Sierra Systems Work Values

Daily Duties at Sierra Systems:

Program Manager OMNI Project, Department of Corrections Olympia WA Jan 2006 to Mar 2007 (Peak Team size 50, Value $15 million) • Helped transition the troubled project from IBM and create multiple quick wins • Lead redesign exercise involving case management and records management. • Used parallel design and development scrums to ensure continuous communication between offshore and on-site teams • Developed and refined use cases, as-is and to-be process models, documented high level designs for the UI and logical models • Managed the overall data architecture of the project • Followed Agile SCRUM methodology to deliver incremental releases. • Provided creative redesigns to control scope and size of the project. • Planned, controlled and reported progress to working and steering committee Tools & Technology: J2EE, DB2, WebSphere portal, Visio, MS Project, SCRUM Project Manager, Electronic Court Records, King County, Seattle WA Sep 2005 to August 2006 (Team size 12, Value $2.2 million) • Electronic Court Records solution received “INNOVATIONS IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AWARD” for 2007 • This project involves development of document management solution for the electronic filing, processing, and viewing court cases. • Actively managed expectations and re-built the application from a near cancellation situation and delivered the benefits in 6 months • The project followed a SCRUM methodology to iteratively and empirically deliver business value. The tight control of SCRUM methodology allowed us to deliver this solution on a fixed cost and duration. • Developed a SaaS model to deliver the product features to other district courts • Managed the maintenance and support for the modules of e-filing and record processing which are currently in production. Tools & Technology: Microsoft VB.Net, Enterprise Architect, NUnit, ACT Program Manager, Registry Common Services, Edmonton, AB January 2004 to August 2005 (Peak Team size 25, Value $2.5 million) • Successfully implemented Ivar Jacobsen’s Reuse model in the system of interconnected systems paradigm using classic RUP development model • Project involved development of enterprise reusable common services to support a legacy renewal project with a budget of 200 million over 7 years • Managed development and transition of 8 common services to be reused by 4 application systems built by independent vendors • Created release plans managed two major releases a year and a few minor releases • Managing the expectations of the application teams and diverse stakeholder groups Tools &Technology: Microsoft .Net, C#, Service oriented architecture, complete rational toolset, Application Center Test

What they like about Sierra Systems:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

Agile, SCRUM, PMP, ITIL, RUP, Banking, Green Card, WCF, Silverlight, J2EE

Skills

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Sierra Systems: