SUMMARY

• Highly accomplished leader specializing in diverse IT & engineering technology service deployments, migrations and integrations.
• Experienced in the following strategic initiatives; M&A, Change & Quality Management, IT & Outsourcing Delivery, Methodology Development/Deployment, and Management Tools Infrastructure.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, coupled with solutions experience in numerous sectors.
• Adept at diplomatically facilitating discussions and negotiations with key stakeholders.
• Results - driven, able to coordinate and direct all phases of a project life cycle and create performance driven teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• IT Planning/Costing/Budgeting
• Change/Vendor Management
• Project Management/Agile Coaching
• System Migrations/Integrations
• Enterprise-wide Implementations
• Requirements/Data Analysis
• Source Code/Environment Management
• Test Automation/Engineering/QA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Project Manager/Agile SCRUM Master/Agile

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with LOB VPs to define and complete “vision” discussions encompassing 8 key platforms and 10+ transactional systems
• Driving 15 IT work streams towards a PIM solution which includes: requirements/User Story definitions (Rally), code delivery, testing (JIRA), and delivery to Production systems
• Managing a 20M+ resource PMO budget and all reporting therein
• PMO liaison to C-Suite - Manage all sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations
• “Championed” new Test Case management platform (Zephyr) to streamline testing execution and decreased cost of overall test

Confidential

Senior Project Manager/Agile SCRUM Master

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for 1) Migrating $67M into SaaS billing platform (Zuora) that enables Sales/Finance to view opportunities more granularly & 2) Capturing $5M in Asset leakage for billing via internal Oracle OFSAA & ERP system
• Determine project strategies with C-Suite as well as communicate all milestone status
• Manage $3M budget and resource plans in PlanView PMO/CRM platform
• Administer Rally & JIRA platforms for all scrum team activities
• Oversee all sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations

Senior Project Manager

Confidentil

Responsibilities:

• Achieved source-to-target foundational data activities with 100% validation and accuracy
• Managed $11M budget and resource plans (30 individuals) in PlanView PMO/CRM platform
• Delivered ~100 OFSAA & ERP requirements early creating 15% increase to test phases
• Furnished project strategies for CIO and communicated all program events
• Exceeded program goal of completion prior to QTR/Year End with less than 3% revenue loss

Confidential

Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master/Agile

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented project strategy that enabled real-time decision making for Executive QA & Development leadership
• Partnered with Comcast & Cisco counterparts to enhance detectability and resolution ETAs which in turn reduced delivery time to production by 35%
• Oversaw $7M budget and resources in CA Clarity PMO/CRM platform
• Administer Rally & JIRA platforms for all scrum team activities
• Managed all automated (Selenium) and manual testing teams (25+ individuals)

Senior IT Director/Agile Coaching

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Created Deployment department, managed budget and off-shore deliverables
• Directed IT deployment and process related efforts including; requirements gathering, people management, code deployment via MS TFS, code reviews, testing, and production delivery
• Designed and managed all implementation and automation efforts via TFS project templates
• Established documentation practices, coding standards, and policies related to process methodology (Agile, Waterfall) using Rally, PlanView and JIRA as the platforms of choice

Senior Deployment Manager

Confidential Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Created a Quality Assurance department within the GaDOE where none previously existed
• Directly Managed 20+ individuals, 3 Consulting Vendors, and $5 million budget therein
• Reconstructed GaDOE Development Lifecycle and Change Management operations by creating separated user environments, enforcing version control via MS TFS, release schedules, applying entry and exit criteria between environments, and mandating sign-off procedures
• Automated all functional and performance tests utilizing; Rational Robot, HP LoadRunner, HP WinRunner/QTP, and Oracle and SQL scripting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Internet/Intranet Development: HTML5, Flash, Social Media Integrations, J2EE, XML, Business Objects 5.1.x, RUP/UML, MS SharePoint, MS InfoPath

Languages/ Scripts /APIs: C #, VB.Net, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, Perl, SOAP, REST

Software: (CM, QA, BTO) Informatica P360, Oracle ERP, Oracle OFSAA, Oracle EDQ, Zuora, MS TFS 2008-17, Subversion, HPE QC/ UFT/ LoadRunner/ALM, MS VS 2008-17, IBM Rational Suite Enterprise, Selenium, MS Visio, Crystal Reports, MS Project, Cognos Enterprise, Zendesk, JIRA, Rally, PlanView, CA/Clarity PPM

Process Improvement: Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM & Kanban), Continuous Integration, PMBok, CMMI, ISO 9000, Software Process Improvement Capability Determination (SPICE), Test Driven Development (TDD)

Database: Oracle 11g-12c, SQL Server 2005-16, Crystal SQL Designer