Art Garza

2307 Aspen Street

Richardson, Texas 75082

(972) 841-9455      agarza0972@aol.com

 

 

SUMMARY: A dedicated, results and people oriented Project Manager with nine years experience in network projects, as well as processes and procedures creation.

 

RELATED EXPERIENCE: 

Student Insurance                                                                                                                       

Project Manager                                                                         December 2002 to April 2003

·        Managed the movement of production servers to a collocation site

·        Established and implemented a disaster recovery plan

·        Assisted relocating an entire company division, including data center, to another building

 

Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Plano, Texas

Infrastructure Project Manager                                                      July 1994 to January 2002

·        Assisted with the creation, testing, and implementation of project management processes and documentation

·        Implemented infrastructure projects for Local Area Networks, cabling (all categories of wiring, fiber) routers, switches, load balancers, WAN, web hosting offerings, firewalls, end-users and Data Operations relocations

·        Obtained project resources (personnel and equipment), which at times included vendors

·        Managed, and assisted, project expenses for our organization and clients

·        Worked with telephone companies to order and implement data circuits

·        Managed large (complex) and small projects simultaneously

·        Provided the project management duties for the infrastructure renovation of the EDS  Control Room, from where the majority of the EDS’ clients’ technology activities are monitored and managed

·        Provided infrastructure requirements for EDS’ Web Hosting clients

·        Managed global and local project virtual teams

·        Met with client to obtain project requirements, to present engineered solutions, and to discuss project implementation activities

·        Worked with the engineers throughout the life cycle of the project to ensure the documented project scope was met

·        Conducted status meetings with project team and reported project status to management and clients

·        Provided project “actual costs vs budgeted costs” to appropriate individuals

·        Performed purchasing activities from vendors

·        Used MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, and  MS Outlook to maintain project accountability

·        Provided our organization’s leadership during my managers’ absences

·        Interviewed prospective project managers for our organization

·        Mentored project managers in our organization

 

 

 

Xerox Corporation (Lewisville, Texas)

Various positions                                                                                  June 1990 to June 1994

·        As a Senior Project Manager, I implemented infrastructure projects for Local Area Networks (routers, servers, telephone systems, firewalls, end-user support), cabling (CAT III, COAX, twisted pairs)

·        Assisted with “build out” of an entire facility

·        Relocated end-user and entire Data Operations Facilities

·        Obtained Novell Network Administrator certification

·        Managed a small Local Area Network

·        Created customer Level-of-Service Agreements and presented to customers for approval

 

 

 

MILITARY:                  United States Air Force                                                                1965-1969

                                         Honorable Discharge

 

 

EDUCATION:               University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, Texas)                         1983-1986

                                         Bachelor of Science Degree

                                         Business Major, emphasis on Managed Information Systems

                                                  

                                       William Harper Junior College (Paletine, Illinois)                           1973-1976

                                         Associate Degree

                                         Business Major

 

 

LANGUAGES:              English (read and write)

                                       Spanish (read and write)