SCRUM Master Agile Coaching Project Management IT consulting

• Award - winning technology leader with hands-on consulting background and 20 years experience in Technology Management, Web Applications Development, Systems Design Architecture, and Digital Media Product Management. Extensive experience defining and delivering product strategies across the evolving digital media landscape and managing multiple initiatives under concurrent development. Proven track record to consistently lead and deliver complex consumer-facing technologies for publishers of high traffic content within fast-paced Agile environments.
• Specialties: Agile Methodology, Product Project Management, Online Publishing, Strategic Planning, Web Development, Continuous Improvement and Coaching.
• Seasoned leader: responsible for IT departments with 30 staff, including Product and Project Management, Web Development, Business Analysis, QA, Systems Architecture, and Database Management. Proven ability to motivate managers and cross-functional teams with an emphasis on value and results. Manages multi-million dollar department budgets effectively.
• Champion of Agile Methodology : strong track record of identifying and implementing organization-wide process improvements, achieving increased control and greater responsiveness to changing business conditions with decreased time to market.
• Industry exposure: Online Publishing, Internet Portal, Marketing, Financial, Sweepstakes, Electronic Trading Systems, Online video, Energy Utilities, Government Social, Insurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Managing Director, Technology

• Preferred vendor for PCH responsible for managing multiple projects under concurrent development while simultaneously managing global resources and mentoring staff as Scrum Master.
• Led multiple internal revenue-generating projects to deploy on time and under budget, defect-free, including Prize Machine Instant Win Engine, Token Bank Gamification, Segmentation Engine Data Mining and Partner Exits Direct Track .
• Managed risk by implementing real-time Alliant Credit Scoring to pre-approve bill me later customers
• Adopted VersionOne to manage projects while improving transparency for stakeholders.
• Coached staff in Agile Methodology and SCRUM.
• Identified organization-wide process improvements by facilitating recurring Agile retrospectives.
• Led the PCH Agile tool taskforce.
• Technology: ASP.NET, Java, JavaScript, COGNOS business intelligence, Joomla, Magento, SOAP, REST, LAMP, Coremetrics, CubeTree, SqlServer, JIRA, Quality Center QC, Basecamp, Pivotal Tracker, Team Foundation Server TFS, and a proprietary CMS.

Project Summary:

• Aligned information technology with the client's business strategy by integrating and enabling company processes with the appropriate technologies.
• Leveraged key stakeholders to effectively gain consensus and prioritize initiatives.
• Achieved a high degree of cross-functional synergy by infusing a spirit of collaboration and by working closely with Editorial, Ad Operations, QA, Development, Marketing, Tech Support, and Product Management teams.
• Transformed complex data, workflow processes, and end-user requirements into functional and unique software product design concepts and defined deliverables.
• Analyzed, validated and prioritized requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and systems.
• Created user stories, use cases, test cases, lite specs, annotated wireframes, functional specs, and page flows.
• Utilized TestDirector and RallyDev to prioritize development efforts to and manage assets.
• Maintained a TechWiki to document the sitemaster URLs, ad tagging, sprint backlog, projects, and bug scrubs.
• Created dynamic wireframes to improve UI / UX. Improved customer immersion.
• Provided an executive dashboard to communicate the status of ongoing development efforts proactively.
• Managed unit testing, system testing, regression testing, and acceptance testing.
• Managed QA resources.

