SUMMARY:

Senior Project Manager / Certified SCRUM Master with expertise in the following areas: Financial, Online Commerce, Human Capital Management, Manufacturing, Government, & PMO. I am currently only looking for a full time permanent position in the IT field as a Development Manager, Product Owner, SCRUM Master, or Project Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wayne, PA

SCRUM Master / Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• SCRUM Master of the 2xCompensation part of the KeneXa’s 2x product line. Managing three separate SCRUM teams consisting of 35 developers, BA’s, and QA’s delivering to our Product Owners on time and within budget major functionality.
• Currently managing a 2 week Sprint Cycle and delivering Business functionality, Defect Remediation, Technical Debt Reduction as well as driving an Internal User Acceptance Testing of our brand new application.
• Ensuring the development team is practicing the core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
• As SCRUM Master I facilitate: Stand - ups, User Stories, Technical, & Defect Backlogs, Sprint Planning Meetings (Planning Poker,) Retrospectives, Review/Demo, Code Reviews, Story Board, and Story Writing.
• Identifying and removing team impediments, and preventing external distractions as well as identifying risks.
• Empowering the team to self-organize, as well as motiving allowing them to be more productive.
• Coach team members and client on Agile best practices.
• Maintaining all Backlogs (User Story, Technical & Defect Backlogs) in TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Presented to Disney how they could use Agile Methodology to manage their Scheduling Integration & Overtime Manager project which was a 3 Million dollar 18 month Project.
• Spent the first few month gathering requirements, working on fixing the budget estimate, training the current core resources, and finding additional resources.
• Coached all team members and internal clients on Agile techniques before changing from Agile back to Waterfall methodology.
• Conducted Agile brown-bag lunch and learning sessions.
• After three months Disney was only able to conduct in the current Waterfall methodology environment of which they had many PM’s on hand to manage that effort.

Confidential, King Of Prussia, PA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and coached 2 SCRUM teams to deliver software on time and within budget.
• Also worked as Agile Coach to other development teams on an as needed basis.
• Identifying and removed team impediments, and preventing distractions to increase velocity.
• Worked on the Verity Split Project to analyze the size and characteristics of the Verity index data for existing stores, determine the criteria for grouping or splitting stores across indices, document in detail what is to be done and implement the splitting of the indices while increasing performance and stability.
• Worked on the Synonym Mapping project which will prevent the incorrect or blank search returns from customers on their current web sites. Increasing valid search returns equals increased revenue.
• Worked on the Static Content Extraction project to separate JSP and CMS templates so the content can be deployed separately.
• Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise.

Confidential, Bala Cynwyd PA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach to manage daily Scrums as well as planning sessions needed to support the SPI project (Server Provisioning Improvements).
• Worked on SPI project to speed up and automating the provisioning of any new or repurposed Windows or Linux server.
• Worked on setting up a PMO process for project prioritization within the technology space.
• Worked on a major initiative to prioritize all of SIG’s Programs, Projects, and Master Projects allowing management to make better decisions as well as supporting environments used by the 1,500 internal employees.
• Designed, architected, and implemented an ops center monitor lab to proactively display critical trading systems allowing users to become more proactive as well as decreasing down times over their +5,000 servers.
• Piloted, purchased, installed, implemented, tested, deployed, and trained SIG employees to use the PDWare along with QlikView in order to track all workstreams and resources at SIG.
• Worked closely with the vendor to ask for and receive PDWare improvements tailored for SIG.
• Created training videos so that employees could learn how to use the web interface iTeam to input their time against projects needed for the PDWare application.
• Created best practices to better align the different business groups into consistent reporting structures.
• Worked closely with the managing directors to tailor the QlikView reports to identify areas of business opportunities.
• Worked closely with and a member of the newly formed Program Management Office (PMO) to support the business and to supply QlikView reports allowing them to prioritize.
• Created the reporting for quarterly budget data to upper management.
• Designed SIG’s Project Lifecycle to integrate it with the current resource management tool.

