Steve Force

Professional IT Sr. Technical Project Manager

Summary

Steve Force is a Senior Technical Project Manager/Certified ScrumMaster with over 30 years of progressive experience leading global business IT–enabled initiatives.  He has led multiple engagements in multiple industry domains with cutting edge technology profiles in Microsoft .NET, JAVA, J2EE, and IBM mainframe platforms with multiple roles and responsibilities.  He has many years of applied SDLC, waterfall, AGILE (scrum), and XP methodology-driven initiative experience.

 His market focus ranges from companies ranging from $500,000 annual sales up to (and including) many Fortune 500 (several in the top 10) and his market sectors include High Technology, Finance, Banking, Manufacturing, Automotive, Retail, Health care/services, Education, Government, Energy, and more. His market location is global and local (US, Canada, Europe, and more.)

He earned the PMI PMP in 2002 and is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Six Sigma Green Belt, Lean Six Sigma/DFSS, and is ITIL V3 certified as well. He is familiar with various modeling tools and techniques and uses them when required. These include RUP, VISIO, UML, and Model-Driven.

 Steve has authored and published over 25 internationally distributed IT and technology-related articles, including in the July 2004 edition of Business Integration Journal (article on project portfolio management. Read here: Page1, Page 2.)

Steve has worked for and with many world-class organizations, including as a Managing Consultant for Microsoft Germany and a Senior Consultant for Microsoft Corp, as well as Project Management/technical consulting for companies like EDS, HP, IBM, and more.

He has 10 years of European IT experience and speaks German.

Steve Force is a proud US Air Force veteran, where he was an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technician.

 

Professional Affiliations & Certification Validations

PMP PMI PMP Registry  PMP Certificate

Certified Scrummaster ScrumAlliance.org registry Certified ScrumMaster Certificate

Six Sigma Green Belt Six Sigma GreenBelt certificate

Six Sigma Lean & DFSS Six Sigma Lean/DFSS certificate

Microsoft MCTS: SharePoint 2007 MCTS MOSS certificate

 


At a Glance:

Steve Force, Technical Project Manager

  • Over 30 years IT Experience
  • International PM Experience
  • BS, MBA degrees
  • PMI PMP (2002)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • MCSE/MCT
  • MCTS
  • Six Sigma Green Belt
  • Lean Six Sigma/DFSS
  • ITIL V3