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Program Manager on Microsoft Fix It project which can be seen here which lead to 5% decrease in telephone incidents. Also partnered with Dell and provided with custom Fix It’s which Dell has estimated saves them $1 million per quarter by call deflection.Program Manager on Bemis (IPP Platform) which permitted Microsoft to retire XMetal and to transition over to the Bemis platform (based on SharePoint 2007) and stream line the process of KB creation. Also places Microsoft in a position to simplify its overly complicated ecosystem for KB’s creation.Lead Program Manager on Expert Services which consisted of:• IMQA (Instant Message Question and Answer): has permitted Microsoft to realize a 33% decrease in training of new frontline engineers and has an accuracy of 93% in SME finding and a time to resolution of 45 seconds. (Please see enclosed Book of IMQA for an example of how it is used). • Reputation Services: Provides Microsoft with the ability to have a clear metric (score) of an engineer’s expertise and create training plans based on metadata. • Radius: Provides Microsoft with the ability to auto classify cases and has improved accuracy by 15% which translates into decreased time to resolution of phone incidents.• Achievements: Provides Microsoft with the ability “gamify” and to recognize engineers for behaviors that we would like to encourage. Achievements can be assigned (for example GPGP) or earned and can be timed boxed.Process Improvements:• Scrum Implementation across Microsoft ECO (recognized as Scrum go to resource)• Participation in program management best practices vTeam• Participation in program management scrum vTeam• Implementation of Scenario Focused Engineering (can be found here)• Implementation of Testing In Production (can be found here)

Worked in ATM group responsible for 14 thousand Bank of America ATMs around the county. Senior Development Manager, Project Manager and Software Architect for ATM space responsible for leading team of 20 developers and 3 analyst. Managed projects with total budget of $7MM as well as vendor budget of $2MM. Responsible for all aspects of SDLC and incorporated various project methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and Six Sigma.Day To Day Responsibilities:• Facilitated JAD sessions• Facilitated BRD, HLD, LLD and WBS discussions and documentation creation• Facilitated Quality Assurance and Product Backlog sessions and documentation creation• Facilitated FMEA sessions and documentation creation• Facilitated Scrum sessions• Facilitated Change Control Board sessions and documentation creation• Code reviews• Team Reviews• Budget Forecast• Quarterly reviews• Change Control Board Member

Chief Software Engineer , Lead Instructor, Lead Developer, Software ArchitectSenior Development Manager, Project Manager and Software Architect for Space and Naval Warfare Code 31space responsible for leading team of 3 developers. Managed projects with total budget of $2MM. Responsible for all aspects of SDLC and incorporated various project methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and CMMI.Day To Day Responsibilities:• Onsite Program Manager• Onsite Project Manager• Facilitated JAD sessions• Facilitated BRD discussions and documentation creation• Facilitated HLD sessions and documentation creation• Facilitated LLD sessions and documentation creation• Facilitated WBS sessions and documentation creation• Facilitated Product Backlog sessions and documentation creation• Facilitated Quality Assurance sessions and documentation creation• Facilitated FMEA sessions and documentation creation• Facilitated Scrum sessions• Facilitated Change Control Board sessions and documentation creation• Code reviews• Team Reviews• Budget Forecast• Team Lead• Software Architect For Code 31• Quarterly reviews• Change Control Board Member• Vendor Management• SDLC used Agile/Waterfall and CMMI level 2