Relevant General and Specialized Experience
Summary of related qualifications and experience:
Government Clearance (Secret)
Project Management
Certified Scrum Master
Agile (Scrum)
Business Analysis
Data Analysis
Solution Development
Decision Making
Operations Analysis
Strong I. T. Skills
Programming
Quality Assurance
SharePoint
Microsoft Visio
Trouble Shooting
Microsoft Excel
SQL Server
Rally Software
VersionOne
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Project
Work History
Life Cycle Engineering; 01/2013 - Present; Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
with Secret Government Clearance
Charleston, S. C.
. Perform Scrum Master Duties for a large development team including
Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, the Daily Stand Up, Retrospectives,
Management Reporting, including presentation of sprint results to the
customer.
. Specialized in managing multi-location development projects.
. Promote and support the project adoption of the Scrum Development
Framework.
. Develop Agile Release Management, Defect Management, Configuration
Management, and Requirements Engineering processes as part of a larger
overall Systems Engineering strategy.
UST Global; 06/2011 - 01/2013; Scrum Master / Project Manager
Bentonville, AR
. Worked as CSM/ Project Manager for Vendor: Wal-Mart Corporate Office
in International Systems Development. Responsibilities included
leading teams in United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and United
Kingdom through various stages of ISDLC project development.
Experience in working with off shore developers and their managers.
Managed projects using CA Clarity and CA Open Workbench. Completed all
necessary documentation including Project Charters, Project Management
Plans, Product Backlogs, Sprint Backlogs, Sprint Burn-down Charts,
Communication Management Plan, Project Cost Plan, RACI Matrix,
Traceability Matrix, Project Staffing Plans, Project Budget Plans, and
working with Business Analyst to produce the Business Requirements
Documents
Strategic Staffing; 06/2010 - 05/2011; Technical Lead / Scrum Master
Richmond, VA
. Completed Contract position with Capital One in their Credit Card
Recoveries department as Scrum Master/Tech-Lead for development
projects using Agile (Scrum) methodologies. Responsibilities included,
leading iteration (sprint) planning sessions, working with team on
user story selections and estimates, challenging team when necessary.
Leading daily stand-up meetings and removing impediments team may
incur. Tracking sprint tasks, sprint backlog items to update sprint
burn down chart and create sprint review documentation.
Responsibilities also included working closely with team to learn
strengths and weaknesses to improve team sprint velocity. All projects
involved On-Shore and Off-Shore development.
. Responsibilities as Technical Lead required reviewing and signing off
on project scope, business requirements, system requirements, both
functional / non-functional requirements, test cases, MVS, router,
programming, and ETL changes. Experienced at creating wireframe and
workflow diagrams using MS Visio.
United Parcel Service; 07/1998 - 04/2010; Project Manager / Scrum Master
Louisville, KY
. Six plus years working as Project Manager/Scrum Master using Agile
(Scrum), and other SDLC methodologies. Managing daily development
activities in an Agile (Scrum) and Waterfall development environment.
Responsible for developing and controlling project scope. Developed
and managed project plans using Microsoft Project. Excellent at data
analysis, process analysis, systems analysis, and managing project
documentation.
. Six years providing Business Analysis, Development and 24/7 support to
our world-wide Aircraft Inventory Parts / Accounts Payable IBM z/OS-
JES Operating System Environment consisting of multiple LPARs, using
Tivoli, CA-OPS/MVS, CA7, ISPF/TSO, File-Aid, JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2,
VSAM, EASYTRIEVE, CLIST and REXX programming. This position required
working with many additional applications and languages using Windows
servers and creating technical development or enhancement
documentation.
. Assigned to Project Manager for Top Priority Assignment to guide
development of a new vendor-developed document management system.
Assignment required guiding development team through requirements
development and managing needed changes to vendor's application and
tracking issues through negotiated resolutions. Implemented
application and needed business process changes across all areas.
. Member of team assigned to gather, analyze and create all necessary
documents related to Aircraft Retirement Project. Interviewed
pertinent departments, including Legal, Engineering, Statistics, and
Support Groups, to document business processes and make recommendation
for data retention.
. As Team Lead, I focused my team on reducing our critical path batch
time. During critical path batch, company employees cannot fully
utilize the system. My team reduced critical path batch time from 3.5
hours to 54 minutes! Savings to company amounting to millions of
dollars.
. In charge of keeping our 'Disaster Recovery' script current for this
system. I was held accountable for making sure all critical files were
backed up to our off-site storage facility and testing the D/R plan
once a year.
. Worked with Flight Publications Department making edits and format
changes to Aircraft Publication Manuals. Changes were made using
XML/XSL-FO code and rendering documents using Arbortext Editor 5.4.
Publications could then be viewed via the web by various departments
and by pilots via Electronic Flight Bags.
. All assignments were designed, developed and supported using
Application Development and Lifecycle Management methodologies
utilizing strong Project Management skills, Business Analysis
abilities and QA knowledge.
Humana Inc.; 10/1993 - 07/1998; Systems Engineer
Louisville, KY
. Served as programmer for insurance Claims Administration and Accounts
Payable System. Provided three years development and maintenance of
COBOL/CICS programs including 24/7 support.
. Successfully worked with team to add and integrate new regions of
country as Humana purchased additional healthcare insurance companies
and expanded their business.
Education
B.S. Computer Science: University of Kentucky
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance