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Apex, NC, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Scrum Master responsible for facilitating On-Prem and Cloud Build teams for our client LPL Financial.
• Attended quarterly SAFe Portfolio meetings to understand customer vision and provide guidance at the team level
• Facilitated Scrum events such as the backlog, sprint planning, grooming and retrospective sessions
• Facilitated daily standups for distributed teams in multiple time zones
• Produced metrics to help product owner understand lead-time, cycle time, and completed work
• Actively participated in the biweekly Scrum of Scrums identifying and managing inter-team dependencies

My son experienced a car accident, and after my contract ended, I decided to stay home and help him recover.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Program Manager Responsibilities:
• Multi-year project to roll out new switching hardware & upgrade existing connectivity to 65 branch offices and 14 Equinix data center locations worldwide
• Orchestration, scheduling, and tracking of all onsite activities, including hardware procurement/delivery/installation, site exploratory surveys, circuit ordering, and all network engineering maintenances & migrations
• Lead weekly team review and technical discussion meetings
• Produced monthly rollup reporting dashboards on project statuses for the leadership team
• Maintained all project artifacts and Sharepoint repositories

Atlanta, GA, US

• Scrum Master responsible for facilitating 3 DevOps Build teams (SAM, PGA, and TS) and managing capacity teams within Cisco InterCloud Services (CIS)
• Attended quarterly SAFe Portfolio meetings to understand customer vision and provide guidance at the team level
• Facilitated Scrum events such as the backlog, sprint planning, grooming and retrospective sessions
• Facilitated daily standups for distributed teams in multiple time zones to include North Carolina, California, India, Hong Kong, and Australia
• Produced metrics to help product owner understand lead-time, cycle time, and completed work
• Actively participated in the biweekly Scrum of Scrums identifying and managing inter-team dependencies

Oakland, CA, US

• Responsible for managing application development in a mixed Waterfall, Agile SAFe environment (called Aspire). As ScrumMaster organize Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives.
• Project: New Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) tool that can reset, change, unlock passwords for AD, LDAP and production SAP environments. It can provide a secure, Internet (and mobile) accessible service; improved.
• Established a Product Owner/ScrumMaster relationship with a Solution Design Engineer and helped him understand how he can provide guidance in the development of his product by how he writes the issues in Jira.
• Produced metrics to help product owner understand lead-time, cycle time and completed work. These include Sprint and release burndown, Sprint velocity, Scope change, Team capacity, Escaped defects.
• Team tools used include Atlassian Jira, and Planview
• Awards: Peer-to-Peer award presented to team after product demo (5/20/2019)

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Responsible for managing application development in an Agile SAFe environment of multiple software across different business lines. As ScrumMaster organize Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews.
• Managed the building of the current development team for the Augemented Raelity Project. Reviewed resumes, interviewed, and selected candidates for the team.
• Leading daily scrum meetings for the AR development team. Directing workflow and assigning tasks to team members to make progress in an efficient manner.
• Reduced project risks by improving current scheduling estimates, leveraging platform experts, identifying dependencies, and budgeting for the required resources to complete each phase of the software release.
• Assisted senior management with the first Raleigh Innovation Hub Hackathon where the numerous teams developed four products that would be utilized and possibly released to customers.
• Collaborated with cross project teams to ensure the larger goals of Innovation community and current business initiatives are met.

Cary, NC, US

• ScrumMaster for the SaaS (Kubernetes), IaaS (Openstack) and PaaS (Cloud Foundry) environments to complete sprints with high acceptance and timely releases in an environment that is new to the Agile Scrum/Kanban.
• Project managed several efforts on compute and storage capacity additions to the four data center regions SAS owns/manages
• Deployment of caged space to include the installation of fiber circuits from third parties
• Ensure all fiber and copper installations adhere to BICSI TDMM 13th edition recommendations
• Purchase and deployment of lab environment equipment to include Cisco Nexus switches, firewalls and packet flow appliances
• Used design tools to include Microsoft Visio, Excel, Atlassian Confluence and Sharepoint to assist with project design controlsSoftware Development Responsibilities include:

