SUMMARY:

• A versatile and accomplished technical leader offers a proven track record of success in application development, technical project leadership, and solutions development that meet critical needs in government, manufacturing, insurance and financial services markets.
• Consistently recognized and recruited to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency while building high - performance teams comprised of on- and offshore resources.
• Delivers high-level strategic and big picture thinking, working with all levels of stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and according to customer requirements in both local and remote environments.
• Astutely manages technical and financial aspects of the operation.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

IT Management - Application Development - Client Relationship Management (CRM) - Waterfall Agile/Scrum Product Roadmapping - Team Leadership - Training & Development - Object Oriented Analysis & Design - Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)- Configuration Management Controls - Process Improvement - Project/Program Management - Change Management - SDLC - DevOps - Clarity - Big Data - Java/J2EE Framework Technologies (JSP and Servlets) - Eclipse- -PL/SQL - SQL - XML/XLST- Objective-C ; Swift Cocoa - MVC - Rally - JIRA - Team Foundation Server (TFS) – Database Design -Oracle 7-11g-MS SQL Server, MySQL, DB2 - Web Application Servers (JBoss, Websphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat) - Version Control (SVN, CVS, Git, PVCS) - Build Management (Maven ANT)- Monitoring and Log Management (Log4j)-Cloud Computing- Amazon - AWS - visio-omnigraffle, rational rose continuous integration - hp quality center – clarity - solution manager Spring, Hibernate Jenkins unix github, bitbucket

PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW:

Agile Coach / Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Used JIRA to track bugs and Confluence to document project issues, agreements and decisions in team meetings
• Proponent of adopting Test Driven development (TDD), Accept Test Driven Development (ATDD), Continuous Integration, Pair programming, refactoring, Automated Testing
• Build and maintained the product roadmap and release plan based on the priorities set by the Product Owner and input from the Team.
• Partnered with the Product Owner to ensure the product backlog provides clarity of direction, and maximizes business value.
• Supported the Team to plan work in releases. Coordinated plans with team to achieve a specific goals/initiative.
• Supported the Team to develop sprint plan for several sprints. Consulted with the Product Owner to ensure priorities.
• Facilitated Scrum team ceremonies, including daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, and Retrospectives. Use techniques that foster a spirit of listening, empathy, awareness and foresight.
• Served as a Coach for the Team and Product Owner to help the Team to execute the Scrum framework.
• Ensured the Team was accountable for the commitments they have made. Handled people change management (behaviors, mindset) and align people managers' expectations with team members' performance.
• Fostered self-organization. Enabled the Team to make decisions and remove issues whenever possible. Bring ideas from other experiences to the team for their consideration.
• Removed internal and external impediments for the Team that limit their ability to self-organize such as lack of support or behavior from another team or a functional manager that draws the team from their focus. Be proactive. Partner with other leaders to prevent recurring impediments.
• Shielded the team from outside demands. Negotiated with others, when needed.
• Assisted the team monitor progress daily. Identified opportunities for the team to improve incrementally.
• Fostered transparency, visibility and radiated information to the rest of the organization as appropriate. Provided team progress reporting. Partner with stakeholders to ensure valuable Demos. Advanced visual management for status reporting for the team and departmental cross-team needs.
• Advocated for Scrum and Agile in the broader organization and an active participant in the industry.

Te chnical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Converted disparate systems to single SAP system to manage the Shop Floor production of multiple families of motorcycle production.
• Reduced production time from 108 seconds to 96 seconds.
• Ability disposition parts more accurately to determine cost of scrap materials.
• Managed team of 8 to implement SAP MII/ME on shop floor reporting actionable reports
• Managed, monitored, and drove resolution of defects for the team during the implementation of SAP leading up to the production roll out using HP Quality Center (HPQC)
• Reviewed and approved all test scripts properly documented in HPQC to deliver hight quality deliverables.
• Monitored projects to proactively identify risks and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Developed scope statement including business case and stakeholder analysis, WBS, resource management plan, communication plan, risk management plan/matrix, change management plan, and scheduling.

