Project Management Manager

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ejones* December ****

JOSEPH E. (Ernie) JONES, JR., P.E., NCE, PMP, CSM

Duluth Georgia *****.*****@****.*** 404-***-**** Program Management expert with an outstanding record of leading teams implementing complex software centric solutions. Proven ability to build and work within distributed and culturally diverse teams. Key capabilities:

• Leading cross functional technical teams.

• Building pragmatic plans for developing and delivering complex multidisciplinary products.

• Collaborating with stakeholders to establish consensus on priorities and convey a clear understanding of issues.

• Managing the risks, issues, vendors and obstacles inherent in all R&D programs.

• Developing professional project and program management organizations.

• Coaching teams and organizations to become more agile.

• Enterprise Scale Agile Product Development Expert with Scrum, KANBAN, and Iterative experience.

• Experience with large (McKesson, AT&T, Verizon, Nokia, Panasonic, Motorola, Samsung, LG, and Freescale) and smaller (Glenayre, Landis+Gyr, and Symbian) enterprises.

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Agile Product Owner/Product Manager with 14 years of agile experience.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) with full product and SDLC experience. WORK EXPERIENCE

CHARON CONSULTING, LLC - Duluth, GA September 2015 - Present Partner and Principal Consultant March 2006 – March 2014

• Provided expert advice to clients on specific product developments and general product development processes.

• Aided clients across several industries in developing or evolving their project management offices and systems to establish company or business unit wide project management norms and metrics.

• Successfully guided energy industry client through a waterfall to agile transformation that included enterprise scale agile processes.

• Coached teams in wireless, energy, Internet of Things (IoT), security, embedded software and enterprise software industries on a full spectrum of Scrum and a few Kanban processes. Agile coaching included both consulting and staff augmentation engagements of a few weeks to three plus years.

• Managed smart grid enterprise software projects that utilized TFS for on-demand integrated test automation.

• Project Manager and Scrum Master for wireless telecom teams using Jenkins plug-in for subversion code management (Java) and Continuous Integration (CI) with some limited Continuous Deployment (CD).

• Initiated coordinated usage of VersionOne, Jenkins and HP ALM tools for managing new development with parallel code line maintenance for an IoT business.

• Architected and managed development of end-to-end security solution for transaction based energy management

(Smart Grid) product supporting 10 million endpoints and one billion transactions per day. Architecture encompassed all security aspects including: data center architecture, basic network topology, firewall placement, VLAN configuration, intrusion detection, forensic capabilities, custom ECC PKI, private SSL Certificate Authority

(CA), custom ECC code signing, remote firmware upgrade authentication, custom key establishment protocol, endpoint authentication, message authentication, patch management, and endpoint policy management. Solution has elements integrated into proprietary low power embedded hardware and enterprise applications with a

.NET/IIS/C#/SQL/Oracle software stack. Oversaw companion product UI development including wireframe and A/B testing. Product operates in on premises, SaaS, PaaS (Cloud), and IaaS environments.

• Established local software development operation for U.K. based software company and served as its director until purchased nine months later. This operation implemented scrum like agile development practices.

• Investigated market opportunities, scoped market size, identified possible sales channels, and estimated BOM/GM for a line of Technical School microprocessor lab products. Coded demonstration application for 32-bit ARM processor in C programming language and companion Microsoft Windows application in C# programming language. Assembled a completely open source ARM tool chain based on the Eclipse IDE, GCC ARM complier, OpenOCD debugger and JTAG bass board.

• Charon activities describe consulting, internal or staff augmentation activities as a principal and third-party contact engagements.

Joseph E. Jones, Jr.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ejones3 December 2016

RELAY HEALTH (MCKESSON) - Alpharetta, GA March 2014 – August 2015 Program Manager

• Established Program Management Office (PMO) and project management processes for developing a commercial healthcare compliant family of hybrid cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, I&AM, API Management, and others). Supervised and provided oversight of project managers and other project leads.

• Established specific reporting metrics tailored to identify progress and performance trends.

• Managed high priority projects included Identity and Access Management (I&AM) and Chef auto deployment frontend for industry leading on-premise payer enterprise software products.

• Served as Scrum Master for joint team (multiple locations) where we created both the developer workflows and CI process with integrated Jira, Jenkins and Git toolset.

• Refined Kanban workflows and executive reporting to better server business needs.

• Assumed Senior Product Manager and Product Owner roles during long period of staff transition. Supervised UX, BA and graphic design staff in developing workflows, wireframes and production graphics for client facing dual branded API Management portal. Responsible for user stories documented using Jira.

• Delivered two major system releases in three months with planned enhancements on a quarterly schedule. Software development utilized a blend of Scrum and Kanban methods with code development in .NET, Java, PHP and Scala. Program was transitioned to operations. NOKIA - Espoo FI April 2006 – April 2007

Director System Solutions

• Mobile phone product development guru responsible for guiding S60 Mobile Software features and reference designs to serve the product creation community and greater ecosystem.

• Consultant to Samsung, LG, Motorola, and Freescale Semiconductor on establishing Scrum processes and setting- up near real-time build and test capabilities for their Symbian/S60 mobile phone platform software projects. PANASONIC WIRELESS DESIGN CENTER (PMCDU) - Suwanee, GA May 2000 – March 2006 Director – Platform Engineering and Program Management

• Professionalized and normalized PMO operation by aligning processes and methods across organizations and increasing the PMP certified staff by more than 1,000% through professional development (no new staff).

• Directly supervised ten project and program managers developing full (hardware, software and infrastructure) mobile phone products. Indirectly supervised (process accountability) an addition 15 project managers.

• Managed team implementing very early CI like system for mobile phone software. This approach predated tools such as Git and Jenkins. Team managed 40+ million lines of C++ code using conventional tools (ClearCase) and developed custom scripts that enabled developers to fire off builds at will using the latest code without completely rebuilding the code base. We supported the on-demand process with a nightly rebuild of all committed code (6 hour plus process). Automated testing of each build confirmed build quality.

• Developed, as platform engineering director, R&D program plan for Panasonic’s first UMTS mobile phone platform. Solidified acceptance of the plan from the Company’s, CTO, Board of Directors and various divisional presidents.

• Created Product Engineering group that received multiple consecutive AT&T supplier awards.

• Reconstructed Product Verification Group (SQA + HW QA + Compliance) following a project meltdown and established a formal Systems Engineering function. These actions successfully returned the Product Verification Group to acceptable performance on the then current project resulting in an on time product launch.

• Led 40-person organization with 250+ extended project reports, $10 million to $80 million in effective budget. PATENTS

US Pat. No. 6,973,301: System for Altering Operational Aspects of a Mobile Electronic Device Based Upon Location EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE & CERTIFICATIONS

• Project Management Professional (PMP) – Active • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Active

• Professional Engineer (PE) – Active (Alabama) • Certified EMC Engineer (NCE) – Active

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