Senior Program Manager/Agile Coach Resume

SUMMARY

Focused and driven technical management professional with 10 years’ experience providing innovative, time saving, technological solutions. An effective program manager leading projects and building teams with an out of the box and energetic management style, and a proven success record in technical and managerial problem solving.
Managed the build out of standardized processes for an organization’s PMO. Work with executives to determine ways that they can improve the way the Application Development department could improve in order to make the projects more successful. Identified organizational risks and evaluated them across the project and organization.
Managed multiple companies’ transition from a waterfall framework for projects to Agile. Using many tools to help manage those process (Jira, Rally). Lead the business team in building user stories, building release, and managing the teams progress through an iteration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Program Manager/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

Senior member in the Agile assessment for YRC
Coaching four Agile teams in improving the way they do Scrum across the larger company portfolio
Point person on standardization across the portfolio on Agile projects
Working with management to level set the available talent and show deficiencies
Developing tools to help improve functions of the PMO and interaction with the business

Confidential

Program Lead/Agile Coach/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

Build iterations, and limit the amount of scope change in the iteration
Lead team building and retrospectives.
Build new tools to allow business to understand progress through iterations
Leading a portfolio team across multiple projects for the government
Lead the change from waterfall to agile and continuous process improvement
Implement release schedule for push outs
Providing SOX documentation for all code being pushed to production.
Monitor tickets for completion and update with appropriate release documentation
Keeping stakeholders up to date with system changes
Managing iteration planning

Confidential

Project Lead/Agile Coach/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

Leading the project change from waterfall to agile
Implement release schedule for push outs
Providing SOX documentation for all code being pushed to production.
Monitor tickets for completion and update with appropriate release documentation
Keeping stakeholders up to date with system changes
Managing iteration planning

Confidential

Agile Coach/Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Trained business and establish a new process for working more Agile
Worked with technical team on how to break work down to the smallest deliverables
Acted as an organizational change proponent across multiple projects and project teams with new project management methodology
Managed 15 projects for multiple clients across multiple development platforms
Delivered high quality projects on or prior to the date promised
Managed varying sizes of projects from two weeks to six months in length
Engineered a new workload system to help visually display the work being done by the developers

Confidential

ScrumMaster/Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Lead the daily Scrum sessions
Managed a team of 10 individuals assigned specifically to the project
Partnered with product owners and technical experts to document testable requirements
Supervised team that customized and deployed an automated data gathering system
Implemented an Agile methodology into project group

Confidential

Solutions Analyst

Responsibilities:

Reviewed, analyzed, and evaluated user needs and business systems requirements
Built surveys for clients and tested them for functionality across multiple browsers
Managed multiple projects from beginning to end
Developed documentation for training on new process and for process improvement