Douglas Brookes

Project Manager for the Windows Server 2003 Retirement Project
1) Managing 57 subprojects as part of the workstream
2) Collaborating with ~50 associates
3) Reporting to Senior Management in multiple departments

Created the Disaster Recovery Program at TimkenSteel
1) Worte our overall DR plan, coordinating with IT, Communications, Security, Facilities, and Executives.
2) Successfuly exexcuted 2 DR tests
3) Create the Disaster Recovery maturity Model

Served as the Process Manager\Project Manager for the Infrastructure and Security Workstreams on the Steel Separation Project as part of the Project Management Office
• Overall IT Separation Project included of 130+ efforts with a cost of 13 million, finishing 8 million under budget
• Coordinated with 6 Workstream leads and their project teams to accomplish over 65 individual separation efforts
• Reported results to the Project Management Office and Senior Executives
• Maintained… Show more

Served as the Process Manager\Project Manager for the Infrastructure and Security Workstreams on the Steel Separation Project as part of the Project Management Office
• Overall IT Separation Project included of 130+ efforts with a cost of 13 million, finishing 8 million under budget
• Coordinated with 6 Workstream leads and their project teams to accomplish over 65 individual separation efforts
• Reported results to the Project Management Office and Senior Executives
• Maintained project schedules with many projects finishing ahead of schedule
• Compiled project metrics on a daily and weekly basis
• Also worked with the deployment team to to schedule cut over activities and execute deployments
• Helped directly manage some projects including Lync Deployment, Project Costing, and Access Auditing. Show less

• Project Manager for the Product Test Phase of our BI Platform Release 2
• Liaison between our Product Testers (Power Users), Business Owners, Functional Design Owners, and other members of the BI Team
• Created testing assignments and procedures
• Created training material for each part of the phase
• Led kick-off and training meetings
• Compiled project metrics on a daily and weekly basis
• Reported Metrics and Project Status updates weekly in both the US and ASEAN… Show more

• Project Manager for the Product Test Phase of our BI Platform Release 2
• Liaison between our Product Testers (Power Users), Business Owners, Functional Design Owners, and other members of the BI Team
• Created testing assignments and procedures
• Created training material for each part of the phase
• Led kick-off and training meetings
• Compiled project metrics on a daily and weekly basis
• Reported Metrics and Project Status updates weekly in both the US and ASEAN Meetings
• Ensured timely completion of all testing Show less

• Team lead for group charged with preparing new end user devices for use with the Electronic Medical Record
• Team of seven including members of EMR Desktop Services and EMR Sys Admins
• Created base images for new devices such as Tangent Carts, Motion Tablets, and Wyse mobile Thin-clients
• Tested, benchmarked, and deployed demos
• Once approved turned it over to the EMR Desktop Team for deployment
• Project took one month from being handed the devices to turning them back over… Show more

• Team lead for group charged with preparing new end user devices for use with the Electronic Medical Record
• Team of seven including members of EMR Desktop Services and EMR Sys Admins
• Created base images for new devices such as Tangent Carts, Motion Tablets, and Wyse mobile Thin-clients
• Tested, benchmarked, and deployed demos
• Once approved turned it over to the EMR Desktop Team for deployment
• Project took one month from being handed the devices to turning them back over for the deployment schedule
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• Served as Desktop Services representative in project team aimed at reducing incidents of malware incursion
• Team of three included a Client-Server Specialist and the Network Manager
• Upgraded from Symantec Antivirus to Symantec Endpoint Protection which included proactive threat protection
• Worked with Client Server Specialist to create a silent install package to deploy Endpoint via LANDesk
• Manually upgraded endpoints not reachable through LANDesk
• Used Websense logs… Show more

• Served as Desktop Services representative in project team aimed at reducing incidents of malware incursion
• Team of three included a Client-Server Specialist and the Network Manager
• Upgraded from Symantec Antivirus to Symantec Endpoint Protection which included proactive threat protection
• Worked with Client Server Specialist to create a silent install package to deploy Endpoint via LANDesk
• Manually upgraded endpoints not reachable through LANDesk
• Used Websense logs and local internet histories to identify problem sites and problem users
• Client Server Specialist used this data to further lockdown sites identified
• Worked with Network Manager to develop a program of internet privilege suspension for trouble users
• Three months from design to 100% implementation on 1000+ End User Devices
• 80% reduction in malware incidents with only cost being the cost of the upgraded Symantec product
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• Served as Team Lead for the project to upgrade all desktops and laptops to Windows 7
• Team of 12 including representatives from Desktop Services, Networking, Client-Server, Operations, and Sys Admins
• Gathered requirements and engineered the base image, designed image to work out of the box with no user impact
• Created Images for Windows 7 32 and 64 bit and also dual-boot configurations with Ubuntu
• Interfaced with Sys Admins and CSS’s to ensure full compatibility with all… Show more

• Served as Team Lead for the project to upgrade all desktops and laptops to Windows 7
• Team of 12 including representatives from Desktop Services, Networking, Client-Server, Operations, and Sys Admins
• Gathered requirements and engineered the base image, designed image to work out of the box with no user impact
• Created Images for Windows 7 32 and 64 bit and also dual-boot configurations with Ubuntu
• Interfaced with Sys Admins and CSS’s to ensure full compatibility with all current production systems, including some creative solutions like
o Using Windows XP VMs for legacy systems
o Citrix deployments for some systems
o Upgrading many systems for compatibility
• Engineered devices to lower the learning curve as most end users are not IT staff
• Did not upgrade all field devices, instead rolled out on all new devices going forward
• Worked with Organization Development to create end user learning material
• From concept to deployment of windows 7 images took about four months
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