SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an experienced manager, Scrum Master, Agile coach and leader of successful teams, projects, programs and initiatives, with over 15 years of experience in information technology, project management, and supply chain, and positions in consumer products and financial services industries.
• Confidential recently served as project manager, and provided business and systems analysis consulting, for a Cincinnati - based consumer goods client’s global business services division, with responsibilities for successfully managing major upgrades and enhancements to their product lifecycle management (PLM) software application portfolio.
• Extensive program and project management experience, including the daily use of formal project management methodologies such as PMI’s PMBOK, Scrum and Agile techniques.
• Team leadership and Agile coaching experience, including management of internal and off-shore team members, client project participants, and vendors.
• Experience in project management of all phases of software development lifecycle.
• Extensive internal and external stakeholder and client management experience, including responsibility for communicating project status, metrics, risks, challenges and solutions to senior management and business partners.
• Extensive experience defining, selecting, and implementing new products, processes, and technology solutions for supply chain, product lifecycle, and financial services.
• Product lifecycle management (PLM) software application development, integration, testing, deployment project management and support experience with Dassault Systemes’s Enovia 3DS PLM application platform.
• PLM software business and systems analysis, including business and technical requirements, specifications, testing and acceptance.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive project management experience, including the daily use of formal project management methodologies such as PMI’s PMBOK, Scrum and Agile.
• Direct experience managing complex program and project schedules, including multiple vendors and internal resource teams.
• Scrum Master certification.
• Team leadership, personnel supervision and management experience, including internal team members, vendors, on-shore and off-shore resources, and Agile / Scrum development teams.
• Direct experience with project financial management, including capital and expense budgets, and vendor payments scheduling.
• Experience in project management of all phases of software development lifecycle, including:
• Requirements analysis.
• Solution design.
• Development, including Dev/Ops fast iteration cycle methodologies
• Systems integration testing.
• Business acceptance testing.
• Implementation into production environments.
• Deployments and rollouts to user organizations.
• Extensive experience defining requirements and selecting new technology solutions, including all aspects of vendor sourcing, contract negotiation and management.
• Internet/Intranet and portal solutions expertise based on Microsoft’s SharePoint application platform, Oracle Forms portal, and custom development.
• Dessault Enovia/3DS product lifecycle management (PLM) application suite, including product originator systems certification.
• Fidelity’s Advanced Loan System.
• Confidential ’s UniFi loan origination system.
• HP’s Application Lifecycle Manager (ALM), for requirements, development and testing management.
• Harland’s MortgageWare and E3 loan systems.
• Maximo Product Management System.
• Oracle finance and procurement modules.
• SAP R4, R5.
• Atlassean’s JIRA IT service management suite.
• Business Objects (now SAP) Business Intelligence Suite.
• BMC’s Remedy IT service management suite.
• Collibra Data Governance Center - master data management portal.
• MS Office: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word.
• MS Project and Visio.
• MS SharePoint, including V7 through V12.
• MS Team Foundation System (TFS) for application lifecycle management.
• MS Visual Studio.
• OpenText enterprise document management system.
• ServiceNow IT service management suite.
• Rally Enterprise application lifecycle management suite.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Senior Data Analyst

Applications used: Collibra Data Governance Portal, Commercial Loan System, Credit Path, HP Project/Portfolio Management System, MS Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, SharePoint.

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, Enterprise Data Office, Senior Data Analyst:
• Responsible for triage, analysis, and solution recommendations for Bank data quality issues submitted by lines of business, risk management, audit, and information technology departments.
• Provided very high level solution recommendations with impact assessments, for data quality issues that needed technology systems, or business process change.
• Communicated data quality issue status and metrics, risks, challenges and solution options to various levels of senior management and stakeholders. Conducted working sessions, status reviews, and presented findings and recommendations.
• Provided analysis of data quality issue management business process for Enterprise Data Office management. Analysis included business process workflow diagrams and designs, recommendations for inclusions of new risk management procedures, and efficiency improvements. Recommendations accepted by management as new standard procedures.

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Manager Consultant

Applications used: Atlassean’s JIRA IT Service Mgmt suite, Citrix, Dessault Systemes Enovia PLM, HP Application Lifecycle Manager, MS Access, Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word, Visio, SharePoint, OpenText Media Manager V7, Oracle Forms, SAP, SAP’s Business Objects BI suite, ServiceNow.

