GIRUM TESSEMA

Tel# 646-896-6897
girum57@yahoo.com

Summary:
Over 10 years of experience in the IT industry, serving in various aspects of Pr
oject Management and ICT operations. Successfully executed job assignments as: P
roject Manager (for 7 years), System Analyst (for 2 years) and, Applications pro
grammer (for 1+ year) on major IT projects; Responsibilities of past projects in
clude managing outsourced projects, preparing work brake down structures, Schedu
le of values, planning and managing system development life cycle phases, analyz
ing critical paths, preparing contractual documents and Task Orders, conducting
Project progress meetings, Negotiating Change orders and preparing payment requi
sitions; performed consistently excellent at managing projects for their timely
and under budget completions meeting and exceeding stakeholders' expectation
Professional Experience:
08/10 - 11/10 Vitamin Shoppe Industries Inc
Title: Project Manager
* Successfully managed and delivered an E-commerce infrastructure migration proj
ect within a critical time line and an aggressive schedule meeting and exceeding
the CTO's and CIO's expectation
* Achieved the project goal by making the client save a monthly recurring expens
e by more than 30% with an annual saving of 144K
* Closely monitored and managed the setup of a new Disaster Recovery site on a c
loud computing platform
* Managed the project budget and reported to VS management regarding any potenti
al unbudgeted cost impacts
* Managed the vendor's project team to ensure the quality delivery of project ou
tputs within budget and as per the schedule
* Analyzed, customized and deployed a project management information system port
al to the Technology services project team with in Vitamin Shoppe
06/08 - 07/10 MEEROL Inc
Title: Senior IT Project Manager
* Delivered a large scale server farm SharePoint Portal system hosting project (
with a total cost of $3.5 M) on time and within budget meeting and exceeding the
stakeholder's expectation;
* Successfully managed the SDLC of the entire project activity, schedule, cost a
nd quality.
* Conducted project coordination's and meetings with clients and all project sta
ke holders, supervised and Lead the project team.
* Monitored and administered Vendor Service Level Agreements to outsourced proje
cts (with a project cost of $2.7 M).
* Successfully initiated, planned and controlled an E-commerce system developmen
t project from inception to close out.
01/04 - 05/08 ZIAS Engineering
Title: IT Project Manager
* Successfully Managed a VPN Project that connected the head office and regional
branch offices increasing companywide productivity by 43%.
* Served as a manager of a project team and accomplished the analysis, design an
d implementation of a state of the art Internal IT Security system.
* Managed and Supervised an IT Security Audit Service Level Agreement.
* Successfully managed a network infrastructure upgrade project which transforme
d the entire LAN and the backbone in to a CISCO network increasing up time and p
erformance of communication systems by more than 50%.
* Delivered a high quality web based human resource management system enabling f
ield workers to login remotely in to the central office and cutting cost overhea
ds due to unnecessary travel by 25%.
* Successfully initiated and managed a project selection of a windows server 200
0 Domain Controller network upgrade.

12/01 - 12/03 ZIAS Engineering

Title: System Analyst
* Actively participated as responsible system analyst and project coordinator st
arting from the preliminary investigation to the deployment stage of System Deve
lopment Life Cycles that utilized the Agile technique.
* Created System Analysis and design Models using UML modeling tools such as Rat
ional Rose, Star UML and VISIO.
* Coordinated joint application development sessions (JAD) with the project stak
e holders to successfully gather System requirements.
* Fully monitored and documented the analysis phase of the projects and develope
d UAT Plan and UAT Script.
* Supervised Development phases by coordinating and leading developer teams.
01/00 - 11/01 ICDCON Global Enterprise
Title: Programmer
* Delivered Desktop Application programs using C++.
* Developed Dynamic E-commerce websites using ASP, PHP, Java Scripting and SQL S
erver 2000 as a back end.
* Participated in Intensive Database Programming Projects.
* Successfully delivered a task monitoring system project that runs on a network
ed system.
* Played active programmer roles individually and in a team contributing innovat
ive algorithms.

Education & Certifications

Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems, MCTS in SharePoint 2007, CCNA
, MS-Office expertise
Project Management Professional, (PMP Exam In progress)
Project Management Tools
Microsoft Project 2000/2003/2007, Microsoft Project Server 2007, MOSS 2007, Prim
avera Project planner 6.0, Visio 2003/2007