SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), ScrumMaster (CSM), and Security + with over 16 years IT experience. Currently managing a multimillion - dollar enterprise project for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with an 8-member multidisciplinary team. Responsible for all Scrum ceremonies including planning, reviews, retrospectives, removing of obstacles, increasing of team velocity and ensuring maximum team performance. Well-versed with the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) process improvement model as well as the ISO 9001:2008 quality standards.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Set up kickoff, inter-application team, backlog refinement sessions with product owner, retrospectives (lessons-learned), sprint reviews, daily standup meetings, and other ad hoc meetings as well as capture meeting minutes and key decisions.
• Work with team in assigning features from release backlog to sprint, assist in estimation process through the use of Fibonacci series-poker method, and providing information radiators like burn down charts, scrumban board, and ETCs (expected time to completion).
• Create project schedules and management plans, monitor and control tasks and milestones, and minimize deliverable and budget variances variances.
• Document and communicate risk, create mitigation and contingency plans. Provide regular and ad hoc status updates to Program Director, Contracting Office Representative (COR), stakeholders, and senior management.
• Manage product and process assurance, and assist in software quality control including creating and running of test cases in HP ALM covering both functional and section 508 requirements. Implement organizational and agency policies, recommend process improvements, and ensure compliance.
• Participate in quality assurance activities like peer reviews of project artifacts, coordinate continuous code reviews using Crucible with Fisheye, and suggest or implement corrective or preventive actions.
• Review database design (logical and physical data models), data dictionaries, PL/SQLs, migration scripts, ensure compliance with Agency Data Standards, participate in database CCBs, and communicate changes agency wide, and coordination as well as mitigation of risk on downstream systems.
• Comply with FDA’s security policies and procedures based on NIST SP ; participate in annual security assessment of applications, and interpret and implement Plan of Actions and Milestones (POAMs).
• Follow FDA Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) SDLC framework and present artifacts to FDA critical partners for review.
• Supervise the 9-member team, ensure team velocity is improved, remove obstacles, resolve ambiguities and conflicts, carryout interviews, selection, and recommendations for termination, as well as elicit, suggest, and implement improvements.
• Coordinate and lead in provisioning of servers, database refreshes & data migration, and work with network, security, and infrastructure engineers to implement enterprise systems.
• Respond to RFIs, RFPs, and reviews of Statement of Work (SOWs).
• Review and update disaster recovery plans as well as work with data center personnel in resolving and troubleshooting outages.
• Participate in monthly Process Management Group and discuss key performance indicators.
• Delivery of releases on schedule and within scope.
• Achieve CMMI Level 3 capability and keep ISO 9001:2008 s.
• Helped team adopt SCRUM agile development framework.
• Train development team on the use of story points estimation.
• Developed an MS Access tool for project estimation.
• Helped re-win a multi-million dollar, five year contract with the FDA, and hire eight team members to the contract.

Confidential

Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the design and development of the FBI NIBRS conversion application for the county Police department using Linux, PHP, Java, Apache, MySQL. Adopted the iterative agile development methodology to build the application.
• Developed reports and scripts for processing E*Justice post-load data for the Montgomery County Sheriff's department using Oracle Reports 6i, and PL/SQL.
• Monitored GIS (Map) deployment project using MS Project by establishing baselines and measuring variances in schedule using Earned Value Management. Serves as a liaison between county 911 managers and GIS team, as well as coordinating testing activities.
• Monitor Montgomery County 911 servers and develop web interfaces using ASP and MS SQL Server for configuration management, reporting, and health status. Monitoring of Public Safety IT infrastructure using HP Open View as well as customized tools. Alerts are sent to appropriate departments either to the pagers or as emails. Collect logs from dispatcher workstations and transfer them to CAD Vendor Project Manager. Automate tools to update dispatcher's workstations as well as remote municipality equipment.
• Develop reports for Montgomery County Fire & Rescue as well as deploy software for EMT support. Additional responsibilities included monitoring data transfer of confidential medical information between CAD server and FRS database server.
• Generate automated and manual reports for all stake holders with the county Public Safety and IT personnel. Member of the Law Enforcement, CAD, and Fire & Rescue Work Group Committees.
• Ensuring 911 hot site is up to date with call taker software along with monitoring of hot site servers.