Engineering Manager
2021 - PRESENTOptic Power- Joined the company and was immediately assigned a troubled project, which I was able to stabilize and re-baseline the project, then deliver multiple phases successfully.
- Kept the client satisfaction high and project deliveries successful, even with multiple projects underway.
- Worked to implement improved operational processes and team approaches to assist multiple delivery teams to operate more efficiently and successfully.
Senior Project Manager
2017 - 2021nClouds, Inc.- Served as a project manager, scrum master, and customer success manager.
- Managed multiple (more than six) client engagement projects in parallel.
- Implemented and taught standardized project manager and scrum master methodologies across multiple teams.
- Helped define and implement client support system standardization for on-call teams.
- Implemented numerous operational reporting tools and processes to support ongoing team improvements.
- Used Jira, Confluence, Airtable, Slack, Google Docs, and similar tools to manage the project flow, status, and reporting.
Senior Scrum Master
2017 - 2017Judge Group- Served as a senior contract scrum master for a financial services company.
- Provided infrastructure project management support for a key internal API gateway integration project.
- Supported internal and external project coordination to enable the implementation of a customized OTS purchased solution.
Manager Consultant
2014 - 2017Sogeti- Acted as scrum master and project manager for an eCommerce development team.
- Worked collaboratively with the UI design team for mobile and desktop application design requirements.
- Documented test environment preparation guides for the audit system.
- Supported the agile team though multiple responsive design project releases.
- Performed backlog grooming and refinement for agile project teams and UAT coordination to ensure acceptance of system changes.
- Managed project requirements, progress, and status using Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, and TFS.
Business Analyst | Project Manager
2014 - 2014Hewlett-Packard- Drove solution identification, feasibility analysis, and implementation recommendations for business-level improvements and assisted with prioritization of resulting projects.
- Performed backlog grooming and refinement for agile project teams.
- Developed test cases and provided product management support.
- Established the initial non-functional requirements approach for an agile project team in the company's eCommerce site redesign.
Technical Lead | Scrum Master
2012 - 2013Capital One- Captured, refined, and helped prioritize user stories for multiple highly customized COTS products for fraud detection and OFAC list use.
- Implemented IT standards across all platforms and environments and drove local performance review efforts.
- Facilitated agile sprint ceremonies, including standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos.
- Successfully implemented the agile development methodology across the team supporting fraud detection.
- Drove backlog implementation and grooming across multiple applications, ensuring proper and sustainable maintenance and growth of functionality supporting fraud detection.
Process Manager
2012 - 2012Atlantic Resource Group- Created, documented, and integrated improved the IT project onboarding process for the enterprise IT division.
- Established an improved process to onboard IT projects into enterprise development groups.
- Identified multiple improvements in the flows and interactions between departments, smoothing out the friction between teams and reducing the timeline needed for processes to initiate projects.
Project Manager | Scrum Master
2011 - 2012UDig Technologies- Served as a project manager, scrum master, and scrum master trainer.
- Supported the product owner to establish the project map, release plan, and product upgrades as well as reviewing processes to ensure all scrum practices were being followed.
- Trained and supervised two additional agile project teams on the agile methodology.
- Successfully implemented a custom internal SharePoint site.
- Identified and helped implement testing processes and tools into team methodologies.
Senior Consultant
2010 - 2011Amentra- Served as the project manager for a multimillion-dollar rewards tracking software integration across multiple platforms.
- Managed project schedule, communications, requirements, scope, quality, and risks.
- Performed test case reviews and coordinated UAT to ensure acceptance of system changes.
- Led the successful delivery of two major phases of the rewards-tracking software upgrades for a major healthcare company.
Senior Business Systems Analyst
2008 - 2010Code X- Drove decisionmaking and requirement definition for application development, ensuring that business needs were being met.
- Built a top-performing team to ensure successful implementation of business requirements, and collaborated with IT and business partners to resolve issues.
- Performed backlog refinement, UAT coordination, agile story enhancements, and process improvements.
- Coordinated test planning, test case development, and release planning for product development.
- Implemented an upgraded eCommerce store with improved customer experience.
- Supported internal projects for hardware migrations, upgrades, and user-base migrations.
J. Chad McCully
Project Manager in Braga, Portugal
Member since December 6, 2019
Chad is a seasoned and certified IT professional with a successful career in meeting business goals with well-designed IT solutions in a wide range of environments and technologies. He has a proven track record of performance in the analysis, design, configuration, testing, and maintenance of IT systems to ensure optimal operational performance and a proven record of success—reducing downtime, saving costs, and improving customer satisfaction.
J. is now available for hire
Project Highlights
- Implemented the first of the eCommerce checkout site localization expansion, starting with the Americas and EU.
- Managed the migration of 104 application builds for internal operations management into a standardized and supportable team.
Expertise
- Agile Project Management
- Banking & Finance
- Google Docs
- Google Sheets
- IT Projects
- Jira
- Project Management
- Scrum
Education
- University of Virginia
Select Certifications
- Scrum Alliance
Employment
Project History
- eCommerce Site Localization EffortImplemented the first of the eCommerce checkout site localization expansion, starting with the Americas and EU.
This major eCommerce retail site had a global footprint, but did not have an integrated localization component—each region and language was specifically delivered via hard-coded content.
This project's goal was to upgrade the checkout experience to first enable localization using content delivery networks and then to implement (and enable) each subsequent language and country. - Internal System and Tools Consolidation EffortManaged the migration of 104 application builds for internal operations management into a standardized and supportable team.
Within a major financial services company, I was responsible for the consolidation of 104 disparate applications into a standard level of documentation, security, technology stack, and support management approach.
This set of systems was then managed by me and my team over a 1.5-year period over which we reduced problem tickets from 1,270/year to under 300/year.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Commerce1997 - 1999University of Virginia - Charlottesville, VA, USA
Certifications
- Certified Scrum MasterMAY 2019 - MAY 2021Scrum Alliance
