ad2n9k@r.postjobfree.com Larry Combs 678-***-****

SAFe Agilist, A-CSPO, CAL-T, CAL-E, SSM, POPM

A career of progressive leadership and management experience, formulating data driven business goals and measuring results: 6 years Project Management; 8 years Program Management; 7 years PMO/Portfolio Management, with an IT budget of $120+M.

Passion for surpassing financial and service objectives relative to client/enterprise business plans with a strategic focus on excellence in the experience of the customer’s journey.

Lead in Organizational Agile Transformation. Teaching/Coaching Agile Values, Principles, and Practices.

Certifications & Areas of Expertise

Data Analytics/DORA Metrics Change Management

Process Design & Improvement

Governance & Audit

PMO Implementations

Program/Project Management

Release Management

Agile Lean Portfolio

Agile Transformation Lead

SAFe Scrum Master

A-CSPO Adv Product Owner

Lead SAFe Agilist

CAL-T

CAL-E (Agile Leadership Certifications)

Professional Experience

LMMB Mortgage Company August 2020 – Present

July 2020 accepted an AT&T financial package, which afforded me an opportunity to develop this organization with and for my daughters. Happy to speak in more detail with an interview. Now it is time for me to get back to my career and goals.

Microsoft (90-Day Project) May 2022 - August 2022

PMO Implementation Lead

Data Cloud Capabilities Organization. Modernize objectives:

Performance Measures, OKRs, (ADO)Azure DevOps, BI Realtime Data Visualization

Cricket Wireless, Atlanta, Georgia November 2014 – July 2020

Principal - Enterprise Portfolio Manager

Worked closely with scrum teams to provide continuous strategic alignment and visibility into how well the portfolio is progressing toward meeting its objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

Intake Management.

oGuide squads/teams through the intake process – steps & pre-work

oProactively track initiatives through the intake phase

Prioritization

oHelp define and implement portfolio management policies and processes to support fact-based decisions in prioritizing Information Technology projects.

oEnable effective prioritization across the portfolio by ensuring the availability of critical project attributes and generating supporting analysis & views.

Continuous Planning

oLead monthly, cross-team, interdependencies planning.

oSupport optimized sequencing and timing of approved projects based on prioritization, resource availability, and dependencies.

Portfolio Health & Risk Management

oTrack programs and projects through portfolio planning, execution, and value realization in portfolio Kanban board

oTrack and measure project performance data across the portfolio

oIdentify, document, and monitor portfolio-level issues and risks; partner with the assigned owner to monitor the progress and drive toward resolution.

oActively work with Squad Leads and PMs to track project completions and associated value.

Portfolio Reporting

oPrepare and publish bi-monthly portfolio health and progress report.

oPortfolio performance metrics: Budgets; Compliance; Capacity; Status, Schedule, and Risks.

oDemonstrated seasoned analytical, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.

Built trust and effective working relationships with all team leads, managers, and project managers.

Implement best practices, project management tools, and methodologies.

Partner with PMs, Leads and Leadership in continuous collaboration for PMO improvements and standards.

AT&T Enterprise PMO Portfolio Management and Strategy

Principal - Enterprise Portfolio Manager

Budget Responsibility/Approval Authority, Change Management Process & Tool Owner, Produced Financials, (TCO) Total Cost of Ownership, Estimating Methods, Reporting, Waterfall Release Management

Facilitated Leadership Focus group planning for Work Intake to Playbook alignment with business strategy.

Produced a set of metrics that continually tracked estimates, compliance, capacity, performance, and risk.

Achieved a high degree of success in effecting change and enhancing our processes.

Met with teams on road mapping; tasking, and dependencies to Manage release elasticity.

Answered audits, a partner in governance and data visualization for leadership.

Facilitated IT and Business Leadership Focus Group Round Table to prioritize playbook.

Manage relationships and expectations for vendor partners like AMDOC, IBM, and Accenture.

Mitigate high-risk projects to a path forward negotiating any sequencing conflict for timely delivery.

Vendor/Resource management; reporting; analysis and monthly contract audits

AT&T Corp – Supply Chain Jul 2013 – Oct 2014

Independent PM Consultant

ARE (Application Rationalization): Merging AT&T legacy and Cingular procurement applications for both domestic and international systems, to a single source solution.

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange): Migrated EDI from mainframe GenTran/Sterling to Oracle Fusion middleware & B2B suite.

XCD, Alpharetta, Georgia February 2012 – July 2014

Started a hybrid blended learning academy designed for students who wanted an opportunity to advance more quickly in their education, with minimal seat time. Families could design their own educational pathway based on their personal calendar, not the traditional school calendar. Transitioned to Open Doors Academy in July 2013

AT&T, Atlanta, GA Jul 2004 – Jun 2012

Enterprise PMO, Sr. Program Manager

Programs: iPhone Launch; AMDOC Billing System; Compass Fulfillment; OPUS POS; PRISM; Change Management

Utilized a broad range of technologies with concurrent high-complexity project portfolios, spanning multiple regions, functions, and business units to provide business process improvements into organizational business strategies. Defined scope and objectives; orchestrated and delegated all program activities and resources. Maintained master timeline for deliverables.

Directed onshore and offshore Sr. Project Managers and teams in the Philippines, India, and all US time zones. Cultivated strong working alliances with IBM and Accenture partners.

Prepared and presented Executive status presentations on project portfolio (critical financial impacts, operational and organizational objectives, and risk).

Managed $50M+ program budget; financial management included, planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis for capital and expense, and vendor management.

2006 Acquisition of Cingular by AT&T

Directed PMO Transition team to deliver new standards and a project management framework to better serve our business partners.

Application Rationalization Lead.

Responsible for detailed Enterprise Road Maps.

Defined process improvements to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and better align work in-take to Strategic Initiatives.

Release Management; Waterfall SDLC. Tracked and managed; Budgets, Issues, Jeopardy’s, Change Management, Percent Tested, Go No-Go calls, Deployment Command Center, known defects deployed, and post-deployment for cured known defects into smaller interim releases.

SERVICE

US ARMY, 82 Airborne

Non-Profit Work

Connection Homes https://connectionshomes.org/ Matches families with a desire to guide and mentor young adults ageing out of Foster Care supporting them throughout their life.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Agile Leadership – Essentials, Scrum Alliance (CAL-E)

Certified Agile Leadership – Teams, Scrum Alliance (CAL-T)

Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance (CSPO)

Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance (A-CSPO)

Scaled Agile, Leading SAFe, Scaled Agilist (SA)

Scaled Agile, SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

Scaled Agile, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)

EDUCATION

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Field of Study: Accounting and Information System (135 hours completed, incomplete)

AT&T professional development in data science, business analytics, big data, and leadership

MOOC Course

oMachine Learning – Stanford University

oApplied Regression Analysis - Ohio State University

oIntroduction to Data Science - University of Washington

oProbability - University of Pennsylvania

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