SUMMARY:

• Agile Project Manager who undertakes enterprise wide Product/Service, meeting deadlines in delivering value to business and increased ROI.
• Operates with a strong sense of urgency and thrives in a fast - paced environment.
• Building Cross-Functional and self-organizing teams delivering viable products.
• Effective collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
• Generated annual savings by leveraging automation to business processes.
• Specialize in relationship management, implementation of best practices, continuous improvement and problem resolution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile Coach/Scrum Master
• Software Migration/Implementation
• Risk/Change Management
• Agile/Waterfall Methodology
• Forecasting/Strategic Planning
• Building Self-Organizing, Cross-Functional Teams
• Data Analytics
• Process Automation
• Asset Management
• Communication Management
• Increase Teams Velocity
• Project Compliance, Policies and Procedures

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IT PMO Project Specialist

Confidential

• Manage enterprise wide Software Migration/Implementation, Data Migration, Automation, Upgrades, Network Infrastructure, Acquisition/Conversion, Encryption, EOL decommission projects.
• Facilitate meetings to redefine and re-prioritize product backlog items with product owner and team members.
• Facilitate backlog refinement meetings with product owner and team members before Sprint planning meeting.
• Agile coach transforming under-performing teams into top performers, delivering viable products in 10-day Sprints with Demo, meeting acceptance criteria. Generate project status report for upper management and stakeholders.
• Manage migration projects from Windows XP to Windows 7, and from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
• Facilitate software development from analysis, testing, implementation unto operations and maintenance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define scope, goals, and deliverables and ensure sign-off on requirements.
• Manage vendor selection, contracts, adherence, and quality delivery, protocols/solutions to engage vendor hosting and roll-off activities.
• Measure and estimate the complexity and duration of work and commit to stories that can be completed within a sprint (story elaboration/sprint planning)
• Asset Management, evaluating assets that are functional, break-fix and decommission for management decision.
• Manage project issues/risks, assessing financial impact and closely monitoring approved change activities.
• Create project viability via: Daily scrum, electronic and physical scrum boards, and project reporting charts.
• Work closely with team members ensuring set timelines are adhered to in order to keep the project on track.
• Analyze data into actionable information to drive improvement, operations processes and increase revenue.
• Manage timelines, remove impediments, prevent work blockage, enabling teams meet set deadlines.
• Maintain transparency and clear communication through daily standups, sprint planning and retrospective.
• Manage quality assurance activities such as checklists, process standards and documentation, communication, change and risk activities.
• Identify areas for improvement, working closely with teams to integrate process change.
• Organize end user’s navigation, features and functionality of new applications and adoption plans.
• Train scrum core teams to communicate via face to face collaboration and established a clear communication plan between IT and vendor teams and stakeholders.
• Ensure self-organizing teams offer multiple options for redefined work as product owner change critical path.

Production Project Manager

Confidential

• Managed software implementation engaging all direct and indirect stakeholders throughout project life cycle.
• Managed from end to end software migration project from Microsoft Soft Access to Traverse.
• Managed project coordination that resulted in improved systems, increased production and decreased expenses.
• Proactively managed Change Management deliverables and activities by identifying potential crises and devise contingency plans.
• Managed transparent communication for all stakeholders by ensuring project statuses are updated.
• Project Cost Control - Ensure correct charge codes are assigned to projects/tasks for appropriate billing.
• Facilitated daily stand up with all stakeholders to communicate past, present and future work to be done.
• Mentored and trained operational and IT teams to execute work with an Agile mind set, resulting in customer satisfaction, and increased ROI.
• Encourage swarming as a team to resolve impediments and blockers.
• Create Bill of Material (BOM) itemizing specific tasks per order of priority to execute projects.
• Managed resources issues by active listening, support,, and resolve team conflict by getting to the core issue, and selecting a better resolution.
• Generated project status report for upper management, on project phase, milestones and issues/risks.
• Promoted continuous improvement, governance, by performing project audit/review, and archive lessons-learned.
• Managed E2E operations from resources, deliverables, schedules, communication, reports, issues/risks, and ensuring a go at the Go/No-Go stage.
• Worked with multiple vendors, contractors, project stakeholders, and documented related project activities.
• Evaluated risk impact, documented contingency plans, and escalated possible deviation from project plan.
• Maintained strong communication relationships with stakeholders, and ensured performance metrics are clearly communicated.
• Prevented operational delays by reviewing production/operation reports, resolved operational, manufacturing; maintenance, safety and employee issues to cut costs, and meet deadline.
• Created and maintained project management artifacts in repository throughout lifecycle of engagement.
• Ensure project KPI’s are met, in compliance with policy, process and procedure, as well as scope and cost.
• Utilized strategic analysis to find ways to improve the safety, quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of processes related to product realization to maximize output, minimize cost, and support project/organization objectives.

Metallurgical / QC Manager

Confidential

• Performed MP and LP examinations, inspected manufactured/purchased parts, performed all in-house heat treat (Quench, Temper, Stress Relieve), hardness, tensile, Charpy, proof load, and PMI test, ASME/ASTM requirements and per customers specifications/drawings.
• Ensured scheduled calibration of inspection, measuring and testing equipment are complete by the required due dates, and procured inspection items.
• Performed dimensional inspection on machined parts per drawings with reports.
• Generated non-conformance reports, investigate root cause, and issue corrective action to ensure the QMS system is being effectively used.
• Constantly exceeded customer’s expectation and increased profit by applying Lean six sigma principles of continuous improvement, waste elimination, quality products/services, fixing root causes, and motivate staff by rewards.
• Coordinated activities/teamwork, and ensured safe working environment per standard for all employees.
• Analysis of collected statistical data to predict trends that affect quality products.
• Improved Machine Saw and Propen stamping operations per requirements.
• Inspected parts from vendors, and verified supplied Mill Test Reports (MTRs) adhere to required specifications.
• Managed daily Quality Control operations, and eliminating employee mistakes by enforcing set standards, policies, and regulations.
• Proactively managed production operations from Metallurgical department, to Machine shop, Coating shop and the warehouse, and ensured adequate of employees.
• Managed resources issues, by active listening, supporting, providing, and .