Todd Buchanan, PMP

Todd.Buchanan@comcast.net
Greater Nashville Area, TN 37027
615. 957. 9283

SUMMARY
Senior Information Technology Professional with a proven ability to lead mission critical software and infrastructure projects.
Ability to cultivate a reputation with a high degree of honesty, trust and integrity with both client and project team alike.
Demonstrated problem solving ability to utilize creative thinking to provide simple answers to complex challenges.

SKILLS

Portfolio budgeting, estimating and approval process experience

Skilled at conflict management and relationship building
Experienced across diverse enterprise wide technologies
Vendor and client management
Status reporting and expectation management
Progress and quality tracking
Experienced reporting to C-Level management
Managed both hardware and software implementations
Resource management and scheduling
Ability to manage multiple high pressure projects simultaneously
Experienced in multi-vendor environments

WORK EXPERIENCE
HCL Technologies, Nashville TN
10/2014 - current
Group Project Manager:
Managed HCLs functional team for multimillion dollar software development of a centralized Unemployment
Insurance SaaS cloud solution. Instrumental in successfully achieving payment milestones.
Member of the Program Management Office (PMO) for the WyCAN Consortium.
Project Manager at VeriFone for EMV project to meet nationwide liability shift deadline.
Experience working with technical staff across multiple time zones, including offshore teams.
Lead business analyst in requirement definition and gap analysis with storyboards, use cases and supplemental
specification deliverables, business process solutions, scenario development, configuration and customization, user
reviews, application and user testing, training with multiple teams in various stages of development.
Project Management areas of concentration included; schedule maintenance with the PMO, managing payment
milestones, program plan and client management, reporting and metrics, document change management, functional
area risk identification and risk mitigation.
Guy Brown Products, Brentwood TN
2/2013 - 8/2014
IT Project Manager:
Utilized MS Project and MS Office to manage project tasks related to issues, risks, scope changes, and the assigned
resource pools, and schedules for time tracking. Managed projects encompassing a complete infrastructure upgrade
including the following scope criteria: server virtualization, private cloud migration, wide area network upgrade, data
center relocation, voice & data carrier porting, office relocation with new telephony implementation, data center, WiFi, routers, switches, firewalls, servers, SAN, IPs, VLAN, backups replacing tape, AD upgrade, MS Exchange
upgrade, MS and Cisco license compliance audit, documented new business resumption & disaster recovery plan
(SOX & PCI-DSS compliant), and added new hardware and software infrastructure to support MS Dynamics AX.
Turned around troubled project by separating vendor in breach of contract while obtaining competitive bids,
negotiating and procuring replacement vendor contract. Provided cost savings which exceeded my labor costs, by
correcting vendor billing issues, negotiating fixed costs, correcting misunderstandings in draft statements of work,
identifying cost saving alternatives for cost avoidance which significantly improved ROI.

Todd Buchanan, PMP

Todd.Buchanan@comcast.net
Greater Nashville Area, TN 37027
615. 957. 9283
Department of Labor & Workforce Development, Nashville TN
12/2004 6/2012
IT Program Manager and PMO Director:
Provided project and portfolio management and state funding approval and DOL grant procurement of as many 75
Information Technology project charters supporting over 60 government offices across the state for Workforce
Development; Adult Education; Workplace Regulations and Compliance; Workers Compensation; Occupational
Safety and Health; and Employment Security Unemployment Insurance Program and Tennessee Career Centers.
Supervised the IT project managers leading .Net, Java, COBOL development and infrastructure projects to include
AD implementation, windows server virtualization, IVR replacement, mainframe remote hosting from in house data
center to off-site vendor, call center replacement, ECM imaging system, and miscellaneous projects such as SSA/IRS
security audits, Federal Department of Labor (DOL) QA reporting, Federal DOL DR/BR compliance, and IV&V.
Department of Childrens Services (DCS), Nashville TN
3/2003 11/2004
Updated the departments BRP/DRP to state standards. Led the departments participation in annual statewide DR
testing and documented findings, which demonstrated deficiencies of IT support agency in violation of state law.
Managed project development and administration of the Remedy Action Request System for statewide business
processes related to the Department's: IT Security Roles, IT Asset Management and Tracking, IT Change Requests,
IT Helpdesk, Commissioners Ombudsman and Child Perpetrator system.
United Data Corporation, Kansas City MO
7/1999 3/2003
Chief Executive Officer for Paragon Consulting Group providing several million dollars worth of information
technology services annually to clients.
Contract writing and services negotiation with clients and prospects.
Screened and hired IT staff for a diverse array of skills and technologies for Fortune 1000 clients.
Russell Stover Candies, Kansas City MO
12/1996 7/1999
Co-founder of United Data Corporation d.b.a. Paragon Consulting Group.
IT Project Manager and software developer responsible for all aspects of the project life cycle for the implementation
of the new Warehouse Management System (WMS) software and hardware infrastructure and interface to the new
Baan ERP system.
American Century Investments, Kansas City MO
6/1996 12/1996
Financial services software development on the multi-class shares project.
Developer for broadcasting faxes of fund prices to brokers worldwide and for Y2K updates.
DST Systems, Kansas City MO
3/1995 6/1996
Software Programmer Analyst on 403(b) filing financial services project and the TRAC-2000 retirement system.
Provided technical support during in the annual DR testing at underground mainframe hot site.
Department of Finance and Administration, Nashville TN
3/1992 3/1995
Software developer in support role for several production financial services applications within the Office for
Information Resources department.
Business Analyst and Developer for Unemployment Insurance systems.
EDUCATION
Austin Peay State University
B.S., Computer Science minor in Military Science, commissioned Army Armor Officer
Project Management Institute (PMI)
PMP, Project Management Professional Certification #1551931

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2012