Scrum Master for multiple product teams that are responsible for delivering enterprise network products.• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies including daily stand-up, sprint review, retrospective, and planning, and product backlog grooming while always being careful not to overload teams with too many meetings.• Advocate for the use of agile methodology to improve communications, transparency, quality and overall time to market. • Coach teams on the use of industry standard scrum practices such as pointing and backlog grooming.• Utilize JIRA to manage product and sprint backlogs, kanban boards, and to report project status.• Project Manager responsible for driving a new enterprise network product from proof of concept to an early field trial.

CRMCulture is a Salesforce Silver Cloud Alliance Partner with extensive Salesforce CRM, Business Intelligence, Marketing Automation, and Mobile CRM implementation experience.• Managed client’s migration projects by analyzing the existing CRM system and defining data requirements and use cases for a new Salesforce solution. • Customized client’s Salesforce environments and migrated existing CRM data into the Salesforce database.• Managed a project and helped develop a Salesforce AppExchange application using the Apex programming language, Visualforce Page UI markup language and REST API to move product and order data between Salesforce and the client’s business analytics engine.

Utilized scrum techniques to lead a software development project to implement a new systems management plugin for the next generation data movement product. • Quickly adjusted to changing requirements by scheduling short sprint cycles. Facilitated sprint planning and backlog grooming sessions and end-of-sprint review and demonstrations. • Coordinated team activities and identified blocking issues by holding daily stand-ups. • Removed project roadblocks by assessing and managing risks. • Expanded scrum adoption in the department by discussing and debating the merits of scrum techniques with members from other projects and inviting them to our end-of-sprint review and demonstrations.Directed a development project to design and implement a distributed management server that integrated the Sybase database and data movement products with the SAP Business Suite applications to produce a high availability, disaster recovery solution for SAP customers.• Identified new requirements and deliverables, defined scope, refined stories, and created and monitored the overall project schedule.• Improved integration with each of the individual products in the disaster recovery solution by scheduling weekly drops. New features and critical fixes were more quickly tested by QA.• Reduced delivery time and improved product quality by implementing a continuous automated build process. Integrated unit and functional automated tests into the build system.• Reported progress to vice presidents, directors, and managers in a globally distributed development environment. Worked with teams in California, Shanghai China, and Waldorf Germany.• Accountable for getting the best out of a team of talented and dedicated engineers. Improved the quality of the workplace by removing roadblocks to productivity, sheltering engineers from distractions, and promoting the team’s skills and accomplishments.

An initial member of a small group of architects that redesigned the existing systems management application for server products into an integrated, multi-user, web based solution. Led the team that implemented the data movement plugin for the new product. Presented solutions to customers and gathered feedback, defined product roadmaps, and worked with other product architects and managers to define critical enhancements. Technical lead, scrum master, and principal developer for data movement systems management development projects.• Managed project requirements, scope, schedule, and risks throughout the software development life cycle.• Led the first data movement development team to utilize agile methodologies during product release cycles.• Convinced upper management that the existing systems management solution should to be redesigned to provide customers with a web based, multi-tiered product that managed several different server products, supported multiple backend servers and multiple users.• Improved data movement server products by interacting with customers at technical conferences. Listened to customer issues and complaints, and brainstormed new ideas. • Identified new product requirements and passed them on to the product development teams.• Responsible for designing and implementing systems management solutions for data movement products using different technologies including C, C++, Java and Adobe Flex.

A start-up company that created a “LoansPlus” product that used an artificial neural network to analyze commercial loan applications. After successfully penetrating the market, the company was purchased by a competitor.Maintained and modified the existing company’s product, then redesigned and developed a major new release using Microsoft Visual C++. The new release included full clipboard capabilities, network multi-user access, advanced spreadsheet functions, and a redesigned neural network engine with a graphical interface to display the results of the analysis. Set up and supported all office computer equipment including a Microsoft LAN and Windows NT server. Set policy and technical direction for the development department. Assisted in creating budgets and hiring a new software engineer.

Part of the Corporate Text team that produced an MS-DOS based CR-ROM application that displayed S&P Stock Reports. Maintained the production system software for the Corporate Text products. Researched Microsoft Windows to begin developing new products. Evaluated software and analyzed system requirements for a document scanning project. Designed and developed software to reformat and tag documents which were scanned and converted to text.

A programmer, systems analyst, and technical lead that designed and developed a large scale interactive database application to control the inventory of U.S. Navy submarines. Analyzed user requirements, then designed and implemented an inventory control system for the U.S. Navy on an IBM Mainframe. Analyzed and developed Type B specifications following military standards.