James (Jay) Gray Jr, Mba Email & Phone Number

Roswell, Ga, Us

Nashville, Tn, Us

Scrum Master for DevOps supporting the Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the organization to improve communications between Engineering, Product Owner, and Business; to provide more transparency across four departments. Drive business value with short turnarounds in delivering a quality product and services:• Mange Story Point Estimation, Sprint Planning, and Backlog Grooming,• Facilitate team Retrospectives to build a productive working relationship among the 12 members of the agile team.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

• Assess on-premise applications for cloud migration strategy.• Responsible for creating Identity Access Management for groups accessing sensitive financial information. • Establish security confidentiality with multi-factor authentication and 90-day password reset.• Data Encryption of customer financial information at REST and in transit. •Create diagrams capturing the number of application owners actively participants in assessment. •Develop workshops to assist applications owners in answering cloud migration questions for clarity.• Create business continuity plan for on-premise applications workflow migration to cloud.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Manage ticket intake process, provide assessments, and prepare tickets for DevOps resource engagement. • Document and gather business requirements from subject matter experts to write clear user stories.• Enter and Update Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto JIRA Agile application.• Managed five direct reports and seven quality assurance (QA) testers to ensure optimal security and management of offshore resources and access management processes.

Chicago, Il, Us

•Developed Change Management, configuration security management, and communications management plans and procedures while assessing organizational impact. •Created contingency plans and disaster recovery strategies for the Data Center to mitigate interruptions to normal daily procedures. •Served as project lead while managing a $500K+ budget to converted physical servers to VMware virtual server platforms for comed.com; this created an additional line of communication for City of Chicago workers during power outages. •Directed and executed shared activities including Contract Management & Compliance, Contract Change & Revision, Risk and Issue, Escalation and Dispute Resolution, Audit Response and Compliance, Performance and Relationship Management, Innovation Governance, and Service Provider Integration.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

•Developed and implemented microcomputer software and performed hardware enhancements throughout the organization while managing three resources for squadron help desk and microcomputers.•Installed multiple LAN’s in support of the WAN and performed troubleshooting of PC hardware including memory upgrades, motherboard replacements, and installation of NIC’s. •Implemented networks for 150 workstations, provided life-cycle vendor management, and led trainings on new processes.

Master Of Business Administration, Management Of Technology

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Management

Certificate, Global Leadership - Conducting Business In China

Computer And Information Systems Security/Information Assurance