SUMMARY:

• The candidate is a results - oriented Program Manager, Project Manager and SCRUM Master as well as a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Professional Scrum Master (PSM). She has over 20years of experience in IT andin project management. She has worked in Program Managementsince 2005andbecause of her experience in many different methodologies, is not married to any one in particular. Instead, she tries to use the best tool for each project within the framework of the client site.She has implementedwaterfall andagile at several different companies, and written processes for groups usingseveral methodologies.An experienced development manager, she has managed IT professionals including Software developers (using Informatica, Oracle, WebSphere, WCC,Facets,ODS, ESB, ETL, J2EE, Ajax, PHP, ASP, JSP and VBamong others), UI Designers, Business Analysts, QA Testers and leads, Project Managers, Windows, Unix and Mac Administrators and Network Engineers.
• She has managed stakeholders other than the end users including government regulatory agencies, legal departments, internal users and outside vendors. Yvonne is currently the President of the Columbus, Ohio chapter of Get WIT it, an organization that helps promote the inclusion of women in IT. She also provides pro-bono counseling to small businesses who need advice on business startup and strategy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PMI, SCRUM, Waterfall, Program Management, Project Management, PMO Setup, Project Planning, Project Estimating/ Budgeting, Risk Analysis, Issue and Scope Management, Cost/Benefit Analysis, IT Project Prioritization, Project Management Methodology Development, Resource Management, Test Planning, Defect Tracking & Resolution, Software Release Management

PROJECT SOFTWARE: CA PPM, Rally,MS Project, Daptiv, Visio,Plainview

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed program management and project management duties, including but not limited to budgeting, planning, change management and risk management
• Worked with external vendors as needed including the contracting process as well as end to end management of the projects.
• Helped create PM dashboards and reporting using Jira and Excel
• Facilitated between multiple internal teams as well as external vendors.

Project manager and scrum master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed program management, project management and scrum master duties
• Coached team in agile best practices
• Worked with external vendors as needed including the contracting process as well as end to end management of the projects.
• Helped create PM dashboards and reporting using Power BI and Confluence
• Planned business strategy and initiatives

Project manager and scrum master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed PM and SM duties
• Coached team in agile best practices
• Worked with external vendors as needed including the contracting process as well as end to end management of the projects.
• Helped create PM dashboards and reporting using Power BI.

Project manager and scrum master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed PM and SM duties using both waterfall and scrum methodologies
• Coached team in agile best practices
• Brought multiple government stakeholders to the table to help them determine requirements and timelines.
• Planned portal implementations
• Planned implementation of a data warehouse

Project manager, scrum manager and agile coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed PM and SM duties.
• Coached teams in the process of an agile transformation in agile processes.
• Developed reporting requirements and developed reporting automation using multiple technologies including cognos and vba.
• Managed releases in an agile environment.

Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed PM duties for multiple projects.
• Helped set requirements and responsibilities between company and vendors.
• Did cost-benefit analysis to help company decide between multiple vendors.
• Managed vendors to fulfill contractual obligations.

Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed PM duties and portfolio management
• Acted as liaison between scrum and waterfall teams.
• Moved red projects back on track by understanding client technology and multi-threading schedule.

Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed project management and scrum master duties.
• Planned projects as a portfolio, balancing resources and timelines across the related projects.
• Reported at levels from middle-management to C-suite

Project manager

Eddie Bauer

Responsibilities:

• Performed waterfall project planning activities starting with the initiation phase for a team interfacing with an agile team.
• Developed project SDLC documentation, Risks, Assumptions, Action Items, Issues, Dependencies and other living documentation for the project as needed.
• Managed projects through the lifecycle

Project manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed open to close project management for both infrastructure and software development project
• Worked with distributed teams and vendors to drive project completion
• Completed budgeting, burnups and other project reporting from the micro level to the C level
• Executed project reporting in Jira, Confluence and CA PPM

Director, project management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Completed assessment of current state
• Strategically worked on departmental values within the organization for clarity of focus and hiring
• Hired PMs and BAs to fill roles within the organization
• Initiated project prioritization with the Leadership Team
• Instituted project management processes and coached teams on PM processes and Agile processes

AGILE COACH/ Project manager / Cohesion Consulting

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with several teams that had implemented agile but was not successfully delivering productsto identify areas of opportunity for improvement and help them fill gaps in their Agile knowledge base.
• Completed an assessment of the current state of agile implementation within the teams.
• Set up a coaching plan to address the areas of opportunity found during the assessment.
• Trained all levels of team members in agile practices.
• Coached all levels of team members, helping them understand their role within the agile organization.
• Helped to integrate second agile coach into the team structure.

PROGRAM MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Instituted and coached agile in the Shared Services division while working as Program Manager for several programs.
• Developed a plan to institute agile in the organization that was currently running waterfall.
• Determined where agile should be implemented vs. where waterfall should be kept.
• Helped the teams to understand the handoffs between waterfall teams, agile teams, and those using other methodologies such as six-sigma.
• Interviewed and hired personnel.
• Trained current personnel.
• Managed Programs for HD Radio, Connected Services, Stream Monitoring amongst others.

PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management expertise for a healthcare insurance company on several projects for the PMO and the pharmacy department.
• Completed all levels of project management from the analysis phase to closing on projects as needed.
• Used both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies to manage projects.
• Initiated the projectto implement the Daptiv tool for project, program, and resource management as well as governance.

OWNER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided an end-to-endsoftwaresolution for a national food service corporation. The project was to take an existing VB application and create a similar application on the web using VB.NET.The original VB application that the company owned took over a year to create. The web application was completed end-to-end with the same functionality in 2 months.
• Completed a proposal for the company, with suggestions on technology and infrastructure.
• Designed the architecture for the application and the database.
• Developed the product in VB.NET, C#, XML, JavaScript and HTML.

PROGRAM MANAGER/ PROJECT MANAGERFOR

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Took over a program for a large CRM database (over 300 million records at the outset) that was being run without process or control and not making any deadlines. No capacity and little risk planning had been done. Within 2 months had created processes and procedures for the entire department from scratch. The procedures combined the company WaterfallSDLC deliverables and Agile project management methodologies. Found several areas in communication and process that were causing the company to do re-work, thus wasting money. Also determined that several projects from other lines of business were coming in ‘under the radar’ and not being billed against the lines of business. This catch saved the department thousands of dollars in the short-term and had the potential to save over a million in future work.
• Functioned as Senior Project Manager (Program Manager) foran internal database program that was used across several lines of business.
• Determined and documented project management processes and procedures for departments using the Waterfall and Agile project methodologies.
• Trained project managers and team members onagileproject management methodologies and best practices.
• Managed projectssimultaneously, as well as production bugs, process management and non-production issues using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Completed capacity planning and resource recommendation for projects across all IT disciplines.
• Managed and mitigated risk.
• Functioned as ProjectManageron more than 10 projects simultaneously.

TECHNICAL RECRUITER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the hiring and placement of IT professionals. Collaborated and worked with internal staff to drive staffing solutions that met the requirements of clients.

PROGRAM MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Used, managedand trained developers in Agile methodologies to effectively manage tasks for developers resulting in reduced development time for projects.
• Developed task lists, backlogs and project plans.
• Evaluated Rally Pro and Salesforce.com for implementation as time-saving and project management tools for the company and managed the integration of these two tools.
• Was the POC for implementation and support requestsfor large clients such as Hitachi and QLogic.