Summary

• Enjoy working through IT projects using PMBOK best practices with Agile or waterfall and principles of continuous process improvement to successfully deliver high value with IT Projects.
• Experience and deep knowledge of eCommerce, utilities, telecommunications, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, marketing, advertising, retail, sales support and publishing plus back-office accounting.
• Strong expertise in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, Business Process Improvement, Backlog Grooming, User Stories, Use Cases, test cases, and testing completeness, and User Acceptance.
• Very proficient in IT project management methodologies: Agile/Scrum and XP, SDLC, ITIL, Six Sigma DMAIC, waterfall, PMBOK, team transition to Agile, and best practices IT quality assurance
• Vendor management and procurement from both sides of the table
• Five years of Marketing Management and Product Development
• Seven years of graduate level teaching in Business IT Management and IT Courses.

Professional Consulting Experience

Confidential

• Perform IT research in new tools such as Hadoop for Sleek Solutions, Inc. Currently, evaluating Horton Works and Apache Hadoop with an Oracle VM on Ubuntu server.
• Provide consultations to businesses on scaling Agile to the enterprise level.
• Professional Development to add or extend skills and certifications PMP cert to 2017 and the PMI-ACP to 2020 and training on Clarity, Rally, TFS, and SAFe.
• Business Development includes responses to government RFPs with project proposals, architecture, staffing, budget, etc. for SSI Clients.
• SSI is a female-majority owned corporation in good standing with State of Florida. SSI provides me the ability to perform Corp to Corp engagements. Initially founded as Hogan Tel-X Inc. in 1992 then merged with Sleek Solutions Inc.

Confidential

Consulting for NIIT to win a web development contract with Hawaiian Airlines HA through JAD sessions, Backlog Grooming, structuring the Scrum Team's workspace and serving as Scum Master. We were competing to replace an unsuccessful team. The challenge is to bring the team up to speed to join the enterprise release train for HA's Sprint 9. The contract was contingent on successful performance. We delivered 'Flight Search' and 'Contact Us' features that allow for the Business to change content as needed. We delivered on schedule winning the contract.

Confidential

Assume Scrum Master Role for a first-time Agile team. We delivered a multinational portal for quoting business premise IT equipment and service in real-time. This includes over 6 million catalog items and configurations quoted in 52 different currencies. We delivered their first Production Release and implemented it for the business marketing team and followed with two additional releases of new functionality.

Confidential

• Holiday Preparation Program eCommerce: Led the first successful delivery of all the Holiday projects:
• Customer Services Security Project implement BI rules for fraud prevention in online credit card transactions
• SOS Enhancements Project improve sales order processing by establishing parameters for supply chain management and implementing the backlog of requirements
• Worked with the Agile website team to implement improvements and better manage the content
• Distribution Center Infrastructure 3PL contract and provision a distribution center for the fulfillment of holiday orders
• Operations Infrastructure process improvement and infrastructure project to improve in-store fulfillment process, analyze it and implement the new process

Confidential

• Successfully performed all phases of SDLC for a portfolio of five projects in the Cloud Computing model using MS Project Server, Excel budget management , SharePoint, and HP Quality Center for the following:
• o IT Security Infrastructure C-level Agile project to establish a secure international computing environment in multiple international data centers cloud model .
• o Agile Application development - Mosaic Online Latin America, a cloud based customer facing portal on dotNet framework for Latin America with two dialects of Spanish.
• o Accounting Application development - upgrade IBM's Maximo for Tax Rule changes in Florida, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Canada. Discovered incorrect sales taxes billed for IT work saving 18,000 on just one project.
• o EDI - Develop transactions to handle Multiline orders
• o Accounting - separate freight expenses from material costs in SAP cube via multiple ETLs run daily
• o Regulatory - implement process to add LIMS mass spectrometer analysis for each lot shipped per USFDA.
• o Procurement - Initiate COTS project, with Charter and Business Case, Requirements and RFP for a Maintenance Scheduling Tool integrated with Maximo to manage 3000 maintenance workers and machinery.

Received an award for suggestions to improve the PMO process and identified needed improvements in analysis at the User Requirements and Functional Requirements levels.

Confidential

• Assume management of an in-progress portfolio of PMO projects. Performed SDLC project life cycle using Primavera, SharePoint, Excel for the concurrent projects:
• 550 Incentive for Solar Water Heating System
• Photovoltaic Power for Schools
• Residential Photovoltaic Power
• Commercial Photovoltaic Power
• Low-Income Residential Solar Heating Program
• Develop eCommerce Web pages for customers to apply online for participation in these Programs
• Tablet computers with application for outside network maintenance
• CEMS - Chartered project for upgrading the Continuous Emissions Monitoring System, including Scope of Work and Project Plan, SharePoint site, and staffing plan in Primavera.