SUMMARY

• Energetic and collaborative process and people manager with expertise in maturing project offices.
• Exceptional Confidential utilizing Emotional Intelligence and tactical planning to facilitate alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Process agnostic who believes project success is aided by methodology but driven by people.
• Technology generalist with experience in AWS, Azure, Confidential Cloud, Wi - Fi, IoT KEY STRENGTHS
• Strategic and Tactical Program Maturation Resource Planning Hiring and Team Creation Product Roadmaps Story Mapping Empathetic Listening 5 Why Analysis Team Building and Mentoring Lifecycle and Process Development Scrum, Kanban and Agile AWS Azure GCP JIRA Rally MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the planning, monitoring, and execution of both one-off projects and a collection of efforts in a program for a long-term client.
• Selected projects include foundational builds, full cloud and hybrid migrations, Cloud Readiness assessments, Security Evaluations, and Well Architected Frameworks.
• Work part time as a member of the Cloud Optimization Team.
• I focus on building teams and creating Win-Win scenarios by establishing honest personal relationships, detailing true needs for the client, and always supporting the consultancy through the difficult delivery process.
• Daily tasks include but are not limited to
• Weekly status reporting for every client, as well as detailed programmatic reviews for my program role
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, and sessions with a focus on tasks, decisions, and blockers from those conversations.
• Creation and maintenance of the project documents and ceremonies.
• Manage and monitor the budget via the burndown and weekly review and approval of timecards. Update the Resource Planning tool, as expected hours shift based on the progress of the project and or/changes in scope.
• Participate with the Pre-Sales team on the handoff of new projects to the Cloud Enablement group and provide input on the recommendations for team members to be staffed for projects. Facilitate the end of project retrospectives.
• Provide weekly internal status updates via SalesForce for management
• Participate in the building and direction of the Project Management Office with other PMs and the Director of the PMO.
• Monitor the emotional needs of our teams, provide support, identify problems, and work on solutions that benefit the employee, the client, and the company Selected Accomplishments:
• Spearheaded the effort to create budget reporting tools and the initial reporting process in 2019
• Worked with the PMO management to revise budget reporting in 2020
• Working as the PM for the new Application Modification practice, assisting with the road mapping and initial goals and deliverables
• Participated and helped develop the draft process document for a proposed Azure Practice Early

Confidential

Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Portfolio owner responsible for pre-sales, process and people management.
• Pre-sales: Responsible for definition of effort and deliverables for proposals.
• Delivery: Responsible for delivery of the architecture and software, project methodology, quality of deliverables, and team management. Perform the role of client advocate while maintaining company goals.
• Project: Responsible for allocation of resources to projects while coordinating with Confidential Digital Delivery Team on vacancies and bench management. Responsible for creation of project budget and accountable for the maintenance of said budget during the project life cycle.
• People: Direct manager for 10-15 people, and Line manager for approximately 40 resources. Working with Delivery Team on career track definitions revamp for the organization, as well as interview and hire candidates for open positions.
• Confidential Digital Management: Implemented a Best Practices group for Scrum Masters inside Confidential Digital to share tips, tricks, and lessons.
• Co-authored a Project Startup checklist and document template website with Training Manager.

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master responsible the execution of projects assigned and all Scrum Ceremonies.
• Tracked progress versus the sprint goals and product roadmaps to ensure delivery.

Confidential

Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Release and Project Manager for the eServer product/automation platform created by the eCIS DevOps organization.
• Participant in future state of automation platform strategy and work directly with lead architect on defining eServer 2.0.

Confidential

Service Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead day to day Aruba wireless program Confidential Confidential from project work to support/troubleshooting investigations.
• Headed the internal Project Management Office, including managing contract PMs.
• Worked cooperatively with the Aruba Client Director to turn account strategy into executable tactics that satisfied the client and grew the account.
• Executed 42 building upgrades to 802.11AC standard over a five-month period, from Define to Close as either primary Project Manager or Program Manager/head of the PMO

Confidential

Project and Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed all projects, software and infrastructure, for a $10 million ContentEngine cloud storage platform from project initiation to close.
• Utilized Agile and Waterfall methodologies as needed.
• Managed new datacenter deployment for platform of a cluster of Dell blade servers utilizing PostgreSQL as the backend database, by using VMWare to create and manage over 150 VMs, and three petabytes of storage utilizing NetApp 6290s controllers with SATA drives.
• Spearheaded the creation of a streamlined, customized onboarding and release process, increasing efficiency and frequency of releases, reducing time to production by an average of two months.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined, planned, executed, and closed enterprise level, campus wide IT infrastructure and service projects.
• Successfully managed and completed an email migration to Exchange 2007 of over 10,000 users
• Implemented a file storage system consisting of two flavors -block and NFS/Windows file system for faculty and staff use.