CHARLES HAMILTON

20 years at IBM, including 15 as Agile Team Lead and Project Manager for government projects. Served as Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, and Project Lead. Managed budgets, schedules, and status updates using MS Excel, Project, and PowerPoint. Oversaw all project phases—requirements to testing, security, DevOps, CI/CD, and documentation—using Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and MS Word.

IBM Agile Project Manager (Last 4 Years)

• Empower Project Team to Deliver Efficiently while constantly Adapt to Change
• Lead and Facilitate Lean-Agile Transformations in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Align Goals, Lead, Motivate, and Guide Project Team toward Project Goals
• Organize Tasks, Milestones, Schedules, Ensuring Completion On-Time, In Scope
• Identify and Resolve Issues, Risks, Dependencies, and Conflicts
• Track Expenses, Manage Budgets, Ensure Project Stays within Financial Guardrails
• Develop and Implement Project Plans to Define and Align with Goals.
• Establish Clear, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound (SMART) Goals
• Interview, Hire, Manage Team Activities and Conduct

IBM Agile Release Train Engineer Experience (RTE) (4 years)

• Servant Leader, Coach for Agile Release Train (ART) 5 Cross-Functional Teams of 7
• Program Increment Planning over the course of 5 - Two Week Sprints
• Facilitate 2-Day Program Increment Planning Event All Teams and Stakeholders
• Facilitate ART Events and Processes in Line with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Support Teams Within the ART to Deliver Value as Defined by the Customer

IBM Agile Scrum Master Experience (5 Years)

• Guide Team to Operate Effectively in Capacity achieve Optimum Velocity and Value
• A Servant Leader of Two Teams Simultaneously within an ART
• Facilitate ART Events and Processes in Line with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Manage Features, Capabilities, Epics, User Stories in Jira
• Created and Prioritized User Stories during Backlog Refinement
• Facilitate Sprint Planning, Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, Demos, and Retrospectives

IBM Technology Experiences

• FEMA COTS - DB2 Content Manager, ArcGIS, ArcIMS, ESRI GIS
• Campbell - DB2 Content Manager, CICS COBOL Mainframe Transaction Integration
• TSA - Front-End, ReactJS, REST, SOAP APIs, NodeJS, Docker, Spring Based Java
• U.S. Air Force - Back End Developer Oracle, NoSQL, Denodo, RDBMS, C++
• TSA - VM, Kubernetes, Ansible, Microservices, YAML, DevOps, GitLab, Full Stack
• US Army - Front End Developer Angular, Node JS, Java, Python, RESTfull, Cloud
• AI, NLP, RAG Searches, Langchain Agents, Numpy, Jira, Confluence, C#, .NET
• Navy ERP – PM Basis Team, DBA, TWS Admin
• Panasonic - SAP PM, Secaucus, NJ, ETL, Data Transformation / Data Migration

As Application Architect my responsibilities were to deliver systems of customized Front-End integrated with IBM DB2 Content Manager Back-End, deploying to numerous clients like AIG, Sentry Insurance, and Baltimore County and others.

• SQL Server DBA, DB2 DBA, C++, COBOL, Java development

As a Java Developer I was responsible for providing maintenance and improvements to a proprietary TinMan inventory system. Maintain the java application through full software development lifecycle (design, develop, test, review, deploy)

As a Data Analyst I was responsible for the collection of defect data and compiling it into reports as well as facilitating problem solving activity