SUMMARY

• Substantial accomplishments spanning a wide range of project management and technical positions, bringing to your organization the unique skills to perform successfully as a decision maker and leader of high - performing, cross-functional teams.
• Experience driving large-scale IT and business integration programs including initiatives focused on revenue growth, cost savings and continuous improvement.
• Seasoned Project Manager experienced in leading large enterprise software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceeding expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations, with a track record of managing complex projects while delivering on time and under budget
• Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills.
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills with an ability to manage competing demands.
• Utilizes interpersonal acumen to communicate effectively with others
• Leverages expertise in several aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including analysis, deployment and maintenance to evaluate and improve business processes
• Methodology experience using Agile/Scrum/Kanban and Waterfall
• Expertise in managing projects that included Java, J2EE, .Net, SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Web Logic and Web Sphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Project Manager/Agile Team Facilitator

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to Claims Code Merge product roadmap planning, project planning, project scheduling and release management.
• Worked with Product Owner to coordinate backlog grooming and story estimation.
• Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives.
• Facilitated product backlog building along with cost estimates and priority.
• Presented details of the project status to business, technical teams, leadership and clients.
• Incorporated DevOps practices for automation of testing, software delivery and deployment to help sustain the required velocity for sprints.
• Communicated and mitigated risks, issues and increase in scope and time required to ensure the project remained on track.
• Demonstrated ability to engage quickly and drive closure to open issues by coordinating efforts of Scrum team within 3 weeks of onboarding. Successfully led team through grooming and prioritization of top business priorities to prepare for next phase of development.
• Responsible for managing $4M Claims Code Merge project and Enrollment Code Merge project from inception through implementation following agile and software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

Confidential

Sr IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Educated and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
• Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
• Resolved organizational challenges of transitioning to Agile methodology from traditional project management and development.
• Proactively identified and removed impediments to the development team which enhanced productivity and efficiency.
• Developed and followed Agile ceremonies project plan.
• Worked with Business Team and Dev Team to determine which apps were candidates for lift and shift as part of the Product Modernization project
• Prioritized order of applications to the (Azure)cloud
• Responsible for syncing databases to the cloud and cutover when complete
• Coordinated with clients when applications were ready for cutover
• Decommissioned servers after cloud migration was completed
• Collaborated with Business, UX and marketing teams to drive brand development and marketing.
• Provided weekly and monthly metrics reporting to Product Development management team on burn down progress, velocity and release updates.
• Researched and proposed changes to processes and tools to improve velocity.
• Coordinate and lead multiple high visibility projects varying in complexity and size to execute critical business strategy in retail point-of-sale marketing channel. Project scope will include new and/or enhanced product websites with integrated enrollment mechanisms via an integrated POS service provider
• Manage geographically dispersed business teams, offshore development teams, and third-party vendors
• Part of project team that managed $15M large scale data center migration with responsibility over 200+ resources. Migration scope included over 200 applications and nearly 1,000 virtual and physical servers or devices.

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 15 direct reports and project team members to complete testing scripts and HP system testing for corporate initiatives, mandates, compliance and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) directives.
• Collaborated with Blue Cross Confidential Association (BCBSA), Confidential operations and business owners to define and develop budget, charter, project management plans, and requirements for assigned projects for teams of 25 or more resources with >=$4M project budget.
• Engineered planning, execution and delivery of multiple, highly visible government and association mandated projects such as HealthCare Exchange (HIX), Medicare Part D, Interplant Teleprocessing System (ITS), Blue2, and Finance projects. Managed ITS Finance reporting project to convert reporting tools from mainframe to SQL/ETL reporting tool.
• Identified process improvements as member of Software Engineering Process workgroup, efficiency and costs reduction areas for ITS and Blue2 projects. Managed changes and budget assigned to vendors NASCO, TriZetto, Cognizant, and offshore resources. Managed project movement of data from mainframe to data storage.

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered strategic business initiatives for release management, configuration, and special projects
• Conducted kick-off meetings to communicate roles, responsibilities, and expectations, to establish key project milestones, activities and schedules
• Coordinated and orchestrated the efforts required to introduce application changes into multiple products/systems and/or environments (production and non-production) for delivery to end-users
• Responsible for ensuring all product changes applied met approved entrance/exit criteria while maintaining the integrity and availability of the existing system
• Supported post-deployment activities by addressing functional and technical issues
• Worked with the various enterprise teams to proactively plan system patching and application upgrades/enhancements to minimize release impact and risk
• Established implementation plans allocate and coordinate resources, monitoring project progress, establish schedules and priorities.
• Assessed project issues and develop resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction goals and objectives
• Managed key internal and external relationships, resolving concerns on significant matters to ensure positive outcomes
• Successfully delivered strategic business initiatives by working with application development team and using an operating budget ranging up to $3M for release management, configuration, and special projects for mortgage applications: Desktop Originator, Desktop Underwriter and 3rd party loan origination systems.