Agile Program Manager Resume Atlanta,GA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Certified SAFe 4 SPC program consultant and certified PMP with over 20 years of project/program management experience in agile transformational programs.
SAFe Institute’s authorized SAFe Program Consultant to train in a variety of SAFe roles such as Leading Agilists, SAFe for Teams, POPM and SAFe Scrum Masters.
Manage and lead customer relationships and negotiations with project teams, stakeholders as well as internal delivery teams in managing scope, timelines and costs
Experienced in handling vendor management, resource management, contract negotiations and collaborating with global project teams.
Experienced in steering troubled programs to success.
Proficiency in MS project, Powerpoint, Visio, Excel, Sharepoint, Confluence and Agile tools such as Rally, Agilecraft, Jira, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Managing large program comprising over 20 projects and a large delivery team of about 300 people.
Single point of contact for all external business project teams
Bridge between external business teams and delivery teams
Monitor and manage program cost budgets, variances, schedules, deployments etc.
Coordinate with Finance to track both vendor and FTE costs and mitigate any risks
Lead/coach in implementing SAFe principles and associated tools such as Rally, Agilecraft, Jira etc. for scaling agile framework

Confidential, Atlanta,GA

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Facilitated business process workshops
Facilitated Scrum ceremonies - Sprint planning, daily stand ups, Reviews, Release planning, Product & Sprint backlog grooming
Facilitate team progress and support product owner in managing backlogs and removing impediments
Tracking and reporting key metrics, daily burn down and project progress to management
Responsible to remove impediments, identify and mitigate risks and issues within the iteration
Adapted iterative methodology and achieved continuous delivery
Established an agile process to address rapid requirement changes

Confidential, Chicago,IL

Agile Project manager

Responsibilities:

Evaluated and on boarded a competing platform to consolidate both EDI and partner servicing operations into a single platform
Manage stakeholder expectations, working with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burn down, and Release Burn down. Guiding the team to remove impediments.
Negotiated and reduced annual spend from $3.6M to under $1M.
Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, Backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective. Led agile change management by leveraging Scrum principles
Platform migration from on premise data center to a 3rd party private cloud
Identified the new vendor and act as a liaison between business, IT and vendor
Onboarding staff and contractors to deliver a just-in-time ramp up model
Led a project team of 40 people and annual spend reduced from $4M to $2.2M.

Confidential

Demand Management Manager

Responsibilities:

Led a global Demand Management program to support global sectors cutting across 3 continents. Designing campaigns in close collaboration with field sales teams and launching new campaigns globally.
Managed several miscellaneous engagements and projects for multiple customers. The engagements involved Legacy Modernization efforts to migrate legacy PowerBuilder code into .Net code. Managed projects using agile and scrum methodologies. Leveraged scrum models to follow agile principles, daily stand ups, etc

Confidential, Chicago

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Manage customers, global development teams and execute successful delivery of projects.
Managed the customer relations for an MIT based startup. The business model was to run high powered workshops and agile development through 90 day sprints. Couple of large programs are:
IT Transformation: An IT transformational program to simplify a chaotic architecture into a SOA compliant framework.
Correlation Project: Involved in an innovative engagement involving AI, and correlating data from different sources and building AI based early warning outputs.
Managed several customers and projects.
Managed large SAP accounts.
Handpicked by the World Bank CIO to set up a 250 seat shared services facility.