I am a Program and Project Management expert, a reasonably sound Developer, a consulting Designer, a reluctant Artist, and an occasional writer of things Tech. I work primarily with Fortune 10 to Fortune 100 companies.
My projects have covered everything from application and hardware development, product and customer identification, research and development. Everything from ideation to finished process and procedural creation, training and adoption from development teams and corporate call centers to factory floor and back up to scrums and work teams identifying and defining objectives, key results, KPIs and must haves for C-level boardroom reporting presentations for executives, operations, logistics, vendors, stakeholders, and smiling users.
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RESUME DOWNLOADMy expertise is in Program and Project Management.
Tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA , or tools like SmartSheet or Power BI are interchangeable to me, I've worked with all of them and know how they work best with differing processes.
It is an understanding of Processes - Agile, Scrum, SAFe, LEAN, Waterfall, or hybrids of them, not Tools that use those processes that give the highest return on value.
Each process has its strengths, weaknesses, and proper applications for groups, teams, or at the organizational level.
Administration, Operations, Logistics, Design, and Development teams have different cadences, collaboration systems, tracking, and needs. Knowing how these work, and more importantly, working with each other, is the key to success .
When I began managing projects, Agile had not been created yet. You had groups out there – XP, RAD, and several methodologies- which had parts of what would, in time, […]
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