Sr. Technical Program Manager - Battle Road Digital - Birmingham, AL (Remote)
(2025-01 - 2026-01)
- Established and led the program management function for a $14M U.S. Army software modernization program in a highly secure environment, leading its Agile delivery model, governance, planning, and reporting practices.
- Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and SAFe planning for cross-functional teams.
- Synchronized sprint schedules across teams with the greater program release calendar.
- Partnered with product and technical leads to translate operational needs into a prioritized backlog, clarify requirements, and sequence work.
- Managed scope, milestones, risks, issues, and dependencies across internal teams, government stakeholders, and delivery partners.
- Removed blockers and used team feedback to improve workflows, accountability, and delivery efficiency.
PMO Director - Diversified Energy - Birmingham, AL (Hybrid)
(2023-01 - 2025-01)
- Established and led the Technical PMO for a $2B+ public energy company operating in a SOX-regulated environment.
- Led Scrum adoption across multiple technical teams, initially serving as Scrum Master before transitioning ownership to team leads.
- Using Smartsheet, I coached team leads on backlog management, sprint planning, retrospectives, and capacity planning.
- Used velocity and capacity data to improve delivery performance, enabling a 190% increase in IT headcount and 300% increase in capital investment.
- Implemented quarterly roadmap prioritization and a structured intake process for the IT organization.
- Delivered a ServiceNow Demand Management solution integrated with Snowflake, improving demand, capacity, and portfolio visibility.
- Chaired executive intake and steering committees to review delivery health, resolve blockers, and align cross-functional execution.
Technical Program Manager, Cybersecurity - Shipt, Inc. - Birmingham, AL (Remote)
(2021-01 - 2023-01)
- Established the program management function across Cloud Security, Application Security, Security Operations, and GRC.
- Standardized Agile delivery through shared sprint cadences, backlog practices, and tool standards.
- Led the infrastructure modernization program, managing scope, milestones, and dependencies across new authentication services, service mesh, and web application firewall projects.
- Chaired cross-functional steering committees to escalate risks, resolve dependencies, and maintain delivery progress.
- Led annual penetration testing, expanding test scope and establishing vulnerability-remediation standards across the technical organization.
Sr. Project Manager - Protective Life Corp. - Birmingham, AL (On-site & Remote)
(2018-01 - 2021-01)
- Managed full-lifecycle regulatory, risk, and transformation projects for a $124B financial services company.
- Led SAFe PI Planning across 20–30 contributors from Legal, Finance, Risk, Actuarial, Product, and Infrastructure.
- Led the NACHA compliance project to secure customer ACH account data across business and technology systems.
- Led the LIBOR-to-SOFR transition project to replace the discontinued benchmark rate across affected products, contracts, and systems.
- Led SSN and PII risk-reduction projects to limit exposure of sensitive customer data across systems and business workflows.
- Led the CPRA compliance project to implement expanded consumer privacy rights across customer interfaces, workflows, and processes.
- Managed M&A integration projects to transition acquired data, platforms, and operations into Protective's environment.
Sr. Project Manager - DirectPath Health - Birmingham, AL
(2013-01 - 2018-01)
- Established the project management function in a HIPAA-regulated healthcare environment.
- Led a HIPAA-compliant cloud migration to improve security, reliability, and scalability.
- Led Salesforce, SharePoint Online, VoIP, and HRIS projects to modernize business operations.
- Served as Product Owner for enterprise applications, managing requirements, backlog priorities, and user adoption.
- Built intake and governance processes to improve prioritization, forecasting, and delivery consistency.
- Managed M&A integrations spanning data migration, platform transitions, and business handoffs.
Construction Project Manager - Various
(2004-01 - 2013-01)
Construction Project Manager overseeing $10M+ commercial builds with full lifecycle responsibility—hiring, scheduling, cost control, vendor oversight, and stakeholder coordination.
