SUMMARY:

Seasoned, innovative, leader with a proven track record of strategically analyzing organizational needs to transform non - performing teams into strong product delivery teams with changing critical paths.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Scrum Master Increasing Velocity
• Agile Coach 10-Day Sprints w/Demo
• Project Manager Enterprise Integration
• Business Analyst Product Management
• Building Cross-functional Teams Issue Resolution & Retrospective

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and management oversight for the internal Oracle Support team and DAL Product Owners.
• Identify and solve business process and systems issues for successful conversions.
• Support the Project Owners in an effort to drive operational effectiveness.
• Tabulated and assessed current and potential change management issues for successful implementation.
• Led product demos and reporting to Executive Leadership. Reports directly to CFO.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Dual role of competency leader/Scrum Master and Agile Coach for multiple and varied SharePoint business and technical delivery projects. Implemented core business solution driving 75% increase in ticket resolution and overall program efficiency of 63% with 45% decrease in manpower due to reduction in process overlap.
• Oversaw successful implementation of North America, Finland and Mexico expat and crewing operation programs, while creating paths to an agile enterprise.
• Redefine and reprioritized work with Product Owners; including measure and estimate work complexity, team swarm for impediment removal and 10-day, bug-free sprint implementation (delivery 3 -5 new features each sprint).
• Successfully managed multiple/simultaneous implementations by continually motivating team, managing vendor integration tasks and ensuring project timelines are met and project issues are addressed

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility to drive the implementation of combined efforts from Airport Operations (AO) and PMO/IT Strategies including business office responsibilities of resource management (employees/contractors,), financial control (budget reporting, reconciliation, RFP, procurement; while monitoring and facilitating compliance and control activities for phased enterprise releases.
• Lead coordination effort between cross-functional platform teams in an agile/iterative environment of continuous development and feedback; 10-day sprints.
• Serve as enterprise project manager for infrastructure implementations, data migrations, new terminal build-out and AO applications and systems integration; spearheading project planning, execution of deliverables and implementation while overseeing local and global project teams.
• Drafted and submitted change management guides for OCM approval. Control budgets up to $7M.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for project lifecycle of custom web-based technology and data management projects; specifically, Provider Portal and enterprise data mart initiative
• Developed and implemented a responsive analytical tool for real-time business evaluation of market data.
• Utilized Agile project management strategies for flexibility and responsiveness to evolving business needs and maintain critical path.
• Led team of 12, report directly to CFO.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Oversee day-to-day operational aspects of project and scope; tracking project status, financials and other PMO activities related to project implementation.
• Observed 15 Scrum teams and provided coaching to the six Scrum Masters, numerous Product Owners and Engineering Managers. Facilitated Agile Managers meetings where we work through a backlog of issues to improve the factory and service quality.
• Accountable for project cost variance, risk mitigation resource management and business alignment. Support Product Owners to take application plans from original concept through final implementation; securing resources, identifying tasks and project funding. Analyzing, estimating and sizing user stories which will help Product Owners to prioritize story cards and drive efficient TDD processes.
• Reviewed deliverables and ensuring adherence to company standards; i.e. ISO9000 standards for Quality Management program. Perform duties to make complex decisions and recommendations under limited supervision.
• Responsible for translating regulatory requirements to re-engineer existing regulatory reporting process through consolidation of regional databases into a global quality system.
• Led major data integrity effort for Oracle ERP rollout; validation and remediation 18 integrated systems from the US, Hong Kong, France, and Norway, Rig Solutions Divisions

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Project Manager/Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led business specification development for changes to technology and new technology development (i.e., tools, functionality, interfaces, etc.).
• Manage work streams, identify and manage risks as necessary and escalate issues to senior management when required. Analyze, scrub, convert and load incoming data from outside carriers focusing on data integrity, accuracy and completeness. Provide, create and develop automated solutions to complex manually intensive activities. Assemble and guide development teams through problem definition, issue identification, project plan development, and change management.
• Provided training and coaching in agile development principles and practices to development teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and program-level leadership for Center of Excellence (COE), with focus on changing to an Agile organization through stable teams, reduced multi-tasking (interruptions), improved technical practices (TDD, continuous integration, refactoring) and select metrics (time to value, time to feedback).
• Prepare complex ad hoc reports, custom queries (SQL, Access, Crystal) and documents for internal and/or external distribution. Perform special research and risk analysis for system enhancements and feasibility studies.
• Provide end-to-end analysis for products and initiatives (enhancements and new development) with respect to workflow requirements and design, data requirements, data flows, and user interface designs within and across systems. Managed all aspects of agile development through scrum processes.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Scrum Master/Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Led Stewart National Automated Pricing Program (SNAPP) utilizing agile methodology to achieve bug-free iterations for enterprise-wide roll-out and global implementation.
• Coordinated with the groups of business who test, validate, evaluate and determine issues in services and software.
• Conducted process requirements studies, capabilities, and limitations assessments in order to analyze process performance, and evaluate process improvements. Implemented change management processes by introducing new tool to conduct financial analysis and reporting.
• Executed new contract actions, reviewed statements of work, updated task orders and basis of estimates, ensuring accurate flow of contractual information to all regional staff.
• Managed program activities including project schedule, updates, financials (revenue, margins, and profitability), resource utilization and change management. Successfully completing technology projects using Scrum/Agile methodologies with enterprise-level application development projects.
• Mentored new practitioners/Scrum Masters on how to work with their teams, while redefining agile roles and training on transitioning to self-directed work teams.
• Led team of 9 with enterprise PM/SM responsibility to regional title offices.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Manager/Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Product Owners to develop detailed specifications for enhancements to environmental applications.
• Assisted in the analysis, design and implementation of requested data and reports.
• Planned and coordinated system utilization, and performed growth analysis and capacity planning.
• Helped four different teams transition into Scrum development methodology. Lead Scrum introductory training for firmware and software teams.