Program Director Resume
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.