PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Specialist in large - scale Project Management, Program Management, Agile, Lean, Waterfall SDLC, Application Development, Design, Coding Standards, User Interface design and standards, Root Cause Analysis, Technical Architecture, Implementation of commercial software, Business Process Re-engineering and consulting and Business Continuity.
• Experienced in Data Center development projects with Business Continuity Planning. SharePoint / Share Point implementation and collaboration.

Specialties and Accreditations:

• Project Management - Prince 2/PMP
• Six Sigma and CAP (Change Acceptance)
• Root Cause and Corrective Action
• Application Coding Standards
• Agile Product Owner
• Agile Scrum Master
• Application Design and Documentation
• User Interface Experience and Design
• Team Leadership
• Object Oriented Design
• Java J2EE Architecture
• Jira, Version-One, Rally
• Sun Certified Java Developer
• Infrastructure migration

EXPERIENCE:

Senior Project Manager and Agile Coach

Responsibilities:

• Application Design sessions;
• User Interface Design sessions;
• Maintaining Agile processes and ceremonies;
• Design sessions to reverse engineer Themis application architecture and data architecture;
• Identifying business rules;
• Validating design approach;
• Activity planning and scheduling;
• Manage cost to schedule;
• Risk and Issue management ;
• Removing obstacles and impediments ;
• Satisfying the existing SDLC phase gate and life-cycle process ;
• Data analysis for as-is and to-be modeling;
• Initiate, implement and socialize Jira for project issue tracking and testing replacing IBM Quality Center and Rational Clear Quest; and
• Use of SVN Sub Version for archival and retrieval

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility with managing Business Intelligence applications development. Managed internal development of applications for Safeway’s online data store on Oracle OBIEE software.

Phoenix, AZ 

Infrastructure Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Migration of Physical Data Center consisting of SAN and rack servers to Cloud IaaS and PaaS
• Migration of local desktop environment to Cloud SaaS using VMWare
• Migration of Cisco telephony to Microsoft Lync VDI and Avaya
• Migration of Cisco call center to Avaya Cloud SaaS
• Managing third - party consultants, data center personnel, security and network vendors
•  Manage VA Website migration using Agile Scrum

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

•  Lead development team and adhere to SDLC and Project Life Cycle processes of the IS PMO
•   Facilitate Project Leadership Team and Stakeholder Meetings
• Develop Project Charter
• Report Progress
• Develop scope for Intranet Re-launch
• Establish activities and schedule

Senior Deployment Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop proposals, budgets, recommendations and presentation materials for presentation to CCMS Governance Committees and Judicial Council.
• Staff support for CCMS Governance Committees and Internal Committees.
• Assist AOC Leadership with Strategic Planning and defining direction, goals and objectives.
• Develop project plans, risk management plans, staffing plans for internal groups, early adopter courts and justice partners.
• Manage Executive Leadership deployment reporting using Innotas PPM tool.
• Develop and manage Excel and MS Project Templates and formulas for reporting project value analysis.
• Host and document meetings with court executives, AOC Executive leadership, external vendors, staff and contract work force.
• Work with e-filing service providers (EFSP) to regulate, test, and implement transactional access to the courts.
• Design, document and lead EFSP vendor in data integration of electronically submitted cases into CCMS.
• Develop EFSP certification criteria.
• Support all implementation efforts for AOC initiatives.
• Perform Risk Analysis and manage risks and issues for all project stakeholders.
• Develop tools and processes to bring rigor to existing AOC implementation procedures.
• Define and Manage Rapid Application Deployment Scenarios.

