Alija Dzekic Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

• Led cross-functional teams as Scrum Master, defining project scopes and timelines, facilitating sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming, and daily stand-ups to achieve sprint objectives. • Leveraged SQL database expertise to construct ad-hoc queries and reports, enabling decision makers to understand production trends and identify growth opportunities.• Collaborated with business stakeholders to establish product vision and implementation through project engagement, and by creating effective user stories for scrum teams to implement.• Utilized visual reports and dashboards to help leadership make better decisions on development and implementation of project and process related changes and enhancements.• Led meetings and trainings to align business stakeholders on new system enhancements, facilitating productive discussions that resulted in the successful adoption of rolled out enhancements. • Conducted in-depth business needs analysis and formulated strategic recommendations to manage multiple projects with software development, Reporting and Analytics, and Data Warehouse groups. • Guided requirements definitions and business reviews resulting in development of new concepts, improved processes, implementation of new business rules, policies and enhancements.• Developed and presented business cases for new initiatives ensuring the programmed requirements will meet business requests and needs.• Championed customer needs by working closely with business partners to gather feedback and to prioritize projects resulting in improved satisfaction

• Partnered with business owners to understand new business opportunities and evaluated business requests to determine feasibility.• Evaluated and translated project specifications, business requirements and needs into detailed IT application and functional requirements.• Documented and coordinated changes and enhancements for user acceptance testing to ensure development objectives are accomplished.• Prepared overall project plan by incorporating costs and tasks from the various components resulting in a successful and timely project implementation.• Performed timely and accurate communication with project staff throughout the life cycle of the project.

• Solicited user requirements, analyzed business and IT options and considerations, anticipated business or system issues, and collected project time estimates.• Translated business requirements into test scripts, and executed tests in UAT environment against developed systems • Produced draft and final documentation of risk assessments, change requests, and operational procedures. • Prepared documentation and business justification including use cases, design documents, and project plans.• Reviewed test plans and scenarios to help ensure an accurate, effective product and system development.