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New York, Ny, Us

Beaverton, Oregon, Us

● Performed JQL queries to provide detailed dashboard views of project status and used same to document upcoming release readiness● Took on role of project manager, providing timelines and guiding project to closure● Analyzed Agile team structure and workflow for major insurance company to determine biggest detrimentspreventing users from realizing benefits of development work● Lead Agile ceremonies for global development team across time zones, including designers on Pacific time and developers in India● Collaborated with design team in analysis of current vs. future state to determine best steps for incremental change in the application

New York, Ny, Us

● Drive Waterfall to Agile transformation in development team by serving as the Scrum Master, running Agile ceremonies and improving the team’s adherence to Agile principles● Establish multi-team build process to elimnate delays, refine QA testing in UAT; plus provide a forum for build retrospective to continually refine the process● Collaborate with stakeholders, design team and technical team to mold requirements to clear and concise user stories

Atlanta, Ga, Us

● Advised fellow business analysts who are new to Agile on how to most efficiently and effectively use TFS (Agile project management software) and how to adapt Waterfall practices to Agile● Collaborated with QA lead to write concise, complete and testable acceptance criteria● Established team-wide process improvements to reduce instances of rework and unclear,inconsistent supporting documentation● Accelerated department-wide Waterfall to Agile transformation by serving as a key member ofthe Agile team charged with advising developers and management on key Agile practices● Lead several tiers of an accounting transformation project, quickly mastering new accounting concepts and company procedures

New York, Ny, Us

● Implemented Agile across all development projects, educating team members and clients about the principles of Agile and ensuring all aspects of the process and ceremonies are upheld● Automated daily manual data collection project by writing Python scripts to scrape telecom data into a MySQL database, cutting the cost of the project by 50% and improving the quality of the data collected● Analyzed telecom pricing data collected by development team to verify advertising tactics of clients’ competitors and track trends in the mobile market● Wrote SQL queries to support research projects and to provide clients with custom data from the historical database● Collaborated with development team to design a robust quality control system to decrease the instance of errors in data obtained from web scrapers

Hawthorne, New Jersey, Us

● Lead the company successfully through two food safety audits● Rewrote food safety and manufacturing procedures to comply with the latest food safetystandards● Designed and implemented a system of internal audits, traceability exercises, site standard andprocedural reviews to evaluate effectiveness of company culture, training and procedures

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

● Maintained database for Manhattan real estate data to determine base cost for land by neighborhood● Wrote scripts in R to check data quality and analyze pricing trends using regression analysis

New York, Ny, Us

Master Of Arts - Ma, Economics

Non-Matriculating Student, Economics, Calculus, Statistics

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science, Spanish

Semester Abroad, Spanish Language And Literature

Semester Program, Foreign Policy