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Darren E. King 1508 East Wilson Avenue Wheaton, IL 60189 - 6834 Email: [email protected] Alt Email: [email protected] Home Phone : (630) 784 - 9964 Cell Phone : (715) 891 - 2836 PROFILE SUMMARY: Visionary leader of leaders with 10+ years of experience. Broad and deep techni cal expertise including 12 technical certifications. Compelling financial marke t and investment banking expertise. Ability to identify and leverage competitiv e advantages for maximum value-add and return on investment. Dynamic self-start er, excellent executive communicator, empathetic mentor, resourceful team member , process expert, and organizational advocate. Available immediately. JOB EXPERIENCE: JP Morgan Chase, Vice President - IT PMO/Enterprise Architect January 2008 July 2010 Chair steering committees, senior working committees, and senior executive sta keholders meetings for the program. Participate in business strategic planning sessions to map out FY schedules an d product roadmaps. Produce and present executive status reports, business cases, scope trackers, change requests, meeting agendas/minutes, program plans, roadmaps, resource mode ls, financial models, and other program deliverables. Manage entire project lifecycle from concept to closure, including kick-off me etings, roles and responsibilities discussions, 1:1 team meetings, and staff mee tings. Projects are made up of matrixed functional teams such as: Product Management , Risk Management, BSA, Architecture, Design, Engineering, Build/Deploy, QA, Net work, and Operations. Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the IT program within Commercial Card; including budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, sourcing, staffing, project and program management deliverables, and product delivery resulting in 1 00% on-time and within budget delivery for multi-phased, multi-million dollar pr ojects exceeding $5M each. Program budget is $90M per year. Responsible for all architecture decisions within the program. Responsible for process and continuous improvement initiatives within the prog ram. TravelCLICK, Director - Program Management & Chief Architect November 2006 Janu ary 2008 Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the largest programs within the f irm; including budgeting, forecasting, staffing, sourcing, and product delivery resulting in 100% on-time and within budget delivery for multi-phased, multi-mil lion dollar projects. Responsible for managing and leading resources around the globe, including Che nnai, India resulting in condensed schedules and time-to-market. Responsible for process and continuous improvement initiatives within the firm . Responsible for all enterprise architecture decisions and deliverables. Role was that of a consultant for TravelCLICKs primary client, Blackstone. Responsible for all Blackstone initiatives while functioning as their advocate
. Accenture, Manager/Enterprise Architecture Consultant 6 External Client Projects: Bank of America Strategic Project Manager for an Investment Bank website refactor leveraging a n onshore/offshore delivery model consisting of global resources from India on a $1M, 6-month project. Delivered several Requests for Proposal (RFP) successes with the client which brought in over 200+ resources and well over $25+ Million in new revenue while b uilding powerful client relationships. Streamlined all PMO processes, resulting in a more effective and efficient PMO team that realized substantial quality and performance gains. Implemented Mercury IT Governance for the account resulting in increased profi t margins of 37%. Managed 400 resources and global projects, including resources in three differ ent continents, while having oversight for the entire Unit accounts $250M+ in re venue. External Client Projects: JP Morgan Chase Designed and developed SQL stored procedures for use in an Investment Banking Tech Equities application. Led a transition team to move the entire IB Tech Equities Help Desk from Manha ttan to Houston Designed, developed, and managed a .NET project which integrated Crystal Repor ts into a firm Sharepoint portal. Architected several Service Oriented Architecture solutions. Delivered Requests for Proposals (RFP) successes and managed a project pipelin e over 100 deep. Internal Initiatives/Projects Organizational contributions in parallel to Exter nal Client Projects Taught, lectured, and delivered course materials over a two-week period to 52 technical trainees while implementing a continuous improvement program to achiev e Quality Control metrics, which resulted in significant cost savings of 29%. Coached and mentored 40 colleagues in a formal program resulting in performanc e, career growth, and satisfaction gains of 89%. Managed teams of 45 responsible for national Rewards and Recognition and an or ganization-wide Social Committee resulting in improved employee retention metric s of 69%. Taught, lectured, and delivered 5-day course materials in Project Management a nd Leadership to colleagues resulting in productivity and quality gains of 75%. Responsible for a global team of 81 including teams in Dublin, Manila, Spain, and Melbourne as part of ATIS Hosting and Service Management PMO. Motorola, Technical Manager- Research & Development Engineering July 2002 November 1999 August 2002 October 200
