SUMMARY:

IT/IS professional with over 20 years management experience. Thought - leader in PM tools and practices and increasing evolution of technology solutions. Experienced as business owner, associate, consultant, and acting as/dealing with external solution providers. Highly effective interactions with technical teams, executives, sales staff, customers, and vendors in offshore, near-shore, and onshore environments.

GENERAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Traditional Lifecycles: Waterfall / CMMI / ITIL / SDLC / DMAIC

Agile Lifecycles: Scrum / AUP (RUP) / Lean / Kanban / FDD / Agile Modeling / SAFe Matrixed, Hybrid, & Projectized Orgs / PMOs / Waterfall, Agile, & Mixed Environments / LLCs to Multi-National Organizations Requirements / Estimation / Financials (Accounting, Reconciliation, Forecasting) / Contract Mgmt / Change Mgmt / Risk / Software Config / Release & Deployment / Wireframes for UIX Assessing Strategic Impacts of Design / Architecture / 3rd Party Solutions

Consulting /Technology Roadmap Development & Communication: Team Building / Up- and Down-Chain Communications / Technology & Business Liaison Executive Presentations and Status Update Communications

Agile Principles: Agile (Scrum) Coach / Regular, Smooth Adaptation to Change / Close, Daily Coordination / Predictable Pace / Decentralized Task Ownership / Experienced in Filling Gaps in Framework

COMPUTER LANGUAGES/PLATFORMS:

.NET (VB, C#, ASP) / J2EE / PHP: Web 2.0 Planning/Dev

PM Tools: Microsoft Project Pro/Server / Sharepoint / JIRA / Atlassian / Clarity / Confluence

BI Tools: (Tableau / Hyperion / Oracle BIEE / Siebel / Informatica / Microsoft BI / m-Power)

DB: SQL Server / Oracle / MySQL

Financials: SAP / Clarity (forecasting, reconciliation), Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence / SaaS / Data Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager, Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Managed 2017 year-end risk & regulatory efforts for over 40 applications - over 24 of which were customer-facing - in the Wealth Management, Investment, & Retirement space.
• Scrum, Microsoft Project, WF PMUWS, Sharepoint
• UX updates, customer-facing security updates, MS Azure, Jenkins, uDeploy, Splunk, hardware/firmware updates/refresh/mitigation

Confidential

Engagement Manager, Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Short contract to fill PM, Scrum Master, and Business Systems Analyst role on project to remediate late issues related to downstream reporting & analytics ahead of internal enterprise conversion to S/4 HANA.
• Offshore design, development, and testing in Ukraine and India.
• Scrum, TFS, Microsoft Project & EPM, Sharepoint, SAP, SAFe
• SAP (data mapping, query analysis), HANA, Microsoft AO
• Acted as Scrum Master on all projects as part of Engagement Manager role

Confidential

IS PMO Domain Project Manager, Franklin, TN

Responsibilities:

• IS-related projects relating to all business areas and locations in the Confidential Alliance.
• Hands-on with development teams in architect, design, development review, and deployment aspects.
• Projects entailing all business aspects.
• Regional (North America) and global initiatives and partner opportunities aligning Confidential /Renault with industry competitors.
• Mainly offshore teams for development (India).
• Included financial mgmt (planning/forecasting, funding, budgeting, accruals, reconciliation).
• Clarity, Microsoft Project & Sharepoint, JIRA (Agile), Confluence, Tableau, SAP, SAFe
• BPM, WPS, Java, COBOL, DB2, SAP (coding & modules), FTP, Cleo, RACF, BIDW, CICS solutions
• Scrum Master on multiple projects and staggered “Waves” on larger efforts

Confidential

Agile Coach, Birmingham, AL

Responsibilities:

• Short contract to coach new and proof-of-concept agile initiatives related to customer credit card offers, validation, and offer-redemption at nationwide financial services company (BBVA Compass) developing and implementing new agile methodology.
• Agile, Scrum, JIRA, Sharepoint
• Mentored team new to Scrum in all roles

Confidential

Scrum Master, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Filled new role as Scrum Master for Architecture/Design team on healthcare web portal marketed to payers and firms providing employee healthcare benefits.
• All applications were customer-facing - in this case, for employees to manage policies and track health incentives.
• .NET, Javascript, Kentico (CMS), Microsoft Azure (SQL)
• Sharepoint, TFS, Microsoft Project Server

Confidential

Technical Delivery Manager, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Managed technical projects across multiple lines of business and resources both onshore and offshore.
• Efforts mostly focused on automating referral process between Consumer and Investment
• Banking including integrating/streamlining customer experience in referral to investment products from retail, eCommerce transactions.
• Created Sharepoint portal with dashboards to manage projects; worked with Data Warehouse team to create new Enterprise dashboards to display and track success metrics and KPIs.
• Also acted as technical and strategic liaison between business stakeholders.
• Clarity, Nexus, Sharepoint (portals, dashboards), Microstrategy (dashboards)
• Websphere, SOAP, Java, multiple ESBs, load balancing/replication uBuild, uDeploy, Tablets (BAND 7 & iOS), DAIC (Traditional/Waterfall), Agile, & Scrum, PM / TDL / TPSM / TDM / ScrumMaster
• Scrum Master on multiple projects under a larger Waterfall program

Confidential

Sr. Agile Project Manager, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Served as Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master for 4 teams developing software for hospitals/practitioners.
• Responsible for implementing, re-engineering, and applying Scrum processes within a projectized, PMO organization.
• Also participated in product architecture, planning, roadmap, and budgetary concerns.
• This included the base architecture for a new product originally intended to build a new, separate ETL but instead designed to develop a Java component to leverage existing ETL entities.
• JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, Rally
• Managed the portfolio of one division of the PMO and developed/updated dashboards using Confluence / Sharepoint; Agile, Scrum
• Neteeza, Ab Initio for ETL, MicroStrategy for data mining/reporting (dashboards)
• Participated in architecture/design decisions including development of wireframes