Byron Warmsley

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Loan Modernization Project • Serve as the primary liaison between USDA stakeholders and technical teams, translating complex business objectives into clear, actionable technical requirements. • Lead cross-functional collaboration by facilitating strategic discussions between business units, data teams, and engineering groups to ensure alignment and shared understanding. • Align product strategy with USDA mission goals, ensuring initiatives support long-term objectives, policy mandates, and performance metrics. • Conduct in-depth market research and competitive analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and risks that inform product roadmaps and innovation strategies. • Manage stakeholder engagement by setting clear expectations, providing regular updates, and ensuring transparency across all phases of the product lifecycle. • Champion agile methodologies and continuous improvement practices to enhance product delivery, user satisfaction, and operational efficiency. • Monitor product performance using data-driven insights to iterate on features, improve usability, and maximize impact.

• Managed a $2.5 Million budget and team of one administrative assistance, one software project manager, two CIPC analysts, two budget analyst, two solution architects, one business analyst while managing internal and external reporting/communications to key stakeholders. • Facilitated meetings with application owners, developers, analysts, and testing staff to determine business needs and functionalities desired for new or revised applications. • Held regular status meeting with the vendor, business, and technology teams to review and resolve issues to maintain the successful implementation of governance tasks. • Led IT Governance activities supporting the solution/system delivery lifecycle (SDLC) processes and services. • Analyzed user and organizational needs to determine functional and cross-functional requirements for IT Governance. • Defined and managed the details and changes of portfolio and project oversight functions and provided the guidance required by the appropriate portfolio, program, and project teams to implement them. • Established and implemented SOPs for key project-level Governance Framework subprocesses, such as project prioritization, change control, risk management, and reporting as appropriate and applicable to the Governance Framework. • Coordination and integration of multiple IT systems/subsystems into an operational unit, ensuring full functional and performance capabilities are achieved and retained. • Scheduled and facilitated Technical Review Boards (TRBs) to review project stage gate artifacts by critical partners. • Tailored project artifact and Governance requirements for Agile delivery projects • Supported project teams and addressed any questions regarding the Governance requirements and schedules. • Collaborated with SDLC leads from enterprise architecture, records management, security, and operations teams, SDLC waterfall and Agile project artifacts, to ensure the projects delivery quality and compliant products.

• ITSM specialist, with a focus on identification of service requirements for new or existing services, integration of services, and development of process maturity plans for services, organizational roadmap development, and service portfolio risk management. • Leads the Test Management Integrated Platform and Project Team (IPPT) that provides a forum for stakeholders to discuss proposed Quality Assurance services, processes, and policy initiatives to validate alignment of services to OCC’s business objectives. • Develops new services, communication plans for new services and service enhancements, and provides training on new services to stakeholders. • Works with Organizational Change Management to develop service business requirements, generate workflows, create support documentation, and facilitate approved changes to the IT Service Catalog (e.g. Proof of Concept and Early Adoption Frameworks and procedures). • Works with ServiceNow Team to streamline routing requests and build service catalog items for new and existing services. • Designs and documents communication plans for publicizing services on the IT Service Catalog and delivers training via “roadshows”, (e.g., the Test Management Framework and associated roadshows), to promote new services and frameworks and educate end users on their benefits. • Identifies, documents, and delivers service metrics in support of continuous service improvement and overall Service Catalog continuous process improvement. Create dashboards based upon these metrics.

• Managed budget and team of business analyst, system analyst, developers, testers and vendors while managing internal and external reporting/communications to key stakeholders. • Facilitated meetings with application owners, developers, analysts, and testing staff to determine business needs and functionalities desired for new or revised application. • Planned course of projects, including milestones, resources needed in the form of staff hours, budget, use of technology and tools and followed established project management methodology. • Held regular status meeting with the vendor, business, and technology teams to review and resolve issues to maintain the successful implementation of projects. • Responsible for managing the project scope and schedule. Insured all changes were documented and followed the change management process. • Ensured cross-team coordination and managed cross-team dependencies. • Documented, communicated, and received approval for changes to scope or functionalities. • Co-managed System Test and UAT tasks to include end-to-end testing of new revised business/vender processes. • Conducted project quality gate reviews with the PQO (Project Quality Office).