Managed a team of 32 responsible for all phases of the SDLC, including require ments definition, design, architecture, coding, integrating, testing, attaining CMMi level 3, Quality Control and Assurance, resource acquisition, scheduling, p lanning, estimating, monitoring, budgeting, and reporting which resulted in incr eases in efficiency of 35%. Delivered demos to prospective customers at Motorolas Developers Conference in San Diego, CA which created enthusiasm and interest in Motorolas wireless line
of products and increased sales of these products. Delivered training to 500+ attendees at the Motorola Developers Conference in San Diego, CA during August 16 - 18, 2000 which created great visibility and goo dwill for Motorola. Delivered training to 30+ potential customers on the use of the Mobile Applica tions Development Kit increasing customer awareness, effectiveness, and efficien cy. Designed and developed wireless web applications using Java, J2ME, JDMK, Enter prise Java Beans, Oracle, Solaris, WML, and VoiceXML with full WAP compliance. Independent Consultant May 1992 November 1999 Managed a team of 18 responsible for resolving all LAN and WAN connectivity is sues and upgrading the entire network resulting in an overall increase in perfor mance of 83%. Managed a team of 13 responsible for streamlining the data mining, analysis, e xtraction, and reporting process which resulted in an increase in efficiency of 75% for the MIS Manager. Managed a team of 22 responsible for Y2K compliance which resulted in an incre ase in sales of 28% and improved customer satisfaction. Managed a team of 23 responsible for Quality Control and Assurance and achievi ng CMMi Level 4 while implementing a quality process which improved quality by 6 7% and lowered network problem reports to the help desk by 45%. Designed, developed and managed a team of 16 that coded all client/server soft ware projects and developed the company web site (www.mstdcpc.com) which resulte d in an increase in visibility for the company and a sales increase of 20% while reducing mailing costs by 95%. Designed, developed, and managed a team of 26 responsible for a 1000-page intr anet site which resulted in an increase in efficiency for the helpdesk of 65%. Designed, developed, and managed the creation of decision support and expert s ystem applications which increased the managers efficiency by 37%. Troubleshot and configured Cisco 2500 routers, MQ Series, CICS, DB2, AIX UNIX Servers, web site and architecture, and the entire LAN and WAN environment which increased response times by 33%. Led a team of 29 responsible for monitoring a very complex, global, and enterp rise-wide network which lowered security threats by 42% while improving efficien cy for the entire system. Taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in the Business Department at Northern Illinois University. Graduate research assistant for the Business Department at Northern Illinois U niversity. Hold 12 technical certifications including: Java, Networking, Clear Case, Win dows Administration, JSP, HTML, Perl EDUCATION: University Degree Graduation Date MS-MIS 5/1999 MBA Finance 12/1996 BBA Finance 5/1992
Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University University Of Mississippi
. Accenture, Manager/Enterprise Architecture Consultant 6 External Client Projects: Bank of America Strategic Project Manager for an Investment Bank website refactor leveraging a n onshore/offshore delivery model consisting of global resources from India on a $1M, 6-month project. Delivered several Requests for Proposal (RFP) successes with the client which brought in over 200+ resources and well over $25+ Million in new revenue while b uilding powerful client relationships. Streamlined all PMO processes, resulting in a more effective and efficient PMO team that realized substantial quality and performance gains. Implemented Mercury IT Governance for the account resulting in increased profi t margins of 37%. Managed 400 resources and global projects, including resources in three differ ent continents, while having oversight for the entire Unit accounts $250M+ in re venue. External Client Projects: JP Morgan Chase