Jim Foster Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Florida, United States

- Led 8 scaled teams, overseeing their achievements. Oversaw and mentored Scrum Masters.- Collaborated with both upper management and team members to establish cross functional teams. Product cloud development encompassed (AI) predictive analytics for financial accounts, customer website, and Azure DevOps architecture. JIRA- Established a strategic planning team; prioritized product features for 8 teams using WSJF method, ensuring resources were in alignment with the organization's OKRs.- Led in the implementation of the scaled SAFe framework. Trained teams on SAFe events. Facilitated Scrum of Scrums.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Led a team involved in the development of web-based solutions for sales, delivery, and inventory management.- Coached product owners with their role which encompassed utilizing concise Jira stories, planning product road maps, and prioritizing stakeholder requests to support their business value streams.- Led a team involved in the development of an machine learning (ML) project estimated to save the company $3 million annually in machine maintenance expenses.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Taught alignment of corporate KPIs with high value product features; successfully supported application used for recovering $500 million from our providers.- Product owner of creating an automation product that led to savings exceeding $8 million and an 85% increase in the quality of work. Supported 25 business lines across the nation.- Spearheaded the transition of waterfall projects into Agile frameworks by introducing product backlogs, work item boards, short releases, and team inspect and adapt meetings.

- Managed end to end delivery of new products\tools that enhanced the customer relationship and increased the operational efficiency.- Collaborated with 20+ departments in the incremental creation of a corporate enterprise website product used in tracking the workflow of customer disputes. - Designed and incrementally created a product to measure the accuracy of contract price updates resulting in a 35% increase in the accuracy.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Worked enhancements to their ECommerce website.

Oldsmar

Senior developer for maintaining a web application for a customer order system.

Marketing

Information Systems Management