OBJECTIVES:

• Program level Scrum or Scum Master opportunity in Information Systems where my experience in Agile Program management, customer management, systems development, organization, and motivating technical personnel will provide timely and economic systems solutions to customer’s business problems.

SUMMARY

• Experienced in leading software development deliverables through the Agile/Scrum/Kanban cycle.
• Experienced with Agile tools Jira/Confluence and VersionOne, Portfolio Management Tools Planview
• Extensive experience in Agile Transformation for large enterprise, Systems Design and Development and Risk Management & Quality Control.
• Experience with Cloud based solutions such as Salesforce in large enterprise implementations
• Experienced in Infrastructure Development and Optimization as well as Disaster Recovery Management.
• Experienced in negotiating commitments and issue resolution with both clients and technical organizations.
• Skilled in managing and motivating technical teams in developing projects that utilize various platforms and computing architectures.
• Experienced in managing a team of technical consultants and business analysts and ensuring the transfer of knowledge to in house staff.
• Top Secret Clearance (TS/SCI)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ellicott City, MD

Release Train Engineer / Scrum Master / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage a $150 million, Agile/Scrum transformation for Confidential Group’s Front Office Delivery Applications as Release Train Engineer/Program Manager; led efforts to transform the software delivery methodology for six major applications (products) and systems using Salesforce supporting Confidential Group’s sales and recruiting practices.
• Oversaw staffing for the team of 100+ divided into seven cross - functional Agile/Scrum teams, assuring the teams is compliant with agile scrum framework/ADM
• Facilitate process activities of Agile software development/scrum encouraging and supporting the teams to self-manage their iterations using a servant-leader management style, while removing barriers to effectiveness
• Implement quarterly release planning process utilizing SAFe principles. Managed releases/product increments using Jira Portfolio and working to transition program to VersionOne.
• Enforced Kanban principles as a scrum master that resulted in reduction of Cycle time by 20% thus increasing team's throughput in less than 8 weeks. Schedule, plan and facilitate collaboration per the Scrum framework, daily stand-up meetings, regular iteration reviews and planning meetings between the team, Product Owner, and stakeholders
• Acted as Scrum Master for Scrum and Kanban Teams, managed work with Jira/Confluence, and currently working to transition teams to VersionOne
• Ensure that identified agile software progress metrics are in place and that the team and product owner are enabled to input data for said metrics. Responsible for collating and preparing metric data on a regular basis using repeatable methods
• Worked with cross-functional Teams to optimize efficiency of Salesforce Development and delivery
• Managed the adoption and implementation of a comprehensive Agile/Scrum framework, enabling faster time-to-market delivery of Salesforce based solutions.
• Salesforce tools include CRM, Communities, Applicant Tracking, Marketing Cloud, and Enterprise Search all built on top of a TIBCO/SOA platform.
• Directed a $62,000,000 five-year data center modernization initiative, reporting to the CIO and CFO successfully achieving all project milestones on-time and within budget
• Managed the design and construction of a new 10,000 square foot, Tier 3+ production data center to support Confidential Group’s production operations, employing an energy-efficient, modular, scale-based design to meet changing business needs.
• Held full accountability for all technology selection, including stacks to enable a build/migrate approach; conducted proof-of-concept tests with Hewlett Packard Matrix and 3Par Storage, Oracle Exadata and Exalogic, IBM, and VCE.
• Managed the selection and implementation of associated platforms and managed the seamless transition from existing platforms.
• Developed and implemented disaster recovery solutions to ensure the maintenance and integrity of systems and applications; tested recovery speeds, meeting all recovery time and recovery point objectives.
• Managed a Disaster Recovery Data Center selection and migration program, including defining capacity requirements for Confidential ’ DR and non-production computing operations, performing trend analysis, and evaluating growth models; utilized findings to predict data center growth over the next ten years.
• Designed a requirement selection model to facilitate site selection, incorporating collocation, lease, and build options ultimately choosing a wholesale collocation solution.
• Captured five-year savings of $5+ million and mitigated data center power and space limitations by planning the migration and relocation of a 2,500-square foot non-production data center to the new site over four days with all critical operations restored per service terms enabling the implementation of disaster recovery capabilities.
• Oversaw Confidential Group data center computing efficiency improvements; decommissioned the obsolete computing infrastructure and implemented a new virtual infrastructure encompassing message archiving, systems management and virtualization, storage upgrade and virtualization, server upgrade, and rack consolidation.
• Managed a 40+-member cross functional team to complete one the largest PeopleSoft hardware database implementations in the US, over nine months; managed the technical refresh to the existing Sun computing environment and upgrade to Oracle 9.2.0.4

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as the project manager, supporting Verizon’s core business practices; led application analysis and architecture, development, review, costing, hardware acquisition and installation, testing, release, software deployment, and application launch
• Planned, managed, and implemented 30+ mission critical UNIX/Intel infrastructure engineering and system integration projects, including the deployment of a $20 million single sign-on platform.
• Managed more than six projects simultaneously in a 100% matrix environment with cross-functional teams of 25 to 37 staff across 14 geographically dispersed organizations in the United States and India.
• Developed, and deliver new project management process trained 30-member project management team.