SUMMARY:

• Effectively Integrating Technology with Business
• Successfully delivered multiple releases for the Defense Travel System including 2 key upgrades to charge card processing with immovable delivery dates - all at budget and exceeding client and corporate expectations
• Extensive experience with managing clients, budget, project scope and cross-functional project teams
• Project Management Professional (PMP) ® certified professional as well as a Certified Scrum Master with over 18 years of his Information Technology (IT) career devoted to project management roles.
• Confidential recently led several cross-functional teams of 10 - 15 dedicated resources and another 5 - 15 matrixed resources, developing releases for a DOD-wide, CMMI Level 3 program. These projects were all delivered on-time and within budget and included Enterprise System Design and Development using Java/J2EE and Spring/Hibernate with an Oracle DB back end and included Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), web services and System and Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), ranging in size from $500K to $4.3 million. The application supports over 75,000 unique logins per day. In addition to his management experience, Confidential has experience with Earned Value Management (EVM), extensive experience using VBA within the Microsoft Office suite and is an expert in Progress programming.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the full development life cycle as a PM;
• Acts as Scrum Master and presides over agile ceremonies (scrums, backlog grooming, iteration reviews, and retrospectives);
• Keeps management and other stakeholders apprised of project status.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support enhancements necessary to retire a legacy DoD logistics application
• Providing Scrum Master and Software Development Manager Support for the JFW Project:
• Application development methodology followed is Scrum;
• Business/web services written in Java; backend is PostgreSQL with SymmetricDS used for replication.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support implementation of a new international patent office provider service and document sharing among IP5 offices.
• Providing PM/SM Support for the Confidential Project:
• Application development methodology followed is Scrum;
• Business/web services written in Java; UI implemented using Angular JS; backend is Oracle.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support implementation of a Global Navigation Menu across 7 legacy applications and Faceted Filter search capabilities in 2 of these applications.
• Providing PM/SM Support for the BDS Release 1.0 Project:
• Managed the first new development project to be successfully launched under the ITAS II contract (for any vendor)
• Application development methodology followed is RUP-Agile;
• Applications written in either Java or Classic ASP; Global Navigation and Faceted Filter capabilities implemented using HTML5 and JQuery.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for Program Registration - Incentives module of the PostalOne Application
• Scrum team consists of 4 web developers, 2 DB developers and a BA / tester;
• Technologies used are Java/J2EE, PL/SQL; Tomcat and WebSphere web application servers; backend is Oracle;
• Responsible for coaching the Scrum team in their adherence to and understanding of Scrum ceremonies and processes. Represented the team at Scrum-of-Scrum meetings; Led/facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Demos and Sprint Retrospectives. Documented, tracked and executed action items.
• Responsible for personnel recruiting needs and team supervision.
• Participated in USPS transition to Scaled Agile Framework - Enterprise (SAFe)
• Served as Scrum Master for Confidential ’s GSA Agile-18f proposal response

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led cross-functional team in initiating, planning, and executing software modification projects for the FiDO web application;
• Technologies used were Java/J2EE, Hibernate/JPA, Perl; Tomcat and Apache web servers; backend was Informix;
• Responsible for overall success of the FiDO project, including scope and delivery as well as communications between project team and key stakeholders;
• Coordinated all testing activities including functional, user and regression testing, application security testing and WAF testing;
• Led requirement gathering sessions with business owners;
• Led technical design sessions with developers to architect solutions bringing my technical background to bear while serving as SME for functional changes;
• Led effort to institute a Change Control Board and change control process on the FiDO project;
• Authored, maintained and archived all project SDLC documentation.

