Lou Gasco

Established Four Data Centers, Operations and a redundant Cloud Infrastructure to perform Document Digitization services for a Major U.S. Insurers. The Centers currently process 40,000+ documents, and 120,000 images a day with a 99.5% QA rate.

Various events involving accompanying, guiding and presentations to senior executives during incentive offsites, mostly based in the Spanish speaking insurance industry across multiple venues.
Las Vegas (2012)
Bahamas (2014)
Washington DC (2015)
Cancun (2016)

Contact Lou to schedule a presentation;

Lou is an accomplished speaker and presenter of some favorite topics like;
- Interpersonal Communication Skills (A Project Manager's Art Form)
- Mitigating the Top 10 Obstacles to Project Success

Some audiences for these presentations included;
- PMI (NYC, Westchester, NJ) since 2008
- Citicorp. (2010)
- Bank of America (2009)
- Ernst & Young (2009)
- Kyodo News Agency (2009)
- Mapfres (2011) in spanish
- Mphasis… Show more

Contact Lou to schedule a presentation;

Lou is an accomplished speaker and presenter of some favorite topics like;
- Interpersonal Communication Skills (A Project Manager's Art Form)
- Mitigating the Top 10 Obstacles to Project Success

Some audiences for these presentations included;
- PMI (NYC, Westchester, NJ) since 2008
- Citicorp. (2010)
- Bank of America (2009)
- Ernst & Young (2009)
- Kyodo News Agency (2009)
- Mapfres (2011) in spanish
- Mphasis (2010)
- Microsoft (Various from 2009)
- NITT (2008, 2009)
- Social Security Administration; Disability Distribution Administration (2009) Show less

Contact Lou for more info on facilitating critical Project Meetings.

Lou has facilitated many project meetings on behalf of client's who have found their projects were stuck in the mud of conflict or other obstacles. The following is a short list of some of those engagements;
- Evidant Corporation (2010-2011)
- Gherson Lehrman Group (2012 for various insurance clients.)
- Moody's (2009)
- Mphasis (2009)
- Social Security Administration; Disability Distribution… Show more

Contact Lou for more info on facilitating critical Project Meetings.

Lou has facilitated many project meetings on behalf of client's who have found their projects were stuck in the mud of conflict or other obstacles. The following is a short list of some of those engagements;
- Evidant Corporation (2010-2011)
- Gherson Lehrman Group (2012 for various insurance clients.)
- Moody's (2009)
- Mphasis (2009)
- Social Security Administration; Disability Distribution Administration (2008/2009)

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Mine-O-Rama 2014 NYC was an event based on the power of the Youtube community to raise funding and was entirely devoted to supporting the efforts of The Greatest Science Fair Ever, Inc.'s mission to improve STEM EDUCATION! Lou led a team of 16 professionals in a largely volunteer effort. The project succeeded in attracting the cooperation of over 27 exhibitors, and 60 Youtube celebrities, selling over 3,500 tickets. However, in late June 2014 the financial sponsor backed out, as a result the… Show more

Mine-O-Rama 2014 NYC was an event based on the power of the Youtube community to raise funding and was entirely devoted to supporting the efforts of The Greatest Science Fair Ever, Inc.'s mission to improve STEM EDUCATION! Lou led a team of 16 professionals in a largely volunteer effort. The project succeeded in attracting the cooperation of over 27 exhibitors, and 60 Youtube celebrities, selling over 3,500 tickets. However, in late June 2014 the financial sponsor backed out, as a result the actual convention was cancelled. Show less

Lou managed the Infrastructure effort involved in migrating over 6,000 global computer systems to Microsoft's Windows 7 Operating System. Engaged by Forest Lab's Infrastructure PMO, Lou engaged stakeholders and redesigned the project's approach, managing it to completion. The project was completed successfully, in time and on budget. Additional benefits included a complete enterprise wide application inventory.

Contact Lou if you are interested in understanding how to migrate your… Show more

Lou managed the Infrastructure effort involved in migrating over 6,000 global computer systems to Microsoft's Windows 7 Operating System. Engaged by Forest Lab's Infrastructure PMO, Lou engaged stakeholders and redesigned the project's approach, managing it to completion. The project was completed successfully, in time and on budget. Additional benefits included a complete enterprise wide application inventory.

Contact Lou if you are interested in understanding how to migrate your enterprise Operating System. Show less

The project consisted of an assessment of the project obstacles faced by project teams at 1800flowers. Once assessed, senior management went through a joint exercise of deriving achievable remedies. Process optimization work resulted from the experience.

Lou was engaged to establish and manage the governance of a team of project professionals which supported MetLife's Individual Business operations. These PM's dealt with Project heavily endowed with I.T. participation. At the end of Lou's tenure, measurable project governance was established, along with a unique improvement/analysis system to optimize ongoing project management operations.

Lou was charged with establishing a communicating and gaining collaboration for I.T. Architectural standards called "OneMetLife" across Metlife. This involved the establishment and execution of various communication vehicles including a nationwide 'road-show'. The success of the project was evident by the continued funding of the program, once established.

Lou was put on the Merger Team on the eve of Metlife's acquisition of Citicorp's Travellers division. His task was to identify the infrastructure assets available for merger at Travellers and manage the overall team interactions on the project. This effort culminated in Lou's three day management of an all hands project planning meeting, in which Lou facilitated an auditorium filled with over 200 participants, 60 teams, and senior stake holders through the process of identifying the project's… Show more

Lou was put on the Merger Team on the eve of Metlife's acquisition of Citicorp's Travellers division. His task was to identify the infrastructure assets available for merger at Travellers and manage the overall team interactions on the project. This effort culminated in Lou's three day management of an all hands project planning meeting, in which Lou facilitated an auditorium filled with over 200 participants, 60 teams, and senior stake holders through the process of identifying the project's overall dependencies. Show less

Lou managed the creation and implementation of the Enterprise Standards and Governance process which involved the cooperation of seven senior departmental architects, and supporting enterprise application development teams. The Enterprise Architecture Board met regulalry and was often facilitated by Lou. Part of Lou's responsibilities included the communication of the Standards and Governance processes, which involved frequent group presentations and the development of communication materials.

Lou established the first Corporate Systems Architecture at Metlife. His team consisted of six technologists and a technology process optimization expert. The scope of the project involved over 30 operational application development teams that had to (a) agree to standardizing architectures, and (b) to manage the migration of their technologies into these standards.

Lou's team took the collaborative approach establishing a congressional model to develop these standards. By the time the… Show more

Lou established the first Corporate Systems Architecture at Metlife. His team consisted of six technologists and a technology process optimization expert. The scope of the project involved over 30 operational application development teams that had to (a) agree to standardizing architectures, and (b) to manage the migration of their technologies into these standards.

Lou's team took the collaborative approach establishing a congressional model to develop these standards. By the time the process was completed, Lou's model was adopted by the Enterprise and utilized to establish Enterprise Standards and Governance which eventually standardized over 7,000 technologies down to 400+ standards. Show less

Lou was engaged to troubleshoot and manage the disaster recovery and fault tolerance effort of the company's Peoplesoft Financial System migration. Lou's efforts culminated in the implementation of a $25 million turn-key Storage Area Network solution provided by EMC. This solution is still in place and after a further $75million+ investment has become the company's storage standard.