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David James Luesley

Marietta

Summary

Dynamic IT Project Manager with extensive experience at Delta Community Credit Union, excelling in cloud computing and stakeholder engagement. Proven track record in managing multimillion-dollar projects, driving business process improvements, and leading diverse teams. Adept at risk management and delivering innovative solutions that enhance operational efficiency and project success.

Overview

40
40
years of professional experience

Work History

IT Project Manager – Contract

Delta Community Credit Union
Atlanta
04.2018 - 07.2025
  • Responsible for requirements gathering, planning, managing and implementing IT, Network, Security, Telecom, Cloud and infrastructure projects.
  • Vendor Negotiation, Organization and Management.
  • Organize, plan and manage interdepartmental projects.
  • Communicate and align effectively with interdepartmental stakeholders.
  • AWS, Google, AZURE Cloud integrations, implementations and migrations.
  • Initiation, Planning, Delivery. Managing, mentoring and Leadership.
  • Providing network infrastructure and services.
  • Providing Physical facility and network security.
  • Providing mobile device upgrades and security.
  • Providing management of application/systems development for Windows / Unix and IOS platforms.
  • Weekly progress presentations and reports to leadership.
  • Mentoring of Team members.
  • Managing partners and vendors.
  • Resource allocation, management and mentoring.
  • Facilitate problem solving and risk management with matrix and agile project teams.
  • Budgets: $500,000 to $3,000,000
  • Team Size: 3-10 direct reports / 1-10 partners/venders
  • Portfolio size: 5-10 active projects at a time

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager – Contract

The Coca Cola Company
Atlanta
08.2011 - 01.2018
  • Responsible for Infrastructure/ power / cabling design and implementation for new office construction.
  • International Infrastructure architecture/ application/ and procedure projects.
  • Typical project (whether new landscape or migrations) consists of: Client engagement to development of business, technical and infrastructure requirements / specifications.
  • Business analysis facilitation with clients to develop or map business requirements for replacement and/or new systems to develop a business case and/or Statement of work for the client project.
  • Utilizing approved metrics to develop budget/or and statement of work prior to initiating Project.
  • Identifying, documenting and managing risks. Utilizing PMBOK best practices and accepted metrics to monitor, record, schedule and report on progress of project.
  • Initiation, Planning, Construction, Delivery, Budgeting. Managing and Leadership.
  • Providing network infrastructure and services.
  • Providing phone systems to new office facilities.
  • Providing Physical facility and network security.
  • Weekly progress presentations to senior management.
  • Managing and leading vendors, contract and organizational resources.
  • Transition of projects and programs as progress demanded and scope increased.
  • Budgets: $1,000,000 to $6,000,000
  • Team Size: 3-10 direct reports / 1-7 partners/venders
  • Portfolio size: 5-10 active projects

Senior IT Program Manager-Contract

Wellmark of Iowa and South Dakota
Des Moines
09.2007 - 09.2011
  • Managed as primary Program / Project Manager of several large scale complex projects across multiple platforms implementing wellness initiatives, responsible for the overall budget, accountability and delivery.
  • Budgeted, defined requirements, scheduled, managed and monitored IT projects.
  • Projects averaged budgets of $4M each.
  • Served as interface between business and IT organization.
  • Facilitated gathering, analyzing, organizing and prioritizing of Business Requirements.
  • Facilitated gathering, analyzing, organizing and prioritizing of Technical Requirements.
  • Facilitated the design and adoption of technical solutions to address Business Requirements.
  • Facilitated the adoption of technical solutions that met existing software/hardware infrastructures.
  • Implemented infrastructure, procedures and support of 24/7 365 enterprise operations.
  • Selected and managed vendors, contractors and staff deliverables.
  • Directed and coordinated data integration requirements and integration activities.
  • Directed and coordinated data center infrastructure enhancements to support 24/7 operations.
  • Performed risk analysis and performed risk management.
  • Developed, implemented and managed project change management plan.
  • Developed and presented status, budget, technology, change request, and product briefings.
  • Defined, implemented and managed Master Data associated with Health Care Provider, Insured and Insurance Claims.
  • Defined, implemented and managed Product data of various Health Insurance Wellness sites.
  • Defined, implemented and managed transactional data associated with Health Care Providers, Insured and Insurance Claims in TERRADATA, SQL Server and ORACLE data warehouses.
  • Managed data mining and business analytics activities associated with Master, Product and Transactional data.
  • Coordinated integration of stakeholders into data center infrastructure with appropriate security and access.
  • Developed, managed and implemented data security, data integration, disaster recovery, mirroring, failover and load balancing implementations with supporting processes and procedures.
  • Managing data flow processes and procedures to validate incidents and exchange data from point of incident to integration in data warehouse.
  • Manage solution, platform and pricing objectives.
  • Implemented ACH applications for e-commerce transactions with healthcare consumers and providers.
  • Budgets: $1,000,000 to $5,000,000
  • Team Size: 5-20 direct reports / 1-5 partners/venders
  • Portfolio size: 5-10 active projects

