SUMMARY:

• IT Project Manager/Program Manager/Agile/ Six Sigma Green Belt
• Twenty Plus years as Project Manager at Confidential, Minneapolis.
• Highly respected IT Project Manager, Program Manager and Agile Manager with secret clearance and over 20 years of experience in the finance and technology industries using SDLC framework.
• Earned Bachelors in Business degree and several certifications in Scrum, Agile, SAFe, and ITIL Service Management.
• Proven and repeated success in guiding sizeable, cross functional teams to drive new business developments.
• Able to forge solid relationships with strategic partners and build consensus across the organization. Six Sigma “Green Belt”.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY:

LANGUAGES: Assembler Language, HTML, COBOL, RPG, JCL, PI/1, Pascal and Java (entry level)

Scrum Frameworks: SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, Kanban, Xterme Programming

SOFTWARE & HARDWARE: Software MS Project, Salesforce, CICS, Data Warehouse, Eztrieve, Change Man

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Global rollout of CrossCore 2.x and Backing App lications

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led the move the entire Data Center to the Cloud
• Worked with team on “New Student Enrollments” rollout
• Worked with Product Owner to ensure backlog was prioritized

Confidential

Scrum Master/ Agile Manager/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Worked with several teams to conduct feasible study on proposed vendors
• Did deep dive into Confidential needs to ensure the right vendor would be chosen
• Worked with Product Owner to ensure correct stories were represented in the backlog

Confidential

Agile Manager/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Managed team who kept the Satellite software current for all military communication
• Worked with technicians to ensure the latest upgrades were installed into the satellites for all ground locations
• Quarterly replanned the teams work to be completed

Confidential

Project Manager, Senior Agile Manager/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Defined project iterations based on business values and effectively combined the vision of clients with the in - house wireframe designers to provide valuable design specifications
• Provided Leadership team with updates of the entire Program of rollouts of the ticketing system
• When ticketing system experience problems I assist the team in troubleshooting the issue

Confidential

Project Manager/ Sr. Agile Manager/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Identified gaps to eliminate waste and to promote continuous improvement practice es such as tracking the feedback in the teams Retrospective to ensure desired changes occur.

Confidential

Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Agile Coach for 350 User Acceptance Testers
• Conducted bi-weekly training session via webex
• Provided surveys to understand topics for discussion
• Provided Management team with status of the UAT progress in learning Scrum

Confidential

Project Manager/ Agile Manager/Coach

Responsibilities:

• Managed the team that created a new technology that recalibrated the engines for Confidential ’s
• Provided Leadership team with weekly updates of teams progress
• Tracked all of teams issues and risk