SUMMARY:

• More than 31 years of experience as a IT Manager, Senior IT/Business Project Manager, Authorized Certified SCRUM Coach (SCAC), SCRUM Master (CSM), and PMO member with experience focused in eBusiness, Infrastructure and Data Warehouse technologies of newly organized Data Centers, and Infrastructure Architectural design for diverse industries. Including Big Data of GB/TB/Pbyte initiatives, in high availability data center environments, intra/internetworking, including SLDS systems for educational and research and financial corporate environments.
• High level of experience, Certified SCRUM Master (CSM) for application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Master Certified Project Manager (MCPM) for IS/IT infrastructure architecture projects with a focus in Agile and SCRUM Methodologies, as well as the “Five P.M. processes groups” in IS/IT systems, project planning, strategic planning, vendor management, system analytics and validation of deliverables. Providing facilitation of impact assessments for issues, risks and decisions with contingency planning and mitigation experience. Efforts in project quality control, forecasting, scheduling, change control as well as risk management and tracking of project deliverables for stakeholder reviews.
• Master certification’s in Agile/SCRUM/Traditional/Waterfall methodologies practicing the (SDLC/ALM), product and project requirements and analysis. I have managed in - house/vendor application development teams accordingly in diverse international environments.
• I have a deep focus on the latest heterogeneous Infrastructures and Application Development utilizing SCRUM framework to achieve desire results from sprint planning. This with an advance knowledge of Agile methodologies to design and implement infrastructure architectures in Data Center solutions, and in the design of data warehouse technology, with the application knowledge for the co-existence of both within a heterogeneous environment. I have designed many end-to-end solutions for companies worldwide.
• Abilities in managing workflows within projects from the project charter through project closing to go live. Focus on medium to large-scale networks, with a concentration on Data Warehousing and software development, implementing technical and operational plans for various technologies and strategies for enterprise solutions of various data, web and digital repositories for delivery on mobile devices.
• Experience as a Project Manager and team coordinator for new and existing ASIS/TOBE, IS/IT projects through deliverables to “go live” with strong communication, presentation and analytical problem solving skills.
• Experience as a senior manager/director in the infrastructure and development of Sun Solaris, Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat), Microsoft® server farms, data warehousing as well as a designer of Infrastructure Architectures for movement of large datasets in corporate environments across educational and research systems including the restructuring of large scale networks for companies in the process of merging multiple locations.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS

• Experience as a Project Manager, IT Director and PMO member in managing teams, personnel and vendor’s in implementing infrastructures, data centers and software development from design to completion.
• Master certification in Project Management in Agile Methodologies, and a Certified SCRUM Master framework, with the ability to manage the SDLC issue, risk, decisions, impact assessment and contingency/mitigation planning. Scope definition and project planning as per business requirements.
• Competent Master Certified Project Manager (MCPM) defining scope and project roadmaps for IS/IT SDLC/ALM and security projects.
• Experience in data management and movement of large data sets between local and mainframe systems.
• Management of application development projects utilizing AGILE and SCRUM framework to effectively deliver build packages on time for accelerated projects, from executive summaries through deliverables to release of the project closing.
• Certified Project Manager in Information Services Security methodologies.
• Workflow practices of Visual Studio 2010®, Visual Studio 2012®, Team Foundation Server ALM Azure® and software workflow “As Is /To Be”.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Managed projects and directed teams in the migration of legacy infrastructures to newly designed platforms. ASIS/TOBE of Unix based Architectures, Ubuntu/Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows® Server Platforms NT-2012 R2®, XP-Windows® 7 and 8, Apple MAC products. Understanding of IBM storage products as well as GPFS, SAS technology for 3 tier infrastructures.
• Managed infrastructure implementation Hadoop for Big Data and Data Warehouses of G-Byte/T-Byte/P-Byte sizes.
• Application knowledge of C#, .NET, Web Services and WCF. MS Visual Studio 2010®, 2012®, MS Project®, and Team Foundation Server. Capabilities in usage of MS Visio®, MS Office®, MS Excel®, Microsoft® IIS, Microsoft® Exchange server®, Microsoft Active Directory®, Microsoft SQL®, MySQL and Oracle Databases. This also including SharePoint 2010/2013 Office 365, PHPMyAdmin, Apache Tomcat, PHP Servers, FTP, DNS, Creator of corporate WIKI, Database implementation for Mobile devices, Experience in the utilization of Microsoft Team Foundation Server® as utilized in the project management process and SDLC/ALM Azure, focusing on products for imaging systems of streamed data via high-speed networks.
• Complete knowledge of OSI Model, Cisco IOS, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, VPN, SQL Server, MySQL, MS Site Server, Active Directory®, MS IIS®, Apache/Tomcat Server, PHP server as well as PHP MyAdmin. Knowledge of the OSI reference model layers 1-7. Cisco 3 Layer Model. GB Data Connectivity, CSU/DSU interfacing. WIFI connectivity. Complete Business Model of ISP (Internet Service Provider).
• Possess over 25 years of Technical Writing. Technical design/documentation of Network Architectures, Technical User Guides. Release notes and revisions to currently published documentation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

