Summary of Skills:

PMP Certified and Certified ScrumMaster

Certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant

Certified SAFe 4 Release Train Engineer

Certified SAFe 4 DevOps Practitioner

Lean Agile Community of Excellence (LACE)

Lean-Agile Transformation Coach

SAFe Agile Coach and Trainer

Six Sigma Green Belt Certified

ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management Certified

Senior Agile Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Implemented and led SAFe Agile and Lean Transformations

Managed co-located, distributed and virtual co-located project teams

Strong business value deliverables with customer focus

Proven ability to continuously improve organizational processes and procedures

Ability to empower teams and coach projects to successful results

Strong written and verbal communications skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lean-Agile Transformation Coach, Artech Information Systems, LLC Bellevue, WA 6/2018 - 9/2018

•SAFe SPC 4 Agile Coach and Trainer for IBM/BOEING

•Agile Release Train Engineer

•Coached and Trained SAFe Agile teams

•Coached and Trained SAFe Agile Leaders

•Coached and Trained SAFe Agile PO/PM

•Coached and Trained SAFe Agile Scrum Masters

•Taught Leading SAFe 4.5 class

•Taught SAFe 4.5 for Scrum Masters class

•Taught SAFe 4.5 for Teams class

•Taught SAFe 4.5 for PO/PM class

•Coach Quality Management across the BOEING Enterprise for 2 CES Project using SAFe Best Practices and Methodologies

Lean-Agile Coach and Trainer, Prodapt North America, Inc. Tualatin, OR 8/2015 – 4/2018

Lean-Agile Coach and Trainer for Windstream Communications

Led Lean-Agile Transformation using SAFe methodologies and practices

Agile Release Train Engineer for several ART’s

Facilitated PI Planning meeting, Scrum of Scrums meetings, Inspect and Adapt workshops

Facilitated PO Sync meetings, Systems Demo, PI Demo, PI Retrospective meetings

Facilitated Scrums of Scrum meetings

Created Weekly Executive Status Reports

Taught SAFe Scrum Master, SAfe for Teams, SAFe PO/PM and Leading SAFE certification class

Coached and trained multiple Agile teams

Coached and trained Agile methodology and principles to Product Owners and DevOps Teams

Created an Agile community at the company to promote Agile and Scrum methodology

Created and Agile Community of Practice

Managed projects with a budget over a $3,000,000 USD

Removed organizational impediments for scrum team to complete program and sprint objec-tives

Drove product vision from conception to deployment in enterprise environment

Completed Legacy to NGMSS NextGen migration project and Ethernet Conversion project

Completed Earthlink delegation and inventory migration project

Completed Data Virtualization Unified View project

Senior Agile Project Manager, AB Projects, Inc. Redondo Beach, CA 1/2013 – 1/2015

Helped to clarify business requirements from the Product Manager and Product Owner

Facilitated Scrum of Scrums meetings

Managed Scrum team of 7-10 people

Conducted daily standup meetings

Conducted sprint planning meetings with Scrum team and Product Owner

Conducted sprint review meetings and backlog refinement meetings

Conducted sprint retrospectives for lessons learned and continuous improvements

Removed organizational impediments for scrum team to complete sprints

Facilitator between product owner and development teams to assure sprint success

Manage project risk by continually monitoring factors that increase project risk and having stakeholders identify risk

Managed stakeholders expectation by continually communicating with stakeholders

Saved company 35% in production costs by streamlining inventory tracking process

Increased profits by 40% over two years period by creating online sales process

Measure project work against the project management plan and making adjustments for future variance

Evaluate the impact, identify options, to get project change request formally approved and customer buy-in of change request to assure customer satisfaction

Formally closed out projects, updated lessons learned and gain customer sign-off of project deliverables

Project Manager - Apollo Group, Inc. Gardena, CA 4/2004 - 12/2012

Managed Student Resource Center and Classroom Renovation projects

Managed IT deployment projects Student Resource Center and Smart Classrooms

Managed IT projects for the University of Phoenix Southern California campuses

Managed projects with a budget of over a $5,000,000 USD

Sharepoint was used to show workflow progress to avoid duplication of completed tasks

Managed project constraints to successful bring project within scope, budget, and schedule

Ensured quality and customer satisfaction by communicating with stakeholders

Managed project risk, scope, time, quality, cost, resources and customer satisfaction

Managed co-located and virtual project teams

Managed multi-teams working on different projects

Integrated VoIP telecommunication projects using Cisco and Avaya technologies

Integrated Cisco routers in cloud based storage and wireless technologies

Managed NICE implementation project

Planned and managed wireless deployment and remote access VPN projects

Planned and managed integration projects for PC and Mac platforms

Managed and coordinated campus systems integration projects

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION

UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX, CA

Master of Business Administration

JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY, NC

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE, CA

Associate of Arts, Computer Info Science

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification # 1761720

Certified SAFe 4 Program Consultant Certificate # 476*****-****

Certified SAFe 4 Release Train Engineer Certificate # 936*****-****

Certified SAFe 4 DevOps # 914*****-****

Certified SAFe 4.5 Instructor for: Leading SAFe, Scrum Masters, DevOps, Teams and PO/PM

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Certification # 000368117

Six Sigma Green Belt (SSGB) Certification # 63525

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management Certification # 985428

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Member of Project Management Institute

Member of Scrum Alliance

Member of Scaled Agile Community of Practice

Member of LeSS Community

Member of Agile Carolinas Chapter

Member of Los Angeles Chapter - Project Management Institute

Member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

President, Johnson C. Smith University, Southern California Alumni Association

IT SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 10, macOS High Sierra, Beta tester for macOS High Sierra

Networking: Windows Server 2008, Active Directory, Novell, UNIX, JavaScript,

Hardware: Apple, Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM, Toshiba

Databases: Oracle, PeopleSoft, MS Access

Software: JIRA, Confluence, SPIRA, SVN, Mac 2006-2017 (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), Microsoft

Office Suite 2016, Microsoft Visio 2013, Microsoft Project 2013,

Microsoft Sharepoint 2018, Adobe Creative Suite CC

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