Amanda Scott, Ssm Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMOverseeing 31 Agile Release Trains as the right hand of the Solution Train Engineer. | Coordinating and facilitating Program Increment Planning and Program Syncs. | Monitoring progress and advising Program Leadership with insights to ensure successful delivery. | Identified an opportunity to enhance PI Planning by introducing a new tool, and led it's implementation, which significantly improved efficiency and provided leadership with valuable, actionable insights.WORKDAY IMPLEMENTATIONLed SAFe® Team Events at both the Scrum Team and the Agile Release Train level. Led product backlog refinement and work planning. | While leading a team of business analysts, supported and helped to lead successful rollouts that have impacted over 37,000 employees across 11 countries in FY23. | Facilitated key meetings with business stakeholders, including project kick-off calls, requirements gathering sessions, and user acceptance testing. | Worked closely with the Product Owner to validate work products against requirements, including technical solutions and stakeholder facing documentation.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

WORKDAY IMPLEMENTATIONImplemented agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective and demo) within the scrum team, including creation of materials and facilitation of meetings. | Supported the Agile Release Train through KT on agile processes and providing guidance across scrum teams. | Led routine agile ceremonies including sprint planning, Scrum of Scrums, backlog refinement, standups & retrospectives. Also led prep for Program Increment Planning.SAP IMPLEMENTATIONLed exercise with functional and development team leads to identify complex dependencies for build and testing. Developed a detailed build schedule and guided and supported replanning efforts with development teams to respond to changes in the project. | Supported client account planning exercises by conducting research on the client and environment, and synthesizing and presenting findings to senior management. Leveraged insights gained from research to generate valuable account growth ideas.

Montreal, Canada Area

Led a project to build a dashboard to identify opportunities for cost savings across the firm’s tech products. | Defined requirements for the dashboard, identified product levers and created mockups.

Ottawa, Canada Area

IT OUTSOURCING PROGRAM: CISCO UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER (CUCM) WALK-IN AND TAKEOVERBuilt and executed project plan, taking into account SOX Compliance and Change Management requirements | Collaborated with various teams to achieve project objectives including Service Vendors, HR, Quality Assurance, Operations, Security and Compliance, Vendor Management, and Solution Architecture.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Prepared and issued both Audit and Financial Capacity Building Activity mandates. | Received, analyzed, documented, and distributed completed Audit and Financial Capacity Building Reports from external auditors. | Analyzed and interpreted both financial and non-financial information collected for the preparation of files. | Managed the team's generic mailbox and responded to various inquiries and requests. | Organized preparatory meetings with external auditors and project officers. | Compiled necessary information to maintain the database facilitating the management and planning of the annual audit plan.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Identified ways to improve efficiency within the project reporting process and created an Excel-powered Dashboard solution in order to streamline processes and display key performance indicators. | Completed preliminary work for a project including scoping, requirements documentation, and scheduling. | Coordinated with the Project Manager, Business Analysts, and Communications Department in order to develop communications material for a company-wide initiative.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Supported Senior Program Officers in delivering a broad portfolio of programs offered by the Telfer School of Management including research, program set-up, and various administrative tasks. | Identified companies, organizations, and individuals to target for recruitment for programs in the health and technology sectors. | Reviewed and formatted marketing and program materials, and assisted in creating templates. | Helped with the set-up for programs hosted in the Executive Programs Office.

Moncton, New Brunswick

Provided customer service in both French and English, selling and promoting store merchandise while maintaining the organization of the store.