Senior Scrum Master for TDA WatchList Development team and Digital Action team. Leading the teams on their Agile journey. Providing coaching as needed.• Working with my Product Owner (PO) to ensure backlog is successfully managed• Guiding the team in effective Story grooming• Coaching the team through improving grooming and planning• Conduct various Scrum Ceremonies including Stand Ups, Grooming, Planning, Retrospectives, Demos, and High Level Planning• Holds myself and the team accountable for delivery• Reporting progress of team up into Program Reporting• Tracking team progress via Excel to gauge reality of team successfully meeting target release date• Working with PMs to ensure dependencies are defined and reported and tracked• Developed and deployed team Dashboards• Manage Jira plan and dependencies• Develop and deploy various JQL Filters• Maintain Confluence pages as needed• Influencing and guiding team through various improvement ideas and efforts

Leading modernization program for pension application systems and leading Agile Transformation across TMRS (state agency). Drove SDLC for new web-based development.• Updated and maintained program plan in both MS Project and Clarizen. Organized and updated dependencies and established program / project dashboards• Oversaw JIRA setup and established several workflows. These included User Story creation and approval workflows, User story development work-flows, and Testing and deployment work flows.• Coached several team members on product ownership role and User Story creation and grooming. Instituted backlog processes and led team on building product backlogs• Trained team members on Sprint planning and Sprint backlog• Refined program reporting methodology and instituted file standards and report generation• Oversaw external vendor work and RFP responses and scoring. Developed scoring methodology to ensure proper scoring considerations and reporting.• Started migration from MS Project to a cloud-based project / program system (Clarizen)• Developed PERL scripts for export / import into Clarizen

Project/Product/Change Manager - driving change to ensure improved team performance and accuracy of needed features are met.* Instituted new process to ensure stable development target for development team (product delivery improved by 25%)* Developed reporting strategy to ensure team was on track and performance was measurable (MS Team Foundation Server)* Facilitated backlog cleanup and hand off to various development sprints* Oversaw coordination with QA to ensure dependencies were well understood and defined* Drove external dependency discussions with appropriate teams to mitigate dependency risk (risk reduced by approximately 35%)* Worked with development manager and division manager to ensure adequate reporting of team progress, successes, and gaps were clearly understood (defects, burn down and burn up, work item coverage, external dependency gaps)* Developed needed planning artifacts (development capacity, QA capacity, annual planning)

Program / Application Manager overseeing sustaining and new projects in the Veteran Canteen Services Oracle retail and financial and BI (OBIEE) systems.• Coordinating all aspects of security requirements conforming to VA Security standards• Coordinating all day to day activities in data loading and data extractions for VCS• Central point of contact for business management• Delivered new server migrations• Responsible for overseeing finance systems split from Oracle RDW• Responsible for Authorization To Operate (ATOs) of Oracle Retail and Finance systems• Deployed new MFP system to VCS• Overseeing all required downtime for patching and system errors• Responsible for all security scan remediation and updates• Develop annual plans for upgrades and sustainment of Oracle retail, financial, and BI systems

Project manager overseeing rollout of new Cloud based Point of Sale (PoS) system across 1640 stores in the US.• Developed new store tracking system in MS Access 2016. Moved away from error prone Excel spreadsheet. Increased flexible reporting and reduced entry errors (reduced report generation time by over 80%).• Worked with Salon Ultimate (PoS Software), CDW, Trustwave, and installation service providers to ensure store conversions are on track and completed (tracking coverage increased 35%)• Developed internal processes to reduce errors and reduce time spent in tracking and overseeing PoS deployments (reduced time to track by over %60).• Worked across all internal functions impacted by PoS effort (Accounting, Marketing, Training, IT, and Franchise Ops) to ensure all functionality is supported.• Worked with Salon Ultimate to provide feedback for new or modified functionality in the backlog