Enterprise Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned, h ired, r etained, and m anaged the .Net support application development team; ensured strong team communications via deployment meetings and drove compliance with SSAE16 security requirements.
• Developed Strategy Managed, and Monitored the execution plan of the migration of the Materials Portfolio (consisting of packaged and custom J2EE Weblogic applications) to WebSphere with a team four people. In addition to moving them from Madison Data Center to the Ironwood Data Center ( Confidential ) for the Global Data Center- Confidential Project.
• Total cost savings of > 2M/yr
• Decreasing number of licenses 50% and number of machines needed
• Uptime increases > 95%
• Redesigned failover strategy implemented using virtualized machines
• Led, Monitored and Coordinated a team of five people for the Certification and Testing Process for Materials Portfolio Applications
• Manage and Monitored a team of two people for the implementation of Part Lookup Portlet for the Part Number Project using SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM)
• Proactively identified risks and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Developed scope statement including business case and stakeholder analysis, WBS, resource management plan, communication plan, risk management plan/matrix, change management plan, and scheduling.

System Analyst / Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated outstanding leadership skills and expert knowledge, leading to increased uptime of critical J2EE systems to 95%.
• Planning, scheduling & coordinating project tasks and activities
• Monitoring and tracking product development activities of eight people
• Manage on-boarding, monitoring/reporting, and deliverables from 3rd parties and internal staff
• Maintaining communication of progress and issues hindering that progress to impacted teams, end users, and business and IT stakeholders.
• Collaborated within GIS ensuring appropriate resources available to successfully bring up all application with minimum disruption to customers
• Minimally budgeted and led execution of upgrade the TOPS Pro application saving the company annual license fee cost
• Site Lead for testing Material applications after system backups and maintenance with a team of five people
• Supported the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) Upgrade from version 11.5 to 12.1
• Familiar with IBM ’s Maximo application
• Mentored and coached junior developers
• Engaged with business leadership to deliver a comprehensive understanding of the applications functional and non-functional requirements in order to conceive and execute a strategic technical plan.
• Focused on continuous improvement of software applications and application development architecture to drive quality and speed of delivery within the development team.
• Managed the on-boarding of 3 rd party resources to for MII speciality for the development team in a 8-month time period.
• Developed processes and procedures for application development team, quality initiatives and, support activities.

Sun Certified java consultant

Confidential, Illionis

Responsibilities:

• Implemented HIPPA approved web services to handled added claims and lines of business
• Facilitated training for the fundamentals of Java and J2EE technologies including Java SWING development
• Publicized team's progress/successes to product owner/stakeholders to achieve transparency.
• Participated in Agile Scrum ceremonies and the Scrum process while working with the Product Owner to develop artifacts such as product backlog, sprint backlog, sprint burn-down chart, and release burn-down chart.

Scrum Master / Java Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Case Law Reference Guide online for District Attorneys to reduce printing by 70%, saving $200K+.
• Eliminating the printing, distribution, and creation of the master document to ~500 users.
• Participated in the RFI and RFP process for selecting the XML security gateway.
• Researched, organized and facilitated the Proof of concept evaluation of XML gateway products for Web-services Security.
• Reduced response time of critical law enforcement information by 50%
• Managed team in maintenance and enhancements to several Java/J2EE web based applications and web services for law enforcement.
• Provided technical leadership for troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Led roadmap planning, release, and sprint planning while leveraging Agile SDLC development processes.

Management Consultant / Project Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successful implementation of WiSacwis, to manage the collection, storage, and retrieval of accurate case workload management informa tion. Major results include:
• Dramatically decreased time required to analyze, make decisions and program modifications.
• Meets Federal reporting requirements
• Saved the caseworker thousands in man-hours using paper system to record and manage case information.
• Mentored junior programmers in the fundamentals of the Java 2 Platform
• Led planning, coordination, scheduling, development, and delivery of project on-time and on-budget; tracked and communicated action items/project milestones while managing expectations for clients, team, and management.
• Developed effective solutions for process improvements and ensured compliance with all standards.
• Maintained effective relationships with various business units and team members.
• Monitored projects to proactively identify risks and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Developed stakeholder analysis, WBS, resource management plan, communication plan, risk management plan/matrix, and scheduling.
• Worked with the users and account executives resolving issues and developing enhancements.