SUMMARY:

• Accomplished IT professional with extensive management and leadership skills and consistent, high quality performance in IT, project management and team building.
• 35 years in IT with 17 years management experience
• Motivated and pragmatic team player with solid conceptual skills and solution driven thinking, with the ability to influence others and impact change.
• Consistent record of developing, managing and implementing complex cross - functional projects with high level of customer satisfaction upon completion.
• Highly adaptable, organized, quick learning, detail oriented and passionate with expertise in conflict resolution, team-building and communication.
• Adept in management and IT methodologies, including Agile, waterfall, SDLC, Databases, ETL and others
• Excellent business acumen with a deep understanding of managing budgets, resources and people, with the ability to translate business needs into IT solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Grinnell, IA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Driving organizational and cultural change using multiple agile methodologies to align IT resources with prioritized business initiatives, while facilitating communications and IT visibility on resources allocated.
• Focused on team building and continuous improvement while assisting teams with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and tasking.
• Create and present Agile/Scrum/kanban training to team members, Product Owners, managers and executives.
• Coach, train and mentor team members, Product Owners, managers and executives across the organization on how to leverage Agile to deliver high value.
• Help identify organizational impediments to successful agile transformation and work with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them and influence organizational change.
• Facilitate weekly Change Advisory Board meetings and report on IT changes to systems and infrastructure.
• Currently being mentored through PMI Mentor program on leading and managing organizational change.
• Jira Administrator, use MS Project, Visio, Cobol, Linux, Oracle, SharePoint, IBM MQ, ESB, Visual Studio, .NET

Confidential, New Albany, IN

COBOL Programmer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple software projects for several divisions within billion dollar corporation while coordinating resources to insure continuous delivery of enterprise solutions to internal and external vendors
• Accountable for shipping systems at several locations, and processes updating PeopleSoft & Sybase databases
• Used Micro Focus Cobol with Embedded SQL, Unix, Sybase, PeopleSoft, IBM COBOL and CL on AS/400

Confidential, Paoli, IN

Self-Employed Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Assessed and articulated IT opportunities and provided solutions relevant to business strategies to owners, key stakeholders and users
• Managed several projects for manufacturers, hospitals, the community, local government and other business owners to deliver systems and software solutions while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction
• Taught vocational and high school classes while also mentoring students and recent graduates.

Confidential, Orleans, IN

IT Manager / Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed and directed IT department for 10 years, including supervision, hiring and firing, staff evaluations, budgeting, crisis management, capital purchases, SLAs and managed outside contractors
• Helped grow sales by 500% and increased profits in highly competitive market by strategic use of technologies
• Developed corporate IT vision and completed objectives from senior management, using technology to improve organizational performance in a manner that was relevant to business strategy
• Led many projects, including ERP development and implementation for multi-location manufacturer, using lean principles to decrease lead times and reduce raw materials inventory by millions of dollars
• Collaborated with senior management, functional managers and product owners to develop technological solutions, improving customer service, increasing profit margins and improving manufacturing efficiency
• NCR mainframe, AT&T Unix and Novell servers, multiple databases. Programmed in Cobol, basic and Foxpro.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Night Auditor for IT

Responsibilities:

• Worked unsupervised in IT Department to balance daily transactions for 560 room 5 diamond resort
• Operated two Confidential and reconciled cash for all revenue producing departments and businesses

Confidential, Fort Carson, CO

Section Leader

Responsibilities:

• Promoted ahead of my peers to Non-Commissioned Officer in less than two years
• Supervised and trained my section to complete the objectives of my superiors
• Honorable Discharge, attended NCO and Advanced NCO Academies and received Good Conduct Medal

Confidential, French Lick, IN

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the banks’ transition from outside to in-house processing
• Wrote several applications, including Bonds, Savings, Insurance Billing and CDs
• Migrated JCL, Cobol and RPG II applications from IBM S/370 to IBM System 3/15