SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years experience as professional Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Program/Project Manager with demonstrated track record of successful project outcomes including schedule, budget and scope across a broad range of industries, technologies.
• Leader in managing cross company team efforts through effective and motivating mentoring strategies, process and infrastructure creation for small and mid - sized companies as well as large PMOs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Agile Coach
• Implementation
• PMP
• SDLC
• Business Analyst
• Integration
• Prince2
• SharePoint
• Business Objects
• IT Management
• Program Management
• Software Documentation
• Business Process Design
• ITIL
• Project Delivery
• Software Trainer
• Change Management
• MS Access
• Project Management
• Solution Architecture
• Cognos
• MS Office
• Quality Assurance
• SQL Server
• CRM
• MS Project
• Release Management
• SQL*Plus & PL/SQL
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• MS Project Server
• Replenishment
• Supply Chain/Logistics
• Crystal Reports
• MS Windows
• Requirements Analysis
• Testing
• Custom Database Design
• ODBC
• Requirements Gathering
• VBA
• Custom Reports
• Oracle
• Resource Management
• Confidential
• Data Warehousing
• PeopleSoft
• SAP
• Waterfall
• ERP
• PM Methodology**
• SAP Retail (Triversity)
• Web Development
• Forecasting
• PMO
• Scrum Master

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Freelance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage Agile Transformation Pilot for 12 teams
• Coordinate with 6 other Agile Coaches
• Develop training materials and execute training for basic Agile/Scrum concepts and terminology
• Develop training materials and execute training for advanced role base training (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team Member, etc.)
• Coach/supervise all ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, daily stand ups
• Identify and train internal candidates as ‘scrum masters in training’, begin transformation
• Begin transformation to maturity and self-sufficiency

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and complete system selection process including: JIRA, VersionOne, Microsoft TFS, Workfront, Sprint.ly, Target Process
• Manage Agile Transformation Pilot for 12 teams ranging from finance to eCommerce, etc..
• Develop training materials and execute training for basic Agile/Scrum concepts and terminology
• Develop training materials and execute training for advanced role base training (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team Member, etc.)
• Coach/supervise all ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, daily stand ups
• Identify and train internal candidates as ‘scrum masters in training’, begin transformation
• Begin transformation to maturity and self-sufficiency

Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage 90 day Agile Transformation Pilot for 3 out of 47 states served.
• Develop training materials and execute training for basic Agile/Scrum concepts and terminology
• Develop training materials and execute training for advanced role base training (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team Member, etc.)
• Initiate 4 scrum teams including 40 ‘pigs’ and over 100 ‘chickens’
• Coach/supervise all ceremonies including sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint demo, daily stand ups
• Implement JIRA and Confluence including configuration and training for team and scrum masters in training
• Identify and train internal candidates as ‘scrum masters in training’, begin transformation
• Begin transformation to maturity and self-sufficiency

Agile Coach & Senior Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage complete ECommerce transition from outsourced (eBay) to 100% internal systems including DemandWare, Adobe Scene7, BazaarVoice, SAP, Manhattan, GoogleMaps, PayPal and other 3rd party systems.
• Responsible for converting new teams from waterfall to Agile teams including training on JIRA, Confluence, etc. integration to MS Project for portfolio reporting, Agile coaching teams on all concepts including sprint planning, sprint retrospective, chickens/pigs, servant leadership and all other Scrum concepts.

Supply Chain Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade and implement custom forecasting and inventory management system including detailed historical based forecast, weeks supply, Min/Max, vendor availability and performance, growth and seasonality analysis, spike and drop up/down analysis, automated configurable PO splits, automatic PO creation, etc.
• System fully interfaces with back end Oracle database RedPrairie ERP system

Supply Chain Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Update and enhance custom forecasting and inventory management system including detailed historical based forecast, weeks supply, Min/Max, vendor availability and performance, growth and seasonality analysis, spike and drop up/down analysis, automated configurable PO splits, automatic PO creation, etc.
• System fully interfaces with back end Oracle database RedPrairie (formerly GERS/Escalate) ERP system

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Rescued failing SAP BW/BI-BOBJ development team by implementing Agile Scrum methodology and philosophy, fostering collaboration for highly fragmented team, assisting in migration from Bex and Xcelsius to new architecture including Design Studio.
• Converted waterfall team to scrum, including sprint planning, implementing 3 week sprints, JIRA, integration of JIRA with Microsoft TFS as well as MS Project, Project Server and PWA, sprint retrospective, user story creation and grooming, backlog management, sprint demos in a SAFe infrastructure with other company departments.
• Served initially as ScrumMaster, and trained and prepped internal employee to take over role.
• Provided extensive Agile Coaching including customized culture based approach to phased roll out of Agile/Scrum to maximize successful transition.
• Provided direction and oversight to complete BW data OLAP optimized redesign.
• Transformed company wide PMO from Excel based reporting to implementation and integration of JIRA to Microsoft TFS/Team Foundation Server, MS Project and MS Project Server PWA 2013 for enterprise wide single point of entry integrated executive dashboard reporting with unlimited drill down capability.

