Project Manager Management

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Brian Dsouza

Agile Program/Project Manager

Competencies

. Highly experienced in helping organizations create business value from

technology by adoption of modern processes such as Agile and Lean.

. Keen skill in coaching teams through Agile process and Agile

engineering improvements including: Scrum Adoption, QA Automation

Build/Test, Agile Estimating and Best Practices regarding design and

coding practices.

. Extensive experience in delivering enterprise solutions, helping

organizations move from mainframe technologies and the waterfall

approach to industry recognized Agile/Scrum practices and object-

oriented technologies.

. In-depth experience in both developing and managing programs to help

reduce companies time-to-market and overall IT costs by utilizing a

standardized IT infrastructure, adopting Agile/Scrum based SDLC, using

SOA, and refining requirements gathering and overall management

process.

. Well-rounded individual with great insight on topics ranging from

hands-on work with Information Technologies to management and business

development, encouraging progress, intellect and a celebrated team

environment.

. Brings a well-rounded view to project management and solution

delivery, excelling at solving business problems, with or without

technology, through a practical understanding of process, team

management, financial responsibilities, and overall business and

customer needs.

Areas of Expertise

. Agile, Scrum, XP, UP, RUP, Waterfall, Use Cases, User Stories

. Java, WebSphere, JSP, Struts, Spring/Hibernate, J2ME, .NET, ASP.NET,

VB, .NET Application Blocks, WCF, J2EE, COM, COM+

. SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, Apache Xindice, MYSQL, Eclipse, Oracle,

Sharepoint, Force.com, Fatwire

. Microsoft Project, X-Planner, Jira, VersionOne, Rally, Serena

. Test Cases, Test Scripts, Load Runner, QTP, Test Director, Test

Partner, Selenium

. Apache, IIS, HTML, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS

. Project Management, Business Development, RFP, Proposals, SOWs,

Project Plans

Clients

. Financial/Insurance: American Re, National Grange Mutual, AIG,

Republic Mortgage Insurance Company, AXA, Capital Institutional

Services, Checkfree

. Education: Laureate, American Federation of Teachers, Young Life,

UNFPA

. Medical: Lab Corp

. Media: Razorfish, Publishers Clearing House

. Transportation/Other: Hertz, EMC

Experience

As a principal consultant, helping companies transition to an adaptive,

high velocity Lean product and software development innovation lifecycle

supported by well-integrated social collaborative communities, Agile

Project Management, advanced Agile engineering, and synchronized

release/fulfillment operations. 2 to Present

Utilizing project management experience in helping organizations using

Agile/Scrum to develop enterprise and web solutions utilizing object-

oriented technologies. Using Rapid Application Development as a disruptive

concept to empower organizations to evolve, expanding beyond their current

knowledge base and successfully adopting new and emerging technologies.

Providing strong leadership and management of projects involving software

development, human resource processes, organizational alignment, and new

technologies. Using technical knowledge and skills in Java/J2EE

architecture and design, is instrumental in motivating large and diverse

teams to successfully implement large enterprise solutions.

Experience

Responsible for the transformation to a business centric IT 2.0

organization that uses Agile project delivery processes while leveraging

Web 2.0 architecture.

Introduced Agile processes and RAD frameworks to facilitate a low cost

rapid delivery/change environment.

Worked with CIO to shape the vision, with the project managers to move

towards an iterative delivery model, with the development teams to utilize

and adopt a lean SDLC, and with the business team to identify and procure

COTS solutions to facilitate rapid delivery of their solutions. Introduced

the organization to the benefits of cloud computing. Developed a plan for

the migration of the organization to a 'cloud' based information model.

Experience

Directed allocation and utilization of people, provided overall management

support for successful customer delivery services for a wide range of

clients in the Financial Services, Education and Government sectors.

Mentored teams in Agile/Scrum engineering and project management practices.

Primary responsibility was with refocusing the organization's goals. Though

IT technology is the primary space that the company will continue to be in,

was instrumental in developing and implementing the company's new offerings

with the focus on process over technology, which resulted in a revamp of

the company's image in terms of offerings, web presence and corporate

culture.

