Jeremy M. Lutz – PMP, Master of MIS

**** *********** ***** ***** *******, Ohio 45424 aczkq6@r.postjobfree.com 937-***-****

Seeking a challenging role managing programs/projects in Information Technology to utilize skills in Leadership, Agile Methodologies, SAFe, SCRUM and SDL Management,

As a Program Manager demonstrated outstanding leadership ability in PMO and in fast paced high pressure environments to work with all areas and levels of the business and across multiple technology teams both remote and onsite to collaborate, resolve problems and deliver valuable results managing enterprise level applications like “Legal Practice Advisor” completing below budget (Budget of 3M) and on time.

At Great American lead projects using agile interfacing internal systems with banks to sell annuities and insurance with value to company of 400 million. Over saw the testing and development teams, coaching them directly in SCRUM, software development, writing requirements and testing strategies.

Special talent for developing effective relationships with stakeholders (customers, engineers, product and executive teams) that assists in breaking down barriers and expediting solutions. Because of this ability, was selected to be the interface for portfolio managers to executives helping them to make key decisions on product releases across the Global Technology Platform for US, UK, Asia, Pacific, Canada, Australia.

Transformation Agent and Teacher – I teach software development to undergrads and Project Management to Graduate Student in the Master of IT and Supply Chain Management cohort. I have acted as facilitator for SAFe framework for Lexis in transition to SAFe. Conducted PI Planning Sessions (Some virtual and some in-house) and facilitate the execution and delivery of the large Release Trains with over 20 agile teams (Not ideal). While leading these release trains helped coach some agile teams that struggled. Also reviewed and helped with team dynamics, prioritization, technology and developing processes. I have also been involved in all or parts of Agile transformations in 3 different companies of varying sizes.

Professional Experience

CareSource – Senior Project Manager [2016- Present]

-Manage Challenging Business Development Integration Projects for Health Insurance including Behavior Health in all markets and products for multiple states that included cross functional departments (Compliance, Technology, Enrollment, Health Management and Providers, Finance)

-Lead war room emergency projects for cost saving initiatives for health care editing systems for pharmacy and medical

-Interfaced with all levels of company leadership including senior vice presidents giving presentations and leading steering committees.

-Assist in consultations with SAFe

Lexis Nexis/Thompson Technologies - Program Manager/Consultant for Lexis Nexis [2011 - 2016]

-Manage and lead strategic technology programs/projects that include Project Managers and teams for infrastructure additions, Cloud Development(AWS), API, Web Application Development, CRM and Shared Services both for enhancements and new products through all phases of life cycle including conception, planning, execution, testing and release.

-Work effectively with multiple departments: Finance, Legal, Royalty, Back Office, Editorial, Content Fabrication, Software Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, User Experience and Design, Product, Research and Development, Go to Market and Quality Assurance.

-Manage risks and issues tracking scope, budget and schedule using forecasting methods, velocity and monitoring budgeted projects (1-3 million).

-Drive projects through to completion using Scrum, iterative and waterfall frameworks.

-Implemented agile methodologies (e.g. Sprint ceremonies, burn down chart, velocity, retrospectives etc.)

-Arranged daily stand ups, weekly meetings, sprint planning meetings

-Implemented Change Management and Configuration Management according to best practices. Assisted in the transformation efforts to SAFe for the 25 plus agile teams.

-Performed project closeout activities, transitioned the IT system to the Operations & Maintenance

-As a Release Train Engineer: conducted PI planning sessions, define and enforce release standards, develop policies and processes, ensure release readiness, define release dates, ensure plans and environments are in place for testing, and release, drive organization to test driven development and continuous integration, provide scope of release and work with directors and managers to improve processes. Utilize tools such as VSTS, work with product managers to enforce standards to determine desired scope.

-Conducted large release trains and conducted PI planning sessions

-Work successfully with Executives and Portfolio Managers (Vertical and Horizontal) across multiple countries, LBU’s and company technology assets to help status and determine release readiness for each portfolio of many products (Shared Services, Hardware, Application and Content Systems, CRM and a version of ERP(order processing)

Great American Financial Resources Inc. - Cincinnati, OH - Senior Project Manager/Consultant [2010 -2011]

-Manage multiple strategic technology projects for banking industry worth over 400 million dollars per year to the company using SCRUM

-Work with multiple resources from multiple departments and functional areas in business and software engineering to manage scope, risk and resolve issues.

-Taught and coached agile methodologies (e.g. Sprint ceremonies, burn down chart, velocity etc.) Arranged daily stand ups, weekly status meetings, sprint planning meetings and led steering meetings with executives and stakeholders

-Performed project closeout activities, transitioned the IT system to the Operations & Maintenance

-Mentor and coach project team members on SCRUM, Agile, best practices, issue resolution, scope management and quality. Especially focusing on user stories, demo’s and sprint planning.

NCI and IMSG – Dayton, OH - Principal Software Engineer [2003 - 2010]

-Hands on Project Management using SCRUM/Agile on various projects using .NET technology stack. Acted as transformation agent to adopt SCRUM.

-Develop n-tier enterprise level applications for the web.

-Utilize technology effectively to create rich enterprise level n-tier architecture applications OOD that improves maintenance, flexibility, extendibility reducing time and cost.

-Creating web based social networking, discussion forum, mentoring, information market and project management applications integrating them with enterprise level n-tier architecture using ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5, C#, JQuery, AJAX, JavaScript, Telerik Controls, stored procedures, SQL Server 2000 and 2005.

-Experienced in relational database design using SQL server to make the most efficient use of data

DCI – Dayton, Ohio - Software Engineer (2000-2003)

-Perform research, acquire and create data acquisition systems for testing of various hardware devices for the USAF

-Implement and deploy acquisition system on site. Trained engineers to use acquisition programs. Create new software to improve data analysis using C, VB, NI LabView, and Matlab products

-Manage new technology project efforts to provide better data acquisition capabilities for engineering staff. These data acquisition systems are used for the X-43 Projects as well as various other aerospace applications.

MPS – Dayton - Owner/Partner – (1996 – 2000)

-In charge of business development of property services company, increasing sales to over 250,000 in 5 years while working part time and in school

-Manage 15 employees with little turnover

-Create detailed plans for services, write proposals and contracts

-Manage the financial accounting (Payroll, Tax, forecasting and P/L

Education and Training

Master of Information Systems (2010)

Raj Soin College of Business, WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY – Fairborn, Ohio – GPA: 4.0

Bachelor of Science in Business, Management Information Systems (2000)

Raj Soin College of Business, WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY – Fairborn, Ohio

PMP – Valid Through 2018 License Number: 1794236

SPC4 Trained- SAFe Program Consultant Training 2016

Working on ITIL certification – will obtain in next month

Trained in Agile with Ken Rubin in weeklong training in April 2016 focusing on stories and scaled agile for companies larger than 4000.

Agile training boot camp in June of 2016 with TekSystems

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