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Syracuse, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Scrum Master across multiple agile development teams. Each team providing unique challenges with both local and remote team members as well as varying degree of experience in agile scrum framework. As a servant leader, I have been committed to resolving impediments and coaching the teams in agile practice to give them the necessary tools to become better organized and more efficient.Provide guidance as an agile advocate and mentor to help establish department wide scrum practices and metrics with the goal of delivering continuous improvement and more accurate reporting across the department's scrum teams.Champion for establishing Scrum-of-Scrum concepts in our project management office to offer better collaboration, tighter coordination, and improved delivery process across departments.

Liverpool, Ny, Us

Transitioned to Project Management position as an opportunity to migrate traditional development processes and project management to utilize Agile methodology. The transition included upgrading classic JIRA projects to JIRA 7.3.2 Agile projects complete with Kanban boards for managing maintenance work and hot fixes, as well as Scrumban boards for managing Sprint related software development. Duties included setting up the new JIRA environment from scratch (issue types, workflows, fields, screens and reports) while drafting all tasks and user stories in order to manage maintenance and new development for the Raymour & Flanigan website.

Liverpool, Ny, Us

Managed a team of .Net/C# developers in the support and transformation of the Raymour and Flanigan website. Served as the liaison between software development and all stakeholders of the website to ensure that development matched true needs and expectations. Built development processes and workflows to provide standardized development practices and repeatable results, while helping to insert new technologies. This included organizing and managing the initial development phase for migrating the Raymour & Flanigan website to the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) cloud based platform.

North Syracuse, New York, Us

Led and managed multiple small to medium size projects with annual budgets ranging from $250K to $1.5M. Instituted process improvement approach that incorporated feedback mechanisms and periodic stakeholder reviews that improved customer satisfaction, improved program efficiencies, and increased revenue by $130K in first year.

North Syracuse, New York, Us

Led and managed a complex business process automation project consisting of stakeholders from various government agencies and military branches. Resulting system provided a platform for managing intelligence needs from inception through closure. Successfully delivered multiple releases, managed $2.5M annual budget, consistently received high quality and customer satisfaction ratings, and attained CMMI Level 3 program certification.

North Syracuse, New York, Us

Designed, developed and managed a database synchronization project that automated the workflow for managing data conflicts across disparate databases. The system could automatically detected conflicts, informed the appropriate change control boards, and provided a means to issue appropriate mitigation processes. Result improved process efficiency from months to within 24 hours.

Peachtree City, Ga, Us

Developed system for improving business processes for managing work requests of utility pole asset management. New system tied together electronic work requests, in-the-field GIS location of assets, and both "over the air" and end office electronic submission of updated records. Replaced paper work orders, paper maps, and hard copy markups for back end data entry that yielded a 40% gain in efficiency.

Managed program and led team of 7 multi-discipline engineers to build next generation Digital X-ray Imaging Platform. Leveraged existing components and instituted iterative product development process to take product from kickoff to product release in 8 months. Results allowed InfiMed to leap forward in their market niche providing a next generation Digital X-ray Imaging Platform and digital cameras that cut costs by 40% and simplified hardware that reduced manufacturing cost by 50%.

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Washington, Dc, Us