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

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