Project Manager Quality Assurance

Emmanuel Szabados

Agile Coach, SCRUM Master

**** ****** ** #*, ********, NY 11221

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Summary

A leader and problem solver with a proven track record of delivering secure mission-critical internet

and enterprise projects. Over 20 years of professional experience in the software industry including

Agile and SCRUM coaching for product management, implementation and management of Offshore

solutions, technology decision and orientation, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance regulation, business

and technology architecture alignments, E-Business, E-Commerce, client/server, back end

applications development and quality assurance testing.

Experience

BOOKISH.COM NY, NY (Publishing)

Agile coach / Scrum Master (FT) July 2012 – January 2014

Leading the organization of the Product management and development process using Agile framework

on goal to launch the Beta version of Bookish.com, a new editorial and commerce site for books.

● Led the implementation and management of Agile, Scrum, Lean Kanban frameworks and

process for Product and Development Management.

● Led the definition of the critical path to launch the Beta site

● Set Product Roadmap and Master backlog with Product team; delivered weekly upper

management product and development reports; Centralized release information.

● Led the management of offshore resourcing

● Led the offshore resourcing centralization and consolidation

● Set and coached 4 teams of a total of 25 people with offshore from India, Turkey and Ukraine.

MTV Networks NY, NY (Entertainments, Media)

Scrum Master / Sr. Project Manager (FT) September 2009 – July 2012

● Agile team coach working closely with Product Owners and Technical Leads. Coach multiples

teams composed of New York, India and Canada offshore resources. Successfully formed

offshore High-Performing team.

Feed Services products: support and enhance xml/xslt/freemarker based feed generation

system that process feeds from content repositories to online publishing by Brands

groups.

Search product: implementation of SOLR and FAST search system to enable search

capabilities for Viacom websites (MTV, Nick

Application Services product: implement scalable generic data collection service that

provides all the tools and services to manage data sets, capture/validate/store data from

clients, and perform reporting and analytics.

Video Players products: develop and support the client video players in Flash, HTML5 for

the Viacom websites (MTV, Comedy Central

● Managed project such as file storage migration to provide oversight for the use of CDN and

MTVN GSP Storage for each of the MTV Networks websites.

● Introduced Agile/Scrum concepts and ceremonies such as: Impediment list, Sprint

demonstration, Scrum of Scrum, Strategic planning.

The Economist NY, NY (Publishing)

Scrum Master (CT) February 2009 – September 2009 (8 mos)

● Scrum coach for two teams: the Customer Experience & Channel groups. The goals are both to

re-design the Economist.com using a Grid and Modules framework as well as migrate the

technology system in house using Drupal solution.

● Successfully formed and managed the Channel team to a High-Performing stage.

● Coached product owner, senior information architects and user experience analysts using the

SCRUM Framework to increase delivery productivity and deliver a full set of web publishing rules

and guidelines such as content and module audit, re-design, strategy for advertising new

strategy, SEO, taxonomy, typography, accessibility.

● Coached customer experience group to interface with the implementation group.

● Coordinated editorial, business, advertising and technological groups from London and New York.

● Supported the implementation of new solution to facilitate Agile buy in such as wiki (Confluence

from Atlassian)

Hi-Media – FOTOLOG NY, NY (Media & Social Networking)

Agile Coach / Scrum Master (FT) June 2008 – January 2009 (8 mos)

Agile solution delivery executive for FOTOLOG.COM, B2C subscription system. Coaching Management

and Software Development group to adopt a tailored SCRUM & XP framework with Offshore solution

implementation.

● Improved productivity and cost-efficiency with the creation and enforcement of standards and

best practices across the company, as well as more accurate allocation of resources, and

greater communication, collaboration, and information flow among all groups and teams.

● Accelerated development and time-to-market through Agile practices with automated and

simplified product management, resource planning using team concept.

● Increased flexibility and change management with the ability to rapidly build or enhance

software applications to instantly respond to changing demands or emerging business needs.

● Defined rules, communication protocol and implemented an Agile Offshore team in Brazil – Sao

Paolo

● Implementation of an Agile tool: VersionOne.

DOUBLECLICK NY, NY (Advertising)

Scrum Master (FT) December 2006 – May 2008 (18 mos)

Certified SCRUM Master, coaching Agile onshore and offshore (India) teams using SCRUM and XP

frameworks.

Increased productivity and new features deliveries for the DART Publishing group. Facilitate and

evangelized Agile and SCRUM process implementation. Reduce projects costs by introducing

automation, Offshore and cross team management. Successfully delivered new requirements in an

iterative process and reduced production maintenance bugs. Successfully formed and managed teams

to High-Performing stage. Advocate improved engineering practices. Solve organizational impediments

such as team localization, additional product owners, quality delivery and improving Offshore

communication.

● “Dart For Publisher”. Coach six teams for the DFP product, including two Offshore teams in

Cybage (India). Reduced project cost with introduction of automation, continuous builds and

cross team management. Successfully facilitates Team self organization and bring teams to

High-Performing stage. Raise product business values (team velocity).

● “Backend System”. Coach three teams related to backend report processing system.

Introduce the concepts of Team, Sprint goal and Business values. Successfully influence team

to use SCRUM monitoring artifacts such as burn-downs, velocities. Help teams to better

estimate requirements and control / manage their Sprints. Support Engineering managers to

empower the teams.

Standard & Poor's / NEOS LLC NY, NY (Finance)

Technical Project Manager (Contractor) June 2006 – December 2006 (6 mos)

Managed B2C, B2B, E-Business and data projects as a contractor at Standard & Poors.

● S&P.com Redesign (Completed). Delivered the Beta version of the B2C S&P.com laid

groundwork for redesign and transition to a new S&P development team. Managed a team of

four developers. Technology used: Vignette Portal, Fatwire content management, Verity Search

engine.

● Rating Action Data Augmentation (Ongoing). Coordinated the centralization of S&P Ratings,

Outlooks and Credit Watch applications and their data, for the Fixed Income Researchers group.

● Data linking proof of concept (Ongoing). Managed a proof of concept project that will be the

foundation for allowing the federation of data that supports the capability of cross-system data

linking (Oracle, Java, Informatica, dfPower Studio (Dataflux))

AMERICAN LAWYER MEDIA NY, NY (Publishing)

Director of Development & QA; PMO Administrator (FT) April 2004 – June 2006 (2 yrs)

Reporting directly to the CTO, main responsibility is the planning and strategic direction of ALM’s

technology domains, E-Business, Back Office and ERP with respect to SDLC, hosted, developed

applications and SOX Compliance regulation requirements. This position required Program Management,

aligning Business vision and Technical System evolution, System and data migration plan, IT cost

analysis, participating to budget revision, implementation of quality control processes, implementation

of Offshore development strategy with India.

● Development Management (Ongoing). Led and managed the development team in the day

to day custom or package applications development, System migration and integration, support

maintenance. Led the development direction and vision.

Main Applications: Law.com & all regional legal journals (NYLJ.com E-Commerce B2B &

B2C; ALM events B2C; Lawcatalog E-Commerce B2C; Center Legal Education CLE E-Commerce

B2C, MA3000 Legal events B2C; DSI fulfillment; Marketing Database (CRM/ERP).

● Technical Project Management (Per Project). Led and hands-on gathering and formalizing

requirements for projects of varying scopes.

● Strategic Planning, Infrastructure and Approach (Ongoing). When not engaged in

project-specific work, responsible for overall ALM IT strategic planning with respect to hardware

and applications, and preferred technologies, toward the goal of consolidating and formalizing

infrastructure. Delivered SOA target architecture design triggered to migrate and integrate

multiple Business and Back office Systems to answer new Business orientation to customer

targeting.

● Process Development. PMO Administrator (Ongoing). Defined and implemented a Program

Management Office to help ALM to comply to Sarbanes-Oxley industry regulation. Developed

consistent methodologies based on RUP Iterative framework.

● QA Management (Ongoing). Defined and set a Quality Assurance policy, process and team.

Manage QA projects, resources and business interaction.

ALLIANCE CAPITAL NY, NY (Finance)

Technical Project Manager, Team Lead; SR WEB/Back End Developer (FT) March 2001 –

April 2004 (3 yrs)

● Following SDLC and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance regulation, led the development of

Intranet/Internet B2B/B2C projects for the Institutional web application using UML and Test

Director. Participated in new Object Oriented architecture design using .NET C#.

