SUMMARY

• Accomplished, Creative and Proactive Program and Project Manager with experience driving and leading business, financial, sales, data warehousing and marketing solutions through program/project delivery.
• With a formal education in both Project and Business Management, I have extensive experience handling distressed initiatives by providing direction and strategy.
• I am experienced in maintaining multi - million dollar, high profile projects. Hands-on leader who motivates, trains, and provides guidance to teams to ensure consistent results.
• An organized self-motivator who’s earned a valued reputation through a proven record of achievement.
• Strategic problem-solver with ability to work across all levels of an organization. I maintain a level-headed demeanor during crisis situations and am able to engage stakeholders at all levels.
• I also have excellent organization and communication skills, can keep necessary parties well-informed of critical situations and direct multiple resources to work as a unified team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Database: DB2, IMS, MS Access, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP

Programming: ANSI X12 (EDI), ASP, C#, C++, HTML/XHTML, JAVA, PL/SQL & SQL, VB6, VB.net, XML

Software and Methodologies: Agile, Cognos 8, CRM, Continuous Programming, HP Quality Center, IBM Rational (ClearQuest, ClearCase, Insight, RequisitePro), IBM WebSphere Data Interchange, IRISE, J Creator, Jira, Microsoft (Office, Project, SharePoint, Visio), Oracle 9i, Process Analysis, Process Definition, Process Re-Engineering, Rally, SAP ((MM - Materials Management, SD - Sales and Distribution, CS - Customer service, WM - Warehouse Management, CRM and Financials), SCRUM, SwimLane Diagramming, RUP, Unica, UML, Use Cases

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Integration Project Manager/SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with the delivery of an integration strategy and architecture and guiding the development team in producing system integration applications and frameworks in support of strategic initiatives.
• Manages changes to the integration architecture, enterprise level API and web services, service-oriented architecture and the development of management processes to govern the integration layer.
• Manages delivery, scope and resource planning, budgeting and agile project management.
• Acts as SCRUM Master for the team.
• Communicates with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Develops roadmaps and migration plans for integration of vendor data, business applications, and system infrastructure to streamline interfaces, reduce redundancy and business costs.
• Synchronizes the efforts of the development team with other project teams and removes any obstacles that may arise to maintain the team’s high level of performance.
• Maintains the team’s schedule and work assignments.
• Facilitates Scrum events:
• Daily standups
• Sprint planning
• Sprint reviews
• Sprint retrospectives
• Grooms the backlog
• Coaches teams on Agile processes and self-organization
• Collaborates with Product Owner, assisting with backlog refinement, story development and communicating vision to others
• Protects teams from interruptions
• Removes team impediments
• Ensures progress is tracked via available tools
• Working knowledge of Rally
• Understands user stories, definition of done, and acceptance criteria

Confidential, HOUSTON, TX

Sr. Technical Program/Project Manager - SAP

Responsibilities:

• Successfully managed the delivery and enterprise-wide roll-out of the Pre-Determined Pricing Engine, a customized SAP Enterprise Resource Program application purposed with detecting cost/price changes and saving the updated cost/price with teams in multiple US and India locations.
• Application supports sales and marketing by storing commodity price generated via SCM and CRM databases and pricing procedures to optimize catalog population, Order Management Express (eCommerce application) search response times and mobile application availability.
• Project initiated in 2010 and was in distress from2012 to 2014 with a cost of $36M.
• In 18 months:
• Project Management methodology was migrated to Agile/SCRUM (requiring coaching and training of project resources) and MS Project Plan realigned;
• Led daily stand-ups, worked with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints, and utilized agile boards/dashboards to motivate the team’s migration from waterfall to agile.
• Application delivered in 3 phases and is currently 99.99+% accurate at a total cost of $42M.
• Project spend managed via forecast and cost modeling activities to predict and report on monthly estimate and actual spend.
• Performs project management responsibilities relating to information technology implementations and integrations.
• Responsible for coaching and enabling an agile scrum team delivering software features and integrations over consecutive sprints. Responsible for utilizing and improving established processes to enhance productivity, improve product quality and promote a high performing team.
• On a day-to-day basis, removes impediments, shields the team from external interferences and facilitates intercompany interactions with the team. Continuously improves product quality and process efficiency while enabling a self-managed team.