Areas OF EXPERTISE

Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior Agile Project Manager

• Clarus Project multi-million dollar project with a team of 25
• Project recovery specialist brought in t get project back on track
• Worked with upper management t reset corporate vision for Clarus project
• Aligned Senior Leadership, IT, and project team with new vision
• Established steering committee for project t assist with managing project
• Established leadership team for project with people wh had authority and experience t help guide project
• Established new budget for project and managed budget approval process through senior leadership team
• Created/facilitated new project charter, project vision, stakeholder registry, risk registry, resource matrix/forecasts, and earned value metrics
• Created new project plan, document repository, and established project management methodology for project
• Parts of the project were run under traditional project management and other parts were run using agile
• Fixed SAP/BI/Universe/HANA technical roadmap vision and re-established new technology roadmap
• Managed t put project back on track within tw months of starting engagement
• Turning project over t internal staff t manage project through implementation
• Six Sigma Tiger Team managed/worked with a group of cross-functional experts t identify root cause production problems and t stabilize Element's information technology department
• Established team/aligned goals/established project vision/set project scope and roadmap
• Reviewed all operational issues/concerns and established a quick hit plan t stabilize information technology systems/processes

Confidential

Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master/Scrum Coach

• Serve as adviser t executives regarding technology interdependencies that coalesce with business initiatives.
• Execute and maintain program management processes and disciplines in the areas of: program schedule and quality management communications management human resource management cost management procurement management risk / issue management change management
• Oversee schedule and budget for all technology projects.
• Manage 3 different e-commerce websites
• Converted organization t Agile project management methodologies
• Actively manage software development projects using agile project management along with agile software development methodologies.
• Facilitate daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Facilitate scrum of scrum with offshore teams in India and Romania and onshore team in New York City
• Provide visibility t team impediments/risks and help eliminate them
• Coach and mentor agile teams off-shore developers testers product owners Work daily t continuously improve agile teams and provide feedback via one-on-one meetings, daily scrum meetings, and retrospective meetings.

Confidential

Solution Architect/Project Manager

• Professional consultant and employee for over 13 years serving many highly visible clients in the Baltimore, Washington, and Virginia areas. Rendered direct consultation and carried out a wide range of engagements, while assuming various positions as software developer, architect, project manager, manager, change management agent, and corporate advisor.
• Account Manager managed quality and execution of engagements with respect t client expectations. Coached team members on client engagements.
• Member of leadership team setup standards for project management and technology engagements. Setup standards and matrixes for internal processes t monitor and measure the quality of engagements.
• Successfully carried out various contracts while employed at Software Consortium, including:

Team Lead:

Sub-contractor under prime led a team of developers t augment prime's development team t rebuild legacy desktop license application int an e-commerce web application available t general public

Developed payment module

Project Manager

Confidential

Sub-contractor under prime prime was software development organization

Project Manager

Confidential

Recognized by executive management as one of the best run IT projects in Johns Hopkins history

Spearheaded the clinical research management system implementation with an initial focus of getting project back on schedule.

Project Manager/Advisor: Confidential

Performed part time role in both organizations assisting them with vendor purchased applications

Reviewed contracts and assisted with performing Trusted Advisor Role t make sure implementations were successful

Worked as change agent t help organizations adjust t new processes

Part Time Developer: Confidential

Supported blood flow lab when developer left after building a home grown blood flow system

Helped department build workflows int application while supporting them on a part time basis

Project Manager/ Confidential

Worked as change management subject matter expert SME agent, supporting organization int new business venture. Project was viewed as adding great value t their organization.

Moved team from ASP/Jscript t .NET architecture during the development of features for new business venture.

Served as SDLC coach assisting organization in best practices and documentation

Introduced development team t daily standup meetings, developing releasable features in a tw week time-frame, and getting users involved with bi-weekly demos of developed software

Project Manager: Confidential

Converted 18 standalone Microsoft Access databases int a single web based workflow management system.

Change management agent: worked with all affiliated departments with whom used their old workflow management standalone database solution t adjust t the new processes being introduced with their new workflow management software product called, Euphoria

Product was labeled Euphoria by Johns Hopkins personnel after successful implementation of web solution because it made everyone's job s much easier.

Project was a complete success

Project Manager: Confidential

Managed project t rewrite Sylvan Learning Center's pre-assessment/student mentoring program for 2600 learning centers across the United States and Canada

Project Manager: Confidential

All software development was outsourced t Software Consortium

Software development budget exceeded one million dollars a year, which included maintenance and new product/feature development of web sites Additional budget was added t support any new projects not identified during annual planning

Managed all software development efforts including operational support

During second year of project, USF G AKA: Olde Mutual Insurance won second place in insurance magazine for best features and best performance for e-business website.

Mark Stone, Vice President of Sales through a party t applaud the software development team's efforts

Developer: Confidential

Developer: Maryland Federal Government - Aberdeen Proving Grounds 1999 2000

Assisted the design and development of an automated procurement system for the United States Army.

Other engagements at Software Consortium

Participated and managed agile software development projects

Successfully completed engagement as adviser, coach and auditor for product Development Company t help improve product delivery, product quality, and team effectiveness. Introduced organization t agile best practices

Taught web development and behavioral best practices for special state program t troubled adults. Program was developed t help troubled-adults t obtain meaningful jobs.

Member of leadership team, which significantly grew company revenue at a pace of 30 during the recession of 2007 through 2009.

Established and implemented policies and standards for company as member of the Management Leadership Team.

Earlier Career and Highlights

Confidential

Systems Manager/Project Manager/Senior Developer

• Managed network and applications for all surgical centers
• Played an integral role as application architect and project lead on custom web-based applications.
• Led the implementation of multiple software projects that were created both in-house and by outside contracting firms.
• Held multiple roles, including analyst, architect, database administrator, network administrator, CRM consultant, sales consultant, and tier-tw customer support and Systems Manager responsible for managing all IT functions for 3 Operating Room Centers.

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Systems Manager/Project Manager/Senior Developer/Architect

• Operations Manager
• Network Administrator
• Programmer
• Computer Operations Staff
• Helpdesk

Professional Development

• Content Contributor for PMI-ACP CoP
• Project Management Professional PMP Certification
• Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP Certification
• Certified Scrum Master CSM
• Leadership Training for Managers and Directors
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer MCSD
• Microsoft Solutions Framework MSF
• Microsoft Certified Professional MCP in Computer Networking
• Team Building Skills

Technical

.NET C /VB.NET SQL Server MVC 3 Entity Framework HTML/CSS/Java Script Web Technologies TDD/BDD Technical Requirements Version control tools such as GIT/SubVersion