SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an IT professional with over twenty years of industry experience.
• He has worked as an independent consultant for 18 years, managing scrum, agile and traditional software development teams, architecting software solutions and implementing enterprise systems.
• Confidential is a natural leader, establishing excellent relationships across all functional teams, from executives to software developers.
• Confidential focuses on providing technology solutions that improve businesses and is a longtime advocate of agile practices.
• His leadership skills, technical understanding, and business acumen are a benefit to any IT organization.

SKILLS:

Managerial: Scrum, Sprint Planning, IT Strategy, Project Management and PMOs, Software Development Team Management, Release Management, Organizational Evaluation and Development, Stakeholder Management, Scorecards/Dashboards, Budgeting, Team Building/Leadership, Risk Management Planning, Issue Tracking

Methodologies/Processes: Agile practices (Scrum, Pair Programming (XP), TDD/BDD), PMBOK, RUP, Iterative Development, Waterfall, SDLC

Business/Technical Analysis: Backlog Grooming (refinement), User Stories, Solution Architecture, Business Process Analysis and Design, Use Cases, UML, Requirements Gathering, Functional and Technical Specifications, Project Definition and Initiation, Project Charters, Enterprise Architecture

Software: Agile tools (VersionOne, Rally, Jira, Basecamp), PM tools (AtTask, Clarity, PlanView, MS Project), Relational Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Access. MySQL), Mobile Apps, Web Services, App Servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, Jboss)

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Scrum Master/Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed Digital Entertainment initiatives, acting as scrum master for Confidential website projects and as enterprise project manager for larger cross - division initiatives.
• Projects included the migration and consolidation of all programming guide web services, the development of ability to sell films online, and the ability download content for non-streaming use.
• Managed sprint planning, user story creation, and daily scrums.
• Advocated the use of scrum guide as the principle process.

Confidential, Newport Beach, CA

Scrum Master consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed migration of from Microsoft Confidential to Adobe AEM (formerly Confidential .
• Created project plan and managed migration.
• Managed development of new components in AEM to handle existing functionality of sites being migrated.
• Performed analysis and design for component development.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Scrum Master/Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead agile transformation and use of scrum to manage projects for the eBusiness group.
• Introduced scrum guide as process reference document.
• Wrote user stories with product owners and managed all scrum events.
• Lead sprint planning meetings, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Initially used Excel as agile management tool, then moved to VersionOne.
• Evaluated Project Portfolio Management tools for PMO and selected AtTask over Innotas,

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Scrum Master/Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the development and implementation of iPad business intelligence applications for Toyota executives.
• Used Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) to create and manage executive level dashboards for sales, operations, and forecasting.
• The suite of BI apps replaced a hard copy notebook that executives carried to assist in important business decisions, such as manufacturing forecasts based on industry and global financial climate.
• Wrote user stories and lead scrum team and events.

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Scrum Master/Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the agile development of a Confidential ecommerce website.
• Integrated the site with SAP via Confidential ’s Sterling for order fulfillment, CRM, and payment.
• Worked with IT executives to analyze and define the solution, acting as solution architect to change direction of project and save over $1 Million by switching from Confidential to Confidential .
• Evaluated implementation vendors, created overall sprint plans and managed implementation using vendors and internal Confidential resources. Integrated Confidential with existing Confidential Java/Flex based site.
• Created user stories in Rally and acted as scrum master. Implemented and integrated Paymetric for credit card tokenization and PCI compliance.
• Managed the evaluation of CRM products and led the choice of Salesforce.com over SAP for Confidential US and Confidential China.
• Managed vendor evaluation and project blue print with Confidential .
• Integrated SFDC with SAP via Confidential data loader for business intelligence, master data, fulfillment and finance.
• Managed Confidential development team.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Product Owner/Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the requirements gathering, project definition, and vendor engagement for captive finance.
• Met with business stakeholders to gather requirements and turned requirements into User Stories for Scrum like implementation of web Content Management System ( Confidential ).
• Developed technical documentation for integration of Confidential with several other systems.
• Acted as the product owner with vendor acting as scrum master.

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Program Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the “Lead Flow” program and projects for the Confidential Marketing Department.
• Projects required the development and delivery of solutions that receive lead data from external vendors, processed the data via TIBCO, and created leads in PeopleSoft CRM.
• Call center and sales reps use the system to manage leads, which are also distributed via TIBCO to Campus Information Systems (CampusVue) or to automated calling vendors.
• Drove all aspects of the project from initiation and requirements gathering to design, development, and release.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Scrum Master/Project Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Ran daily scrums for monthly releases of Confidential Offers. Offers required development and implementation in seven systems, including Billing ( Confidential ), CRM (SAP and Siebel), Confidential .com web site, Mobile App, Ordering Management System, Ordering System, Middleware, and Offer Management System.
• Implementation involved over one hundred participants.
• Followed the Confidential IT Methodology and SDLC, while using scrum for development team..
• Worked with Enterprise Architects to resolve design issues. Maintained sprint and project plans based on enterprise milestones.
• Used Clarity to manage projects, including artifacts, schedules, and detailed time tracking.