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Guide large Federal Agencies through high-profile, multi-year cloud and data migration and transformation initiatives for mission critical applications, from project initiation through transition to operations and maintenance. Responsible for teams of up to 30 and program budgets of up to $9M annually.Oversee diverse teams and multiple workstreams, managing activities and deliverables across teams. Direct the application of project management best practices for scope, schedule, and risk management. Guide teams in application of Agile best practices.Interface with multiple client organizations and stakeholders and outside vendors. Work with client Product Owners to define Product roadmaps and establish work priorities. Present project status to executive management.

Launched a multi-year IT Modernization Program for a global Federal Agency. Responsible for three Scrum Teams, introducing and applying Agile Best Practices to enhance, upgrade, and re-platform a suite of applications used world-wide. P&L responsibility for a program valued at nearly $9M.Managed three Scrum Teams, ensuring delivery of Sprint commitments and program-wide adherence to Scrum principles. Interfaced with Product Owners and business stakeholders.

Managed complex, high-profile, enterprise-wide data mastering and management projects valued at $1-$3.5M. Worked with technical leads to build a cohesive team and a collaborative working environment among IT team members, business representatives, and support organizations. Hands-on approach to managing project deliverables, timelines, and budget. Scrum Master/Project Manager for pilot multi-year Agile Transformation effort valued at $3.5M, introducing and reinforcing Scrum principles and Agile ceremonies. Facilitated Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, product demonstrations, and stakeholder meetings; removed impediments, and maintained team focus. Worked with Product Owner to manage and maintain backlog.Interfaced with client organizations, IT management and IT team leads to detail a multi-year program roadmap, prioritize project pipeline, and manage on-going project and production support activities to provide enhanced business value; presented roadmap to executive management.

As a member of CSC’s Leadership Team for the BT/Concert Account, responsible for achievement of client and account goals and objectives and contractual/SLA obligations, application support and development, client relations, new business development, and customer proposal preparation.Led a highly dynamic and geographically disperse team of 30+ analysts and developers responsible for a portfolio of 25+ ERP and custom enterprise applications (Finance, Billing, HR). Managed application support, SDLC deliverables, work prioritization, workload balancing, and resource allocation.Secured significant new work and incremental revenue opportunities for a wind-down account through collaborative working relationships with sponsor/stakeholder representatives. Directly contributed to account profitability and 30% operating margin in a challenging business environment.

Held progressively more responsible positions managing teams of analysts, developers, designers and project managers supporting Enterprise Systems applications. Responsible for full SDLC delivery, project tracking and reporting, client interface, work prioritization, workload balancing, resource management, business case preparation, establishment and management of budgets.Improved service delivery by establishing client-facing Finance Systems Program Manager role to enhance visibility, prioritization, coordination of cross-team activities, address cross-system requirements, systems and functional interdependencies. Worked with stakeholders to establish priorities, develop business cases.Global Venture Program Manager for simultaneous development and delivery of three company websites. Managed sponsor and client relations, executive-level reporting, and program budgets of up to $15M. Coordinated project team activities for a successful launch in a highly dynamic business environment.

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Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)