SUMMARY:

• 14+ years of overall Project Management experience with all project stages including business development, project estimating, requirements determination, gap analysis, business process reengineering, merger integration activities, Quality assurances plans, issue resolution, configuration, custom code specifications, testing, Change management, maintaining and completing Project Key Performance Indicators, training, go - live assistance, post implementation and support.
• 7+ years of Scrum Master experience, Driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management. Organizing and managing daily scrum, product backlog review, sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings. Applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.
• Lead successful large global development teams and DBA through program and project tasks. Project Management focus areas include scope, project planning, budget management, resource planning, communication, and quality management.
• Managed outsourced projects and geographically dispersed teams.
• Knowledge in all areas of Order fulfillment, Warranty and polocies management, Claims processing, Dealer applications, Customer support, Product improvement, Billing and Accounting management and Infrastructure support.
• Managed local, offshore and combined development efforts. Lead multiple projects simultaneously and coordinated multiple project managers and development teams. Business domain expertise ranges from Manufacturing, Telecom, Health care, Insurance, to Production.
• Responsible for ensuring best value is obtained for the projects including supplier base, use of internal and external resources.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: BASIC, COBOL II, MS-COBOL, MF-COBOL, SAS, C, Java, Java script, HTML, JSP, ASP.NET

Software: Oracle, DB2, SQL, IMS DB, CICS, QMF, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, CSP/AD, CSP/AE, JCL, ENDEAVOR, Interwoven, Informatica.

ERP: SAP-SD, SAP-HR, SAP-PI, SAP-Manufacturing.

Hardware: IBM Mainframe, VAX System, IBM PC, IBM PS/2

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, MS-WINDOWS, MS DOS, OS/2, UNIX

Tools: Web sphere, MS Office, MS Project, Method/1, Turbo Analyst, FileAid, ProEdit, IBM Utilities, Visio, Quality Center, EPPM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team to assess impact of Converting email application to an external packaged application, creating a cloud-based server/storage infrastructure as a standard resource and standard program testing platform and deploying a set of development tools for cloud application development.
• Coordinate with Product Owner. Business Stakeholders, and delivery team to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions. Asses manpower requirements and negotiate with management to procure resources
• Maintain dependency plan between planned sprints.
• Coordinate and Resole the impediments. Organizes and facilitates daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint.
• Review of product backlog, Sprint backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results as needed in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues
• Ensure implementation best practices, that includes User Interface, design standards to meet business needs, coding standards and application architecture strategy and design patterns, Regression testing strategy to ensure end-to-end application integrity. Review technical design specifications for reports, forms, interfaces, conversions, forms and workflows.
• Prepare status and performance reports, coordinate and organize status meetings, planned and spot reviews. Identifying key risks, whether stated or not, and managing them to resolution or escalating them accordingly. Taking appropriate action where performance deviates from set tolerances.

Confidential, Jackson, Michigan

Project Manager - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage Identity and Access Management development, which controls access to different systems over the course of an employee or contractor’s lifecycle at Confidential .
• Manage eRecruiting upgrade development, which allows improving the candidate experience, Boost Company branding, more integration with SAP HCM and job boards, Streamlined security/authorizations, Utilize available functionality to a greater extent, Improved/additional reporting and Enhancement Pack 6 and SAP NetWeaver 7.3.
• Responsible for the pre-project work products required for project planning, budget estimation and statement of work.
• Develop and maintain Project schedule and keeping the deliverables synchronous with the customer's schedule expectations.
• Management and coordination of Vendors. Review overall solution architecture with the technical architects.
• Prepared and maintained the detailed deployment plans, track progress of deployment activities, and ensure timely completion of deployment tasks.
• Participated in PMO and program Activities. Mentor and review PMO standards implementation in different projects.
• Regularly communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders and use their feedback to optimize progress. Prepare project status and performance reports, coordinate and organize project status meetings, planned and spot reviews. Identifying key project risks, whether stated or not, and managing them to resolution or escalating them accordingly.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Project Manager/Scrum Master - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed Client Information Systems
• Managed business objects reports development and support
• Coordinate with Product Owner. Business Stakeholders, and delivery team to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions. Asses manpower requirements and negotiate with management to procure resources
• Coordinate and Resole the impediments. Organizes and facilitates daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint.
• Review of product backlog, Sprint backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results as needed in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues
• Prepare status and performance reports. Identifying key risks, whether stated or not, and managing them to resolution or escalating them accordingly.

Confidential, Moline, Illinois

Project Manager/Scrum Master - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementation and management of Global Implementations.
• Manage John Confidential Finance applications development, upgrade and support.
• Manage business Intelligence / Data Warehouse / Business objects reports development and support projects.
• Manage migration of Project Server 2007 and SharePoint 2007 to Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 2010.
• Manage integration of Consumer equipment division with Corporate applications including data migration and integration project.
• Manage and lead Product Identity - Inter operability System development, which allows manipulation of Product Identity number. The PI-IOS system provides means to Order fulfillment system and other business systems to manipulate and validate machines, parts, custom jobs and add-ons.
• Manage upgrades - DB2, Oracle and SQL databases. Prepare work plans and assigning tasks to DBAs.
• Involved PMO and program Activities. Create and update PMO artifacts.
• Responsible to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions.
• Maintain dependency plan between planned sprints.
• Coordinate and Resolve the impediments. Organizes and facilitates daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint.
• Review of product backlog, Sprint backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results as needed in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues
• Responsible for the pre-project work products required for project planning, budget estimation and statement of work. Manage and coordinate blueprint activities including SAP high level solution design, custom development, fit gap analysis, RICEF inventory.
• Develop and maintain Project schedule. Assign work tasks to team and ensure implementation of quality standards. Assist and guide team resolving technical issues.

ConfidentialProject Manager/Scrum Master - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed integration of Confidential health care insurance application with United Health care applications including data migration and integration.
• Managed Client Information System and Business object reports.
• Coordinate with Product Owner. Business Stakeholders, and delivery team to understand Business needs and identify appropriate solutions. Asses manpower requirements and negotiate with management to procure resources
• Coordinate and Resole the impediments. Organizes and facilitates daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint.
• Review of product backlog, Sprint backlog, designs, code, test scripts, and results as needed in addressing delivery impediments or product quality issues
• Prepare status and performance reports. Identifying key risks, whether stated or not, and managing them to resolution or escalating them accordingly.

Confidential

Project Manager - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed work plans and team using Agile SCRUM approach to deliver parts of the product in an aggressive timeline to support a sub-release.
• Develop work breakdown structures for entire project and manage project plan with PMO resources. Responsible for application architecture implementing best practices.
• Analyzed project level issues and managed quick resolution to these issues.
• Managed integration and user acceptance testing with timely defect resolution.

Confidential

Project Manager/ Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage policies and d Claims processing development, enhancements and support projects
• Manage Direct Sales Business and Accounting system upgrades and maintenance.
• Manage integration of Timberjack forestry equipment company applications with Confidential applications including data migration and integration.
• Manage work plans, cutover plans, and deliverables of the on-site and offsite development team.
• Review technical design specifications for reports, forms, interfaces, conversions, forms and workflows. Managed training activities to client employees to Order fulfillment knowledge and gain end-to-end solution ownership.
• Managed unit, integration and user acceptance testing of the deliverables. Overall solution architecture review with the technical architecture group.
• Developed and led senior developers to build complex web interfaces using Web services, Java and JSP
• Involved in PMO and program Activities. Participated in create and update PMO artifacts.