SAP Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project sponsor provided recognition that project was successfully turned around in under one month.
• Assignment also includes initiatives involving Ariba, Salesforce, SAP MDM and Blueprint Software Systems. (Reference available)

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Create Process, Procedures, and support group to form new Project Support Organization
• Implement Release Management discipline, SAP Solution Manager, central document repository, Release based rollout, incident management, single point of failure analysis/mitigation, mission control approach, etc.
• Create centralized workplan using MS Project, individual team trackers, Project Server, etc.
• Played major role in recommending, directing and managing implementation of infrastructure and processes including: JIRA, ServiceNow/SNOW, ALM, ChaRM, ITSM, BPA, QTP, TAO, GTS, Solution Manager, SharePoint Repository, MS Project integrated plans, Deployment/Go Live standard processes and change control.
• Implemented Agile/Scrum based methodology for iterative/R&D based deliverables including spring planning, backlog management, user story grooming, sprint retrospective, JIRA implementation and administration, etc.
• Re-implemented MS Project Server 2003 then upgrade to 2010 including OLAP, Analysis Services, status reporting, enterprise tools, etc. (Reference available)

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage $3,000,000 + annual budget
• Provide product and development direction for all features based on 2 week SCRUM sprints
• Interface with all other Confidential departments, coordinate cutover and deployments
• (Reference available)

PMO Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created fully automated time & attendance and project actual work update tool eliminating 5 points of failure and cutting time gathering from 16 step to 4 step process
• Created customized formulas in MS Project work plan to allow instant weekly status for planned percent complete, actual, variance, etc.
• Maintain, update, receive status from team leads, build dashboards, weekly status and percent completes on a 2,500+ task group of over 10 MS Project work plans, including custom application development for cross project status synch
• Created automated Vacation/PTO/Work Remote request tool integrating Sharepoint and SQL Server for streamlined leave tracking and approval workflow
• Expanded role/promotion to build, maintain and run integrated workplan for entire program, including automated and validated status updates, dashboarding and reporting to all levels of management
• Testing including planning, scripting, string, assembly, white box, black box, end to end and performance test
• (Reference available)

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Full SDLC life-cycle including with discovery, requirements gathering, fit/gap analysis, through development, testing, training, go live, hyper-care and transition to support
• Blend of SCRUM/Agile and waterfall methodologies to provide balance of structure and flexibility
• Under budget and ahead of schedule project completion
• (Reference available)

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for deployment strategy, project plan, resource forecast and management, and full life cycle project monitoring and control
• Implemented automated systems for MS Project templates, reporting and analysis
• Created centralized data repository synchronized with Kaiser’s SharePoint portal

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating project manager for connectivity collaborating all three distinct silos of railroad operations (wayside, locomotive and back office)
• Responsible for monitoring, driving and reporting on laboratory and field testing
• SCRUM/Agile scrum master for all three tech teams (over 100 members total) including scrum of scrums, sprint planning, sprint retrospective, scrum board ownership, etc.
• Responsible for delivering status to director and VP level for all aspects of communications for PTC project

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for PLM/Product Lifecycle Management initiative including process mapping, process improvement and software vendor selection and implementation using Agile/SCRUM methodology.
• Reduced 2 year, $5-7,000,000 project down to 6 months, $500,000 through identification, fit/gap, gap fill and leveraging of existing projects and tools
• Developed methodology to reduce workload 10-20x for project process mapping both within the PLM project and for Disney overall
• Program Manager for Total Cost of Ownership Initiative consisting of three projects worth over $25,000,000.
• Project manager and technical developer for global integrated product sourcing model for multiple parks allowing for total ‘apples to apples’ cost comparison of multiple domestic and international vendors
• Implementing Project Management Institute®/PMBOK® standard best practices into department and integrating with Disney’s enterprise PMO organization
• “Fish Award” Quarterly winner for first three months at Disney
• “GFS/Great Service Fanatic” award winner

Project Manager/IT Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide analysis and best practice recommendations for company-wide organization, process improvement, etc.
• Implemented automated, customized Forecasting and Inventory Replenishment Tool using Oracle ERP/POS to custom database through use of ODBC, PL/SQL to allow automated replenishment purchasing, like skus, linked skus, lead times, safety stock, recommended order, automated PO placement, tracking, etc. For more info on FAIRS, please visit: Selection process of BI/Data Warehousing tool including discovery through vendor selection.

Project Manager/Developer

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Multi-step ‘wizard’ tool created to build large MS Project files for each client implementation based on a sophisticated template using Microsoft “VBA” (Visual Basic for Applications). Included project management discovery to create the lists, activity duration estimates, sequencing, etc. for all template based tasks.

Project Manager/Implementation Specialist

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Migrate recently purchased Confidential franchise from legacy system to GERS/Escalate including master data, current open sales, etc.

Project Manager/IT Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager & technical resource for discovery and requirements for end-to-end business intelligence implementation, resulting in customized dashboards and display on large monitors throughout the corporate office combining real-time data and OLAP data
• Consult and advise on system selection including RFP with leading BI providers like Cognos, Business Objects, Microsoft Analysis Services, etc.
• Consult and advise on determination of key data requirements, recommend best practices for cube build and update
• Consult, advise and develop data model for cubed data in areas like sales, stock/inventory, etc.
• Consult and develop de-normalization of data into OLAP cubes, KPI’s, dimensions, data scrubbing, star schema creation, etc.
• Troubleshoot and stabilize data collection system, develop company buy-in on ‘one version of the truth’ from a collection of several home-grown legacy data sources into a single system of record
• Consult on expansion into new markets, integrating newly acquired companies, etc.