Maricarmen Suarez, PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP

Program Manager

Reston, Virginia, United States26 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of management experience in IT.
  • PMP and PgMP certified professional.
  • Led major projects with significant impact on corporate strategy.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned IT Program Manager with extensive experience in enterprise-level project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementIt ManagementProject ManagementLeadership

Other Skills

Data CenterProcess ImprovementIntegrationVendor ManagementGovernanceProcess EngineeringRisk ManagementBusiness ContinuityDeploymentInfrastructurePMPPMOClient SalesCustomer ServiceSaaS

About

Established leader with a proven track record of successfully defining and implementing workflows, best practices, processes, data/metrics reporting, corporate governance, and policies/standards. 15+ years of management experience with a foundation in project management specializing in executing core initiatives, product development, large scale information technology projects, program/project management, and client sales/customer service. Accomplished IT professional with PMP and PgMP certifications with broad experience in product implementation, research and development, requirements analysis, application design, development, testing, system integrations, performance analysis, and leading software development initiatives.

Experience

Google

Sr. Program Manager

Jun 2015Present · 10 yrs 9 mos

Program ManagementData CenterProcess ImprovementIntegrationVendor ManagementIT Management

Amazon web services

2 roles

Construction Manager

Jun 2014May 2015 · 11 mos

Technical Program Manager

Nov 2012Jun 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

Verisign

4 roles

Senior Program Manager

Nov 2011Nov 2012 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for developing Verisign’s process framework for Program Management.
  • Champions advancement of all Verisign programs and provide recommendations for future programs that map to corporate strategic goals

Senior Manager

Promoted

Oct 2009Nov 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Leads project management teams, providing technical project management support and delivering professional IT services (planning and execution) in support of mission critical infrastructure. Exceptional skills in leadership communication, team motivation, building customer relationship towards performance excellence.
  • Facilitates alignment of cross-functional teams, encompassing internal resources as well as vendors and partners, to deliver initiatives in accordance with corporate strategic goals and objectives.
  • Continuously ensures that the organization’s infrastructure is capable of providing a wide range of services to accomplish requirements.
  • Ensures consistency, stability and continuity between active projects, including monitoring all processes and compliance items.
  • Process Engineering: either defined, instituted or supported the development of nearly all of the best-practices that PMO utilize today.
  • Proactively identify and manage project risks, issues and dependencies across the entire organizational spectrum.
  • Led project team to successfully implement and transition the dotGov domain registry service, a FIPS-199 High Impact secure system.
  • Recipient of 2010 CTO Leadership Excellence Award
Project ManagementLeadershipProcess Engineering

Production Services Program Manager

Oct 2008Oct 2009 · 1 yr

  • Provided Strategic & Infrastructure Program Management. Primary programs include:
  • Enterprise Storage Infrastructure Management – Encompasses all storage arrays and backup services, managing them holistically for all products within Naming Business Unit.
  • Supported two generations of storage architecture (SYM & VMAX series).
  • Business Continuity Strategic Program – Managed all projects associated with the implementation of business continuity for.com/.net
  • Deployment Program – Oversaw all software and infrastructure implementations associated with .com/.net suite.
  • Responsible for the build-out, implementation, and product migration to one of VeriSign's primary data centers in the East Coast.
Program ManagementBusiness ContinuityDeployment

Production Services Project Manager

Oct 2004Oct 2008 · 4 yrs

  • Program lead and primary customer interface for one of VeriSign's core lines-of-business, .com/.net which is responsible for over $500M in revenue annually.
  • Coordinate storage architectures and implementations for VeriSign's products on the East Coast through the use of EMC and Network Appliance storage solutions.
  • Responsible for the build-out, implementation, and product migration to VeriSign's tertiary data center in Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Built a cross-functional global project team responsible for the off-shore development and implementation of critical infrastructure for top level domain management and operations.
  • Responsible for the management and implementation efforts associated with the expansion of VeriSign's global resolution platform to 10+ additional points-of-presence.
  • Key contributor in product integration analysis for acquisitions and platform integrations. Experienced in partnering to translate customer needs into successful implementations.
Project ManagementInfrastructure

Northrop grumman information technology/ tasc

Project Technical Lead

Jan 2002Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

  • Oversaw full project life cycle aspects following CCMI Level 5 guidelines and Earned Value Management.
  • Lead customer-focused teams, delivering multiple Computer Based Training (CBT’s) modules in support of US Army Corps of Engineers.
  • Developed Customer Acceptance Criteria for IMI modules. Document was adopted as standard by multiple groups.
  • Presented recommendations on processes and procedures in accordance with organization cost, quality, and productivity goals.
  • As the Risk Administrator, identified, prioritized and monitored risks associated with the various projects within the program. Successfully developed and implemented risk management database.
  • Evaluated emerging technology and trends against customer needs to make implementation recommendations as required.
  • Member of multiple capture teams, with business development activities resulting in over $100M revenue.
Project ManagementRisk Management

Alfa

Assistant to Pres/CEO

Jan 1998Jan 2001 · 3 yrs

Education

Old Dominion University

BS — Interdisciplinary Studies

Virginia State University

Jack Welch Management Institute

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

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