8920 Roundleaf Way
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
Cell: (240) 505-8316
E-Mail: atanaskag@yahoo.com
• Seeking a Senior Project /
Program Manager / IT Director position
Recent Customers
Project Management
IT Experience
Education
Fannie Mae, US Army, FBI, DOD,
McGraw-Hill
10+ years, 15+ projects
14+ years
MS, MBA
Certifications PMP, CSSGB
Highly motivated IT professional with over 14 years of experience in managing, analyzing, designing, developing and implementing large Technology solutions in complex environments.
ƒ Over 10 years of extensive IT and Financials project management experience in multiple industries and in value of up to $20 million with 150+ direct and indirect reports.
ƒ Strong functional management and technical lead experience. Efficiently manages multiple teams and projects. Experience working with technical and business teams from corporate, non-profit and government institutions. Testing and QA lead.
ƒ Proven strong leadership, team building and analytical skills.
ƒ Extensive knowledge and hands-on functional and technical experience in the full life cycle methodologies with numerous software development/upgrade projects.
ƒ Realized 250% revenue growth and over 150% expansion.
ƒ Relationship development/management; Customer management; Business development.
ƒ Quality assurance and control; Scoping/Cost Estimating/Budgeting/Scheduling
ƒ Time management; Process improvement; Managing multiple priorities; Strong visual and presentation skills.
ƒ International experience. Multilingual. Eligible for security clearance.
Fannie Mae, DOD, FBI, Army JROTC, MedStar Health, AOL, McGraw-Hill Publishing
• BS and MS, Computer Science, 06/1995, GPA 3.7
• MBA, Johns Hopkins University, 05/2001, GPA 3.92
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute
• CSSGB (Certified Six Sigma Green Belt), Villanova University
SCBSL and DataMart
Reporting
Restatement and
Catch-up
Fannie Mae
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Securities Cost Basis Subledger (SCBSL) and Securities Data Mart
AutoSys Development Manager during Restatement and Catch-Up
SCBSL Operational and Analytic Reporting Development manager – manage development and maintenance of over 200 Crystal and
Crystal / Universe reports across multiple projects
Securities Cost Basis Subledger Development Restatement Release
Manager – managing by-weekly releases for a team developing code for Fannie Mae’s restatement project. Large UNIX-based Ab
Initio ETLs, Oracle 9I and 10G DB and AutoSys project processing large sets of data
Responsible for planning, budgeting, strategies and staffing aspects, including project planning, design, development and quality control
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8920 Roundleaf Way
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
Cell: (240) 505-8316
E-Mail: atanaskag@yahoo.com
Anatomy of Care
Washington Hospital
Center, MedStar Health
The Incident
FBI
Gator Six
U.S. Army
REEL Series: REEL
Society, Interpersonal,
Families and Justice
McGraw-Hill Publishing
AT/FP Training Series
Joint Chiefs of Staff/DOD
Hate Comes Home
Anti-Defamation League,
AOL @ School
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RunBook manager – managing execution RunBook and RunGuide for IG 4 Restatement Execution
QA, UAT, Release Management, CM, PMO and ROC execution coordination
Instrumental for staffing and planning model for the project, budgeting and reporting.
Played an integral role in all phases of the project, including deployment and post-production support.
Technical development and QA lead.
Managed production budget and quality assurance.
Project manager during execution phases of development for this military training product.
Main deliverables: development, quality assurance and control, conceptual and logical design, software testing, deployment and post-deployment support.
Replaced 16 hours of instructor-led training with 4 hours of training, resulting in significant cost savings.
Delivered project on time at 5% below budget.
Managed the design and development of a series of college aids for
McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
Responsible for team allocation, requirements gathering, scope definition, scheduling, planning (resource, budget, etc.), functional and technical specifications, configuration specifications, budgeting, scope control, testing, reporting, schedule and quality control, training, deployment, contract closeout.
Overall textbook sales increased by 10%.
Responsible for the successful execution of the planning and design phase of the project and many functional tasks.
Development of the product, quality assurance, staff development, schedule and scope planning and control.
Overall annual savings resulting from the project exceeded $10 million per year.
Led product development and coordinated subject matter experts
(SME).
Mentored all project resources on-site.
The product was deployed in over 4,000 schools nationwide.
Managed its deployment on AOL@School. •
• Fannie Mae, Sr. Project Manager
(2005 – present)
• WILL Interactive Inc. , VP Technology
(1997 – 2005)
• Optimos, Inc. , Project Manager, Multimedia
(1995 – 1996)
• Technical University, Multimedia Developer
(1993 – 1995)
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