Julia Darcy, Sp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Headed 60k startup program for 9 projects• Hired 29 project personnel, including project managers, tech leads, business analysts and developers.• Led 5 projects. • Counseled budgeting concerns and solutions.• Familiarized teams in agile scrum methodology.• Projected program/project risks and determined mitigations.• Weighed and determined viable program timeline options.

Houston, Texas Area

• Persuaded VPs, Directors, Managers, Project Managers, Business Partners, Developers, Support Personnel and Test Managers to embrace and absorb the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology. • Led and shepherded Agile initiative to switch 125+ person department from Waterfall to Scaled Agile Framework.• Directed 30 person globally-distributed testing team, including 5 Test Managers.• Uncovered growing lack of trust from Business Partners. Founded and undertook a forum to engender and regain trust from Business Partners by discussing unprioritized issues and pain points.• Interviewed Project Managers and Test Managers. Assessed and recommended candidates.• Managed 3 large projects within budget for an enterprise-wide 3 year transformation containing 200+ projects ($400M program budget). • Transformed enterprise master data systems to the largest implementation of Informatica MDM.• Created complex system outbound/inbound interfaces with 15+ sales systems, including SAP, Dun & Bradstreet, and Salesforce.com.• Managed 4 projects for largest corporate split in history to completion within 6 months.• Duplicated all inbound/outbound interfaces across 100+ departments.• Developed firewall punchouts for formerly internal-based systems.• Coordinated and harmonized 20+ technicians and business partners in monthly 3-day long releases, including interface testing, smoke testing, business testing, and emergency fixes.• Educated and prepared 10 trainers in new change management, release management and test management processes.• Designed innovative SharePoint solutions, including workflows used by ~100 developers, with the purposes of governing significant, multi-team affecting project issues and instituting release management gates. • Streamlined HP Quality Center and HP Agile Manager requirement, user story and issue tracking and established best practices.• Developed processes and upgraded systems for requirements tracking and defect resolution.

Arlington, Tx

• Held 2 or more part-time jobs at all times. • Executed 6 software and hardware development projects. • Part-time jobs included: • The University of Texas at Arlington – Hardware Support • Diagnosed and solved Hardware and Software problems for 26 classrooms. • US Census Bureau – Interviewer • Interviewed local householders while adhering to stringent federal guidelines and confidentiality laws. • PMI Dallas Chapter (volunteer) – Database Designer • Structured database for automated member communications.

Coppell, Tx

• Directed Hardware, Network and Telephony installation projects for 150 employees, 70 workstations and a training facility.• Solved Hardware and Software problems for 150 employees.

Irving, Tx

• Calculated algorithms and outlined pseudocode for reporting employee time off.• Overhauled SAP system into PeopleSoft solution.• Prioritized product goals.• Revamped time-recording processes.