SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a self - starter with leadership skills who communicates effectively with executive management, internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Skills include project management, development and adherence to budgets, definition of business requirements, hands on development of applications and leading teams of Developers, management of staff and resources utilizing waterfall and agile/scrum development methodologies.
• He has extensive experience with developing mission critical applications including all aspects of the software development life cycle; project initiation, needs and risk analysis, technical documentation, prioritization, scheduling, execution by coordinating development staff, quality assurance, deployment and post deployment review.
• He has the ability to understand complex business processes, define requirements, deliver application solutions, coordinate large groups and achieve defined goals and overcome obstacles.
• Facilitates activities including sprint planning, daily team activities, story development, demonstration of working deliverables and retrospectives.
• Works with Product Owners and teams to plan and execute sprints using approved Agile methodology.
• Works with teams to ensure they have what is need to successfully execute sprints.
• Provides internal coaching and promotes Agile practices.
• Works with team on organizing and optimizing work activities.
• Helps resolve conflicts that affect the team.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Work with clients to plan and implement Web based software solutions, Search Engine Optimization, Content Marketing and Online business strategies.
• Work with Senior Managers to initiate and execute projects as using agile methodologies.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishing project plan and coordinating with internal resources, marketing agencies and outsourced web development team consolidating nine regional websites and backend systems into a single Confidential Corporate site.
• Conducted planning, documentation, resourcing and implementation while preparing to transfer to in-house project manager.
• Utilized waterfall and agile/scrum methodologies.
• Additionally, served as analyst to document current state and future application requirements including data storage, schema, application programing interfaces, user interfaces and infrastructure for implementation of site using cloud technologies.

Technologies and tools include: MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Azure, Sitecore, Salesforce, Mulesoft, Web DAM and Brightcove.

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master - Development

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for management of over 60 Confidential Web sites allowing members to book resort vacations, timeshare exchange, hotels, airline reservations and tour/sport packages.
• Additional functionality includes private label affiliate Web sites and loyalty programs for business partners and their employees/partners.
• Responsibilities include project management using agile/scrum methodologies, consulting with internal and external stakeholders, definition of business needs and documentation of technical specifications, strategic planning, budgeting, supervision of six development staff and two quality assurance staff members, reporting on short and long term project progress, and overhauling development methodologies and implementation of new quality assurance programs.
• Implemented TFS with agile template to track work items using Kanban boards and other built in functionality to improve team performance and accountability.

Technologies and tools include: MS Project, Jira, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2015, SQL Server, C#, JavaScript, Entity Framework and legacy VB.Net applications.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing development of Confidential Web site allowing 2.3 million customers to make online payments, check status of accounts and seek loan modifications for customers in loan default and marketing of additional services on desktop and mobile devices.
• Responsibilities include project management using waterfall and agile/scrum methodologies, consulting with internal and external stakeholders, coordination of development activities within other business units, definition of business needs, development of technical specifications, strategic planning, budgeting, supervision of twelve development staff members and business analysts, reporting on short and long term project progress, and implementation in Quality Assurance and Production environments.
• Acted as a broker to facilitate coordinated tasks between other teams where shared resources were used to implement new functionality and infrastructure needs.
• Served on the advisory group to improve agile methodology and accountability for the enterprise which included twenty development teams.

Technologies and tools include: Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2013, SQL Server, C#, Jquery, Angular and Entity Framework.

Confidential

Web Development

Responsibilities:

• An adventure sports Confidential Web site community allowing visitors to post content and images detailing their extreme sports activities.
• Responsibilities include specification of requirements, design and development of a content management system allowing site managers to publish search engine optimized content.
• Registered site visitors are provided tools to post content subject to review and version control.
• The site utilizes responsive design to support multiple devices including mobile platforms.

Technologies and tools include: Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2013, SQL Server, C#, Jquery and Entity Framework.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for management of B2B and Confidential mortgage lending Web sites, data interfaces and back-end systems serving 23 of the top 25 banks in the country.
• B2B Web sites allowed lenders to order services, verify status of lending products including title insurance, appraisal, escrow, document signing and other closing services. Confidential Web sites included online document signing services for refinance and purchase mortgage loans.
• Responsibilities include consulting with internal and external stakeholders to define business needs, development of technical specifications, setting goals, daily supervision of development staff, clearing blocking issues, review of developed applications, presentation of solutions to Product owners and review of applications in Quality Assurance and Production environments. Roles include Sr. Business Analyst, Scrum Master and technical project management.
• Coordinated long term and daily development tasks for six system architects serving 7 development teams and up to fifteen offshore Developers.
• Managed two direct report and four additional staff members monitoring system performance, troubleshooting and deployment of software in QA, Staging (UAT) and Production.
• Arranged integrations of new in-house developed platforms and applications acquired through business unit mergers and company acquisitions.
• Areas of expertise include re-engineering applications to run on modern hardware and operating systems, developing data integrations with primary systems and in some cases retiring systems and moving logic into existing systems.
• Coordinated infrastructure teams to implement requirements for new and existing applications.
• Worked with stakeholders to define and document business rules associated with workflows.
• These rules dictate acceptance or rejection of orders, manual review of orders and other business logic as requested.

Technologies and tools include: Team Foundation Server, MS Server 2012, Visual Studio, SQL Server, SQL Report Server, SQL scripts, C# applications for SOAP Web Services, Rest Services, IIS and Desktop.

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Consultant / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as project manager, analyst and developer of an application that automates and streamlines the mortgage lending sales processes.
• The system was implemented from feedback received from the management team and end users.
• Application features include; rules based distribution of leads to sales staff, collection of loan application data, integration of business rules and interfaces to third party applications.
• Worked with business stakeholders to define application requirements, established project milestones, code development and coordinated application roll outs with support staff.

Technologies implemented include: SQL Server, Visual Studio, Visual Basic Desktop, Web and Web Services.