Alison Steele Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Remote - Audubon, Pa

Functioned as both Scrum team Product Owner and manager of the Product Owner team.Intuitive manager with the ability to identify personality types and individual intrinsic motivators to assist team members in using their strengths to achieve their full potential.Created and continually refined company standards for Agile requirements, coaching Product Management team members on effective use of the Business Analyst mindset to elicit stakeholder feedback in the development of behavior driven user stories and use cases.Improved Product Team process flows by development and implementation of process maps that use stakeholder feedback to define goals, identify decision points, and resolve inefficiencies.Winner of peer nominated award: Coach of the Year 202315Five Manager Accelerate Training Program Certification

King Of Prussia, Pa

Scrum Master for multiple product development teams using Agile experience and emotional intelligence to guide and motivate teams to perform to their potential. Functioned as a servant leader, proactively identifying potential impediments and dependencies then initiating actions required to prevent blockers.Drove company scrum practice development by eliciting feedback from other scrum masters to use in development of effective, department wide, agile practices and training materials.Proficient administrator of Atlassian Jira Projects for the Product Department, adept at creating workflows and automations to reduce time spent creating Jira artifacts and to assist in enforcement of documentation standards and metric tracking.

Conshohocken, Pa

Served as Scrum Master for multiple cross-functional teams using servant leadership skills to remove blockers, facilitate scrum events, and drive successful sprint completion.Worked with Product Owners to set quarterly goals, manage dependencies, and ensure requirements were clearly communicated to engineering teams, facilitating effective build out of CRM related identity databases.Functioned as SAFe Release Train Engineer during quarterly program implement planning sessions, and led full company, onsite system demos and training.Lead an ongoing AWS cost reporting and management initiative, saving the company over 100k by effectively tracking utilization spikes and by identifying the need for reserved instance purchases.

King Of Prussia, Pa

Worked closely with Product Owners and Project Management leads to develop realistic product roadmaps, tracking tasks and resources using MS Gantt charts.Effective Business Analyst and Scrum Master for agile teams, serving as a proxy for Product Owners by translating business needs into user stories and driving timely delivery of product features.Managed a high-profile identity database project by using communication and documentation skills to coordinate cross team efforts to produce consolidated practitioner identity records. Planned and led QA efforts that ensured high quality identity resolution as multiple government and private data sources were linked and blended to create master records.

King Of Prussia, Pa

Collaborated with Product Owner to brainstorm new product features based on client feedback and documented the resulting requirements.Scheduled and led refinement meetings with the Scrum team to prepare and prioritize work, effectively driving incremental feature releases and delivering dynamic stakeholder demos.Led the globalization of the product by researching regulatory requirements and currency conversion tools then documented and prioritized work for the team to bring the global features to market.

Served as project manager for Internet-based medical claim data delivery application designed to support large multi-specialty medical provider groups. Developed training materials and trained both internal employees and medical provider groups (IPOs).

Blue Bell, Pa And Walnut Creek, Ca

Revised Medicare Capitation Payment system to produce consistent and accurate payments and improved communication with constituents, which resulted in decrease in provider grievances. Operated and maintained computer programs that generated medical provider capitation payments of $25M+ each month. Designed training program for Aetna U.S. Healthcare staff to demonstrate new mainframe-based service code and rate data system.

Bachelor'S Degree, Secondary Education/Mathematics

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Pure Mathematics

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