SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Manager
• Certified Scrum Master with multiply teams
• Capital Projects and budgeting
• Operations Management with annual budgeting
• Retail refurb, Tenant Improvement and new build construction projects
• Acquisition and merger projects
• Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Establishing PMO from scratch
• Establishing SAFe agile environment from scratch
• Regulatory and compliance with state, county and federal projects
• Training, QA and Documentation building and management of
• Business Process Analysis, Design and manager
• Team building, Consensus and Resolution across departments
• Client and Vendor long - term relationship building
• Negotiation and Contract Development
• Resource allocation and scheduling, change management, risk management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Scrum Master/ IT Project Manager

• Analyze and provide enterprise wide strategic agile adoption plan for companies to move from waterfall to agile development teams.

Confidential, AZ

Scrum Master

• Implemented appropriate Agile/Scrum/Kanban practices and values to existing team of 8 developers, 4 QA Business Intelligence team. Both Jira and TFS being used, TFS being used for existing applications while Jira was used for future growth work.
• Discussed, trained and implemented agile mindset training sessions, including how to build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Facilitated all agile scrum meetings, from an existing companywide three-week sprint schedule.
• Daily standups, sprint reviews, retro, mid-sprint reviews, sprint demos, and backlog meetings with company Product Owners and Business Engagement teams (BEA) for backlog priorities.

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Senior Project Manager Scrum Master

• Partnered with Sales and Product owners on daily basis on client needs and system requirements
• Daily client interactions
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings in an existing waterfall process
• Lead teams in weekly grooming sessions both with client and with just internal teams
• Lead all project aspects including scope through to customer signoff
• Direct project activities, conduct project reviews, manage risk, issues and timelines with management based on status reports by using MS project
• Work with business and technology subject matter experts to define scope, create accurate and inclusive estimates, develop budgets and project plans, and produce high quality project charters and other planning documentation needed for funding approvals
• Manage / Track project budgets, forecasts, and schedule to achieve project objectives and goals
• Prepares project development objectives and schedules for all phases of product development and introduction to market.
• Estimating project costs, specification compliance and generation, proposal preparation, and implementation of database and supporting software and hardware

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Director PMO/Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master

• Lead implementation of Agile development process for entire product services team
• Facility daily scrums, sprints and project meetings for both our waterfall and agile projects
• Heavy teamwork with Product Owners and Business Analyst
• Manage all aspects of various projects of various sizes, communicating to both internal and external people.
• Participate in overall project strategy, research and development requirements, development, and manufacturing coordination for new and emerging products.
• Coordinate technical product development and release to production.
• Manage day-to-day progress of projects.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of functional areas such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, senior management and operations to develop and provide project definitions responsive to customer needs and market opportunities.
• Developed and maintained a weighted prioritized list of projects for management team.
• Coordinated and developed marketing, sales, engineering, and financial plans for product lines
• Provided financial and technical justification for projects.
• Prepared project development objectives and schedules for all phases of product development and introduction to market.
• Conducts market research and identifies and tracks market trends in company's industry.
• Identified partnering opportunities for complementary third-party products to broaden company's product line.
• Participate in key sales situations for the product.
• Maintain communications and contacts to collect and analyze technical, financial, schedule, and sales information for project agile process.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Senior Project Manager (contract)

• Manages major project involving business and data integration.
• Utilized both waterfall and agile methodologies
• Analyze and manage all phases, dependencies, risks, and strategy to meet project and account objectives from concept to post implementation support and both agile and waterfall projects.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior IT Agile Scrum Master

• Functioned as scrum master for two teams. Lead all meetings associated with the agile methodology; ceremonies, sprints, retrospectives, backlogs and even training associated with the bi-weekly releases.
• Managed multiple projects involving data integration and data management, manage deliverables to aggressive time lines while maintain high quality, cost efficiencies, and defined scope.
• Under the waterfall approach, lead several projects outside of the agile teams. Analyze and manage all phases, dependencies, risks, and strategy to meet project and account objectives from concept to post implementation support. Facilitate project reviews and working sessions; document and communicate status, decisions, actions, and issues internally to Senior Management to align for customer communications with project stakeholders, in both waterfall and agile approaches.
• Worked with product owner to coordinate training plans for newly released functionality

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Senior Project Manager (contract)

• Managing all aspects of projects including definition of project scope/objectives, development of project plan and schedule, budget and resource plan, status reporting, project development and implementation.
• Developing and managing project team (s), including allocation of work assignments among team members.
• Negotiating for resource within the context of the project objectives, requirements and priorities.
• Interfacing with business owner(s)/customer(s) and all other areas/individuals affected by the project.
• Ensuring proper project document requirements and deliverables are clearly defined and delivered.
• Managing project meetings, completing project tracking/analysis reports, reporting to management and business owners regarding project progress, issues and risks.
• Managing vendors, tracking vendor deliverables, managing vendor budgets.

Confidential, Matthews, NC

Director of PMO/Senior Agile Project Manager

• Introduced and implemented the company to operate under the ITIL’s methodology, focusing on the five areas of service.
• Implemented the Agile and Waterfall methodologies for company.
• Project Manager for companywide software implementation project, SAP/Business One.
• Project Manager for companywide SharePoint usage project, initialization thru design thru implementation.
• Defined and implemented department methodologies for both projects and training related to customer deliverables.
• Established process development and improvement in a highly regulated industry.
• Implemented PMO for department defining entire PMO infrastructure.
• Aligned with sales and product teams for pre-sales presentations, scoping, proposals for potential clients, writing regulatory operating procedures and technical documentation

Confidential, Tempe, AZ/Charlotte, NC

Senior Project Manager/Operations

• Directed several acquisition/integration projects for division.
• Assisted in preparing several project bids of various complexities, for acquisition projects as well as for expansion and renovation projects.
• Responsibilities included cost and schedule, resource allocation, change management, field service management and subcontractor coordination, and government management for various regulated areas.
• Facilitated monthly steering committee meetings with acquisition updates with executives, ensuring open and focused lines of communication between multiple departments until project closure. Define synergies in early stage of project; allocate appropriate staff to focus on synergies that match company direction.