Project Manager / Scrum Master

Lynn “Bud” Avery

(C): 636-***-**** IT Project Management/Scrum Master

Email: ******.***@*****.*** Agile / Waterfall / SAFe

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/Budlynnavery/ Dev Ops / Application Development

Lync: ******.***@*****.*** Supply Chain / Supplier Management

Professional Summary:

Project Manager with proven leadership experience in driving dev ops, application development, cloud migration, supply chain and logistics deliverables. Solution oriented manager with end-to-end experience from strategic portfolio planning to delivery. Strong business acumen and communication skills balanced with technical aptitude for reliable strategic roadmap development, division of goals into manageable, releasable components and solution delivery. Passion for applying technology solutions to address business needs.

Skills Summary:

Application Development - SDLC

Dev Ops - Cloud Data Migration

Strategic Network Planning

Project Manager, Scrum Master

Agile Methodology Coaching

Change Management

Corporate Level Interface

Operations Management

Supply Chain Management

Client Relationship Management

Continuous Process Improvement

Business Acceleration

Experience:

Project Management: application development, dev ops, cloud migration, supply chain management: enterprise transitions & migrations, real time repository (RTR) Agile, Waterfall, SAFe, and Hybrid; C-Level end-user engagement, new product development, fortune 500 hundred enterprises, customer relationship and supply-chain logistics management. Excellent communicator, leverage technical, business, and financial acumen effectively.

Databases/Platforms: MS-SQL, GCP, AWS, Azure, Cloud SQL, SQL Server, NoSQL datastore, Cloud Storage, App Engine, Kubernetes, compute engine lab environment, SaaS, IaaS, PaaP. Teradata, Kafka,

Software/Tools: Jira, Confluence, MS-Project, Smartsheet’s, MS Office, Office365, Teams, Business Intelligence (BI), SAP, MS Dynamics 365, ERP, CRM, SRM, WMS, TMS, WFM, Kaizen, Kanban, Trello, Chat, Slack, Webex

Industries: Information Technology, Motivation, Health Care, Telecommunications, Aerospace, Government contracts, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Packaging and Management Consulting, Outsourcing/Offshoring, B2C, B2B, B2G, and OEM

International Experience: (NALA) – North America/Latin America, (EME) – Europe/Middle East, (APJ) – Asia/Pacific, (BRCIS) – Brazil/Russia/China/India/South Africa, (ANZ) – Australia and New Zealand

Professional Experience:

Kelly Mitchell Group, St. Louis, MO; Project Manager: Maritz Global Events, Fenton, MO 12/22 – 3/23

Group leader for GCP migration of critical client accounts (Nissan). Lead team of seven.

Drove GCP cloud migration for client Nissan Corp, Disaster Recovery, Secure Use Cases, Best Practices for Dev Ops.

Cross functional management of teams including application development, corporate security compliance and internal Dev Ops policy and processes supporting uninterrupted services no longer than 24 hours before penalties.

Managed library of Secure Use Cases for Dev Ops and managed Best Practices for support ticketing. Indirect responsibility for six architects, BA, and quality engineering.

Synectics, Chicago, IL; Project Manager/ Scrum Master: Motorola Solutions 05/22 – 9/22

Enterprise leader for new supply chain logistics Scenario Modeling capabilities for finance and S&OP planning using E2Open as backbone. Lead team of twenty-three domestic and EU team. Estimated $7 million year over year savings derived from better planning and inventory allocation on a global basis.

Communicated clear metrics and status updates to all levels of the enterprise. Managed status reports, follow up on execution based on reports, improving accountability of operations and the Development team. Ensured that team delivery is based on agreed priorities and protect the team from distractions.

Managed daily scrum, project planning, resource allocations, Agile and SAFe training for twenty-three members.

Collabera, St. Louis, MO; Scrum Master: IBM 01/22 – 05/22

Project Manager covering five OS and Physical Infrastructure teams of twenty-five architects.

Lead planning, execution and building environments of performance and accountability in a PMO/ Project Portfolio.

Created structure to otherwise waterfall methodology leading transition to Agile environment, including templates, ceremonies, training, documentation

TEKsystems, St. Louis, MO; Project Manager: Dell/Boeing Aerospace 03/21 – 12/21

Project Manager covering five OS and Physical Infrastructure teams of twenty-five architects.

Lead planning and execution for development teams, building environments of performance and accountability in a PMO/ Project Portfolio platform.

Saved $480k estimated annual development cost via improved efficiencies reducing standard phase one “Initiation” development time from eight business days to four days, while maintaining quality and output.

Established new Requirements Intake process, providing clearer requirements definition from stakeholders, automating the system in confluence.

Collabera, St. Louis, MO; Project Manager Sr. Scrum Master: Centene Corp 05/20 – 12/20

Servant leader for teams of engineers conducting validation testing. Oversaw migration of critical new enterprise acquisitions’ data through Infomatica, QA and UAT into MongoDB serving as sources of truth. Managed resource allocation into a seamless process eliminating batched processing for clients to 24/7 processing of millions of transactions real-time in less than a second.

Lead team of IT engineers devoted to establishing a parallel testing program that served as QA for integration and consolidation of clients’ accounts payable platform covering, Medicare and Medicaid.

