Career Summary:

Software Program Manager and Agile Subject Matter Expert. Began my career in software development and business area management in the airline industry. Since then served as a program manager consulting in a variety of industries including aerospace predictive services, pharmaceutical, insurance, manufacturing, government, banking, and securities. Managed software development and implementation projects since 2000 and certified as a Project Management Professional PMP since 2003. Experienced in scrum agile development implementation including implementing scrum methodology from a pure waterfall approach. EXPERIENCE

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Transition of multi-location/company program designing, constructing, testing, and supporting a J2EE application integrating with JBOSS to retire legacy systems and migration of data. Utilized JIRA, Quality Center, and SharePoint developing the system for processing loan obligation requests, cancellations, disbursements, closures, interest rate calculations, customer status pages, and reporting. Effectively reshaped and engaged resource management increasing program management presence to appropriately position project management leadership and unify teams. Oversaw project, technical and configuration management teams and underlying business analysis, architectural, development, and test resources as well as the customer executive and contract management relationships. Implemented effective, concise project health information and milestone status reporting for each project encouraging team lead accountability on previous/upcoming week accomplishments with a less is more approach. Increased visibility of risk, dependencies, and proactive rather than reactive management. Initiated team building and project celebration events.

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and estimated change requests and defects for releases. Integrated domain leads for development as well as functional requirements, training and organizational change management, testing functional, end-to-end integration, UAT , and technology services. Participated in daily executive sponsorship meetings and provided weekly updates for the executive status presentation. Captured lessons learned. Managed definition of requirements determination process and rollout. Utilized ClearQuest and ClearCase. Re-skin with new Bootstrap UI framework. Development of JSP files, electronic data interchange EDI , interfaces, IBM FileNet workflow, Thunderhead document automation, and CA-7 Scheduler batch jobs. ActiveMQ upgrade from v5.8 to 5.9.

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• Confidential FINANCIAL SERVICES Led execution of the ITPM Information Technology Process Quality Management framework aligning projects with central Munich BMW Group enabling collaboration and communication across BMW locations. Oversaw each project phase gateway exit with project leaders managers obtaining a decision from sponsors and executive steering committee members to proceed to the next phase for each project. Conducted reviews with project leaders and quality assessors ensuring quality deliverables developed and accepted by each discipline appropriately within the Project Brief, Business Proposal, System Proposal, System Design, Construct and Test, and Project Closure Phases. Managed the tailoring process within each phase, the definition of project collateral and acceptance criteria with assessors, and monitoring of project deliverables established in the project handbook. Reviewed the status of all projects in the bi-weekly project review. Assessed implementation of ITPM recommending any improvements, communication, and evaluation needed.
• Confidential INCORPORATED Served as the customer project manager representing the aircraft materials organization implementing the CribMaster parts and tool inventory management system at 6 airport line stations. Deployed the enterprise system development, quality assurance, and production environments on Windows Server 2008 R2 and on a UNIX platform interfacing with Oracle 10g databases. Managed the software systems engagement with the repair station and materials maintenance software tool selection process. Facilitated organizational alignment across the business in addition to finance, warranty, and the air carrier promoting adoption of a capability maturity roadmap model for long-term strategy and planning. Promoted the use of a quantitative analysis for vendor evaluation with the importance and numerical rating systems enabling effective comparison and analysis.

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Adopted a formal scrum agile development methodology utilizing JIRA implementing a product backlog, release roadmap, and detailed sprint backlog item planning. Managed J2EE middleware development projects and migration of web services for mortgage banking applications upgrading from the existing consumer and business banking framework and enabling reuse of a shared enterprise service oriented architecture SOA . Removed dependencies between user interface/application and service tier platforms allowing for a flexible, modularized, federated deployment model independent and neutral of the integrated development environment IDE .

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• Managed the BizTalk Server 2010 XML schema interface for the Purchase Card Bank of America MasterCard Automation Project processing transactions through global PeopleSoft v9.0 Accounts Payable and into SAP v4.6 EMEA Europe, Middle East, Africa for the Corning, LTD United Kingdom pilot.

• Established the PeopleSoft v9.0 solution for the RAMAD procurement project facilitating management of unique supply chain profiled enterprise-wide inventory items related to specific material attributes material name, material grade, supplier, supplier manufacturing location and distributor and enabling management of annual standard cost activities and volume forecasts with appropriate supplier reports.
• Managed the Changepoint Portfolio PM upgrade, installation, vendor relationship, testing, and training for the migration project to version 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, IIS 7.5, and .NET.
• Initiated an Actuate BIRT charter and consultancy to survey and assess the upgrade strategy from v8 on Windows 2000 to v11 on Windows Server 2008 R2 leveraging single sign-on Windows NT integration and disparate source built-in reporting capability from the previous MS Dynamics AX 4.0 client.

