STEVEN STAROSTO

SCRUM/ AGILE / WATERFALL SPOC / PMP

Seeking to leverage my Program, Product and Project Management background in a: start-up, expansion or growing corporate environment for the creation, development and/or migration of the product or solution.

Having delivered managerial and servitude leadership within teams (Up to 150+) with successful alignment, mitigation of risk and value, by avocation and evangelism several outcomes saved cost ($2 MM) and time (9 months), even regulatory compliances. Teams I have been fortunate to be with have collaborated successful development, implementation and deliverables with better than results. Personally, proactive in leadership and liaison skills, executive, business and technical level interactions, engaging in crucial conversations and managing uncertainty with political savvy, tact and mature EQ.

20 years in Program, Product and Project Management.

18 of those in Federal ERP IT: AppDev, Data Migration, Integration and Paas/ Saas.

10 of those leading Federal Programs being executive, business and technical client facing, in Program Management / PMO roles with personal oversight of; policies, procedures and processes (Risk) with effective and efficient outcomes (Governance) and compliance to Regulatory environments.

Responsible for Product/ Solution deliverable's acting as Evangelist to Client while providing coaching/ guidance to teams in product/ program delivery fundamentals and the benefits to successful program and project delivery.

Demonstrated ability to think strategically when planning, managing teams, and managing processes. Experienced in Regulatory and Framework environments (ITIL, NIST, SDLC, MITA, COBIT, SBOK and PMBOK) while managing tasks of contract or program with compliance, controls and performance measurement (EVM).

Skilled in effective communications with persuasion, motivation and development of others, adapting and thriving in high change environments, managing multiple technical deliverables on aggressive schedules.

Scrum Product Owner (SPOC) w/ 5 projects over 5 years in Agile (3-Transformation) and Scrum (Procurement of Scrum Training and Tool vendor selection and 1-Scaling Scrum of 3 teams) under belt, currently training for Coach certification.

Strength in: Program Management, Client Relationship Management, Compliance, Governance, Operations and Process and Risk Improvement.

U.S. Citizen, open to travel and possible relocation.

recent programs:

Dept. of Veteran Affairs - Sr. Program Management (Washington D.C.) (10/05/2015-4/29/2016)

Program Manager/ Agile Coach (Scrum) Client facing VACI Stakeholders focused on client elicitation and requirements (Parameters of Contract) for a Cloud-based Platform, Open-source tools and custom development of a prototype platform for Ingestion/ Modeling and Outcome Analysis of 12MM+ records provided (Requirements outlining Big Data Analytical Platform for Healthcare Benefits Adjudication in AWS Fed cloud). Through a handful of sprints in prototyping (FailFast), storyboarding, presenting w/ acceptance/ reflection feedback, our team developed an Analytical Engine (DB) and Platform on AWS EC2 (Paas) with additional mimicked systems (SQL and Oracle Instance) and services providing various adjudication stages.

Methodologies (Scrum, Spring Architecture)

Project tools (AES EC2, Oracle, Java, Python and, R

Team tools: (JIRA, Confluence, EasyBacklog, GitHub, SharePoint)

State of Maine – Management Consultant (Augusta, ME) (9/2014-3/2015)

Consulting assignment serving the PMO providing oversight for project agility and risk for in-flight projects. Post verification and validation, providing powerful questioning through consultative approach, one team of one of three in-flight projects realized outcome was at risk. The team developing the migration of legacy data into cloud-based and whom let a RFP (Enterprise Network Tool) did not understand technical nature of the entire State network (The Fiber-ring was still proprietary Mibs for the switches in place) would not be compatible with RFP requirements due to proprietary nature (non-snmp compliant). Through consultative nature and coaching approach with several vendors, I obtained quotes for fix, mitigation of risk, thereby not allowing any new tool to operate correctly. A mitigation plan was developed for the CIO as this oversight was identified to be a $2 MM+ risk.

