Steven Kight Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

Managing data related projects for Step Up For Students.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Project Manager/Scrum Master responsible for monthly data refresh and yearly enhancement of web-based system performance scorecard and web-based executive compensation application.
• Co-led department implementation and adoption of Agile Scrum and serve as Agile coach.
• Managed projects for data platform team on time and within budget.
• Led business process improvement efforts for new ServiceNow requests, data quality tracking, Power BI requests, access to Health Catalyst applications, and application security.
• Facilitated change management process and resource allocation process while providing level of effort estimates for new projects.
• Managed business analysis, data analysis, Cognos developers, and ETL developers to successfully complete projects, requests, and incident tickets (projects include exchange of data between IBM DB2 Warehouses-Snowflake.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Ensured successful implementation of $10 million ATM billing project.
• Managed relationships with business, internal technology, and third-party outsourcing technology vendor to replace three different legacy ATM billing systems with Oracle’s Revenue Management and Billing application.
• Provided technical directions for ETL data conversion into ORMB and Java development efforts.
• Teamed with project manager and business stakeholders to provide overall project direction and management.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Project Manager responsible for $2 to $12 million mortgage regulatory and document management projects.
• Oversaw and managed all business, technical, (i.e., J2EE, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM Web Server, and IBM DB2 Server) and financial aspects of projects.
• Provided project estimates and monthly financial forecasts.
• Ensured each project met all bank regulatory and internal control requirements.
• Worked closely with business stakeholders to ensure projects met their objectives and deliverables.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Project Manager for projects to enhance and add new functionality to the Chili’s Online Ordering website. Also manage several restaurant system projects. Responsible for creating project documentation; including project charters, resource worksheets, project schedules, requirements, and project financials. Created the PMO SharePoint site to support all IT.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Scrum Master leading Agile Scrum team to convert and update 70 plus customer letter types from Neopost to HP Exsteam customer communications management system. Letters being converted over included treatment, Texas payment reminder, deferred payment agreement, renewal, term expiration, and miscellaneous PUC letter updates. Used Rally project management.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Scrum Master for Agile Scrum.NET e-commerce projects, which included mobile access and payment processing, to increase product sales and customer satisfaction. Responsible for overall delivery of projects on time and on budget. Created project budgets and business requirements. Facilitated client meetings and issues resolution. Developed three client.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Business Analyst supporting program to re-platform the metropcs.com E-Commerce website to a new vendor. Responsible to writing several key business requirement documents, reviewing and editing vendor’s functional requirement documents and reviewing and editing test cases. Also responsible for reviewing test case results and managing defect tracking in HP.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Project Manager supporting the Customer Module of a program to build the next generation of air transportation software. Performing project management activities within an agile development environment. Providing Scrum Master support to the team developing User Stories and coordinating activities with the build team Scrum Master. Perform User Stories.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Technology Delivery Manager for several projects including disaster recovery gap remediation, application to manage unauthorized employee activity and time sheet violations, and web based prediction markets.
• Managed project to research data flows for 43 key applications in order to uncover disaster recovery gaps, remediated those gaps, and supported these applications during a disaster recovery exercise.
• Managed project to develop a.NET web application to track and manage cases related to unauthorized employee activity and time sheet violations and developed a MicroStrategy BI tool for reports and dashboard.
• Managed project to deploy an Inkling web based Prediction Markets application from test to production.
• Manage technical resources, design, project budget, finances, and project financial forecasts.
• Created the project business requirement documents, traceability documents, test plans, and test cases.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager for medium and large scale software development projects.
• Strong SDLC, Agile, Lean Development, UML, and RUP knowledge.
• Lead business analyst for multiple web application projects.
• Project Manager for TIIBCO Enterprise Service Bus deployment project
• Project Manager for web based customer self-service portal.
• Load Test Lead for web application load test project using HP/Mercury LoadRunner.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Managed multiple medium and large Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and waterfall model development projects which were completed on time and within budget. Projects included new consumer facing web site to.
• Monitored and managed team progress to meeting each project’s objectives.
• Managed project issues, risks, schedules, and status reports.
• Reviewed project progress with executives and other key stakeholders.
• Responsible for Program Management Office’s (PMO) finances, budget, procedures, policies, & reports.
• Managed both onshore and offshore development resources.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Project Manager for a multi-million dollar web-based ERP software development project for the educational market using the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework.
• Setup and managed project risk & issues log. Escalated issues and status changes as appropriate.
• Planed and managed performance testing, load testing, test result analysis, and test results reports.
• Provided leadership in implementing need organization and planning to this project, which had been in chaos.
• Technology used: J2EE, WebSphere, Apache, IBM DB2, & QuickTest Professional.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Utilized PMBOK, SDLC, process driven implementation methodologies, and Microsoft Project to successfully complete the following projects on time & within budget:
• Managed outsourcing telecom invoice processing to a TEM vendor & creating multiple SAP R/3 interfaces.
• Managed the planning, development, and implementation of new telecom invoice processes.
• Responsible for the creation and management of complex project finance models to track telecom cost savings of $1.3MM during the first 12 months of the project.
• Took ownership of project milestones, including those of the TEM vendor.
• Liaison between business stakeholders and IT management.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Utilized SDLC, PMBOK, Microsoft Project, process and change management driven implementation methodologies, and Mercury TestDirector & LoadRunner to successfully complete the following American Airlines projects on.
• Upgraded & re-deployed the AA.com web site to Oracle 9i, ATG Java Application Server 6, & Sun Java System Web Server, running Sun Solaris, for both staging & production environments.
• Upgraded & re-deployed the BusinessExtrAA.com web site to Oracle 9i, ATG Java Application Server 6, and Sun Java System Web Server, running Sun Solaris, for both staging & production environments.
• Upgraded and migraded the enterprise CRM system to E.piphany 6, Oracle 9i, Windows 2000 Server, and new Sun StorEdge 6120 SANs for both the QA and production environments.
• Managed the purchase & installation of the new servers and SANs to support the new CRM system.
• Development of a J2EE application for Admirals Club sign up and renewal via the AA.com web site.

Bba, Accounting

Mba, Mis And Finance