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Crestron• Led project teams through adoption of SAFe methodology while managing the following initiatives: SAP Concur Invoicing, SAP EDI-based order intake, ServiceNow Contract Management, and a PowerBI learning management reporting system.• Led development of product backlogs and feature decomposition while training analysts to perform these tasks.• Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies.• Skills Used: Azure DevOps, SAFe, Business Analysis, Product ManagementNew Masters Academy• Led software development effort to transition from Wordpress to a custom platform for a video-on-demand based art school.• Worked directly with company owner to develop product backlog so that a clear development roadmap could be developed.• Led testing activities and performed testing on web and mobile platforms to ensure quality.• Managed product backlog and all scrum ceremonies.• Skills Used: Azure DevOps, SAFe, Business Analysis, Product Management, QAFreeman• Led five teams through Agile transformation following SAFe principles resulting in increased team velocity, manageable product backlogs, improved software quality, and an understanding of development dependencies between applications.• Instructed and demonstrated how application development managers, business analysts, test architects, and product owners should perform their roles.• Trained team members on proper usage of Azure DevOps backlogs, project configuration, and security. • Led development of reports and dashboards to track team KPI's in PowerBI.• Skills Used: Azure DevOps, SAFe, PowerBI, Interpersonal SkillsiTrellis• Wrote, produced and edited Azure DevOps tutorial video's for iTrellis YouTube channel.

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Suffern, Ny

Played a multi-faceted role as an independent contractor. As project manager/scrum master, gained approval of senior leadership to implement Scrum Agile methodology as a custom property management system used in the multi-family real estate market is created. Technology platform consisted of: AWS, PostgreSQL, Elixir, and ReactJS.• Trained delivery team in the Scrum process, implementing Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, and Sprint Retrospectives thereby improving team velocity and giving senior leaders visibility into milestones.• Refined delivery model to separate development and testing responsibilities for each story. This resulted in higher quality as developers were no longer solely responsible for testing their own work.• Developed plan to deploy system beyond the pilot property into forty additional property complexes nationwide in support of financial objectives.• Conducted extensive interviews of subject matter experts in Finance and Operations to write user stories and create prioritized product backlog.

Remote

Directed activities of the Global Performance Services, Data Strategy, Sales Analytics, and the Data Governance & Reporting teams related to the development and performance tracking of sales targets for the Marriott Global Sales Organization. Directed project to automate associate performance tracking against sales targets allowing for retirement of manual tools. • Managed five software releases from planning through implementation.• Facilitated requirements, design and test planning sessions.• Hosted standup calls, recorded meeting minutes and decisions made.• Created 500+ task project schedule using MS Project and tracked progress on all deliverables in Jira.• Implemented work intake and release management procedures for software development.• Designed documentation templates for requirements, design artifacts, and testing.

Stamford, Ct

Directed team which produced top line sales & seller performance reporting, ad hoc sales analysis and hotel sales results.• Architected and championed the delivery of a new sales data architecture which allowed for 10 data marts to be retired while creating new customer management capabilities.• Optimized the production of sales person performance reports by automating the business process and technology solution that incorporated non-traditional revenues such as cancellation fees into each sales person’s results.• Designed and implemented customer scorecard which allowed account directors to track lead conversion and proactively address issues, thus contributing to an incremental revenue gain of $25M across 250 accounts.• Designed and implemented data audits used to identify data issues in the enterprise data warehouse. Audits identified defects in ETL programs for resolution by technology team. • Implemented agile methodology and processes such as Planning Poker to resolve 75% of open defects within 3 months resulting in a 50% reduction in support incident creation while the number of hotels using the system increased from 200 to 700.• Managed product backlog in Rally, wrote user stories, and collaborated with offshore / onshore partners through all delivery phases.• Redesigned reporting training curriculum for the new sales leader orientation program. Presented first training session after 6 months on the job and student evaluation scores improved 25%.

Valhalla, Ny

Directed custom application development and business intelligence projects to drive growth of PepsiCo’s Foodservice business.• Architected and deployed business self-service reporting tool based on Oracle, Informatica ETL, and Microstrategy technologies which enabled users to create their own reports and reduce their reliance on IT to create and customize reports.• Developed 30+ materialized views which allowed business users to construct reports using multiple years of data that would execute in less than 30 seconds. Built PL/SQL refresh process which allowed materialized views to be incrementally updated allowing the nightly refresh process to complete 50% less time than full refreshes.• Views used in concert with Oracle’s “query rewrite” facility that allowed the Microstrategy architecture to only reference the base fact table.• Developed P&L reporting solution for Foodservice customers allowing for optimized pricing during contract negotiations. Defined and enabled reporting of KPI’s including: Concentrate Revenue, Manufacturing Costs, Selling & Distribution Costs, Rebates, and Service costs• Delivered a custom Java CRM and SAP Business Objects BI solution for PepsiCo Foodservice sales to improve field sales coverage of key accounts and track equipment placements.• Created mobile sales application which allowed field representatives to schedule site visits and track equipment placements thereby ensuring adherence to display standards and sufficient coverage of the largest sales generating accounts.

Valhalla, Ny

• Provided end user support for a portfolio of applications used by the Foodservice beverage, snacks, trade promotion, and marketing teams.• Led transition from in-house to offshore/outsourcing model for application support. Established service level agreements and release calendars. • Implemented enhancements, bug fixes and infrastructure updates.• Moved CRM reporting platform from a mainframe to a midrange Unix platform, lowering operational costs.

Valhalla, Ny

· Built dynamic summarization application in Java that integrated three transactional applications to Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger systems. Software allowed each application to define unique summarization rules using metadata. This middleware eliminated the need for each transactional application to develop individual interfaces to the financial systems thereby reducing development costs by 50%.· Developed module for Powerbuilder based Trade Promotions Management application which allowed for manual adjustments to be incorporated into customer rebate checks.· Partnered with equipment innovation team to develop a POC for a soda fountain which could be remotely monitored and would communicate usage statistics and breakdown notifications. Developed C++ application to communicate and log data produced by controller installed in soda fountain using vendor supplied API’s.

Stamford, Ct

Powerbuilder developer in the customer solutions group focusing on the pharmaceutical industry

Latham, Ny

Powerbuilder developer focused on solution for the state of Hawaii's Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.

Bachelors Degree, Business Administration - Management

Graduated Cum Laude

Associates Degree, Computer Information Systems

Studied computer programming using the C++, Visual Basic, and Cobol languages