Anna Nash Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Manage professional services engagements for the Americas.

Greater New York City Area

Express Scripts (Express Scripts & Medco Merger) Directed Agile SDLC Scrum and Scrum of Scrum activities across Business and Technical staff in a multi-geographic team;Managed $1.5M monthly financials for IBM and multi vendors (balanced business requirements forecast, resource loading, and led all ROM and LOE sessions):Managed project risk in an ambiguous, dynamic environment with multiple rolling over-lapping monthly Release deadlines by facilitating daily team sessions to: facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives and meetings with stakeholders,identify integration points and dependencies across project portfolio;Coached and shielded the geo-disbursed, multi-vendor team from interruptions/interference so they could focus on backlog and timeline;Worked closely with release management to insure continuous delivery of features,mentor and support the transition from Waterfall to Agile Methodology/Framework within the team and client stakeholders;Developed daily metrics for status reporting, issues tracking, and,insure team’s adherence with HIPAA and changes in the Affordable Healthcare.

Edison, Nj

Provided oversight of Microsoft SharePoint Technical Consulting Services, including AVAcorp’s proprietary SharePoint Frameworks for Banking Relationship Management, Collaboration and Corporate reputation monitoring on Social Media for this Start-up. Led entire business development cycle from pre-sales through delivery process. Developed joint opportunity Strategic Partnerships with Microsoft, Volt, and Informatica.Performed Trend, Gap and Competitive Analyses to create Offerings.Facilitated JAD sessions with clients and internal team members.Led all assessment phase activities, gathering critical customer requirements and performing document analysis, requirements workshops, business process mapping, use cases, scenarios, business analysis and task/workflow analysis. Co-authored Business Requirements Specifications (BRS), Use Cases, and Wireframes. Led client sales activities, creating sales proposals, responses to RFIs/RFPs, and SOWs, Recruited, vetted, and on-boarded consultants based on project and forecast requirements.

New York, Ny

Responsible for growing key accounts in the Financial Services sector (Insurance/Banking) by forging excellent client relationships and exceeding expectation in client satisfaction: Developed RFI / RFP responses, SOWs and provided delivery oversight of project portfolio.Developed trusted partnerships with client executives aimed at addressing and meeting their myriad corporate goals and initiatives.Developed strategic partnership alliances with vendors to develop end-to-end solutions.Provided leadership to Solution, Technical and Data Architects, driving project objectives to insure proper alignment between client requirements and development team’s deliverables.Managed scope, budget, staffing, change requests and Executive Team status reporting.Managed all project financials, P&L, and related analysis of project profitability.

Purchase, Ny

Responsible for developing strategy and implementing web-based Sales and Marketing capabilities for front-line users.Deployed and leveraged ePIX (electronic PepsiCo Information Exchange) to improve field sales force data access capabilities resulting in sales productivity increases by 25% over previous methods..Led JAD sessions for the web-based Pepsi-Wal-Mart Sales Reporting Application using Business Objects (BI/OLAP tool) to mine Wal-Mart’s Retail Link point-of-sale data to create standardized and ad hoc reports, historical analyses, and corporate scorecards.Defined, designed and delivered business-enabling technology solutions for key stakeholders in Sales and Marketing through gathering critical requirements and determining gaps.Developed capability for field sales force to access ePIX, Sal-Mart Sales Reporting Application, Syndicated Data, and other Web-based applications in the corporate network using high speed cable/DSL via VPN, thus replacing inefficient ‘dial-up’ to download reports, scorecards and other key documents.

New York, Ny

Led, planned, managed, and tracked all project deliverables, goals and milestones.. Engaged with various stakeholders on a daily basis and adjusted project plans and resources accordingly.Led and facilitated daily meetings with the project team to:- Provide oversight, direction, and maintain team morale in a collaborative environment- Insure that proper resources were assigned and fully engaged and adjusted as warranted - Assess project risk and develop and enable contingency plans as warranted- Manage all communications between Engagement Team and key clients to effectively monitor business impacts across project portfolios’ scope, budget, resources and related risks- Insure that Run Books and relevant documentation were produced and updated.

New York, Ny

Managed AIG’s account activity, domestic brokerage accounting and on-line sales applicationsIdentified, scoped, and prioritized enhancement opportunities to secure funding and accomplish the enterprise’s goals and objectives.

New York, Ny

Managed and redesigned the Legal Compliance System and Project Accounting Control Environment application.

New York, Ny

New York, Ny

Fasttrac(R) New Venture Program, Entrepreneurship

Computer Science

B.A., Economics