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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Facilitate, coach, and train several technical teams building digital banking products, while applying agile methodology concepts, best practice, and SAFe concepts. Roles include Sr. Scrum Master/RTE, Agile Coach, Sr Technical Project Mgr.Sr. Project Manager/Sr. Scrum Master/Release Train Engineer/Agile Coach• Author and conduct training in agile concepts, Scrum and Kanban methodology• Schedule and facilitate all agile ceremonies• Sr. Scrum Master/RTE responsibility as TouchOne & DigitalOne programs grew to 5 teams ea• Schedule and facilitate Program Increment planning ceremonies• Act as the JIRA and WIKI admin and subject-matter-expert• Coordinate and help teams break down/summarize program goals into sprint goals • Track and communicate team velocity, throughput, and sprint progress to key stakeholders• Coach teams to implement best practices to improve quality and meet iteration commitments• Coach leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters in adopting and embracing the agile mindset• Facilitate impediment resolutions• Advocate for agile concepts and benefits to help achieve buy-in at all levels• Help establish a culture of relentless continuous improvement

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

o Conduct Agile trainingo Schedule and facilitate all agile ceremonieso Coordinate and help teams break down/summarize program goals into sprint goals o Coach teams to implement best practices to improve quality and meet iteration commitmentso Track team velocity, throughput, and sprint release progress to key stakeholderso Facilitate impediment resolution o Advocate for agile concepts, communicate benefits to help achieve buy-in o Help establish a culture of continuous improvement • Led business and technical teams to drive the delivery of several objectives relating to Planning & Sales’ updated market strategy. This included business oriented field facing deliverables, (white papers, etc), and app enhancements to two planning/analysis applications used by field representatives. Markets affected were; Retirement, Closely Held Business, and Young/Personal markets. o $3M budget, 60 person work team(s), 26 person core project team, 10 person offshore technical development team, remote software vendor (Advicent for PPA), contractors, on and offsite.• Led a team of technical professionals (onsite, offshore, & remote) to analyze, build, test and deploy web services to expose and execute back-end app functionality serving features of the NM client self-service web site. o Project approach was Scrum. Served as Scrum Master providing process guidance and facilitated all ceremonies including product increment planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews and retrospectives.

Fond Du Lac, Wi, Us

Direct the activities of a team of eight + including programmer/analysts, DBAs, remote consultants and vendors for development, maintenance, and support of enterprise business applications. Team building including hiring, training, and coaching. Leadership related to Sarbanes-Oxley and Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. Project leadership and support including requirements analysis, feasibility studies, resource assignments, work breakdowns, status reporting, etc. Ensure proper use of SDLC methods, standards, and controls. Liaison to business leaders for IT. Implement procedures and policies in support of enterprise initiatives. Capital and expense budgetary activities.• Led Business Systems in strategic planning efforts and aligning business objectives to IT projects and resources. • Liaison to IT executive steering committee relative to goal status reporting, project and resource decisions.• Provided leadership to implement internal IT process and procedure including PMO processes, project management and time tracking, software development life cycle, production change management.

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• Direct the activities of a team of eight + that develops, maintains, and supports the company’s business applications and the client base that uses them. • Team building including hiring, training, and coaching. • Develop and manage vendor and consultant relationships, contracts.• Leadership related to Sarbanes-Oxley and Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. • Project leadership and support including requirements analysis, feasibility studies, resource assignments, developing work breakdowns, status reporting, etc.• Ensure proper use of system development lifecycle methodology, standards, and controls. • Liaison to top business leaders for IT. Implement procedures and policies in support of enterprise initiatives. Capital and expense budgetary activities.

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Managed and led a technical team of five responsible for developing, maintaining, integrating and supporting the company’s repository of financial business applications. This included AP, GL, Purchasing, Inventory, Time and Attendance, Payroll, and Stock Management application systems. Responsible for hiring, training, and coaching of technical resources in support of these systems.• Led team in implementation of PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain modules. • Provided team leadership in implementing Kronos Workforce Central time & attendance application system• Led team in outsourcing Journal Communication’s payroll services to Ceridian. • Led data conversion project of outsourcing stock management data to Wachovia, in preparation for the Journal Communications IPO.• Managed MS Sharepoint implementation project to create a secure, collaborative portal for use exclusively by the board of directors of Journal Communications.

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Managed and provided leadership to a team of five programmer/analysts responsible for the development, maintenance and support of Journal Sentinel’s business application systems. This includes Advertising Management Application, Payroll, AP, GL and stock management application. Responsible for hiring, training, and coaching of technical resources in support of these systems.• Managed the project to upgrade all systems for Y2K compliance.• Led major upgrade of Advertising Management and Billing system.

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Defined, developed, tested and maintained business applications in support of the achievement of business requirements, primarily relating to the circulation and Finance business area.

Bachelor'S, Management Of Information Technology

Associate In Applied Science, Computer Prgramming