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Consultant Senior Project Manager Implemented the scrum agile systems development methodology for an electronic healthcare information EHI SaaS data mart project including product and sprint backlog planning utilizing MS Team Foundation Server TFS , establishing scrum team roles and responsibilities including product owner and scrum master and training, implementing a daily scrum status meeting, and facilitating release roadmap planning.

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• IS/IT Manager, Facility Security Officer Joined DS S as the North American Account IS/IT Manager responsible to the NA Account Executive and DS S USA President to lead and manage all systems development / implementation projects. Oversaw multi-company, non co-located, international teams based out of the U.K.
• Managed account relationships, contracts, and proposals for development and support of the Rolls-Royce energy/marine and Model 250 business areas Access XP front end warranty/reliability applications with SQL Server 2000 back-ends .
• Obtained a Department of Defense DOD secret clearance in December 2005 and accountable as the DS S USA facility security officer to the DS S USA government security committee chairman and Rolls-Royce VP of security and ethics maintaining DS S USA independence from undue foreign influence. Managed site clearances and conducted audits with the DOD Defense Security Service.

Managed the following projects:

• Established a Rolls-Royce Corporate Regional Airlines Cognos 8.1 Planning development solution.

• Led the Rolls-Royce Defense North America Engine Health Monitoring ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6 definition of a common enterprise solution architecture.
• Provided project management and logistics system implementation support for the Autonomic Logistics Information System ALIS to the GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team F136 AL program developed for use with Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II.
• Managed Engine Record Service/Engine Data Center, CoreFleet, and Service Data Manager systems implementation and report development efforts for Rolls-Royce Corporate and Regional Airlines and the AE2100D3/AE1107C Engine Tracking System programs based on Visual Basic 6, Crystal Reports 8, ASP.NET, and SQL Server 2000.

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Consultant - Project Manager

• Participated as a member of the project manager team tasked with establishing a program management office. Concentrated on implementing project management methodologies such as scope definition, project charter creation, change control and approval systems, work breakdown structure and work authorization systems, project planning, project estimating, project schedule development, project status reporting, project team initiation and resource allocation procedures. Placed emphasis on principles based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge and stressed importance of capturing meeting minutes, tracking and managing action items, and documenting lessons learned. Reported status on projects in the weekly project review board.
• Managed the National Securities Clearing Corporation project consisting of a web interface to a centralized clearing center for information exchanged between broker dealers and insurance carriers utilizing VB.NET, XML, BizTalk Server 2002, and SQL Server 2000. Led regular status meetings and also performed business analysis, created a mapping document for a BizTalk translation object, and created the test plan and test scripts.
• Managed insurance and securities Compliance Management System implementations for Bank of America and Fifth Third Bank involving customized web development in VB.NET and SQL Server 2000 as well as deployment of existing CMS product functionality. Led requirements sessions and regular status meetings.
• Provided project management for the Depository Trust Clearing Corporation project allowing an end-to-end insurance carrier distributor web solution with secure access to an integrated value-added service suite necessary to transact life insurance and annuity business based on VB.NET, XML, SOAP SQLServer 2000.

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Consultant - Project Analyst

• Provided project management across the program throughout project life cycles including planning, estimating, identifying and decomposing work breakdown structures, and managing change. Utilized methodologies based on Rational Unified Process and the Project Management Body of Knowledge.
• Contributed as team member and system administrator with setup and development of Microsoft Project Server 2002 on a SQL Server 2000 database. Opened and managed Microsoft production cases to resolution. Established the enterprise resource pool. Defined and customized the enterprise global template. Developed security policies and standards. Provided problem resolution for project managers and team members. Migrated project plans from other project management tools. Created system validation and documentation. Provided Microsoft Project Web Access 2002 support.
• Managed change requests and trouble tickets for the J2EE development projects. Participated on the change control board established to accept/reject scope changes. Managed status reports from team members and presented monthly summary reports to resource managers. Identified key users for rollout of releases and organizational change management. Maintained project plans..

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Systems Engineer

Oversaw all information service needs for Ambassadair travel club, marketing, and ticket-by-mail customer areas. Managed projects and developed applications utilizing technologies such as Microsoft Visual Basic 6, Crystal Reports 8, Oracle 8i, Microsoft Access 2000, Java SDK 1.3.1, Pick-Basic, and Universe. Supported reservation processing for the Sabre central reservation system.