Project Manager Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

June **** - Current Xpanxion

Scrum Master- Contracted locally to lead 3 Scrum teams to higher

performance. Responsible for Assisting Product Owner with Backlog

Grooming in addition to coaching teams to Agile best practices. This

includes Sprint Planning, Daily Standup meetings, Sprint Review and

Retrospectives. All Development teams are offshore and have been

practicing internally interpretation of Scrum. Part of my responsibilities

are to help them move to industry best practices. All Sprints are two

weeks and will have Test Driven Development being introduced for the first

time. Reporting is via burn down and burn up charts. They do have

Scheduled Scrum of Scrum meetings, which are now status meetings. We have

changed the agenda to focus on group interdependencies, impediments and how

we can help each other improve our processes.

September 2013 - June 2014 HP Technologies

Scrum Master Lead successful transition from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum for

one team. Acting as Scrum coach for

three new startup teams with practices including TDD. Responsible for

Backlog Grooming, Sprint planning, Daily

Stand up, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings. Served as trainer for

Product Owner. Primary tool was HP

Agile Manager, .NET and Java. Teams were Local, California, India and

Ireland.

December, 2011 - June, 2013 Wipro Technologies

Sr Infrastructure Project Manager, Dekalb County 911 Stabilization January

2013 - May 2013

Sr Project manager was responsible for onsite management of

stabilization project for e911 system. Tasks included communications

and coordination between vendor and County staff. Key areas of focus

were team building and process development, including the

revitalization of the Problem reporting and resolution system and

development of Change Management process.

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Scrum Master December, 2011 - November, 2012

Functioned as a Scrum Master for a development team that varied

from 8 - 14 developers. Project was based on .NET and Java in

Windows. Lead the reduction in Defect Density from over 10 to under

3. Primary tool was CA Agile Vision. Customer was remote, Developers

were onsite, near shore and offshore. Responsible for Sprint

planning, Backlog management, Daily scrum meeting, Sprint

retrospective, Team coaching, Project reporting, burndown charts and

metrics, Customer interface, both face to face and remote. Teams were

Atlanta, Nashville and India.

September 2008 - 11/25/10 Mansfield Oil Company

IT Director (Hands on)

2009 & 2008 Mansfield was an Honoree for the Information Week Top 500

Masters of Technology

ScrumMaster for external .NET / Agile/Scrum development projects.

Supported company growth from 260 to 400 employees in 2 years.

Responsible for all IT activities and vendor management

Took personal control of failing software development project as

Project and Product manager under a waterfall methodology. Stabilized

the project and successfully completed internal ERP development

effort.

Stabilized development team with effective combination of contract and

permanent staff.

Responsible for upgrading infrastructure to meet business demands.

IBM blades, NetApp SANs, MPLS and MetroE circuits, VMWare, VOIP,

Windows, Linux, SSIS, SSAS,SSRS.

Added Eight branch offices with full network and phone presence.

Integrated two new business acquisitions to the ERP system, network and

phones.

Integrated purchased software into our core ERP.

1996 - 2007 FirstData Corporation February 1996- May 2007,

Director of Information Systems (Hands on)

. Responsible for IT including Project Management, Software systems

development, support and operations, budget, Server and Desktop

support, MS Exchange Mail system, performance tracking and

reporting, standardization of equipment, and staff improvement.

. Managed a 26-member team supporting software development and

support for multiple business units, including 1st, 2nd and 3rd

level support. Planned and managed a $2.6 million budget.

. Multi-site responsibility for Change and Problem management.

. Led Project Management teams including major corporate projects,

such as the upgrade or remove all NT4 servers. Over 250 servers

were identified, corporate wide, and tracked to replacement or

removal, within a five-month project.

. Provided direct, remote site support for top-level corporate

executives.

. Upgraded reporting by migrating from Crystal Reports to SSRS.

. Led the system implementation and support for ISO 9001

Certification by TUV.

. Participated in Six Sigma training and process improvement.

. Responsible for supporting over 3800 Desktops and 420 Servers in

nine cities across GA, FL, TN, TX, NC, and CA.

1996 - 1996 Daugherty Systems

Consultant, VB developer.

1987 - 1996 Worldspan

Manager, PC Development and Support from 1987-1996. Managed an 18-member

department which provided new development, 2nd Level customer support,

client training, and functional enhancements for multiple product lines,

including Windows, UNIX, Xenix and DOS, using MS SQL, FoxPro, Visual

Basic, C and Assembly languages. Products were Travel agent interfaces

and back office accounting.

Sponsored and developed a new client/server decision support system for

Travel Agency management. Managed all technical phases of the project on

a team including Marketing, Help Desk, and Technical Support. Oversaw

department budget, and HR recruitment/hiring/training. Tools included

Unified methodology, C++, MS SQL Server in a 3-tier Client/Server

architecture.

In 1987, led R&D on a Tandem System during product evaluation and

comparison. Prototyped applications, and wrote/presented result papers to

executive leadership.

1983 - 1987 Utlas

Application developer for library automation software. Developed new

algorithyms for index rebuilds that reduced the time required by a factor

of 10. Responsible for new development, software maintenance and

customer support.

EDUCATION

AAS Data Processing

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Computer Languages Certificate

MS Certified Professional

CA LISA Virtualization

REFERENCES

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