Focused on helping clients create business value from technology by

adoption of modern processes such as Agile and Lean

Experience

Led in the delivery of OO based software development projects focused on

advanced technologies (Java, J2EE, Microsoft .NET) following the Rational

Unified Process (RUP) and Agile development techniques (XP, Scrum, Agile

Modeling). Coached and mentored clients in Agile/Scrum management,

engineering and QA practices, such as Scrum TDD, pair programming and

backlog management. Was an integral part in motivating various teams to

move from an individualistic programming approach to a highly collaborative

and interactive culture.

Developed a WebSphere based Enterprise Application Development Platform,

utilizing Java/J2EE, supporting 16 enterprise applications. Mentored

development and QA teams in the use of OO concepts for design, requirement

analysis, requirements estimation and task decomposition, design patterns,

Java language, and Agile engineering practices, including

Certifications

Professional Affiliations

Education & Training

test driven development, continuous integration and pair programming.

Mentored project managers in Scrum, backlog management, iteration planning,

and delivery.

Developed tracking systems for genetic tests utilizing Java, J2EE and

WebSphere technologies, with delivery following the Rational Unified

Process (RUP) and its disciplines. Trained and mentored development teams

in the adoption of Java, J2EE and Agile techniques.

Managed on-site and off-shore development teams in a .NET solution for a

Catastrophe Analysis application. While managing requirements and clients

expectations, project was delivered following the Rational Unified Process

methodology in a series of 2 week iterations over 6 months.

Experience

Provided hands-on project leadership in the overall design and development

of a radical concept to enable rapid development and management of business

applications. Managed the complete transfer of this technology to an off-

shore development center.

Defined the architecture and led in the building of the solution for a

Portal based application, utilizing WebSphere and Silver Stream Portal

Provided mentoring in the use of the Component Architecture Method at a

large investment and retail banking firm. Worked with multiple project

teams to define the business, application black-box, application white-box,

technical, and deployment architectural models. Provided hands-on guidance

to project managers and development engineers to apply the techniques of

component-based development on multiple, large development teams.

Experience

Defined and developed the architecture for an application that accomplishes

high volume transactional database updates in real time utilizing XML to

guarantee data integrity.

Designed and developed various online applications utilizing ASPs with

VBScript, JavaScript and SQL server. Developed an EDI-XML converter in

C++ that was a first in the Mortgage Industry allowing organizations to

begin XML based transmissions mandated by partners such as Fannie Mae and

Freddie Mac without having to immediately revamp their internal software

applications.

. Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

. Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer

. Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

. Agile Alliance

. Scrum Alliance

. APLN

. BE in Electrical Engineering, Mumbai University

. BowStreet Web Factory

. SonicMQ

Profile

Over 20 years of experience in the management, architecture and delivery of

large and mid-scale technology solutions for a variety of industries.

Worked with organizations and IT teams at the executive, departmental and

project level to adopt various methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, XP,

and RUP, Waterfall in the areas of Portfolio and Project Management,

Software Engineering Practices and Application Support.

Strong experience in Business Development, Account Management, Vendor

Management, and Contract negotiations.

Phone: 201-***-****

Cell: 405-***-****

Email: ********@*****.***

Address:

7 Kensington Ct

Princeton, NJ 08540

Valtech (2002 - 2006)

. Principal

. Project Manager

. Agile Coach

American Federation of Teachers (2009)

. Consultant

Cyber Korp, Inc (2006 - 2009)

. VP Engineering

Ntelligence, Inc.

GearStream Inc.

(Since 2009)

. Principal

Valtech (continued)

digitalESP (2000 - 2002)

. Principal

. Project Manager

. Project Lead

. Architect

digitalESP (2000 - 2002)

. Principal Consultant

. Project Manager

. Project Lead

. Architect

Blueshift Inc (1998 - 2000)

. Team Lead

. Systems Analyst

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