Amanda Markivee Email & Phone Number

Michigan, United States

Sr Program Manager / Release Train Engineer & Scrum MasterSupport and provide servant leadership to Engineering teams by:* Leading program and project concept definition and execution in Engineering* Leading collaboration across organization boundaries to build end to end commercial solutions and Engineering capabilities* Helping to develop solution.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Position Summary:Acts as subject matter expert for a defined set of business problems, inside IT and as a focal point for business representatives to interact with and understand their needs and priorities of those.
• Primary duty includes the creation and ongoing maintenance and prioritization of the development team backlog as informed by business stakeholders and IT leadership
• Acts as organizational expert for a specified business space.
• Serves as daily contact with defined business stakeholders as well as the assigned development team.
• Communicates and explains changing priorities and their impact to the team.
• Ensures alignment of work being done to business objectives.

• Served multiple overlapping roles during this time:Scrum Master – Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
• Assumed Scrum Master role on existing multiple projects, facilitated ceremonies in two-week Scrum cadence with distributed & co-located teams, forecast project completion dates, and coached product owners on user story.
• Drove feature delivery end-to-end: gathering requirements, writing user stories, working with product designers on prototypes… Show more Served multiple overlapping roles during this time:Scrum Master – Apr 2016 - Apr.
• Drove feature delivery end-to-end: gathering requirements, writing user stories, working with product designers on prototypes, working with development and quality assurance teams to deliver a marketable product
• Supported improvement to team performance by reinforcing Agile Scrum practices, and focused on improving business value while managing and negotiating disparate business priorities
• Started concurrent project and spent substantial time with stakeholders gathering business needs, writing vertically sliced user stories focusing on INVEST criteria, refining user stories and presenting them to team.

Fenton, MO

• Handled adoption and implementation of enterprise-level software system, assigned to Product Owner role for future development in August of 2015
• Designed, created and managed SharePoint sites for UniGroup Logistics; planned and executed roll-out of SharePoint document management for transitioning departments. Trained 4 departments on SharePoint, created.

Fenton, MO

• Provided skilled administrative support to UniGroup Logistics Leaders (President, Vice President, Senior Directors, Directors) with a focus on time management and organization
• Created and revised systems and procedures by analyzing operating practices, record-keeping systems, forms control, office layout, and budgetary and personnel requirements and implementing changes
• Resolved administrative problems by coordinating preparation of reports, analyzing data, and identifying… Show more
• Resolved administrative problems by coordinating preparation of reports, analyzing data, and identifying solutions Show less

Greater St. Louis Area

• Reassigned to Northpark campus to provide leadership and strategic management to campus registrar team
• Instituted full in-house audit and improvement of student files, preventing numerous infractions during later audit by accreditation agency
• Managed registration, scheduling, and grades for 1400+ active students in a year-round 10-week Term cycle, necessitating weekend and evening overtime in order to meet deadlines
• Kept all records and confidential files for… Show more
• Kept all records and confidential files for active, dropped, and graduated students; Processing student withdrawals, non-attendance withdrawals, and cancelled classes
• Monitor Satisfactory Academic Progress and probation students

Greater St. Louis Area

• Supported and oversaw 31 registrars at 23 campuses
• Facilitated training on new and existing processes, procedures, policies and software; audited campus files and implemented necessary process changes to prevent future infractions
• Conceived and implemented automated calculation of Satisfactory Academic Progress within existing CampusVue higher education software, decreasing average calculation time by 60 hours per registrar per campus per year
• Help-desk, CampusVue… Show more
• Help-desk, CampusVue support
• Policy and procedure writing (cancel policy, campus transfer policy, transfer credit policy, section code policy, academic file policy, minimum attendance requirement, reentry procedure, transfer between programs.

L'Ecole Culinaire

• Registration, scheduling, and grades for 500+ active students
• Keep all records and confidential files for active, dropped, and graduated students
• Processing student withdrawals, non-attendance withdrawals, and cancelled classes
• Oversee coordination of Hepatitis A shots for all students
• Create and maintain archives and backup of all necessary miscellaneous records
• Daily phone calls, meetings, correspondence and counseling with students having… Show more

L'Ecole Culinaire

• Served as first point of contact for visitors and customers
• Provided assistance to individuals by handling inquiries
• Managed telecommunications and calendars
• Performed general clerical duties

Clayton, MO

• Hardware and software troubleshooting
• Help-desk operations
• Server installation, maintenance, and repair
• After-hours workstation updates
• Copier and printer installation, maintenance, and repair