CUNA Mutual Insurance Company, Madison WI IL July 2016 to Present Project Manager/ Agile Coach / Scrum Master Project Manager and Scum Master serving the Project Management Office, IT Foundations Portfolio, and Application Lifecycle Management Program. – Currently I performing multiple project leadership roles in order to facilitate AGILE/SCRUM practices in the management of the Application Life Cycle Management program, IT Foundations Portfolio, and on individual projects within the program.• Project Manager, Scrum Master and Agile Coach on an effort to acquire and implement an enterprise Application Portfolio Management across all application portfolios at into CUNA with includes defining metadata requirements and implementing processes and operational standards across the enterprise using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server using TFS. • Scrum Master and Agile Coach on an effort to implement a Static Code Analysis tool for the enterprise and make the tool available to development projects using TFS. • Project Manager and Agile Coach on an effort to implement an API Management/Service Registry Tool to be operationalized by the development community at CUNA using TFS.• Agile Coach on a Test Management Migration project charged with retiring HP Quality Center and implementing Microsoft Test Management for the enterprise using TFS.• Scrum Master on an effort to implement a Test Automation Self Service Portal for existing automated test process for application developers using TFS.• Scrum Master and Agile Coach on “Build Automation” effort to automate applications builds for Consumer and Lending Application Developers using TFS.

Illinois Mutual Insurance Company, Peoria IL Aug. 2014 – Present (Adeptsource)Sr. Project Manager reporting directly to Assistant Vice President of Infrastructure and Operations – Dedicated PM assigned to budget, plan and coordinate the execution of companywide special projects and initiatives associated with a major Insurance System Modernization Program (ISM). Over the past 20 months, I’ve gained experience in establishing a Project Management Office, and managing, implementing and deploying over (31) projects including an IT state audit examination preparation project, several infrastructure upgrades, IT Operations process improvements, third party product deployments and enterprise architectural foundation projects e.g. Managed a project to deploy Microsoft System Center Suite Deployment Project which included Service Manager, Operations Manager and Configuration Manager. Established standard operating procedures and key performance indicators and metrics for IT Operations and Service Desk. Managed a project to deploy XML Firewall F5 Application Security Manager. This includes the setup of F5 ASM Firewall environment, identifying external facing web services and deploying the services behind F5. Managed a project to identify and establish a Disaster Recovery Site for IM, which included identifying a list of potential sites, evaluating sites based on criteria, and the selection of a remote DR site. This also included setting up the computing environment at the DR Site and working to establish replication. Leading an Enterprise Print Management Solution Project that will evaluate a Variable Data Print (VDI) solution and EFI Fiery Software and install a new enterprise production printer. Currently part of a strategic IT team responsible for deploying Infrastructure for long term Insurance System Modernization effort. Also, charged with mentoring and developing project team members by providing guidance, training and assistance with individual development plans.

Project Manager, (EIS) Enterprise Infrastructure Services Team. Team provides Project Management Support, Application Development Support, Production Support and Maintenance - for Application Developers, Data Analysis, Database Administration, Application Servers and Middleware Services. I was brought on to provide project leadership and organization to new Enterprise Infrastructure Services (EIS) Program; which supports the Intelligent Solution Group in their effort to implement major Application and Infrastructure upgrades and enhancements using Agile Methodology and Microsoft Project 2010. I also performed the role of Scrum Master on these projects. • Led an effort to move one of the key Agronomic Decision Support Applications and Infrastructure to an external (Third Party) Data Center using the Agile Methodology • Led an effort to create a dedicated Test Environment for John Deere’s Intelligent Solution Group• Led an effort to expand upon the Deere’s NODE Architecture for the JDLINK Application (Equipment Management Solution designed to remotely connect owners and managers to their equipment) using Agile Methodology• Led an effort to upgrade the test and production environments to a new DB2 Version using Agile• Led an effort to Migration JDLink (major application) data from LUW (Linux/Unix) to Z/OS using Agile • Led an effort to Migrate Field Connect (major application) date from LUW to Oracle using Agile• Maintained a Project Dashboard that consists of statuses of all the concurrent projects and activities. • Led a monthly presentation with management, stakeholders and business partners to update them on the progress of the projects, and to review project roadmaps. • Led an effort to migrate from WAS (WebSphere Application Server) to Tomcat Web Servers.• Worked closely with IT Management and Change Advisory Board to implement phases of the projects.

Project Manager/Business Analyst (consultant)• Consultant within the Global Materials Management Unit. • Led a short term effort to reduce the planned inventory in CAT’s U.S. Facilities. The team was charged with determining the actual transit times between Global Suppliers outside the U.S. and the CAT facilities within the US, and recommending adjustments to the transit times leading to inventory savings.

Project Manager, Erie Insurance Company. Erie PA via CGN/Blackwell Global ConsultingDuties: Project Manager within the Erie Insurance Company’s IT Department. I concurrently managed four projects that were part of a major Strategic IT Program initiative designed to improve upon the Availability and Recoverability of various IT Systems. These projects included:1) a project to create an IT Service Catalog which needed to be regarded as the “Authoritative Source” for all IT Service Level Agreements and Performance Expectations.2) A project to create an IT Forward Schedule which created a view of all known or planned releases, upgrades, and changes across the application, infrastructure, and architecture portfolios. 3) A project to conduct Trend Analysis on Help Desk Incidents. This project needed to collect and analyze all available historical Incident Management and Problem Management records with the goal of allowing Erie to focus its attention in remediating the processes and functionality associated with the key Incident and Problem Management areas.4) A project to Enhance Performance Testing. This project focused on the activities, practices, tools, and deliverables applied to every phase of the SDLC which ensured that a solution will be designed, implemented and operationally supported to meet the performance requirements.

2008-2011 Professional Development Manager with Service Manager and Project Manager duties, State Farm Insurance Company – Computing Environment Area Duties: Lead and managed a unit consisting of 26 technical/project analysts. 2005-2008 Professional Development Manager, State Farm Insurance Company – Technology Skill CenterDuties: Skill/Role Steward for the J2EE/ Object Oriented Developer role at State Farm. I was responsible for Forecasting Recruiting, Hiring, On-boarding and Training of analysts in the Object Oriented/ J2EE development skill, using an Enterprise Resource Planning system. 2003-2005 Professional Development Manager, State Farm Insurance Company – Technology Skill CenterDuties: Skill Steward for the Project Planner role at State Farm. I was responsible for Forecasting Recruiting, Hiring, On-boarding and Training of analyst in the Project Planner role. This role was the assistant to the Project Manager. This also include making assignments, monitoring their daily performance and career guidance. I was responsible for hiring over 200 project planners. 2002-2003 Manager, State Farm Insurance Company – Information Technology Support Services: Command Center. Duties: I was responsible for managing over 30 employees in the Command Center, which consisted, or Proactive and Reactive Incident Management Analyst. 1999-2002 Project Manager, State Farm Insurance Company, Systems Project Development Area: Internet Auto Rate Quote Project. Duties: I successfully managed a project team of 30 associates responsible for development of State Farm’s Auto Rate Quote Application on the Internet. 1999-2000 Project Manager, State Farm Insurance Company, Systems Project Development Area I successfully managed the 1999 (1099/ W2 Systems Year End Project). The project team was responsible for creating the 1099’s and W-2’s for the entire company in January of 2000.