SUMMARY:

Certified Scrum Master and Technical Project Leader with extensive experience leading the development and support of big data and API based applications for private industry and the Federal Government supporting the Financial Services and Hospitality industries. Highly skilled with leading multiple simultaneous high profile multimillion - dollar projects. Leads large project teams using agile / scrum and waterfall project methodologies to deliver high-quality products and meet or improve timeline and budgetary targets.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Project Leadership
• IT Project Lifecycle
• Custom ETL Development
• Requirements Analysis
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Technology Strategies
• Database Design
• Automated Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Champion and influence technology decisions with business partners.
• Provide direct supervision to multiple levels of the internal development team, responsible for their career development, performance management, coaching and mentoring.
• Set project priorities, define team structure and direct development teams.
• Review and approve user stories, story point assignments, burn down charts, product backlog and iteration retrospectives.
• Ensure that requirements / use cases are fully developed, communicated and understood.
• Provide guidance to the team on high level design, ensuring that the design is consistent with the approved architecture and aligned to the forward-looking technology roadmap.
• Using Version1, PlanView and HP ALM as scrum management tools.

Confidential, Owings Mills, MD

Technical Solutions Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a diverse technical team’s activities accountable for the end-to-end solutions delivery, including promotion to the production environment. Team includes developers, business analysts, ETL architects and database architects.
• Led the technical solutions effort from inception to final business acceptance and implementation while serving as a consultant and partner to the business community sponsor to identify and prioritize opportunities for utilizing technology to achieve the goals of the enterprise.
• Responsible for partnering with the Program Management Office, business leaders and other technical teams to ensure alignment with organizational and project objectives.
• Developed and maintained the Microsoft project schedule, Risk and Issues Log and RACI chart.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Built an application development team comprised of Business Analysts, a Solutions Architect, a Technical Lead, Developers, Test Engineers and a Technical Writer.
• Responsible and accountable for project planning, team management and project execution according to the Statement of Work and the project budget.

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Senior Project Manager/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the migration of multiple terabytes of data from a Netezza warehouse to a Hadoop / Big Insights user-defined analytical platform.
• Led a group of service provider project teams ensuring that project design and architecture is properly aligned with user requirements and corporate architecture guidelines and standards.
• Improved Project Management Effectiveness for the Data and Personalization group from 33% to 100% compliance based on standard project management deliverables as measured by an independent Confidential project audit group.
• Verified project goals are accomplished and in line with business objectives.
• Performed Information Technology (IT) project planning, identified and developed goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, risks contingency plans and deliverables to meet business need.
• Led Solutions Architecture and Infrastructure teams in procuring, designing and implementing new development, test, performance test and production environments.
• Used JIRA for user story development.

Confidential, Rosslyn, VA

Manager / Big Data Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical input in defining the overall Solution Architecture for the IRS implementation of the Affordable Care Act ( Confidential ) as it relates to the collection, storage and distribution of new data sources.
• Provided leadership for a Confidential Community of Practice created to develop core competencies in Pivotal Big Data products including Greenplum, GemFire, MADLib and Alpine Chorus.
• Created a Data Quality assessment and developed a Data Quality Mitigation Strategy to address known data quality issues, including an execution plan to improve the quality of source data for workforce optimization tools.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Director / Big Data Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architected a multi-platform solution using multiple operational data stores and scalable permanent stores designed to optimize user access and minimize load times.
• Led the technology team responsible for development and maintenance of data warehousing applications supporting over 600 terabytes (TB) of on-line historical data on big data storage platforms such as Netezza, Greenplum, Hadoop, Oracle, and Confidential .
• Designed data storage and ETL architectures using Python scripting and multiple storage platforms.
• Provided a flexible data management structure to ensure data storage and database design provided optimal data retrieval by downstream users.
• Ensured data was timely, accurate, and met all service level agreements by deploying SQL based off-line data quality monitor subsystem.
• Defined and planned ETL projects, and created / maintained project schedules and roadmap, allowing Confidential to plan surveillance deliverables and meet regulatory responsibilities.
• Managed $6M budget and directed a matrixed employee / contractor team of 15 analysts, developers, DBAs, and QC testers by assigning tasks per project schedule.
• Used MS Project for planning and execution and JIRA for issue tracking.
• Continuously measured costs and benefits of development approaches and technology purchases by meeting regularly with vendors and internal operations support staff.
• Recommended database architectural performance improvements resulting in measurable decrease in data load times and query response times.
• Successfully passed multiple internal and Confidential project audits.
• Recruited, interviewed, and approved hiring of all team members, converting high performers from contractors to employees resulting in 30% per resource compensation cost savings.
• Received Outstanding Achievement Individual Award in 2011 for implementing a successful institution-wide full disaster recovery test.
• Received Outstanding Achievement Team Award in 2009 for deployment of the data integration for NASDAQ / Boston Stock Exchange on a business directed abbreviated schedule using new technologies.

Technical Project Manager / Tech Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported RFI and vendor evaluation process to select an external offshore contractor to build a market analysis subsystem resulting in $110K business savings.
• Reduced maintenance costs by identifying and retiring multiple terabytes of extraneous and duplicated data.
• Interfaced directly with business owners, identifying surveillance requirements.
• Worked with network and infrastructure teams providing 99.5% uptime for managed applications.
• Provided operational 24x5 data ingestion support, identifying and resolving all upstream operational and data issues; therefore, providing data accurately and on time for all downstream surveillance users.