Summary
Experienced certified Project Manager (PMP) and Scrum Master (PSM1) with excellent implementation and project management abilities. Highly organized, methodical, and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams. Well-versed in Agile, Waterfall, delivering products, delivering projects, building leaders, planning and deployment.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificate
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Technical Project Manager
American Electric Power, AEP
Columbus, OH
12.2022 - 02.2024
- Develop and manage the project, communication, resource plans and processes
- Analyze all management and technical processes to ensure they’re delivered as expected
- Meet regularly with project stakeholders and define project goals and objectives
- Lead budget and resource allocation through all project phases
- Schedule project timelines
- Make estimates for the budget and schedule
- Generate regular reports to update stakeholders and manage projects
- Establish and train teams on processes and strategies
- Define roles and responsibilities of the team and determine clear deliverables
- Research and evaluate new hardware and software technology and help make decisions on the cost-benefit analysis of new purchases
- Coordinate all meetings and interface with business units, staff and service providers
- Direct and manage project development from beginning to end while defining the project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals
- Determine if external consultants or contractors should be added to the internal project and/or development team(s) to successfully complete the project
- Work with product owners and managers to ensure feasibility with existing products to enhance user experience, and/or to identify where additional resources will be required to achieve project objectives with guidance from user experience (UX) architects
- Build relationships with external entities, operating companies and regulatory to facilitate project prioritization
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems
Technical Project Manager
American Electric Power, AEP
Columbus, OH
09.2021 - 12.2022
- Oversaw multiple teams in Agile and Waterfall methodologies with various complexities
- Provided resource planning for projects and portfolio co-sourcing resource management by forecasting and estimating projects based on requirements in current and roadmap initiatives
- Coached and mentored teams on agile methodology and scrum framework and provided coaching to other Scrum Masters
- Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational requirements
- Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors
- Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implemented mitigation actions to protect the development process from unforeseen delays and costs
- Developed project plans and managed project scope, determined methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance
- Updated customer and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address issues and risk
- Planned and arranged meetings with key stakeholders ranging from upper management to external organization and team members
- Enabling parties to communicate to meet and discuss project progress
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements
Senior Software Engineer
American Electric Power, AEP
Columbus, OH
03.2020 - 09.2021
- Coached and reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to scrum team and stakeholders to streamline delivery
- Introduced and initiated scaling alternative to appropriately resize and split team to gain more efficiency
- Maintained and organized product line with three distinct teams consisting of operations and development
- Adapted workflow and processes for scrum team to maintain consistent productivity for high demand middleware system
- Facilitated monthly leadership meetings to highlight team achievements, opportunities, changes and receive feedback
- Facilitated and coached planning, backlog grooming/refinement, daily scrum, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
- Improved Scrum team progress by coaching how to overcome obstacles and helped realize success throughout each sprint
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to adopt Agile methodologies
- Provided technical B2B solutions to fulfill various project requests to improve internal and external processes
- Implemented first B2B service to consume data from email and securely deliver to target server
- Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in python, Webmethods, UI Path, shell scripting and working to improve overall team performance.
Software Engineer
American Electric Power, AEP
Columbus, Ohio
01.2016 - 03.2020
- Facilitated Operations scrum adoption to assist Project Manager
- Established/maintained visual board and upskill team on scrum foundations
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations
- Updated dated code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality
- Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features using WebMethods
- Developed appropriate documentation both technical and procedural Support and developed mobile applications for iOS applications utilizing swift
- Coached and developed others by creating the first draft of team onboarding/cross training documentation
- Led first Technology Apprenticeship program to provide mentoring for technology employees
- Championed the team's culture and continuous improvement initiatives to improve processes, behaviors, collaboration, teamwork, and personal well-being
- Introduced many technologies to team through Tech Talks to increase team capabilities: spring boot, pivotal cloud, artifactory, and shell scripting
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations
Associate Software Engineer
American Electric Power, AEP
Columbus, OH
07.2014 - 01.2016
- American electric power, associate
- Analyzed and improved applications, services and software systems using a variety of programming languages
- Documented technical workflows and knowledge articles to educate newly hired employees
- Analyzed, diagnosed and resolved technical issues identified by customers
- Performed minor enhancements and addressed technical requests to improve functionality
- Performed support for AEP first iOS applications.
- Checked configuration files and logs to uncover root causes of problems
Education
Masters - Information Systems Management
01.2013 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Science - Technical Management
01.2012 - 02.2013
Associate of Science - Network Administration
08.2010 - 06.2012
Associate of Science - Cyber Security
08.2010 - 06.2012
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Skills
- Agile project management
- Waterfall methodology
- Strategic planning
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Project budget allocation
- Manage multiple projects
- Communication
- Vendor relationship management
- Risk mitigation
- Dependency tracking
- Documentation Management
- Manage Distributed Teams
- Technical Proficiency
- Workiva
- Python
- Smartsheet
- Jira
- Power BI
- Docker
- Pivotal Cloud Foundary
- HTML
- Java
- Swift
- WebMethods
- UI Path
- Work Orders
- Team Management
- Project Requirements Analysis
- Schedule Control
- Cost Estimation
- Budgeting and Resource Management
- Inspirational Leadership
- Agile project management
- Stakeholder Relations
- Status Meetings
Timeline
Senior Technical Project Manager - American Electric Power, AEP
12.2022 - 02.2024
Technical Project Manager - American Electric Power, AEP
09.2021 - 12.2022
Senior Software Engineer - American Electric Power, AEP
03.2020 - 09.2021
Software Engineer - American Electric Power, AEP
01.2016 - 03.2020
Associate Software Engineer - American Electric Power, AEP
07.2014 - 01.2016
Keller Graduate School of Management - Masters, Information Systems Management
01.2013 - 08.2014
DeVry University - Bachelor of Science, Technical Management
01.2012 - 02.2013
Clark State Community College - Associate of Science, Network Administration
08.2010 - 06.2012
Clark State Community College - Associate of Science, Cyber Security
08.2010 - 06.2012
Certification
Project Management Profession (PMP)
Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)