Lead entire teams’ on-boarding and training, developer client signoffs (all passed), and creation of reports, metrics, ceremonies, and client sprint demo’s ensuring delivery of quarterly targeted PI or Program Increment features

Collaborated directly with client divisional leadership in plan development, resource alignments, requirements, prioritizations, performance assessments and reporting.

Insight Global, St. Louis, MO; Sr. Scrum Master: Centene Corp 10/19 – 03/20

Servant leader for two teams of fifteen members developing Real-Time-Repository. Oversaw migration of critical new enterprise acquisitions’ data through Infomatica, QA and UAT into MongoDB serving as sources of truth. Managed resource allocation into a seamless process eliminating batched processing for clients to 24/7 processing of millions of transactions real-time in less than a second.

Managed collaboration directly with stakeholders prioritizing requests, and planned release schedules.

Providing business analysis (requirements creation), effecting agile or waterfall working environments

Providing leadership and cohesive communication between multiple business stakeholders

TEKsystems, St. Louis, MO; Sr. Project Manager: Charter Spectrum Communications 05/19 – 08/19

Project Manager/Scrum Master Delivery Platform (SDP) applications i.e., Quota Isolation and Dashboards, TechModile CPE applications, guardrails, Speed Testing, and re-provisioning devices. Led four multi-functional and offshore resource allocations, workloads scheduling, release scheduling and budgets.

Budget responsibility > $3.5M, Direct/On & Offshore resources, internal stakeholders

Managed Intake through Release for seven applications, using four multi-national teams

Developed Master Project Plans, prioritized requests, and planned release schedules

Provided business analysis between multiple business stakeholders and users to ensure successful outcomes.

The Judge Group, Chicago, IL; Sr. Project Manager: Edgewell Personal Care 08/18 – 12/18

Delivery lead for business intelligence, data integration and migration.

Instituted change management through standardized formats for new requirements intake process, accelerated project planning reducing release development for 90 days to 45 days for major vendor OS releases, and security patches within Linux/Unix, Oracle and RedHat based software.

Lead PI planning sessions and release train planning activities

Daugherty Business Solutions, St. Louis, MO; Sr. Project Manager: Bayer Monsanto 08/17 – 08/18

Client facing Agile and Waterfall Project Manager leading direct & offshore teams in all phases of application development and integration of business initiatives across domestic and international operations. Guided teams in the development of relational database management systems (RDBMS) for client Bayer Monsanto Results: Improved the consistency, recoverability, and accessibility of global data.

Project Manager Scrum Master covering Phase One of Global platform rollout involving North America, and Europe

Reallocated over $600K in annual resource hours to other projects, while providing significantly more reliable lead-time estimates, project planning, and tracking of projects

Led initial Jira /Aha department deployment improving communications, project tracking and management reports.

22nd Century Technologies, St. Louis, MO; QA Continuous Improvement Manager USDA 09/16 – 07/17

Managed team collection, validation and assimilation of legacy APIs and raw data for development of new integrated platform aimed at supporting farm loan applications, approval, and tracking. Delivered regular communications updating both upper management and client, on open activity tracking lists, opportunity pipeline, forecasting, schedules, and calendar. Facilitated touchpoint meetings with stakeholders and drove 2-4-week sprints/reviews.

I led the successful implementation of seven business initiatives that drove sustainability and continuous improvement across functional domains.

Improved USDA loan database, field dashboards, and interfaces reliability covering millions of annual contract awards.

WiserU LLC, St. Louis, MO; Consultant Strategic Planning, Business Development

Eaton Corporation, Highland, IL; Area Procurement Product Development Manager 12/12 – 08/15

Accountable for $200MM in supply chain contracts. Directed a team of six professionals and over thirty sub-contractors. Led offshore product developments from concept inception through production.

Transitioned procurement analytics towards SAP/ERP platforms supporting planning and execution

Lead C-Level negotiations and execution of Independent Research and Development (IR&D) efforts

Fresh Innovations Technologies, Watsonville, CA: Founder, Owner, Managing Partner 03/08 – 12/12

Founding member, managing design & organizational processes, supply-side negotiations and performance tracking, investor facing proponent for patented consumer food item yielding.

WINGS Consulting (clients below) 10/97 – 03/08

Driscoll’s Supply-Chain, Procurement, Product Dvlp 07/05 – 03/08

Earthbound Farm Supply-Chain, Procurement, Product Dvlp 10/03 – 07/05

Ghirardelli Supply-Chain, Procurement, Product Dvlp 05/01 – 03/03

The Coca-Cola Company Global Procurement Manager, Product Dvlp 05/95 – 10/97

Crown Cork & Seal, Inc. National Product / Category Manager 04/89 – 05/95

Education:

Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri

Bachelor of Science, Strategic Management and Administration

Training:

Agile Project Management Training I&II, Agile Coach, SAFe Scrum Master, Lean Six Sigma, Continuous Process Improvement, Advanced Management Development Program I&II, SRM, TMS, WMS, O365, Coca-Cola University -Advanced Management Development Program, Member, National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM),

Miller-Williams Inc. - Large Account Management Process (LAMP), Target Management - Continuous Process Improvement I & II, Miller-Williams Inc. - Strategic Selling Concepts I & II, Member, Institute for Supply Management

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