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Ellijay, Ga, Us

Ellijay, Ga, Us

Leads project teams and manages all activities in a project life-cycle (initiation planning, executing/controlling, and closing) associated with high visibility projects that are long-term, across one or more lines of business and carry a substantial impact to the relevant businesses.Interacts with senior leadership and major stakeholders to establish strategic plans and objectivesfor programs/projects.Consults with business partners to clarify and define complex project requirements, budgets and business cases, including statements of work.Manages the project financials, forecasting, variance analysis, actuals/accrualsCreates and delivers presentations on program or project goals and plans, including progress reports.Responsible for end-to-end program or project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end.Develops and implements program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics.Ensures program/project-related risks are managed according to the Project Management Policy.Leads project staff, including training and providing input to performance evaluations.

Manage and develop Scaled Agile portfolios of the highest complexity by leveraging best-in-class methodology to accelerate business intent delivery.Original scrum master for this organization and led the transition from waterfall to agile methodology for software development strategy and daily management of work data (JIRA).Developed and led quarterly strategic product planning with business and technology partners to provide JIRA Roadmap of the body of work and building long-term relationships.Perform hands-on mentoring and coaching delivery teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint; originally consisting of 5-7 squads.Assisted in hiring additional Scrum Masters and then responsible for training, coaching and mentoring 3 other Scrum Masters.Provide direction and ultimately responsible for 3 Scrum Squads developing Bots in UIPath/Blue Prism.Create, utilize and manage JIRA dashboards and reports to drive Agile methodology, to facilitate Scrum events and to monitor/track metrics; all 3 squads continuously exceeded/met standards for Predictability, Sprint Churn, Velocity and Cycle Time.Create and maintain a JIRA Hygiene dashboard for the larger organization to optimize hygiene efforts.Optimize scrum teams’ velocity and predictability to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.Oversee systemic impediments to team agility and guide the teams on methods to escalate.Deliver capabilities using agile practices while following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the teams and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.

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Original scrum master for this organization and led the transition from waterfall to agile methodology for software development strategy and daily management of work data (JIRA).Developed and led quarterly strategic product planning with business and technology partners to provide JIRA Roadmap of the body of work and building long-term relationships.Performed hands-on mentoring and coaching delivery teams to follow Agile SAFe and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint; originally consisting of 5-7 squads.Created, utilized and managed JIRA dashboards and reports to drive Agile methodology, to facilitate Scrum events and to monitor/track metrics; all 3 squads continuously exceeded/met standards for Predictability, Sprint Churn, Velocity and Cycle Time.Created and maintained a JIRA Hygiene dashboard for the larger organization to optimize hygiene efforts and provide a proof-of-concept for organizational transition.Delivered capabilities using agile practices while following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.Trained other Scrum Masters and served as a mentor to less experienced staff in a 20-person Scrum Master organization.Senior Project ManagerLed project teams and manages all activities in a project life-cycle (initiation, planning, executing/controlling, and closing) associated with high visibility projects that are long-term, across one or more lines of business and carry a substantial impact to the relevant businesses.Utilized waterfall project methodology and tools, MS Project and Clarity, to plan, manage and track all projects. These included: Wells Fargo Mobile application, CEO Portal Wholesale website and CMS Content site major/minor releases, along with various minor projects.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Direct supervision of an on-going development effort for multiple Federal Government Agencies.Planned development efforts to follow the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).Controlled projects so that current CMMI Level 3 and PMI standards were met.Delivered expertise to government entities in: Management - Integration; Scope; Time; Cost; Quality; Communications; Risk and Stakeholder Management.Oversaw input and guidance for detailed requirements, risk and change processes.Centralized risk assessment/management across the organizational portfolio.Managed/Mitigated/Reported risks utilizing Sabre System’s Risk Exchange tool.Authored/Maintained Program Management Plans, Incident Reporting Plans, Information Assurance POA&Ms and Integrated Master Schedules.Executed Scrum Master duties utilizing Agile Methodology to ensure rapid delivery of software models/products/releases in OWF and SharePoint while providing Product Owner interaction and feedback.Facilitated Daily Scrum Updates and all Scrum Ceremonies.Track/Manage/Report requirements, technical team epics/stories/tasks and component testing utilizing Atlassian JIRA; facilitated Epic/Story development with Product Owner and Technical Team.Collaborate with product owners, program and project managers to communicate delivery of product and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.Built customized JIRA dashboards to communicate real-time visual reporting of sprint progress and metrics.Created/Analyzed visual metric/data reporting at sprint reviews via JIRA real-time project analytics to streamline processes and identify trending issues.Received Scrum Master Certification – 2015.Directly supervise and responsible for eight Modulant personnel.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Executed global project management services: overall coordination, resource staffing, project planning, change management, financial control and reporting, and overall project status reporting. Oversaw the implementation/configuration of NetWeaver 7.3, Business Warehouse 7.3 and EPM 10.0. Planned the integration of source data, source mapping and data extraction into Business Warehouse. Ensured adherence to the client’s requirements detailed in the Blueprint to define the project scope and budget. Analyzed project level issues and manage quick resolution with the project team. Delivered quality projects on time and on budget, Provided leadership/mentoring to the consulting team. Co-Authored the SOW preparation and execution with the Account Representative.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

Performs project management functions IAW PMI methodology in the PMO.Orchestrated overall coordination, status reporting, and stability in a strong-matrixed organization. Verified projects are delivered on time and within budgeted hours while adhering to high quality standards, and meeting the Blue Cross Blue Shield methodology for projects and artifacts. Mentored other project leads and participated in the training/development of staff.Key projects:Vendor Cost ReportingVendor Management Microsoft Exchange UpgradeDocFinity Workflow Management System projects: Enhanced Seamless Search; Core-Canned Reports; and WMS 3.0 VMWare Core DocFinity Implementation.

Responsible as a hosting services provider to deliver the Advanced Commercial Banking System product suite from Fidelity National Information Services to (name with held by request) The services to be provided have a projected 3-year revenue of over $1M for AgFirst. Key deliverables include numerous environment buildouts, custom coding and features delivery, training services and business/technical knowledge transfer. Additional critical responsibilities include the ability to manage constrained resources, the ability to parse the complexity of the project implementation and the flexibility deliver scalable components on multiple, overlapping rollout schedules.

Team lead responsibility for a 10-member Project Management Office, PMO in the IT Division supporting all 40 banks in the corporation. Responsible for managing the most complex projects while balancing the project workload for the PMO. Provide portfolio management and portfolio reporting for the Senior IT Managers. Responsible for corporate SDLC methodology to include process development and implementation. Develop and conduct the internal audit process for the PMO.

Headed a 5-member team.Executed leadership to implement and install mortgage loan origination software. Designed, gathered requirements, developed, tested, and implemented using JAVA platform.Concurrently managed 15 clients with a budget stream of $4.1M. Created budgets from client contracts/project charters.Generated additional revenue by negotiating additional technical or business assistance.Solely responsible for client satisfaction of pre/post implementation.Created Statements of Work, complex SDLC project plans, managed technical and business resources, and provided customer-facing and consultant support to the client. Communicated/Provided status reports to senior management.Utilized XML transactions for third party integration. Planned the system migration to .NET platform.

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Masters Cert, It Project Management