SUMMARY:

• IT/Agile Project/Program Manager with 12+ years’ experience.
• Demonstrated success in managing and delivering complex, large scale, global IT initiatives for Fortune 500 companies.
• Extensive experience in building self - empowered teams and supporting practices to enable successful continuous improvement both at the team and organization levels, and implementing enterprise-wide change. In-depth understanding of organizational transformations related to Agile and Lean methodologies.
• Demonstrated success in building and motivating dynamic teams.
• Proven track record of fostering a company culture in which staff members feel confident asking questions and expressing concerns, as well as contributing new ideas that drive company growth. s in project leadership, staff development and organizational transformation.

SKILLS

• Program & Project Management
• Agile,
• Lean,
• Waterfall,
• SDLC,
• Crystal,
• ASD
• Complex IT / Business implementations
• Financial Management
• Manage Client Engagements
• Collaborative Cross-Functional Team Leadership,
• Agile Coaching,
• Mentoring
• System Development,
• Implementation,
• Integration
• Innovation and Change Management
• Business Process Optimization / Re-engg

EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional teams in delivery of high profile projects on time and with quality, and ensure the development teams are practicing core agile principles.
• Manage various agile software development programs for macy’s and bloomingdales.
• Manage projects from initial scope selection through delivery; including management of budgets, vendor contracts, personnel selection, overall schedules, coordination of multiple teams, cross-project and cross-program issue resolution, and status reporting to higher management.
• Oversee process to define scope of the project, based on the business need in order to meet the customer's project expectations.
• Direct project plan approval process from the customer in order to formalize the project management approach.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, reflective of authorized project changes as defined in the change management plan, and facilitate customer acceptance.
• Manage multiple projects through all sprints/iterations and phases of the project.
• Responsible for execution and final delivery and release of the product.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management.

Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Key leader in the Confidential Tech Agile transformation and tribe/squad model adoption.
• Funneled Agile concepts through implementation with actual project teams to facilitate and prove out strategies for the overall transformation at Confidential Tech.
• Led corporate Agile globally; Led Community of Practice development, and definition of processes, roles and responsibilities within the Confidential Agile Transformation.
• Grew and unified SCRUM practices across all divisions of Confidential Tech, thought leader and implementor of Confidential Tech's first "Iteration Manager Bootcamp"
• Piloted models for organizational shift from project based to product based teams to better support Confidential Inc global products (sales of $17b) and enable a more continuous flow of business value.
• Managed strategic enterprise initiatives for supply chain, global sourcing, product to market, as well as logistics globally, ranging from $5M to $15+M.
• Managed delivery teams responsible for Confidential Inc international expansion for all brands/markets/channels, including last 1 year of the global Franchise model
• Updated agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Determined and removed all impediments that may interfere with the ability of the teams’ to deliver assigned goals.

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential - Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Served as primary liaison between technical and various PMO cross-functional teams, business project and process owners, senior leadership, and vendors.
• Developed and managed project schedules status, resources, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines throughout the project with input from the application managers, business partners and project team.
• Effectively led project teams through the project life cycle by monitoring and controlling project risks, issue tracking and timely resolution, change management process, escalation process, changes in resource allocations/needs, and other impacts to schedule, scope, and budget to keep projects on track.
• Developed requirements and oversaw product manager(s) to define and manage business partner requirements.
• Facilitated communication and negotiation within and across the project team(s).
• Developed a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the project plan, in order to align the stakeholders and team members.

Project Manager

Confidential - San Jose, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Led full life cycle project implementation efforts while serving as primary liaison between business application owners and IT staff.
• Collaborated with senior management and marketing teams to define business solutions through enhancement or new development of system capabilities.
• Managed project execution while monitoring risks, issue identification and resolution, quality control, resource and schedule constraints.
• Directed stakeholder discussions on future planning of development and enhancement initiatives.
• Conducted regular project status/quality meetings and made sure development of project metrics and project scorecard is accomplished.
• Developed and maintained project documents including project brief assessments, project charters, project plans, project schedules, project budgets, risk plans/registers, action Items and issue logs, change requests, demand capacity planning, business case/budget updates, Statements of Work, implementation plans, project closures, lessons learned, executive-level status reporting.