Project Manager/SCRUM Master Resume Dallas, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Talented and accomplished client - focused Project Manager / SCRUM Master with extensive experience in the implementation and support of strategic Policy and Product Administration systems across a variety of platforms and technologies. Adaptable for roles within the Software Development Life Cycle using different implementation methodologies. Highly adept at customer relations with a proven record of professionalism and relationship development.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Manager/SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

Created a cohesive relationship between our multi-national team to deliver one the most complete and fastest Guidewire InsuranceSuite (PolicyCenter & BillingCenter) implementation in Guidewire history, with no defects present at time of Go-Live.
Completed every Sprint on-time with minimal Backlog items moved to subsequent Sprint.
Supplied Sprint-specific data to the Client Executives before each Steering Committee.
Created and drove a cohesive working relationship between multi-national production support team to assess, prioritize, fix, and deliver defects and planned upgrades to Production environment.
Provided facilitation and leadership on overall Inception including Client Workshops and recommendations Full (Wave 1/Wave 2) and MVP (IT-Recommendation) approaches along with Development, QA, and Integration estimates on or before deadline.
Provided guidance on overall assessment, which included Data Migration, Testing, and Cost, for both Single Instance Consolidation and Upgrade/Consolidation approaches.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

Set direction and drove teams to complete project objectives on or before schedule.
Oversaw and drove multi-national QA team in execution of testing activity including test case development, execution of system testing, and defect resolution using JIRA issue tracking software.
Led and drove US-based Business Analysis team in elicitation, tracking and documenting numerous business requirement and functional specification documents.
Provided weekly status reports that were distributed to project stakeholder and executives on time or early.
Drove weekly resource meeting to maintain accountability and discuss best practices, which were implemented and stream-lined future release.

Confidential

Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Supplied work estimates based off client business requirement documents.
Facilitated walk-through sessions based off functional system documents with personal lines system developers.
Smoke tested for every initial development and off-hour production deployment.
Created and executed manual test cases based off migrated code in the designated testing environment for: Forms, Rating, User Interface, Downstream Systems.