OBJECTIVE

• Provide agile consulting, expertise and team coaching in a challenging, teamwork driven environment. Work for a company that offers interesting challenges, meaningful work, and exceptional colleagues. Combine my love of travel and experiencing of other cultures with career opportunities.

SUMMARY

• Fourteen years of project management experience in software design & development projects of increasing complexity and responsibility. Significant experience in both agency and R&D type environments for clients in all areas of private industry as well as State and Federal government. Skilled at leading cross - functional teams in complex development and implementation projects. Experienced in providing efficient summary level reports to high-level management. Effective at working with clients at all organizational levels, balancing client needs with development and implementation timelines, while maintaining high client satisfaction.
• Experience managing teams of 10+ individuals, budgets of up to $3 million, and simple to complex multi-year, multi-phase projects.
• Responsible for business development, proposal and contract management for a 300-person consulting office, including managing a yearly budget of up to $1.5 million.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Project Mgmt: Microsoft Project, Microsoft EPM, PlanView, SharePoint
• Requirements/Change Control Management: CaliberRM, Agile, DOORS
• Issue Tracking & Mgmt: Jira, Rally, Unfuddle, Assembla, PointinSight, Vantive-based custom system, RMTrack, CVS TRAC
• CRM/lead/mktg mgmt
• Agile, Lean/Pull, Kanban, Scrum, XP, iterative, Waterfall, modified Waterfall methodologies
• Continuous Build & Test Driven Development Environments
• Project Portfolio Management
• CMM/CMMI & SDLC
• DPM/RUP
• Six Sigma/Lean
• SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) reporting/compliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master / Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Serving as a change agent coach/expert to facilitate Agile adoption across teh company.
• Identify and monitor key metrics measuring company and department objectives, team happiness, sprint progress and product quality.
• Leader, support and facilitator for in continuous improvement.
• Coach and mentor to team members, other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, management/executives and various stakeholders.

Confidential,

Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for applying SAFe, Agile/Scrum, Kanban and waterfall methods as needed to deliver public facing and business critical products & projects.
• Co-managing multiple IT/MIS enterprise wide projects including CRM migration, telephony migration and IT systems move/virtualization.
• Lead in coaching/mentoring teams; Plan, manage and communicate goals, schedule, dependencies and tasks; Troubleshoot and mitigate issues; Facilitate grooming/planning with product owner and architects; Report key metrics concerning sprint health and overall progress.

Confidential

Senior Program Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible project scope/budget, client expectations/relationship, project timelines/deliverables, subcontractor/vendor contract and task management, task assignment, and resource allocation.
• Worked with account management and clients to negotiate additional work and change orders, as well as developing creative solutions to risks and issues effecting project success.
• Participated in development/delivery methodology decisions to meet client needs. In addition to traditional waterfall methods, has worked with Agile and Lean-based development methods and processes to meet changing and demanding needs in a dynamic environment.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Projects managed has included enterprise-wide releases, client pilots and go-lives, integration projects, and product specific releases.
• Team lead in teh establishment of teh R&.D PMO and PMO group procedures to facilitate project delivery predictability and teh company goal of achieving CMMI levels two and three.
• PM/Facilitator for XP development group as teh first agile-type development effort in teh offices history.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project managed interactive application development and set-top box/receiver projects. Responsible for all aspects of development from planning through launch. Coordinated with cross-functional stakeholders including programming/product management, IT, systems engineering, hardware design/engineering, software development and manufacturing.
• Lead special project to identify factory software gaps and improvement opportunities to expedite teh transition from factory line startup to mass production. Required excellent teamwork and consensus building skills in a diverse cultural and manufacturing environment.

Confidential

Business Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed business development and marketing programs for teh 300- person Denver office of an international engineering and consulting firm.
• Managed a group of five marketing staff and proposal coordinators and directed work for an in-house creative department.
• Lead and facilitated business line teams including strategy development for market penetration, attaining new clients, existing relationship building, and junior staff mentoring in marketing.
• Project managed proposal development from small month-long efforts to very large, multi phased, and long-term efforts worth several million dollars in revenue.