SUMMARY:

• Understands agile software development methodologies, values and procedures.
• Scrum Master Methodologies - Certified in multiple methodologies.
• Communicative and social - Able to communicate well with teams of all nationalities, distributed and local, product owners and developers alike in terms they understand. Especially proficient dealing with challenging team members.
• Facilitative - Able to lead and demonstrate value-adding principles to a team.
• Assertive - Able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.
• Situationally Aware - Always the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to management.
• Enthusiastic - High-energy and proactive.
• Continual improvement - Continually growing craft learning new tools and techniques to manage oneself and a team.
• Conflict resolution - Able to facilitate discussion and alternatives or different approaches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: DOS, VMS, OS X, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Windows NT, Windows 7 and Windows 10

Software/ Hardware: Proficient using MS Office Suite including MS Project and Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Programming Languages: Matlab, C, C++, C#, and Python

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, SAFe 4.0

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Business Analysis
• Agile Project Management
• Scrum Master
• Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager| Scrum Master | Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Proficient in several Agile methodologies.
• Acquired several certifications and substitute taught HS Math while helping a gravely ill adult child. All is well and she no longer needs me.
• Ready for a new opportunity in Agile Project Management, Scrum Master or Business Analyst.
• Expert user of MS Office suite including MS Project, TFS, SharePoint & CRM to record business analysis, Agile artifacts and provide reports to stakeholders.
• Acquired several certifications including Scrum Master, Scrum Product Owner, Safe 4.0 Scrum Master and Agile Master. Currently working on PMP and a member of PMI.

Project Manager | Scrum Master | Business Analyst

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Took the Project Management methodology from waterfall through several Agile methodologies ultimately choosing Scrum.
• Project Management: Managed the petrophysics interpretation software for 4 on time coordinated releases utilizing Agile and Scrum development methodologies. Performed the Project Management, Scrum Master and Business Analysis duties.
• Servant leader to a team of 10 - 14 interdisciplinary and distributed members.
• Performed business analysis to create user stories and tasks, pruned the backlog, insured all of the developers had plenty to do from iteration to iteration
• Facilitated project/iteration initiation, daily scrums, review/demo, and retrospective meetings.
• Creatively cleared any impediments discovered during the daily scrum meetings.
• Coached the team on the Agile Scrum processes using persuasion and influence.
• Continual risk identification and analysis.
• Participated in budgeting.
• Negotiated and managed 3rd party licenses.
• Expert user of MS Project and TFS to manage project schedule, assignments, Agile artifacts and business analysis.
• Reviewed and tested code for accuracy and functional completeness.
• Interfaced with the test team to insure a high level of test coverage and real world data sets for test accuracy.
• Worked with documentation team to create accurate and complete, documentation and training manuals.
• Insured project metrics were up to date on a daily basis for access by upper management.
• Regularly presented project status to upper management noting any red flags as well as the successes.
• Reported to the head of the department.
• Project Management: Managed an outsourced (India) geologic interpretation software project team consisting of 14 developers.
• Created test frameworks. Researched and implemented petrophysical algorithms. Implemented WITSML.

Software Specialist | Team Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Wrote device drivers to interface with various sensors and a watch dog application using ODBC to interface with a MySQL database.
• Project Management for the rig monitoring project. Supervised outsourced and local team members for a total of 4 reports. Acquired specs and delivered time lines using the agile process.

Programmer

Confidential, New Orleans, LA

Responsibilities:

• Attended and supported daily morning reports from the rigs.
• Reservoir Performance monitoring project. Wrote specifications and determined timelines.

Staff Software Engineer | Team Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Project Management: Interfaced with Confidential for product development and deployment. Gathered application and test specifications, created timelines and tested end result.
• Developed an automated tool calibration application and mathematical models for pressure, temperature and flow optical sensors for reservoir modeling.

Sr. Application Analyst | Team Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Team leader of a 5 member team that implemented real-time MWD and mud-logging functionality.
• Mathematically manipulated derived parameters, such as hydraulics and torsional vibration.
• Developed embedded DSP software for MWD mud pulse telemetry. Used Matlab to model hydraulic phenomenon and drilling conditions while researching new detection methods

Senior Computer Scientist | Team Lead

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Houston project lead on large company wide object-oriented development effort for a pipeline simulation application.
• Inter-office liaison, office training, long range planning, Rumbaugh 00 design & implementation. FORTRAN to C++ conversion project; solving multiple performance problems.

Programmer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a Servio Gemstone OODB model to interface between a SCADA system and a pipeline simulation engine.
• Provided customer support and documentation relative to the project.