SUMMARY

• Over ten years of experience with Fortune 500 and public sector clients in managing large software projects
• Outstanding relationship building and product ownership skills in servicing multi - million-dollar transformations
• Knowledgeable in web, mobile, security, and big data solutions for telecom, financial, and healthcare industry
• Ability to present program level status to senior management and stakeholders in accessible manner
• Conducted team training on agile framework and refined organizational best practices for project delivery
• Built and prioritized backlog of user stories that helped drive most business value and reduce customer effort
• Negotiated between development team and clients to deliver high value features within given timeframe
• Maintained skill development of staff and conducted interviews for hiring new team members
• Monitored project budget and ensured cost, features, and milestones are portrayed in statement of work
• Coached business and development teams on agile principles and DevOps transition
• Reviewed QA test plans to align with acceptance criteria and facilitate testing and adherence to requirements
• Managed overall vendor relationship from an implementation perspective across multiple projects
• Overseen release planning, resource budgeting, performance tracking, removing of blockers, vendor communication, process automation, product roadmap, change request, continuous integration, and delivery
• Facilitated teams to understand Safe and Kanban methodologies to mature as a self-organizing unit
• Contributed to successful implementation of corporate initiatives across enterprise digital channels
• Presented at steering meetings and addressed concerns through clear and pro-active communication
• Resolved issues and encouraged cooperation between teams with varying goals and objectives
• Built team and stakeholder trust in Safe framework and project best practices through hands-on coaching
• Evaluated vendor responses and recommended selections which resulted in cost savings and better quality
• Managed stakeholder expectations and followed up on action items from sprint demos and retrospectives
• Enhanced Community of Practice by engaging and training team members and vendors across organization

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Tools Jira
• Confluence
• GitHub
• Jenkins
• Xamarin
• Selenium
• Rally
• JUnit
• Java
• Swift
• Hadoop
• Hive
• IBM DSX
• SQL
• Bamboo
• SVN
• MVC
• Docker
• CSS
• HTML
• Ruby
• Python
• Mongo
• Cassandra
• PHP
• ASP.NET
• Eclipse
• Node.JS
• Linux
• SEO
• Adobe
• Android iOS
• SDK
• Salesforce
• AWS
• Azure
• TDD
• JSON
• SAS
• Visual Studio
• InDesign
• JSON
• API
• CMS
• WordPress
• Google Big Query & Analytics
• Tableau
• Apache
• J2EE
• Kentico
• AngularJS
• SAP
• Hortonworks
• Blue Prism
• MapInfo
• GI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile Coach / Product Owner / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead transition to agile and provide reporting for multi-million dollar financial, telecom, and healthcare projects
• Review software development projects and provide program level status updates to senior management
• Monitor program and project financial budget and coach stakeholders to relay key agile best practices
• Manage development and refinement of product backlog stories with business and technology partners
• Facilitate discussion between teams and business owners to collaborate on creation and estimation of stories
• Liaise with QA team to ensure acceptance criteria and test plans are in place to accommodate testing
• Foster continued growth of team capabilities and secure stakeholder commitment to delivery of projects
• Facilitate all aspects of Safe agile development, from product planning to retrospectives
• Research competitor and industry landscape in order to build and maintain product MVP
• Work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases, and roll-help the product vision
• Manage project financials to ensure that project delivery expectations are clearly met and relayed
• Direct teams through test driven development principles and continuous integration best practices
• Assessed value, developed cases, and prioritized epics to ensure work focused on maximum value items
• Identify and mitigate impediments in development process through working with teams and management
• Provide collaborative leadership to agile teams that comprised of internal staff as well as vendors
• Relay to key stakeholders and senior executives project budget update and performance
• Coach and reinforce agile methodology and framework to team members and key stakeholders
• Engage subject matter experts and associated teams so that deliverables for sprints are not impacted
• Facilitate sharing of development ideas, best practices, and assisted teams in reaching consensus
• Employ information radiator tools such as Jira and physical boards to provide transparency on projects
• Facilitate sprint planning through to retrospective sessions for development teams and stakeholders
• Oversee agile transformation and corporate knowledge transfer to vendor teams

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Managed multi-million-dollar enterprise software projects and business intelligence applications
• Consulted with Fortune 500 clients and stakeholders to establish software development goals and timelines
• Relayed project status to senior management and refined user stories to present in sprint planning meetings
• Assisted in gathering feature requirements and helped product owners confirm software features
• Was responsible for coding, debugging, and maintenance of large-scale enterprise reporting applications
• Created working relationship and effective communication with vendors, management, and business teams
• Coordinated scrum cadence and discussions to facilitate communication with team and stakeholders
• Monitored and relayed to senior management the project budget update and financial performance
• Improved and monitored product development process - software quality, team spirits, and vendor relations
• Managed day-to-day operational aspects including blockers, action items, dependencies, and change
• Promoted agile development methodologies within product teams as well as organization