Senior Program / Project Manager

Scientific Games International
Alpharetta
06.2003 - 06.2007
  • Serving as overall Project Manager for client implementations with responsibility for all coordination, planning, design, development, data center facilities, training and start-up activities associated with executing new gaming systems using various mainframe, client/server and web based technologies.
  • Typical project was quite large and involved rolling out a lottery / gaming system within a venue (state / Nation / Region).
  • Typical project involved providing a response to RFP which I managed for specific venues. Typical unit of work required several thousand-man hours across all IT disciplines.
  • When response accepted project would be initiated with response to RFP as the discovery document.
  • Application was provided by Scientific Games with 10%-15% of venue customization. Local language and any local regulations would be integrated in the application.
  • Managing and directing diverse teams of software engineers, hardware engineers, data center engineers, marketing representatives, artists, construction resources and client resources.
  • Defined, purchased, and directed data center infrastructure facilities as required for specific gaming implementations.
  • Defined, implemented and managed master data dictionaries for lottery game implementations.
  • Responsible for selecting vendors, managing vendors and containing vendors costs.
  • Managed multiple, large scale, complex gaming projects concurrently.
  • Creating operational data stores in an SQL environment and consolidating multiple data stores for data mining and metadata operations across systems.
  • Implemented ACH applications for Business to Business and e-commerce transactions with various domestic and international financial entities.
  • Collection of Geospatial data defining a venue for wagering products for use in organizing and managing IT rollouts in States and Regions.
  • Budgets: $1,000,000 – $20,000,000
  • Team Size: 10-50 direct reports / 1-10 vendors/partners
  • Portfolio size: 3-6 active projects

Project Manager / Director of Quality Assurance

SIEMENS Energy and Automation, Inc.
Alpharetta
06.1992 - 06.2003
  • Responsible for implementing a Client Server testing environment, developing testing processes and procedures, implementing an incident tracking system, developing pilot and deployment plans, staffing the application testing department and deployment initiatives and overall responsibility for the application system, integration with legacy systems, user acceptance, pilot program, and deployment phases of a sales automation project.
  • Managed 10 resources in the implementation and operation of the quality assurance facility.
  • Responsible for leading a team to design develops, construct and deploy of a client / server sales / marketing automation application for 1000-3000 users.
  • Responsible for client management in defining business rules, architecture; processing requirements, database design and replication strategies.
  • Directed 10 developers and 7 quality control resources for software development initiative.
  • Managed system test plan development for Sales Automation Application.
  • Implementing Quality Assurances processes, procedures, tools and dedicated facilities.
  • Managed implementation of a data warehouse using SYBASE IQ to consolidate sales, inventory, costing, pricing, sales history, dispatching, ordering, support and a data transformation mechanism for a national sales application.
  • Developed and implemented ACH applications for business to business transactions with SIEMENS clients.
  • Use of Geospatial data identifying customer locations and scheduling and routing of delivery of electrical distribution equipment.

Software Engineer / Business Analyst / QA Analyst/Project Lead

IBM
Atlanta
03.1985 - 10.1992
  • Design and Development of an Enterprise Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) application.
  • Developed process flows and evaluated competing products.
  • Designed and implemented quality assurance requirements and managed quality initiative.
  • Designed, developed and implemented resource forecasting and staffing application.
  • Developed and implemented project management process and templates.

Education

Project Manager Professional (PMP) -

Project Management Institute
Atlanta, Georgia
01.2005

Finance and Computer Science -

Fontbonne University
Clayton, MO
01.1984

Skills

  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Project management tools
  • Database management systems
  • Cloud computing platforms
  • Programming languages
  • Data analysis and reporting
  • Business process improvement
  • Agile methodologies and frameworks
  • Risk assessment and management
  • Financial operations and accounting
  • Supply chain management
  • Stakeholder communication and engagement
  • System design and implementation

Industry Skills

  • Health and Medical insurance
  • Retail
  • Construction
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Lottery and gaming systems
  • Energy
  • State Government
  • E-commerce
  • Beverage
  • Financial
  • Credit and financial institutions
  • Familiar with planning and integrating Federal, State and local mandates
  • Security (operational and network)
  • Artificial Intelligence

Timeline

IT Project Manager – Contract

Delta Community Credit Union
04.2018 - 07.2025

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager – Contract

The Coca Cola Company
08.2011 - 01.2018

Senior IT Program Manager-Contract

Wellmark of Iowa and South Dakota
09.2007 - 09.2011

Senior Program / Project Manager

Scientific Games International
06.2003 - 06.2007

Project Manager / Director of Quality Assurance

SIEMENS Energy and Automation, Inc.
06.1992 - 06.2003

Software Engineer / Business Analyst / QA Analyst/Project Lead

IBM
03.1985 - 10.1992

Project Manager Professional (PMP) -

Project Management Institute

Finance and Computer Science -

Fontbonne University

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