Atlassian platinum professional services partner.

Role/Function: Scrum Master/Change & Release Coordinator• Lead organizational level transformation from SDLC waterfall projects to product focused value-based delivery through the adoption of Agile principles and practices within 18 months.• Coached development team and stakeholders on agile and scrum practices and strategies for gaining sustainability; mentored two additional Scrum Masters on scrum and Kanban techniques.• Responsible for all agile ceremonies: PI… Show more Role/Function: Scrum Master/Change & Release Coordinator• Lead organizational level transformation from SDLC waterfall projects to product focused value-based delivery through the adoption of Agile principles and practices within 18 months.• Coached development team and stakeholders on agile and scrum practices and strategies for gaining sustainability; mentored two additional Scrum Masters on scrum and Kanban techniques.• Responsible for all agile ceremonies: PI planning, Iteration/Sprint planning, value mapping, daily standups, backlog grooming, review/product demo and retrospectives,• Transitioned fifty-member Change and Release Management - DevOps engineering teams to agile Kanban approach.• Directed five-member Scrum team to develop Work Intake application; deployed and released two major application upgrades within 18 months; bundled and pushed application to 2000+ users.• Servant leader to nine-member Scrum delivery team. Established understanding of business value, agreed on requirements and deployed a new end to end audit application within 8 months. • Lead eight-member Scrum team to deliver application infrastructure upgrade from WebSphere to Liberty and Vaadin 7 to Vaadin 8 within 12 months.• Lead organizational level transformation from SDLC waterfall projects to product focused value-based delivery through the adoption of Agile principles and practices within 18 months. Show less

Role/Function: Change & Release Manager• Directed waterfall SDLC delivery through team empowerment and obstacle removal to project success. Managed portfolio growth, program development, methodology design, software process engineering, configuration and change management, and metrics generation.• Marshalled Monthly Release process for corporate applications unit; coordinating changes and upgrades to 15 software products with 1000+ individual tasks involving multiple… Show more Role/Function: Change & Release Manager• Directed waterfall SDLC delivery through team empowerment and obstacle removal to project success. Managed portfolio growth, program development, methodology design, software process engineering, configuration and change management, and metrics generation.• Marshalled Monthly Release process for corporate applications unit; coordinating changes and upgrades to 15 software products with 1000+ individual tasks involving multiple organizations and vendors across three continents. • Governed transformation from standalone tools to IBM’s Collaborative Lifecycle Management, synchronizing requirements capture, test management, source control, and defect management all under a single tool set; boosted data-based decision making and shift-left metrics initiative increasing early detection of defects by 20%. Show less

Consultant to Anthem Inc. - was hired on permanently by Anthem after 4 months.

Roles/Duties:• Executed standard Release and Change Management processes. • Coordinate daily and weekly releases, including, delivering updated artifacts form the IBM Rational ClearCase environment to the Integration environment, delivering the existing baseline, recommending a new baseline, and rebasing the existing environment. • Ongoing responsibilities included user administration, report development, process documentation, training and troubleshooting.

Roles/Duties:• Responsible for the Enterprise IBM Rational program including license procurement, hardware acquisition, upgrades and patch management.• Managed the installation, configuration, training and documentation of the IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform (TUP). • Lead the implementation of the ‘Adoption by Execution’ strategy which aligned process, skill set and technology to transition from traditional software delivery to value based project delivery. •… Show more Roles/Duties:• Responsible for the Enterprise IBM Rational program including license procurement, hardware acquisition, upgrades and patch management.• Managed the installation, configuration, training and documentation of the IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform (TUP). • Lead the implementation of the ‘Adoption by Execution’ strategy which aligned process, skill set and technology to transition from traditional software delivery to value based project delivery. • Developed a Top-Down / Bottom-Up strategy for NASCO’s adoption of IBM Rational Project Portfolio Management (PPM) as a governance practice. Top Down starting with the creation of portfolios of projects organized by corporate drivers leveraging TUP and Method Composer to enable decision support at the portfolio level.• Reengineered the NASCO software delivery estimation processes to reduce the gap between estimated and actual hours. Estimating accuracy improved from 35% to more then 80% within six months, based on over 1500 software changes. Show less

BORN Information (Managed Services) – Atlanta, Ga. | Roles, Clients & Systems • Change Management Consultant: NASCO, LLC, PMO• Project Manager: National Data Corporation Health Services, Data AnalyticsAjilon Services (Consulting)– Atlanta, GA | Roles, Clients & Systems • Project Manager: Warner-Lambert, Y2K System Transformation• Project Manager: Document Solutions Inc., Banking Document… Show more BORN Information (Managed Services) – Atlanta, Ga. | Roles, Clients & Systems • Change Management Consultant: NASCO, LLC, PMO• Project Manager: National Data Corporation Health Services, Data AnalyticsAjilon Services (Consulting)– Atlanta, GA | Roles, Clients & Systems • Project Manager: Warner-Lambert, Y2K System Transformation• Project Manager: Document Solutions Inc., Banking Document Management• Project Manager: GTE Corporation, Wireless Integrated BillingMCI Systemhouse (Managed Services) – Reston, VA | Roles, Clients & Systems • Project Manager: Pennsylvania DOT, Construction Tracking• Technical Manager: Mississippi DOT, Decision Support• JAD Facilitator: American Association of Safety and Highway Transportation, Construction Management• Project Manager/System Analyst: Ohio DOT, Construction Tracking• Team Lead: Tennessee DHS, AFDC, Food Stamp & Child Support • Team Lead: South Carolina DHS, Foster Care & Child Support• System Analyst: California Student Aid Commission, Financial Aid Processing• Team Lead: Kansas DHS, Automated Eligibility & Child Support Show less