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• Guiding teams, building the latest technology in theme park development using a SAFe environment.• Responsible for 19+ applications in Digital Technology for the Resort Guest Experience group.• Leading transformation from Scrum to SAFe practices.• Guiding and mentoring other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, etc.

• Guided project managers & teams through Scrum and the SDLC.• Created standards & processes for the business to operate within.• Project setup, scheduling, budgeting, risk, tracking, reporting, guidance & delivery.• Communications with clients, financial backers, board presentations, & other stakeholders.• AI, mobile, web, and business evaluation projects.

• Built a Unity, code-based system to visualize stocks.• Studied various Artificial Intelligence systems and how they are built.• Learned how to prepare massive data sets for meaningful analysis.• Built AI implementations to train, evaluate & predict stock market movements. (Dense, Convolutional, LSTM, and autoregressive versions of each)• Built a trading bot to trade based upon generation and analysis of market factors.• Built an RPG video game from scratch using Unity, for fun & learning.

• Maintain backlogs for projects of multiple platforms (TV, iOS, Android, Web). • Interface with stakeholders of many levels, business teams and developer teams. • Oversee projects from requirements phase, to regular release. • Create & split stories, reporting, quality management, process implementation, etc. • Create new processes to streamline a burgeoning Scrum environment.

• Initiate business and product vision, to deliver most valuable product and services to the market.• Advise & manage financial portfolios for sustainable investment toward individual goals.• Partner with clients to produce software with the most valuable analysis for transactions.

• In 6 months, brought the company from behind schedule, to 4 months ahead of schedule.• Brought the company from 1 project a month, to 15 projects, using the same workforce.Other Duties• Managed the production of high-quality collector’s edition game titles sold in GameStop, nationwide.• Installed a Kanban workflow to all production cycles.• Accountable for stakeholder partnership and company processes.• Coordinated launch, design, production, assembly, progress, quality, schedule, etc.

• Took a program that was 3mo. behind and delivered on-time with 3 types of training media products.• Innovated custom uses for JIRA/MS Project/Excel.• Educated the business and stakeholders on Scrum usage.Other Duties• Plan, prioritize, direct, document, monitor, report, and approve project development.• Manage cross-functional and specialized teams in software, art, design, learning science, and content.• Global customer & stakeholder accountability, mentor and guide employees of multiple disciplines.• Collaborate with high profile/high stakes customers such as U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, United Arab Emirates.

• Led automation efforts to reduce cost, outages, increase testing, stability.• Implemented a base of 300+ screens, and over 50 interactive components, used by several EA games.• Received 5 awards for outstanding contribution.Other Duties• Manage global customers & teams, as well as in-house projects.• Owned & managed new mobile product feature design, strategy, and analytics.• Product ownership of all aspects from initiation to live-team support.• Madden Ultimate Team interaction design, interface implementation, live team, analytics, marketing.• Owner of NCAA web and app properties, which connected to the console video game experience.• Visual style and mock-ups to plan the yearly overall UX and UI strategy.

• Reduced graphic production time by 50% using automation and templating techniques.• Maintained 12+ e-commerce websites including code, UI, and imagery.• Site design for corporate store websites, e.g. Reebok, J.P. Morgan, Staples, Sodexho, UPS, USPS, etc.• IT management for east coast store operations, 2 corporate headquarters, and off-site users.

• Maintaining and creating websites.• Consulting service for textbook composition through to completion.• Creation of art and advertisements for publishing and web clients.• PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, Actionscript, InDesign.

• Created websites from start to finish specializing in visual style and database planning.• Handle technical and client problems, client meetings, employee training.• Database administration, streaming video, Flash animation/programming.• CFML, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, Actionscript.

• Cut production time 30% by learning and using custom programming languages.• Created new processes for coding and combining software, and streamlined old processes.• Book design and layout using QuarkXpress, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.• Cross-platform data manipulation and conversion.