Agile Consultant and Project Manager at BigVisible Solutions
Greater Boston Area
Agile Consultant and Project Manager at BigVisible Solutions
Greater Boston Area
I am presently working as an Agile Software Development Coach and Scrum Master to large organizations. A project manager and systems analyst with experience working in IT projects for financial companies using agile, waterfall and various hybrid methodologies. I am continually seeking opportunities to gain more insights into the field of IT project management and the interrelated organizational dynamics that lead to project success.
Web development technologies with a Java focus, Rich Internet Applications, process improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma, RUP, Agile and Scrum.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; FMR; Financial Services industry)
June 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 1 month)
I am worked as a lead analyst and project manager for an agile development team building Flex-based web applications. My responsibilities include managing the scope of a release, drafting user stories, coordinating validation with the QA team, supporting the development team during iterations and serving as scrum master.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Worked through Leapfrog Systems as a full-time consultant in the Fidelity Web Technology Group.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IFIN; Investment Management industry)
August 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 11 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Banking industry)
June 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 3 months)
This position was a team lead overseeing a team of between four and ten people depending on the phase of the project. I was responsible for managing the IT component of Corporate Intranet development projects and worked with a peer "business PM" to jointly run projects. My primary project during this period was the "Portal In A Box" initiative, where we implemented an enterprise system to quickly and cheaply launch internal websites replacing legacy sites developed in an ad hoc manner by individual business units.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FBF; Banking industry)
August 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 10 months)
I served in a rotational leadership development program through out the FleetBoston Financial Technology & Operations organization. The specific positions included: web development with the Corporate Intranet team, leading a Six Sigma process improvement team with the Statement Printing group, implementing java applications for the Internal Audit team, and managing firewall and network access between FleetBoston Financial and Bank of America during the integration of the two banks' IT systems.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2001 — May 2002 (10 months)
I worked as a lead developer at the technology startup eGlean, an analytics company building tools to support the health care, financial and legal industry. My role was as the lead developer of the "Legal55" system, a time tracking tool that would quietly collect information based on user activity on a computer and then log that time to various matters and clients. As a small company, I was responsible for front end development but as the product matured I oversaw the efforts of two other team members to build out the client side components of this application.
MBA , 2006 — 2008
Concentration in organizational dynamics and change management
CIS , 1998 — 2002
Agile software development
Project Management Institute, Delta Sigma Pi
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Banking Administration Institute (BAI) School of Technology & Operations
Sun Certified Java Programmer (J2EE 1.4)
Sun Certified Java Web Component Developer (SCWCD 1.4)