Requirements Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed analysis of existing application requirements including categorization into functional and non-functional groups. Performed gap analysis between current implementation and not-yet-implemented high priority requirements;
• Utilizing brainstorming and interview techniques, elicited, prioritized and documented end-user requirements for an Enterprise Data Warehouse;
• Documented standard operating procedures for day-to-day operations.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served in key leadership role for 5 major and several minor releases assigned to the Confidential account. Project / Control Account Manager for the Defense Travel System, a web-based, DOD-wide, CMMI Level 3 program.
• Duties included resource planning and scheduling, earned value analysis and reporting, requirements gathering, documentation and CDRL artifact preparation and review, development testing, and post-production release support. Led teams of ~ 5-7 Developers, ~ 1-3 Requirements Analysts, and ~ 4-5 Testers. Managed budgets of approximately $5M through SDLC - preliminary design, critical design, code and unit testing, integration testing, system testing, performance testing and implementation as well as post-implementation support. Mentored junior project managers. Application written in Java/J2EE using Spring/Hibernate with an Oracle DB back end and supported over 75,000 unique logins per day.
• Responsible for entire development and testing lifecycle of assigned releases, sometimes managing multiple, concurrent releases;
• Worked directly with PMO; Delivered budget status briefings (EVM reporting);
• Negotiated with functional managers for matrixed resources;
• Led technical design sessions;
• Created project schedule and tracked budget and time performance;
• Created risk register, including mitigation strategies; managed and tracked risks throughout project lifecycle;
• Chaired requirements clarification meetings including all major and minor stakeholders, closely managing scope;
• Scheduled and chaired peer review meetings to ensure test coverage of requirements, unit test code coverage, documentation review, and adherence to coding standards;
• Monitored output of automated test tools (Clover, FindBugs, PMD, Fortify, etc.) to ensure technical health of code delivered;
• Authored and presented milestone briefing slides;
• Ensured all CDRL deliverables were complete, accurate and delivered on time;
• Authored spreadsheets for tracking schedule and cost variances. These spreadsheets were adopted by the entire program and simultaneously reduced reporting time and increased accuracy of total release earned value reporting;
• Authored spreadsheets that automated data extraction from HP Quality Center for analysis on and reporting of test execution status and, again, were adopted by the entire program and simultaneously reduced reporting time and increased accuracy of test monitoring.

Sr. Business Analyst/Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Roles all related to either a Medical Billing System, or a Dialer Sub-system, both written in Progress: assisted in the re-architecting of the Medical Billing System including separation of UI, Business Logic and Data Access layers; mentored client developers; documented Functional Specifications;
• Enhanced the Dialer Sub-system by integrating consistent business logic for placement of insurance payers in the PayStream.
• Functionally, most of the work related to the pre-billing areas of Trip Entry, Coding and Authorizations along with Work Flow.
• Worked with senior IT staff to re-architect application including separation of UI, Business Logic and Data Access layers;
• Wrote background processes to query for missing billing information to eliminate hindrances to cash flow;
• Mentored staff.

Sr. Business Analyst/Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Served in double-pronged role, benchmarking, configuring, and troubleshooting Credit Report Plus system, as well as analyzing and modifying progress-based credit decisioning software. Wrote numerous UNIX shell, SQLPlus, and Perl scripts assisting support department, monitoring system performance and availability, in addition to capturing usage statistics. Credit Report Plus application was written in Cold Fusion, used IBM MQ Series as middleware and an Oracle DB back end.
• Led effort to increase system performance and availability resulting in 40% increase in average processing time and system uptime of over 99%;

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Role was to enhance and troubleshoot / repair existing Warehouse Management System (WMS) and its interface to XML messaging engine. This messaging engine uses IBM MQ Series as the middleware component in communicating with other in-house systems. Specific responsibilities included specifications gathering and documentation through user interviews and code analysis; analysis and technical specifications writing; business rules documentation and code development and testing.
• Led technical effort and coded major portions of ‘Giveaway’ tracking module to track overages in shipments for use in future contract negotiations;
• Gathered system requirements through user interviews and code analysis;
• Analyzed, documented and coded Stack-off /Shipping process that controls the shipping for all beef and pork plants communicating through ‘C’ routines with bar-code readers and automated conveyor lines as well as interacting with human operators;
• Rewrote RFT scanner application for mobile computing within the various plants.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Role was to troubleshoot existing drug sample-tracking system. Main responsibility was to troubleshoot and repair a key titration and sample tracking application. Due to its complexity and the amount of data it needed to consider and process, speed of processing was an essential consideration. Also assisted in performing code reviews and enhanced specific reporting areas.
• Led analysis effort to improve system performance resulting in reduction of sample tracking process time by a factor of 10.