CAREER OBJECTIVE:

Seeking an IT Management position; Agile Scrum Master, IT Project Manager, or IT Manager position that will allow an individual with exceptional management, leadership, communication and planning skills to benefit the organization.

SUMMARY:

• 25+ years’ experience as a Project Manager and 20 years’ experience with Data Warehousing.
• For the last 7+ years I have worked as a scrum master in an agile environment.
• Prior to working with agile and scrum, I am an experienced project manager in managing multi - disciplinary teams of varying sizes and complexity.
• Worked in environments where change is the norm and adapting to changing priorities was necessary.
• Experience with working with remote teams. With my strong interpersonal skills, I have built relationships with all stakeholders and turn proposals into reality.
• Successful in management roles that demand rigor, a high level of drive, dedication and a focus on delivering business outcomes through the use of application development methodologies; including agile with scrum, RAD, waterfall, prototyping, iterative and incremental development
• Lead by example while serving my team to success.
• Seeks coaching opportunities to motivate team members.
• Sets clear sprint and release performance standards, keeps team engaged and accountable.
• Works with the Product Owner to groom the product backlog and set priorities.
• Works with the agile team to remove any impediments, facilitates meetings, find processes improvements, and quickly implements improvements.
• Facilitates daily stand-up.
• Facilitates the sprint review and demo to see if the Product Owner will accept deliverables.
• Facilitates the sprint retrospective and documents to share out to team.
• Tracks team velocity and burn down.
• Manage team conflicts by encouraging negotiation and collaboration.
• Seeks to facilitate the team to find team agreements for win/win resolutions.
• Clean clear concise communication.
• Negotiates WIP limits with agile team.
• Communicates to all stake holder’s potential risks and known issues. Works with the stakeholders to mitigate risks and manage issues.
• Managed Backlog with Rally (4 years) and MS TFS (3 years).
• Results driven.
• Prioritizing work with stakeholders, release planning, release scheduling, and executes releases.
• Managed project with an Offshore development team.
• Managed projects which used technologies including MS .NET, MS SQL Server, MS SQL Server Stored Procedures, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, Java/Web, Client Server, Data Warehousing, infrastructure software rollouts, and mainframe environments.
• Managed projects in financial, insurance, manufacturing, and educational settings.
• Worked through project constraints such as fixed implementation date, mandates, fixed budget, new technologies, project risks, highest company priority with aggressive timelines/budget, and projects that suffer the fate of being lower priorities but need to be completed.
• Pioneered and maintained trusting relationships with client, management, and project teams.
• Leads and encourages continual process improvement for the project team and the organization.
• Effectively works on own initiative, as part of a team, or as the leader of a group.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project Management Tools: MS Project, Project Workbench, PlanView, MS Team Foundation Server, Rally, Jira, Clarity, and SharePoint. Worked in Data Warehousing.

Desktop software knowledge: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and other Microsoft Office Products.

Development in many technologies, some of the highlights are: HTML, Java, Java Script, PHP, CSS, XML, MS SQL Server, Informatica, SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio, SQL (Oracle, DBA, My SQL), PL/SQL, FTP, PERL, Business Objects, Microsoft Office Visual Basic, COBOL, SAS, CICS, and more; all of which afford me good insight and understanding when managing IT projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master/Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Writing team skill set requirements to complete project work and sent requests to resource managers. Often times this will include the negotiation of the skills needed verses what is available.
• Acting as a single point of contact for all communications between management, business partners and the project team.
• Identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks and issues. Devise contingency plans to accept, avoid, mitigate, or transfer risk.
• Meeting deadlines while managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.
• Ensuring effective quality control and quality methods are in place to monitor deliverables produced.
• Attention to detail ensuring projects conform to required coding practices and applies best practices.
• Monitoring budget on a regular basis to see that work accomplished tracks to budget expenditure. Provide management with regular budget and velocity project reporting.
• Assisting the technical team in their technical requirements gathering, design and development tasks. Problem solving with the team on technical issues. Verifying contemporary testing methodologies are used.
• Assertively managing vendors during projects on behalf of business partners.
• Managing projects that use cross-functional teams within the organization and offshore vendors using effective verbal and written communication making clear all expectations.
• Managing projects to roll out infrastructure for the data warehousing group.
• Worked with the deployment management to schedule deployments on all tiers.
• Taking over projects that were in trouble to determine business partner expectations, negotiating possible desirable outcomes, and then working with technical team to assure they were met.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully ran the project to push Business Objects to all the agent offices.
• This allowed further growth and use of the Data Warehouse in the agent offices with future applications.
• As a team from Confidential we provided Confidential with what became a key Data Warehouse application referred to as Auto Risk Management and Property Risk Management.
• I worked with the business to define KPI’s for the auto line of business.