Thomas Sinclair is a highly accomplished Project Manager with a track record of managing complex IT projects and exceedi...
THOMAS M. SINCLAIR
Washington, DC 20005 202.669.4232
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PROFILE Highly accomplished Project Manager with a track record of managing complex IT projects and exceeding expectations. Skilled at conceiving and implementing effective strategies to optimize business operations, elevate productivity, and boost revenue. Experienced in the full system Agile development lifecycle from requirements gathering to system deployment. Extensive experience in applying Agile methodology concepts to software development and implementation. Well-developed technical skills and expert project management abilities complemented by highly effective communication and consensus building skills. Clearances: US Government Sensitive Clearance Project Management/Team Supervision, Leadership & Motivation Agile SDLC/Customer Facing/Web Development and Content Management Product Delivery/Technical Support/Deployment & Migrations/Point-of-Sale
PROJECT MANAGER/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Escher Group, Vienna, Virginia
Feb 2012 – Nov 2013
World-class provider of retail and message-based software solutions and services
Sr. Project Manager – Point of Sale and Financial Accountability Application – US Postal Service As Sr. Project Manager, delivered Point of Sale system to the U.S. Postal Service to replace their legacy system, employing the agile software development life-cycle to complete and deliver the POS application in 17 months. This POS system allows the customer to upgrade to newer technologies, realize substantial maintenance savings and position itself for mobile and other advanced initiatives. This application is being deployed to 17,000 post offices and over 70,000 POS terminals with yearly revenues thru the system of over $11 billion. This project required extensive customer facing skills and cross-team and cross-organizational coordination. Technologies used: .Net, Java, C#, C++, XML, SOAP Responsible for driving requirements, development, QA testing and customer delivery using the agile development life-cycle approach. System components include interfaces to outside web services and web applications, extracts to Enterprise Data Warehouse, and interfacing with POS scanners, printers, scales, and cash drawers. As first member of the Virginia Escher team, recruited and built a team of highly qualified, productive and dynamic IT professionals. Facilitated daily scrum meetings with Business Analysts, Developers and QA teams. Coordinated monthly Sprint Reviews for multi-department and cross-functional customer teams. Extensive Customer facing meetings, coordination and status updates. GANNETT COMPANY, INC., McLean, Virginia 2002-2012 The largest newspaper company in the United States, with $5 billion in yearly revenues and 32,000 employees. Manager–Advertising, Billing, and Accounts Receivable Application Promoted to oversee the enterprise-wide implementation of the advertising system consisting of an order entry, billing, accounts receivable, web-based transaction processing and advertising Web Content Management functions. Direct supervision for a team of up to 13 high-caliber IT system integration professionals focused on providing software deployment to the staff at 83 Gannett’s newspapers. Provided ongoing feedback and support to team members to achieve and exceed performance objectives. This team employs Agile methodology to assist in development and to deploy home grown software to the enterprise business units.
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Coordinated the Wave2 Ad Portal configuration, integration, training and deployment. This is a selfservice Web Content Management tool used to increase newspapers’ advertising revenue and customer offerings. Delivered a web-based self-service application to customers to increase company revenue, provide business unit cost savings and leverage centralized infrastructures. Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Visual Lansa, XML. Deployed a SalesForce.com CRM solution to the business units by integrating with the advertising business systems, providing a foundation for the World Class Sales organization enterprise-wide initiative. Spearheaded the transition from legacy technologies to the new, highly functional, streamlined, and cost-effective Genesys system upgrade. Converted data, interfaced with legacy systems, integrated custom processes, developed pricing infrastructure, setup customer databases, and provided end-user training to 65 newspapers. Project benefits include increased efficiencies and significant cost savings. Scheduled and tracked project activities and timelines, generated project requirements, and provided direct oversight for implementation in an Agile software development environment. Project Manager Challenged to increase productivity and reduce costs through improved uses of technology. Charged with coordinating and directing the implementation of the Genesys upgrade, an enterprise-wide 3½ year project designed to greatly improve operational efficiencies. Coordinated all aspects of the project across the enterprise and managed a team of system professionals to deploy the upgrade. NORTEL NETWORKS GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, Herndon, Virginia 2000-2002 A global supplier of networking hardware, software, and services, including wireless network solutions. Progressed through rapid performance-based promotions to manage the implementation of IT systems solutions for Application Service Providers. Managed cross-functional project teams, providing initial needs assessment to develop the best technology strategies to meet client objectives. Project Manager/ Quality Assurance Lead Engineer Oversaw and led the testing and integration of a billing and rating solutions system for Application Service Providers. Created unit, integration, and user acceptance test plans. Configured a pricing and billing engine and set data pricing parameters to produce invoices and reports. Liaison between project manager and client to provide the development team with requirements for design and implementation approaches. Designated as Nortel Networks “Top Talent” during 4th quarter 2000 and 3rd quarter 2001. GANNETT COMPANY, INC., McLean, Virginia Project Manager/Systems Analyst/Programmer
1991-2000
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS, McLean, Virginia Programmer/Analyst
1989-1991
EDUCATION MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Arlington, Virginia MBA Management Information Systems/Finance INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Indiana, Pennsylvania Bachelors of Science in Finance
