Microsoft Office
Ray Geroski
Louisville,KY
Summary
Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong requirements gathering, scope development and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technology Project Manager III
mthree
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Oversaw technology divestiture activities, including AWS infrastructure migration to new account, DNS migrations to CloudFlare, video platform migration to self-hosting in Amazon AWS S3
- Managed LMS platform migration
- Managed overall LMS technology strategy for professional development and accelerated learning product offerings in a SAFe organization
- Managed the backlog for LMS and custom plug-in products
- Planned and scheduled releases
- Managed development team assigned to an online learning system
- Coordinated with the Development team to plan solutions and product refinements
- Met with stakeholders to capture and define requirements for the development team
- Coordinated PI planning with Product and Program Managers
- Created Stories based on stakeholder needs and defined acceptance criteria
- Wrote use-case scenarios to inform UX workflow and test cases
- Created Epics aligned with quarterly goals and map to defined PI Objectives
- Worked with the development team to refine stories for quarterly Epics
- Coordinated with stakeholders to plan increment release schedules
- Scheduled increment reviews and collect feedback for the development team
- Divested from Wiley & Sons May 31, 2024
Technology Product Owner
Wiley & Sons
01.2021 - 06.2024
- Managed overall LMS technology strategy for professional development and accelerated learning product offerings in a SAFe organization
- Managed the backlog for LMS and custom plug-in products
- Managed development team assigned to an online learning system
- Coordinated with the Development team to plan solutions and product refinements
- Met with stakeholders to capture and define requirements for the development team
- Coordinated PI planning with Product and Program Managers
- Created Stories based on stakeholder needs and defined acceptance criteria
- Wrote use-case scenarios to inform UX workflow and test cases
- Created Epics aligned with quarterly goals and map to defined PI Objectives
- Worked with the development team to refine stories for quarterly Epics
- Coordinated with stakeholders to plan increment release schedules
- Scheduled increment reviews and collect feedback for the development team
- Extensive experience working with Moodle LMS
- User administration
- Course administration
- Troubleshooting
- Database expertise
Scrum Master-Solutions Architect
Learning House, Inc
12.2018 - 01.2021
- Company Overview: Learning House, Inc
- Was acquired by Wiley & Sons
- Managed development team assigned to an online learning system dashboard plugin
- Designed solutions to meet end-user needs, increase value, and achieve stability
- Met with stakeholders to capture and define requirements for the development team
- Facilitated Scrum Events and Ceremonies, including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives
- Coached team members on Scrum values and adjusting processes and practices to live up to Scrum values and to follow Agile principles
- Coordinated with Product Owner to define Stories and Epics for quarterly PI Planning
- Learning House, Inc
- Was acquired by Wiley & Sons
Quality Assurance Manager-Release Manager
Learning House, Inc
01.2015 - 12.2018
- Managed quality assurance analysts, quality assurance processes, and quality assurance improvement plans across the technology organization
- Coached and mentored quality assurance team members on products and platforms to ensure a high level of knowledge and expertise
- Managed release process for software applications including CRMs, forms, APIs, and e-learning platform
Quality Assurance Analyst
Learning House, Inc
05.2013 - 01.2015
- Wrote a complete suite of test automation for online college application systems
- Wrote Javascript arrays and array functions for Selenium IDE
- Trained new employees on applications and Selenium IDE
- Assumed role as primary test automation author and trainer
- Maintained QA wiki knowledgebase
- Contributed to process refinements
- Served as primary training and knowledge resource for QA
Education
Master of Arts - English
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY05.1992
Bachelor of Arts - English
Berea College
Berea, KY05.1986
Skills
- Moodle administration
- Atlassian Jira
- Atlassian Confluence
- Atlassian Source Tree
- GitHub
- SDLC
- LucidChart
- ServiceNow (fulfiller)
- MySQL Workbench
- SQL/MySQL
- PGSQL
- Good communication skills
- Teamwork/servant leadership/coordination
- HeidiSQL
- Putty
- AWS
- Jenkins
- Salesforce
- Scrum Master
- Project Management
- Product Owner
- Agile Methodologies
- SAFe Agile
- Servant Leadership
- Facilitation
- Team Management
- Project Scheduling
- Software development life cycle
- Business Analysis
- IT Infrastructure
- Requirements Analysis
- Scrum Framework
- Stakeholder Management
- Project planning and development
- Project tracking
- Customer Relations
- Advanced problem solving
- Stakeholder Communications
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Scope Management
- Work flow planning
- Processes and procedures
- Schedule Management
- Agile Methodology
- Technical understanding
- Document Management
- Data Analysis
- Productivity Improvement
- Project scope
- Risk Management
- Team Bonding
- Performance Improvements
- Presentations
- Technical Support
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Requirements Gathering
- Meeting facilitation
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Problem-Solving
- Time Management
- Excellent Communication
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org
- SAFe 5 Scrum Master, Scaled Agile
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
RemoteImportant To Me
Work-life balanceCompany CultureFlexible work hoursPersonal development programsHealthcare benefitsWork from home optionPaid time off401k match4-day work weekSoftware
Visio
Moodle
LucidChart
Jira
Confluence
Timeline
Technology Project Manager III
mthree
06.2024 - 08.2024
Technology Product Owner
Wiley & Sons
01.2021 - 06.2024
Scrum Master-Solutions Architect
Learning House, Inc
12.2018 - 01.2021
Quality Assurance Manager-Release Manager
Learning House, Inc
01.2015 - 12.2018
Quality Assurance Analyst
Learning House, Inc
05.2013 - 01.2015
Master of Arts - English
University of Kentucky
Bachelor of Arts - English
Berea College
- Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum.org
- SAFe 5 Scrum Master, Scaled Agile
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