Manager Project

TUNESIA R. BENARD

Phone: 832-***-****

Email: adc16x@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified SAFe® 4 Product Owner/Product Manager, Advanced Certified Scrum Master and Senior Project Manager with 22 years of project management experience utilizing project management processes and 9 years utilizing agile principles and methodology. Nineteen years in the Oil & Gas Industry. Experienced Advanced Scrum Master responsible for the scrum process, including sprint planning, backlog tracking, burndown metrics and user stories using Scrum and Kanban. A results-oriented leader with analytical, problem solving and process improvement expertise. Knowledgeable in applications of Scrum, Kanban, waterfall, and agile methodologies, and skilled in developing processes that facilitate continual progress and team achievement. Successfully completed projects ranging in budgetary scale from $150,000 to $20 million. Dedicated to applying principles of agile management to projects and tasks.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Master of Project Management, MPM, Summa Cum Laude, Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University, Houston, Texas

Master of Business Administration in Management, MBA, University of Phoenix, Houston, Texas

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas

Certified SAFe® 4 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)

Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)

Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (SSGB)

Leading High-Performance Teams Training (LHPT)

Continuous Quality Improvement Fundamentals Training (CQI)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Project Management Institute (PMI), Houston Chapter

Member, Society of Women Engineers (SWE-HA), Houston Chapter

Member, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Member, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated

Member, Lean Six Sigma Worldwide

Member, Scrum Alliance

Member, Agile Leadership Network Houston

Member, Agile Alliance

SKILLS

Adept in leading Agile teams of various sizes in multiple time zones.

Innovative problem-solving and conflict-resolution abilities.

Strong verbal communication and servant leadership skills.

Excellent presentation skills written, digital, Microsoft PowerPoint and verbal.

Highly detailed-oriented, outstanding organizational skills and ability to multi-task.

Skilled in project management and agile methodologies.

Proficient with Microsoft Suite, Workday, Salesforce, Peoplesoft, SAP, Sharepoint, Jira, and Enterprise Project Management System (EPM).

Exceptional knowledge of scrum techniques and artifacts such as definition of done, definition of ready, user stories, automated testing, and backlog refinement.

Good working knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sysco Corporation, Houston, Texas

Product Owner (June 2019 – April 2020)

Product Owner with experience building effective relationships with key stakeholders, managing projects/businesses in complex environments; multinational and cross-departmental, engaging with internal and external customers to refine and clarify requirements, and facilitating product decisions along with responsibilities that included:

Planning and prioritizing product feature backlog and development for the product.

Assessing value, developing cases, and prioritizing stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.

Providing backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.

Working closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value.

Leading the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities.

Providing an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.

Preparing the roadmap for the product.

Coordinating the deployment of formal and informal training for end-users and/or team members.

Coaching team members in Agile frameworks.

Ensuring deliverables met quality standards at the end of each sprint.

Sr. Project Manager/Scrum Master (June 2016 – June 2019)

Agile Project Manager Scrum Master for enterprise custom desktop applications, mobile technologies, agile and waterfall projects using project management and scrum methodologies with responsibilities that included:

Coordinating and monitoring the scrum process and technical projects from initiation through delivery.

Planning the overall project timeline across multiple sprint teams and releases.

Managing and facilitating the scrum process, including sprint reviews, daily standups, sprint planning, burndown metrics, retrospectives, user stories and business showcases.

Facilitating productivity by removing impediments that obstructed the team's sprint goals.

Serving as the liaison between the product owner, development team, and management to ensure that all goals and requirements were met.

Facilitating management of the project budget, schedule, issues, risks and status reporting along with assisting with problem resolution and risk mitigation.

Developing, defining and executing project plans, project scope, activities, schedules, budgets and deliverables.

Facilitating sprint ceremonies amongst Agile teams in different times zones (e.g. India, UK, Bahamas, California, Texas)

Oceaneering International Inc., Houston, Texas (Sept. 2004 – Oct. 2015)

Sr. Project Manager

Subsea Field Development Group: Senior Project Manager who successfully managed major high-profile contracts. Interfaced directly with engineering, procurement, machining, fabrication, and external vendors to identify opportunities for process improvements and reduce risks. Projects ranged from $600k - $20M. Along with responsibilities that included:

Collaborating with the NASA team on the ONE EVA tools and crew aids project to successfully provide well-designed tools and crew aids to the astronauts.

Appling earned value management principles to keep projects on time and under budget.

Ensuring projects were planned and executed with sufficient competence, capacity, systems and tools for project execution.

Ensuring that each project maintained a project execution plan, responsibility matrix, charter, project control budget including staffing plan, risk management plan, lessons learned, change control log, project schedule and implemented a management of change procedure.

Presenting monthly to senior management a project dashboard review presentation depicting the health of the project, forecast, current revenue, trends, quality records status and milestone payments status.

Coordinating and facilitating kick-off meetings for internal and external customers.

Planning and coordinating all aspects of technical projects from initiation through delivery.

Executing project closure activities to formalize and communicate the project acceptance, handover documentation and ongoing activities to accountable teams, and completed a post-implementation review to identify areas of improvement.

Halliburton/KBR, Houston, Texas (June 1996 – July 2004)

Project Lead Cost Engineer

Project Controls Group: Project Lead within the Project Controls Business Unit. Managed Engineering, Procurement and Cost (EPC) contracts both reimbursable and lump sum ranging from $100 million to $645.5 million. Completed the Anadarko project on schedule and under budget; the project team was awarded a bonus incentive for the successful delivery. Along with responsibilities that included:

Administering and monitoring all Project Cost Accounting/Cost Reporting/Financial aspects of projects ensuring integrity and consistency.

Training and supervising Associate Cost Specialists and Cost Specialists.

Controlling fixed asset accounting and collaborated reports for audits.

Maintaining, recording, and monitoring all capital expenditures.

Executing balance sheet reconciliations.

Maintaining accumulated depreciation within general ledger.

Tracking and monitoring project costs, commitments and man-hours weekly.

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