SUMMARY

• Developed and managed their proof of concepts (POC) dealing with augmented reality to help bring to the company cutting edge technology which helped to make UtiliQuest stand out from their competitors.
• Designed and installed HD Supply’s JIRA implementation for their mobile application and web development projects.
• 2 - time winner of HD Supply’s IT Spirit Award for excellence in “Team Development and Collaboration”.
• Developed Install2Go a mobile application which generates over $1.5 to $2 million a day in revenue.
• Created Agile (Kanban, SCRUM) process that allowed the management to determine where the bottlenecks in development were occurring.
• Defined the departments Service Level Agreements (SLA) and monitored their progress to ensure they were being met.
• Designed and built the “LBT” tool, which condensed 40-man hours of work data compiling, sorting and analyzing into a 15-minute runtime program.
• Designed and built the Velocity Confidence Interval Calculator (VCIC) for Scrum Masters. VCIC is an innovative Windows Application which calculates a future Velocity range with 95% confidence.
• Designed and lead the team to create financial software that accounted for money missing from the company's funds.
• Designed, built and lead the team that created the Commander's Training Tool (CTT), an application used throughout the Army to train personnel worldwide.
• Designed early Test-Driven Development (TDD) modules.
• Built Content Management System websites using ColdFusion and PHP.
• Designed backend e-commerce shopping cart for 1.5-million-dollar company.
• Developed and implemented procedures for removing computer viruses, which were infecting the US Army computers

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Scrum
• Kanban
• JIRA Administrator
• Pivotal Tracker Administrator
• Team Foundation Server
• ASP.NET Dev background
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Amazon Web Service (AWS)
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Visio
• MS Office Suite
• MS Reporting Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Agile Project Manager / Scrum Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Insured that all aspects of SDLC Agile development were in place and adhered to the Agile framework.
• Developed and put in place the company’s “Project Intake” process to help organize the company’s project priority.
• Created and managed all the project’s scope, timeline, release management, budgeting and defect tracking using Microsoft Project and JIRA.
• Worked with the Product Owner and Lead developers to create the Epics, User Stories and other associated Product Backlog Items (PBIs).
• Oversaw all ceremonies as Scrum master to include the Daily Standup, the Sprint Grooming meeting, the Sprint Planning meeting, the Sprint Demo/Review and the Sprint Retrospective.
• Led meetings to coordinate with clients, business unit stakeholders Architects, UX, and Product Owner to ensure what was in the Product Backlog was what was being delivered and appropriate for our target audience.
• Led Retrospective meetings to better improve our Agile process.
• Developed and managed the company’s internal and external web applications which helped to streamline operations and ensure projects were aligned with the company’s strategies.
• Developed and managed their proof of concepts (POC) dealing with augmented reality to help bring to the company cutting edge technology which helped to make UtiliQuest stand out from their competitors.
• Led the Agile development teams to help them understand the Agile framework and its cadences while moving them away from outdated waterfall.
• As a Jira Administrator I created and maintained all the project backlogs and boards in Jira.
• Maintain development team’s Confluence app for requirements and UI specifications.
• Projects developed using Java, .NET, and Python languages.

Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed all the Agile responsibilities of up to 6 projects concurrently.
• On boarded all team resources, coached and reported on their progress to the VP of Miracle Software.
• Insured that all aspects of Agile development were in place and adhered to the Agile framework
• Created and managed all the project’s scope, timeline, release management, and defect tracking using Microsoft Project and Pivotal Tracker and JIRA.
• Led the Agile development teams for several projects both onshore and offshore as both Project Manager and Scrum Master. The team’s size varied between 25 to 40 individuals including developers, UX/UI, and onshore/offshore developers and QAs.
• Oversaw all ceremonies as Scrum master to include the Daily Standup, the Sprint Grooming meeting, the Sprint Planning meeting, the Sprint Demo/Review and the Sprint Retrospective.
• Coordinate with clients, Business unit stakeholders and Product Owner to ensure what was in the product Backlog was what was being delivered.
• Led Retrospective meetings to better improve our Agile process.
• Coached both the business unit to be an effective Product Owner and the development team to utilize Agile team concepts like being cross-functioning, and self-organizing.
• Created the Scrum artifacts for reporting including the Sprint Burndown charts for each team, the Release Burndown Chart for the project and the Velocity charts for each team.
• Created and maintained all the project backlogs in Pivotal Tracker.
• Created and tracked all aspects of the change management using Service Now.
• Maintain development team’s Confluence app for requirements and UI specifications.
• Projects developed using Java and Angular language.
• Agile Project Manager for the POS system located within the Confidential stores
• Created the InfoSec procedures to ensure that all Miracle Resources have been trained and certified to adhere to Confidential ’s security standards and procedures.

Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Created and managed all the project’s scope, timeline, release management, budgeting and defect tracking using Microsoft Project and JIRA.
• Project Manager for HD Supply’s website, responsible for over $1.5 billion in sales per year ($28 million per week).
• Insured that all aspects of Agile development were in place and adhered to the SAFE Agile framework
• Led multiple Agile development teams both onshore and offshore as both Project Manager and Scrum Master. The teams varied in size between 10 and 21 individuals including Developers, UX, and onshore/offshore QAs.
• Oversaw all ceremonies as Scrum master to include the Daily Standup, the Sprint Grooming meeting, the Sprint Planning meeting, the Sprint Demo/Review and the Sprint Retrospective.
• Led meetings to coordinate with clients, Business unit stakeholders and Product Owner to ensure what was in the product Backlog was what was being delivered.
• Coached both the business unit to be an effective Product Owner and the development team to utilize Agile team concepts like being cross-functioning, and self-organizing.
• Created the Scrum artifacts for reporting including the Sprint Burndown charts for each team, the Release Burndown Chart for the project and the Velocity charts for each team.
• Designed and installed HD Supply’s JIRA implementation for their mobile application and web development projects.
• Created and maintained all of the project backlogs in JIRA.
• Maintain development team’s Confluence app for requirements and UI specifications.
• Developed processes to import tickets from the existing Help Desk in-house software into JIRA’s backlog.
• Projects developed using Java, Android, and iOS language.
• 2-time winner of HD Supply’s IT Spirit Award for excellence in “Team Development and Collaboration”.

Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Managed all the technical and financial responsibilities of the projects to include forecasting and actual reconciliation as well as resource management.
• Insured that all aspects of Agile development were in place and adhered to the Agile methodology.
• Coached both the business unit to be an effective Product Owner and the development team to be cross-functioning, and self-organizing.
• Coordinated with clients and Business unit to ensure what was in the Product Backlog was being delivered.
• Teams varied in size from 8 - 11 individuals including Developers, and onshore/offshore QAs.
• Incorporated elements of XP development into the Scrum Team to include TDD, Pair Programming, and Continuous Integration.
• Oversaw all ceremonies as Scrum master to include the Daily Standup, the Sprint Grooming meeting, the Sprint Planning meeting, the Sprint Demo/Review and the Sprint Retrospective.
• Created the Scrum artifacts including the Sprint Burndown charts for each team, the Release Burndown Chart for the project and the Velocity charts for each team.
• Maintained the project backlog in Pivotal Tracker.
• Projects developed using Java, Android, and iOS language.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the Confidential &T, TACRIFT Survey Program that surveyed customers experiences.
• Reported directly to the Director of the department.
• Developed and insured that all processes and procedure outlined either by myself or the Director were put in place.
• Coached the teams on the fundamentals of Kanban and remaining agile in a non-development environment.
• Employed Kanban as their Agile solution.
• Kanban allowed us to identify bottlenecks within the business process which then allowed us to redefine how the trouble tickets were managed.
• Coordinated with clients to ensure what was being delivered was what was required.
• Teams varied in size from 5 - 11 individuals including Developers, QAs, BAs, and BSAs.
• Performed statistical analysis on data gathered by surveys, (Data Mining), (Business Intelligence)
• Analyzed raw data reports (Surveys) and interpreted their meaning.
• Lead the monthly Governance meeting with client’s and reported the findings from their surveys.
• As JIRA admin, managed the project’s trouble tickets and change requests.