SUMMARY

• An accomplished and highly organized Servant Leader with over 15 years of experience in managing, developing, and delivering enterprise software solutions on time and budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Agile teams.
• A Certified Scrum Master and an expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules with a proven track record of bringing enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused while delivering innovative solutions in rapidly evolving and diverse environments.
• A results - oriented Solution Delivery Program Manager with a passion for aligning IT strategy and enterprise architecture with business goals and objectives.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• IC Agile Certified Professional
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scum Master
• Transformation Leader and Agile Coach
• Solution Delivery and Program Management
• SAFe Specialist
• DevOps Integration
• Business Relationship Management
• Vendor Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS: Windows 10, Solaris, UNIX/LINUX, Android and iOS.

Programming Languages: Java.

Scripting / Data: JavaScript, HTML5, JSON, XML.

Development Tools and Technologies: HP Agile Manager, Rally, TFS, IBM RSA, ORACLE.

Software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Visio, Adobe Acrobat DC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Technology Consulting Manager: Agile Coach and Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Transformation Ops Lead and Agile Coach: Managed product development and delivery efforts on Enterprise and Program levels through adoption and transformation to Agile methodologies including Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban for a major Pharmaceutical client. Implemented and coached personnel to run Release Trains as well as individual teams. Organized cross functional teams of 9 to 11 people to comprise a robust Release Train of agile groups of 80 people to work in cadence with synchronized release and change management. Helped with Request-For-Proposal and contract writing for new engagement. Contributed to Agile Way Foundation curriculum and conducted formal classroom teaching for professionals and new hires.
• Agile Coach: Led a SAFe transformation with a major Fortune 500 Financial Services company. Organized Value Streams and PI Planning and managed Scrum teams’ iterations implementation. Managed release and change schedules providing Continuous Integration and Delivery integrating with an ongoing efforts for DevOps undertaking.

Confidential, New York, NY

Corporate Vice President, Scrum Master and Program Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Pioneered Scrum implementation with a number of key enterprise projects using the Agile Methodology specifically geared towards an easier transition from Waterfall to Scrum. Scrum Master activities and team ceremonies to lead the effort of transforming and directing the department towards utilizing Agile across its projects that resulted in enhanced productivity and produced high quality software.
• Obtained business partners’ commitments to convert the sponsored projects to Scrum. Resulted in a spectrum of business-technology teams who worked in a close collaboration under the Scrum Framework to produce value driven deliverables improving productivity by more than 200%.
• Coached and mentored over 20 Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Developers in the adoption of Agile software development practices to become a cohesive, high performing and self-organized team.
• Designed and conducted “train the trainer” sessions and provided ongoing support in Agile methodology and guided the newly formed scrum teams through the process to becoming independent and self-reliant Agile units running projects within Enterprise Technology department.
• Proactively helped the team identify and resolve impediments in a timely and effective manner.
• Planned, organized, and facilitated daily stand ups, sprint/release planning sessions, sprint retrospectives, and other Agile-related ceremonies for up to two to three concurrent projects.
• Modeled and managed supply/demand based organization to provide solutions for highly distributed projects via dynamic business effort and scope evaluations, resource selection and talent assignment processes.
• Promoted and participated in the continuous improvement of structure, processes and tooling to enable the teams to deliver more value.
• Redesigned the core support model for in-house, hosted, and SaaS applications to enhance and expedite project skills appropriate talent selection and assignment.
• Maintained continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and made recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
• Reviewed project proposal statements to compile estimates and made budget recommendations.
• Prepared executive reports and facilitated status review meetings with key stakeholders and executive staff on project progress.
• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple key projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives, delivering them on-time and budget.
• Performed risk and impact analysis of infrastructure software and hardware upgrades against business needs and schedules to minimize or eliminate conflicts or system outages.
• Designed, developed and documented Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans with multiple Business and IT departments for 23 systems across entire Corporate Communication Applications Portfolio.

Confidential

Assistant Vice President, Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Institute system wide solution designs, development of core components, training and leadership for junior developers, support and management of daily operations of the applications and infrastructure upkeep.
• Led a design and development team of web applications featuring transactional, communications, social media, and content integration portlets (JAVA, ORACLE, TCL, JSON, IBM WebSphere Portal).
• Designed Enterprise Technology Content Management upgrade to Open Text platform. The solution was a full service platform for all web content management implementations (JAVA, OpenText).
• Consulted for various projects as web developer working at UBS, Vignette, Merrill Lynch, Sharp Electronics, Cablevision, AT&T, and City University of New York.