David Fish

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.

Created a DevOps deployment process to push mobile application updates through testing services, such as Apple TestFlight and Google Testing, to production and release to the respective app stores. Implemented app build processes.

I identified appropriate cloud technologies for a mobile application that helps users manage family members' legal, health, and financial affairs. I chose and implemented cloud services for file and data storage, business logic implementation, and security. I oversaw the mobile application build and deployment process.

I implemented DevOps procedures for deploying the Black Wealth Data Center (BWDC) website in development, test, and production environments. I developed a Docker container deployment strategy to automate the build and deploy process.