PROFILE:

• Business agility professional always seeking continuous improvement and innovation leveraging industry best practices - lean startup, Scrum, SAFe and Design Thinking frameworks with an agile mentality to deliver customer expectations and business value.
• A servant leader with experience building highly performing teams through coaching and mentoring to expect, embrace and adapt to change as well as master continuous improvement and adaptation.
• 17 years’ experience leveraging communication and client facing skills, to lead, and influence cross functional teams to deliver complex IT & Industrial infrastructures and software/applications systems to satisfied customers in both the public and private sectors.
• Experience working within PMO/BMO on SDLC/PMLC and a track record of delivery.
• Microsoft Suite - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Project proficiency

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Agile Coach & Mentor
• Enterprise Scrum
• Service Level Management
• Leadership & Influence
• Lean Startup
• Scheduling &Control
• Agile Project Management
• RFP, PO, RFQ, RFI Creation
• Stakeholder Management
• Scrum Master
• Organizational Change
• Release & Deployment Mgt.
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• Design Thinking
• Contracting & Negotiation

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TOOLS:

ERP/CRM/Collaboration: Oracle, Peoplesoft, SharePoint, Jira, AWS Cloud

Project Management: MS Project, Primavera, Planview, Clarity, Penta

Operating Systems& Databases: Linux, Windows, Unix, Mac OS / Oracle, SQL Server

Frameworks/Methodologies: ITIL, CoBiT, PMI, RUP, SDLC, Agile - Scrum, Six Sigma.

EMPLOYMENTHISTORY:

Project Manager

Confidential, Eddystone, PA

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master and servant leader for ERP system redesign and redeployment to the AWS cloud.
• Direct, Coach& Mentor 9-man generalizing specialist team to expect and embrace change
• Enable team to self-organize and deliver high quality customer value frequently amidst changes
• Change agent for the Enterprise wide adoption of Agile and lean techniques
• Create and maintain the Kanban Board, and actively work to remove all blockers and impediments
• Collaborate with Product owner to develop, prioritize and refine product and sprint backlogs
• Plan & Facilitate Scrum ceremonies produce Scrum artifacts and communicate extensively
• Managed contributing 3rd party vendors and contractors from Amazon and Penta
• Led Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Daily Scrums, and Defect Review Meetings.
• Managed the Engineering, Procurement and Construction of $175M terminal expansion project (Storage infrastructure and IoT - APM, RM, SCADA) cloud-base integration & deployment.
• Enabled and facilitated cross functional teams of business, engineering and technical resources to deliver quality products.
• Lead project planning and overall strategy - specifying goals, dependencies, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency planning, resource allocation/management
• Project performance monitoring and control to ensure compliance with scope, quality, schedule, and budget baselines.
• Determine need for and impact of change orders with respect to scope, schedule, quality and cost
• Responsible for 8 direct reports and over 25 indirect reports at any given time.

Release Mgr/Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Walgreen, Co, Deerfield, IL

Responsibilities:

• Develop and negotiate schedules, deliverables, milestones and project resources to meet project objectives and changing requirements.
• Facilitate delivery of security, telephony, servers, databases and network environments as well as other shared services to DevOps teams.
• Manage escalations, prioritization, change &risk management, status reporting, signoffs and agreements.

IT Consultant - Sr. Business Analyst

Confidential, Bloomington, IL.

Responsibilities:

• Develop enterprise infrastructure and application projects, direct requirements gathering, development, validation, and ongoing maintenance activities while reviewing enterprise technology solutions.
• Liaise with Senior IT management and business representatives to establish service level agreements for all enterprise systems support with the expectation of 7x24x365 support.
• Implement an ITIL v3.0 based Service Delivery framework and SLA’s for enterprise applications.

Sr. Technical Project Analyst

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Extensive leverage of Planview, FIT tool, EPMO website, SDLC, Sharepoint and other best practices to maintain 100% success rate for passage of Governance Life Cycle quality gates for multiple projects including Health Care Reform projects, Claims &Payment Systems, and Member Portal.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented project artifacts including master schedules and budgets, change management, release & deployment management plans in compliance with EPMO and PPM standard procedures.
• D eveloped project teams and enhanced operational efficiency for public and private sector clients.
• Sample projects and s include the following:
• Government Financial Management Information System
• Credit registry design and implementation management

Assistant Project Manager

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical assistance and support to Sr. Project Managers including:
• Establish and maintain internal project tracking systems;
• Develop and distribute RFP, RFI, RFQ to vendors; Analyze and evaluate vendor bids and quotes; impact analysis of change requests on schedule and budget; contract negotiations and
• Effectively process and manage100% of payment requisitions on time;