Career accomplishments have included Application Development, Business Analyst, Project Management, and most recently Development Manager.

SUMMARY

• Team builder at every career level. Dedication to success, vision, creativity, focus, and drive.
• As a lead developer team focus was on delivering quality applications to meet the exact requirement specifications.
• As a Project Manager my focus was to manage every aspect of the Pro
• Strong 10 year background as a java developer, promoted to lead developer with IBM within 2 years of joining IBM, and Application Development Manager with IBM for 5 years.

Experience

Senior Development/Project Manager

confidential

• nternet development company. DesigNets provides business applications for small to medium size businesses which include business to business, transactional, CMS, and interfaces to legacy, and database structures.
• Responsibilities Project Manager using SDLC and Agile , matrix organization, multiple projects, :
• Marketing, Business analysys, prototyping, development, 3rd party application integration, CMS Content Management System provided for clients requesting extensive and self service content control , deployment , QA, through client environments.

Senior Development/Project Manager

confidential

• Senior Development/Project Manager.Matrix organization included off shore development teams, 3rd party vendors Hewlett Packard, and 3M , and in-house development, QA, configuration teams, and implementation teams. For Applications fully developed in house, Mr. Marko is the Development Manager. Projects requiring matrix resources, typically multiple vendors and off shore development, Mr. Marko is the development manager for the locally developed solutions and project manager for all remaining development efforts off shore, vendor often working with other Project Managers from the matrix.
• Development Manager Responsibilities Development Manager for all Java Application development efforts to support claims processing in house development . Responsibilities include:
• Analyze scope of work SOW , and business requirement documents BRD which arrive from 2 sources: from each tower/business each state health plan is titled a business or tower and from business analyst translating requirements into requirements documents.
• Work with Architects to verify that the proposed solution is attainable and compatible with the existing applications or feeds that must remain fully functional and not impacted impact analysis and that the hardware is adequate hardware analysis conducted by CHW Technologies .
• Managed the development team, developers and lead developers, to create our response to the BRD called an SRS software requirements specification.
• Assigned work to lead developers and developers based upon the work outlined in the business approved
• Track development deliverables using Microsoft Project
• Verify peer reviews of code and validate the continual use of version control systems to maintain integrity.
• Verify that we have complete, rigorous, and functionally current, DEV test plans, and test cases and that all test cases are run and have successfully passed.
• Track application completion status per task and per team to ensure steady progress in agreement with the Development Project Plan.
• Work with other Project Managers for our off shore or 3rd party teams to ensure our deliverables to the business are maintained within budget and within the targeted go live.
• Track or create change control.
• Manage the development teams response to change control. Deliver, to the business or project manager, the cost - in man hours - the impact to the deliverable based upon any scope change.
• Verify any defects found by QA test teams reported back to our development team.
• Manage recoding of Application with the team to correct any found defects found by QA or found during post deployment. Determine and report back a delivery date for the fix patch back to QA.
• Using our product called harvest, update the status of our package code delivered as it evolves. CHW uses Harvest as it's reporting tool to other teams to move the project through the SDLC and through the various teams needing to be engaged.
• Manage the final steps of the development which include reassigning development resources, maintaining the log of defects needed as lessons learned, closing the project in our tool called JournyX and Numara, and verifying all updates to sharepoint are complete maintained throughout the project .

Senior Development/Project Manager

confidential

• Senior Development/Project Manager support of enterprise wide application development. UHC/AmeriChoice applications and systems supports 22 states and 12,000,000 Medicare and Medicaid recipients. Mr. Marko is the development manager for the locally developed solutions and project manager for all remaining development efforts offshore, vendor often working with other Project Managers from the matrix.
• Project Manager Responsibilities Responsible for full SDLC software development lifecycle beginning with feasibility. Responsibilities include:
• Schedule kick-off meeting often times JAD sessions - Joint Application Development sessions
• Work with BA to coordinate BRD business requirement documents
• Schedule walkthrough of BRD making sure key approvers and resources are in attendance webex
• Canvas approvers for BRD and log approvals and documents in sharepoint
• Schedule SRS meetings Perot systems software requirements specifications response to BRD webex
• Canvas approvers for SRS and log approvals and documents in sharepoint
• Maintain weekly or more frequent meetings, maintaining meeting minutes in sharepoint including, issues, discussions, decisions, action items .
• Create project plan with all resources and task beginning with kick-off meeting, continuing with BRD and SRS development, walk-though and approvals, Perot and AC-IT AmeriChoice development, deployment to environments DEV, TST, STG , testing regressions and functional , configuration, production deployment, production validation.
• Baseline Project Plan, create/track milestones NOTE: AmeriChoice prefers waterfall methodology, full SDLC
• Create IRAAD document Issues, risk, action items, assumptions, decisions, parking lot
• Manage Change Control and INF Issue notification form used to notify stakeholders of a change control-approval required
• Report to Tower Owner AmeriChoice department leader with various reports most notable is our 4 squares report which includes budgetary total cost of project, hours, burn rate, etc., executive summary, issues/risk, project information
• Track resource hours using JournyX
• Track Project in one of 3 statuses Green, Yellow, Red
• Report to PMO using a newer tool purchased from Unison Numara project tracker
• Maintain sharepoint to include all meeting minutes, documents, IRAADS, Project Plans, etc.
• Manage deployments to multiple environments, Development, test, stage, and production
• Manage configuration, which may differ greatly between state agencies. The configuration effort often requires it's own project plan.
• Manage 3 groups of testers, QA, OCM Operational Configuration Management , and CQM Configuration Quality management Regression and Functional testing . Usually included within the overall Project Plan.
• Negotiate resource availability across all projects which can require shared resources requiring adjustments and agreement by stakeholders based upon prioritization.
• Seek approval to close project at completion

Project results:

• Met each and every milestone and fulfilled every requirement necessary for 100 client and project satisfaction.
• Projects have always tracked in a better than Red status. At most 1 of 9 projects will track yellow, mostly due to limited development resources, or configuration complexities. These projects have tracked yellow for, at most, 2 weeks while resources could be gathered and assigned. This does, usually involve a change control as added resources do add to project cost, however the delivery dates are always maintained due to regulatory mandates State Medicare/Medicaid driven .

