Earle Phillips, Ceo, Mba, Cppm, Csm, Agile, Cmmi, 6Sigma Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Founder and leader of health and well-being company whose focus is to help people live healthier, happier, and longer lives.
• Offers group and individual classes in Yoga, Mindfulness, Meditation and Breathwork.
• Private sessions are available to clients requesting one-on-one consultation, coaching, and mentoring in various styles of Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga Therapy, Massage Therapy and Healing modalities.
• Training and educational accomplishments: o Yoga Teacher Certification – Find Your Edge Yoga, LLC.o Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program – University of California, Berkeley – Greater Good Science.

Plymouth, Minnesota, United States

• Established information technology consulting company to provide services to clients who are seeking coaching and mentoring assistance to successfully implement Agile and Scrum methods into their environment and.
• Founder and leader of information technology consulting company.
• Provided leadership, coaching, and mentoring to client companies utilizing Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and Hybrid methods managing projects and programs.
• Experienced managing and delivering Agile, Scrum, Hybrid and Waterfall projects in application development and infrastructure environments.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• As Scrum Master, responsible for providing guidance to Scrum/Agile teams in sprint planning, daily scrum standups, sprint reviews, backlog refinement and reduction, retrospective analysis, release planning, and.
• Project methods and tools used were Scrum, Agile, Hybrid and Microsoft Project.
• Managed / coordinated several cross functional teams; acquired business resources as appropriate

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Project: May Fund Refresh - Fund Names, Add/Mergers and Liquidations
• Managing application development enhancements to Annuity and Insurance systems, fund additions, fund mergers and liquidations. Integration of functionality for cross-commit systems.
• Led executive level weekly Steering Committee meetings with 20+ key stakeholders from business and technology areas.Project: Product Upgrade (Finance Department)
• Managing the upgrade to TAI System from version 3.20 to version 4.0.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Manage migration of moving FAST Hosting Services data center (DPS/DVS MNDRIVES) applications to Azure Government Cloud.Manage SPEXS 6.2 upgrade for State-to-State (S2S) Driver History Record.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

• End User Technology Solutions Delivery; New Hire Onboarding Rewrite (ServiceNow) Project
• Managed enabling customer experience, productivity, and security by providing simple, cost effective and seamlessly end-user computing products and services
• Managed implementation of a modern hiring portal to provide a simplified and streamlined experience for hiring managers; develop an employee connect tool to engage new employees prior to start with personalization and.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Architecture Planning, Design, Standards, Security and Middleware Upgrades Manages 10 projects spanning multiple years to upgrade the technical infrastructure, architecture design, standards, security and middleware components of Medicare and Medicaid systems integrating 250+ applications.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

As PMO Manager for U.S. Bancorp Asset Management Inc., responsible for implementing project management 'best practices' to increase operational effectiveness, improved efficiency and consistency in project delivery and implementation. Manages technology staff that consists of project managers, business analysts, quality assurance analysts and testers..

Brooklyn Center, MN

Professor of Economics and Risk Management in Information Technology Security.

Plymouth, Minnesota, United States

Migrated 150+ Oracle databases from current hosts servers to new hosts servers in test, dev, stage and prod environments. Decommissioned of old hosts servers and databases.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Project: IT Infrastructure Transformation End User Computing Services – managed multiple Service Books to insource work from current external vendors to Information Technology at Best Buy and/or other vendors. Managed transitioning of Desktop Services from Accenture / HP to Geek Squad, Managed Print to HP / IBM, User Communication from Accenture to Best.

Project: UNIX and Windows Servers Migration – managed multiple projects concurrently utilizing resources onshore and offshore; migrated applications from end-of-life servers in UNIX and Windows environments; many of the applications were old and complex that required changes to the destination environment to make the application run; analyzed and.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Project: Field & Corporate Office Technology Service Desk Optimization - Managed virtual teams in multiple locations to implement a Service Desk Call Center in West Virginia under very aggressive timelines; project team members were located at 5 sites (West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Minnesota and India) Project: Storage Consumption Reduction.

Golden Valley, MN

Project: Real Time Territory Analysis Mapped Based Reporting Tool - Managed vendor and project team to customize and implement a Real Time Territory Analysis map-based reporting capability. Alchemist tool provided users (National Sales Managers, Divisional VPs and internal sales supervisors) information on the effectiveness of wholesaler activity on a.

Project: Establish European Brokerage Office - Established a European Brokerage Office in London at Piper Jaffray Limited; Defined and implemented the technical infrastructure for the brokerage environment

Eagan, MN

Project: Implement Medicare products - Managed implementation of two Medicare products – Medicare Cost and Medicare Advantage PPO. Provided oversight for outsourcing 90% of business operations to 3rd party vendor. Responsible for managing vendor relationship, leading contract negotiations, oversight of requirements definition for client and vendor.

Minnetonka, MN

Project: Medica’s Strategic Roadmap Initiative - Worked with the CIO and other executives in collaboration with United Health Group to plan Medica’s company-wide migration strategy and strategic vision for its Roadmap Initiative; Led assessment of 5 vendor analysis tools; successfully implemented Business Analysis Architecture tool

New York, NY

Project: Development and Support Fixed Income Division Global Trading Environment; Portfolio/Program Manager - Established team and supported Morgan Stanley’s global trading environment in New York and the U.K.; systems supported were Electronic Trading, Swaps Trading, Foreign Exchange Options, Basis Spread System, Real Time Trade Management, Municipal.

Maple Grove, MN

Project: Atlas – Quality Assurance Gap Analysis - Performed Gap Analysis; restructured team of 33 QA Analysts to improve efficiency meeting project objectives; Recommended improvements in QA analysis, testing procedures and processes that improved delivery schedule

Project: Service Fee Billing at Point of Sale - Managed large-scale Service Fee Billing at point of sale project; teams were located in Canada and Minnesota.

Saint Paul, MN

Project: Implement Billing & Collection System - Managed the customization and implementation of a purchased vendor software package, client/server based collection system for a state government; vendor was located in Vancouver, Washington

American Express, Inc., Minneapolis, MN; Director of TechnologiesProject: Trade Management Application Development and Enhancements - Managed key projects for brokerage Trade Management Systems; moved existing functionality from mainframe legacy systems to distributed Trade Management applications; managed development of new trade applications

Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Pension and Annuity Financial Services Division, Healthcare, Property and Casualty, Life Insurance Managed IT portfolios, programs, projects, application development and systems support teams, and departments in the.
• Served in multiple roles i.e. program director, program manager, project manager, application development manager, software developer, systems administrator and engineer, supporting business and technical environments.
• Performed strategic planning and research analysis for business units in financial services and healthcare divisions.
• Functioned as peripheral systems MIS DP Leader/Program Manager on a three-year, $30 million project, referred to as Pension and Annuity Commitment to Tomorrow (PACT). Was responsible for managing the development effort.
• Managed the planning, analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of a group enrollment system that resulted in annual savings of $500,000+. Nominated for Chief Information Officer Award for outstanding.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Arts (Ma), Economics Of Finance

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Finance And Accounting

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Computer Science