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Currently employed with Ciena as the Global Products Group Release Engineering Project Leader.

SUMMARY:
ScrumMaster and Agile Project Leader
Managed Win 7 and Linux Image Deployments
Leading the Lab Tools Development Team using Agile Sprints
Received Outstanding People Awards for Escrow and HW Tools Migration Projects
Received Velocity Award for enabling Wipro Contractor Tool Access
Awarded IS CIO Award for the Partner and Lead Initiatives Category.
Nominated for a Network Switching Award of Merit for management skills.

SKILLS: Escrow, Agile, ScrumMaster, Image Deployment, Maintenance Window Planning,
Service Delivery / Project Management, Customer Service, Network / Server Engineering and Lab Management, Software Design Environment and Design Tool Engineering and Management, Web Application Design and Data Management, Software Application Development, Process Creation, Documentation and Automation, ISO Certification Auditor, Business Continuity Planning, Business Cases and Operating Plans, Desktop Publishing and People Management.

HARDWARE: Linux / HP / SUN Workstations and Servers, Dell and Mac PCs, IBM mainframes.

SOFTWARE: Oracle SQL,Toad, JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, ClearCase, Livelink, UNIX, LINUX and Windows OS, Windows Applications (Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Project, Access DB), Object Oriented Programming (C, C++), Agile / Extreme Programming, PERL and HTML, Assembly Language and Mainframe Languages.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS: Experienced in Total Quality Management (TQM) principles, tools and processes including continuous improvement and root-cause analysis techniques (Six Sigma).
Experienced in finance and budget planning and tracking and Service Level Agreements.
Experienced in marketing concepts, presentations, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management, hiring / interviewing, coaching, teambuilding, and performance leadership.