Sr. Program Manager/agile Coach Resume
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Bloomington, MN
SUMMARY:
- Accomplished, multifaceted leader with over ten years of experience impacting healthcare, information technology and retail organizations as both an entrepreneur and subject matter expert.
- Unique expertise as a proven leader and entrepreneur specializing in the technology space that thrives in fast - paced, ambiguous and dynamic environments to create structure out of chaos.
- Skilled in identifying and creating innovative, strategic business models and entrepreneurial strategy based on objective evidence and analytical decision making for clients varying in size from start-up to complex, global corporations.
- Proven track record for being a trendsetter and “ahead of the curve” in recognition of future industry trends in emerging growth industry sectors.
- Recognized for the ability to build solid relationships with strategic partners as well as consensus across multiple organizational levels.
- Skilled in distilling key points of interest and communicating complex IT business concepts and strategy to a wide audience with varied levels of understanding with a dynamic communication and presentation style.
- Passion and proficiency in mentorship of employees and knowledge sharing of best practices with business partners and peers.
- 15+ year’s leadership experience
- 8+ years in technology
- 4+ years web development and e-commerce
- 11+ years of change management
- 13+ years of project management
- 5+ years of product management
- 4+ years retail
- 9+ years healthcare
- 4+ years of user experience/usability
- 2+ years scaled agile
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
TIBCO, Rhapsody, SAFe, VersionOne, Jira, Rally, MS Visio, Chef, ServiceNow, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint & Outlook), 37Signals/Basecamp, Agile Scrum Master and Coach, Iterative, Six Sigma, SDLC and software delivery methodologies, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Sr. Program Manager/Agile Coach
Confidential, Bloomington, MN
Responsibilities:
- Ensure that employee engagement is maintained at high levels and employee development plans are created and maintained
- Manage budgets and financial forecasts. Understand and know costs of delivery or services provided
- Lead and build high performing scrum teams
- Provide coaching and performance reviews of staff
- Interact with IT and business leadership to contribute to our strategic plan and project portfolio plans
- Innovative and plan for continuous improvement. Monitor and adjust goals and plans consistent with business and IT leadership expectations
- Delivering projects, solutions and IT services in support of approved business and technology driven portfolios of work
- Delivering solutions that meet functional requirements, meet delivery schedules, within cost projections, and are of high quality
- Preparing and presenting IT solution recommendations, status updates, and business value propositions to the highest levels of business and IT leadership
- Leverage vendor relationships and ensure high performing vendor deliveries. Collaborate with and actively support other IT functions to ensure overall IT success
- Understand IT industry best practices, standards, and resources (Gartner, vendors, etc.) to ensure continuous optimization of IT delivery effectiveness
- Ensure overall success of IT delivery and meet customer expectations
- Comply with process and control requirements
- Build bridges with business partners and set appropriate expectations and have the hard conversations to ensure success of projects
Scrum Master/Program Manager IT Integration and SOA
Confidential, Richfield, MN
Responsibilities:
- Delivered technical innovations in support of emerging business needs and progressing these ideas from concepts to experiments to scaled models with focus on flexibility, reuse and overarching extensibility
- Delivered a holistic open source built Enterprise Service Platform (ESP), on which all-atomic and composite web services are currently being built within the enterprise
- Maximized profitability and efficiency by defining a product strategy that decreases costs, increases profitability and furthers the goals of the ESP’s capability
- Led and mentored five scrum masters leading teams related to App Talk (Internal BBY Application), TIBCO, MQ Broker, Informatica and ESP
- Managed program budgets of 8 million dollars on an annual basis
- Worked closely with operations, community management, developers, and customers to build meaningful products and process feedback loops
- Effectively directed resources, timelines and budgets
- Responsible for change management processes
- Managed tier one vendors and partner businesses; such as Wipro, Accenture, IBM and System in Motion