Cloud Program Manager Resume Durham, NC - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Professional with 16 years’ experience leading agile and waterfall projects throughout the product life cycle.
A program manager with ability to lead multiple projects to conclusion. Passionate about motivating people to create high performing teams with greater communication capabilities as seen with multiple million dollar implementations delivered under budget and on time.
My agile team building was recognized by the business to the point that I have been asked to present the agile work flow to our new clients.
Ability to lead through in - depth problem solving and quick decision making helped me lead up to thirteen projects simultaneously without incidents.
Opex planning for cloud account management
Implementing large projects in S.A.F.E., Scrum and Kanban agile methodologies
Worked and presented to executive HR departments for fortune 500 companies including
Agile coaching expertise of training and building an agile process for a 100+ person organization
Ability to manager project in the following tools JIRA, MPP, RTC, and RDNG
Database and issue management skills in multiple tools including but not limited to; QC, PPMC, SNOW, DB. And Oracle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Durham, NC

Cloud Program Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed reduction yearly AWS spending by £2M in the United States for a £14M annual budget
Developed a system to manage Non-Prod Operation costs and schedules across department accounts
Initiated demand process for implementation of new cloud infra projects
Maintained executive level monthly reports for Operation cost trends
Delivered all DevOps environments on schedule across multiple time zones
Maintained the plan and work for over 35 DevOps resources.

Confidential, Durham, NC

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Implemented Pension Projects that include retirement accounts of over a 10M customers and 20billion in asset value.
Lead multiple global project teams consisting of associates in India, Ireland, Canada and Northeastern United States with the largest S.A.F.E. team consisting of 68 team members
Oversaw the conversion of corporate action projects from waterfall to Kanban agile methodology including building complete business by in with 0$ budget for the conversion process.
Converted a client with 78 unique division to a 98% automation level and was given special recognition for being 3% higher than planned.
Established and maintained the issue monitoring process for all systems projects equating to 90000 hours of work and over 15M$ in budget.
Took over an implementation project that was in red status and three months over the agreed timeline and was able to turned to both a yellow status and closed out the project in three months
Completed documentation 10% under budget on my first Confidential implementation that included building a process for a 1000 unique data points.
Started the first ever Kaizen small improvements team within my organization with 7 department transformational projects during the second year

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Project Manager/Scrum Maser

Responsibilities:

Managed weekly Scrums as the product owner of the FastTest quality assurance system responsible for 200k test cases being executed weekly and budget close to 1M$ per year
With 2 part time resources built an integrated unit testing process in the existing FastTest product
Converted the FastTest application into the central hub for all applications and requirement documents in the department with summer interns as the go to resources
Developed a multi-data point return on investment formula that helped estimate future defined benefit projects
Trained new team members in the Vanguard agile methodology of story t-shirt sizing
Negotiated the client testing plan down from 18,000 to 11,000 test cases on a project that had failed to complete twice before. Was recognized to have estimated the testing plan within 80 hours of testing time on a 2-year project on a project that ended more than a year after I left the company.
Proactively led a Kaizen initiative that had over 30 successful department improvements based on 165 submissions
Implemented best practices for all editable screens using a multiple-choice spreadsheet and screenshots to reduce on rework
Self-trained in actuarial workbook development that included from scratch social security PIA calculations and add-ins to query and update data from the database.