SUMMARY:

Over 25 years of project management experience in the Information Technology industry with a focus on Agile/Scrum over the last 10+ years. Excellent skills in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Project), and JIRA. Certified Project Management Professional (PMP 2016) and Scrum Master (CSM). Well - rounded experience in managing the software development life cycle for a variety of applications and products to include financial, inventory, access control, mortgage, banking, data warehouse, and document management. Early career background as a developer and DBA that complement project management and scrum master skills.

SKILLS:

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), MS Project, MS Access, MS Query, Visio, A, JIRA, and JIRA scrum board, Primavera Team Play

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed the replacement of Confidential cell phone validation/verification system with new application to ensure member phone numbers were valid/verified.
• This required implementation on distributed and mainframe systems, online and batch.
• Managed the vendor relationship which required vetting and finalizing the requirements for use of the vendor software, which was customized for Confidential .
• As project manager and scrum master for team of 10+ members, facilitated sprint planning, prioritization and maintenance of the product backlog, daily standups, retrospectives, and provided daily, weekly, and monthly status.
• Additionally, provided input to personnel yearly evaluations although as a contractor.
• All development required the use of Jira tracking system and virtual scrum board to manage the backlog, creating and updating dashboards for burndowns and other metrics.
• Distributed applications developed using Java and Oracle. Mainframe systems developed using CICS online screens and batch components.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated the automation of a manual application for the security clearance process for government customer.
• Online and batch applications were developed in Java and Oracle on AWS Cloud, and designed using wireframes.
• Facilitated sprint planning, prioritization and maintenance of the product backlog, daily standups, retrospectives, demos, and removed roadblocks.
• In addition, managed project risks and issues, administered access control for the user application, scheduled OSPs, used Jira and virtual scrum board to manage the backlog, provided Jira dashboards for burndowns and other metrics.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for team of 15+ using Agile methodology and budgeted at $6M per year.
• Managed the development of a new entitlement management service built from a COTS product and customized using Java extensions, Oracle backend, on AWS Cloud.
• Managed several legacy applications that provided access control, organization management, vetting, and digital rights management (DRM). Some applications were written in Java and others in Ruby on Rails with Oracle database.
• As the scrum master, facilitated sprint planning, prioritization and maintenance of the product backlog, daily standups, and retrospectives, and removed roadblocks.
• Used Jira and virtual scrum board to manage the backlog, provide Jira dashboards for burndowns and other metrics.
• Instituted DevOps for: faster time to market, lower failure rates, and shortened lead time between fixes.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Program Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As program manager, managed Agile program of 60+ staff and 3 scrum teams that produced deployable Java code (Oracle database) every 3 weeks for the customer base of 3,500 users.
• The POINT application provided the customer the ability to create, update and maintain intelligence documents and then finalize the documents for user consumption.
• Responsible for managing costs, schedule, staffing, risks and issues, reporting weekly and monthly status to the government customer and Confidential senior management.
• The program was appraised at CMMI Level 3 in 2006 using Waterfall methodology and again in 2009 using Agile methodology.
• As the scrum master, responsible for sprint planning, daily standups, removing roadblocks, backlog grooming, and retrospective. Used Jira and a virtual scrum board to manage the backlog.

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

Senior Systems Engineer Staff

Responsibilities:

• For the first 2.5 years at Confidential, went through the security clearance process.
• Managed staff of 10 as Senior Coordinator for New Employee Orientation program, interviewed and hired entry level candidates at the Regional Recruiting Center in Crystal City, supported Mission 2000 Hiring Events by interviewing and help with setup for the event, evaluated External Virtual Conferencing System and manage problem log (EVCS).
• Once security clearance was granted in 2004: Developed and documented CM process for the program, Developed and documented process and data flows, and element lists for customer processes., updated and posted web pages for program website.

Confidential, Chantilly, VA

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Performed as Senior Project Manager of the Confidential project to replace the JIT Fulfillment System, a COTS package written in Oracle Forms, with a customized application written in Versata, a rules-based engine that generates Java J2EE compliant code.
• Responsible for project planning, budgeting, scheduling, management reporting, issue resolution, task management, resource management, hardware and software architectural planning and design.
• Prepared and presented project status and proposals to executive management. Planned, designed, priced, and negotiated the purchase of hardware and software for project test environment.
• Negotiated the purchase of RF Units (warehouse scanning devices), WebLogic application server software, hardware load balancer, and Erwin Data modeling tool.
• Negotiated the reduction of rates with consulting companies.
• Served as batch development team lead responsible for tasking, scheduling, status reporting, resolving requirements and design issues, in addition to project management role.
• Directed the requirements phase to document Use Cases and requirements specifications using homegrown templates.