David Winstead

About David Winstead

Effective professional dedicated to achieving strategic initiatives through innovation and team building. Easily adapt to changes in the work environment; multitask competing demands with minimal direction. Work closely with internal and external customers, inspiring trust. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Able to translate ideas and issues between the business and technical units. Specialties: Project Management ~ Requirements Gathering and Analysis ~ Process Planning ~ Quality Control ~ Risk Management ~ Time and Cost Estimates ~ Budgeting ~ Six Sigma ~ Metrics Collection and Analysis ~ Report Writing ~ Documentation ~ Software Architecture ~ OOP Design ~ Agile Software Development

Experience

1. Senior Project Manager

   Southwest Airlines

   Feb 2012 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Senior Project Manager - Senior Project Manager – Dot ComCoordinated 2 Java development teams, as well as teams from Mobile, Content Management, Amadeus, and Marketing stakeholders, to ensure all work packages, change requests, and integration tests were completed by the cutoff dates for the product launch of the international reservation system. Considered by Executive management as the smoothest launch in Southwest history. Organized a bi-monthly PM community of practice; worked with the Management sponsor to identify pain points; developed a charter outlining the vision and goals. Coached the development team into meeting all Sprint Commitments: trained Business Analysts to serve as the Proxy for the Agile Product Owner; increased the backlog grooming sessions by 150%; trained the team on how to split user stories in order to reduce sizing estimates by 50%.Scrum Coach - Executed Agile best practices to plan sprints and releases at a 90% statistical confidence level. Coached team members on task breakdown and estimation to promote commitments, transparency, and accountability. Trained and mentored business analysts to act as proxies for the product owners to reduce communication turnaround times. Implemented a checklist of inputs and deliverables combined with a RACI matrix; formally reviewed with responsible team members twice weekly. Collaborated with the planning team to create and deploy a granular roadmap to graphically represent sprint and release plans to promote more effective communications. Collaborated with the Release and QA leaders to create and implement a statistical calculator that estimates the number of test cases and resources needed. Organized a bi-monthly Scrum Master leadership meeting to define and measure quality pain points, and implement Agile best practices to improve release quality.

Education

• The University of Akron

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  1986 — 1991