Methodologies (Scrum, ITIL)/ Program tools: (Clarity, SharePoint, MS Office)/ Personal tools: (JIRA/Confluence, GitHub, MS Office))

Sabbatical (10/2013 – 8/2014)

Dept. of Veteran Affairs - VLER PMO - Sr. Program Management (Florida) (1/2012- 9/20/2013)

Serving in the VLER (Virtual Lifetime Electronic Medical Record) PMO, client-facing for the PMO liaison to VA Officers & Management mitigating an already received contract warning. Using a consultative approach and working with leads of all three teams (Different Vendors) on 3 separate cloud-based developments (IAM/ ERM and EHR) utilizing direct clear communication with awareness of options and tradeoffs, created an environment conducive to discovery/ awareness/ collaboration with outcomes of collaborative frequent communications and identification of issues or problems (Risks are separate) with mitigation plans prior to reporting, smoothing the way for guidance on risk (contractual obligations) by supported risk management acting in guidance when necessary and provided development teams with enterprise cross-cutting requirements

Notable Contributions & Achievements:

Analyzed, streamlined and mentored PMs on the new reporting process, obtaining relevant details and potential risks in an agile process whereby management could respond promptly, question, receive responses promptly verse waiting weeks/ month to obtain explanations.

Created an evergreen repository for above and with team’s analysis revitalized a dated cross cutting requirements repository updating with current regulatory standards, eliminating obsolete and redundant, thereby reducing from 1,200+ to 800.

Methodologies (Agile/ Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC)/ Program tools: (PMAS, ProPath)/ Project tools: (JIRA, Confluence, GIT, MS Project, Rational, SharePoint)/ Team tools: (Microsoft Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio)

Utilizing controls for estimations and status in progress, understanding the reasons and recommending appropriate actions based on analysis/ observations.

capstones

1: DHHS Program Deputy: Migration of Legacy-based Healthcare data and services to Private Cloud. Responsible for client engagement, architecture, vendor vetting, change management and SLA outlines. Providing guidance with constraints, individual project’s burn rates and vendor management. Personally, providing oversight on: Vision, Components, Implementation (Connectivity to several PAD’s (MD/NM/AZ) w/ distributed DCs supporting private cloud services), AppDev inclusive of financials/ membership DB and healthcare folder, integration of BCBS, Pharmaceuticals and integrating ICD-9. Migration from legacy environment (Cobol/ RPG) standing up Oracle 9i’s, the $75+MM Program over 2 years included contracting for and standing up 3 DC’s (Co-location), management of 9 vendor contract, 11 direct reports for a team of 150+.

2: Program Manager for an award by AoA (DHHS). Provided oversight to contract firm on solicitation response, vetting several non-compliances (e.g. GSA Policies, Federal Healthcare Regulations and IT standards) whereby changes were made, submitted and contractor (Client) was awarded a ($XX MM) 2-year award, thereafter acting as Program Manager. Highlights include: $2 MM cost reduction utilizing COTs software, 9 month AppDev reduction, 3-month integration reduction, integration of Private Cloud and “thin-client” in a cloud-client computing solution with back office for 12 existing regional offices.

programs (overall)

Los Optimos S.A. - Senior Program Management (Florida, D.R. & Belgium) (11/2009-10/2011)

Dept. of Labor - Project Manager (Washington D.C.) (10/2008-9/2009)

Dept. of Health & Human Services, AoA – Program Manager (Washington D.C.) (10/2006-9/2008)

Fannie Mae - Senior Project Manager (Washington D.C.) (2/2004-8/2006)

PGM Technologies –Technical Project Manager (Montrose & Denver, CO) (10/2001-12/2003)

Telcordia - Sr. PM / Acting Program Manager (Chicago, IL/ New Brunswick CA) (10/1999-7/2001)

Dept. of Health & Human Services, IHS - Deputy PM (Washington D.C., AZ & NM) (10/1997-9/1999)

OAO Corporation – Deputy PM (Washington D.C. & Maryland) (10/1995-9/1997)

EDUCATION

Darden Graduate School of Business, UVA Executive Master’s Program Pursuing MBA

CDI Career Development Institute B.Sc. Computer Science 1982

CERTIFICATIONS

International Scrum Institute: CSC (Certified Scrum Coach) Pursuing Certification

International Scrum Institute: CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) 2015

InfoSec Institute: Project Management Professional (PMP) 2012

HIPAA Training / Information Security Awareness 2011

Continuous Readiness in Information Security Program (CRISP I & II) 2011

ISACA – Business Framework for the Governance (COBIT)

Object Oriented Development – Rational Rose

Proposal Management - Shipley Associates

TECHNOLOGY PROFICENCY

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, COBIT, ITIL, SDLC, Waterfall, OOD

PPM Tools: PMAS/ PMAT, ProPath, Clarity

Project Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Git, SharePoint, MS Project, RequisitePro

Contact this candidate