SUMMARY

• Experienced Software and Development Team Manager with various project management methodologies (i.e. Agile, Waterfall) possessing excellent communication, analytical, negotiation and organizational skills.
• Extensive experience with hands on technical skills in software development, database administration, systems administration and source control.
• Success in planning, identifying risks, managing, tracking and implementing large scale enterprise - wide projects on time and under budget.
• Helps development teams achieve peak performance and productivity with technical knowledge, excellent communication skills and coaching and mentoring abilities.
• Highly experienced in scoping, estimating and project budgeting that includes breaking down scalable items into Sprints.
• Excellent ability to build and maintain business relationships effectively.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• C#, VB.NET, J2EE/Java, iOS, Android, Git source control, TFS source control
• Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, openSUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux, MS SQL Server, Postgres
• PMP Certification, Planview, Microsoft Project, JIRA, Wrike, Basecamp

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for SDLC Transformation project to convert all US operations to Agile-like SDLC Methodologies
• Project Manager for Resource Management project that will reserve and forecast all US operations resource allocation and planning for 18 months using Planview as the centralized data repository
• Leads technical staff with daily programming tasks for Planview administration team
• Forecasts and maintains project budgets, schedules, issues lists
• Facilitates meetings on projects, escalates issues when they arise
• Meets with executive management regularly

Director of Customer Solutions

Confidential, Poughkeepsie, NY

Responsibilities:

• Director of all Confidential Core Development teams for customer facing applications
• Coordinate between Product Owner, development team and DevOps
• Facilitate daily standups, sprint planning, sprint completion, retrospectives, product demos, and production releases
• Managed overseas development teams in India, Tel Aviv and Canada responsible for security back-end in C#, MS SQL Server, all in AWS
• Managed local team responsible for all web development for US based clients in php, JavaScript and Python
• Work with all teams to prioritize tasks, requests and bugs between scheduled sprints and backlog
• Ensure scheduled tasks and product requirements are planned and scheduled for optimal sprint performance
• Help development team resolve both technical and non-technical issues on a daily basis
• Have full control over the process, including the workflows, documentation and performance reporting

Systems Manager

Confidential, Valhalla, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed large scale I.T. Projects for ConEdison's Energy Supplier
• Manager of software development team responsible for all residential and commercial solar accounts, agent payment processing and customer service in C# and VB.NET, Powershell, MS SQL Server, Windows Server
• Primary team lead on residential and commercial solar accounts
• Proficient in Agile SDLC Methods utilizing scrum
• Developed estimates for all development and budgeting, including breaking down scalable items into Sprints
• Coordinated with all stakeholders, gathered business requirements, developed technical requirements and handed off to development team

Project Manager/Systems Specialist

Confidential, Spring Valley, NY

Responsibilities:

• Managed O&R's largest software development team, as well as Mobile Workforce Team
• Responsible for architecting and overseeing the new Outage Management System via Web platform;
• Java back-end with JavaScript and DHTMLX front end
• Technical lead for server administration on Xen platform
• Project Manager for new Web based upgrade and Mobile GPS Tracker upgrade projects
• Developed estimates for all development and budgeting, including breaking down scalable items into Sprints
• Used IBM RQM to track all work
• Coordinated with all stakeholders, gathers business requirements, develops technical requirements and hands off to development team
• Created and maintained project plans for major projects and software rollouts
• Responsible for purchasing, supporting and training for all mobile hardware for field use
• Oversaw committee for company's new mobile strategy for hardware and software

Technical QA Analyst

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Ran all functional and end-to-end testing scripts
• Ran performance tests for PFT Preload and Automation suites
• Wrote all testing documentation
• Analyzed system performance and behavior via tools such as SQL Server, Performance Monitor and Etherreal
• Helped developer discover root causes of application related issues with App Sight Black Box debugging software
• Wrote technical and analytical reports based on results
• Generated statistics and graphs for benchmarking application using Matlab
• Performed all types of QA testing
• Testing included system, functional and end-to-end scripts
• Automated test scripts with Mercury Quick Test Pro
• Wrote all testing documentation
• Developed disaster recovery procedures for PFT Automation
• Maintained backups of various sets of server environments
• Performed backups of various multi-server environments