West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
I am a Senior Development Project Manager and Scrum Master with the PMI Project Management Professional and Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master certification. I have experience in project and team management, scrum master, team leadership, test management, building and maturing best practices and center of excellence's, quality assurance, and testing. My career has included industries such as Healthcare IT, Health Services electronic document management, and Life Sciences, as well as portable electronic devices and streaming media content industries. My role as Development Project Manager and Scrum Master at Cerner allowed me to lead software development teams in the Healthcare IT industry during transition periods of expanding capacity with our teams in India as well as shifting our teams in Malvern from Healthcare Intelligence Decision Support Systems to HealtheIntent Analytics projects. My role as Test Director at CSC allowed me to manage all test development, execution, and team maturity activities during releases of the FirstDoc electronic document management system in the Life Sciences industry, while actively participating in regular client and ISO audits.
Sr. Scrum Master in Retail Systems, Client Experience and Digital - Coaching and mentoring in scrum and agile practices - Helping create high-value products - Removing impediments for teams to be productive and efficient
Currently contracted at a large pharmaceutical company in West Chester, PA: - Facilitates the scrum team's day to day activities, ceremonies. - Servant leader to help maximize team efficiency by resolving impediments; helping Product Owner prepare the backlog, improve velocity, and ensuring important Scrum artifacts are visible. - Reports status on agile project metrics, milestones and deliverables. - Guides developers, BUIT and Business Partners in adopting agile methodology and developing/implementing process improvements.
Healthcare IT Senior Development Project Manager with Cerner Health Services Population Health. AWS (including S3), on-prem, and client-site deployed apps and services, gaining experience with Accurev, GitHub, Spinnaker, DC/OS, VersionOne, Crucible, Jira, ActionableAgile, CHEF, and Quality Center. Involved with Healthcare Intelligence Decision Support Systems (enterprise data warehouse for clinical, financial, and quality measures), HealtheEDW (data transformation and analytic tools), and HealtheIntent (aggregate, transform, and reconcile data from electronic health records or other sources). Project Manager, Scrum Master, and Test Manager roles for Healthcare Intelligence projects in hybrid agile/waterfall environment (multiple teams and releases in parallel): - Facilitated release planning, daily stand-up, release retrospective meetings - Interacted with multiple cross-solution partner areas - Oversaw software deployments to client environments - Mentored associates in multiple physical locations - Built out and drove department best practices - Lead department center of excellence's - Managed all testing related activities Project Manager, Scrum Master, Initiative Owner roles for HealtheEDW and HealtheIntent projects in agile environment (multiple teams and releases in parallel): - Facilitated sprint and quarterly planning sessions, daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospectives - Supported Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud migration - Served as initiative owner for Content Management and Distribution solution - Creation and maturity of new development team Program Manager role for Healthcare Intelligence: - Fostered "One BI” mentality within global organization - Directed, collaborated, bridged processes and concepts to achieve process maturation - Created and built out Testing Center of Excellence - Key stakeholder of Project Management/Scrum Master Center of Excellence - Key stakeholder in definition, roll-out, and support of multiple department best practices
Life Sciences Test Director with Computer Science Corporation Health Services (CSC), through acquisition of First Consulting Group (FCG). On-prem and client-site deployed applications, gaining experience with tools such as Documentum, SubVersion, Jira, Crucible, FishEye, RequisitePro, and Selenium. Involved with the FirstDoc product line (electronic document management system for Research & Development, Trial Master Files, Quality and Manufacturing, and Marketing and Sales). Test Director, Project Manager, Product Test Senior Professional roles for FirstDoc projects in, initially strict waterfall, then shifted to a hybrid agile / waterfall environment: - Managed all testing related activities including test development, test execution, team maturity activities - Led team status meetings and provided development and testing updates to upper management - Created and revised project plans - Gathered and documented requirements - Created and updated client validation documentation - Managed testing process development - Supported RPF/SOW requests for testing estimates - Key stakeholder in regularly scheduled client and ISO audits - Assured adherence to CSC Quality Management System, 21 CFR Part 11, and ISO9001:2008
QA Team Lead of North America office with ALK Technologies. ALK Technologies CoPilot GPS was a innovative routing, mileage, mapping, and mobile navigation solution. Managed CoPilot GPS project work in QA Team Lead role: - Managed testing efforts, supervies daily tester activities, collaborated wtih developers and project managers, led configuration of test plan documentation, test strategies, and processes, and trained new employees.