James Forbes

Scrum/Project/program management: managed hundreds of small to large projects under tight regulatory, quality, time, and budget constraints. Experienced in both Waterfall (Phase/Gate) & Agile/Scrum (JIRA, Release/Sprint planning, planning poker, daily scrums, backlog grooming, refinement, retrospectives), Code reviews, and continuous integration (CI).

Taught project management classes at M&T bank, Paychex, 2 Rochester colleges, and intense 5-day PMP exam "boot camps"​.

Software : Former UNIX developer then software staff manager for 13 direct & 20 off-shore (India/Russia) developers, 23 product lines, and 200+ customers. Experienced with SDLC life cycle (design, code, release management/source control, QA/product test, and 24x7 product support). Completed Nortel Network's Jr. & Sr. leadership. Excellent 360 degree feedback from subordinates, peers, customers, and executives.

Business: MBA Finance (valedictorian) - lead a pre-sales configuration team. Managed 25+ 3rd party vendors. Experienced with SCM, RFQs, POs, SLAs, SOWs, legal/contracts, and roadmaps. Proven record of continuous process improvements (CPI) and bottom line cost reductions, with a one-year cost saving of over $500K

Regulatory/Audit experience: US Navy/Defense, nuclear process control, telephony, banking, SOX, and PCI. Lean Six-Sigma and TSO-9001 quality/audit experience.

Network& Cyber Security: McAfee EPO, 802.1X, Cisco Identify Service Engine (ISE), guest wireless access, firewall, active-directory, Forcepoint/Websence proxy, Security Event and Incident Management (SEIM) cloud platform with Integration to Service Now (SNOW) ticket generation.

Training: college adjunct (52 undergraduate/graduate classes) : IT/MIS, ERP, Excel, Access, data communications, systems design, project management, operations management, international Business, and E-commerce. Delivered on-site and web-ex training classes. Delivered PMP on-boarding training at M&T bank and ACP/Agile exam classes at Paychex.

Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) Saint John Fisher College (1995 — 2001)
• graduate school Rochester Institute of Technology (1982 — 1985)
• Bachelor's degree State University of New York College at Oswego (1977 — 1979)
• Associate of Science (A.S.) Genesee Community College (1975 — 1977)

Companies

• Cybersecurity Project Manager banking (2021)
• Adjunct Instructor School of Business at St. John Fisher College (2000)
• Scrum Master Centene Corporation (2020 — 2021)
• Sr. Scrum Master / Project Manager L3Harris Technologies (2018 — 2020)
• Sr Project Manager Xerox (2018 — 2018)
• Cyber Security Conduent (2017 — 2018)
• Agile scrum master Paychex (2016 — 2017)
• Sr. Project Manager M&T Bank (2015 — 2016)
• Adjunct Professor, Information Technology Rochester Institute of Technology (2011 — 2015)