SUMMARY

• A highly ambitious Senior Professional and Certified Scrum Master with 30+ years’ experience utilizing Agile, Six Sigma, and SDLC project management methodologies and managing projects within designated timeframes and budgets.
• Strong track record on executing duties in a variety of industries, including healthcare and banking.
• Proficient in project scoping, team building, collaborating with business leads and project managers, managing deadlines, understanding and articulating priorities, architecting solutions, and coding and delivering results.
• Adept at presenting to the C - suite, as well as analyzing current programs, including performance, diagnosis, and troubleshooting of problem programs, and designing solutions to problematic programming.
• Multi-tasker with the innate ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Project Management, SDLC/Waterfall, Risk Management, Change Management

Languages/Environments: Six-Sigma, Agile CSM, Agile Framework, SDLC/Waterfall, JIRA, Java, Java Server Pages(JSP), C, C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, UML, Visio, SQL, HTML, HTTP, Servlets, JDBC, ODBC, XML, Oracle, Informix, SQL Server, DB2, Apache, JrunOperating Systems: Windows 3,X/95/98/NT/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10, Unix, IOS, Android

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a liaison between the project team and the business stakeholder
• Act as a Scrum Master for one Agile team consisting of 7 team members
• Act as a facilitator for all meetings including daily scrums, team retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Planning meetings
• Mentored less experienced team members in the use of Agile Framework
• Implemented JIRA for project management to track product Epics, Stories, Sprints as well as generating various status reports
• Interfaced with Product Owner to maintain product backlog grooming
• Interfaced with business stakeholder to remove impediments escalated from daily scrum meetings
• Worked with team members to ensure buy in of the Agile Framework
• Worked directly with team to breakdown the business requirements into stories for product backlog
• Worked directly with Product Owner to define the specific stories to be accomplished in each 2-week sprint
• Maintained metrics that provided visibility to the business stakeholder on team level progress and quality
• Created an environment where the sprint backlogs were reasonable and doable in a fun environment
• Maintained sprint burndown charts to identify where impediments were occurring and restructured the sprint backlog grooming to reprioritize the product backlog
• Facilitate self-organizing scrum teams where the team learns from its mistakes and implements the knowledge as the project progresses

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements from business stakeholder (Financial Advisor)
• Generated Technical specifications from business requirements and communicated them to the development team.
• Worked with development team to generate technical design document
• Facilitated weekly status meetings
• Facilitated and managed code reviews
• Worked with development team to self-organize tasks and estimate task times
• Interfaced with financial vendors to acquire necessary data to generate and integrate necessary APIs to gather required data
• Generated, Maintained and updated Project Timeline
• Implemented SDLC/Waterfall methodology for Project framework
• Interfaced with business stakeholder to remove impediments escalated from development team
• Worked with team members to ensure project is on schedule
• Managed and maintained project budget to ensure the project was completed within budget constraints
• Maintained metrics that provided visibility to the business stakeholder on team level progress and quality
• Created an environment where the task deadlines were reasonable and doable in a fun environment

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Gathered Business requirements from business stakeholder
• Generated Technical specifications from business requirements
• Worked with development team to generate technical design document
• Researched and implemented online credit card processing plug-ins
• Facilitated weekly status meetings
• Facilitated and managed code reviews
• Worked with development team to self-organize tasks and estimate task times
• Generated, Maintained and updated Project Timeline and Change Management using MS-Project
• Implemented SDLC/Waterfall methodology for Project framework
• Interfaced with business stakeholder to remove impediments escalated from development team
• Implemented Login as well as financial data security
• Managed and maintained project budget to ensure the project was completed within budget constraints
• Maintained metrics that provided visibility to the business stakeholder on team level progress and quality

Confidential

Upper School Computer Science Teacher

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance, instruction, and information on:
• Computer Fundamentals
• Agile Framework
• SDLC/Waterfall Methodology
• Business and technical requirements/story development, design and delivery support for Agile projects,
• Completion of business stories, technical stories(tasks), use cases, process maps, integration diagrams, and technical design by sharing and collaborating information with MS-SharePoint.
• C++ Computer Programming that implemented the Agile framework,
• Smartphone Programming for both IOS and Android environments
• CompTIA A+ Certification prep class.