Project Administration Manager Resume

SUMMARY

15+ Years of experience managing projects to include SAFe, Agile, and SDLC
Extensive experience in project management including all stages of SDLC to include IT and Infrastructure projects.
Expertise managing teams across platforms including teams in multiple geographic locations as well as offshore teams.
4 years Agile Coach and Scrum Master
Agile tools for planning and reporting purposes.
Experience identifying required downstream, impacted, and all engagements for project requirements.
Expert in Release Management for release planning, communication, and outage notifications for impacted teams and environments.
9+ years managing project forecast and budgets up to $11M+

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Project Administration Manager

Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing project budget Up to 11M+ for Agile Trains and Waterfall teams
Ensure Sox Compliance across all teams in lieu of audits for required project document approvals to include charters, release plans and test documents
Act as Coach regarding Agile processes and procedures
Manage timely Onboarding and Off - boarding of all team members both on-shore and off-shore
Participate in annual capacity annually for team planning and forecasting
Manage monthly forecasting and budget up to 11M funding multiple scrum and engagement teams,
Manage multiple projects managers and scrum masters regarding sub-project financial requirements
Manage and update SOW for Vendor Contract’s
Manage up to 39 resources for all requirements, approvals and activities
Update resource forecast and manage all timesheets using Clarity, ensuring accurate reporting
Communicate ongoing project financial status via weekly calls and presentations to leadership, identifying financial risk
Create and manage projects in Clarity including project close-out.

Instrumental in transitioning Agile

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Establishing repeatable processes following a 10 week cadence for PI.
Established templates for teams to manage individual objective’s during planning session’s.
Worked with Product Owners aggregating ongoing features for PI Planning.
Managed logistics scheduling rooms and identifying required tools for PI planning
Created program board following planning session for leadership and team review
Facilitated retrospective’s and planning session
Facilitated Pre/Post PI Planning
Facilitated bi-weekly scrum of scrum with agile teams identifying issues and risks
Facilitated bi-weekly calls with leadership for release planning with tech and business leaders
Followed up with teams during break-out sessions to identify impediments

Confidential

Agile Scrum Master / Coach

Responsibilities:

Instrumental in transitioning Waterfall project teams including Business Product Managers to Agile. Provide coaching including identifying training needs for new hires for Agile.
Promote Agile Practices including processes, procedures, and compliance across multiple teams while creating self organizing teams to include coordination and facilitation of teh following: Daily Scrum calls, Release Planning, Ongoing Product Backlog grooming, Retrospective following a two week Iteration cadence, Sprint Planning and Reviews, Identify and manage impediments for teams, Promote self organization amongst work-streams, Monitor and track project performance in Rally, Coaching up to maturity of Scrum Teams, Manage project forecast and budgets up to $1M+, Communicate project status weekly to leadership.
Communicate outages to impacted tech and business teams
Manage project change as needed
Ensure compliance for both Agile and SDLC project documents, approvals and process throughout teh project lifecycle for both methodologies

Confidential

Release Manager and Project

Responsibilities:

Deliver multiple Small and Medium ETL Implementation projects to include:
Create and update Project Plans using MS Project
Bundle multiple ETL projects for ongoing deployments
Identify dependencies and risks for components for bundling multiple projects
Coordinate weekly deployments calls
Identify and engage resources based on components i.e. ETL, DBA, Batch, Web, System Shut Downs etc…for deployment and ensure resource availability
Create Release Calendar via Sharepoint to allow scheduling of ongoing deployment working with L3 support for bundling fixes to minimize system outages.
Work with cross functional teams including quality, Customer and production support for project testing for SIT/UAT and post deployment validation
Document Lessons Learn for future projects
Create and update BCP Business Continuity Plan annually including scenario reviews.
Manage SDLC Audits working with Price Waterhouse Annually
Communicate weekly deployments including system availability and outages
Create and update Release Processes and Plans
Facilitate and present Release Training for updated Release Processes
Work with Business Partners to communicate Release Processes and scheduling procedures.