IS Director/SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• As a Certified SCRUM Master, my duties, and responsibilities are to lead the SCRUM Teams within the Agile Release train to maintain the SAFe 4.0 process.
• Utilizing Kanban, XP, pairing, continuous integration, QA continuous testing, automated testing.
• Facilitate all Agile SCRUM ceremonies.
• Lead the teams in the DevOps transformation, and no touch deployment.
• Developed Agile/SCRUM Framework Process, and act as leader to the team. This is so that the team can become (Self Managing" and "Self Organized)
• Guide System Analyst (SA's), Big Data Developer's (BDD's) and the Quality Assurance (QA) Teams in the Feature, User Story and Tasks breakdown.
• Communicate closely with the Technical Product Owner, and the Business Product Owner during the Agile Process, and to adhere to the SAFe Framework.
• Provide reporting of metrics for "Team Velocity (Burn down as well as Burn up) Charting and Status".

SCRIUM Master/Team Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• As a Certified SCRUM Master, my duties, and responsibilities are to lead the Big Data SCRUM teams in the Agile Process.
• Lead the SCRUM Team and Facilitate "Sprint planning" sessions. (At the SCRUM Team level).
• Lead the team in the Agile/SCRUM Framework Process, and act as a servant leader to the team.
• Guide System Analyst (SA's), Big Data Developer's (BDD's) and the Quality Assurance (QA) Teams in the Feature, User Story and Tasks breakdown.
• Communicate closely with the Technical Product Owner, and the Business Product Owner during the Agile Process, and to adhere to the SAFe Framework.
• Work with the PMO to provide reporting of metrics for "Team Velocity (Burn down as well as Burn up) Charting and Status".
• Educate team members, and the PMO of the Agile/SAFe Framework.
• Manage content delivery of the Project as a Content Manager during the Agile PI Lifecycle.

IT/Business Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• IT Manager of Business Development, and Project Manager involved in the SDF Software Inc. Big Data Initiatives, and Software Application Development across the U.S.
• These initiatives provide consultation on new technologies to assist Corporations, Educational Institutes and Research orientated entities in establishing the latest Data Warehousing Infrastructures, and the Application Development in the efficient use of SCRUM Framework AKA (Methodologies) and Agile techniques to provide Enterprise Data Architectures associated with these infrastructures.
• Utilizing ITIL methodologies to achieve high availability (HA) environments with many new Data Architectures, and methods to develop the solution best suited for the end user. Advancing new technologies such as HADOOP, and customized ETL's to delivery real-time data returns with specific proprietary data connectors from multiple data sources.
• Acting as a consulting source for project consulting to businesses on legacy to new Infrastructures in B2B and B2C technologies and BI needs.

Project Manager/PMO Member

Responsibilities:

• SCRUM Project Manager on the development of four ASIS/TOBE software development projects for the Educator Data System, Teacher Certification Survey System and the School District Planning initiative system. This as well as the software initiative for the joint IES Grant with Yale Child Study Center and the CT State judicial system on Data Sharing.
• P.M. on the implementation of a SDLC (State Longitudinal Data System) of the newly designed software packages for the Bureau of Data Collection, Research and Evaluation project for the CSDE (Connecticut State Department of Education).
• P.M. for the newly developed hardware infrastructure required by the three tier SLDS SAS design. This included the design and implementation of the hardware infrastructure to support the newly developed state longitudinal applications supported by a federal grant. Utilizing SAS software development infrastructure on the front and backend. P.M. for the upgrade of the legacy CSDE applications and infrastructure to new DELL
• IT Infrastructure Architecture upgrades of hardware to the current Microsoft 2012 operating system. This including updating of legacy applications in a Staging environment to a Production environment. Utilizing DELL server infrastructure on frontend and IBM high-speed backend.
• Validation P.M. constructing Test Cases, Monitoring Beta, R.T.M. and Go Live timelines of the SAS E.T.L. and reporting results as well as the Educator Portal.
• P.M. on newly developed CT state applications to support new technologies.
• Program Director on the redesign and rebuild on the CSDE employee collection and evaluation, Data Warehouse supporting the DB schemas and UI as well as security models.
• Designing of .NET, C#, WCF Web Service application and providing FRD for website design and implementation.
• P.M. on implementation of Microsoft SharePoint 2013/Office 365 for the CSDE (Connecticut State Department of Education). This included all state agencies as well as Technical High schools, and redesign of The Bureau of Human Resources department, Office of Early Childhood Education.