• Served as a Project Manager in support of data and new Infrastructure Initiatives by managing business analysts, system analysts, developers, data architects and vendors while managing internal and external reporting and communications to key stakeholders. • Facilitated meetings with application owners, developers, architects, analysts, and testing staff to determine business needs and functionalities desired for new or revised applications. • Planned course of large or complex projects (roadmaps/iteration plans), including milestones, resources needed in the form of staff hours, budget, use of technology and tools in a Scrum delivery environment. • Held regular status meetings with both the business and technology teams to review and resolve issues to maintain the successful implementation of projects. • Worked with COTS software for financial reporting, status, issue, risk, and project registration. • Co-managed the project scope and managed the schedule and budget and insured all changes were documented and followed the change management process. • Ensured cross-team coordination and managed cross-team dependencies. • Documented, communicated, and received approval for changes to scope or functionalities. • Co-managed System Test and UAT, to include end-to-end testing of new/revised business and vendor processes. • Conducted project quality/gate reviews with the PQO (Project Quality Office).

• Served as a Project Manager responsible for a portfolio of 75 assets (Single Family/Multi Family) in support of re-hosting/re-platforming legacy applications to SAS platform, retiring legacy applications. • Managed business analysts, system analysts, developers, SIT and UAT testers, and vendors. Managed internal and external reporting and communications to key stakeholders. • Initiated project kick-off and project registration meetings/activities. • Worked with business and technical managers to identify business/technical requirements. Facilitated meetings with developers, architects, analysts, and testing staff to determine LOEs. • Planned course of complex projects, including milestones, resources needed in the form of budget, use of technology and tools. • Worked in an Agile Scrum delivery environment. Coordinated all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC). • Participated in daily Scrum meetings, held regular status meetings with both the business and technology teams to review and resolve issues to maintain the successful implementation of projects. • Developed and maintained project scope, project schedules, and budgets. • Produced financial, status, issue, and risk reports. • Documented, communicated, and received approval for changes to scope or functionalities. • Managed System Test and UAT, to include end-to-end testing of new/revised business and vendor processes. • Conducted project quality/gate reviews with the PQO (Project Quality Office). • Initiated project deployment readiness review meetings and worked with developers to create deployment release notes.

• Served as a Senior Release Manager with a team of 4 Release Analysts managing a portfolio of over 55 Data Warehouse assets. • Revised the release management process in support of evolving SDLC and ITIL needs and to support an Agile framework. • Created release management plan, release project schedules, enterprise release calendars, release checklists, SLAs, and status reports. • Identified, documented, tracked, mitigated, and resolved release management related issues. • Worked with development, configuration management, and infrastructure teams to understand technical (component-level) structure of release, translate to deployable component set, and setup release within Fannie Mae’s deployment tool sets. • Validated release notes for: correctness, project scope, code set (baselines), server and target location. Posted and managed release notes and runbooks on the Release Management SharePoint site. • Created deployment tickets using COTS software (ClearQuest and ITSM Remedy) and solicited all necessary approvals prior to CAB. • Scheduled and facilitated pre-release meetings (lower environments) to brief stakeholders on release management process, identify major milestones, and discuss next steps. • Scheduled and facilitated pre-deploy meetings (lower environments) and Go/No-Go meetings (Production) to validate deliverables and confirm release entrance criteria prior to CAB meeting. • Ensured defects and enhancements were properly documented and communicated for each release deliverable. • Planed, executed, coordinated, and monitored release activities across SDLC organizational boundaries. • Deployed code set (baselines) to System Test, Acceptance, and Production environments using Fannie Mae’s deployment tool set. • Communicated status to stakeholders and escalated to management per accepted procedures and standards. • Conducted post deployment lessons learned meetings in support of process improvement.

