Summary

Agile Practitioner SCRUM Master Solutions Analyst Innovative results-driven technology manager with over 10 years of proven Project Management experience. Problem solver and mentor with a passion for technology grasping both big picture conceptualizations and atom level details for robust implementations. Invests in close partnerships with business unit and client executives. Excels in the development and motivation of highly effective teams that create 'lovable' products to meet and exceed strategic objectives

Skills Summary

Impact

• Identify and maximize value of product and development team output to maximize ROI
• Streamlined product development lifecycle increasing efficiency by 30 through adoption of lean agile development methodologies mated with continuous release and embedded quality assurance practices. Complete agile lifecycle
• Accelerated new feature release to over 200 within quarters increasing company wide competitiveness by following early feedback and early reviews of prototypes
• Utilized agile project management frameworks to cooperatively steer and prioritize product directions
• Leveraged cloud and private cloud infrastructure components elastic demand to reduce infrastructure costs by over 50 while increasing peak capacity by several orders of magnitude 100 times more peak capacity

Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior Project manager

Responsible for development of suite of commercial software products, product ownership, development and customer delivery for SAAS Applications utilized by over 500 schools nationally. Supporting multiple agile teams serving as lead product manager using disciplined agile methodologies.

Agile Analyst

• Created robust ERP K-12 suite of applications using sensible and evolved agile methodologies. Leveraged customer participation in design of applications of some of the largest school systems
• Create and maintain product backlog
• Prioritize and sequence stories / backlog to maximize ROI
• Elaboration of user stories and sprint themes
• Requirements collection, user story development and wireframe documentation
• Monitor sprint and overall product progress
• Communicate statuses and progress to management, clients and stakeholders
• Systems modeling and metrics based decision making BI

project manager

• Use of Lean agile processes Kanban to manage services delivery and maintenance of service level agreements
• Scrum agile practices
• Utilized Lean Agile practices as processes evolved to better suite organization development
• Managed agile teams towards development of product on scalable platform to support high transaction volumes over 100,000 per day and over 10,000 user concurrency. Product building blocks included, Microsoft SQL RDMBS, Microsoft and Tableau BI solutions, Apache Cassandra, Backbone JS application driven by Python API with .net hardware interfaces and embedded appliances.
• Managed prioritization of defects and scheduling resolutions into upcoming sprints

Confidential

Scrum Master

• Lead multiple scrum teams towards developing a complex data aggregation and analytics application
• Mentored and guided teams through scrum process organizing and facilitating daily, stand ups, sprint planning and sprint retrospective sessions.
• Utilized and monitored metrics to account for team velocity and story estimation accuracy
• Facilitated and lead team through adoption of scrum process to derive suitable sprint duration, definition of done and prioritization of stories
• Designed agile process to eliminate use of weak agile practices such as hardening iterations etc
• Identified and Resolved client's production bottlenecks and resolved latent capacity and performance problems resulting in acquisition of the technology by one of the marquee customers.
• Building blocks included use of in memory key value stores, document databases and open RDBMS solutions including MySQL and PostgreSQL

Confidential Services Delivery Manager

• Responsible for implementation, monitoring, infrastructure and services delivery for all managed clients, including apps for Confidential and other large financial clients using lean agile methodologies
• Project building blocks including Cisco switching and Firewall technologies, Oracle RAC Microsoft SQL backends, F5 Akamai application accelerators, NetApp and EMC storage area networks and Windows and Linux operating systems. These complex systems had to be setup repeatedly for new customers involving various teams. Used ticketing and Kanban to create an agile implementation approach to streamline implementations.
• Lead product development of custom Firewall services offering revolutionizing value to customers, and increasing profitability by 35 , while reducing Operations Center support load.

Project Manager

• Managed a large project involving a lengthy time span and several teams, to gain certification for the data center and associated operations to be awarded SAS70 compliance. Worked with teams of independent auditors, infrastructure, facilities and security teams to document processes and implement change control processes.

IT Manager

Web Software Development Manager

• Product owner and project manager for Online syllabus initiative involving representatives from all academic areas within the college
• Developed several college wide and departmental application initiatives using Extreme Programming methodologies including
• Steering committee co-chair and project manager for Campus Web Portal and Student Single Signon solution to streamline the student navigation
• Numerous departmental applications using JAD sessions and agile co-development techniques

Technology Manager

• Migration project to switch Meta Directory implementation from Novell NDS to Microsoft Active Directory
• Switch messaging groupware and transfer users to Microsoft Exchange
• Legacy shared ring Networks to Fast and Gigiabit Ethernet switched networks
• Created a network solutions consulting and Internet Service Provider practices including acquisition of talent and development of services delivery portfolios
• Built service revenues from zero to 1 million within a three year span