PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Certified Project Manager with over 16 years of successfully managing numerous Web Development/Information Technology projects. Professional skills consist of project planning, budgeting, resource planning, project monitoring, risk management, and reporting. Possess a proven track record of successfully driving simultaneous projects forward through to completion on and under budget.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

• Agile/Scrum
• Waterfall
• SDLC
• Version One
• Rally
• Remedy
• JIRA
• Gemini
• Legacy CMS
• Tridion CMS
• Vignette CMS
• Visio
• SharePoint
• MS Office Suite
• Microsoft Project
• Salesforce CRM
• GoldMine CRM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Manage cross - functional project teams, while assisting in providing business analysis and requirement gathering support and developing project-specific deliverables to enable successful program implementation
• Establish development team project scope, requirements definition, and solutions architecture to create project plans
• Analyze needs and develop user satisfaction improvements to address user needs for support, high quality and efficiency to provide quick turnaround and maintain performance.
• Coach and mentor technical and project team members on effective Agile/Scrum practices and techniques leveraged by the organization
• Manage business-related IT projects already underway to implement web based systems.
• Example projects include, but are not limited to: Customer Care Management Systems, IT infrastructure, various businesses tracking systems and Learning management systems.
• Manage new and/or existing projects to re-platform and/or re-engineer from existing client/server architectures to Web-based or Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms.
• Manage on-going maintenance and enhancement efforts for existing enterprise-wide applications

Confidential

Agile/Scrum Trainer (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and IT on the implementation of an agile methodology framework, and training / coaching / mentoring teams delivering solutions for a variety of business processes, IT platforms and architectures.
• Deliver instruction, training, coaching, and mentoring needed to transition traditional development teams to Agile Scrum and to continue to mature existing Agile teams
• Build a community of Scrum practitioners and advocates proficient in Agile
• Design Scrum practices, including process documentation and other useful artifacts
• Assist program and project manager(s) with keeping cross-functional backlog groomed
• Ensure cross-team coordination, best practice identification, and continuous improvement

Confidential

Project Manager/Scrum Master (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed cross-functional project teams, while assisting in providing business analysis and requirement gathering support and developing project-specific deliverables to enable successful program implementation
• Established development team project scope, requirements definition, and solutions architecture to create project plans
• Analyzed needs and develop user satisfaction improvements to address user needs for support, high quality and efficiency to provide quick turnaround and maintain performance.
• Coached and mentor technical and project team members on effective project management practices and techniques leveraged by the organization
• Managed business-related IT projects already underway to implement web based systems.
• Managed new and/or existing projects to re-platform and/or re-engineer from existing client/server architectures to Web-based or Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms.
• Managed on-going maintenance and enhancement efforts for existing enterprise-wide applications

Confidential

Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Managed the development of Hanley Woods websites, e-newsletters and custom marketing data services that supported builders’ critical information needs exclusively in the North American residential and commercial construction industry
• Worked with matrix project teams consisting of a business and an IT solutions team using Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Development of the Ecohomemagazine.com, Bigbuilderonline.com and Remodeling.hw.net sites in iterative fashion
• Ad hoc enhancements and new functionality to new and existing websites to include SEO, blogging communities, design enhancements product catalogs and content updates

Confidential

Project Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to shaping the organization’s overall online strategy of providing pharmaceutical information by indication to healthcare professionals, agencies and consumers
• Developed and managed the scope, timeline of projects and client requests using burndown charts (created in MS Exel) to ensure timely and profitable product delivery while meeting/exceeding stated objectives for various sized projects in an Agile/SCRUM environment

Confidential

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Provided business and technical management for projects
• Directed all tasks associated with the projects, including tracking, scheduling, staff utilization and project deliverables
• Coordinated efforts with the projects senior managers, clients and technical team members to identify areas of opportunity and improve project performance
• Identified and documented scope of projects, created budgets and work plans, assigned tasks, obtained resources and conducted meetings to review progress and organize future work effort