SUMMARY:

• Seasoned professional with over twenty years of expertise in delivering a comprehensive and balanced approach to solving business needs and completing projects
• Diverse experiences include, but are not limited to, implementing agile project management organization, working with cloud technologies, gathering client requirements, architecting solutions, developing training curriculum and certification programs, creating detailed functional specifications and design documents, providing program/project management and coordination, creating and delivering presentations, coordinating and leading meetings, and providing various reports and/or dashboards as requested or required by upper management or peers.
• Portfolio of projects include complete SDLC Web, SOA, Mobile, Cloud, Client/Server. Other projects are COTS Implementation, Integration, ITSM, CI/CD, DevOps Implementation, and Infrastructure.
• Business management experience includes budgeting, staffing, contracts, proposals, sales, customer engagement, vendor management, change management, productivity tracking, reporting, and managing P&L. Experienced with negotiations and presentations to all levels of organization including C - level.
• Industry experience includes Oil & Gas (9 yrs.), Property and Casualty Insurance (6 yrs.), Government (6 yrs.), Professional Services (8yrs.), Finance and Start-up experience.

SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES:

Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, Product Manager, Product Owner, Project Manager Kanban, Scrum, CI/CD, TDD, BDD, DevOps, Release Train, LeSS, QA/QCSolution Architecture, Cloud Computing, .Net, C#, VB, ASP.Net, MVC, JAVA, IOS, Android, SQL, SSIS, ITIL, ITSM, ETL, SSRS, Oracle, SOA, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Azure, Cloud Platform Management, Azure, AWS, PowerShell, Xamarin, WCF, SOAP, Web API, RESTful Services, API, Clusters, Containers, Microservices, Windows Server, Active Directory, SharePoint, IOS, Android,JIRA, TFS, Pivotal Tracker, MS Project, Primavera

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA and Atlanta, GA

Scrum Master and Coach / Product Manager / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects and coached agile product teams for various clients.
• Responsible for managing business relationship, product roadmap, architecture, budget, financial reporting, market research and vision, staffing and vendor management, directing resources, user stories, tasks and estimates, acceptance criteria, testing plans, prioritizing features, managing risk, change management, initiation, directing sprints, conducting standup meetings, maintenance of backlog, velocity and burn down reporting, demonstration, release, and retrospect.
• Technical lead for architecture, service management, platform management, ITIL, change & release train management
• Regularly made critical business decisions and worked with minimal supervision
• Kanban and Scrum used for all projects
• Projects and Roles:
• Drove reorganization of Agile Teams, DevOps, and Security Controls.
• Scrum Master and Agile Coach for Credit management solution at Wells Fargo Bank
• Scrum Master and Product Manager, Technical Lead for B2B SaaS industrial estimating, planning, and asset solutions for PlanX.
• Product Manager and Technical Lead Coordinator of 70+ globally dispersed applications teams and multiple business units to migrate apps to HP Private Cloud. And migrated content of 135,000 users to SharePoint Online, for HP.
• Project Manager and Technical Lead, Assumed management over multiple over budget and behind schedule implementations for Lexmark, bringing them back on track.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Technical Lead / Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Coached and managed globally dispersed agile product teams for software and infrastructure projects.
• Responsible for business analysis, product vision and market research, architecture, scheduling resources, user stories, task lists and level of effort estimates, conducting standup meetings, acceptance criteria, testing plans, prioritizing features, managing risk, maintenance of backlog, velocity and burn down reporting, demonstration, release, and retrospect.
• Technical lead for solution architecture, service management, platform management, ITIL, change and release train engineering
• Kanban and Scrum used for projects
• Projects:
• SDLC of IOS/Android apps for HP employee access to secure content in SharePoint and a proprietary repository. Includes web services, storage, DB, and Active Directory interfaces.
• SDLC of enterprise YouTube like video sharing/ hosting solution for HP internal use; with website, embedded viewer, and native Android and IOS apps; includes web services, video encoding services, storage, database, and Active Directory interfaces.
• SDLC and release of an enterprise Encryption Compliance application installed onto 300,000+ Confidential workstations.
• New enterprise content management solution hosted on HP Private Cloud, for HP. Managed business analysis, architecture, and Implementation. Post release; on boarded 715 dependent applications in coordination with 350 apps teams.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA

Product Manager / Agile Coach / Technical Lead / Co-Founder

Responsibilities:

• Directed onshore and off shore agile teams, Implemented PMO, and DevOps.
• Responsible for SDLC and release products;
• School fundraising SaaS solution with web site and mobile apps. Features included ecommerce, social media, digital media, print shop integration, shopping network, and data analytics. Released with IOS, Android and web versions hosted on AWS.
• Mobile Job Force; a job application solution for job seekers to find jobs, and for employers to post jobs. Released with IOS, Android and web versions hosted on AWS.
• Technical lead for solution and application architecture, service management, platform management, ITIL, change & release management
• Responsible for product roadmap, architecture, budgeting, financial reporting, staffing and vendor management, directing resources, tasks and estimates, testing plans, prioritizing features, managing risk, change management, initiation, directing sprints, conducting standup meetings, maintenance of backlog, velocity and burn down reporting, demonstration, release, and retrospect.
• Managed Professional Services focused on SEO and web presence contracts.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA

Product Owner, Professional Services Manager, Technical Lead, Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Managed and coached agile product teams, and lead developer/architect.
• Responsible for business analysis, product roadmap, architecture, budget, financial reporting, staffing and vendor management, directing resources, user stories and specifications, tasks and estimates, acceptance criteria, testing plans, prioritizing features, managing risk, change management, initiation, directing sprints, conducting standup meetings, maintenance of backlog, velocity and burn down reporting, demonstration, release, and retrospect.
• Managed Full-stack SDLC and release of several SaaS Products;
• Asset Management
• Project Management for construction
• Estimating/Quoting
• ERP forecasting solution
• Simulator for project execution in 3D over timeline
• Safety tracking and gap analysis
• Business intelligence
• Engineering automation
• QA/QC
• Directed product implementations on customer sites, customer engagement, and contract negotiation.
• Launched a line of Mobility apps and ruggedized equipment for hazardous environments.
• Managed Professional Services group 12 consultants. Handled RFQ’s, proposals, contracts and customer engagement.
• Authored user guides, and wrote training and certification programs for end users and partners.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA

Founder

Responsibilities:

• Started and sold internet e-commerce company serving the property & casualty insurance market, and retail market.
• SaaS application, obtained accident reports nationally for claims settlement; and investigation. Grew company into third largest provider of police reports in the U.S.
• Designed and developed all technology for the business; e-commerce, accounting automation back-office, and document management website.