SUMMARY

• Agile Project Manager with 10 years’ experience working as a strategic partner performing all agile roles as needed. Managed over 100 projects spanning multiple work streams over cross functional teams, cross regional project managers and IT directors for Confidential Ocean to CSF migration.
• Led strategic initiatives using Agile, Scrum, Kanban, waterfall, iterative and other project methodologies, continuously reporting to all stakeholders.
• Prepared, marketed and executed project plans.
• Delivered projects on time and on budget, leveraging a hands on approach utilizing my technical skills.
• Prioritized weekly work for agile roles and internal and external teams. Built financial services enterprise distributed systems and divested legacy applications in media, communications and financial services.
• Managed cross functional, cross scrum and cross product teams for divesture of legacy applications while adhering to compliance.
• Past portfolios included infrastructure and software changes in Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems as well as Java, C, C++, C# and SQL programming languages.
• Defined Governance and Target Operation Model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware/OS: Solaris, LINUX, and Windows, AWS

Programming: C, C++, UNIX shell scripts, InstallScript, make, gcc, Perl, awk, sed, C#, JavaScript, Perl, Css, .Net

Software: Jira, Excel, MS Outlook, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office tools, MS Project, SharePoint, Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, New York

Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Wrote, reviewed and validated stories for agile sprint planning meetings consisting of developers and graphic designers.
• Budgeted project, allocated resources and managed risk.
• Led Scrum Team consisting of web developers and graphic designers.
• Coordinated web designers, video content creators, production as well as backend developers to create site.
• Tracked burndown and velocity.
• Led requirements gathering sessions through interviews, meetings and focus groups.
• Prepared detailed specifications for 3rd party to develop backend crowdfunding platform.
• Reviewed requirements and test scripts to prioritize defects and verified application integrity.
• Wrote procedures for managing online campaigns.

Confidential, New York, New York

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned Ocean CSF migration from a series of waterfall projects to Kanban by indirectly managing cross functional team of Ops Tech, Devops and development teams.
• Defined Governance and Target Operating Model to divest mission critical software legacy infrastructure to next generation software platform for C# and SQL applications.
• Transformed Governance Model to work in progress model to manage scope and workload of direct reports.
• Trimmed backlog to facilitate training of new staff.
• Developed and maintained timelines of on shore and off shore cross functional ITS teams.
• Led technical discussions to divest .Net development to new platforms amongst cross regional teams and Devops.
• Provided management with ability to track status in real time to facilitate reporting through SharePoint site
• Reevaluated scope to discover that portfolio consisted of 170 software projects instead of 20 across Ops Tech and Asset Management.
• Provided guidance to new SDLC model for managers and teams in Operations Technology, CIG, Risk, Market Data, Regulatory and Tax, Asset Management and Investment Management.
• Revised IT Sourcing strategy to include outsourced additional contractors for updated software portfolios.

Confidential, New York, New York

Agile Project Manager / Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led cross - functional agile team to revise infrastructure team processing of firewall and security requests, resulting in a platform that led to a 15% decrease in late closures and a 40% increase tickets handled.
• Led development of Kaltura platform for ABC watch and ABC.com for online and video streaming.
• Managed vendor relationship of AWS and Verizon with ABC studios and affiliates.
• Coordinated code reviews after sprints to measure code coverage and reduce technical debt.
• Led standups to track, update and maintain sprint logs and stay ahead of team issues.
• Interfaced with HR and architects to define requirements for payroll system in adherence to state, federal and contractual regulations.
• Assembled a team of .Net developers, DBAs and testers to leverage SAPs api to architect a new internal payroll application.
• Managed operational committees for the deployment and development of Java, .Net and C# code.
• Authored business cases and drove projects to improve deployment automation, decreasing overall outage time and time to market by 40%.
• Led and mediated technical discussions between vendors and stakeholders on emerging technologies.
• Led all agile meetings, including sprint planning, review, scrum and retrospectives.

Confidential, New York, New York

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• As product owner, coordinated and implemented initiatives to deliver business and technical solutions, maintaining a $750,000 budget and financial outlook to ensure compliance to corporate standards.
• Established Project Management Office (PMO), which consolidated metrics and dashboard communications for C#, Java and SQL development and utilized agile methodology for general ledger system.
• Coded trigger scripts in perl and python.
• Managed customization of Change Control system for C# and Java code, decreasing response time by 20% and client-reported defects by 30%.
• Scrum master for team improving business processes and strategic execution to improve analytics dashboard.
• As agile project lead, utilized SaFE and managed resources and requirements, including sub-contractors and more than 25 C and Java developers, testers, and business analysts that generated over $10 million in revenue.
• Coordinated development teams across multiple organizations using ClearCase best case principles, troubleshooting issues in UCM and base ClearCase environment.
• Negotiated terms and conditions for a $1.5 million application enhancement that resulted in the purchase and support of Accurev, a new development tool.
• Managed $1 million budget to revamp delivery and project management processes for military biometric access software in .net and Java.
• Led agile sprint meetngs.