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Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Mo, Us

St. Louis, Mo, Us

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Nashville, Tn, Us

A dedicated project manager working full time for the logistics operating company within Yellow. Responsible for all aspects of project management necessary to implement a new transportation management system (TMS).► Planning financial forecasting and maintaining cost tracking on a monthly basis, spending 20% under the projected budget. ► Managing agile/scrum delivery of technology deliverables with a 93% sprint completion rate.► Coordinating stakeholder communications with Yellow business teams, Yellow IT teams, and external groups.► Vendor and contract management to ensure timely and accurate delivery from external team members.► Leading analysis and planning of the solution, including facilitating requirements sessions and backlog refinement.

Lenexa, Ks, Us

Placed at a mental and behavioral health client in the Kansas City area as an IT Project Manager and ScrumMaster. Responsible for working within the IT Project Management Office to continuously deliver value to the company by leading multiple agile software teams to complete technology projects and establish and enhance delivery processes.► Agile/Scrum delivery lead and Project Manager for application enhancements that support the business technology portfolio. Led multiple agile software teams to enhance large, customer-facing applications:o Led a web portal rebuild project to enable plan members to more easily navigate their available mental health services.o Managed a survey system enhancement that resulted in a 75% reduction in both manual effort and cycle time while also increasing business autonomy.o Completed multiple projects to support the client’s federal lines of business. Implemented technology solutions and defined repeatable procedures in order to reduce customer onboarding time by 50%.► Established the IT Project Management Office, and led the software engineering division’s agile transformation. Conceived the department’s organizational structure for program-oriented delivery teams, established the IT PMO to coach teams on agile delivery and created project planning and documentation standards for the department.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Responsible for coordinating with executive leadership to direct multiple cloud application implementations and virtual data center enhancements. Responsible for leveraging appropriate project management methodologies to deliver high-quality results within scope and strategy.► Project Manager for application implementations in Azure, leading the migration from on premise hardware to the cloud while performing resource and capacity planning to implement cloud-native applications. ► Served as Scrum Master for the buildout of the cloud virtual datacenter, leading the Cloud Migration team and outside contractors to align the pillars of the virtual datacenter to strategic objectives: process development and improvement, financial management, governance, network and security development, workload development, and roadmap efforts. ► Received Block Star recognition for high performance in August 2018.

Columbia, Missouri, Us

I served as a leader in technology infrastructure project implementations and as a subject matter expert for systems, network, power, and student cloud services at Columbia College’s main campus and 40 remote campuses. ► Served as project manager for various technology projects: o Infrastructure Technology Solutions Implementation: Establish scope, define acceptance criteria, and ensure proper closure, including documentation and lessons learned. o Video Management System: Defined project scope, recommended the solution, and ensured proper setup of the system. Subsequent projects have increased security cameras on campus from 30 to 100. o Network Switch (Hardware) Replacement: Communicated scope changes with stakeholders, and established project plan and schedule for a 900 man-hour, six-month project. o G Suite (Google) Cloud Services Rollout: Led rollout of Google+, Inbox by Google, Docs Offline Access and Talk Migration to Hangouts. Rolled out for 30k+ users using cloud-services technology.► Served as a technical supervisor for part-time employees and developed a training program for onboarding and educating new employees.► Selected as a member of the Technology Services Process Improvement Committee. Define processes and implement changes; practice issue resolution; streamline processes.► Acted as technical lead in printing software deployment; project provided enterprise-wide tracking and reporting.

Reston, Va, Us

Employed in the Technology Management division providing full-time, on-site services to a higher education client in Jefferson City, MO. Managed the design, implementation, security and stability of server and systems infrastructure. Worked with faculty, staff, and outside vendors to support the growing IT needs of the university.► Assisted as project team member in eight-month ERP migration from UNIX to Microsoft platform. Liaised with academic technology team. Built servers, network security, and automated scripts.► Served as project team leader in the upgrade of VMware vCenter and ESXi from version 4.1 to 5.0; subsequently tripled host and storage capacities over the following two years. Purchased equipment and managed configuration and setup.► Selected as a member of the client's Technology Steering Committee, supporting the strategic direction of technology for the organization.► Led the project team of five for LU’s Microsoft Office upgrade through initiation, approval, and implementation.► Collaborated with a third-party vendor in the implementation of a split-brained DNS system.► Received a CLEAR award from Ellucian for outstanding performance and contribution.

Columbia, Missouri, Us

I served as one of four technology experts on Computer Services team providing IT service for the home office and 133 remote properties. My areas of expertise included support (desktop, phone, tech), server administration, VMware, VoIP and enterprise-level applications. Became the primary resource for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, DHCP and DNS services, Blackberry messaging, and Timberline accounting software.► Served as project lead for Sage Timberline Office upgrade and Anterra SQL implementation. Led efforts for three vendors and 12 internal team members. Managed requirements, vendors, installation, and training. ► Increased remote workers’ productivity 25% by deploying a Remote Desktop Services system, allowing access to home office software, and implementing scan-to-email and scan-to-folder capabilities.► Provided technical leadership for VMware and VoIP deployments. Allowed organization to migrate from a digital phone system to VoIP. Worked with vendor to create requirements definitions, and jointly selected solution. Coordinated change management initiative with end users.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Working as an Electronic Data Interchange Analyst for a world-class company was an incredible experience as a recent college graduate. I was able to be active in a global company, work with dozens of multi-national organizations on a daily basis, and learn unique programming skills that I would otherwise not have had the opportunity to learn. ► Served as a Team Lead for our Co-Op team as we traveled to middle schools and high schools in the St. Louis area to speak to students about a career in Information Technology.► Served on the Related Projects committee, which focused on cross-team change management practices for all of Monsanto's IT services.► Helped construct the DEV and TEST environments for the EDI team, and worked with Monsanto's outside customers for testing of those systems.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mathematics

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)