● Introduced technologies such as Inktomi Search Engine with Request For Purchase (RFP).

MARCHFIRST NY, NY (System Integrator and Internet Consulting)

Technical Project Manager, Team Lead; SR WEB/Back End Developer (FT) May 1996 –

March 2001 (1 yrs)

Technical and Team Lead, Sr. Developer, participated to the creation of a Quality Assurance group

and day to day interfacing application development. Managed and developed solution using tiered

Web E-Commerce, B2B, B2C type of deployments with different technology such as Java J2EE, Perl,

TCL, C. Implemented solution such as content management tool Vignette, Informix Esql-C, Universal

Database, Netscape PublishingXPert.

Major client engagements:

● Alliance Capital (financial institutional web application). Team Lead of architecture,

development, deployment and maintenance of Internet application.

● Columbia House. Responsible for the development environment, application infrastructure of

the E-Commerce B2C Columbia House project.

● Double Day Dell. Managed and developed full content management tools.

● TheStreet.com. E-Commerce B2C, managed and developed the Web billing application.

● Standard & Poor’s. E-Commerce B2B/B2C, participated as senior developer of the Web delivery

of S&P High Secure Articles for Internet.

● Dow Jones. Automated the data transfer process and formatting for daily information and news

feeds (EDI, B2B/B2C).

● Other customers: Lexis-Nexis B2B/B2C, Barnes & Noble College Bookstores B2C, Cooper

& Lybrand, BMS Bristol-Myers Squibb, DLJ Direct, Counsel Connect, Boron LePore &

Assc., Student Advantage B2C.

BANK PARIBAS NY, NY (Finance & Banking)

Technical Support; Script Writer; (Consultant) February 1996 – May 1996

IPPOLIS INFORMATIQUE, FRANCE TELECOM France (Internet Software Development)

Project Manager; UNIX & C Developer; Trainer; (FT) January 1990 – January 1995 (5 yrs)

● Managed projects and developed application in Unix SCO and C. Major customers: French

Minister of National Education (Universities student pre-inscriptions system); Bank of

Credit Agricole. (Development of real time stock quotes information for internal use);

Europcar Inter-rent B2C; Accord Group B2C, EDF-GDF; ISOPE B2C; Banque Des Depots

et Consignations.

● Trained customers in UNIX and proprietary Ippolis software in France, Belgium, and Brazil.

EXPERIENCE AND Skills

● Specialties and Domains: E-Business, E-Commerce, B2B, B2C, Offshoring implementation and

management, Media, Advertising, Publishing, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Sarbanes-Oxley SOX

Compliance regulation, Transaction & Payment platforms, Multilingual Portals, Secure

transactions, E-Learning, Internet, Intranet, OPEN SOURCE, Enterprise Application Integration,

Service oriented Architectures (SOAs), Search Engines, Inventory Systems, Agile, SCRUM,

Lean, Kanban, eXtrem Programming (XP), PMO, Quality Assurance, SDLC.

● Methodology and Software development frameworks: Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Lean, XP,

Iterative, Waterfall, PMO, QA, QC, SDLC, RUP, UML, OOAD.

● Operating Systems: Sun OS - Solaris (8 years), UNIX SCO (6 years), Linux (15 years),

Windows (15 years).

● Solutions: Jira/Greehopper, Confluence, Teambox, Wrike, Pivotal, Trello, Google Apps, Google

Analytics, VersionOne, RallyDev, Endeca, Sideran, Google Search appliance, Microsoft Office,

IPS Fatwire, Apache, ETL Informatica, Selenium, Quality Center, Test Director, QTP, Bugzilla,

Fitness, CruiseControl, Remedy, Crystal Reports, Hitbox, WebTrend, Mongo DB, Oracle, MySQL,

Erwin, SQL, MS SQLXML, LDAP.

EDUCATION:

● Certified SCRUM Master 2008

● French License in Human Sciences equivalent to bachelor degree – University Paris X Nanterre

in France, 1986.

References upon request.

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