PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Agile from both PMI (ACP - Agile Certified Practitioner) & Scrum Alliance (CSM - Certified Scrum Master)
• Over 10 years of experience managing Agile projects using Scrum with best practices from other Agile methodologies
• Experience moving organizations from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum methodologies and practices
• Team Building toward self-directed, team-driven development
• Intentional lapse of my PMI as Project Management Professional (lapsed in March of 2015)
• Well over 12 years of Project Management experience, leading both onshore and offshore teams
• Possesses 20+ years of extensive IT experience working in both business and technology projects

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PM specific tools proficiency: Rally-Dev & VersionOne (Agile), Clarity (Portfolio, Project & Resource Management), eRoom (Project Documents and Approvals repository), MS Project (Waterfall)

General office tools experienced: MS Office Suite, both MS & Oracle SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master within KBB’s Sell & Syndication Release Trains meeting the following job requirements:
• Not just participating in the process but more so creating the Agile process.
• A “Servant Leader" - someone that comes in and makes suggestions. Allows the team to make their decisions.
• Need to fix problems and be assertive but in an understanding manner.
• Decisive coaching and mentoring of teams around KBB’s processes and COX Automotive’s methodology
• Be ambitious and flexible with well-honed team skills and a strong personal drive.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships at all levels, as well as in many diverse situations and environments

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master within Aflac’s Transformation project and Integration using service bus (gateway - IPAs). Meeting the following job requirements:
• Passionate about agile so that teams my embrace agile values and principles.
• Master level knowledge and experience in frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP.
• Proven experience in removing impediments typically faced by teams working in cutting edge technologies in the area of Data, Business Intelligence, Analytics and Reporting in a large enterprise.
• Proven experience in helping the teams to focus on sprint and release goals and delivery commitments.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for 2 Scrum teams within Confidential Home Delivery Portfolio using SAFe
• Facilitates team planning from the quarterly Program Increments thru the bi-weekly Sprints to the product release
• Monitors team’s day to day development activity for continued process improvements by facilitating the Scrum events of daily stand-ups, grooming, planning, review and retro sessions
• Supported team and organization in the use of Rally to provide transparency of Story momentum thru to SDLC to acceptance

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for 2-3 Agile teams of Java Developers, Crystal Reports Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts
• New Application Development for Michigan’s Department of Health & Human Services within MiSACWIS (Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System) website. MiSACWIS is the comprehensive automated case management system used by DHS and private agency providers to record case management activities and information in a single, unified system of record. The new functionality provided by my teams encompasses the Child Care Fund (CCF) online Budget & Payments capability.
• Accountable for my team’s successful use of SCRUM by ensuring that the team is collaborative & productive
• Servant-leader (rather than manager) and Organizational change agent

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for 2-4 Agile teams of Java Developers and Quality Assurance Analysts
• New Application Development for the State of Arizona’s Department of Environmental Quality newest web-based product entitled myDEQ. “The completion of this project, with its cost savings, convenience and compliance assistance, will be a boon to business regulated by ADEQ and will help attract new business to Arizona" -- Governor Jan Brewer
• Enabled close cooperation across all team roles and functions, removed barriers and enabled teamwork.
• Shielded the team from external interference and facilitated all SCRUM meetings/ceremonies

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Functional Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Functional Project Management at Confidential Inc. in their newest product offering in the Medicaid market
• Primary area of responsibility is to manage requirements of Kentucky Region 3 to build the interface between Confidential and its strategic partner CareSource of Ohio
• Project was worked by both Agile & Waterfall Development teams. For Agile, I represented Kentucky Medicaid stories, addressed and related impediments and ensured stakeholder participation in our story demos. For Waterfall, I provided the requirements documents (BRDs) and ensured development staff understanding
• For both methodologies I provided or managed User Acceptance Test cases and ensured testing sign-off

Confidential, Louisville, K

Deployment Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Management interface at Confidential . (real estate analytics services provider ) in Louisville, KY toward their off-shore development company in Mumbai, India. Worked Corelogic’s newest product, DefaultView, for their beta customer, Citi Bank
• I used Agile Sprint and Release planning, with the 3 off-shore (Mumbai) IT-PMs to providing the SDLC status transparency that was missing. With these plans I worked with the 5 Functional PMs (i.e. POs) to communicate and manage their Business value prioritization that was now possible

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Account Manager / IT Project Manager (PMP) / Agile Coach & Trainer

Responsibilities:

• NDS’s on-site Account Manager, Agile Coach and trainer for on-site, off-shore (Mumbai) and our customer as NDS moved from Waterfall to Agile development. Directly responsible for quality of the 17 on-site Technical and Functional staff of Project Managers, Developers and Analysts
• Served and advised, our customer, on their movement to Scheduled Release
• Worked with the 4 POs to support and guide their transition to; Agile story creation, emergent Product Backlog refinement, Iteration planning sessions (based on team velocity) and the collaboration needed to support standup meetings, iteration reviews, and retrospectives

Confidential, Louisville, KY

IT Project Manager (PMP) / Agile SCRUMmaster

Responsibilities:

• IT Project manager for Confidential ’s newest division, HumanaOne, which provides Insurance to individual consumers via a WEB-based system (using ASP.net, MS C++ (moving to C#) and Visual Studio) for Online direct consumer & Agent sales and Call Center supported sales
• Starting November 2006, as ScrumMaster, I led my team’s successful transition to the use of Agile development from traditional Waterfall SDLC. Led team’s bi-weekly development cycle (cadence) continuously driving highest business value requests into HumanaOne’s nine release cycles per year with, consistently, the lowest UA (user acceptance) defect count
• As HumanaOne’s PMP, enhanced understanding of and adherence to Confidential ’s corporate IT-PMO defined project lifecycle and to SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) driven procedures

Confidential, Louisville, KY

IT Team / Resource / Relationship Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided product development & project management for Commission Express application, UATP (Universal Air Travel Program) InControl application and CADRE (Credit Card consumer dispute & reconciliation) applications
• CommExpress is an aggregate payment & currency conversion application for Travel Agencies worldwide
• Provided customer relationship management that helped grow the product from its original three U.S. customers to an International customer base for Commission payments of all major U.S. and International Car Rentals, Cruise Lines, Hotels, Tour Operators and Airlines that make up the commission driven Travel Industry
• Global payments were achieved via EDI connectivity to National City Bank, Bank of Montreal and Deutsche Bank of Germany. These electronic payments leveraged EDI for financial (banking) processing via NACHA
• InControl was the Billing, Remittance & Reconciliation application for United Airline’s Air Travel Credit Card
• CADRE is a client/server app with seamless interfaces with Visa, MasterCard, and Diners.