SUMMARY:

• A certified Project Management Professional with 16+ years of diversified experience in Program / Project Management, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V), Business Process Management (BPM), Quality and Information Assurance.
• Expertise includes successful delivery of projects from inception to closeout, IV&V, resource management and project budgeting on large scale system implementations.
• Mentored and implemented best practices using Agile, SCRUM, RAD and other methodologies.
• Also certified in Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Scrum, and his experience in technology originated as an analyst focused on IV&V, Quality Assurance and BPM.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Best Practices: Agile (RUP, Scrum, RAD), Waterfall

Tools: Microsoft Office and Project, Visio, SharePoint Team Foundation Server, JIRA Clarity;

Rational Products: Rational Method Composure, Test Manager, Robot, Requisite Pro, Clear QuestClear Case Explorer, RTC and Rose; TIBCO, HP ALM / Quality Center; Microsoft Project / Server, Lotus 123, WordPerfect 7.0, Quattro pro, Netscape, MS Internet Explorer, and Visio; IBM PCs / Mainframes, SUN Workstations, MS - DOS, UNIX, PERL, LINUX 5.2x, Windows, Exceed, DB2, Oracle Fusion Middle Ware, Oracle 7.x - 11g, SQL, PL / SQL, SQL*PLUS, Developer 2000, DBA StudioTOAD, Embarcadero Rapid SQL, XML, ASP, HTML, C/ C++, Java, JavaScript, J2EE.Net, Web logic, Visual Basic, COBOL, JCL, TSO / CICS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Program Oversight Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead program oversight team guiding client and contractors delivering robust PMO and BPR leading to optimal solution for TFM program
• Oversee development of PMO processes and deliverables ensuring best practice implementation such as PMBOK and CMMI within OPM constraints
• Oversee BPR initiative to ensure accurate documentation of AS IS processes and pain points leading to research of optimal TO BE solution
• Developed PgMP, WBS and iteratively developed and manage integrated project schedule
• Lead weekly and monthly program level meetings with teammates and senior clients ensuring program timeline, risk and budget are proactively managed as per plan

Confidential, MA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead project management meetings reviewing / owning WBS, Project Charter, Project Plan, Risk Management Plan / Register, Change Management and other deliverables
• Implemented scrum methodologies using Microsoft TFS infrastructure
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions
• Acted as scrum master across multiple projects facilitating Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings;
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables
• Collaborated with all stakeholders develop and maintain Product Backlog
• Managed corporate account, build motivated stable team ensuring nearly 0% attrition rate across the board

Confidential

Program Manager / Scrum Master, Burtonsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Serve Federal and State government agencies providing program / project management, earned value, quality assurance and systems development services through the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Provided executive reports / support to C level executives (including CIO, Chief Of Staff and COR)
• Oversaw SLAs and TOs ensuring contractors comply with client processes, standards and processes
• Delighted the customers developing / coaching best practices such as SCRUM, Agile, RUP, RAD and Waterfall incorporating Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) standards; Integrated software development tools
• Lead project management meetings reviewing / owning WBS, Project Charter, Project Plan, Risk Management Plan / Register, Change Management and other deliverables
• Lead Quality Assurance, Process Engineering and Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) efforts
• Led Business Process Management (BPM) greatly improving organization’s response time & productivity
• Supported Information Assurance projects as per the Risk Management Framework (RMF) guidelines

Confidential

QA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed comprehensive review of the project including the methodology applied, assumptions, evaluation criteria and surveyed team improving the overall process focused on defect prevention
• Supported corporate initiative improving process securing CMMI level II certification
• Participated in project management process of initiation, planning, execution, control and closing
• Interviewed stakeholders, wrote / Updated Requirements, RTM, Use Cases, Test Evaluation Report
• Oversaw integration of RTM to ensure synchronization of all documents with client’s expectations
• Coordinated Change Control Board meetings negotiating change requests and other issues
• Performed smoke, functional, regression, system and UAT test.

Confidential, DC

Quality Assurance / Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Successfully developed and implemented Quality Assurance (QA) / Test plans and metrics for the organizations
• Surveyed clients, established processes, and trained users to implement approved QA processes
• Led the team of engineers from inception to close out ensuring highest quality releases into production
• Iteratively developed artifacts such as change management plan, use cases, test plan, test cases, requirements traceability matrix (RTM), test and evaluation report and test cases
• Environment: Object Oriented Technologies; Backend - DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, flat files; Processes - RUP, Agile, Waterfall and SCRUM