SUMMARY:

• Leader in big technical companies with 10 years of experience in both Product and IT teams.
• Go to manager for teams that delivered Big Data and other enterprise level applications with dynamic features, on time and on budget using Agile methods.
• Worked with both internal and external executive level customers where communication and partnership skills were demanded.
• A strong leader noted for creating teams which focused on delivering products using Scrum and standups, solving problems and improving quality.
• Leader of large cross functional teams that worked to deliver critical infrastructure projects.
• Scrum project owner certified. My experience below has a gap to take care of business after a death in the family.
• This gap occurs after competing 1 year contracting at Confidential and was required to take a break (eligible to return).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Informatica
• Waterfall, Agile and Scrum
• Certified Product Owner
• Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
• PowerPoint, SharePoint
• Hadoop
• SQL Server
• Confidential AX
• SQL/TSQL
• Tableau
• Ataccama Data Profiling
• MS Project
• Workday
• ERWin
• Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successful server move of a large data warehouse that had exceeded server capacity and would exceed SLA.
• This project spanned multiple groups and companies my team was responsible for defining and implementing a data quality assessment of the data post move.
• The team defined scope and approach while working with stakeholders on reviewing requirements.
• Next we focused implementing and integrating our schedule with the broader team schedule. We honed in on finding the difficult issues that occurred due to the multi - day deployments and parallel server runs that the project required. The project was a success and delivered two days early.
• new capabilities delivered with an internal tool to perform data auditing and profiling on Hadoop and Teradata systems.
• This team used sprints and standups to track tasks mapped back to user stories and delivered on two week sprints. Team used Rally to track and report progress to internal stakeholders.
• creating data profiling checks for jobs running payroll and compensation jobs. Reviewed data profiles with business stakeholders to better understand, document and monitor critical business rules. Performed PM, Functional Analysis and individual contributor roles as needed by the team.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program Manager and QA manager hired to staff and deliver two concurrent projects: a new instance of Confidential CRM and an update to the Enterprise Data Warehouse for the Online Advertising group at Confidential . Key challenges to these projects was the demand for high quality, aggressive schedules, clear communication, planning and deep partnership skills for a multi-vendor team. The technology and data requirements necessitated multi day deployments that would be repeated for each environment so I had additional duties to create, maintain and communicate status on the deployment plan.
• Delivered an updated version of MSCRM configured for a sales team.
• Delivered new and complex business rules for sales quotas and account tracking
• Scrum master who transitioned the team from waterfall to monthly cadence.
• Facilitated the transition to a new hosted instance of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
• Additional duties: the Test Manager transitioned out and I was given his role and during that I hired, trained and managed a team of 5 testers and implemented and lead the team in creating a tool to automated SQL query testing.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and led the testing effort to relocate to the new campus including: data center move and the creation of a new wired/wireless LAN. Completed on time and with no additional downtime of applications or hotfixes needed.
• Integrated Test Manager for the Foundation, Gates Family and associated companies for federated instant messaging system.
• Managed the testing effort for the payroll system from Great Plains to Workday.
• QA Manager for the UAT of an AX new payroll system noted for its strong partnership between IT, business users and the vendor ( Confidential ).
• Transitioned testing organization from a manual to automated testing. Received performance award from the CIO for excellence in test automation which had a significant cost savings to the Foundation bottom line.
• Managed the QA team which developed new data visualization tools for executive management. These tools simplified executive reporting reviews.
• Oversaw a smooth transition from an onshore to an offshore model. Completed on scheduled and achieved cost savings goals.
• Transitioned from in-house tools to SaaS offerings like Workday.
• Hired, trained and managed QA staff with low turnover rates.

Confidential

Quality Assurance/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created a Build and Test Automation Environment for testing on non- Confidential operating systems. Partnered with the Lab Manager to ensure all hardware was built out on schedule. Deployed daily builds to all environments, managed process and reviewed results.
• Developed a hosted CRM Solution for Ford, Honda/Acura, and Isuzu.
• Created the Release Manager role for this team which improved customer relationships between Product and Business teams with all parties having clear success measures for releases dates.
• Team the transformed a failing product to a profitable one. This success was noted by executives at the highest level at both Ford and Confidential .