Program Manager overseeing Network Adequacy for STAR Kids Medicare/Medicaid Program with State of Texas HHSC* Oversaw initial testing of all interfaces of provider network loading* Developed and introduced Scrum like methodologies to the fullest extent possible. Worked with 10 Insurance providers to ensure all interface and file submissions to support network adequacy for STAR Kids program* Supported additional requirements from HHSC to support added provider network adequacy* Developed detail reports (SQL Queries) to provide HHSC with additional details of provider network (Long Term Care and Pharmacies)* Developed debugging information to reconcile submitted providers against database* Managed all aspects of Insurance provider communications and file submissions via weekly stand ups* Managed all reporting activities to MAXIMUS Mgt and HHSC Mgt team on a weekly basis

* My Learning Migration: + Project was behind schedule at onset + Coordinated efforts to get project focused + Identified various interlocks and dependencies to successfully deploy Saba Cloud into Dell My Learning + Negotiated with managers to acquire needed resources * HR Analytics: + Stepped into role analyzing team deliveries and customer needs + Team and customer relationship and delivery challenges identified + Determined shifting team/customers from waterfall SDLC to Scrum SDLC was required + Developed various processes to support Scrum (TFS, Sharepoint, Product Backlog, User Stories, and logical progress of stories through work with TFS) + Developed reporting strategies to ensure team could track progress and identify problems early in sprints + Developed reporting strategy to satisfy IT mgt reporting needs + Identified critical roles and negotiated assignments. Gained critical agreement to have business commit to staff Product Owner role + Trained and coached all team members through the transition from waterfall into Scrum + Instituted and oversaw sprint retrospective and demos + Continual coaching as team shifted into Scrum + Guided transition as Scrum Master / servant leader + Acted as Scrum coach to 4-6 additional, global teams migrating to Scrum + Increased User Story / Requirement delivery from 13-15 prior year to 159 YTD + Efforts resulted in 500% increase in data / delivery quality* Scrum CoachWorked with several teams across the globe to coach them into an Agile transformation effort. Topics included:• Developed and delivered Scrum training to transformation teams• What does a Scrum team look like• How to effectively utilize the Product Backlog - coached product owners• How to plan and execute a sprint• Sprint Retrospectives how to identify opportunities to improve and how to fully learn from prior experiences

Charles Schwab - contract Senior Project/Release ManagerJul 2012 - Jan 2014Responsible for all planning of middleware software of online investing software. Improved processes to streamline team development work (SDLC).* Developed all release calendars, both annual plans and release by release calendars.* Worked with internal business partners and product owners to determine needed work on a release by release basis.* Developed formal and informal reporting and communications plans to ensure accurate tracking of all release work.* Developed prioritized feature set such that resource loading meets time frame for release.* Responsible for Scope development and approval. All scope changes were approved via CCB process* Worked with team to develop scope and project plan for unscheduled, new feature development utilizing Scrum methodology. All work was completed on or ahead of time.* Introduced Scrum methodology for new, strategic development.* Scrum methodology resulted in team delivering new functionality successfully* Collaborated with external teams to ensure all dependencies were clearly understood (Scrum of Scrum)* Developed both formal and informal communications processes with dependent teams to ensure all teams were aligned and on track for successful delivery to end customer (both internal brokers and external customers).* Drove team to complete new feature development against very agressive schedule. Team met all time frames and successfully delivered new featured to business partners.* Coordinated with development, QA, operations, and production deployment across all releases.* Reviewed all functional test cases with QA and development team to ensure all functional test coverage was robust and complete in details.* Responsible for release plans and release plan reviews.* Oversaw production rollouts into internal data centers as needed.* Developed cost and loading estimates for new feature development.