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assists Account Sales Teams in major NEP Wireless Call Center bids to ensure that the appropriate resources and commercial aspects are identified and planned in line with Sun delivery capabilities.
• Approve contracts that commit Program Management Office resources.
• Ensures that a Statement of Work (SOW) and corresponding project plans have been created and communicated to the customer with clear details on the project time line, deliverables, milestones and resources for successful project delivery.
• Manages all program vendors/project teams/resources to ensure the required skills and level of resource are obtained or identified for future activities within the Account PMO.
• Ensure quality controls, issues, risks, and constraints are identified and appropriately managed to TL9000 quality standards.
• Manages Strategic Planning for PMO.
• Reports and presents status to Directors and Sales Leadership using Sun PPM.
• Track and review program financials against a documented spend plan and is empowered to take appropriate action to maintain project timeline and budget. Ensures that the GPMO Management is kept informed of any changes in financial constraints and/or project margin.
• Manages escalations.
• Maintains communication with key stakeholders.
• Works directly with Sun Executive Management, Sales Leaders and Product Managers to deliver product according to customer SLAs.
• Conducts meetings and manages committees as needed.
• Develops and implements OEM Life Cycle Management best practices.
• Displays leadership to project managers, account managers and customers.
• Mentors project managers and product managers in best practices.
• Manages project delivery, minimizing risk and insuring project quality.
• Manages project planning for all programs.
• Leads Business Process Reengineering (Transformation) and Process Improvement Sessions.
• Leads Business Continuity Risk Management Activity Definition.
• Manages Change Acceptance Process and Communication.
• Builds training plans and conducts training sessions to effect organizational transformation and readiness.
• Manages the customer relationship for all program projects in delivery.

Senior Critical Situation Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that project plans are traceable to requirements.
• Manages the customer relationship for all Executive Management projects.
• Manages vendors and resources and acquire staff as needed.
• Manages project financials.
• Implements vendor Corrective Action Requests and Reporting.
• Manages Strategic Planning for Crisis Management Office.
• Produces detailed artifacts consistent with the demands of the project and PMO.
• Builds project plans using tools like MS Project.
• Successfully lead projects out of trouble.
• Manages multiple complex projects in overlapping timeframes.
• Deals with resistance from external clients and internal colleagues.
• Displays leadership to project managers, account managers and customers.
• Mentors project managers and product managers in best practices.
• Leads Business Process Reengineering (Transformation) and Process Improvement Sessions.
• Monitor effectiveness of Business Continuity Plans for Sun Key Accounts and recommend corrective action.
• Manages Change Acceptance Process and Communication in accordance with Six-Sigma.
• Reports VOC data and recommends changes to processes and products.
• Builds training plans and conducts training sessions.
• Works with all levels of the organization (stakeholders, Senior Executives, Sales Leadership, Product Management and Professional Services) to incorporate approved changes and resolve customer issues.
• Conducts meetings and manages committees as needed.

Director and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defines As-Is and To-Be business models.
• Work with Chief Justice Architect to define protocol and formats for e-Filing and Case Management.
• Leads Business Process Reengineering (Transformation) and Process Improvement Sessions to combine Courts, Crown, Police and Fire agencies.
• Manages Change Acceptance Process and Communication.
• Builds training plans and conducts training sessions to effect organizational transformation and readiness.
• Acts as lead negotiator and vendor manager for the entire Ministry of the Attorney General.
• Conducts meetings and manages committees as needed.

Lead Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Maintains communication with key stakeholders.
• Develops and implements OEM Life Cycle Management best practices.
• Display leadership to developers, account managers and customers.
• Mentor project managers and developers in best practices.
• Manages project delivery, minimizing risk and insuring project quality.
• Manages project planning.
• Lead Risk Management Activities for threats to continuing operations.
• Construct architecture for data recovery and high availability.
• Conducts meetings and manages committees as needed.
• Manages project financials / vendors / software engineers.

RELATED EXPERIENCE: Instructor and Course Developer

• Critical Situation Management
• Risk Management and Risk Mitigation
• Risks and Issues

Uniquely Defining Qualities

• Understands major contributing factors which create troubled projects - can avert pitfalls
• One of few individuals with direct experience with all Sun functional areas and client counterparts - No tunnel vision and understands how to cross boundaries to break down barriers to success
• Experience in US and foreign government service projects - Different from private sector
• Experienced Lead Negotiator - Get to yes
• Instructor – teach what you use and use what you teach