• Senior Test Lead with a team of 14 SAP Test Specialists that supported the Army’s Global Combat Support System application. • Created and updated project plan, project schedules, EVM reports, weekly status reports, and metrics reports. • Held weekly team status meetings, managed team related action items and issues, and identified risks and developed mitigation strategies. • Facilitated weekly status meetings with Government representatives and worked with Government representatives to develop effective test strategies that included scenario, integration, regression, and test automation best practices. • Worked with cross-functional teams to develop software release and configuration management processes. • Authored Test Tool Trade Study to identify and evaluate automated testing tools and transport impact management tools. • Used HP Quality Center to develop training material for team members. • Used HP Quality Center to manage requirements, test case development, and test execution. • Performed V&V activities centered around calculating defect aging and closure rate statistics, test execution performance, gap analysis between test cases and Army functionality, developed requirements traceability matrix, and developed Defect Management Plan.

• Served as a Project Manager/Release Manager in support of managing the development and implementation of two Advanced Meter Infrastructure/software projects. • Worked with stakeholders to identify business and technical requirements. Managed the project scope and budget. • Implemented business processes and supporting information technology in coordination with meter and communications deployment. • Supported business design and PMO activities including corporate business process integration activities financial reporting, EVM reporting, SAP integration activities, integration with downstream programs. • Created and maintained integrated project plans, facilitated status meetings, submitted change requests, analyzed cross-team scheduling dependencies, and early identification of critical path and resource issues. • Managed System Test and UAT planning and execution activities, to include end-to-end testing of new and revised business processes, and supporting information technology, as well as vendor processes. • Managed development and quality assurance teams. Ensured delivery of process maps, functional specifications, architecture deliverables, technical specifications, and unit test results. • Supported test integration activities with other Edison initiatives such as ERP (SAP), Customer Strategy, etc. • Created weekly status reports through review and synthesis of individual team status reports and follow-ups with team managers. • Worked with staff and vendors (Itron, eMeter, IBM) to develop a test management process and then create a test plan.

• Served as Release Manager managing a portfolio of over 18 Multi-family and Data Warehouse assets. • Authored Released Management Plans, release calendars, release checklists, status reports, and performance metrics. • Coordinated with development teams to understand technical (component-level) structure of release and translated to deployable component set. • Coordinated release activities across organizational boundaries. • Planed, executed, and monitored complex release activities with SOX and other organizational policies and standardized procedures. • Used tools (Clearcase, Clearquest, and Remedy) to document and seek approvals for all release activities. • Coordinated with test teams to ensure defects and enhancements are properly documented and communicated for each release deliverable. • Facilitated Release Readiness Reviews (RRR) to validate deliverables and confirm release entrance criteria. • Facilitated meetings and conference calls with release stakeholders to get critical information or for seeking resolution to technical issues. • Communicated status to stakeholders and escalated to management per accepted procedures and standards.

• Managed a $6M/year contract to deliver Validation-level testing services on the Prescription Discount Drug Card Enrollment and Eligibility System. • Authored, managed, and monitored test plan, Risk Assessment Plan, project budget and schedule, test validation reports, defect tracking reports, and client status reports. • Managed and mentored 6 senior testers, performed employee reviews, and provided staff (testers and CMS Production team) with technical support to identify and resolve software related issues. • Performed quality assurance reviews on project deliverables (test plan, test cases, test results, test reports). • Established testing standards and guidelines, conducted 10 Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), executed 50 Validation-Level test scripts. • Oversaw weekly team meetings, 10 test case planning sessions, and 10 Validation-Level testing. • Attended Defect Review Board (DRB) meetings to ensure defects were properly documented and supported technical discussions. • Supported oral presentations to clients on project status.