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for one of client’s global business divisions for their implementation of Dessault Systemes Enovia PLM platform:
• Responsible for system change management, acceptance testing, rollout, deployment and implementation of Enovia PLM for global business division.
• Project team included 8 on-shore and off-shore consultants and 30 client participants.
• Our team was “point of the spear” for entire company - 1st business unit to go-live, which we did successfully, and on schedule.
• Project manager, Agile coach, lead systems and business analyst for Dessault Systemes Enovia/3DS product lifecycle application migration:
• Managed project migration team of 4 consultants and 12 client participants for Enovia PLM collaboration and workflow suite, in support of program objectives.
• Agile coach, product owner for creation of user stories/features.
• Project team achieved all program delivery milestones on time, on-budget.
• Application support team leader, Scrum Master / Agile Coach, for client’s portfolio of 12 supply chain business applications, including over 2200 business users worldwide. Managed support included:
• 12 business applications for supply chain operations and analytics, used by client globally.
• Managed off-shore and on-shore technical teams with Agile iterative development methodologies.
• Scrum master and Agile coach for multiple epics, user stories and releases.
• Application portfolio budget of $6 million, and managed 12 consultants on team.
• Project manager, Scrum Master / Agile Coach for SharePoint 2010 large site migration - initiative to migrate Supply Planning Services site to SP 2010:
• Effort involved over 20 project participants, off-shore technical support, and over 1200 application users.
• Scrum master and Agile coach for multiple epics, user stories and releases.
• Managed off-shore and on-shore technical teams with Agile development methodologies.
• Local Apps Rationalization team leader - for client’s global project to assess, define and determine business strategies for product supply business applications, and drive simplification and cost savings.
• Project effort involved over 100 participants worldwide, assessed over 1200 apps.

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Project Manager

Applications used: MS Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word, Visio, VB Studio, Team System, Oracle Forms, Rally Enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Assigned as lead analyst and project manager and Agile coach for this initiative to provide an Ipsos department with dedicated SharePoint website for all their clients to securely access Ipsos product and market survey research deliverables.
• Responsible for creating and tracking detailed project plans incorporating resource allocations, milestones, dependencies and deliverables.
• Proactively manage project changes based on changes in strategy or direction.
• Communicated project status and metrics, risks, challenges and solutions to various levels of management and business partners.
• Conducted project reviews, formal and informal presentations, and proactively managed project changes based on changes in strategy or direction.
• Site supported over 1500 external client users.
• Effort involved 15 personnel from Ipsos Information Technology, Operations, and Marketing departments.
• SharePoint Portal, Internal Operations Management:
• Assigned as lead analyst and project manager and Agile coach for this initiative to provide a large Ipsos division with new personnel management and operations capabilities via a SharePoint based internal portal.
• This internal portal allowed personnel all over North America to manage client engagements, schedule resources, and access documents and client deliverables from one website.
• Effort involved 20 personnel from Information Technology, Operations, and Product Marketing.

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Senior Business Analyst, Mortgage

Applications used: CLCS, UniFi, Hyperion BI Suite, ALM Test Center, MS Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, SharePoint.

Responsibilities:

• Managed and led project for Confidential ’s CLCS commercial loan system (legacy application) designed to increase profitability of construction loans.
• Responsible for project schedule and assigned resources.
• Requirements analysis and definition of all new product features and fees designed to increase profitability of construction loans.
• New Second Mortgage Products:
• Led efforts to analyze and define requirements for operational and systems enhancements in Confidential ’s UniFi (Unix distributed system) and MortgageServ (legacy) loan systems that were intended to provide a category of new second mortgage products.

Confidential, New Orleans, LA

Business Systems Manager

Applications used: Fidelity ALS, BMC, Hyperion, MS Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, SharePoint, Open Workbench, OriginatorPro.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business analysis and project management of new product rollouts and technology implementations for WNB lines of business including Business Banking, Mortgage Lending, and Retail Credit.
• Worked with directly with executives to identify priorities and requirements, recommend solutions, gain business case approval, select vendors, and then led project team development and implementation efforts.