GERARD NGUEDI

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New York, NY *0016

Email: accozg@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 646-***-****

IT PROJECT/PROGRAM MANAGER

. Reliable and savvy IT professional with 10+ years of international

experience in Project/Program Management, Business Analysis, Design,

Infrastructure, Release Management and Quality Assurance

. PMI certified Project Management Professional (PMP) as well as a

BigVisible Certified Scrum Master.

. Specialist in project planning, scheduling, budgeting, change/scope

management and project closure.

. Strong Scrum Master acting as a facilitator to shield the team from

internal and external impediments, to make sure all issues are addressed

without disrupting the sprint/iteration or the project.

. Adept in reporting on project status, budget, scope, risks and

dependencies through all SDCL phases.

. Approachable, informative with strong management, technical, analytical

and communication skills.

. Creative "doer" with good problem identification, problem solving and

process reengineering skills.

. Drives technical decisions and mentor team members in fast paced and

challenging environments.

. Ensures budget and scope are well managed across all projects and

priorities assigned by the PMO.

. Experienced in procurement, vendor management, COTS, SLAs and offshore

teams management.

. Highly skilled in requirements gathering, FRD, BRD, Use Cases, RTMs and

UML-based diagrams.

. Global work experiences in Europe, Canada and the United States.

. Fluent in French and English.

METHODOLOGIES / SOFTWARE & TOOLS

Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, BPM, SLA, SLO, UML, OOA, OOD, SOA, MS-Project,

Change Control, VersionOne, CMS, Artesia, DRM, SVN, Nexus, Jenkins, GitHub,

Puppet, JIRA, CruiseControl, Merant Tracker, MS Visio, MS Office, MPLS,

FishEye, Goblin, CDN, Limelight, Level3, COTS, XML, JAVA, PHP, C++, JBoss,

SQL, Oracle, Cassandra, TeamSite, Rational RequisitPro, Rational Rose...

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HBO, New York, NY

11/2011 - Present

Technical Project/Program Manager

Responsible for the planning and management of multiple application

development and infrastructure projects including Game Of Thrones

Interactive Features, TeamSite Upgrade, G12 DC Reorg., 2nd Data Center,

Apple TV Infra and HBO GO Core Releases Management.

. Gathers User Stories, runs sprint-planning sessions, daily Stand-Ups and

creates sprint burn-down charts.

. Runs sprint review and retrospective meetings to ensure Continuous

Improvement and track performance.

. Acts as a facilitator between the team and the external world to make

sure all distractions, external factors, issues and impediments are

addressed without disrupting the ongoing sprint.

. Wears multiple hats operating as a Scrum Master with the team to drive

tasks completion and as a Project Manager when reporting on the project

status to higher management and other stakeholders.

. Fosters a positive and proactive attitude and drives the team to work

with a sense of responsibility to deadlines in a positive "can do"

attitude.

. Re-engineered processes impacting 50+ on and off shore team members from

multiple departments and helped improve Release Management, Change

Control, emergency response and O&M.

. Partnered with build engineers to improve build and deployment process

automation leveraging tools such as SVN, Nexus, GitHub and Jenkins.

Lockheed Martin, Arlington, VA

05/2009 - 11/2011

Sr. Project Manager/Business Analyst

The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent Federal

Government agency where I worked as a Lockheed Martin consultant to manage

high priority projects including the Sales Allocation Module (SAM), Direct

Vendor Delivery (DVD), EAS, FPDS-NG and Parallel Contracting.

. Created Project initiation packages composed of a Project Charter,

Business Case etc. to secure project approval, budget and resources

allocation and managed projects through closure.

. Authored Project Plans, WBS, Project Schedules, BRD, FRD, Use Cases, UML

Diagrams etc.

. Critically evaluated information gathered from multiple sources,

understood root issues, reconciled conflicts and decomposed high-level

information into more detailed specifications.

Software Catalysts, Herndon, VA

09/2006 - 05/2009

Project Manager /Business Analyst/QA Lead

Software Catalysts is an IT services provider based in Herndon, VA.

Completed assignments with American Express, ADP Taxware and The State of

Connecticut.

. Performed as Project Manager, Scrum Master or Business Analyst/QA during

different assignments.

. Gathered User Stories, led sprint-planning meetings, led daily Stand-Up-

Meetings, created sprint burn-down charts and ran sprint retrospectives

and/or sprint review after every iterations.

. Sustained team pace by removing impediments, avoiding risks and making

sure all issues are addressed in an efficient and timely manner.

. Authored Project Plans, WBS, Project Schedules, BRD, FRD, Use Cases, Test

Plans, Test Cases.

. Oversaw Regression, Performance, Load, System, Smoke and UTA Testing on

various projects.

. Created Use Cases diagrams, Activity, Sequence and Class and other UML

based diagrams using Rational Rose, MS Visio or other diagramming tools

during different assignments.

. Prepared user manuals and training material and conducted UAT and

application end-user trainings.

TDA International, Lyon, France 02/2002 -

05/2005

Business Analyst/QA Lead

TDA International is an IT services provider based in Lyon, France where I

work as Business Analyst/Tester on Accounting and Human Resources

Information System (HRIS) software.

. Collaborated with users and stakeholders to identify, gather and document

requirements.

. Co-authored FRD, Use Cases and UML Diagrams such as Activity Diagrams,

Use Case Diagrams.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING

Universit Jean Moulin Lyon III, Lyon, France

. Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Business, Trade

and Finance

. Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Corporate Finance and

Corporate Law

Project Management Institute (PMI), Arlington, VA (02/2011)

. Project Management Professional (PMP)

BigVisible Solutions (a PMI trainer) New York, NY (2012)

. PMI ACP Prep + Certified Scrum Master

SeminarsWorld (a PMI trainer) Las Vegas, NV (09/2013)

. Next Generation PMO and Portfolio Management (3-day version) [pic]

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