IT Project Manager- CSM- RTE/Bio Sciences Applications

Responsibilities:

• Managed and directed the implementation of several Data Warehouse projects at the University of Miami for digital repository, Post Docs, PHD’s. Created documentation on user interface and, concept end technical layouts.
• Project Manager and director in the implementation of Data Warehouse at Dana Farber institute at Brigham Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.
• Project Manager and the implementation of Data Warehouse/Web collaboration at Brigham Women’s Hospital, and Patriot Place in Boston, MA. Software workflow Visual Studio 2010.
• Created documentation on user interface and, Concept end technical layouts.
• Managed and directed project for Phyzer Corporation of multi-location Data Warehouse Inter connectivity of Data Warehouse centralized data center for locations in Hanover, NH, Cambridge MA, and NY locations. Software workflow “Visual Studio 2010”. “Microsoft Project”.
• Project Manager working in conjunction with IT Staff for Merk Corporation of multi-location Data Warehouse Inter connectivity of Data Warehouse centralized data center for locations in multi locations in NJ locations. Provided on time deliverables.
• Project Manager directing activities for implementation in conjunction with IT Staff for Veterans Association Hospital in West Roxbury, MA. Centralized data center. Workflow process Utilizing Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Developed solutions for transport of large-scale image files from high speed scanning systems over fiber optic networks for availability on web platforms for research collaborations. Work flow “Visual Microsoft
• Acting as a P.I. in the implementation of collaboration servers across inter-site locations for universities and other industries.
• Acted as a Project manager and architect of customer’s large-scale data environments and web collaboration servers.

IT Project Manager - Scrum Master/Technical Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities:

• P.M / SCRUM master on implementation of for new Solaris/Linux packages for advanced Sun Micro systems.
• Managed the development of support systems, encompassing analytics of data migration between compiled data and reporting systems. Increased system reliability and performance by analysis to determine action plans for new software features. Additional responsibilities include diagnoses and testing of high-end systems for monitoring of exported datasets to mainframe systems. Acted as an interface for organization between vendors and engineering group. Followed “Lean six sigma practices”. Project Management Methodologies.

CIO/Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• CIO and Project Manager for emerging networking technologies for the purpose of providing businesses with mainframe support telecommunications and network consulting. Business to Business and Business to Employees.
• IT Project manager implementing telecommunications architecture for interconnectivity for international companies for the purpose of WAN/LAN needs to accommodate business needs utilizing Cisco based technologies. As emerging technologies arose upgraded networks to fiber high-speed connectivity from T3 technologies and higher. Data warehousing.
• Managed team of field engineers implementing interconnectivity of designed architectures for large-scale data warehouse infrastructures.
• Acted as a Project Manager to Legal firms. Medical firms, large-scale steel companies, Chemical ink providers and intercontinental companies with advanced networking infrastructures.
• Description of services provided. Complete rebuilding of network for external site connectivity, upgrading of all hardware including Linux (LAMP) including Tomcat, Windows® Server technologies and administration of an Active Directory and Microsoft® Exchange Server for mail and calendar services for all employees. Workflow software utilized Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio.
• IT Director of teams for installation of a communication center between Germany and US sites for Byk Chemi in central CT. Hardware design and installation of routing, firewall and security upgrades. Designed the data center and its infrastructure, as well as the implementation of the international connectivity locations
• Director of teams for installation at “CT Steel” in CT of Telecommunication equipment. Hardware installation of routing, firewall and security upgrades. Utilizing Microsoft Project and specific workflows. As this was an International Structure.
• Project Manager of installations and implementation of advanced backup systems or daily backup of confidential client documents, to replace outdated and inoperative daily backup units.
• Replacement and configuration of all workstations and implementation proprietary software and required software for intended usage.
• Additionally provided many customer’s with the same services in the upgrading of network infrastructure to latest Linux and Windows® environment’s by implementing complete server systems and advancing to Active Directory for Windows® environments.
• Acted as a consultant to corporations residing in long-term onsite contracts worldwide for corporations such as IBM USA, Germany, France, and Japan, Fujitsu, Bell Labs and more.
• Managed field engineers and projects to introduce new technologies into the corporate environment. Adding state of the art communication centers and advanced data storage for disaster recovery. Managed the project development of inter-office communications between corporate and satellite offices for data storage.

Optical Supervising Engineer/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engineering Management of Photolithographic and metrology systems utilized in the development of semiconductor devices, with an emphasis on detections systems for various photo-sensing devices. Acted as an SME and Liaison between the main production engineering facility in Velhoven NLD, sales, and the customer stakeholders for all U.S. based customers, such as Philips, IBM, Anadigics, Raytheon, E-Magin Optical device manufacturer and more.
• Duties included management of optical engineers on a day-to-day base’s while acting as a primary liaison between the customer and the main development house in the Netherlands. Provided business analytics on reliability of capital equipment sold to corporations such utilizing optical technologies for the development of semiconductor devices.
• Project Manager of initial startup at customer plants, planning and introductions of new product lines as well as maintaining Sun Micro systems for large-scale environments.
• Acted as a systems analyst providing solutions to root cause failures while facing customer with resolutions. In addition to maintaining group activities for plan completion to deliverable on Sun Micro systems while upgrades were continually evolving with introduction of proprietary software advances.

Confidential

IT Project/Senior Technical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• IT management for the introduction of Unix systems and optical imaging systems for product lines to companies worldwide.
• Acted as a Liaison to engineering teams and customers in introducing customers to latest HP computer systems in controlling optical systems. Interface between development teams in Vaduz Lichtenstein and companies worldwide, and acted as a liaison for the Swiss engineering offices for advanced systems development.
• Provided tactical support to IBM worldwide facilities in the advancement of optical technologies as they related to new engineering efforts.