SUMMARY:

• ScrumMaster/Agile Coach/Technology Project ManagementTop - performing Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) with strategic insight to drive projects to success
• A technology leader and strategist with an extensive background in managing large-scale data intensive projects (real-time, reference, and historical) for the financial services and travel industry. Extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams of Agile project managers, business analysts, product owners, software developers, and quality control engineers.
• An Agile transformation agent, improving the skills and capabilities of teams with the goal to increase business value. Drive change at the individual, team, and organizational levels; including the adoption and continuous improvement of Agile methods, processes, tools, and metrics
• A goal-oriented manager motivating and developing personnel with diverse backgrounds and abilities across global operations
• Expert facilitator of business, information systems, and technical development with energy to overcome challenges quickly and efficiently. Ability to set up vital relationships with key customers, vendors, external teams, and internal staff to provide timely solutions that meet stakeholder needs
• Build and support mission critical enterprise applications with 100% access uptime

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Agile SDLC Model
• Scrum, Lean, and Kanban
• Change Management
• Strategic Negotiations
• Program Management
• Reference Data & Market Data
• Resource Optimization
• Collaborative Relationships
• Continuous Improvement
• IT and Data Governance
• IT Process Optimization
• Virtual/Offshore Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• JIRA
• Confluence
• JAVA
• C++
• OOAD
• SQL (Sybase
• Oracle)
• NoSQL
• ETL
• RMDS low-latency multithreading
• Windows/UNIX/Linux
• IT productivity tools (MS Project 2013 certification quality assurance incident management code management and design tools)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master/Agile Transformation

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

Responsibilities:

• Establish Scrum metrics to monitor productivity and coach the team to higher levels at a sustainable and comfortable pace. Coach project teams through change, identify and attack organizational barriers that limit team productivity and quality
• Ensure a time-boxed approach to Scrum Ceremonies (standup, refinement, sprint planning, demo, release, and retrospective) including Kanban management, story backlog prioritization, estimation, release planning and story distribution
• Provide training sessions in peripheral Agile areas (OKR to Sprints, Five-day Design Sprint)
• Improve quality by leveraging automated testing, process reviews, and JIRA defect metrics analysis
• Provide individual coaching to the project team in Agile processes and tools as required
• Lead teams using the Lean startup approach: developing MVPs and metric driven A/B split analysis
• Contribute to the Confidential community by helping other groups develop shared Agile practices. Help spread notable ideas throughout the organization transcending traditional organizational boundaries.
• Create an Agile Glossary as the foundation of the organization’s Agile Playbook
• Educate and coach the broader organization on the adoption and principles of Agile development
• Provide assistance to the IT team Agile training and coaching workshops
• Author the Confidential Center of Excellence charter document

Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Support and instruct the product owner regarding story refinement and maintaining the product backlog
• Manage project portfolio (on average 15 projects at a time) and coordinate the interdependencies among the initiatives
• Expand the financial Master Data Management (MDM) warehouse while reducing complexity and improving data quality
• Integration of more than 50 data sources with data enrichment. Other initiatives include data center migration, regulatory changes and market mandatory changes
• Manage procurement and verify new key data providers by ensuring data integrity is not compromised
• Reduce operational risk. Develop, refactor, and implement enhanced release management policies by eliminating first time write issues, improving transparency, demos, establishing a regular release cycle, and automating repetitive processes
• Ensure operational efficiency through monitoring. Certify appropriate controls, including adherence to all government, legal and compliance guidelines
• Develop data governance models: data systems taxonomy, data lineage documents, process flows, and metric definition. Leveraged Agile metric reports, including burn down charts, velocity charting, cumulative flow diagrams, dashboards, and project roadmaps. Lean techniques used such as A/B testing, and Minimum Viable Product (MVP) methodologies
• Provide regular updates on key initiatives to senior management through reports on IT governance, including project milestone attainment, plan estimates, risks, issues, actions, decision points, and project budgets
• Use Agile practices and Scrum rules to remove barriers and keep teams focused on delivering products in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Defect triage through prioritization, severity, and resolution
• Hire, train, coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise onshore and offshore team members at all levels. Facilitate discussion, decision-making, empowerment, improve morale, situational awareness, and conflict resolution

Data Development/Scrum Master

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Provide security master files containing over 100 markets from a database in excess of 500K instruments using core JAVA applications connecting to Sybase using JDBC to global clients.
• Successfully leverage market data expertise to deliver the award-winning FX-TCA system (2013 FX week)
• The architect of a fault-tolerant resilient feeds infrastructure designed to maintain an absolute degree of operational continuity and availability during global market hours. Ultra-low latency C++ system running on Linux using object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) methods. Established high availability system eclipsing the “five nines.” TDD development techniques adopted
• Monitor budget vs. spend, and cost mitigation. In 2012, it realized a $2MM cost reduction through optimizing processes, removing inefficiencies, server reduction, and exchange entitlement usage monitoring on the production platforms
• Relationships strengthened and maintained with vendor POC products for selection and due diligence, e.g., liquidity aggregation system, FX vendor of choice, and market data reporting tool. Negotiate high-level QoS commitment framework for third-party procurement decisions
• Successfully manage project portfolio consisting of ten work streams by ensuring that projects are executed in accordance with established practice, enterprise architecture and meet organizational security standards
• Support and teach Agile and related methodologies including sprint velocity-driven planning, release planning, retrospectives, user story creation and acceptance criteria

Project Lead

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical agenda and define the strategy/architecture of the fixed income system, including coordinating analysis of business requirements, design and development, QA activities, championing deployment, and overseeing development team activities.
• Design enterprise multi-tier fixed income portfolio management system. Portfolio system comprises valuation, laddering, matching portfolio to offerings database, and permitting portfolio inventory trades with the system.