Confidential

Vice President, Software Development

• Responsible for managing the PMO and Software Development divisions for KIT DIGITAL - an Online Video and New Media company. Responsible for supporting high-traffic global operations including integration of ad-serving technologies DoubleClick . Ensure excellence in project delivery though the use functional specifications, Agile methodologies, and usage of best practices. Strong, hands-on approach to management with solid focus on providing strong leadership, staff evolution, employee morale, and delivery of projects to budget and schedule by holding staff to key metrics and day to day up time/performance goals.
• Senior Technology executive in charge of Business Analysis, PMO, and global technology initiatives. Direct report to CIO.
• Managed IT division comprised of 30 IT professionals including business analysts, architects, developers .NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML, RSS, Ajax, SQL Server, SharePoint, Flash and ActionScript, QA analysts, and DBAs.
• Directed priorities and activities for a diverse team of 30 IT professionals. Created an environment that encourages development and excitement while producing consistently strong results over 15 million/year in revenue .
• Managed 5.67M IT budget and all aspects of IT PMO for this 150-person international New Media company.
• Technical lead for day to day support, maintenance, and evolution of system infrastructure, business systems, client support systems, and internal applications.
• Worked closely with Ad Ops, Sales, and Client Services to ensure successful delivery of new products to customers.
• Responsible for early product definition, rapid evolution of design concepts and the formal evaluation and usability testing of proposed designs.
• Founded and led IT PMO, Portfolio Management, and Business Analysis processes within the organization.
• Introduced and infused User-Generated Content technologies within Kit Digital's ROO TV properties.
• Led the definition of standards including project milestones, collaborative Wiki documentation libraries, quality assurance, reporting, implementation, recovery, communication and metrics.
• Responsible for interfacing DoubleClick DART for Publishers environment with internal technologies.
• Identified tools and methodologies to improve project delivery for Front Office Back Office initiatives.
• Established goals to continuously improve project delivery audited projects tracked progress.
• Fostered a dynamic work environment that focused upon innovation, collaboration, and empowerment.
• Applied best practices to improve the quality of project delivery including business analysis, vendor relations, project lifecycle, and Agile development methodologies SCRUM .
• Managed key stake holders to ensure proper use of project prioritization.
• Published project metrics for IT Portfolio and reported on progress, quality and status via Executive Dashboard.
• Identified information needs among business units and translated enterprise business requirements into effective, powerful and measurable applications for ROO TV and affiliated publishers MTV, ESPN, Routers, and others .
• Championed the consistent application of Business Analysis, Project Management and Development standards.
• Overall escalation point for any issues regarding information technology.

Confidential

Senior Systems Architect

• Provided hands-on back office architecture for a proprietary Electronic Trading application ClearPort Trading, improving bandwidth by a factor of 10 - enabling a substantial influx of order trade activity, boosting revenue.
• Severed dependencies upon costly legacy technologies, resulting in applications with increased performance and savings of 8 million per year while reducing support personnel requirements by 30 .
• Responsible for providing leadership and hands-on direction to staff aligned to the overall IT Strategy. Assigned key performance objectives to department resources and measured completion to baseline. Ensured compliance to application development methodology and development under industry best practices. Provided direction and training to technical staff. Provided hands-on direction in business analysis and application architecture. Direct report to CIO. Provided executive summaries to President.
• Reduced operational costs by 50 by re-engineering Clearing systems to run on a cost-effective scalable platform CA Gen, J2EE, PL/SQL and by decommissioning costly legacy mainframe technologies.
• Generated significant long term savings by modernizing business process automation and hardware.
• Achieved enterprise-wide acceptance of two commercial products, eliminating 2MM development expenditures.
• Developed RFP documents for vendor services. Determined appropriate use of contract resources to provide optimum technical and business know-how in ensuring successful project execution.
• Ensured project scope and objectives were accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• Created functional specifications, use cases, wireframes, and process flows for a suite of next generation business-critical financial applications which generate 95 of NYMEX's total annual revenue .
• Evaluated 3rd party solutions to capitalize from cost-effective OTS solutions where applicable.

Confidential

Director, Information Technology

Responsible for the definition, application and reporting of project management standards and overall delivery of IT services to business functions within several Fortune 500 companies and Gov't agencies. Led teams of 15 IT professionals internal and contract staff specializing in business analysis, system design, and quality assurance using Microsoft Visio, CA:Gen and related tools. Delivered a broad range of IT services across complex application development environments as recognized by satisfied customers across the U.S. and abroad including: Computer Associates, EDS, the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency, KeySpan Energy, NASD, BP Amoco, CUNY, Mitsubishi Motors and others.

Confidential

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Provided Business Analysis, System Design, and full life-cycle applications development, testing, and support for enterprise-wide Customer Relationship Management CRM applications using CA Gen, DB2, Cobol, MVS, CICS, and TSO. Responsible for functional specifications, data modeling, procedure/process modeling coding, wireframes and GUI design for global Customer Relationship Management CRM applications. Awarded Mobil's highest recognition deemed Among the Best for consistently completing projects on time and on budget while delivering defect-free applications this rating was reserved for and awarded to the top 5 .