PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for a cloud services line to develop integrated project plans to deliver cloud infrastructure to internal application project teams and external Deloitte Clients.
• Served as Scrum Master for an ID management solution team to create a multiple (t - shirt sized) version solution for both commercial and enterprise systems.
• Ambassador to ID Management project Scrum of Scrums as as application team SM and AWS cloud environments SME.
• Manage changes in project scope, ensure deliverables and dependencies are properly managed, identify potential risks and issues and develop contingency plans.
• In addition to the regular environments (Dev, Test, QA, POC, Prod) my team also created DevOps environments using cloud and Docker and serviced DevOps teams.
• Served as PM for ServiceNow development and implementation for the Deloitte Cloud Service Line.
• Project and ITIL service management performed in Jira and ServiceNow.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Project Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Defined and managed project scope, schedules, budget, and procurement to create a multiple GIS applications migrating legacy stand-alone applications to ESRI-based custom applications.
• Introduced Agile Scrum development to the Streets Department development team and coached all participants to success.
• Coached and mentored teams, resolved conflicts, facilitated all Scrum ceremonies and most lower level technical decision making team meetings.
• Effectively tracked the progress of all teams, including burn down, velocity, release forecasting, and cost variances.
• Performed the initial planning and implementation of Lean Agile development at the enterprise level using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Maintained situational awareness and tracked teams’ maturity levels.to ensure continuous improvement.
• Managed the migration of Microsoft Access applications and database records to Azteca

Confidential, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum master for two teams tasked to update the enterprise policy renewal process and implement a Business Rules Management System (JBOSS BRMS).
• Worked with Product Owners to define overall release schedules, budgets, risk assessments and procurement management that support business goals in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Effectively tracked the progress of all teams, including burn down, velocity, release forecasting.
• Used JIRA and Confluence for tracking sprint project progress and to track communication among Scrum Team and other stakeholders

Confidential, Bala Cynwyd, PA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum master for a team integrating an eCommerce application (Global Indemnity's Quick Rater) with Vertafore’s Policy Issuance SaaS application using RESTful web services written to the ACORD standard.
• Facilitated grooming sessions, daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives and tracked team progress using burn down, velocity, release forecasting.
• In addition to my scrum master duties I wrote software specifications from the backend of Quick Rater (C#/XML) to IBM mainframe as I was the only one available familiar with all the technologies involved.

Confidential, Wayne, PA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master on two related teams to expose the main product, Alineo, to an SOA environment for integration into varied enterprise environments.
• Held product backlog grooming sessions with all team members to define epics and user stories.
• Facilitated daily standups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Team conducted TDD/ATDD and Continuous Integration using JUNIT, Jenkins, SVN, Maven, and Cucumber Selenium.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums with ambassadors from the five teams on my project.
• Tracked the user stories, product backlog, burndown and velocity in TeamForge.

Confidential, Collegeville, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a project to create a web-based application to register all Wyeth applications for authentication, authorization and SSO on the Confidential global directories (Active Directory and PXED)
• Worked with developers on application architecture to help refine schedule and analyze risk.
• Facilitated global requirements workshops to produce a low-risk solution in the short time allotted.
• Authored Functional Specifications and communicated them to development and test teams.
• Checked data migration requirements from the phasing out directories and ensuring existing registrations.

Confidential, Oceanport, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed project plan to create Simpana 9 modules to manage cloud storage.
• Defined and managed project scope, schedule, cost, and risk that support business goals in collaboration with all stakeholders for a Legal Hold (customizable SOX) module.
• Managed project using Quality Center (HP ALM).

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ

Data Center Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of IT professionals for corporate and classified military data centers.
• Moved desktops to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) using terminals and VMware ESX 4.2 on HP c7000 blade system at the Arizona site.
• Program and Project Manager for all data center initiatives such as server refresh, major OS and software upgrades, and corporate intranet improvements.
• Introduced Kanban framework to triage and perform a mix of tasks prioritizing help desk tasks with project tasks.
• Troubleshot Tier IV problems escalated to me in the constantly changing network environment.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope and deliverables that support customer requirements for providing turnkey solutions for airline, banking, pharmaceutical, publishing, and government customers.
• Member customer engagement team for several contracts in the US, Europe, and Israel.
• Conducted system tests for heterogeneous systems (mainframes fronted by Windows servers).
• Administered development lab and assisted in EMC product integration testing.

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with a hardware engineer to develop MVS drivers for the IBM 3995 Optical Library Dataserver.
• Deciphered multi-layered maintenance codes and wrote diagnostic routines.
• Tested Optical Library interface with various IBM mainframe models and configurations.