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Troy L
Project Manager at V Group
Greater New York City Area
Information Technology and Services
Current
- Project Manager - Mobile Application Development at V Group
- Account Executive at V Group
Past
- Sr. Lead Recruiter | Talent Acquisition Expert | Corporate Recruitment | at V Group
- Apple System Administrator at State of New Jersey
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Troy L's Summary
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Troy L's Experience
Project Manager - Mobile Application Development
V Group
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
May 2014 – Present (3 months) Greater New York City Area
Responsible for setting up and managing PMO in the software department. Directly manage software teams and clients across the globe. Major responsibility is to manage software development activities for Mobile applications (Android and iOS), ERP module development and integration and enterprise applications across all project phases. To work collaboratively with development team using SCRUM and agile methodology to determine technical direction and approach to system design and implementation.
Responsibilities include:
• Create and maintain software development project plan that communicates tasks, milestone
dates, status and resource allocation
• Analyze project plan, understand and communicate priorities
• Make major and medium implementation decisions
• PMO setup and management
• Coordinate delivery of development and production releases that meet QA standards.
• Assist technical team in design and development tasks.
• Assist test team in creating test plans and testing efforts.
• Work with front line business analysis teams to translate business requirements into technical requirements and documentation with the assistance from software development team
• Define technical project architecture with software architects
• Create and/or Manages Technical Specification document creation
• Analyze Functional and Technical specifications
• Understands the purpose and the place of own tasks in the wider context of the whole project.
• Follow up with team members, Development leadership and Project management with implementation issues and suggestions.
• Conduct daily / weekly team meetings to track each project timeline to ensure priorities are correct and deliveries are made in time.
• Use of Agile methodology with SCRUM implementation
• Create WBS, tasks allocation, tracking and control
Specialties
►iOS and Android Development
►Wearable technology including Google Glass and Pebble SDK
►Java, Objective-C, Swift, Apple, Google
Account Executive
V Group
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
September 2013 – Present (11 months) Greater New York City Area
• I am the Corporate Account Executive at V Group
• I Manage a team of recruiters on and offshore.
• Interact directly with the corporate clients for requirements, submissions, and on-boarding,
• Create online screening tests for multiple requirements and clients
• Teach team of recruiters how to utilize and grade online tests
• Conduct live technical screens for clients.
• As well as recruiting myself on some positions (Details for recruiting in previous title below).
Specialties
►ATG E-Commerce | eCommerce
►Hybris E-Commerce | eCommerce
►Websphere E-Commerce | eCommerce
►Endeca E-Commerce | eCommerce
►Apple, iOS, iphone, iPad Developers
►Google, Android, Java, J2EE, GTW Developers
►Front-End Mobile Web, Html5, Css3, Javascript, Sencha Touch, developers
►Niche Expertise in Recruitment for E-Commerce All-in-One Experts, CIOs, Program Managers and Project Managers
Sr. Lead Recruiter | Talent Acquisition Expert | Corporate Recruitment |
V Group
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
November 2012 – October 2013 (1 year) Greater New York City Area
V Group, Inc. is an IT Services Company that acts primarily as an IT Staff Augmentation Firm. With over 12 years in business, V Group is well established in the Private and Public Sector arena providing services to, state, local, and national government agencies as well as commercial clients. One of V Group’s strengths lies in its ability to provide a highly personalized Client approach, offering both project implementation and staff augmentation. For more information visit:
www.vgroupinc.com.
• Involved in Analyzing Business functionality through detailed study of existing and new requirements
• Source candidates via cBiz Applicant tracking system and internet job sites including social media.
• Poach passive candidates from LinkedIN using InMails for full time and longer term requirements
• Email and Make cold calls to potential candidates.
• Conduct screening and technical interviews per client requirement.
• Call references and negotiate rate and terms with C2C businesses and direct with consultants.
• Create and grade technical tests given out by myself, onshore, and offshore recruiters.
• Provide leadership, direction, and motivation to onshore/offshore recruiters to hit target goals
• Recruit professionals on W2, 1099, C2C for contractual, contract-to-hire, and permanent staffing.
• Help train recruiters on technology and recruitment including, one on one and presentations.
Specialties
►E-Commerce | eCommerce Recruitment (Oracle ATG, Hybris, Websphere, J2EE, Java)
►E-Commerce | eCommerce Consultancy & Advising (Oracle ATG, Hybris, Websphere, J2EE)
►E-Commerce | eCommerce Permanent Placements (Oracle ATG, Hybris, Websphere, J2EE)
►E-Commerce | eCommerce Talent / Career Management (Oracle ATG, Hybris, Websphere)
►E-Commerce | eCommerce Developers (Oracle ATG, Hybris, Websphere, Endeca, J2EE)
►Apple, iOS, iphone, iPad Developers
►Google, Android, Java, J2EE, GTW Developers
►Front-End Mobile Web, Html5, Css3, Javascript, Sencha Touch, developers
Apple System Administrator
State of New Jersey
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry
April 2001 – January 2012 (10 years 10 months) Monroe, New Jersey
The Juvenile Justice Commission is the single State agency responsible for operating State services and sanctions for juveniles involved in the juvenile justice system. The JJC is the agency responsible for implementing the comprehensive juvenile justice reform program. The Commission operates six secure institutions, 15 community residential centers and six day programs at locations throughout the State. The JJC provides Jr and High School levels of education as well as many in depth vocational programs.
• Managed Macintosh environment for Recording, Graphic and Video Arts
• Researched new applications for the Macintosh environment.
• Designed an installed an entire music studio based on the Macintosh platform.
• Tested all new software applications for the studio Macintosh computers.
• Ran periodic maintenance on Macintosh computers.
• Troubleshot any problems with Apple computers for the Macintosh environment.
• Gathered quote from vendors and researched for new vendors.
• Ordered Macintosh equipment and other equipment for Mac environment.
• Instructed students on proper Apple hardware and software use.
• Taught Logic Pro/Studio versions 4 through 9 to students.
• Taught proper studio recording techniques based on industry standard practices.
• Gave music lessons in guitar, bass, drums, and piano.
• Also tutored mathematics to students in need.
Troy L's Courses
- Certification in Mobile Cloud Computing with Android, Computer Science
Vanderbilt University
- Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems
- Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures: Programming Mobile Services for Android Handheld Systems
- Programming Cloud Services for Android Handheld Systems
- Online Courses, Computer Science
Princeton University
- Analysis Of Algorithms (Part I & II)
- Computer Architecture
- iOS Development
iTunes University
- Programming in Objective C
- iOS 7 Development
- Associate's Degree, Computer Science
Middlesex County College
- Unix and Shell Programming
- Object Oriented Programming in Java
- Object Oriented Programming in Java 2
- Data Structures in Java
- Visual Basic Programming
- Analytic Geom & Calculus I
- Analytic Geom & Calculus 2
- Networking Technologies
- Web Programming
- Database System Concepts
- UNIX* and Web Server Adminis
- History of Western Civ II
- Introductory Psychology
- Intro to Geology
- Introduction to Film
- Information Technology Management
- Online Courses, Computer Science
Stanford University
- Introduction to Databases
Troy L's Education
Princeton University
Online Courses, Computer Science
2013 – 2014
Stanford University
Online Courses, Computer Science
2013 – 2014
Vanderbilt University
Certification in Mobile Cloud Computing with Android, Computer Science
2013 – 2014
Middlesex County College
Associate's Degree, Computer Science
2011 – 2013
Grade: 3.9 GPA
iTunes University
iOS Development
2013 – 2014
Learning iOS Development from iTunes U and Objective C Books.
Life Center Academy
High School Diploma
1993 – 1999
