Dennis Davison - Key Projects

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KEY PROJECTS / ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Managed development teams with multiple project leads and 50+ domestic (local & remote) and offshore employees and contractors. Functional roles spanned the entire spectrum of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Implemented 10-20 releases per year, while also accommodating several strategic standalone and emergency mandated programs each year.

WISC TO EDS MIGRATION - This project was scoped at 18-24 months and was completed in 9 months. The change in mainframe operations resulted in a $500,000 annual savings.

Transferred Mainframe operations from Tulsa, OK To Perryman, MD
Changed system operations from WISC, an IT outsourcing company, to EDS (Contentious)

MCI/WORLDCOM BANKRUPTCY - Project was a result of corporate bankruptcy. As the manager of a development team for corporate financial systems, the responsibility was to provide all information requested by multiple internal and external audit teams. The company successfully emerged from bankruptcy and was bought by Verizon.

Worked with Senior VP’s in communicating progress and status
Completed and passed 25-30 separate audits
Wrote the request for additional staffing to the federal bankruptcy court monitor and received approval

RESOURCE CENTER - This effort established a corporate resource center to pool resources for use by all IT teams. Managed the first system to utilize the new resource center and worked with resource center management to establish policies & procedures.

System point of contact and lead with 3 external audit firms and the internal audit team for all Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) audits, initiatives, and remediation controls

DATA CENTER OUTAGE – The Maryland data center had a major electrical outage and all systems (several mainframes, mid-ranges, and servers) went down. The system my team was responsible for quickly became the point of focus since a $250M dollar billing run had just started at the time of the outage.

Immediately notified management of outage (both IT & User Management)
Communicated status & progress to the CIO, Presidents, and VP’s during the event
Worked with the operations staff to restore normal system operations
Upon system restoration, verified the remaining billing steps ran correctly with appropriate user groups
The $250M billing run was completed with less than a 12 hour delay

F&E MIGRATION - This project was part of the corporate initiative to consolidate duplicate systems, streamline processing, and significantly reduce operating costs. My team owned this project and was responsible for the overall project success.

Managed the migration of the billing and receivables for wholesale and commercial customers from a single system to two separate systems
Migration consisted of approximately 10,000 customers, 525,000 circuits, and 250,000 charge records totaling $1.3 billion
Responsible for 10+ IT teams and 15-20 user groups were involved in the migration
Managed the reformatting of hundreds of thousands of data records to meet the requirements of multiple systems
Coordinate and sync billing cycles and dates on multiple systems to ensure revenue was not lost

OFFSHORE TEAM - Hired and trained an offshore based development team. The establishment of the offshore development team reduced development costs by approximately 75%.

ARCHITECTURAL STRATEGY - Worked with the Enterprise Architecture team, in a SharePoint environment, to develop the future IT strategies and corporate direction.