SUMMARY

• A savvy veteran IT leader with expertise in managing development groups, architecting complex applications, developing solutions to business needs, and managing IT projects in waterfall or Agile
• People management
• Diverse technical knowledge
• Agile methodologies
• Project management
• Vendor management

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Object orientation
• Data warehousing
• Application architecture
• Presentation experience
• Development process re - engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS Environments: Windows Servers, Windows Desktop, Web, UNIX (AIX, HP, Solaris)

Database: MS SQL Server (2007), Oracle

Development Tools: CA Agile Central (Rally), MS Project, Planview, .PPM Optics (Optum’s Clarity), Excel, .Net, C#, C, Pro*C, Oracle tools, PowerBuilder, SQL (Sql*Plus and TSQL), PL/SQL, Visual Basic, Java, Visual Studios, Cognos

Other: Scrum Master, Leadership, Project Management, OSAM (Optum Scalable Agile Methodology), SCRUM, Process Improvement, Presentations, Architecture, Business Intelligence/Decision Support Systems, Database Design, Data Warehousing, Creative problem solving, and Budgeting

Hardware: Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Accessed Storage (NAS), and RF network (802.11b and Spec 24)

Software: Forte, Oracle Reports, TOAD, Oracle Financials (version 11.0.3), Oracle 9ias, Control M, NMON, and Cold Fusion

Methodologies: Waterfall, Custom Iterative, RUP, and SCRUM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Manage the overall program for Clinical reporting (>6 million dollar annual program budget)
• Manage mid-sized Scrum projects with tools like CA Agile Central, Excel and PPM Optics
• Work with IT and business partners on resourcing and process improvement
• Manage IT AGILE projects using SCRUM and OSAM with monthly releases
• Manage on average about 10 projects (average or 500k with a team of 9 resources)
• Report weekly status (budget, schedule, issues, risks, change control, decisions).
• Hold scrum ceremonies (daily standup, Sprint review, Sprint Planning, retrospectives, PI planning)

Confidential

Manager, Business Systems Programming

Responsibilities:

• Technical project manager on all projects assigned to direct reports.
• Played the role of SCRUM master on AGILE projects
• Reported on project status and status of team capacity vs demand to upper management
• Manage staff of 5 .Net developers.
• Create development schedule.
• Work with Business PMO and QA to set expectations and manage issues for the projects assigned to my group.

Confidential

Director, Asset Management IT

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw all facets of development, maintenance and 24x7 service levels for applications that supported the corporate environment.
• Managed development projects
• Managed staff of 7 .Net developers.
• Incorporated a structured development process including request management, reviews of the design, code and test phases, queue management and workforce forecasting.
• Implemented collaborative infrastructure planning between First American Funds and its parent IT organization, Confidential .

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw all facets of development, maintenance and 24x7 service levels for applications that supported the corporate environment.
• Lead development projects
• Managed staff of 13 consisting of System Administrators, Developers and Database Administrators.
• Performed the Architecture role for the corporate environment, consisting of research and recommendation of appropriate architecture, budgeting, capacity planning and high level design.
• Developed and managed to an expense and capital budget in excess of $5 million
• Led the implementation of an enterprise retail package (Retek).
• Over 5 million project budget and over 29 resources.

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

Application Architect/Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the technical project team during design of the Loyalty applications built for Carlson clients.
• Designed the database used to implement Loyalty applications.
• Designed and developed applications for Loyalty applications.
• Provided direction in the creation of the project plan for all technical tasks.
• Participated in a committee to design a CRM application as standard product for customers.
• Researched and piloted new technologies for Confidential .

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed the database and high level design for a medical chart application.
• One of the primary developers for an N-tier client/server application

Confidential, Golden Valley, MN

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed client/server applications for the manufacturing and distribution groups of the business.
• Participated in committees to standardize approaches, such as Programming Standards, Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, and Business Process Re-engineering
• Conducted training courses for the Confidential ’s development teams on Oracle Database, Oracle Tools and SQL to aid in the transition from Confidential to an Oracle environment.