Key Strengths and Capabilities

Certified Project Management

Professional (PMP)

Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)

Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Hybrid

Methodologies

Quality and Continuous Process

Improvement

Servant Leadership Style

Effective Communications

at all Project Levels

Leading IT Projects

Exceptional Meeting

Facilitation

Schedule, Budget and Change

Management

Motivating and Inspiring Team

Members to Innovate

Risk Management

Professional Project Manager and Agile Project Manager capable of leading, motivating and inspiring team members to achieve their full innovative potential. Dedicated leader in pursuit of bringing delivery of the highest business value to the customer. Over 25+ years of IT experience with the last 10+ years specifically in project management resulting in the successful delivery of many value add projects to Fortune 100 companies. Experienced agile leader using teaching, coaching and advising of agile rules to help agile teams excel.

Summary of Qualifications

PMP and ACP certified IT Project Manager experienced in Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies.

Trained and knowledgeable in Agile/Scrum practices and processes such as Product Backlog Grooming, Iteration Planning, Epic/Story Decomposition, Continuous Integration, Progress/Velocity Tracking and Iteration Reviews/Retrospectives.

Experienced teacher, coach and adviser helping teams to incorporate Agile practices and events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Review and Retrospectives into their projects.

Built high performance teams and collaborative team environments. Supervised small and large teams including hiring, coaching, development of team member skills, goal setting and performance management.

Intermediate to expert computer skills in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project and SharePoint) and Rational CLM (Collaborative Lifecycle Management).

Confident and compassionate leadership style that strives to help self-organizing teams become high-performing motivated groups that can maintain a sustained performance.

Relevant Skills & Experience

Project Management

Custom Software Development

System Migrations / Integrations

Enterprisewide Implementations

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Vendor Management

IT Project Lifecycle

Waterfall - SDLC Management

Agile – Scrum rules / events

Application Design / Development

Testing/QA/Rollout/Support/Disposal

Release Scheduling / Implementation

Value-Added Leadership

Servant Leadership

Cross-Functional Supervision

Team Building / Teaching / Coaching / Advising

Business & IT Planning

Compliance Management

Professional Experience

Associate Director, Total Systems Services 2013 – 2017

Corporate IT Tools and Middleware Boise, Idaho

Leader for all project management, application development and production support activities for the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) team.

Developed and implemented value add services that generated double-digit percentage increases in transaction volume month over month.

Coached IT project teams and individual team members in using best practices and project management methodologies including predictive models (waterfall) and adaptive agile models (Scrum, XP).

Led the gathering of requirements, technical design, and application development in waterfall SDLC methodology projects.

Facilitated agile planning and the creation of epics, decomposition / estimation of stories, creation and grooming of the product backlog and creation of the sprint and release plans for agile projects.

Acted in multiple project roles including Project Manager, Scrum Master and Product Owner roles in a hybrid predictive/adaptive methodology environment.

Facilitated key scrum meetings including sprint/iteration planning, reviews and retrospectives.

Administered goal setting, performance evaluation and salary administration for all direct report team members.

Collaborated with peer managers and senior leadership to establish and execute strategies for meeting company goals.

Stabilized poor performing teams through teaching, coaching and advising best practices.

Technical Business Consultant 2005 – 2012

B & T Consulting & Accounting LLC Boise, Idaho

Conducted a full range of business and technical consulting services for companies needing to improve their business processes, eliminate waste and increase their ROI.

Implemented business startups including business plan documentation for new entrepreneurs needing general business guidance.

Analyzed client business processes and accounting systems to eliminate waste and streamline procedures/processes.

Facilitated strategic business planning meetings for clients struggling with goals and strategy.

Technical Project Manager, Total Systems Services 2002 – 2004

Acquisitions and Mergers Team Boise, Idaho

Led the management, design, development and implementation of a large scale custom CICS application for a Fortune 100 financial company’s Credit Card Rewards system with over 90 million cardholders. Project was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget.

Led the planning and technical execution of acquisition and merger projects involving millions of accounts.

Directed all project management aspects for successful conversion of financial assets to Total Systems Services applications.

Using COBOL programming language and JCL procedural language, performed as a developer and technical leader for conversion team performing data mapping, building conversion programs and procedures.

Composed and executed overall conversion plan including test conversions and production turnover.

Designed and coded critical algorithm and procedure for conversion account number cross reference processing.

Project / Resource Manager, Sears Technology Center 1997 – 2001

Resource Management Team Boise, Idaho

Accountable for the goal setting, performance evaluation and salary administration for 30+ direct report team members.

Key member of the Sears Technology Center (STC) senior leadership team, setting goals and implementing strategy for the STC site.

In a Project Manager role, managed many critical projects assigned to the STC including conversion from out-dated and costly legacy applications to lower cost distributed platforms that offered more development speed and agility and ultimately higher customer value.

Managed all aspects of waterfall SDLC projects with a focus on integrating best practices such as shorter development cycles, automated testing, and continuous integration.

Technical Development Lead, Boise Cascade Corp 1996 – 1997

Paper Products Supply Chain Team Boise, Idaho

Led the development and support team for Boise Cascade’s paper products supply chain system.

Lead technical architect for the design, development and support of the primary interfacing application to the company’s remote paper mill systems.

Using COBOL programming language and DB2 relational database, I designed and developed critical CICS application programs used to support paper mill system interfaces in real time.

Lead technician for production troubleshooting and issue resolution.

Technical Lead, US Bank 1990 – 1996

Integrated Banking Team Boise, Idaho

Developed and supported Deposit applications including Checking, Savings, Certificate of Deposit and Account Analysis.

Lead developer on acquisition projects, performing data mapping, conversion development and production conversion execution.

Developed new and supported existing application programs using batch and CICS COBOL programming language and IMS DL/I database.

Application Developer, Moore Financial Group 1986 – 1990

Loans Development Team Boise, Idaho

Developed and supported Loan applications including Consumer Loans, Commercial Loans and Collections.

Developed new and supported existing application programs using batch COBOL programming language and VSAM database.

Lead developer for installing and building interfaces to a new Consumer Loans Collections system. New application achieved a 50% increase in collections in the first year of use.

Education & Credentials

B.S. Computer Science, University of Idaho, June 1986

Project Management Professional (PMP) Project Management Institute (PMI)

Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) Project Management Institute (PMI)

ITIL Certified (Foundations) Axelos, Global Best Practice

Scrum Fundamentals Certification (SFC) SCRUMStudy

Scrum Master Certified (SMC) (pending exam) SCRUMStudy

Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC) (pending class/exam) SCRUMStudy

Other Recent Education:

Sharepoint User/Site Owner

Excel Advanced

Excel w/Pivot Tables

Analyzing Data with Excel

MS Project Advanced

MS PowerPoint Advanced

Excel Analysis with Power BI (pending)

Scrum Product Owner Certified prep (pending)

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