Abington, Pennsylvania, United States
20+ years of experience in information technology, including ... - Servant Leadership - Agile/Scrum methodologies - Lean - Technical training & coaching - Facilitation & human-centered design - IT project management - Application & data development - IT audit Consistently delivering high-quality solutions to meet the needs of business and technical clients
Responsibilities & Achievements: • Coach & train team members, scrum master chapter members, and Retail Marketing crew in Agile/Scrum-related topics • Coordinate team-level, family-level, and enterprise-level impediment removal • Facilitate team and family scrum events and learning sessions • To mentor team members, family members and others in personal and professional growth • Work with the Product Owner to ensure maximum business value delivery • Foster an environment where scrum team feels psychologically safe, and can grow into self-autonomy and self-organization
Responsibilities & Achievements: • Coach & mentor team members, scrum master chapter members, and Retail Marketing crew • Facilitate scrum events and other meetings, when needed • Coordinate impediment removal, as needed • Increase Scrum Master (SM) chapter and Retail Marketing (RM) agile acumen and exposure • Foster an environment where scrum team feels psychologically safe, and can grow into self-autonomy and self-organization • Worked with the Product Owner to ensure maximum business value delivery
Performed internal Sr. IT auditor duties on the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) audit team, including: • Performed audit tasks such as risk and control identification, scope documentation, controls testing & validation, writing findings and socializing with auditees. • Performed project management tasks such as scheduling, time-management, effort estimation, collaborating with colleagues, working with subject matter experts and business colleagues, leading & participating in departmental goals and initiatives. • Coached and mentored junior IT audit crew members • Furthered Internal Audit (IA) technical acumen by (co-)presenting multiple Lunch and Learn sessions with topics including: o NGA CD Pipeline o Cloud Computing o Robotic Process Automation
Senior IT person for the University Laboratory Animal Resources Office (ULAR), involved in all IT-related responsibility working with the client to align technology solutions with business strategies. • Support and debug the existing web, windows and XML web-service components of the ULAR Polaris application, utilizing primarily ASP.NET, VB.NET and SQL Server. • Design, develop, test and deploy new web, windows and web-service functionality for the ULAR Polaris application, using .NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2008R2 • Create and maintain project documentation, such as needs/requirements and technical specifications • Coach and mentor junior programmer/analysts • Liaise with functional users to determine reporting needs, providing data analysis and reporting support for users, including Crystal Reports, MS Access and MS Excel • Develop and administer existing and new SQL Server databases, including reporting, stored procedures, triggers, SSIS/DTS packages and query optimization • Retrieve and manipulate data from large centralized relational databases and analyze data from different sources into comprehensive reports. Develop creative ways to present complex data. Technologies used: ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server (administration, reporting, stored procedures, triggers, SSIS/DTS packages and query optimization), C#, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery, GUI design, Crystal Reports, MS Office, Motorola MC2180 barcode scanner programming
Supported and enhanced WebLink and DonorPages applications in Scrum environment. Technologies used: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, WebApi, MS Sql Server 2014, Team Foundation Server, JQuery, AJAX/JSON, Javascript, and HTML.
• Designed, Developed and Implemented ASP and ASP.NET web applications and stand-alone web user and custom control assemblies, incorporating dynamic content via ADO.NET and SQL Server 7/SQL Server 2000 databases • Designed, developed and implemented VB and VB.NET windows applications. • Managed projects through the entire SDLC to ensure proper functionality to meet needs of end-users • Maintained and updated legacy web applications written in ASP, VBScript and JavaScript • Administered SQL Server 7 and SQL Server 2000 databases, including Stored Procedures, DTS packages, Maintenance/Backup Plans, ER Models, Data Normalization, and optimization • Worked with the other Programmer/Analysts to implement department-wide strategies for all IT aspects of CMU’s Off-Campus Programs • Administered MS Windows 2003 and 2000 servers. Installed and supported software and hardware.
Designed and developed web-based training materials for Ford Motor Co. engineers. Specifically, I worked on craftsmanship and fuel economy courses.