Senior Project Manager

confidential

• Project Motor Vehicle application to deliver drivers license and vehicle title and registration data to authorized government employees, commercial users, and 3rd party vendors. Data is distributed on a pay per record billing either interactively and/or batch processed, retrieved from the States MVD legacy system.
• Total projects managed and total resources managed:
• The total program is represented as 3 concurrent development projects:
• 1MVRRS Development of Motor Vehicle Record Retrieval System. Middleware application that delivers drivers license and vehicle title and registration vehicle data between the States MVD legacy system and the 3 agencies that require data for processing.
• Batch processing. Concurrent development effort to allow Universities to validate in state residence status of students for tuition calculations. Also allows the states photo radar system to bulk capture drivers license data and mailing address for the states ticketing system
• Payment/billing engine. Concurrent development effort to allow an automated billing process for interactive and bulk data processing payment submissions.

Development Manager

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• Multiple applications to support asset tracking, catalog sales of products, and internal staffing.
• The total program is represented as 3 concurrent development projects:
• Intranet enterprise application to track assets specifically servers, applications on servers, and Honeywell business unit financial responsibilities for the applications.
• Honeywell.com intranet - Used by vendors to purchase Honeywell products thermostats, detection devices, etc. using a subscribed to business to business e-commerce intranet site.
• Honeywell.com human resources department. Used by outsource vendors to staff Honeywell hiring opportunities. Jobs can be submitted from Honeywell to staffing vendors in a shopping cart of like jobs and during times of open hiring the application can store end user selected jobs in a job cart for bulk submission of resumes and job application.
• The total development team included a staff of 5 developers, 1 lead developer and, 4 contract developers Development Manager Responsibilities Development Manager for all Java Application development efforts to support 3 projects under this program. Responsibilities include:
• Analyze scope of work SOW , and requirement documents.
• Work with IBM Architects to verify that the proposed solution is attainable and compatible with the existing applications or feeds put in place by Honeywell and that existing hardware can accommodate the development project.
• Managed the development team, developers and lead developers, to create our response to requirements documents.
• Assigned work to lead developers and developers based upon the work outlined
• Track development deliverables using Microsoft Project
• Verify peer reviews of code and validate the continual use of version control systems to maintain integrity. IBM owns and uses the Rational suite of products for version control.
• Track application completion status per task and per team to ensure steady progress in agreement with the Development Project Plan.
• Work with Honeywell and IBM Project Managers to ensure our deliverables to the business are maintained within budget and within the targeted go live.
• Track or create change control.
• Manage the development teams response to change control. Deliver, to the business or project manager, the cost - in man hours - the impact to the deliverable based upon any scope change.
• Verify any defects found by QA test teams reported back to our development team.
• Manage recoding of Application with the team to correct any found defects found by QA or found during post deployment Managenow is the IBM tool used . Determine and report back a delivery date for the fix patch back to QA.
• Update the status of our application as it evolves. Various clients required varied tools used to report project status through the SDLC and through the various teams needing to be engaged.
• Manage the final steps of the development which include reassigning development resources often to different clients and projects within IBM global resources , maintaining the log of defects needed as lessons learned, closing the project in our tool called Managenow, and verifying all updates to sharepoint are complete maintained throughout the project

Project results:

• Met each and every milestone and fulfilled every requirement necessary for 100 client and project satisfaction. Very challenging over the first year as scope creep for the Intranet enterprise application to track assets development became a serious concern. The 4 year, 4 phase, development approach satisfied the client and addressed the clients prioritized needs successfully.
• Completed the Honeywell e-commerce and HR intranet applications within budget and deployed the completed, tested, and zero defect application 1.5 months ahead of planned schedules.

Developer - Lead Developer

confidential

• Project Application to gather Photo Radar data from the Chicago Motor Vehicle legacy system for highway violations captured by Photo Radar
• Initially team developer, assuming lead developer role during the first year of application development.
• Conducted code reviews of team developed code focusing on strict object oriented development using struts framework and the deployment of bug free code.
• Coded the application using IBM's WebSphere Developers Studio a GUI application to produce Java code to be deployed on WebSphere server. J2EE, servlets, Strut architecture, DB2 database, and stored procedures.
• Team leader for QA testing. Developed testing plans and procedures for unit test, system test, and acceptance test. Lead focus teams and end user testing in test labs to ensure quality and marketability of the product.

Business Owner

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• Founded desigNets of the earliest e-commerce, shopping cart, and online catalog application producing companies
• Designets aggressively and successfully developed application for online bidding, online retailing, and business to business solutions for companies early in a time when few companies had the ability to produced complete applications which included customer tracking, self managed data, back ordering systems, and order fulfillment.
• All development of applications was done using Microsoft products, VB scripts, Java Script, ASP, ADO, and active X. Database MS SQL 2000.

TECHNICAL AND MANAGEMENT SKILLS AND TOOLS

• Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Professional, Visio, Crystal Reports, E-Project Daptiv , sharepoint, JournyX, Numara.
• WebSphere Developers Studio, Visual Age for Java, Visual C , Visual Basic, C/C , HTML, JavaScript.
• RDBMS IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL
• Project Management Methodologies, SDLS, Waterfall, Scrum