SUMMARY:

• Ability to provide project leadership, planning, problem solving, analytical and interpersonal skills to direct the work of the Project Team. Including negotiate discussions and engage with cross - functional teams that lead to timely deliverables of Milestones for complex projects. Demonstrated skills in effective verbal and written communications including presentations, personal organization, business process improvement, and change management. Quick to respond to new developments, including providing vital progress reports and post-project analysis. A true self-starter and go getter
• Data Warehousing and Data Engineering Project using an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP); using ETL control flow using a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package
• Custom Application Development Project Experience
• Workflow Diagram to provide a visual, set of symbols, to show different departments how various workers will interact with each other.
• Process Workflow so the business units could develop a visual of how the application would transform materials, provide relevant daily data to all levels of management
• As a Release Manager, ensure that there is proper distinction made between development, implementation, and testing roles and responsibilities to optimize the integrity of the Release function.
• Plan and set direction for multiple concurrent projects from small to large that supports several business unit functions. Responsible for the quality and delivery of systems and or service using schedules, and assignment of internal/external resources.
• Manage risks/issues, Risk Assessment/mitigation, Problem solving, interpersonal skills, driven and shows initiative.
• Prioritize work and schedule.
• Ability to organize, interpret, communicate and present information effectively to cross-functional teams and to C-Management Level
• Plan and oversee development in medium and large complex cross-functional Web-based custom software and 3rd party implementation or upgrades.
• Ability to create visibility and transparency with consistent communication on the project status to key stakeholders and C-level management, including schedule, and overall progress.
• Proactively manage and mitigate all risks assessment, while controlling costs and preventing scope creep.
• Take strong ownership of projects and have a strong sense of urgency, drive and initiative in overcoming obstacles to reach objectives in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with Project Management Office (PMO) and subject matter experts (SME) to direct project deliverables and ensure adherence to program strategy.
• Ability to navigate and utilize related software for project delivery (MS Project, MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Team Foundation Server/Client-TFS v10, v13, Online version, Atlassian JIRA - project and issue tracking tool used by teams to get more work done, faster)
• Use of Enterprise Change Control standards. Understand Quality Management processes.
• Microsoft Office 365 (Cloud) - web browser based
• Microsoft SharePoint-web-based collaboration and document management platform (Cloud)
• OneDrive for business - cloud based storage solution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

IT Agile/Scrum Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As Servant Leader, facilitate and manage Agile Ceremonies, Artifacts, and Roles
• Planning Poker aka Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint backlog, Sprint demos, and Retrospective
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through Planning Poker and task definition
• Adaptive planning, early development, continuous improvement, rapid and flexible response to change
• Empower team to self-organize across functional team
• Remove impediments
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices
• Integrate Azure SQL data Warehouse with on-premises data warehouses and Azure Blob service
• Used Atlassian Jira for tracking issue and Project tracking software for Agile projects and Confulence for documentation sharing, organize an discuss projects with team member for Business 2 Business Project

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

IT Agile/Scrum Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide direct supervision and mentoring of project team. Provide project performance feedback to C level management.
• Responsible for one-on-one coaching of all IT Application Development Team members including Developers, QA, Product Owners.
• Responsible for transitioning the IT AppDev team to use both TFS and Agile methodology.
• Platforms: MS, Net, and Sitefinity, MS SQL server
• Workflow Diagram for Matter Management Dashboard (MMD) custom software to provide a visual, set of symbols, to show the lifecycle of an invoice at the task level and intersection with various departments
• Process Workflow for MMD so the business units could develop a visual of how each department’s responsibility impacted another department to improve business processes and streamline
• Agile Team members in co-locations across the United States in different time zones (PST, CST, EST). Using SoundPath conference calling system using screen sharing features to conduct daily scrum meeting, and Product Grooming session with Product Owners. We conformed to shifting priorities.
• Using Agile Methodology process, manage and track project milestones while delivering, maintaining, reviewing risk analysis and progress reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan that includes resource planning, contingency plans, and other related project management artifacts. (i.e. business requirements, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Burndown charts). Using Scrum framework, examine Roles, Ceremonies and Artifacts to deliver working software

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Scrum Master/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• All projects used Agile methodologies that conformed to shifting priorities using TFSv10.
• As a Release Manager, responsible for taking a holistic view of a change to an IT service and ensure that all aspects of a release. Including people, process and technology. Adhere to Release Policy, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and consider other planned Release.
• Conformed to shifting priorities
• Managed data custom software and internal client application platform. Supervised pricing, billing and reporting for projects. Managed data warehouse, API web portal/services and customer service.
• Implement an extract, transform and load (ETL) control flow by using a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package that supports incremental data extraction and data loading. Integrate external data sources with SQL Server.
• Data Warehouse was an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) database because of the aggregated, historical data, stored in multi-dimensional schemas
• Added site X2.0 to Enterprise Disaster Recovery schedules and testing. Open Data custom software with internal client application platform, pricing/billing/reporting module. Enterprise Security module. Product Data Warehouse module, API web portal/services modules and customer service module.
• Oversaw $100M budget, including creation of five new environments in the data center.

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

IT Senior Project Manager/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implement an appropriate storage solution, including hardware, disk, and file layout.
• Implement an extract, transform and load (ETL) control flow by using a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package
• Create an SSIS catalog; deploy packages by using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) deployment utility, SQL Server, and file systems; run and customize package
• Create Data Marts for a single or group of business process
• Workflow Diagram for Executive Dashboard to provide a visual, set of symbols, to show different departments how various workers will interact with each other.
• Process Workflow for Executive Dashboard so the business units could develop a visual of how the Dashboard would transform materials, provide relevant daily data to all levels of management
• Release Manager: Ensure that there is proper distinction made between development, implementation, and testing roles and responsibilities to optimize the integrity of the Release function.
• Developed three new infrastructure environments with a team of 40 and a budget of $5 million.
• Led financial reporting services/revenue from dominate production system. This included a team of 25 with an approximate budget $3 million
• Managed web-based dashboard that included financial reporting services; led a team of 15 with an approximate budget of $1M.
• Rewrote front end user interface. This included the design custom software for the Enterprise Security standards. Directed a team of 20 with a $2M budget.
• Directed a major data migration and mapping project, leading 100 on/offshore resources and allocating a $10M budget to consolidate three platforms into one agency division.