GS1 US

Product Owner, Manager, member of Agile transformation team
(September 2021 - Present)

  • Leading a brand new, cross-functional agile development team as Product Owner, including authoring, refining, prioritizing, and evaluating stories and story work for acceptance, consultation with Product Management team on timing and readiness for delivery to the business

  • Participating in activities beyond the agile team including feature refinement, release planning, deployment preparation, and production support

  • Supporting ongoing growth of the Agile Release Train by interviewing and evaluating potential new team members (new hires) as well as facilitating transition of new team members into the ART.

  • Acting as servant leader for a high-performing team of Product Owners

Azure technologies, SQL Server, REST

Vertex Inc.

Senior Manager, member of Agile transformation team
(October 2020 - July 2021)

  • Acted as key member of SAFe transformation team. Supervised team of development and test engineers working in Scaled Agile environment, including consultation on Agile processes, technical standards and practices, workload balancing, matching or adapting skill sets to upcoming workload, and all aspects of application and solution development.

  • Maintained direct reporting responsibility for employees and contractors based in U.S. and abroad, including career coaching, performance reviews, and professional development plans.

  • Oversaw delivery responsibilities to include cross-organizational coordination and tracking work completion against business expectations, sprint and program increment commitments, and release timelines, including cross-organizational coordination.

Technologies: AWS technologies, .NET, Java, REST Web Services, SQL Server Database, Oracle

Anexinet Corp.

May 2014 – October 2020

GS1 US SAFE transformation and technology advancement (4 years)

Role: Director, Client Lead, Agile Coach, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Architect

  • Guided major process and technical transformation project involving bringing in-house development shop to modern, Azure-based cloud technologies, PaaS-based architectures, DevSecOps automation, and Agile methodologies, using Scaled Agile.

  • Built team from five (5) to 22 associates and focused on high performance and high retention.

  • Delivered training and direct coaching to IT leadership, product management, Release Train Engineer (RTE), Scrum Masters, and product owners through group and individual sessions.

  • Collaborated with RTE to structure, plan, and participate in cadence meetings for feature refinement through transition to story breakdown by teams.

  • Presented to IT leadership for status updates and managing progress on transformation and delivery goals.

  • Assumed specific roles as needed to demonstrate servant leadership and support team or department reorganization.

  • Earned Sales Impact Award in 2019 for delivery and relationship building on major client account covering Agile transformation, application and infrastructure modernization, and high-quality, on-time delivery of solutions supporting significant business initiatives.

Technologies: Azure technologies, SQL Server, REST

Multiple Projects (2 years)

Role: Director, Agile Coach, Client Lead, Architect

  • Led multiple development efforts for major pharmaceutical company.

  • Developed SOWs, architecture, and design for custom software, SAML-based single sign-on solution.

  • Established Java continuous integration environment.

  • Partnered with sales to create an internal prototype; utilized suite of open-source tools and programming languages to develop data visualization tool for portraying publicly available data sets.

Technologies: Azure technologies, JavaScript InfoViz Toolkit, d3js, Bootstrap, JSON, JavaScript, AJAX, Java, REST Web Services, PostrgeSQL Database, SAML, Spring

Accenture Federal Services

January 2008 – May 2014

Project: Healthcare.gov (6 months)

Role: Technical Architect, Scrum Master

  • Oversaw technical aspects of transition from previous contractor and organized efforts for newly formed team on complex, extremely visible project (Healthcare.gov/Year 2 Affordable Care Act implementation).

  • Collaborated with executive team, technical leads, and business stakeholders to identify high-level and detailed technical options for development of critical segment of Federally Facilitated Marketplace application, including proposed work schedules and estimates.

  • Led technical definition, design, and development of first full software revision.

  • Performed project management functions, including status tracking and reporting, executive-level report-outs, scope change management, and team leadership.

  • Provided technical guidance within existing architecture and facilitated deployment, operations, testing, and production support activities.

  • Implemented lightweight and iterative development approach to meet client expectations and delivery time frames.

Technologies: JSON, Java, Backbone.js, REST and SOAP Web Services, Model-Driven development, MarkLogic Database 

Project: GFMDI in Motion (1 year)

Role: Technical Architect, Agile process consultant

  • Developed prototype for web-based, rich graphical interface for visualization and modification of U.S Army organizations and combat units, including all equipment, personnel, and organizational units at every level.