Confidential, Bala Cynwyd PA

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed and coached SCRUM team using Agile Methodology of 3 weeks sprint cycles to deliver software on time and within budget.
• Coached current team and other teams within SIG to deliver all projects using Agile Methodology.
• Part of SIG Enterprise team to evaluate and select a Project Management tool to use for Agile Methodology. Rally was selected. My team was the primary SIG team using Rally and demonstrating SIG best practices.
• Managed a team of 7 supporting all projects within the Trading Info Systems (TIS) group / Clearing.
• Managed of two major projects: Intraday Clearing project, and SDMP Message Busses.
• Supported our production environment as well as all ongoing maintenance of legacy systems.
• Provide team members with bi-weekly 1-on1’s, training, reviews, salary reviews, and bonuses.

Confidential, Malvern PA

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Communicated requirements using Agile techniques to bridge the business client’s needs and the developers’ needs.
• Created effective agile requirements that capture actual client’s needs and developed requirements in an iterative approach to capture the details as needed. Prioritized requirements so that the most important customer needs are delivered first.
• Managed two teams totaling 12 team members supporting two different business groups. 3 week Sprint cycles were used.
• Educated upper management and championed the use of Agile/SCRUM methodology within Vanguard.
• Screened resumes, interviewed candidates, made hiring and assignment recommendations, and wrote reviews.
• Estimated business values for requirements to track how a project contributes to the enterprise.
• Formulated an iterative project plan with feedback cycles that keep the project on track.
• Created and effectively used Project Charters to set the course for truly successful projects
• Provided technical expertise in systems, technical infrastructure, tools, modeling, external interfaces, and other areas.
• Completed complex development, design, implementation, architecture design specification, and maintenance activities.
• Recommended multiple development options, including design, build vs. buy, and 3rd party vendor purchase.
• Provided Vanguard Principals IT technical direction for software, middleware, and/or hardware projects (e.g., applications, networks, communications, and client server technologies) on a single platform, or multiple platforms.
• Identified tasks and issues that may have an impact on service levels or schedules.
• Provided realistic task and cost estimates.
• Maintains current knowledge of IT development methodology, architecture design, and technical standards.
• Mentored IT staff with less experience and identified training needs.
• Communicated with technical leads in other Divisions, IT groups, and business clients so they understand the project's technical implications, dependencies, and potential conflicts.
• Identified opportunities for continuous quality improvement of technical standards, methodologies, and technologies.
• Participates in design, code, and test Inspections throughout product life cycle to contribute technical expertise and to identify potential issues.
• Managed testing, including functionality, technical limitations, and security to comply with Information Security policies and procedures.
• Identified potential solutions, including the cost/benefit of each option.
• Lead major project to combine the separate Vanguard networks into one network, traveling back and forth to Brussels to accomplish.
• Worked on 3 major Web releases for the High Net Worth Web site, that allowed clients with more than $1 million dollars to securely invest over the internet. These web releases developed and elevated in the J2EE environment allowing secure real time investment transactions.

Confidential, Tampa FL

Project Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Hired, supervised, and provided performance evaluations for a team of 7 direct reports.
• Responsible for leading systems analysis and development projects to support the applications needs of the manufacturing facility (Microsoft Access, Oracle applications integrating with QAD/Mfg. Pro/Progress).
• Planned and participated in efforts to develop overall factory Information Systems strategy.
• Lead Business Process Re-Engineering and Workflow automation initiatives.
• Developed, quality assurance tested, and maintained all of Tampa's databases
• Installed and maintained Tampa's Web Intranet server, provided continued enhancements
• Implemented, staffed and managed the internal call center to handle network, application and client issues.
• Managed Tampa's network applications and activities of 160+ users
• Directed the upgrade and conversion from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95
• Coordinated and assisted the upgrade of Novell 3.12 to 4.11