SUMMARY:

• Successful Application Development Project Manager who leads top performing teams focused on developing complex enterprise software solutions and production support systems. Expert in all areas of the PMLC and the SDLC utilizing PMBOK, Waterfall and Agile/ SCRUM techniques and methodologies. Six Sigma Green Belt.
• Requirements Gathering • Needs Assessment • Process Improvement • Drive Technical Solutions • Drive Design & Architecture Discussion • Translate Requirements into Functional/Technical Specifications • Backlog Grooming • Scope Management • Change Management • Align/Drive Scope & Schedule • Communicate Project Timeline/Status/Expectations • Risk Management • Quality Management • Budget/Forecasting/Cost Control • Meet Competing/Changing Deadlines • Manage Global Work Groups • QA Testing • Develop & Drive Release Roadmap • SOX Compliance •Property & Casualty (P&C) • Vendor Management • Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Development Tools: - Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, Apple Project Builder/Interface Builder, Dreamweaver, MS Expression, WordPress, Drupal, Salesforce.

Languages: - Java, Spring, Hibernate, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, Objective-C, SQL, XML, XAML, JavaScript, Ajax, HTML, CSS, LINQ, Silverlight, SOA, Web Services, SOAP, IBM Messaging, MQSeries, UDDI.

Databases: - Oracle 6-11g, PL/SQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, ADO.NET, T-SQL, JDBC, SQLite, Salesforce.

Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing: - Informatica, Oracle, SQL Server, Hadoop, Teradata, OLAP, ETL, MDM, IBM Infosearch, JBOSS, Web Logic, Cognos, OBIEE, Business Objects, Tableau.

Operating/Networking Systems: - Microsoft Windows (2000/XP/Vista/7), Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS), MS Server, Sun Solaris, NetWare IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, Unix, MS SharePoint Services, IIS, Apache, Weblogic, WebSphere, VPN, MS Small Business Server, Citrix Access Gateway.

Modeling: - UML, ERWin, Visio, Visual Studio Class Designer, Visual Paradigm.

Reporting: - Crystal Reports 4.5 XI, MS Reporting Services, Business Objects, Oracle Reports.

SOA: - SaaS, ESB, Webservices.

Web 2.0: - Facebook API, Twitter API, Wikis, Mashups, GeoCoding.

Smartphone: iPhone iUI, Interface Builder, Eclipse, Android Java Framework, Blackberry Java API, Windows Phone 8 Visual Studio 2010, Java Mobile.

Project Management: Clarity, IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), JIRA, Planview, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft Project, HP Quality Center, ALM, RUP, ITIL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Iselin New Jersey

Senior Application Development Project Manager (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Turnaround an $11 million Client Communications/Marketing Platform development project whose status was in deep red. Project was 60% over budget. All significant milestones were missed. Story carryover from sprint to sprint was over 40% and the defects generated on a per sprint basis was 35%. All agile/scrum metrics were not properly maintained. Visibility into the project was nonexistent. Managed 3 Scrum Masters on 8 different work streams to implement processes improvement.

Confidential, New Jersey

Senior Application Development Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage complex software development and infrastructure migration projects for the B2B, B2C, Smartphone, United Front End and Claims Highway Application Groups. Project Portfolio included: Affordable Care Act (ACA) projects implemented both Federal and State requirements; ICD10 projects implemented field expansion to hold ICD diagnosis and procedure codes. X12 projects implemented transactions: 270/271, 276/277, 278A, 820, 834, 835, 837I, 837P and 837D. Smartphone projects enable policy holders to initiate and track policy information and claims processing. All projects were delivered on time and on or under budget.
• ACA - Participated in JAD sessions with the IBM Healthcare Solutions Group to develop a high level scope assessment for the enactment of the Affordable Care Act requirements. Impact Assessment and Solution Summary documentation were created to guide the implementation of the ACA requirements for both State and Federal deliverables.
• Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing - Due to the acquisition of Pacific Healthcare and Oxford Healthcare I directed data mining and Business Intelligence projects to gain customer behavior insight, cost efficiency and profitability of these organizations. Increased effectiveness of executive KPI deck by incorporating graphic representation of data and trends. Significantly improved system usability and availability of executive-level decision sensitive information by managing the transition of daily business intelligence OLTP updates to an on-demand OLAP web based format. Manage and enhance OLAP / OLTP databases and ETL processes. Technologies included IBM MDM Infosearch, Oracle, SQL Server, Cognos, OBIEE and Business Objects.
• Scope Management - Define and manage the parameters within which aprojectwill operate. Develop and manage projectplan, including WBS and resource utilization. Identify and resolve issues betweenprojectscope, resources and timing of milestonedeliverables. Partner with functional area leaders and SMEs to determine scope and solutions.
• Scrum Master - Manage, organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-ups, design reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related activities. Includes backlog grooming, story writing, story estimating and constant integration. Develop, manage and convert business user stories into technical requirements. Manage teams work initiatives through all sprints/iterations and phases of the project. (Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Delivery.) Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Schedule Management - Create integrated project schedules including tasks, milestones, resource assignments and task dependencies resulting in clear understanding of critical path activities.
• Risk/ Issue Management - Facilitate identification of Risk and Issues that may affect project deliverables and implement mitigation strategies and corrective actions to ensure minimal impacts to projects.
• Communication Management: Effectively communicate project health to Team, Sr. Management, & Stakeholders. Provide regular status reports for each project, including changes in scope or timeline, progress and milestones reached. Maintain all project related artifacts.
• Reporting - Provide consistent and comprehensive status reports,projectupdates, and significant issue management and resolution. Provide project status at each required stage gate.
• Quality Assurance - Manage quality, defect management and project health metrics. Manage business reviews, approvals and final signoffs.

Confidential, Princeton Junction, NJ

Senior Application Development Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed multi - phased small to large critical application development projects.
• Managed P&C projects on both the Commercial and Personal lines of insurance
• Identified project requirements and developed project scope documents.
• Executive and high-level Stake Holder reporting of project status and progress.
• Report project risks as identified.
• Managed a global team of 20-35 developers, system engineers, business analysts, and quality assurance analysts.
• Managed several projects with the Risk Management teams to assess and manage risk for P&C exposures
• Heavily involved in monitoring application source code written in VB, Java, and C#.