Designed and developed SQL stored procedures for use in an Investment Banking Tech Equities application. Led a transition team to move the entire IB Tech Equities Help Desk from Manha ttan to Houston Designed, developed, and managed a .NET project which integrated Crystal Repor ts into a firm Sharepoint portal. Architected several Service Oriented Architecture solutions. Delivered Requests for Proposals (RFP) successes and managed a project pipelin e over 100 deep. Internal Initiatives/Projects Organizational contributions in parallel to Exter nal Client Projects Taught, lectured, and delivered course materials over a two-week period to 52 technical trainees while implementing a continuous improvement program to achiev e Quality Control metrics, which resulted in significant cost savings of 29%. Coached and mentored 40 colleagues in a formal program resulting in performanc e, career growth, and satisfaction gains of 89%. Managed teams of 45 responsible for national Rewards and Recognition and an or ganization-wide Social Committee resulting in improved employee retention metric s of 69%. Taught, lectured, and delivered 5-day course materials in Project Management a nd Leadership to colleagues resulting in productivity and quality gains of 75%. Responsible for a global team of 81 including teams in Dublin, Manila, Spain, and Melbourne as part of ATIS Hosting and Service Management PMO. Motorola, Technical Manager- Research & Development Engineering July 2002 November 1999 August 2002 October 200
Managed a team of 32 responsible for all phases of the SDLC, including require ments definition, design, architecture, coding, integrating, testing, attaining CMMi level 3, Quality Control and Assurance, resource acquisition, scheduling, p lanning, estimating, monitoring, budgeting, and reporting which resulted in incr eases in efficiency of 35%. Delivered demos to prospective customers at Motorolas Developers Conference in San Diego, CA which created enthusiasm and interest in Motorolas wireless line
of products and increased sales of these products. Delivered training to 500+ attendees at the Motorola Developers Conference in San Diego, CA during August 16 - 18, 2000 which created great visibility and goo dwill for Motorola. Delivered training to 30+ potential customers on the use of the Mobile Applica tions Development Kit increasing customer awareness, effectiveness, and efficien cy. Designed and developed wireless web applications using Java, J2ME, JDMK, Enter prise Java Beans, Oracle, Solaris, WML, and VoiceXML with full WAP compliance. Independent Consultant May 1992 November 1999 Managed a team of 18 responsible for resolving all LAN and WAN connectivity is sues and upgrading the entire network resulting in an overall increase in perfor mance of 83%. Managed a team of 13 responsible for streamlining the data mining, analysis, e xtraction, and reporting process which resulted in an increase in efficiency of 75% for the MIS Manager. Managed a team of 22 responsible for Y2K compliance which resulted in an incre ase in sales of 28% and improved customer satisfaction. Managed a team of 23 responsible for Quality Control and Assurance and achievi ng CMMi Level 4 while implementing a quality process which improved quality by 6 7% and lowered network problem reports to the help desk by 45%. Designed, developed and managed a team of 16 that coded all client/server soft ware projects and developed the company web site (www.mstdcpc.com) which resulte d in an increase in visibility for the company and a sales increase of 20% while reducing mailing costs by 95%. Designed, developed, and managed a team of 26 responsible for a 1000-page intr anet site which resulted in an increase in efficiency for the helpdesk of 65%. Designed, developed, and managed the creation of decision support and expert s ystem applications which increased the managers efficiency by 37%. Troubleshot and configured Cisco 2500 routers, MQ Series, CICS, DB2, AIX UNIX Servers, web site and architecture, and the entire LAN and WAN environment which increased response times by 33%. Led a team of 29 responsible for monitoring a very complex, global, and enterp rise-wide network which lowered security threats by 42% while improving efficien cy for the entire system. Taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses in the Business Department at Northern Illinois University. Graduate research assistant for the Business Department at Northern Illinois U niversity. Hold 12 technical certifications including: Java, Networking, Clear Case, Win dows Administration, JSP, HTML, Perl EDUCATION: University Degree Graduation Date MS-MIS 5/1999 MBA Finance 12/1996 BBA Finance 5/1992
Northern Illinois University Northern Illinois University University Of Mississippi
