Mick has over 20 years of experience as a project manager for system/software engineering and Information Technology development and management. He has been a Project Manager, Sr. Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Program Manager.
Mick has managed projects for Nintendo, Golf Digest, Discovery Network, National Storage Associates, Mahindra USA, United Healthcare, Johnson Controls, Scott & White, University of Texas, Texas State University, Mattress Firm, Firehouse Agency, Maggiano’s Little Italy, HCB Health, Convio, Texas D.P.S., Chili’s, Thyssen Krupp, Brinker International, Texas A&M University Kingsville, and more…
Professional Agile Leadership (PAL, PAL-EBM)
PAL I Certificate
PAL-EBD Certificate
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I & II)
PSM I Certificate
PSM II Certificate
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance Scrum Master Certification
Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)
PSPO Certificate
Certified Kanban Expert (Kanban-EXP)
Kanban-EXP Certificate
Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM)
SAFe 5 Certificate
Nexus Scaled Professional Scrum™ (SPS)
SPS Certificate
Contentful Certified Professional
Contentful Certificate
Role: Agile Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Agile, Scrum Agency: New Possibilities Managed major initiative to redevelop the NSA reservation and booking systems for NSA's over 1000 storage solution locations. The scope of the project was to replace an aging...
Role: Senior Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Agile, Scrum, EVM Primary project manager of a $2M development project for a top Japanese game company using Scrum and Agile Earned Value Management. Responsible for stakeholder assessments, reporting...
Role: Agile Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Agile, Scrum Agency: New Possibilities Implemented Agile project management methodology using Scrumban framework. Acted in the role of Scrum Master and Product Manager. Managed a large flagship project called "Hot...
Role: Senior Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Agile Hybrid Agency: Tangelo Ideas Senior Project manager for Drupal rebuild of Mahindra USA. The Company supplies tractors, cutters, box scrapers, blades, and other related equipment. Mahindra USA serves customers...
Role: Senior Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Agile, Scrum Agency: Pixeldust Project Manager of web application development for smartphone-enabled hearing device start-up. With over 36 million Americans experiencing some degree of hearing loss every year, it’s...
Role: Digital Experience, Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Waterfall Agency: Firehouse Firehouse needed bring Brinker International’s new Romano's Macaroni Grill's campaign to life. The project was to create a concept for Macaroni Grill’s new national Chef’s...
Role: Senior Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Scrum Agency: Door Number 3 The goal of the austinhumanesociety.org redesign was to increase user engagement and identify the organization online. The interactive experience created for the Austin Humane Society...
Role: Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Hybrid Agency: Firehouse Design and development of an interactive user interface for Sun Microsystem's sales force training collateral. As a follow-on project, Pixeldust was asked to design a set of product icons for Sun’s...
Role: Senior Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Hybrid Pixeldust was hired to build a website and a driving game to help kick off The State of Texas’ Registered Texan campaign. The campaign was designed to remind Texans to keep their vehicle registration...
Role: Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Hybrid Agency: GSD&M Managed development team for GSD&M campaign to develop a series of interactive advertisements and website features for the Whataburger. In the midst of a new product launch, Whataburger wanted...
Role: Senior Project Manager Methodology/Framework: Waterfall Agency: HC&B Health Managed project owned by HC&B Health, to rebuild the Scott & White Health Plan website on the Drupal platform. The site was a full departure from their existing proprietary...
Role: Project Manager Methodology: Waterfall Agency: Pixeldust and UT wanted to merge the Giving and Campaign sites into one comprehensive site that housed all the different schools of education and fundraising initiatives. Since UT provided the design, we got to...
While Scrum framework rules, events, and artifacts make the system work, it’s the tacit Agile concepts that really make it special. These are the ideals that can improve any area of a person’s life, which tells you that they must be on to something good.
The sharing of knowledge allows teams, projects, and organizations to improve cross-dicipline agility, improve efficiency, and prevent repeat mistakes. Break down the brain silos.
Coaching and facilitating emotional intelligence helps teams bond with stakeholders and each other for naturally efficient communication and collaboration.
Agile principles help organizations respond to complex and changing requirements quickly. In an increasing complex world, our greatest asset may be the ability to admit that we don’t know what will happen next.
The best way to create value more efficiently is by combining empiricism and new ideas. Facilitate growth of knowledge in resources with formal training through certifications or broader processes such as mentoring and research.
Projects are made up of individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, and ways of working. More often, team members are now based in different locations across the globe. Diversity can bring about higher performance through combined experiences and perspectives.
Nurture shared values among team members including a commitment to respect, transparency, collaboration, openness, trust, and honest communication for a deeper connection as people.
Sustainability balances the environmental, social, economic, and personal aspects of work/life. Gone are the days of redbull-driven 20 hour marathon coding sessions. We need to work in a way that is sustainable to facilitate creativity and the creation of real value.
Scrum is founded on lean thinking and empiricism. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making decisions based on what is observed. My management style embraces experience, adaptability, and analysis as our most powerful tools for productivity.
Bottom-up intelligence is about inspecting and adapting progress at the point where the skilled work is done, so empirical evidence can be quickly acted upon by development teams empowered to self-manage. I believe that the people doing the work know best and should make their own development choices.
The idea is to create a short feedback loop from the drawing board, to prototype, to client and back again. A short feedback loop allows for nimble teams to “fail fast” and get back on track with minimal time wasted. Fail fast to learn fast.
