James Collins, Csm, Cspo, Sasm Email & Phone Number

Lawrenceville, GA, US

• Owned Infrastructure hardware during the Gen1 Networking Programs.
• Successfully built out 6 Data Centers in the U.S. and EU in collaboration with cross-functional teams and vendors.
• Led weekly meetings with vendors to identify roadblocks and resolve hardware deployment issues
• Utilized JIRA & Kanban to communicate with cross-functional tech teams, finance, and executives for approval and PO creation for hardware procurement..
• Utilized Excel to track and monitor hardware related expenses for multiple project budgets.
• Monitored and tracked vendor hardware shipments via Sharepoint.

Atlanta

• Budgeted material needs effectively, saving $7,000 in monthly project costs.
• Managed, scheduled, and identified material needs for the "Fiberon" project in 500 stores.
• Developed strong cross-functional relationships with vendors and stakeholders across different levels of the business.
• Oversaw 4 departments. Effectively planned and scheduled departments' projects across 2000+ stores, reducing scheduling and execution times by 18%.
• Led monthly meetings with 5 project execution teams to identify challenges and resolve merchandising development issues.
• Audited and conducted quality assurance to ensure deliverables adhere to scope & requirements.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Introduced Lean methodology & Agile practices through the development and presentation of a vendor shipping and receiving SOP to 15+ vendors, reducing project costs by 20%, lead times by 17%, and improved quality.
• Spearheaded 4 reproduced marketing projects: Waterfall Displays, Stacked Stone Displays, Mosaic Series Boards, LVT Displays.
• Led monthly meetings with vendors to identify challenges and resolve marketing development issues.
• Developed strong cross-functional relationships with vendors, negotiating to reduce project costs by 10%.
• Conducted post-marketing project launch evaluation to identify successful marketing features and find ways to improve on them.
• Trained new project coordinators in project management software and the marketing project development process.

Remote

• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they transitioned to Agile practices and Scrum framework.
• Introduced and implemented Kanban Method for high priority executive issues.
• Utilized Agile practices and Scrum framework to help the team increase their velocity by 59% within the first year of Agile/Scrum adoption.
• Facilitated Daily Stand-Up, Release & Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.
• Removed the team’s impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to efficiently deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Acted as liaison between executives and infrastructure teams to improve communication and conform to Agile practices.

City Of Freeport, The Bahamas

• Developed an effective project closing methodology utilizing Lean & Agile methodologies, reducing project execution times by 30%.
• Administered tasks to cross-functional teams to ensure projects were completed within scope.
• Performed weekly portfolio review with senior management and provided updates to stakeholders.
• Assisted in backlog creation and grooming in conjunction with the product owner and key business partners.
• Led infrastructure project to augment server capabilities, and address database and networking needs.
• Accelerated analysis of project material needs and inventory availability by implementing Pivot Tables in Excel, decreasing project lead times by 15%, and project costs by 10%.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Psychology, 3.3

Minor: Economics

Certificate In Data Analytics, Business/Office Automation/Technology/Data Entry