  • Led three-to-four-person team in developing and delivering resulting application, synthesizing multiple visualization and user interface frameworks to produce web-based, animated, graphical, and modifiable organization chart with integration points to multiple external systems.

Technologies: JavaScript InfoViz Toolkit, , d3js, Bootstrap, JSON, JavaScript, AJAX, Java, REST Web Services, Oracle Database 

Project: DRRS-A NetUSR (8 years - project began with Gestalt LLC)

Role: Technical Architect, Agile process consultant

  • Worked with small team of senior colleagues to win key contract with the Department of Defense.

  • Named assistant solution owner, taking initial steps toward companywide migration to Agile development methodologies.

  • Led eight-to-ten-person team in continuing development and delivering multiple iterative software releases for a critical application used by Headquarters Department of the Army to make key resourcing and mission assignment decisions.

  • Worked integration issues with third-party vendors.

  • Developed Agile engineering processes. Protected key elements of Agile development while defining and piloting Agile process compliant with CMM Level Four, resulting in Accenture’s CMM 4 certified Agile process.

    Technologies: Java, SOA, AJAX, XML, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, LDAP and CA Siteminder authentication, some .NET
     

Gestalt, LLC (now part of Accenture)

2002 – 2007

Project: Enterprise Services for Reach Back Capabilities (ESRBC)

Role: Technical Architect, Project Manager
Summary: In an R&D environment, worked with a small team to integrate state of the art military simulation scenario generation systems with legacy Visual Basic and FoxPro applications. The solution included a Struts-based user interface invoking Visual Basic subroutines via a service oriented architecture, using a dynamically created PPTP tunnel as the transport layer.
Technologies: Java, SOA, Struts, XML, Visual Basic, Oracle

Project: Energy Billing Simulation

Role: Technical Architect, Project Manager
Summary: Worked with a small team of senior colleagues to win a key contract, as Project Manager led an 8 person team in developing and delivering a rules-based business analysis system.
Technologies: Java, J2EE, JMS, XML, Oracle, Java Expert System Shell (JESS)

Project: Starnet

Role: Team Lead, Developer
Summary: Led a 2 person team in developing an invoicing system for charges related to point-to-point video delivery via satellite and public internet. At the same time, worked as a developer on a second team developing the satellite and internet video delivery and transcoding system.
Technologies: .NET, C##, ASP.NET, SQL Server, XML, FAS (a satellite scripting language) 

Additional experience

ZoneLD Telecom (1 year)

Role: Integration Lead, Developer
Summary: Senior technical lead developing business partner integration software including role as technical point of contact with external business partners. Also developed a retail marketing website using Weblogic with integration to back end customer registration system built in SilverStream (a Java web application container), supporting 1/2 million page hits per hour.
Technologies: Weblogic, Java, JSP, Silver Stream 

Breakaway Solutions (2 years)

Role: Technical Lead, Integration Lead, Developer
Summary: Senior technical lead on teams developing business-to-business web applications and business partner integration software for dot com start-up companies, with a focus on rapid development and deployment minimizing time to market. Projects such as StarCite (B2B Travel and Accommodations), Market Maker / Industrial America (B2B Marketplace application), ZoneLD (Long distance teleom)
Technologies: ASP, JSP, XML, SQL Server, Oracle 

Keane (1 year)

Role: Project Manager
Summary: Year 2000 remediation project manager for a top-5 mortgage lender overseeing all year 2000 remediation work including coding, testing, and report-out to senior management, external business partners and regulatory agencies. 

Exelon Energy (1 year)

Role: Progression from Junior Programmer to Senior Consultant
Summary: Working in mainframe and client server environments performing programming, technical leadership, training, customer support, project management, IS strategic planning, and structured analysis and design.
Technologies: Visual Basic, SQL, Structured Analysis and Design tools, COBOL, DB2, Natural/Adabas 

St Marks High School

Role: Compute Science Teacher
Summary: Taught Computer Programming to Junior and Senior students.
Technologies: BASIC programming on the Apple IIe.