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Senior Project Manager

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Highly motivated executive level professional with proven success as Director of Program/Project Management, Portfolio Management, and Director of Product Development and Information Technology. Successfully implemented, trained, coached, and audited agile processes at an enterprise and team level. Current with project management skill sets, agile process expertise, and ITIL processes. Key Skills Include: ••Successful implementation, coaching, and auditing of agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, TDD, FDD, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), XP, and LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) •Transformed more than 25 teams from waterfall to an agile process •Developed consistent agile processes that met CMMI level 2 audits •SDLC professional for both IT, Technical, and Program/Platform level projects •Expert resource management for large and small projects in an agile environment •Administrative level performance working with Jira, Confluence, Rally, VersionOne, TFS, and other resource, issue, and code management tools •Transparent delivery of key portfolio priorities to internal and external stakeholders •Define strategic direction for project roles/responsibilities with clear mitigation and escalation tracks •Implement product process solutions that enhance corporate performance •Ability to define/refine staffing, capacity planning, and forecasting at the organizational, program/platform, project, and team levels •Risk identification and mitigation at all organizational levels •Solutions management for critical customer satisfaction and operational efficiency •Reporting expert for product life cycle progress, quality, and ROI/Cost Savings •Contract negotiation and Service Level Agreement management •Leadership/Team Building in both domestic and overseas environments to promote cultural changes that support Center of Excellence (CoE) initiatives from both process best practices and personal growth