices and help desk support;
• Served as technical team lead/contract administrator for selecting a vendor to develop the Statewide Immunization Information System (SIIS) where I later became the Program Manager;
• Presented proposed technology to agency CIO, statewide IT staff and program directors.
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