Product Manager Project

David Blair

615-***-**** **********@*****.***

AGILE PRODUCT MANAGER ADVISOR

Ability to work in a team environment, strong communication skills. Excellent organizational, verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills. Willingness to travel for team events as needed.

Driven to deliver business value in an Agile environment, adjusting quickly to business needs and priorities.

Experience managing teams and workloads, including Citrix images, operations, engineering and business management. Managed 17 Citrix Images, application migrations and upgrades both on prem and Azure.

Worked with technical team leaders to define and schedule work for current and upcoming PI’s.

Prioritizing intake work and tracking features and stories in Jira using Kanban, Jira Align, dashboards and metrics.

KEY SKILLS

●Software: Jira (Dashboards, metrics, Jira Align, roadmaps) Expert with MS Project Inventory systems Clarity SharePoint Visio Excel Word PowerPoint change mgmt systems and process

●Technical: Migrating applications Updating firewalls Storage solutions (SAN, NAS) Cisco devices HL-7 standards Windows platforms VMware Citrix Image Mgmt. ROI reporting

EXPERIENCE

Cigna March 2020 - May 2025

Agile Product Manager Advisor

Managed intake and work priorities for several engineering teams per PI.

●Managed team roadmaps, PI planning and weekly Kanban reviews

●Created, managed and tracked features and stories

●App migrations, software updates, infrastructure upgrades and replacements

●Managed 17 Citrix gold image updates monthly and tracked in Jira

Charter Spectrum February 2015 – December 2019

Senior Project Manager, March 2016 – December 2019

Data center migrations, managing all aspects of enterprise Data Center consolidation, migrations and decommissions. Scope, Budget, Schedule, Risks, etc.

●Managed new Charter store starts up, network, server and desktop infrastructure, connectivity.

●Managed multiple IT projects including, Win2003 decommission, system upgrades and patches, VMWare migrations and rebuilds, new software implementations and rollouts. Calculated ROI and reported metrics.

●Documented process and provide leadership and collaboration between teams and vendors.

Sr. Project Manager (Avaya) November 2015 – March 2016

Managed Data center migration activities worked with technical resources to plan and implement migrations.

●Gathered application information for system rebuilds and virtual replications.

●Coordinated activities to build and migrate applications and databases.

Program Manager (Time Warner) February 2015 - November 2015

Managed migrations and decommissions of 1200 Windows 2003 servers.

●Established effective relationships with C-level execs and key decisions to achieve defined goals.

●Provided strategic leadership to technical teams and third-party vendors.

●Managed projects using Agile and PMI processes and procedures, daily scrum and weekly project reporting meetings as required. Deliver daily and weekly reports to executives, tracking resources, cost, earned value and timeline. Evaluate projects for ROI and report to mgmt.

Community Health Systems, Franklin, TN December 2013 - November 2014

Team Lead – Infrastructure Deployment

Project planning and documentation for Windows 7 onsite deployment of 14 hospitals nationwide.

●Weekly resource planning for 95 engineers and 8 infrastructure Coordinators, including tracking, reporting, interviews, hiring and placement.

●Coordinated on site go live staffing and deployment operations, also support the facility two weeks after going live.

●Projects include cabling infrastructure, workstations, servers, printers and migrating operations to Cerner software.

●Worked with management on process improvements, developing training materials for new staff, training, and placement of engineers and coordinators. Monitor and report on daily activity from initiation, go live, and post migration activities.

●Further development of infrastructure programs for future sites and implementations and documentation.

Robert Half International, Nashville, TN February 2013 - December 2013

Senior Project Manager (Walgreens)

Oversaw all aspects of the development/implementation of a systems project or program involving department or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of a computer-based system.

●Provides a single point of contact for Clinical Projects. Takes projects from original concept through final implementation. Evaluated projects for return on investment (ROI)

●Managing multiple technology projects for Walgreens (TakeCareHealth) production run group. Data center migrations, deployments of Windows, RHEL, VMware and clients. Software and hardware implementations, change management, site communications.

●Manage daily Scrum and weekly project meetings with staff members and management.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Hewlett Packard - Americas PM HUB, Collierville TN

Senior Project Manager (FedEx)

Landau Uniforms, Olive Branch MS

Infrastructure Project Manager

ServiceMaster Enterprise, Memphis TN

Enterprise Project Manager

TruGreen Chemlawn, Memphis TN

Network Manager

Project Manager/Field Services Engineer

EDUCATION

●Six Sigma Green and Yellow belt

●Management fundamentals training, Behavioral Interviewing

●Conflict Resolution

●Citrix certification

●Agile training

●Cisco

●Programming language

CERTIFICATIONS

●Citrix, Six Sigma, Cisco

●Project Management Professional Training

●POPM Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner/product manager

Affiliations

PMI Children’s Miracle Network St Jude Catholic Charities

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