SUMMARY:

IT professional offering a high degree of diverse experience in Infrastructure and agile application development. I’m relocating to Scottsdale, Arizona in March 2019. Specializing in Digital Banking, Hi - tech, Legal and Healthcare. Managing full and mobile website development are additional capabilities.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Manager & Certified SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Scaled Agile Framework - SAFe for Lean Enterprises
• Assisting the self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its goals
• Oversee and facilitate agile ceremonies
• Drive clarity for team and business to minimizing mid sprint surprises
• Facilitate daily scrum meetings
• Removing obstacles that are impeding the scrum team's progress
• Track progress against user stories, utilizing burn up and burn down charts to report sprint velocity and manage the overall release
• Support 3 Scrum teams
• Corporate Applications
• DevOps
• Web-IT

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supporting infrastructure and software development projects for the CAlWIN program
• CalWIN is the largest human services system in the United States
• It supports the work of nearly 30,000 employees responsible for providing timely services at more than 800 California locations
• Collaboratively maintain an automated tool that assists counties in providing clients with improved customer service and case management functions.
• Streamline office automation by applying technology to simplify office operations. It will relieve workers of redundant and tedious case work and allow staff to redirect activities to new services in support of clients
• Facilitate ease of learning and use. Simplify the interaction between the system user and the computer
• Facilitate Project kick-off meetings
• Manage the day to day work of the project team resources
• Work with our business partners (All California counties - 58) in understanding the needs
• Track and ensure all deliverables are received on time by our clients
• Vendor management
• Provide weekly status reports
• Create and manage project Share Point sites

Confidential

SR. Project Manger

Responsibilities:

• Evangelize and enforce Agile methodology
• Tools: TFS & Scrumworks Pro
• Agile Adoption
• Working with IT & Business unit management to understand what it means to be agile
• Helping teams understand “Why” to help create the “How”
• Being flexible and empowering people
• Educating the leadership so that they can clearly articulate the vision for change and how the business and the IT organization would benefit from that change
• Agile Transformation
• Assist the corporation/enterprise with gaining competitive advantages
• Continuous Improvement
• Being part of the team that encourages the following:
• Customer collaboration
• Responding to change vs following a plan
• Working software vs comprehensive documentation
• Digital Technology
• On-Line Banking
• Overseeing the design of mobile and online tools that enable customers
• Advance IT process improvement and adoption
• Lead and manage the efficiency, productivity, and processes for Agile team(s)
• Organize and drive Scrum Ceremonies - Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Demo, and sprint review
• Constantly facilitate higher velocity and quality
• Maintain sprint health via proactive risk management, issue escalation and roadblock resolution
• Track progress against user stories, develop burn down charts to report sprint velocity and manage the overall release
• Coach and Mentor best practices for Product backlog setup, identifying project interdependencies Backlog grooming, and Story Point Estimation
• Experienced in running both agile and waterfall projects
• Drive clarity for team and business to minimizing mid sprint surprises
• Act as a liaison between Program Management, Product Owners, and IT
• Mange project budget and schedule
• Act as a central point for all Communications relating to the project
• Hold team accountable for commitments
• Facilitate positive scrum team dynamic to deliver projects in a fast-paced environment

Confidential

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Establish and execute project plans, Kanban boards, Scrum sprints, burndown charts, velocity charts, project dashboards, risk management plans, other project governance processes and procedures
• Helping the team to reach consensus for what can be achieved during each sprint/iteration in agile
• Analyzing the business’s activities to include: expenses and profits, establishing goals, and communicating the strategy
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Leading teams through the formulation and execution of program plans, strategies and functions
• Manage the process for how information is exchanged
• Facilitate project and stakeholder meetings
• Facilitate daily scrum meetings
• Removing obstacles that are impeding the scrum team's progress

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with the marketing team on the re-branding of Confidential .
• Manage the different vendors associated with the development of the firm’s collateral material.
• Manage supplier relationships to successfully solve complex technical issues resulting in minimal business impact
• Serve as the single point of contact for the firm’s new website development.
• Manage both the full and mobile web development project to the approved requirements to ensure that the firm’s best interest is in place.
• Partner with the web developers to ensure project plans are in alignment with the committed to delivery dates.
• Oversee the search engine optimization program
• Work with Polsinelli project team to create surveys to monitor and enhance the user experience for the firm.
• Provide project status reports to stakeholders as well as facilitate weekly project status meetings.
• Provide to users on content manager as well as website security using the backend website administration tools.
• Provide written process documentation for a variety of standard and complex web administration tasks.

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Helping the team to reach consensus for what can be achieved during each sprint/iteration in agile
• Leading and executing information technology infrastructure projects such as data center technology areas (storage services, computing services, virtualization services, networking services, and cloud services)
• Data Center Decommission
• Mainframe Infrastructure and Application Migration
• Mainframe Database Knowledge (DB2, IDMS, etc.)
• Network Refresh Projects
• Server OS End of Life and Server Migrations
• Storage Projects
• Oracle and/or SQL Database upgrades/migrations
• Citrix, WebSphere Migration
• VOIP upgrades
• Firewall upgrades/replacements
• Collaborate effectively with infrastructure associates across entire business units along with management levels
• Analyzing the business’s activities to include: expenses and profits, establishing goals, and communicating the strategy
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Leading teams through the formulation and execution of program plans, strategies and functions
• Manage the process for how information is exchanged
• Facilitate project and stakeholder meetings
• Facilitate daily scrum meetings
• Removing obstacles that are impeding the scrum team's progress

Confidential

PMO - Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Leading and executing information technology infrastructure projects such as data center technology areas (storage services, computing services, virtualization services, networking services, and cloud services)
• Data Center Decommission
• Mainframe Infrastructure and Application Migration
• Mainframe Database Knowledge (DB2, IDMS, etc.)
• Network Refresh Projects
• Server OS End of Life and Server Migrations
• Storage Projects
• Oracle and/or SQL Database upgrades/migrations
• Citrix, WebSphere Migration
• VOIP upgrades
• Firewall upgrades/replacements
• Manage the process in collecting accurate software licensing usage and tracking for compliance audit request on-demand.
• Helping the team to reach consensus for what can be achieved during each sprint/iteration in agile
• Analyzing the business’s activities to include: expenses and profits, establishing goals, and communicating the strategy
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Leading teams through the formulation and execution of program plans, strategies and functions
• Manage the process for how information is exchanged
• Facilitate project and stakeholder meetings
• Facilitate daily scrum meetings
• Removing obstacles that are impeding the scrum team's progress