SUMMARY

• Leader of Scrum ceremonies including standups, scrum of scrums, and retrospectives.
• Developer of explicit policy and guidelines for the efficient operation of teams
• Developer of standard approaches to Feature and Story creation as well as coaching on those approaches
• Develop dashboards expressing Key Analytics for both Product and Development leadership
• Manage multiple teams of developers and analysts of up to 10 people.
• Broad background in all aspects of agile and traditional project management, of web application development utilizing Waterfall, The Scalable Agile Framework, Kanban, and Scrum methodologies.
• Significant experience working at client sites and interfacing regularly with executive level client sponsors.
• Technical software development background with prior experience in multiple software engineering roles having responsibility for management of complex technical projects as well as prior experience performing “hands - on” coding. This experience provides great insight into software complexities and allows for a common understanding with software development teams.
• Extensive experience successfully managing mission critical time sensitive projects with aggressive delivery dates while maintaining high quality, team morale, and budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Java, JEE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, ANSI SQL,PL-SQL, HTML, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, StrutsScalable Agile Framework, Kanban, Scrum, XP, Waterfall

Cloud: Salesforce, Force.com, Amazon EC2, JIRA Suite

Application Servers: Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Server, Apache Tomcat

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres

Operating Systems: MS Windows (Server 2003,XP,Vista), UNIX (Solaris), Linux

COTS Tools/Applications: JIRA, VersionOne, Sparx Enterprise Architect, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office Suite, ERWin, PVCS, MS Visual Studio.Net, Subversion, TortoiseSVN, IntelliJ, DB Visualizer, Eclipse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Scrum Master / Change Facilitator

Responsibilities:

• Run all scrum ceremonies for up to 4 teams
• Normalized dev teams velocities allowing for extremely accurate release estimates
• Introduced Scrum “by the book” with elements of SAFe
• Evolved two development teams to Scrumban
• Led development teams in 3 days of scrum training
• Introduced swarm testing to deal with limited testing resources
• Introduced Developer Guild Meetings to evolve software engineering practice
• Re-Configured initial implementation of JIRA into a true agile software project management tool
• Introduced companywide demo as a means of providing transparency into
• Facilitated company strategy meeting to define Confidential strategy, goals and objectives
• Aided in recruitment of new team members
• Introduced Lean Startup Method to Product Management team
• Facilitated Software engineering best practices
• Provide work systems

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

BSA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ran weekly Scrum of Scrums with 5 development team leads
• Developed explicit policy and guidelines for smooth operation of teams
• Developed key analytic dashboards for Product and Development leadership
• Developed transition and training plans for new Analysts entering team
• Managed the flow of features for 5 development teams from requirements through release and worked to optimize flow through the identification and exploitation of bottlenecks.
• Drove quality and change in the work system via the execution of lean six sigma tools and principles.
• Drove alignment of Product Management, Development, Services, and Analysis via the introduction of JIT planning sessions.

Confidential, Lakewood, CO

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Introduced Scrum best practices to USDA APHIS and Bureau of Reclamation
• Implemented custom installations of JIRA for USDA and BOR
• Scrum master for multiple teams at both USDA and BOR
• Responsible for grooming backlog with BOR and USDA stakeholders
• Technical Manager responsible for multiple development teams in support of the Bureau of Reclamation’s national applications and USDA APHIS Cost Management System, ensuring the current systems’ day-to-day issues and maintenance are addressed in a timely and appropriate manner. In addition my teams were responsible for the design and development of new applications to accommodate changing needs and priorities within BOR and USDA APHIS.
• Managed teams responsible for the maintenance of BOR’s Electronic Time and Attendance (ETAS) application, APHIS Cost Management System (ACMS) SAP integration project, and Bureau of Reclamation’s Consolidated Applications maintenance work..
• Successfully managed USDA APHIS Aquaculture Lab, Surveillance, and Movement analysis project. The project included analysis and documentation creation of 3 major systems. Over 700 pages of documentation was created including Software Requirement Specifications and Software Design Documentation
• Successfully Managed ETAS stabilization project. The project included major refactoring of existing homegrown MVC to utilize a more standard Struts 2 based approach.
• Successfully Managed final 3 phases (each phase is one year) of ACMS application. The project included the stabilization of Agreements contract module, stabilization of Reconciliation module, stabilization of Employee Salary module as well as performance tuning, upgrades from Java 1.4 to Java 6, and upgrades from Spring 2 to Spring 3.
• Management of the day to day operations and maintenance in support of over 10 existing production web applications used by the BOR both internally as well as those available externally to the public.
• Utilized a blend of traditional and agile project management methodologies based on Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) taking an adaptive test driven approach, providing frequent intermediate deliverables and client demonstrations.
• Responsible for all HR related tasks for direct reports, including resource acquisition and termination, performance reviews, professional mentoring and personal conflict resolution ensuring team morale remained high.

Confidential, Westminster, CO

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Developed System to Remove On Board Entity(cell tracking device) from vehicles
• Worked to improve performance in existing application. Decreased various searches from taking over 100 seconds to sub 3 seconds
• Designed and Developed system of alerts for specific events fired from the on board cell device.

Confidential, Westminster, CO

Software Engineer/ Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum master leading standups and retrospectives
• Led team in major refactoring of Service Contracts Mgmt. application.
• Migrated existing application to Spring MVC from Struts.
• Upgraded O/R mapping from Hibernate 2.X to 3.
• Migrated builds from ANT to Maven

Confidential

Broomfield, CO

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led vendor selection team in decision to implement an enterprise search tool.
• Worked to deploy, configure and implement the appliance.Service Contract Mgmt System Lead/Developer
• Led small team in major refactoring of Service Contracts Mgmt. application.
• Migrated existing application to Spring MVC from Struts.
• Upgraded O/R mapping from Hibernate 2.X to 3.
• Migrated builds from ANT to Maven. .Customer Contracts Mgmt System Developer/Lead
• Developed application which allowed customers to sign their renewing contracts online.
• Designed backend schema data objects and domain model
• Awarded Anchor Award by IT leadership for meeting tight deadlines with volatile requirementsOpen Source Framework Study Architect/Developer
• Led cross-departmental team to analyze the potential of using open source frameworks for all java based applications with an emphasis on agility
• Designed and developed first prototype application for review by IT leadership
• Won GE Breaking The Mold Award for significantly increasing productivity of development teamsCustom Service Order Mgmt Developer/Lead
• Designed and developed isolated cart, quote, and order tool for service only transactions
• Led team of developers both on and off site
• This application was later adopted and integrated into the Comergent e-commerce suite by Comergent as their supplied service module Comergent B2B Implementation Developer
• Worked on team to build a fully customized version of the Comergent e-commerce suiteNew Frontiers Convention Management Application Developer
• Designed and developed Convention management application for all GE Access corporate conventions