SUMMARY:

• The candidate is a results - oriented Program Manager, Project Manager and SCRUM Master as well as a member of the Confidential .
• She has over 20 years of experience in IT and 19 in project management. She has worked in Program Management since 2005 and because 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 implemented waterfall and agile at several different companies, and written processes for groups using several 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 VB among 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.

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

EXPERIENCE:

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:

• Worked in agile release management and completed automation for several reports.
• Coached scrum teams on agile methodologies to help them understand how to work within the company’s agile transformation.
• 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 a short-term contract as a PM for an insurance client while they hired on a permanent PM.
• Worked on projects implementing vendor solutions that included implementing Confidential use cases, single sign on and security issues in SailPoint.
• Another project worked on outsourcing printing and sunsetting internal printing processes.
• 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

Confidential

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

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with several teams that had implemented agile but was not successfully delivering products to 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 project to implement the Daptiv tool for project, program and resource management as well as governance.
• Used MS Project and Daptiv as project management tools.

OWNER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided an end-to-end software solution 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.
• Documented the product.

PROGRAM MANAGER/ PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Senior Project Manager (Program Manager) for an internal database program that was used across several lines of business.
• Determined and documented project management processes and procedures for departments using theWaterfall and Agile project methodologies.
• Trained project managers and team members on agile project management methodologies and best practices.
• Managed projects simultaneously, as well as production bugs, process management and non-production issuesusing Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Completed capacity planning and resource recommendation for projects across all IT disciplines.
• Managed and mitigated risk.
• Functioned as Project Manager on 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, managed and 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 requests for large clients such as Hitachi and QLogic.

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the Senior Project Manager for several projects running simultaneously for one of Confidential ’s acquired companies.
• Was responsible for researching new technology and suggesting future directions for the program.
• Was responsible for all hiring and personnel decisions as well as all project planning on this WEB 2.0 project.
• As there was no PMO at this company, helped to establish the procedures and processes that would be used in this sector of the company.
• The projects consisted of a website overhaul that involved multiple projects to run until 2009.
• The website was being rebuilt from the ground up using cutting edge technologies such as Web 2.0, Ajax, JSF, and Hibernate.
• There were also many projects concerning website redesign and marketing initiatives.
• Found errors in project plans developed prior to hire date that contained errors that would have cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars and, even more important, customer goodwill.
• In the course of budgeting and project-planning, determined that several full-time positions that were budgeted were not needed. Implemented plan to source to 2 part-time, remote workers and 2 offshore resources, saving the company the need to hire 4 people and freeing up approximately $260,000.
• Performed scope, risk assessment and mitigation for all projects.
• Set up project management processes for the development teams and implemented Agile SCRUM methodologies for project management.

PROGRAM MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned and monitored the knowledge transfer back to the company from the major outsourcer at contract end in order to ensure that knowledge transfer was completed in a timely manner.
• Determined the best possible way to ensure appropriate staffing at the company to be able to take on the newly needed roles resulting from the in-sourcing project, determining where training was needed and when new employees needed to be hired.
• Managed deliverables and deadlines from other project managers within the program in order to alert Senior Management when the outsourcer was at risk for being past due in their deliverables and when those deliverables were past due.
• Performed a sanity check on existing outsourcer project plans for their portion of the in-sourcing project to determine if the timelines were realistic and to ensure that resources were not double-booked.