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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Edmonton, Canada Area

Edmonton, Canada Area

PRODUCT ROADMAP DEVELOPMENT• Identify and prioritize product map development needs while working in a fast-paced environment. • Design and implement a centralized information portal for one of the largest shipowners in the world. PRODUCT DELIVERY• Identify prospective product needs and updates through comprehensive user surveys. • Manage stakeholder expectations through continuous communication and status reporting. PRODUCT FEATURES• Generate frameworks for acceptance testing by detailing acceptance criteria for each story.• Develop estimates by conducting sprint planning ceremonies using T-shirt sizing and planning poker. PRODUCT OPTIMIZATION• Facilitate the entire end-to-end product lifecycle. • Manage and provide best practices for a variety of CoPs, including reusability, value/metrics and feedback, marketing and communications, ways of working, enablement, internal support, etc.SCRUM TEAM MANAGEMENT• Collaborated across a wide array of stakeholders, including developers, UX/UI designers, platform operations, architects, information security, and subject-matter experts. • Liaise between business and technical teams, working to bridge communication and advance common goals. 12-WEEK INITIATIVE• Define and validate MVP applications in collaboration with various stakeholder groups. • Execute the direction of delivery success story videos that are disseminated to senior leadership.LIVE USER GROUP MEETINGS• Co-organize the Edmonton OutSystems User Group, working to build the community from the ground up. • Host user group events with hundreds of people in attendance.

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Led a group of nine within the Organization Profile team, transforming it by coaching the team on Scrum and Agile best practices.• Oversaw and managed all product backlogs for three enterprise scale post-secondary data applications. • Collaborated with and instructed 14 business stakeholders on the process to attain maximum business value.• Coordinated and orchestrated in-depth learning workshops for 50+ IT staff on best practices for utilizing a consistent Agile delivery approach.• Co-created a specialized squad formed to rapidly deliver high-value MVPs to business.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Managed the product backlog for the Provider and Program Registries System (PAPRS), Private-I (PI) and the Student Aid Eligible Provider Search project for Alberta Advanced Education using Agile methodologies. Performed in the role of Product Owner and team lead. Primary responsibilities included managing a team of individual contractors, supporting a complex governance of stakeholders, leading Agile coaching sessions and delivering complex technical solutions using a five levels of planning Agile approach.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Positioned as a technical manager overseeing a team of six developers and ledmultiple concurrent projects in an information and communications technology(ICT) environment. Projects include ATB Online Cash Management, ATB OnlineProduct Rationalization and ATB Online Operations. Primary responsibilitiesincluded managing a team of developers, supporting quality assurance testing,facilitating estimation sessions and delivering complex financial solutions acrossmultiple technical environments.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Managed the scope, schedule and budget for the Provider and Program Registries System (PAPRS) and Private-I (PI) for Advanced Education. Primary responsibilities include managing a small team of individual contractors, supporting a complex governance of stakeholders, facilitating working and steering committee meetings and delivering complex technical solutions using SDLC best practices.

Edmonton

Edmonton, Canada Area

Developing and maintaining internal adjudication forms and reports.Positioned for VBA development and support on a reporting project for Alberta Blue Cross. Responsibilities included developing, maintaining, and testing VBA scripts. Developed, tested, maintained and designed user forms using Microsoft Word and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)Provided reporting services for clients which included detailed reports on benefit plan information and administrative informationSpecific technologies utilized: VBA

Maintaining a large scale government web project)Positioned for .NET development and maintenance on the Students Finance System (SFS) for Alberta Advanced Education. Primary responsibilities include developing, maintaining, and unit testing internally developed applications used by clients. Other responsibilities include developing and improving the current budgeting processes and tools each year as well as providing technical leadership to less experienced developers. Worked on a team of about 20 developers and testers on a client site where exceptional client interaction was a necessity.Developed, tested, maintained and helped design a high profile financial disbursing process using Microsoft development toolsDisplayed technical leadership on yearly roll-over projects for the Students Finance System as well as provided technical expertise on several high profile budgeting projectsAssessed client requirements and provided estimates on units of workDesigned, developed, maintained, tested and implemented a comparison utility that reduced system downtime and enhanced the clients system experienceCollaborated with my development team by assisting with system testingProvided technical training and mentoring for junior developersIncreased performance on a budgeting process by reducing the processing time from 45 hours to 4 hoursAssisted with configuration management which included helping configure our continuous integration servers as well as setting up new test environmentsDeveloped year over year changes to the Students Finance System from 2006 until 2010Actively involved in writing unit tests that provide high coverage of code throughout the financial disbursement codeCreated customized utilities to sort XML files and provide reports from those XML files for the usersSpecific technologies utilized: VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2005, NUnit, TestDriven.NET, CruiseControl.net, ReSharper and CSS