SUMMARY

• Managed domestic and global projects with virtual / remote teams and outsourcing partners
• Experienced in client relationship management, business development, estimating and statements of work
• Implemented Agile Scrum and full lifecycle software development (SDLC), data warehouse, e-commerce, and analytics projects on time and on budget
• Executed and led business analysis, requirements and strategy
• Developed, implemented and managed Project Management Office programs and training
• Led business and technology services organizations, process improvements and quality assurance programs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Schuamburg, IL

Agile Scrum Master

• Managed AMC applications using Agile Development practices including story definition, analysis and functional design, continuous testing
• Organized and facilitated Safe Agile Program Increment planning and scrum ceremonies: PI & Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review & Retrospective
• Proactively facilitated and prioritized resources across initiatives, managing dependencies between programs while avoiding/removing impediments to delivery
• Coach the team to achieve steady, sustainable, and predictable burn rate; and assisting the Product Owner to manage KPIs, cost and budget Support Enterprise initiatives for Master Data Management of Location, Vehicle and Policy, including data lineage, quantity and traceability using Hadoop, Scala, Mongo, Spark and Ab Ibintio
• Managed of Location and VIN Master Data Management projects using Agile Development practices including story definition, analysis and functional design, development support and testing
• Coached deployment teams in Agile principles and completed product demonstrations, retrospectives, and resolve action items. Assisted Product Owner with Backlog maintenance
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Stand-ups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective
• Coordinated across functional areas to finalize designs and formalize User Stories including metrics and health status reporting ensuring transparency to all stakeholders

Confidential - Schaumburg, IL

Project Manager / Agile Project Manager

• Provided overall management and support for concurrent work streams across integration effort. Ensured each work stream executed consistently and risks were communicated
• Coordination and prioritization of resources across initiatives, managing dependencies between projects
• Managed Definition Phase including DW Solution Outline, Architecture Planning, Requirements Gathering, Source Systems Analysis and Test Strategy
• Facilitated Project & Team transition to Iterative/Wave development process including roadmap, iteration planning and created backlog in conjunction with product owner and key business partners
• Initiated and facilitated communication for work streams, opportunities, risks, and projects progress
• Operated in 4 week sprints with flexibility on length based on source system constraints

Confidential

Agile Project Manager - DW / Analytic Projects

• Managed projects including a requirements gathering, analysis and functional design, development support, testing, and post implementation support
• Validation of data prior to loading into downstream systems and translation of master data / primary keys between all systems
• Centralized Data Repository for all data collected / shared

Project Manager

Confidential

• Created and monitored project road map and project plans
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria
• Ensured application availability and data integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades
• Facilitated transition for re-platform involved in database, networking, and modifying process flow for update

Confidential

Agile Scrum Master / Project Manager

• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology
• Rapid bootstrapping of distributed team and excellent cadence build-up with-in 2 iterations
• Coached deployment teams in Agile principles and completed product demonstrations, retrospectives, and resolve action items. Assisted Product Owner with Backlog maintenance
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Stand-ups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective
• Coordinated across functional areas to finalize designs and formalize User Stories
• Operated in 2 week sprints with flexibility on length based on immediate functionality concerns

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

• Managed projects including a requirements gathering, analysis and functional design, development support, testing, and post implementation support
• Created and monitored project plans
• Provided release management and support
• Managed client expectations, issue resolution, developed risk migration strategies and created and presented scope control to clients

Senior Consultant / Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Atlanta GA

• Managed all projects in a six-month delivery cycle including a requirements gathering, analysis and functional design, development support, testing, and post implementation support
• Implemented software which shortened lag time for campaigns by 15% and eliminated the need for database replication to the ESP
• Created and monitored project plan, prioritized and assigned duties, resolved issues, and handled administrative issues
• Created and monitored project plan and $1.2m budget, provide resource requirements and allocation, monitor cost performance index to project and resource plan

Confidential - Chicago Illinois

Technical Project Manager, EDW Project

• Provided Project Management and conducted executive and business user interviews to gather and create scope and detailed requirement documents including: business functional and process specifications, business use cases, business work flows, report specifications, query specifications, and acceptance test plans
• Created and monitored project plan, budget, prioritized and assigned duties
• Created system design documentation encompassing Architecture specifications, process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, report design, metadata, and unit test scripts
• Managed client expectations, issue resolution, developed risk migration strategies and created and presented scope control to clients

Confidential, Menlo Park California)

Program Management Office Manager

• Coordinated design and implementation of an information architecture comprising the atomic level data structures, and summarized Data Marts, involving 27 source systems, nightly ETL processes, WAN file transfer, user and row level security, Web-Based Reporting and Ad-Hoc Query capabilities
• Responsible engagement management, P/L, and on-time delivery of a portfolio of 25+ B2B and B2C e-commerce projects within an assigned geographic region
• Coordinated with AE, BGM and DCM on estimating costs, functionality, and timelines new for projects. Assist sales process via the creation of ROI analysis, GAP analysis, cost benefit analysis, and sales presentation materials

Confidential, - Chicago Illinois

Senior Consultant

• Led transition of 142 Oversaw Dialysis Clinics Inc, Medical Information System clinics from mainframe to a distributed, client-server technology
• Provided Project Management, negotiated deployment schedule, and interviewed users to gathered educational and data conversion requirements, provide management for 15 direct reports
• Staff Consultant
• Responsible creation of code specifications and development of four subsystems in Uniface
• Soliatire Systems Inc - East Dundee Illinois 2/1992 to 1/1995
• Programmer / Analyst
• Produced predictive performance models to accurately emulate system performance by analysis of hardware constraints, data requirements, and design specifications

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Servers: NT, Sun, Pyramid, DEC

Databases: Oracle, Netezza, Vertica, Sybase, DB2, Informix, SQL Server, Hierarchical VSAM, VMS. Site and SaaS hosted Data Centers

Programming Languages: Uniface, Visual Basic, SQL, Microsoft Access, Java (EJB, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JMS), J2EE, XML, SOAP, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Cognos, JasperSoft, Tableau, Unica, ETL Tools

Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), JIRA, Confluence, MS Project and Server, Visio, SharePoint, ErWin, PCVS, Rational Rose, ClearCase, Visual Source Safe, Version Manager, Tracker, UML, Salesforce CRM, HP Quality CenterFICO Retail Action Manager /Precision Marketing Manager / Blaze / Customer Dialog Manager

Methodologies: Agile, OOAD, RUP, Complete SDLC, Xtreme Programming, Waterfall, Interactive, Use Case, Iterations, MQP