Agile Project Leader | Project Maintenance Planner | Material Specialist
CurrentDirect five-member material management and procurement team leading multiple simultaneous projects as point of contact managing scopes of work, timelines, and budgets as well as service engagements and statements of work (SOWs) for outside vendors. Outline workflow, define challenges, and assign tasks harnessing Agile use case and user story methodology. Partner across functions, including with subject matter experts (SMEs), aligning priorities to drive projects from ideation to objective-surpassing completion. • Achieved exemplary rating on Fleet Forces Examination leading a cross-functional team of SMEs to resolve critical deferred maintenance issues. Leveraged multi-criteria decision analysis to assign backlog items via sprints continuously integrating deliverables to ensure alignment during iterative and incremental project development and gauging progress via meetings driving on-time, on-budget project delivery. • Foster morale and high-performance culture accelerating professional development of five peers via coaching and career counseling resulting in three beginning the process of their college education and one applying for and earning his project management professional (PMP) certification. • Reduced costs fostering contractual compliance tracking budgets and invoices to verify contractor’s adherence to SOW terms. • Conquered supply chain challenges securing $5M+ vital submarine parts while developing technical work documents and acquiring materials to ensure readiness of eight Commander, Submarine Squadron Six (COMSUBRON 6) submarine assets facilitating repairs to promote operational agility.