Mark Liquori

About Mark Liquori

I am an experienced, hands-on, collaborative, people-driven leader who has the skills to effectively drive progress toward your organization’s ambitious and technically challenging objectives. I build strong relationships with my teams and peers alike and am a solid communicator. In my 30 years in Information Technology, I have advanced through progressively challenging roles serving as a Director, Technical Project Manager, Enterprise/Solutions Architect, Technical Lead, Lead Developer, Systems Architect and Data Architect, among others. I possess the following:• Strong analytical, problem solving, troubleshooting, and leadership skills.• Strategic thinker and customer-focused IT planner. • Effective team builder with solid technical skills and high impact written and oral communication skills.• Experience translating business requirements into operational systems.• Experience capturing existing, and establishing future, application standards.• Ability to define/create system and application flows which showcase user/system interaction.• Ability to define/create product workbooks which provide insight into how the product interacts with the systems/services.• Experience with the definition/creation of document templates which can be utilized throughout the organization.• Experience with creation of change request documents which establish a standard protocol, identify impact/risks/costs for the effort, and provide a sign-off process.• Experience working directly with end users to create workflow and requirement documents and created functional specifications from these documents for development teams.• Ability to bring highly complex technical knowledge up to a consumable level for clients.• Ability to drill down deep to discuss complex technical knowledge with developers and other technical staff.• Experience performing hands on work, as well as mentoring and leading teams in delivering software projects, at the data and applications levels.• Experience in leading teams and/or managing workloads for IT team members.• Professional Director level experience in an enterprise environment.

Experience

1. Senior Project Manager

   UST

   Oct 2023 — Present · Myrtle Beach, SC, US

   As a Senior Project Manager, plans, manages and delivers distinct projects through all specific phases, in alignment with business and / or enterprise strategies. Provides leadership, direction and coaching to teams(s) while partnering with business and executive stakeholders within a single or across multiple Lines of Business (LoB).Additional Responsibilities include:• Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, grooming, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings• Understands Testing processes and development platforms for high-level IT Enterprise systems• Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress• Assist technical team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition• Collaborating with team, developing, and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices, including working agreements and definition of done• Identifying and removing impediments and preventing distractions• Maintaining process documentation, reports and applicable dashboards in either TFS or JIRA• Serving as an Agile coach within the organization, while implementing and socializing scrum to newly formed teams• Providing coaching and direction to team members• Organizing and facilitating team interactions with other departments and vendors who do not practice scrum to deliver products on time• Assisting with backlog maintenance, leading the team through long-term roadmap exercises, forecasting long-term project deliverables• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and broadcasting information, as needed• Project Planning, including development of a project plan• Documenting project scope, budget, schedule, and organizational objectives

Education

• Rutgers University - Camden

  BA Computer Science, Computer Science, Mathematics

  1987 — 1994

Skills

• Microsoft Sql Server
• T-Sql
• Sdlc
• Enterprise Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Business Intelligence
• Software Project Management
• Sql
• Business Analysis
• Ssis
• Ssrs
• Data Integration
• Soa
• Javascript
• Html
• .net
• Sharepoint
• Asp.net
• C#
• Oracle
• Asp
• Vb.net
• Visual Basic
• Software Development
• Integration
• Etl
• Iis
• Data Modeling
• Requirements Gathering
• Data Warehousing
• Business Process
• Databases
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)