PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As Project Manager for the Confidential ( Confidential ), my team successfully completed the phase one deliverable on time and under budget.
• Utilized Agile Sprint and Scrum processes through backlog grooming, Sprint Planning meetings, Sprint review and retrospective events.
• Provided leadership and direction for Program Incremental Planning events for align and preparation using Aha and Jira epics, stories, and bug fix tickets for upcoming Sprints.
• Assisted in the coordination and review of Sprint risks and issue that needed to be monitored and acted on.
• Generated weekly Agile Sprint burndown, velocity and other metric and status report to senior leadership.
• Worked with outside vendor to monitor their contracted drupal development hosted on Pantheon’s browser.
• Managed Primavera P6 Professional R15.2 project management software to track planned vs actual resource usage as well as weekly budget expenditures to leadership for analysis.
• Provided updates and direction to Confidential service owner, product owner, analysts, and developers to ensure consistent, successful development and coordination of the product through standard processes and quality work.
• Completed Scrum Master 3.24.17
• Confidential NCRC Silver K2149KK99GN8

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Funeral Director Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Assisted Confidential directors in various duties and services to support their clients’ needs.

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Confidential Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Product owner for the Confidential product application, which is a centralized web - based location, where program documents and MS Project schedules were accessed daily. In 2015, 2,000 users created 14,400 Confidential real-time customized reports and metric d Confidential analysis for executive and customer program management usage.
• As Confidential Product Owner, all design changes, stories, bug / fixes were managed through Confidential Kanban process. As it was an Agile methodology, two cycle times vs velocity deliverables were part of the processes. Backlog work was reviewed in planning and grooming meetings to address the user’s needs. YouTracks (stories) dashboard utilized 4 Kanban principles (Visualize Work, Limit Work in Progress, Focus on Flow, Continuous Improvement). Code was hosted using BitBucket and the developers coded using Visual Studio.
• Confidential product reliability was available 99.8% for the 2015 business year.
• As product manager, test assessment expertise and schedule design was provided to 24 state and national business contracts. MS Project 2007, 2010, and 2013 sessions were provided to program teams along with schedule problem resolution and risk assessment advice.
• In 2015, new Confidential initiatives were rolled out to pull real-time task dates and metrics from program team project schedules into shared services d Confidential bases (Business Analysis, P&D, Operations, Scoring and Reporting).
• Vendor management expertise with Measurement, Inc., ETS (al Testing Services), and Measured Progress.

Sr. Project Manager / Master Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Managed Virginia DOE $53MM program Packaging & Distribution team to provide paper test materials to 1.3MM K-12 students through Spring, Summer, Fall sessions covering 15 writing and non-writing distributions utilizing 1,500 test forms. During my tenure, all baseline dates were met for the delivery of Virginia’s test materials.
• 2009 & 2010 Confidential ’s program team of the year member for managing Virginia DOE $53MM program.
• 2012 & 2013 successfully provided 100% of all Virginia DOE test administration materials to 1.3million K-12 students through Spring, Summer and Fall sessions covering 15 writing and non-writing distributions utilizing 1,500 test forms.
• Managed the first online pilot for Virginia’s VMAST TEI (technically enhanced item) application designed to test math and reading for students with disabilities. Confidential was ed the contract because of the pilot’s success.
• As Master Scheduler, I redesigned the project scheduling tool and processes. On the outset, there were more than 85,000 tasks in multiple MS Project schedules and by the end of the first year, the total number of tasks were reduced to 15,000 tasks saving 18 workhours per week.

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed New Jersey’s GEPA ( Confidential ) DOE $5MM annual program team of six staff to fulfill customer expectations for the paper test administration.
• As the prime contractor, my role was to build tests, manage external vendors (such as Measurement Inc. ), through the test administration, psychometrics, equating, processing, scoring, reporting and final closure documentation to New Jersey’s Department of .
• 2005 & 2006 achieved net profit goals of 15% for these contract years.
• Developed plans and strategies to provide the highest quality products and services to the customer while controlling costs. Reduced New Jersey test book packaging errors by 45%.
• By consulting with P&D and Operations staff, a process was initiated which reduced shipping errors by 30%.

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Wireless Business Manager for Direct Sales

Responsibilities:

• Managed cellular phone and wireless d Confidential product sales and service staff to support large scale businesses such as Confidential ' Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and other eastern Iowa businesses.
• 2004 2nd and 3rd quarter top Iowa sales leader for new cell phone lines.
• 2004 top leader in central region for sales of new wireless d Confidential cards to large scale businesses such as Martin Brothers, Caterpillar and Confidential .
• 2004 top leader in central region for sales of new Kyocera 7135 smart phones to large scale businesses such as St. Confidential 's Hospital, Septagon Engineering and Hall Engineering companies.
• Managed sales and service staff of 6 people to support large scale businesses, such as Mercy Hospital, Altorfer Caterpillar, Rockwell Engineering and other eastern Iowa businesses.

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Mgr. of Project Mgrs. / Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed Mesa Solutions CAD project team of 11 people over a 3-year period that built and implemented a system which enabled spatial telco network d Confidential to be stored in a single d Confidential base, which provided a savings of $1.2MM.
• Manager of Project Management group of 9 staff that focused on software development for sales, accounting, engineering, human resources and other corporate roadmap projects.
• Business Analyst for F&E (Facilities and Equipment software development). Duties included developing business needs documentation, costs analysis, deliverables (internal and external), scheduling, approval and handoff documentation to system analysts along with other support d Confidential .
• Provided project management expertise to Diamond Management Consulting group to utilize Primavera Enterprise Portfolio Management software.

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Sr. Telecommunications Specialist Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manager of all telecommunications contracts domestically and internationally for LAN, WAN, long distance, cell phones, pagers, calling cards and other hardware such as PBX and Octel voicemail equipment.
• Provided cost savings of $900,000 over two-year period by renegotiating MCI WorldCom telecommunication contract.
• Reduced 21 telecommunications contracts to 7 contracts for pagers, calling cards, cell phones, and long distance services, which resulted in savings of $45,000 annually.
• As senior project manager for the telecommunication physical plant equipment installs and builds for Norand sales internationally, I uncovered a $100,000 inventory loss in the Italy operation.
• Supervised 5 staff for the ISO 9002 rollout of network telecommunication documentation and process design.
• Rolled out new Norand IT helpdesk application to manage the transition from mainframe green screen applications to client server based systems.