OBJECTIVE:

An IT leadership role in an Agile/Scrum environment that takes advantage of my extensive software development leadership experience

SUMMARY:

• 30+ Years in IT/Software Development; 18 years in leadership roles up to and including director
• Scrum evangelist and coach, 8+ years’ experience in Scrum
• Certified Professional Scrum Master, SAFe® educated Advanced ScrumMaster
• Have successfully led geographically distributed Scrum teams, multiple Scrum teams, conversion to Scrum from waterfall and teams from inception
• Sr. Manager, pharmacy systems for Confidential Specialty Division
• Championed and Implemented Pharma Analytics for Confidential Specialty division team using Business Objects, Xcelsius, Teradata, and Oracle 10g
• Primary IT liaison for all Specialty Pharma relationships, with both Client and internal partners
• Negotiated and delivered private label websites for Pharma, PAP and Reimbursement clients
• Multiple Project/Backlog/Sprint tracking tools including MS - Project, JIRA, Clarity, VersionOne, Rally, MS-TFS, VPMi, RPM, MS-Sharepoint
• Industry experience in Healthcare (Pharma, Confidential ), Financial Services, eCommerce and Telecom
• Multiple concurrent projects completed on time/on budget
• Conversant with Kanban, XP and SAFe Agile methodologies, as well as successful execution in mixed Waterfall/Agile enterprise methodologies
• 10+ years managing leaders (Scrum Masters, Dev. Leads, Project Managers, Software Dev Managers)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Scrum; Agile; Offshore development; Scaled Agile Framework;creation of PMO; Waterfall; Spiral; CMMI; PMI / PMBOK based; modified RUP and “hybrid” methodologies
• Data Warehouse; ETLs; Business Intelligence; BI Tools (Informatica
• Teradata
• Business Objects
• PL/SQL
• Xcelsius); Oracle 10g/11g
• MS-SQL Server
• UDB (DB2/DB400)
• Analytics; all phases and creation of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• MS Project
• Enterprise Project Manager; JIRA; RPM
• VPMi
• Mercury (now HPM);l Confidential ; BrightWork; Rally; Java/J2EE
• ASP
• .Net
• SQL
• C#
• Centura (Gupta)
• VB
• HTML
• JavaScript
• JSP’s
• Lotus Notes/Domino
• COBOL
• VSAM MS-Visual Source Safe / MS-Team Foundation Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directed programs of 15+ simultaneous projects.
• 30 + resources in matrixed Scrum framework.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Team of 45+ in 4 worldwide locations migrating legacy Confidential benefits system
• Project budget of $2.5 million.
• Pilot team for conversion to Confidential

Confidential

Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple Scrum teams (5 direct, 30+ indirect reports) coding, testing, and releasing monthly enhancements to core pharmacy software:
• Pharma PAP/Reimbursement Web/eCommerce teams
• Pharma Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
• Centura/Gupta/Oracle teams supporting core enterprise system
• Production Support and Tier II Helpdesk team
• Primary IT liaison for all Pharmaceutical company relationships for Confidential Specialty Divisions
• Guided multiple concurrent projects; 12+ mm in overall project cost;
• Negotiated and delivered private label websites for Pharma, PAP and Reimbursement clients
• Led conversion from waterfall to Scrum: Developed transition model, coached and led ScrumMasters and Product Owners, developed and refined velocity metrics, created backlogs and worked through process transition “pain points.
• Instituted offshore teams, saving ~75K /month in contracting costs
• Improved quality in client interface data by 65% through process changes, and coaching/mentoring team
• Conceived, championed and developed BI and Analytics team for internal operational areas and Pharma clients
• Increased client billable hours by over 200% for Pharma Web/eCommerce projects
• PM for 750K development project (“Promise to Deliver”) to on-time delivery via scope negotiation and milestone adherence
• Developed SDLC to robust PM centric framework while acting PM on multiple simultaneous projects

Confidential

Director, Product Development/Product Support

Responsibilities:

• Managed Support and Development efforts for Confidential ™, on four host platforms (MVS, VSE, AS/400, Sun Solaris)
• Supported COBOL, VSAM, CICS and VB 6.0,.Net, SQL Server technologies.
• Software generated over 40 million dollars in revenue
• 6 direct, 60+ indirect reports; annual budget of 3.5+ mm.
• Tactical planning and execution of tri-annual software releases and programming support.
• Strategic planning of staffing, budgeting and feature development 3-5 years out
• Formalized role of PM in identifying and prioritizing enhancements,
• Instituted a dedicated Quality Assurance area, and formal PMO yielding substantial reduction in product defects (bugs)
• Reduced releases from 30-50/year to three scheduled majors and twelve minors per year
• Coordinated development process audits (SAS70, FFIEC; Sarbanes-Oxley) by in-house & outside agencies.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led projects from conception through implementation; vendor and in-house developed solutions, 15 direct reports
• Projects
• State of Washington bond issuance website using J2EE/Weblogic/UDB
• DTC/PIM interface for Money Market Instrument trading system
• Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities reporting website, generating $5mm annually

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed client server and web-based projects from conception through implementation
• People leadership of technical teams
• Websites for Corporate Confidential
• Mortgage Portfolio Database;
• Interactive portions of corporate website migration to Confidential package for Legal Department

Confidential

Sr. Programmer Analyst (Assistant Treasurer)

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, design, coding, implementation and maintenance of multi-user client/server applications.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and system specifications, user documentation, second-tier support.