SUMMARY:

• As a Program Manager/Release Train Engineer demonstrated outstanding leadership ability in PMO in fast paced high pressure environments to work with all areas and levels of the business and across multiple technology teams both remote and onsite to collaborate, resolve problems and deliver valuable results managing enterprise level applications like “Legal Practice Advisor” completing below budget (Budget of 3M) and on time. Assisted in transformation to SAFe as Release Train Engineer setting standards, facilitating program increment planning meetings and executing program increments as well as coaching assisting agile teams as a servant leader.
• At Great American lead projects using Scrum agile framework, interfacing internal systems with banks to sell annuities and insurance with value to company of 400 million. Over saw the testing and development team, led retrospectives, sprint planning meetings, removed blocks for the team and monitored velocity of projects toward goals.
• Special talent for developing effective relationships with stakeholders (customers, engineers, product and executive teams) that assists in breaking down barriers and expediting solutions. Because of this ability, was selected to be the interface for portfolio managers to executives helping them to make key decisions on product releases across the Global Technology Platform for US, UK, Asia, Pacific, Canada, Australia.
• Adjunct professor teaching software development to undergrads and Project Management to graduate student in the Master of IT and Supply Chain Management cohort at Wright State University.
• Release Train Engineer using SAFe framework facilitating PI Planning Sessions (Some virtual and some in - house) and facilitate the execution and delivery of the large Release Trains with over 20 agile teams. While leading these release trains helped coached Scrum teams that struggled. Also reviewed and helped with team dynamics, prioritization, technology and developing processes. I have also been involved in all or parts of Agile transformations in 3 different companies of varying sizes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• TFS/VSTS to manage agile projects
• Microsoft Project, Visio, Excel, Word, Power Point
• SDLC Management
• Programming Languages: C++, C#, Visual basic, SQL (SQL Server) JavaScript, .NET
• Object Oriented Design
• Vendor and Contract Management
• Agile/waterfall project methods and frameworks
• Release Planning and management
• Gathering requirement development, collaboration and writing user stories
• Quality and Assurance testing
• Identify, track and mitigate risks and issues
• Manage financial budgets and scope

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dayton, Ohio

Senior Project Manager

• Manage Challenging Business Development Integration Projects for Health Insurance including Behavior Health in all markets and products for multiple states that included cross functional departments (Compliance, Technology, Enrollment, Health Management and Providers, Finance)
• Lead war room emergency projects for cost saving initiatives for health care editing systems for pharmacy and medical
• Interfaced with all levels of company leadership including senior vice presidents giving presentations and leading steering committees.
• Work with Legal and Compliance of Health Care Regulations
• Manage outside vendors(delegates) with development efforts to establish health care markets and process claims
• Assist in consultations with SAFe
• Worked with Scrum teams to accomplish IT development for various lines of business

Confidential, Miamisburg, Ohio

Program Manager/Release Train Engineer/Scrum Master Consultant

• Manage and lead strategic technology programs/projects that include Project Managers and teams for infrastructure additions, Cloud Development(AWS), API, Web Application Development, CRM and Shared Services both for enhancements and new products through all phases of life cycle including conception, planning, execution, testing and release.
• Work effectively with multiple departments: Finance, Legal, Royalty, Back Office, Editorial, Content Fabrication, Software Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, User Experience and Design, Product, Research and Development, Go to Market and Quality Assurance.
• Manage risks and issues tracking scope, budget and schedule using forecasting methods, velocity and monitoring budgeted projects (1-3 million).
• Drive projects through to completion using Scrum, iterative and waterfall frameworks.
• Implemented Scrum methodologies (e.g. Sprint ceremonies, burn down chart, velocity, retrospectives etc.) and acted as a servant leader for the team to remove blocks, improve efficiencies and provide whatever needed to accomplish the work.
• As Scrum Master arranged daily stand ups, weekly meetings, sprint planning meetings
• Implemented Change Management and Configuration Management according to best practices. Assisted in the transformation efforts to SAFe for the 20 plus agile teams.
• Performed project closeout activities, transitioned the IT system to the Operations & Maintenance
• As a Release Train Engineer: conducted PI planning sessions, define and enforce release standards, develop policies and processes, ensure release readiness, define release dates, ensure plans and environments are in place for testing, and release, drive organization to test driven development and continuous integration, provide scope of release and work with directors and managers to improve processes. Utilize tools such as TFS and VSTS, work with product managers to enforce standards to determine desired scope.
• Conducted large release trains and conducted PI planning sessions
• Work successfully with Executives and Portfolio Managers (Vertical and Horizontal) across multiple countries, LBU’s and company technology assets to help status and determine release readiness for each portfolio of many products (Shared Services, Hardware, Application and Content Systems, CRM and a version of ERP(order processing)

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Senior Project Manager/ Scrum Master Consultant

• Manage multiple strategic technology projects for banking industry worth over 400 million dollars per year to the company using scrum framework acting as a Scrum Master
• Work with multiple resources from multiple departments and functional areas in business and software engineering to manage scope, risk and resolve issues.
• Led daily stand ups, weekly status meetings, sprint planning meetings and led steering meetings with executives and stakeholders
• Performed project closeout activities, transitioned the IT system to the Operations & Maintenance

Confidential, Dayton, Ohio

Principal Software Engineer/ Scrum Master

• Hands on Project Management/Scrum Master on various projects using .NET technology stack. Acted as transformation agent to adopt Scrum.
• Develop n-tier enterprise level applications for the web.
• Utilize technology effectively to create rich enterprise level n-tier architecture applications OOD that improves maintenance, flexibility, extendibility reducing time and cost.
• Creating web based social networking, discussion forum, mentoring, information market and project management applications integrating them with enterprise level n-tier architecture using ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5, C#, JQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, Telerik Controls, stored procedures, SQL Server 2000 and 2005.
• Experienced in relational database design using SQL server to make the most efficient use of data

Confidential, Dayton, Ohio

Software Engineer

• Perform research, acquire and create data acquisition systems for testing of various hardware devices for the USAF
• Implement and deploy acquisition system on site. Trained engineers to use acquisition programs. Create new software to improve data analysis using C, VB, NI LabView, and Matlab products
• Manage new technology project efforts to provide better data acquisition capabilities for engineering staff. These data acquisition systems are used for the X-43 Projects as well as various other aerospace applications.

Confidential, Dayton, Ohio

Owner/Partner

• In charge of business development of property services company, increasing sales to over 250,000 in 5 years while working part time and in school
• Manage 15 employees with little turnover
• Create detailed plans for services, write proposals and contracts
• Manage the financial accounting (Payroll, Tax, forecasting and P/L