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AGILE PROJECT MANAGER
Professional Summary
With a track record of innovation and success
Senior IT Professional with extensive experience in project management and business systems analysis. Demonstrated business strategist capable of managing projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvement and increase efficiencies, while controlling costs. Highly skilled project manager able to manage large project teams and dedicated to ensuring all deliverables are completed on time, on budget, and within scope. Superior communicator who leverages technical and business background to interact and build strong alliances with stakeholders, senior leaders, associates, vendors, and other parties. Possesses 5+ years of operational Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing and Automated Testing). Certified ScrumMaster and holds a Master's Certificate in IS/IT Project Management.
Core Qualifications
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Experience
Bickford Senior LivingCanton , MI01/2012 to Current
- Apply operations, technical, business, project management, and leadership expertise to lead high-profile technical initiatives, including web-, mobile- and cloud-solutions.
- Project Highlights:.
- Facilitate and mentor Scrum and Kanban teams.
- Develop an understanding of client needs and interact with internal and external customers.
- Work with multiple stakeholders to achieve a common business flow understanding and resulting capability.
- Coach both new and experienced teams on Agile and Scrum principles.
- Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, user demos, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
- Produce and maintain artifacts to help communicate team deliverables, timelines, and successes.
- Communicate impediments and facilitate resolutions.
- Collaborate with peers to coordinate cross-team dependencies and deliverables.
- Maximize Scrum team productivity by recommending and helping team to implement process improvements.
- Support the Product Owner and business analysts in backlog management and maintenance.
- Work with the software development manager to plan major project milestones and release timelines.
- Help define and monitor capacity planning.
- Assist team and management in defining and measuring success and maturity.
- Key Accomplishments:.
- As ScrumMaster, worked with clients and Agile teams to plan, design and implement functionality for an Online Customer Accounts Application and Enterprise Mobility Solution for a major financial institution.
- Improved time to market of the products reducing the time it takes to create and push out a release.
- As Agile project manager/ScrumMaster, my contributions and leadership were vital to providing a high quality user experience to our product customers at the Inter-American Development Bank.
- Key contributor of the $3.9M successful Content Management System delivery.
- Implemented an upgrade to SharePoint, migrating large volumes of documents and records and training several thousand users bank-wide.
- Played an important role as a leader of Scrum teams using SAFe, Lean and Agile techniques at a non-profit organization.
- Implemented an Agile IT PMO and today the entire company/organization practices Agile/Scrum successfully.
Advisor GroupJersey City Agile Project Manager01/2008 to 01/2012
- Provided business systems analysis and project management expertise for web-based Business Intelligence solutions for Telecommunications clients in North America and Europe.
- Project Highlights:.
- Managed full software development life-cycle using Agile/Lean/XP techniques from requirements, design through implementation, testing, deployment to post-implementation support for multiple clients concurrently.
- Completed implementation scope and estimates, created project plans and project schedules, managed customer expectations, and led development teams.
- Elicited and documented business and systems requirements, including business rules analysis, dimensional and relational database modeling, UI design, and system interface design.
- Produced product manuals, user guides, and administration guides with the development team.
- Provided release management and managed application delivery for clients.
- Supported user acceptance testing, offering user training for clients.
- Handled client invoicing and change management.
- Communicated with all levels of personnel, including executive management at the CXO level.
- Key Accomplishments:.
- Led and managed multiple application implementations concurrently which allowed clients to have improved, instantaneous visibility into profitability, cost of acquisition and cost of retention.
- All projects were delivered on time and within budget and scope under my leadership.
- Selected by the Executive Team to lead a high-profile initiative in New York City for a large satellite radio provider.
- Selected by the Executive Team to lead a high-profile project in Europe to ensure timely delivery and success.
- Mentored Junior project managers on project management principles and techniques.
Emd MilliporePhiladelphia , PASenior Project Manager01/2002 to 01/2008
- Financial reporting, mobile) in the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence organization.
- Prepared project plans, system specifications, interface agreements, and test plans and interfaced with IT development teams to track and review design, development, test, and implementation.
- Key Accomplishments:.
- Championed efforts to implement false churn minimization logic and generate significant cost savings for a company that overpaid commissions by $7.8 million across all sales channels.
- Received an award for the successful implementation of Wireless Number Portability and outstanding contributions to the initiative and an award for successfully leading the application team (40+ people).
Education
Bachelor of Science:Information SystemsInformation Systems
ATK-Instituutti, Helsinki, Finland
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Master in Project Management CertificationVillanova University, State
Skills
Agile, budget, Bi, Business Intelligence, business systems analysis, capacity planning, Change Management, Coach, conferences, Content Management, Client, clients, Data Warehouse, delivery, DOORS, English, Erwin, executive management, financial, Financial reporting, UX, IBM, Information Architecture, interface design, invoicing, leadership, logic, market, meetings, mentor, MS Office Suite, MS Project, SharePoint, modeling, Enterprise, OOAD, personnel, profit, Project Management, project plans, quality, Quality Assurance, Quest, radio, relational database, Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis, RUP, sales, SCRUM, SDLC, software development, Strategy, Systems Analysis and Design, User Training, Telecommunications, upgrade, UI design, Visio
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- Villanova University
Job Titles Held:
- Agile Project Manager
- Senior Project Manager
Degrees
- Bachelor of Science : Information Systems
ATK-Instituutti, Helsinki, Finland Certified Scrum Master Scrum Alliance Master in Project Management Certification
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