SUMMARY

• Motivated IT Project Manager with over 18 years of experience in leading & delivering enterprise projects; managing people and processes. Committed to professionalism; exceptional organization skills; able to see the big picture while paying attention to details. Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and problem solving skills.
• 14 years of experience with project management methodologies, planning, scheduling methods, and tools.
• Successfully managed Systems Development team which consistently exceeded client’s requirements and production deadlines.
• Strong understanding of Agile software development and Business Analysis practices.
• Managed 8 to 10 projects simultaneously, 3 of which were enterprise - sized.
• Expert in leading enterprise software solution projects.
• Managed, mentored and coached team members.
• Successfully completed migration of 348 legacy system applications to Windows environment. This 4-year project required one-to-one replacement with off-the-shelf and/or custom built applications resulting in $36 million in savings.
• Streamlined two Business Analyst departments to consolidate projects artifacts and developed common template for cross-functional usage to gain consistency in generating client business requirements and SOP’s.
• Implemented Agile methodology in IT Enterprise process organization. This new process promoted adaptive planning; evolutionary development and delivery; a time-boxed iterative approach; and encouraged rapid and flexible response to change, saving the organization overruns on projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior PM Digital Application

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing new digital technology for new mobile applications.
• Responsible for managing the Off-Shore development team that are building the mobile applications.
• Create project plan and teamwork assignments and maintain accountability of task via project plan process.
• Responsible to facilitate the businesses achieve their objectives utilizing digital transformation technology.
• Serve as a leader and technical subject matter expert/decision maker for the business.
• Responsible to coordinate and provide project status reports to the CIO.
• Responsible for controlling and managing all project budgets and expenses for the vendors.
• Responsible for managing the work efforts on a daily based to identifies resource needs; perform quality review; escalate functional, quality, and timeline issues, as appropriate.
• Tracked and effectively communicate to the teams project velocity and sprint/release progress
• Responsible for creating project plans, schedules, and manage project teams.

Confidential

Senior Security Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Under general supervision, develop and implement assigned projects, from original concept through final implementation, and be the single point of contact. Some of these security projects includes implementation of Splunk system, F-Response, FireEye, Records Managements, and StealthWatch Network Analytics.
• Responsible for managing the financial, scope, resource aspect of the project against a set budget and project plan, and critical path for assigned projects.
• Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
• Responsible for facilitating sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
• Interfaced with Program Management Office to ensure project goals and requirements are being met
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Responsible to coordinate and provide project status reports and stability of the project work effort; assemble project plans and teamwork assignments.
• Responsible for managing and monitor work efforts daily and identifies resource needs; perform quality review; escalate functional, quality, and timeline issues, as appropriate.
• Responsible for tracking key project milestones and adjust project plans and/or key resources to meet customer needs and requirement.
• Responsible for coordination of all communication with all enterprise areas that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the project.
• Responsible for assisting the Program Manger(s) in partnering with senior management in the business community to identify and prioritize opportunities that utilize IT to achieve enterprise goals.
• Responsible for creating project plans, schedules, and manage project teams.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishing effective communication between IT and the business to increase values/ROI from the business and project specifics.
• Responsible for develop wealth of knowledge from the business to assist IT to deliver technical solutions for the business.
• Schedule, track and control system enhancements, incremental software releases and new product implementations.
• Responsible for develop technology strategies for the business and align same with overall business goals.
• Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
• Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information
• Assisted with prioritization and resolution of software defects
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
• Responsible to Coached Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product Backlog
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
• Responsible to engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
• Responsible to facilitate and help the businesses achieve their objectives utilizing new technology.
• Responsible for gathering business and technical requirement to define scope for future projects.
• Responsible for developing project plan, project scope, scheduling and budget for all projects.
• Responsible to identify project risks, issues, and provide progress to ensure deadlines are met within the timelines.
• Drive Service Level Agreement (SLA) negotiations to enhance value to the business unit.
• Develop recommendations for joint or coordinated application project delivery across business units in collaboration with other team members.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Schedule, track and control system enhancements, incremental software releases and new product implementations.
• Leverage project management methodologies to ensure timely delivery of multiple complex, cross-functional projects within budget.
• Create project plan and teamwork assignments and maintain accountability of task via project plan process.
• Manage projects and resources of Life 70 Mainframe system projects through entire SDLC process. Projects include maintenance, business enhancement, and strategic efforts. Project resources include a mix of FTE, CW, and offshore: BA’s, QA’s, and COBOL and Assembler programmers.
• Responsible for being primary project point of contact between Confidential ’s business units and other IT teams.
• Perform hands on BA and QA work; oversee execution of the projects and project planning.
• Provide regular executive status reports and attend executive level status meetings with key stakeholders and sponsors.