San Jose, CA, US

• Scrum Master/Kanban Manager responsible for managing DevOps Build and Capacity teams within Cisco Cloud Services group. Responsibilities include:
• Facilitated scrum events such as the sprint backlog, sprint review, and grooming sessions.
• Guided daily standups for distributed teams in North Carolina, California, Hong Kong and Australia.
• Produce metrics to help product owner understand lead-time, cycle time and completed work.
• Actively participated in the biweekly Scrum of Scrums identifying and managing inter-team dependencies.
• Work closely with Product Owner to streamline work processes and put additional rigor around existing Kanban usage (employ WIP limits, work prioritization, etc.)

Raleigh, NC, US

• The key to my success as a Technical Project Manager is the human relationship I build with the customer. This is the relationship that sets the tone for the design, implementation and management of the client network..
• Quarterly Account Review: Prepares and delivers a report on at most, a quarterly basis, outlining all services performed, current customer business initiatives/projects, timelines/status for existing projects, and.
• Project Ownership: Provide management of IT related projects, focusing on project deliverables and success by “owning” the project and providing a single point of contact and accountability.
• Strategic Guidance/Planning: Provide a neutral resource to assist in strategic planning and decision making.
• Resource Mentor/Augmentation: Act “as-needed” resource to mentor existing internal IT resources. Also provided assistance/guidance for areas/times where existing resources have either skill set or availability gaps.

Raleigh, NC, US

• Project Management consultant for several international projects to include North, South and Latin America. IT/Facilities Office Construction:
• Rated “Master” with the social business software tool Jive Mojo version 6.0.3 for project documentation and communication.
• Coordinated Network (Cisco/Juniper) installations and VoIP (Polycom) telephony requirements.
• Interfaced with cabling plant vendors to ensure proper installation of cable/fiber to present BISCI TDMM 12th Edition.
• Utilized Upland’s Power Steering Project and Portfolio Management Software and ProjectLibre web based open sourced project management project management software.
• Assisted with install of building security access panels to include design, installation coordination and programming of AMAG panel/reader products.

Dallas, TX, US

• Hired to coordinate site transition activities across IT, Facilities, and Real Estate for the opening, relocation and closure of Dex One sites. Consistently recognized for outstanding performance and assigned.
• Worked with facilities and IT engineers to provide technical documentation, field reports and schedules of office opening, relocation and closure.
• Awarded numerous RFPs to various telecommunication/electrical contractors relative to network/voice/electrical requirements.
• Assisted with office construction criteria via Cisco WLAN Controller tool for an accurate wireless design.
• Interfaced with cabling plant and electrical vendors to ensure proper installation of cable/fiber/electric to present National Electric Code standards and BISCI TDMM 12th Edition.
• Utilized CA Clarity™ Project & Portfolio Manager, version 12.0.5.5350 and Microsoft Project 2007 to coordinate all IT/Facilities project deliverables.Data Center

Chantilly, VA, US

• For Northrop Grumman, transition network and computing requirements for customers of the 4th Marine Corps Recruit District and Marine Force Reserve. Used tools supplied by Government and EDS to supplement the.
• Worked with local command structure to provide technical instruction and deliverable expectation
• Utilized AutoCAD drawings to understand building dimensions, printer and seat placement
• Designed network and bandwidth equipment with assistance from Visio templates.
• Utilized the Network Enterprise Tool (NET v.2.1) to organize the Marine Corp’s networking needs
• Verified Marine software needs with the ISF Application Assessment Tool (v. 32.0)

Arlington, Virginia, US

Honorable Discharge, Rank of Corporal/E-482nd Airborne Division, 2/505 inf. brig., Fort Liberty, NC: Weapons Squad Leader> Lead and mentored 10 man weapons squad172nd Airborne Unit, 4/327 inf. brig, Fort Richardson, Alaska> Weapons Specialist and Cold Weather instructor> President Reagan’s Color Guard

Bs, Business Administration

Certificate, Data Center Associate: Facilities Management

Graduate Certificate, Certified Network Professional

Graduate Certificate, Advanced Networking Technology