PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Management Consultant

Confidential

• Provide project management and technical consulting services to NYK Line for new web application development including requirement analysis, planning and execution of efforts.
• Collaborate with technical resources and stakeholders to implement agile best practices and reporting in a traditionally waterfall organization.

Scrummaster / Agile Project Manager

Confidential

• Implement and execute SAFe best practices in leading sprint planning, story grooming, daily stand - ups, demos and retrospectives as well as product iteration planning. Administer the company’s Atlassian JIRA and Confluence applications.
• Lead new product development and data/analytics teams that are geographically dispersed; estimating, planning and monitoring velocity to assist with delivery and communication of changes to external stakeholders.
• Assist Product Management with identifying, creating and prioritizing the product backlog. Utilizing the backlog to plan and execute sprints within a product iteration.
• Manage resource planning, budgeting and other issues for indirect reports.
• Present and update executive team on project status, issues and risks.
• Mentor resources throughout the organization to implement and improve Agile practices in a relatively new organization, adoption and integration of Jenkins and automated testing in development of Java and Javascript based applications.
• Led team to implement new systems to existing data warehouse leveraging AWS utilities and Python based code.

IT Agile Project Manager / Release Train Engineer

Confidential

• Directed $30 million dollar / year efforts with cross-functional teams to develop enterprise health web applications with responsibility for defining and controlling budget and project.
• Provided coaching and guidance to project managers and associate project managers in Agile methodology, ceremonies and best practices catering to global development and delivery teams.
• Worked with Agile teams in an RTE capacity, coaching daily standup meeting and sprint planning as well as running PI Planning events consisting of up to nine scrum teams. Served as a SME and administrator in CA Agile and CA Clarity.
• Teamed up with business users, technical resources and clients to collaborate and obtain project, product and program goals and to create new web applications leveraging industry best practices.
• Collaborated with technical teams to increase use of automated testing and integration with automated code quality reviews as well as adoption of automated build / continuous integration leveraging Jenkins.

Business Applications Project Manager / SCRUMMASTER

Confidential

• Successfully rehabilitated stalled, high visibility large custom application development, migration and hardware upgrade project. Led teams to implement new hardware, migrate applications and operational data, and train over 10,000 store personnel at over 750 locations nationwide.
• Partnered with business product owners and stakeholders to identify desired features, create, prioritize and maintain feature backlogs to clearly identify desired priority. Managed projects according to business priority and within a budget of $2 - $5 million annually.
• Coordinated efforts between offshore consultants and onshore employees. Worked with development, QA and business resources to plan and deliver new application functionality and system enhancements, estimate and plan stories to be worked on in a given sprint and release. Coordinated infrastructure changes required to support new servers and systems
• Managed release process to comply with internal audit and SOX requirements.
• Presented project status, issues and risks to CEO and other C-level executives and project steering committees regularly.

Agile Product Manager / PRoject Manager

Confidential

• Worked with Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Executive Officer on high priority and high visibility projects to modernize the company’s web offerings and integrate industry best practices to increase key metrics by over 30%.
• Led Agile teams in story grooming, sprint planning, daily standups, sprint demos and retrospectives with collocated teams. Administered and maintained Redmine instance used to manage team backlogs, sprints and new requests.
• Planned and executed migrations of 27 magazine websites from disparate legacy CMS platforms to a common/shared Drupal platform, using automation and scripting to expedite timeframe of project completion.
• Headed project to automate processes for creation of daily email campaigns and newsletters which resulted in labor savings of approximately 30 man-hours per day.
• Coordinated adoption of hybrid on-premise and cloud based (AWS and Acquia)based infrastructure.

E-Commerce Technology Manager

Confidential

• Responsible for managing corporate technology, infrastructure including cabling and telecom efforts, e-commerce platforms, software and associated budgets of $5 -$10 million annually.
• Launched new Agile project and product management processes to ensure success for projects and that efforts were allocated to requests that would best align with business and strategic goals.
• Implemented and administered JIRA to manage new requests, manage software development and provide more transparency to stakeholders.
• Steered teams to solicit requirements, implement backend changes and to redesign consumer site while reducing annual technology expenditures by 10%.
• Served as a resource manager for a technology team of consultants and employees. Worked with the CEO and President to execute new initiatives, present new offerings to prospective partners and investors.

Senior Consultant

Confidential

• Provided business analysis and project management services at Medco, a national pharmacy benefit manager. Efforts resulted in a reduction of over 2.3 million gaps in care for members and lowering call center costs through the implementation of innovative member site functionality.,
• Created and maintained project schedules and plans. Monitored and controlled project progress, created and maintained business and functional requirement documentation in compliance with CMMI level 3.
• Reviewed QA test scripts and assisted with QA testing to mitigate project constraints.
• Assisted in the design of new SharePoint based project management offering for member web technology group.
• Attended marketing events to promote the Sogeti product offering and to solicit new business for the New York regional office.

Business Analyst / IT Project Manager

Confidential

• Collaborated with internal teams and external clients to ensure efforts were completed on time and within defined budget parameters. Defined and gathered consensus on project schedules, processes and expectations to ensure project success.
• Collaborated with consultants to create SharePoint based workflow solution.
• Managed merger/acquisition projects as well as revised development and delivery processes, resulting in a 10% improvement in time to market.
• Managed projects related to branch relocation and renovation including management of cabling and telecom infrastructure and service coordination.
• Solicited and refined requirements for new enterprise software and functionality enhancements. Worked with the Vice Presidents and CIO to roll changes out over 10,000 locations worldwide.