RONALD K. ALLEN

Cranford, NJ ***** 908-***-**** ac0h9r@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronaldkallen

Information Technology Project Manager Certified Scrum Master

Proven Leader Exceptional Organizational Skills Process Improvement Focused

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Outstanding record of delivering projects for new product launches and existing product improvements.

Experienced leader in a Cross-functional Matrix Managed Environment. Managed cross functional teams in multiple locations, using excellent motivational, organizational, time management, and problem solving skills to inspire individuals to deliver systems that meet the business requirements on time and within budget.

Coordinated all aspects of product development by identifying and understanding engineering – technical – business requirements and corporate organizational needs while successfully delivering end products.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Scope, define and manage projects from concept to launch.

Proficient with MS Project – Excel – Power Point – Word – Visio – Jira – Confluence – CA Agile Rally.

Agile: 2 week sprints – facilitate sprint planning – daily standups – retrospective– improve team velocity.

Infrastructure: Coordinated Development, Database, Network, Security, and Web activities

Strong interpersonal – analytical – problem solving – negotiating – influencing – facilitation – prioritization skills.

Proactively identify risks before they impede team performance, and collaborate with team to develop mitigation plans.

Provide timely, accurate, and actionable information to program stakeholders in a structured and transparent way.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

V2Soft – Basking Ridge, New Jersey (Scrum Master Contractor) October 2016 to March 2017

Scrum Master – Medical Insurance enhancement projects for V2Soft’s client Optum Insurance

Roles and Responsibilities

Software solution Scrum Master responsible for managing a software technical development team that was responsible for delivering scheduled software upgrades for Medical Insurance System enhancements.

oSystem Architect, Technical Lead, Developers, QA, coordination with specialty areas deliverables

Coordinated with Product Owner, Release Manager, and Project Tech Lead for Program Increment – Scaled Agile Framework planning sessions.

Collaborated with Product Owner to create and deliver weekly project status updates for Member Domain Consumers.

Reconciled with Release Manager as well as area managers to resolve technically blocked features and user stories

Job Search June 2016 to October 2016

HireGenics – Livingston, New Jersey (Project Manager Contractor) June 2015 to June 2016

Security Engineering Project Manager for HireGenics’ client AIG

Roles and Responsibilities

Microsoft Consultant Team Credential Theft Mitigation Project – Implementation of an Enhanced Security Admin Environment – Red Forest System for management of core domain controllers. I was responsible for managing all client activities that were established by the Microsoft Consultant Team.

Conversion of an outdated Bindview 2003 application to the latest version of Dell Enterprise Reporter. I was responsible for managing the Security Engineering activities that were required for the conversion.

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Job Search March 2015 – June 2015

Verisk Analytics, Inc. – Jersey City, New Jersey September 2000 – March 2015

Information and analytical tools for the insurance,

healthcare, and financial services industries.

PROJECT MANAGER – SCRUM MASTER (PMO) (January 2011 – March 2015)

Collaborated with project sponsor to create charter, document business cases, identify stakeholders, and high-level risks. Created Management Project Plans that contained communication requirements, change management requirements, human resource requirements, quality assurance strategies, risk identification and issue resolution. Collaborated with resource managers to identify, manage, negotiate roles - responsibilities, and identify - resolve conflicts. Obtained final acceptance of the project deliverables, documented lessons learned, closed contracts and archived project documentation.

Roles and Responsibilities

Built a new Joomla based Verisk Website Linux clustered system which resulted in an outside vendor access improvement of 35% with a project team of 10 which included representation from 3 Information Technology (IT) groups and 1 business unit. Managed project using Atlassin-Jira.

Upgraded systems that used DB2 Version 9 to DB2 version 10. Project was completed 10 days ahead of schedule.

oManaged a project team of 15 with representation from 2 IT groups and 8 business units.

Migrated outdated windows-32 bit SAS 9.1.3 system to a new Linux-64 bit SAS 9.4 system which resulted in a performance improvement of 32%.

oProject delivered on time and within budget

oDirected project team of 20 with representation from 4 East Coast IT groups, 1 West Coast IT group, 1 West Coast Business Unit, Database – Network – Security group, and a SAS consultant team.

Developed and installed a new web based interactive Statistical Web Services product which brought in new revenues of $2.5 million annually.

oFirst Scrum project for the business unit.

oEducated about product backlog, user stories, points, burn down rate and 2 week sprint deliveries.

oThey were impressed on the smooth deliveries that resulted from the Scrum process.

oLed a team of 8 which included representation from 2 IT groups and 1 business unit.

oManaged project using Atlassin-Jira.

Consolidated the Western Regional Processing Center into the Eastern Regional Processing Center resulted in a minimum expense reduction of $1,000,000 annually.

oManaged a project team of 15 with representation from 2 local IT groups, 1 remote New Jersey IT group, 1 Chicago based IT group, Database – Network – Security group, and 1 business unit.

Installed 18 network Intrusion Protection Systems which resulted in a 45% decrease in network intrusions.

oDirected a project team of 10 with representation from Database – Network – Security group and 6 business units.

Upgraded the current Fire Suppression Rating Schedule application to capture Mitigation Hazard Discipline Data which brought in an additional $1.1 million annually.

oManaged a project team of 4 SW developers and representation from 2 IT groups and 1 business unit.

oManaged project using Atlassin-Jira.

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APPLICATION VALIDATION PROJECT MANAGER (January 2008 – December 2010)

Conceived and implemented validation plans for software upgrades and hardware upgrades for enhancement projects. This involved creating and executing a validation project plan which coordinated IT implementation group activities with business unit development programmers that performed the validation tasks.

Roles and Responsibilities

Validated the operating system upgrade of the 8100 servers that were used in the Risk Decision application.

Executed the validation of the DB2 system upgrade of the servers that were used in the Fraud Analysis application.

Implemented the validation of the network server’s operating system upgrade for the Internal Risk Priority application.

PROGRAMMER (September 2000 – December 2007)

Implemented software maintenance and enhancements of Risk Decision System applications. Programming skills include: CICS, JCL; Syncsort; SQL; DB2; and VSAM.

EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

M.S., Information Systems Management, Stevens Institute of Technology

B.S., Electrical Engineering Technology, College of New Jersey

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, Inc. (2011)

ITIL Foundation Certification in IT Services, Axelos – PeopleCert (2014)

Project Management Professional Training (Avtech Institute of Technology - 2014)

Change Management, Total Quality Control, Effective Presentations,

Effective Communications, Risk Management

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