Li Chung

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White Plains, NY *****

P) 914-***-**** / (E) x7xf68@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Experience

Results driven person with an outstanding record of delivering complex IT projects on time and within budget. Provide strong leadership across functional project teams consisting of technical and business professionals throughout the complete SDLC. I possess a solid track record of successful project completion against business objectives, project scope definition, timeline, and budget. This includes defining, initiating, managing and controlling projects, stakeholders, and project teams to the satisfaction of the business. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills have enabled me to build valuable relationships within my teams and throughout the organization. Constantly demonstrate resourcefulness, flexibility, and adaptability in the midst of constantly shifting priorities.

Special Skills

Certified Scrum Master

Software methodologies: Scrum, XP, RUP and traditional waterfall

Agile management tools: JIRA/Green Hopper, Team Foundation Server(TFS), Pivtol tracker

Programming: Java, SQL, IBM iSeries, FTP

Software: MS-Project, MS-Office Suite, Visio, SQL Navigator

Databases: DB2, UDB, Oracle

ETL Tools: Sunopsis, TOAD

Schoolnet, New York, New York 03/11 – Present

Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master

Serve as expert in Scrum (both in theory and practice) and as a mentor to ScrumMasters and teams

Manage scrum teams of up to six, including: product owner, software designers, engineers, and testers

Challenge and coach the team to create effective solutions that are both flexible and cost effective.

Facilitate Product Owner understanding of technology capabilities and trends

Ensure Client Satisfaction with Scrum Practices and team performance

Ensures that the process is followed, including issuing invitations to daily scrums, sprint retrospective, and sprint planning

Facilitate the daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog grooming and sprint retrospective

TEACH FOR AMERICA, New York, New York 04/08 – 03/11

Managing Director/Scrum Master, Technology Solutions & Delivery

Manage scrum teams of up to ten software designers, engineers, and developers, as well as lead testers and business users

Challenge and coach the team to create effective solutions that are both flexible and cost effective

Advise the technology and business teams on all aspects of strategic technology planning, including planning, staffing, budgeting, and forecasting

Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion. Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis

Manage all aspects of an agile project lifecycle, from inception through deployment

Created standards and templates for electronic project control documents, including initial business impact analysis, technical specifications, test plans and cases, as well as final product documentation, to ensure high quality software release controls

Harry Fox Agency Inc., New York, New York 12/98 – 04/08

Senior Technical Project Manager

HFA Metadata Project (01/07 – 03/08)

The HFA Metadata Project created an HFA Release Database which is the central area where HFA stores Release Metadata, made up of a consolidation of numerous metadata sources.

Advances operational efficiency and reduces costs by increasing HFA’s internal matching capabilities. This improves business processes that rely on the link between sound recording data provided by licensees and HFA’s composition database.

Enables revenue growth by supporting new business opportunities.

Spurs business diversification by enabling HFA to utilize its data management capabilities in non-traditional areas.

Royalties Payable (10/06 – 01/08)

The Royalties Payable project was a multi-release software reengineering effort to improve HFA’s Payment Settlement Process, the final stage of HFA’s Royalty Distribution solution.

Key goals of this successful initiative included improving the overall speed and accuracy of the payment process, consolidating the number of payable items per Check produced, which reduced the human and technical operational costs of this process.

Used an agile XP development process to create dynamic teamwork, which improved overall user acceptability of the system.

Improved defect ratios, thereby cutting 4 months off of the original estimated deployment target.

HFA Automated Royalty Process (HARP) (12/04 – 11/07)

HARP is a flexible and complex calculation engine which manages the majority of music publishing industry licensed transactions. It was designed from the ground-up to process a wide variety of accounts and input data permutations.

Designed a royalty calculation engine to improve and optimize the processing of royalty payments. Leveraged a mix of legacy and distributed technologies to attain goal.

The new engine, HARP, has shown an accuracy improvement of 80% based on License/Song payouts vs. Publisher Passthroughs.

Used a test-driven development process to create an interactive framework to ensure a quality release.

License Revenue Tracking (LRT) (01/05 – 08/07)

The LRT application is designed to provide HFA’s Licensing and Collections departments with critical information regarding releases based on sales data.

Eliminated manual process for tracking license and royalties in Licensing and Collections departments. It has reduced manual work by up to 90%.

Assembled a mixed team of employees and consultants with optimum skills for the assignment.

Coordinated requirements with business users and kept in close contact with them throughout the entire system lifecycle.

Statement Reconciliation Project (09/04 – 12/04)

Developed a new process to ensure that electronic and paper statements are reconciled payments that are produced from the HFA payment gateway solution. Features included transaction adjustments, balance forwards, and negative totals.

Involved a high degree of interaction with the publishing community, including requirements gathering, needs analysis, status reporting and user acceptance testing.

It saves publisher time on HFA electronic data and paper statements reconciliation.

Senior Programmer Analyst (12/98 – 02/03)

Worked with two team members to design and develop a system to automate the licensing of millions of songs for recorded reproduction, including a rules based decision solution to electronically agree and approve license requests.

Carried out HFA technical lead duties on licensing projects.

Worked with end-users to determine their needs and to define graphical user interfaces.

Nice-Pak Products Inc., Orangeburg, New York

Programmer Analyst (09/95 – 11/98)

Used RPG400 and CL400 to code programs, including assisting in the implementation and processing of new reports, creating system software applications, and making modifications to the current manufacturing support systems.

Used RPG400 to convert legacy data files into Business Planning and Control System (BPCS) file format.

Assisted in Novell and Lotus Notes administration, including user training and administration of user ids.

M. Kamenstein Inc., Elmsford, New York

Programmer Analyst (08/94 – 09/95)

Planned, developed, tested and documented RPG400 programs for the kitchen and office supply business.

Maintained AS/400 user accounts.

Analyzed hardware and software problems on AS/400 and PC.

Education

Project Management Training, New York, New York 11/05

Attended PMI training - Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)

Leadership Training, New York, New York 09/02

Dale Carnegie - leadership skill training

Stuart Levine – HFA executive training program

St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota 11/91 - 5/94

Bachelor of Science: Major in Business Computer Information Systems

Personal Skills

Fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.

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