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• Servant leader and provided mentoring and coaching to fellow Scrum master’s and squads.• Led multiple high performing scrum teams within the pension domain. Held Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Refinement, and Retrospectives to enable teams to master Agile.• Scrum team responsible for maintenance and release activity for batch related jobs for large clients.- Updates to pension calculation java batch to support a major client deliverable in April. - Improved batch processing by reducing excess units of work by 45%.- Updates to batches to support regulatory changes needed for Federal taxes. • Scrum team responsible for maintenance and release activity for a web-based pension automation tool and back end Informatica ETL code for mid-market clients. - Drove scale and efficiency for an emerging market servicing more than 4.5 million participants. - Delivered multiple iterative based deployments. - Provided an automated solution to remove manually intensive procedures which mitigated risk concerns by removing an existing manual process that provided potential cost savings of 1 head count and eliminated ~650 manual updates to payment related information within the past 2 quarters.- Led an end-of-life migration project to convert from Sybase to MS SQL Server which mitigated risk and provided for enhanced performance.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Led technical development team of five professionals responsible for support and maintenance of existing microsites. • Communicated functionality needed to stakeholders to retire existing legacy application and migrate to new web application.• Collaborated with stakeholders and product owner to drive release content and planning.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Led technical development team of seven professionals responsible for support and maintenance of 240+ enterprise-wide business processes focusing on automation of manually-intensive business processes. Communicated technical and business functionality to upper management and delivered monthly key application metrics. Provided demonstration of applications to new users and senior leaders. • Directed creation and deployment of 11 new business processes and more than 290 enhancements to existing processes resulting in cost savings of over $11M.• Guided and oversaw successful implementation of over 43K lines of VB.net code that converted 18 existing business workflows that enabled the organization to avoid cost of hiring 91 full-time employees.

Piscataway, Nj

Coordinated and led enterprise-wide architecture governance process that established and promoted IT architecture standards and process improvements.• Chaired architecture review meetings and authored web pages to update governance process content.• Managed cross-functional project team that created and implemented standard set of enterprise architecture artifacts and templates that drove consistency across business units.• Led team that developed and implemented enterprise and security assessments of all IT projects. Finalized taxonomy for standard enterprise audits and created website and database to track and report assessment results.

Bridgewater, Nj

Managed and led enhancements to the business internet customer email channel to provide robust routing, tracking and reporting.• Enhanced the customer email channel providing (148%) increase in response time.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor’S Degree, Management Information Systems, General