SUMMARY:

• Technical Software Project Manager with 8 years experience. Over 20 years experience as a Technical Manager and Professional Software Engineer developing software on a variety of platforms.
• Seeking position as Technical Project Manager, Scrum Master or Scrum Product Owner for a medium to large scale development effort. Experienced developer and technical manager directing teams in a wide variety of businesses allows me to combine technical, customer and business priorities to deliver value on time and on budget. Able to prioritize features and functions based on customer value and technical risk. Have negotiated with Fortune 100 vendors, partners and suppliers. Self starter, out of the box thinker.
• Successful history of delivering projects on time and on budget.
• Experience working with C - level sponsors, stakeholders, and solution providers.
• Management history of building transparent, motivated and effective teams focused on customer value.
• Full systems development lifecycle experience from requirements gathering through design, testing and deployment under multiple SdLc methods including Waterfall, STRADIS, Spiral, DSDM, & Agile.
• Experienced in all aspects of Software Requirements Engineering including elicitation, specification, and management using and improving SDLC methodologies from discovery through deployment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Authored Standard Operating Procedures, Use Case documentation, Risk Management Plan, and Ishikawa Root Cause analysis at Secure Media. Have written and managed rollout of Use Case based requirements for multi-million dollar projects.
• Able to conduct software quality initiatives, strive for continuous process improvement and lead comprehensive studies to improve software quality. Evangelist for the Agile method.
• As a successful programmer and requirements engineer, I have the experience to create, groom and score user epics and stories, reducing risk and ensuring value driven delivery in an Agile environment.
• Member PMI ID #4851653
• Always looking for ways to improve process and streamline overhead.
• Able to develop and administer WBS resource plans, budgets and schedules
• Experience with web development, eCommerce, Cloud services and Linux based systems.
• Experience with Telecom (DSL) OSS systems and deployment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Denver

Senior Project Manager

• Secure Media Delivery, Acting CTO, led team of 11 (5 offshore PHP/Symfony developers) for VoD site.
• Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) - maintenance of Drupal site.
• Subcontracted to USDA, analysis for WIC fraud.
• Coininfo.com - a real time data web & mobile application for gold/silver as relates to coin prices.
• Jazzbeetle.com - real time sms processor and response generator for advertising and customer contact.
• BeyondPerks.com - eCommerce application to enable members to access Commission Junction and LinkShare deals online. Similar to Groupon with sms capability .
• Mysteryweedshopper.com - online directory to services and RSS driven news feed under Wordpress.
• ExamMatrix.com - Online Courses, convert custom code to off the shelf Wordpress plugins.

Web Programmer

Confidential - Denver

• Designed and developed web applications, SaaS products, and web services.
• Developed PHP/JS library of web functions that serves as a rapid development platform.
• PHP Library is currently in its 5th release (v1.5) to support PHp5. Includes eCommerce, content management, secure document management, national gasoline station pricing, private auctions, eMagazine, commercial print spooler, and class/seminar registration modules. PCI Compliant.
• Created PHP based real time data system for the coin collecting industry. Developed website, mobile site, real time data feeds, high availability and load balancing solution for Coininfo.com.
• Key clients: Rocky Mountain Coin, Creation Chamber, Cricket Communications, denverbroncos.com, broncoscountry.com, Green Chair Marketing, Home Run Delivery
• Built high performance, fault tolerant hardware and database system for PSAP application.

Advisory Software Engineer

Confidential - Louisville

• Designed and implemented improvements to reduce QA test time for fixes to the field. Working with QA team I designed a system to enable testing to be reduced from 2 weeks to 4 hours. Next, I reduced install time on site from 4 hours to 15 minutes. Basically, fix time reduced from 2 weeks to same day.
• Designed and implemented improvements to application that resulted in substantial decrease in Severity 1 customer calls 3 per week to 1 per month.
• During acceptance testing at the US Air Force, personally saved $500M contract by providing superior customer support and creating a fix for a serious system performance issue identified onsite.
• Onsite troubleshooter for Fortune 500 customers (USAF, Southwest Bell, PacBell).
• Lead teams to create Use Case Documents for 2 separate ($9M and $14M) development efforts.
• Team Lead for Software Development team. Built project plan and use case model. Instituted sprint development which resulted in higher schedule predictability.
• Software Engineering Team Lead for client Object Oriented client storage access module.
• Member of requirements management software selection team and standards committee. Installed, created training materials and trained staff on requirements management using DOORS.
• Charter member of the StorageTek cross functional UX Team.
• Served as Acting Software Development Manager.