Project Manager in Denver, CO, United States

ROLE: Technical Project Manager
PROJECT DETAILS:
• Served as a technical project manager for a team of nine mobile and web developers and QA engineers on a SAFE project.
• Established AWS development and testing environments using AWS EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, and Elastic Beanstalk.
• Coached the team in implementing scrum best practices.
• Helped to remove impediments.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies.

Our goal was to continuously improve our development and delivery practice to deliver exceptional value to the client.

ROLE: Mobile App Factory Delivery Manager
PROJECT DETAILS:
• Led a team of over 70 people on an Agile project designing and developing commercial iOS and Android applications for a major construction materials company in North America.
• Served as PMO point of contact for six Agile Scrum teams developing mobile applications reporting directly to the customer CIO.
• Managed onsite and offshore resources, including UX designers, solutions architects, business analysts, iOS and Android developers, and QA testers.
• Spearheaded the DevOps team implementing continuous integration/continuous delivery tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, and Git.
• Led the team implementing Jira and Confluence for project management reporting and issue resolution.
• Conducted Agile best practices training for the customer on product-owner responsibilities, how to write user stories, and how to successfully conduct Scrum ceremonies.
• Ran design-thinking workshops to derive product backlogs for custom mobile apps.
• Facilitated UX-design workshops as part of the Apple-IBM alliance for iOS mobile applications.

ROLE: Senior Portfolio Delivery Manager
PROJECT DETAILS:
• Responsible for coordinating end-to-end software releases for the mobile apps and the web portal that enable customers to manage their Spectrum mobile phone accounts.
• Coordinated with native mobile and web development teams to ensure feature parity between the mobile apps and web portal.
• Coordinated with the front-end development teams, web services development teams, QA, ProdOps, and PortalOps teams to ensure smooth and on-time product releases to the market.
• Worked with the product owner to identify features to be included in each release and develop a release roadmap for product stakeholders.
• Worked with stakeholders to report and identify ways to mitigate release delays due to dependencies and technical issues that arise during release cycles.
• Provided regular status reports to management and developed and maintained product information dashboards to help management monitor program health.

ROLE: Project Manager
PROJECT DETAILS:
• Provided project-management oversight and technical expertise to an offshore team developing a GIS-enabled iPhone app for the Canadian Pacific railroad. This app allows technicians to identify what railroad assets are within a certain radius and get information about those assets.
• Served as the onsite point of contact for the software vendor developing the application. Met with business and IT stakeholders to develop and verify requirements.
• Developed the UI design using SAP Build to mock up the application interface and incorporate customer feedback.
• Created user stories and coordinated with the business stakeholders to define acceptance criteria.
• Provided design materials and user stories to the offshore Scrum development team, creating the application.
• Conducted daily Scrum stand up meetings with the Scrum team.
• Led sprint planning meetings.
• Held sprint review meetings with the customer stakeholders.

ROLE: Scrum Master
PROJECT DETAILS:
• Acted as the scrum master for an offshore development team creating web-based tools for customers needing to comply with GDPR guidelines.
• Managed a team of six developers, one architect, and two QA engineers.
• Worked with the product owner to groom the product backlog and identify user stories to be worked on in each sprint.
• Managed the Jira repository to track user stories and issues.
• Provided roll-up reporting to the project's chief architect and created Jira dashboards to monitor project progress (sprint burndown charts, defect tracking, and more).
• Conducted daily Scrum stand up meetings with the scrum team to track progress and identify blockers.
• Led sprint-planning meetings.
• Facilitated sprint-review meetings at the end of each sprint.
• Conducted sprint retrospectives after each sprint and worked with the Scrum team to identify ways to improve the quality of the software delivered as well as increase the team's velocity.