B A R R Y T E M P E L

adyij4@r.postjobfree.com

Scottsdale, AZ 85257

480.486.4..three.7

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished business executive experienced in leading companies and expanding growth into the future. Develop and implement strategic and operational plans to achieve objectives. Successful professional bringing 30+ years of broad-based business experience in strategic planning and overall operations.

SKILLS

•Agile Technical and Business Analysis

•Agile Product Management

•Product Owner roles

•Backlog maintenance, management

•Agile ceremonies and processes

•Client Relationship focus

•Working with Internal and external clients, geographically dispersed teams as well as co-located teams

•Test Manager background on SDLC work efforts/Projects (scenarios, test cases,

User-acceptance testing)

•Vision, Strategy planning

•Agile Backlog and Story tracking tools

(JIRA, Confluence, Version1, Git, others)

•Business Process Improvement and

Management

•B2B, Ecommerce experience

•Architecture, systems design background on different platforms

•Decisive mindset using SME and Business area collaboration

•PMO level leadership

EXPERIENCE

Lead ScrumMaster/Project Manager, Insight Global @ American Express, Jul 2022 Feb 2023, Tempe, AZ

•Supported large scale Amex Rewards program as Project Manager/ScrumMaster

•Oversee the day-to-day execution of 2 different SRE (Site Reliability Engineers) teams.

Technical background of SRE/DevOps, cloud infrastructure and Automation Testing

Strong prioritization and organizational skills with ability to translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements/user stories and acceptance test criteria.

Experience using agile best practices and execute them to move the product forward in a fast-paced product development environment.

Comfortable and skilled in presenting to internal and external partners at all levels (this includes putting together power points and presentations to showcase to leadership what the teams have accomplished as well as what they plan to accomplish moving forward)

Organizing/Prioritizing the backlogs and establishing deadlines/milestones within the roadmap and ensuring the teams are on track to accomplish them on time.

Worked cross functionally with stakeholders (such as engineering & product community, production support and business development)

Assisting with translation of product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements/user stories and acceptance test criteria.

JIRA and Confluence tools

Agile environment = 2-3 week Sprints

Detail oriented and possess the ability to delegate project tasks to their team in order to meet deadlines.

Lead ScrumMaster/Project Manager, Collabera @Wells Fargo, Aug 2021 Feb 2022, Tempe, AZ

•Support large scale Commercial Lending program as Project Manager/ScrumMaster

•Agile environment = 2-3 week Sprints

•JIRA and Confluence tools

•Managed global projects and/or a large portfolio of projects in an enterprise level environment

•Experience working in a matrix driven organization

•Communicated with all levels of leadership including the developers and any stakeholders involved.

•Strong experience working in an agile environment.

•Must be detail oriented and possess the ability to delegate project tasks to their team in order to meet deadlines.

Excellent Communicator verbal and written– working with C-level Leadership

Proven ability to work successfully in a matrix driven environment

Proven ability to troubleshoot issues

Proven ability to lead cross functional teams

Managed expectation for the variety of stakeholders involved

Agile or Banking experience

President, Blue Cube Group LLC, Feb 2020 Current, Scottsdale, AZ

Start-up Company focused on digital marketing, affiliate marketing. Supports small and medium businesses on business development and client capture

•Led the company to successful product launch and developed initial product roadmap and go-to-market strategy.

•Directed the development, implementation, and management of products and services.

Project/Product Manager, State Farm Insurance, Aug 1998 Feb 2020, Tempe, AZ Agile Product Owner and Manager

•Legacy, web and mobile development and implementation

•Managed B2E mobile apps including tools for annual Technical Symposiums, Agency office installations and maintenance, Adhoc automation of manual tasks, and mobile/digital transformation of current and future applications and processes on other platforms (web application, etc.). Test Manager

•Senior PMO-level test management; Coordinated testing on key business application development including supervising 30+ testers testing on 40+ Agents environments in Lab. Testing on implementation of 7 applications developed by 3 companies.

Improved testing cycles by 30% over 12+ month highly visible project

•Legacy, web and mobile development and implementation

•Managed B2E mobile apps including tools for annual Technical Symposiums, Agency office installations and maintenance, Adhoc automation of manual tasks, and mobile/digital transformation of current and future applications and processes on other platforms (web application, etc.). Delivered applications with short deadlines for 5000+ internal systems employees IT Architect/Systems Designer

•Area of concentration was net-centric web-based applications on the B2X (B2B/C/E) platforms

•Ensured that applications across platforms were developed to standards and had similar look and feel across platform. Platforms included Microsoft BizTalk and IBM WebSphere Process Server orchestration engines. Negotiated contracts to innovate development and test environments saving 6 months schedule timeline.

eCommerce/B2B Technical Lead

•Managed development of B2B (b2b.statefarm,com) eCommerce site. Adapted to Agile framework on redesign of this site. Oversaw creation from a static site to full functioning application with security and over 20 applications

Test Manager, IMI Systems (Allegiant Technologies), Mar 1996 Jul 1998, Colorado Springs, CO

•Consultant position assigned to MCI Telecommunications (now Verizon Business)

•Testing Network Capabilities applications that support 3 large datacenters. Facilitated several high and critical defects to ensure quality of the applications

•Consulted with customers to understand desires and suggest best products to meet needs.

•Managed daily tasks consistently and sought out opportunities to go beyond requirements and support business targets.

Senior Computer Scientist, Computer Sciences Corporation, Aug 1992 Mar 1996, Colorado

Springs, Colorado

•Consultant supporting Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN). Member of the Mission Control Complex (MCC) staff as a Software Technical Advisor. Satisfied customers every day with fast, friendly, and knowledgeable support for [Type] needs.

•Lead teams through routine operations and unexpected challenges with strong decisionmaking skills and expert application knowledge.

EDUCATION

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Scrum Alliance Bloomington, IL May 2012

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute Apr 2008

ITIL foundations and Practioner certifications 2011-2016

Associate of Science, Electronics Community College of the Air Force May 1984

~Bachelor of Science Technical Equivalent Life Experience 30+ years

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