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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Greater Philadelphia Area

Coached enterprise wide agile (Safe) establishing full development lifecycle practices for multiple SCRUM teams of 50+ stakeholders across the organization. Transitioned traditionally waterfall organization to agile.• Managed team’s delivery and initiatives through all SDLC phases. Facilitated daily standups, issue resolution escalation, and all agile ceremonies. Coached Teams to higher levels of maturity. • Worked closely with Directors, Stakeholders and Team members contributing to the vision and strategy, responsible for maintaining, updating and communicating system development methodology best practices across the organization. Foster an agile mindset and agile/lean practices across the organization• Supported teams in their agile journey to ensure standard practices for planning, scheduling, tracking and controlling their projects. Trained and implemented team members in use of Agile Tools. • As a servant leader, interacted with all levels of the organization, advocating for positive change and for consistent, repeatable use of the implementation methodology and tools. Effectively enforced the proper use of methodology and tools. Continually assessing the agile maturity of the organization and developing a plan for continuous improvement

• Managed application delivery and internal initiatives through all SDLC phases. Facilitated SCRUM Team daily standups, issue resolution escalation, and all agile ceremonies. Encouraged positive team dynamics thru use of gamification of work. ( e.g., point scoring, competition with others Teams), and social events. Maintained Sprint Backlogs and Task burndown reporting.• Worked closely with Directors, Stakeholders and Developers as SCRUM Master planning and estimating software development life cycle. Improved and Administered JIRA workflows for multiple Teams. Communicated team velocity, blockers, and release milestones.• Work directly with clients at all management levels to advance FreedomPay's long term business objectives. Coordinate with other teams for various delivery streams as it relates to software development, system integrations, certifications, and quality assurance. • Actively involved in various roles outside of primary responsibilities such as account management, customer facing support and first point of contact. Assist in implementation coordination and help coordinate production support and resolution. • Advocated when applicable Test Driven development (TDD), Continuous Integration release scheduling, CI/CD to improve quality of releases. • Foster strong relationships with customers, partners and peers to drive quality and successful results, directly impacting customer satisfaction.

Malvern, Pa

Implemented new development methodologies introducing agile protocols and quality controls reducing defects and improving velocity. Facilitate discussion of alternatives or different approaches. Worked closely with Directors, Product Managers and Developers as SCRUM Master planning and estimating software development life cycle. Managed and mentored junior development staff on best practices. Analyze and justify resource burn rates and escalate as appropriate. Organized Sprint planning and Retrospectives, reviewing the Product Backlog. Managed internal build automation software using Spring, Web Services and Blade Logic to automate provisioning of development regions reducing departmental staffing requirements. Upgraded internal web application using java server faces. Responsible for deliverable of custom release management and continuous integration software.

Chesterbrook, Pa

Worked with Director of Analytics to align project resources with corporate goals and initiatives. Worked with other Technical Leads in design specifications. Actively involved with Agile and SCRUM management and processes organizing Sprint planning and Retrospectives, reviewing the Product Backlog. Designed and implemented patient data groups for episodes and drug claims, produced HIE reports and Pharmacy/ Medication Therapy management web portal.

Exton,Pa

Lead technical design and implemented real time xml interface w/ client application into Loan Origination software. Developed credit re-scoring framework. Worked independently and with Architects in implementation and design. Developed Xpress Vision multi -currency loan workflows, integrating web data with mainframe.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Technical Lead for www.retirementdirections.com, a 401(k) management website, with a team of 3 to 5 developers. Features included real time xml interface with www.morningstar.com offering investment recommendations. Recommendation transactions implemented with “one click” to mainframe.Re-engineered proprietary portfolio management reporting modules improving site performance and scalability. Introduced web service architecture to several internal projects. Designed and implemented intranet site for Operations Groups.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Designed and implemented enterprise-wide asset tracking database to streamline back office operations. Features included: exception tracking, daily cash projections and month-end reconcilement. Monitored account holdings and ensured timely delivery/receipt of assets and accuracy of cash balances. Responsible for daily cash availability calculations and repurchase agreements. Acted as liaison with Blackrock fund managers, custodian banks, accounting agents and brokerage firms.