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Program Director Resume

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NY

SUMMARY:

  • Over 25 years of technology and business program leadership experience.
  • Adept at building high - performance teams that deliver true business value.
  • Almost a decade of Lean/Agile insights.
  • Scrum CSM Agile SAFe SPCCSPO
  • Portfolio Management Business Architectur eLean Enthusiast Business Analysis
  • CoachingProgram Management Value Stream Analysis User Story Mapping
  • Kanban Capability Modelling Business Process Redesign Kaizen

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: Web/Appservers, HTML, Java, JS, Smalltalk, Fortran, Ajax Middleware, component architectures, SOA/RESTful webservices, Tuxedo, CORBA Object and Relational DBs, Excel, Salesforce.com multitenant cloud RUP, Use Case, UI Design/ Usability, UAT, security appscans, Performance and Load Testing, Mercury TestDirector.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Program Director

Confidential - NY

Responsibilities:

  • Daily Scrum recruiting stand-up, weekly program scrum-of-scrums, 2 month job wave releases.
  • Kanban-based, 5-step screening to offer recruiting process. Sustained 4-5 new hires per week average for two years across all technology job families.
  • 550+ newhires directly fed into onboarding and a highly effective job readiness (knowledge transfer) approach incorporating: knowledge acquisition, curriculum development, job knowledge and capability assessments and surveys.

Director, Project Portfolio Management

Confidential - CA

Responsibilities:

  • Taught multiple Agile sessions for business product owners and technology teams.
  • Introduced improved estimation methodology for technology projects.
  • Created Agile-based, incremental development approach for business process management platform to roll out customer service solution.
  • User Story style used to promote engaging conversations for business case development.

Consultant

Confidential - CA

Responsibilities:

  • Gave Scrum sessions to technology and management. Encouraged use of continuous integration using CruiseControl.
  • $30M technology program - project dependency analysis.

VP Technology

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

  • One of first technology groups to introduce and adopt Agile-Scrum framework for increased value delivery.
  • Developed and delivered Scrum sessions for business product development, technology and test teams. Played ScrumMaster role and coached four Scrum teams on and offshore.
  • Introduced use of TargetProcess for sprint and burn down metric management, Junit/CruiseControl for continuous integration, incrementally increased proportion of automated testing.
  • Architected and developed index calculation system supporting over 600,000 committee and benchmark index products.
  • 20% increase in revenues after implementing new web-facing index data product using Scrum.
  • Established combined business/technology project office and first index business continuity plan running full readiness tests.

Director, Web Development

Confidential - New York, NY

Responsibilities:

  • Mutual Fund product was compute-intensive, utilized webservices, five European languages.
  • Led, architected and iteratively delivered releases.
  • Continuous refactoring and retrospectives across business owners and technology teams.
  • Member S&P/McGraw Hill Architecture committees.
  • S&P Corporate Gold Ace for outstanding teamwork 2003.

Consulting

Confidential - NY

Responsibilities:

  • Rapid, incremental delivery for 4 of the first S&P websites using Java, JEE, HTML, JS, Corba, Tuxedo, Oracle.
  • Developed and implemented dial-up, Windows-based, client-server Muni Bond product.
  • Company-wide data modelling and database design.
  • Consultant member of S&P Enterprise Architecture committee.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Reduced contract creation from 2 weeks to 1 day through rapid development of Charter (Contract) generation system.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Created and taught 4 - weeklong classes about SQL and advanced SQL usage.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Rewrite of Windows-based donation tracking and reporting system to increase reliability of donations.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Architected and developed integrated support system across 90+ systems distributed across US. Dramatically improved internal support capability by incrementally bringing together: IT Helpdesk, Asset Management, Automated System & Application Monitoring on those systems.

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