Senior Project Manager at Capgemini/State of Texas DCS Project• Program Manager with Capgemini Transition PMO overseeing Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB) development effort• Overseeing Capgemini, Affliliated Computer Services, Xerox, and American Appraisal resources to drive implementation of new CMDB system.• Provide direction and leadership to CMDB team.• Client facing responsibilities in determining requirements from State of Texas DIR Personnel• Documented client requirements for CMDB systems• Deliver various status reporting mechanisms to State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR).• Provide direction and leadership to CMDB team.• Drive various deliverable artifacts content creation and quality control and review and final delivery of these artifacts to DIR• Develop team relationships across all vendors and DIR• Oversight of physical inventory effort of all State of Texas IT assets• Database design and implementation utilizing BMC's Attrium database CMDB systemSenior Project/Program Manager at Sogeti onsite at Dell/OPE (May 2011 - Jan 2012)• Re-instituted mature SCRUM methodology increasing testable TBIs to 100% completion.• Drove new interlock methodology across numerous teams (SnP, UI Framework, Catlog Services, CMS, and STG). Achieved excellent cross team interlocks reducing missed functionality to zero (0).• Worked with STG to increase test coverage and test environment stability• Developed capacity versus loading tracking system/methods to better balance work load across sprints leading to more accurate estimates and development work completed.• Worked to align SnP development with entire shop experience leading to increased development coverage.• Managed C1 defects, maintained defect status reports to mgt. Team achieved 100% coverage of defects going into UAT.

Initiated and co-leading Project Manager job support club. Leading various job search initiatives including resume creation and critiquing, interview skills coaching, and various digital media resources (linkedin.com).

Senior IT Project Manager working on Supply Chain Transformation initiatives.Re-established stakeholder relationships.Re-planned Development effort based on new project needs and data migration efforts. Presented to sponsors and gained approval of new plan.Managed project to successful on time completion of phase 1 & 2 of 3.

• Client facing role - worked with key client personnel to understand their needs.• Developed client needs to requirements needed for utilization of Nascentric advanced simulation strategies.• Developed deep relationships with several key customers to drive interest in Nascentric technology• Managed project schedules and various PM artifacts (WBS, CCB, Risk Plan, Budget Tracking, etc)

• Client facing role to understand key clients needs.• Developed requirements to close gaps as needed to ensure solution was meeting client needs• Developed and managed technical sales evaluations for advanced full custom circuit products.• Worked with clients to drive their understanding and the value of NeoLinear's advanced technology • • • Worked with key account teams to ensure understanding of the value of NeoLinear’s technology (post acquisition)• Successfully drove technical evaluation to successful conclusion resulting in increased sales

• Worked with key clients to understand their needs and requirements with respect to high performance circuit simulation needs• Mapped client needs to Nassda's advanced simulation technologies resulting in favorable client acceptance• Worked with account teams to drive interest in Nassda technology with key clients and how this can reduce their design time.• Worked with account team to carefully bound customer evaluations• Developed and project managed custom interface efforts to support internal customers' design flows.

• Developed relationship (client facing) with key, local client to understand their needs (power characterization)• Worked with R&D and senior management to create requirements for new power characterization toolset.• Partnered with key, local client to drive power product to deliver the value they needed.• Led development effort of new power product (Scrum SDLC) creating $1.5 million in new revenues.• Developed training, marketing, and other collateral for new product

• Worked in a client facing role across the mid US territory to identify value to customers (meeting client requirements)• Identified and worked with sales team to develop new consulting model. Utilized model to aid customers in reducing design time and increased software sales (increases of up to %120.• Developed sprint plans and processes for sales and customer consulting efforts• Project manager across consulting opportunities

• Worked with key clients to fully understand their requirments• Led team of clients in executing successful complex technical software evaluations• Developed and implemented project management methodologies for longer term evaluation efforts. • • Reduced evaluation time by applying PM principles with technical sales team and customers• Worked with key clients to ensure understanding of Epic’s value• Drove successful technical evaluations to ensure no technical issues were impeding sales closure.• Developed methodology to reduce customer evaluation time by utilizing the principles of project mgt to large scale evaluations resulting in increased sales velocity

Instituted principles of Project Management to custom analog IC designs. Responsible for the design, verification, and physical implementation of custom analog integrated circuits including operational amplifiers, comparators, A2D Converters, Voltage references, and current references.

* Key member of Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award team.* Trained in principles of Project Management and Sodtware Development Management.* Trained in Six Sigma Principles and Design of Experiements* Trained in KPI and BPI principles* Responsible for Group wide analog CAE methodologies* Developed Group wide Analog design CAE steering council to gain feedback and buy in from group wide design teams.