SUMMARY

• Proven track record as a Manager leading teams in software delivery.
• Ability to lead either onshore or offshore development teams through full life cycle using Waterfall or Agile Scrum/Kanban frameworks.
• Excellent project planning, scheduling, monitoring and controlling and reporting skills.
• Managed triple constraints delivering projects on - time, within budget and with high quality while maintaining scope control.
• Excellent facilitation skills for building high performance teams.
• Excellent ability to manage software release via effective coordination between release management, feature teams, implementation and production support teams.
• Software delivery encompasses applications for marketing, sales, customer care, product operations, engineering and IT infrastructure.
• Successfully managed software releases to ensure fast application functional updates
• Effectively managed financial portfolio of $2llM budget over 87 projects
• Managed projects that have saved millions of dollars
• Received company award for successful project management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Tools: Business Objects, Crystal Reports, TestDirector, FrontPage, FileAid, SAP, Remedy, ITIL, PPM
• Languages: Visual Basic, .NET, ASP.NET, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, SAS, Cobol, HTML, CSS
• Operating Systems: Windows 3.x/ 95/ 98/ 2000/ 2003/ XP/ NT 4.x, OS/390, Unix, IOS, Android, Hadoop, Jira
• Servers: BEA (Tuxedo, Weblogic), Apache, IIS
• Databases: Oracle 9i, MS Access, MS SQL Server 8.0/7.0/2000, My SQL, Infomatica

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Manage Agile Platform to deliver IOS/Android mobile application enhancements
• Manage Waterfall project that successfully delivered bank solutions for major banks
• Coordinate delivery of datacenter hardware to redundancy to support bank solution
• Manage 3rd party vendor to ensure successful solution delivery and software integration
• Perform ScrumMaster to support delivery of mobile application and Platform releases
• Facilitate meetings and stand-ups to move projects forward and maintain transparency
• Monitored ticketing system to ensure projects requests, such as, firewall tickets, certification keys, server requests are addressed and completed in a timely
• Enhance Agile practices to improve adherence and effect better delivery
• Utilized Jira and Confluence for project tracking and document/artifact storage
• Utilized MS Project to monitor and track project scheduling activities
• Utilized Planview to add and track project resource allocations
• Collaborated with product owners and team members to ensure technical and non-technical activities are tracked and completed in a timely manner.
• Performed weekly status updates as required to ensure leadership awareness and escalated issues as needed

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3rd party implementation of Oracle E-business Financial Management application
• Managed decommissioning activities of Mainframe financial application
• Managed testing of Informatica ETL reporting system
• Segmented work in 6 workflows for efficient management and oversight
• Managed 10 offshore 3rd party vendor resource and 5 internal resources
• Worked closely with business partners and IT team to ensure effective communication between all stakeholders and levels of management
• Facilitated sprint planning, daily standups, sprint review, and sprint retrospectives to drive product development activities
• Utilized Oracle Business Intelligence reporting tools to monitor project spend
• Utilized Planview for project tracking
• Managed project budget and provided updates on a monthly basis
• Produced project reports via Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word documents for weekly leadership team meetings and monthly steering committee meetings
• Proactively removing roadblocks and escalating to management as appropriate

Confidential, East Moline, IL

Agile PM/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Planned, scheduled, and lead successfully 3 major release deployments annually
• Utilized EPPM software (Microsoft Project Server) to track project Confidential enterprise level
• Communicated with product customers on rollout schedule and system updates
• Coordinated delivery tasks with product owner, product managers, scrum teams, production support, implementations, product hosting, and operations team
• Performed change management in ServiceNow for upgrade of Sybase 2016 database servers to SQL Anywhere 2017 servers
• Performed Rally Administration and reporting to reflect team performance
• Performed Scrum Master duties by facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review and retrospective, backlog grooming for .Net team delivering of web services for data warehouse
• Utilized continuous delivery and continuous integration methodology to delivery quickly
• Used Service Manager, Service Now, and Quality Center to manage problems and changes
• Lead leadership meetings to develop and implement process improvement initiatives
• Collaborated with product owner and other stakeholders to move data to Microsoft Azure
• Collaborated with scrum teams on moving non-essential data utilizing Amazon Cloud Services

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Scrum Framework while working with co-located scrum teams to ensure software delivery goals per release schedule
• Developed Burn-Up charts via excel to monitor team progress, velocity and performance
• Delivered PowerPoint presentations and facilitated discussion on work completed and carryover during sprint review
• Participated in sprint planning with product owner and feature teams to ensure effective definition of sprint goal, story identification and delivery and effective release management
• Utilized Jira to performed data analysis and reporting
• Collaborated with product owner, client, feature teams and other stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of scope and artifacts delivery
• Managed the release cycle, ensuring stories were completed in preparation for deployments
• Coordinated delivery tasks with feature teams, production support, and implementations teams
• Planned and lead successful major and minor release deployments via change management process

Confidential, Naperville, Illinois

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Scrum Framework to migrate Microsoft Live website to Wix platform
• Collaborated with Product Owner to develop product backlog
• Lead scrum team in 2-week sprints that migrate and develop features
• Facilitated daily standups
• Monitored feature development and velocity
• Facilitated sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings
• Worked with scrum team to identify and resolve issues