SUMMARY:

Distinguished 20+ year career as an executive manager, director of software development and, project manager as well as an IT and government professional in the public and private sector - As a advanced Scrum Master & Project Management Professional Certification Candidate, I am an expert in leading projects, creating the vision, identifying partnership opportunities, creating high-quality and cohesive teams, delivering on time project management results, while keeping service delivery high and cost down. Willing to relocate.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Antonio, Tex

Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall project delivery, preparing project plans, performing cost/benefit analysis, project management, Scrum/Agile Project Management techniques.
• Responsible for facilitating the scrum process within the different departments for 3 different local and international teams, using 3 different scrum teams.
• Work with Product Owners and stakeholders on product backlogs and organizing sprint logs.
• These tasks were performed using IBM RTC software, cloud version.
• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, sprint and release planning, sprint demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Facilitating discussion and conflict resolution in order to improve team productivity while promoting continuous improvement.
• Updating Agile (scrum) metrics tracking in RTC to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Assisting team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Utilized Scrum /Agile Project Management techniques to manage overall project delivery, budget, preparing project plans, performing cost/benefit, burn down, analysis and project management, as well as developing project-level client relationships.
• Acted as an agile coach and mentor to share SAFe and Lean methodologies and principles, for team members.

Confidential, Healdton, OK

City Manager

Responsibilities:

• Directs and manages the operations of the City of 3,000 population and $3.5 million dollar budget; provides direction to all City functions and departments falling under the authority of the City Council;
• Responsible for overall project delivery, preparing project plans, performing cost/benefit analysis, project management, Scurm/Agile Project Management techniques of a new IT department.
• Supervises all subordinate department heads and administrative staff; hires, trains, evaluates performance, and disciplines senior management personnel and oversees this process for all City employees through subordinate managers; establishes policies and procedures for the overall City functions; oversees and participates in the resolution of inquiries and complaints from the public and other organizations; and establishes, monitors and evaluates progress towards goals and objectives of the administration.
• Meets with City Council members and the Mayor to review and discuss projects, programs, and related matters impacting city government.
• Attends City Council meetings.
• Performs financial and managerial analyses;
• Responsible for the preparation of the annual budget; reviews departmental budget requests from all City functions for inclusion in the administrative recommendation to the City Council; coordinates the scheduling of budget meetings; and ensures compliance with all legal and procedural requirements. Develop public financial projections and forecasts.
• Created and integrated public revenue and financial models.
• Acts as the municipal airport manager. Performed project management functions for road, water line, and sewer line repairs.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall project delivery, preparing project plans, performing cost/benefit analysis, project management, Scurm/Agile Project Management techniques, (ASP.Net MVC, C#, Entity Framework, SQL Server, etc..).
• Responsible for facilitating the scrum process within the different departments for 5 different teams, using 5 different scrum boards.
• Work with Product Owners on product backlogs and organizing sprint logs.
• These tasks were performed using Jira software, cloud version.
• Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, sprint and release planning, sprint demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.
• Facilitating discussion and conflict resolution in order to improve team productivity while promoting continuous improvement.
• Updating Agile (scrum) metrics tracking in Jira to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Assisting team in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Utilized Scrum /Agile Project Management techniques to manage overall project delivery, budget, preparing project plans, performing cost/benefit, burn down, analysis and project management, as well as developing project-level client relationships.
• Performed requirements and story definition, process analysis and formulated systems scope.

Confidential, Conroe, TX

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall project delivery, preparing project plans, performing cost/benefit analysis, project management, Scurm/Agile Project Management techniques, administration and implementations of SharePoint sites and Microsoft Office 365.
• Responsible for coordination and creation of SharePoint team sites. Used server central administration to manage, create and maintain user roles, security, monitor server, etc.
• Assist with the technical aspects of building and distributing financial, and operational reports using MS Access, MS Excel, and MS SharePoint.
• Created and managed relational databases.
• Coordinated and managed US and Mexico PDC bit inventory;
• Created and implemented the companies fixed asset records management policy and system.

Confidential, Beverly Hills, CA

Scrum Master/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for facilitating the scrum process within the IT department. Work with Product Owners on product backlogs and organizing sprint logs.
• Managed team of Microsoft Web Technology stack and programming languages. (ASP.Net MVC, C#, Entity Framework, SQL Server, etc..).
• These tasks were performed using Jira software, cloud version managed the implementation and migration of SharePoint Server 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
• Utilized Scrum /Agile Project Management techniques to manage overall project delivery, budget, preparing project plans, performing cost/benefit, burn down, analysis and project management, as well as developing project-level client relationships.
• Performed requirements definition, process analysis and formulated systems scope and objectives based on user needs including applicable business systems requirements.
• Documentation of requirements, specifications, use cases, UML modeling, and using storyboards.
• Performed duties of SharePoint & SQL Server database administration as needed. Assisted in setting up SharePoint metadata and term-store management.
• Worked with users to convert folder structures into metadata based views.
• Responsible for coordination and creation of SharePoint team sites.
• Used SharePoint central administration to manage, create and maintain user roles, security, monitor server, etc.
• Created custom SharePoint workflows using SharePoint designer.
• Delivered project results and training presentations to project stakeholders.
• Responsible for training end users. Facilitated Joint Application Development sessions, analyzes, correlates, trends and generates a variety of multiyear reports and other related correspondence.

Confidential, New Braunfels, TX

County Commissioner

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for developing mission and goals, establishing partnerships, and managing operational infrastructure.
• Established overall strategic long-range and overall fiscal plans.
• Reviewed, approved and implemented counties annual budget-income, expenditures, and capital assets
• Managed a team of direct supervisors and coordinated direct staff of 570 employees engineers, IT professionals, software developers, product managers, business development specialists.
• Championed the introduction of technology for elected officials,
• Recruited and appointed a new IT director,
• Established internal IT policies that improved customer satisfaction rating from a C- rating to an A++ rating,
• Coordinated the implementation of a paperless court agenda using IPads.
• Reviewed and approved request for proposals.