SUMMARY

• A top - performing and resourceful IT manager with extensive experience in all aspects of application development, client relationship management, Waterfall, Agile Scrum, product road mapping, training and development, service-oriented architecture, object analysis and design, and configuration and change management.
• Leverages a proven aptitude for improving organizational effectiveness and efficiency while building high-performing teams comprised of onshore and offshore resources.
• An exceptional producer who delivers high-level strategic and big-picture thinking, working with all levels of stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and according to customer requirements in both local and remote environments.
• Worked with infrastructure and DevOps teams at manufacturing company to complete virtual machines (VMs) for development and production environments in order to migrate application servers from Oracle WebLogic to IBM WebSphere.
• Moved mission-critical applications into private cloud.
• Served as Agile coach for startup company and provided feedback to Project Management Institute (PMI) team for the Agile Practice Guide, ultimately getting listed as contributor in latest edition.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• SDLC
• DevOps
• Clarity
• Big Data
• Java/J2EE Frameworks (JSP
• Servlets)
• Eclipse
• Oracle PL/SQL
• SQL
• XML/XSLT
• Objective-C
• Swift
• Cocoa iOS
• MVC
• Rally
• JIRA
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Database Design
• Oracle 7-11g
• MS SQL Server
• MySQL
• IBM DB2
• NoSQL
• MongoDB
• REST
• Web Application Servers (Apache Tomcat
• JBoss
• IBM WebSphere
• Oracle WebLogic)
• Version Control (SVN
• CVS
• Git
• PVCS Version Manager)
• Build Management (ANT
• Maven)
• Apache Log4j
• Cloud Computing
• AWS
• Spring
• Hibernate
• Jenkins
• UNIX
• GitHub
• Bitbucket

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with senior business and IT stakeholders to deliver customized B2B e-commerce implementation that met changing requirements.
• Spearheaded IT resources for other project initiatives as priorities changed.
• Provided risk analysis, stakeholder management, communication plans, and issue logs.
• Monitored release schedule for development deployments.
• Oversaw and led team of Hybris e-commerce developers.
• Initiated use of Sonic Cube for code reviews.
• Reviewed current and future state of environment.
• Interacted with business partners, IT stakeholders, and development teams worldwide.
• Conducted performance reviews and one-on-one meetings.

Confidential, Madison, Wisconsin

Agile Coach and Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Guided team to develop sprint plan for several sprints and consulted with product owner to ensure priorities.
• Facilitated Scrum team ceremonies, including daily Scrum, sprint planning and demos, and retrospectives, utilizing management techniques to foster spirit of listening, empathy, awareness, and foresight.
• Served as coach for team and product owner to help team execute Scrum framework.
• Ensured team was held accountable for commitments made, handled people change management (behaviors, mindset), and aligned people managers' expectations with team members' performance.
• Fostered self-organization and enabled team to make decisions and remove issues whenever possible.
• Removed internal and external impediments limiting ability to self-organize, such as lack of support or behavior from another team or functional manager that distracted team.
• Shielded team from outside demands, negotiated with others, facilitated and monitored daily team progress, and identified opportunities for team to incrementally improve.
• Nurtured transparency and visibility and conveyed information to rest of organization as appropriate.
• Advocated for Scrum and Agile in broader organization and served as active participant in industry.

Confidential, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led strategic IT leadership, direction, and support, handling responsibilities equivalent to technical project manager for cross-functional DevOps team of 15 people, with overall budget of $64,000,000 and cost savings of $5,000,000.
• Converted disparate systems to single SAP system to manage shop floor manufacturing for multiple families of motorcycle production.
• Spearheaded reduction of production time from 108 to 96 seconds.
• Orchestrated ability and disposition parts to more accurately determine cost of scrap materials.
• Supervised team of eight to implement SAP MII and ME on shop floor for reporting actionable reports.
• Oversaw, monitored, and drove resolution of defects for team using HP Quality Center (HPQC) during implementation of SAP leading up to production rollout.
• Reviewed and approved all test scripts properly documented in HPQC for high-quality deliverables.
• Monitored projects to proactively identify risks and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Developed scope statement, including business case and stakeholder analysis, WBS, resource management plan, communication plan, risk management plan and matrix, change management plan, and scheduling.

Confidential

Enterprise Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided strategic IT leadership, direction, and support, handling responsibilities equivalent to enterprise technical architect for cross-functional DevOps team of 20 people from networking, enterprise application integration (EAI), and service-oriented architecture (SOA), as well as server administrators, database administrators, web administrators, business users, and third-party vendors, with cost savings of $2,000,000 per year.
• Planned, hired, retained, and managed J2EE support application development team, ensuring strong team communications via deployment meetings while driving compliance with security requirements.
• Developed strategy and managed and monitored execution plan for migration of materials portfolio (consisting of packaged and custom J2EE WebLogic applications) to WebSphere with team of four people and total savings of $2,000,000 per year.
• Spearheaded 50% decrease in number of licenses and machines needed and increased uptime by more than 95%.
• Designed failover strategy implemented using VMs.
• Led, monitored, and coordinated team of five people for certification and testing process for materials portfolio applications.
• Oversaw and monitored team of two people for implementation of part lookup portlet for part number project using SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (SAP NW MDM).
• Identified risks and recommended appropriate solutions.
• Developed scope statement, including business case and stakeholder analysis, WBS, resource management plan, communication plan, risk management plan and matrix, change management plan, and scheduling.