Anna Slaughter Email & Phone Number

Millers Creek, Nc, Us

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Client: XPO Logistics, Inc.Project: Worldwide MigrationsClient: Lincoln Financial GroupProject: Elevation - Data Center Migrations

Adjunct professor teaching the following courses:Structure System Analysis and Design (CIS 371) - Summer I – 2006Small Business Management (MGT 410) - Summer II – 2006Human Behavior in Organizations (MGT 403 / MGT 403 Online) - Fall 2006 / Spring 2007International Business (BAD 360 Online) - Summer 2007 – Present

Managed on average a team of 12 U.S. and Bangalore software engineers in the development, configuration, modification, and support of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions by providing leadership in the design, coding, and implementation of component-based applications in the Risk, Corporate Administration, IT, and Legal Portfolio, which contains 80+ applications:• Responsibilities included: ■ Applying various software development methodologies (e.g., Iterative, Waterfall) to the System Development Life Cycle. ■ Building partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure code adhered to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specifications. ■ Validating design artifacts (e.g., High Level Designs (HLDs), Application Overview Documents (AODs)) to help others understand and adhere to company standards. ■ Providing oversight in the development, validation, and execution of component integration test (CIT) scenarios to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications. ■ Ensuring the collaboration of IT teams to revise applications based on test results as appropriate.• Managed small - to medium-scale projects and a $2MM Enhancement PAR from planning to completion by: ■ Facilitating meetings with project stakeholders and project resources. ■ Developing, analyzing, and managing the project plan, schedule, and resource forecast. ■ Managing project financials and providing input and justification for costs and budget impact. ■ Monitoring overall project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within resources) against plan and making adjustments as needed. ■ Identifying and resolving issues. ■ Aligning with Enterprise Strategic Sourcing and Enterprise Architecture in the request for information (RFI) and vendor request for proposal (RFP) processes.Major applications in portfolio: GRC, Archer, Tripwire, Sedgwick, Protegrity, Clarity PPM, Remedy, Faxcom, Beeline VMS, & DNA Fusion.

Managed on average a team of 35 U.S. and Bangalore software engineers (full time and contractor) providing application health, application end user support, and third party vendor services across 90+ applications: • Responsibilities included: ■ Partnering with the business and IT to define, develop, and maintain all service level objectives (SLO) and service level agreements (SLAs) between the business and IT. ■ Partnering with the Development team to execute a smooth transition of new service offerings into the portfolio, problem/issue resolution, developing customer service standards, policies and procedures, and managing the supported portfolio’s disaster recovery and business continuity. ■ Providing Lowe’s on-call support and partnering with Third Party Service Providers in developing Application Management operating model(s).Major applications aligned with HR, Risk, IT, and Corporate Administration Portfolio: HR PeopleSoft Suite (Benefits Billing, Human Capital Management, ePayroll, North America Payroll), Talent Management System, 401K, Sedgwick, Teammate, Protegrity, Clarity PPM, BMC Remedy, Faxcom, and Facility Commander.

Assumed the Test Manager role in the Enterprise Portal, Collaboration and Content Domain, as well as support for the Identity Access Management Shared Services:• Responsible for core test management functions: ■ Project planning and estimation, resource planning and management, budget forecasting and management in Clarity, risk management, review and approval of Quality Services Center of Excellence (QSCoE) artifacts, ensure compliance with Lowe’s QSCoE methodology, handle testing effort escalations, coordination with project team and Development Control Services (DCS) for test environment setup and coordination.Assigned to the following Lowe’s projects/teams: EPCC/IAM Domain Portfolio - 01/2013 – 10/2013, Workspace 3.5, Workspace Enhancements (Exchange 2010, Vision, LMS/TMS Integration), High Performance Workspace, IAM Tool Replacement Program.

Mooresville, Nc

Requested by the VP of Lowes.com to join the Lowes.com leadership team to build a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) and implement industry standard testing practices across all Lowes.com and Mobile solutions:• Responsible for all core test management functions: ■ Defining the Agile Test Strategy, staffing, coaching and mentoring the large testing team (five Lowe’s FTE and a 75 contractors). ■ Managed a $10MM test budget. ■ Defined a test strategy for manual testing, automation testing, and performance testing.Assigned to the following Lowe’s projects/Key Release: AL Lowes.com & Mobile App Releases including Lowes.com integration with Services Platform R5, myLowes iOS release, and initial Android App.

Promoted to the Test Manager:• Responsible for core test management functions: ■ Project planning and estimation, resource planning and management, budget forecasting and management in Clarity, risk management, review and approval of Quality Services Center of Excellence (QSCoE) artifacts, ensure compliance with Lowe’s QSCoE methodology, handle testing effort escalations, coordination with project team and Development Control Services (DCS) for test environment setup and coordination.• In this position I had a short tenure, as I was requested by the VP of Lowes.com to establish a testing Center of Excellence within the Lowes.com department.Assigned to the following Lowe’s projects/Key releases: Lowes.com iOS initial release, onboarding of Lowes.com.

Selected by management to move into this role based on my performance while on loan on the TradeStone Project:• Managed on average 100+ contractors as the Test Lead accountable for overall Quality Assurance (QA) activities, including monitoring the completion of Component Integration Testing (CIT), all System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression, and Performance activities, and coordination of User Acceptance Testing (UAT).Assigned to the following Lowe’s projects/teams: Genesis Regression Suite Project - 06/2009 – 10/2010, Services Platform 3 –Discrete Order Management Program (R2, R3, and R5) - 03/2010 – 10/2010, Store Solutions Portfolio - 10/2010 – 04/2011.

After a summer IT internship working on Y2K, hired full-time as a Programmer and was promoted up the IT Merchandizing and Marketing (M&M) Retail Solution ranks. Loaned to IT Logistics Solutions as the Lead Technical Analyst to work on the IT Import Sourcing Project (2007 – 2009) and loaned to IT Quality Services as a Test Manager on the Import Purchase Order Management Project (2009) a.k.a. TradeStone Project.Assigned to the following Lowe’s projects/teams aligned with Merchandising and Marketing Retail Solutions: Maintenance and Enhancements Vendor Team - 01/2000 – 12/2001, Buyback System Project - 09/2001 – 06/2003, Maintenance and Enhancements Team - 06/2003 – 09/2004, Vendor Service Management Initiative - 06/2004 – 11/2005, Retail Revenue Management Initiative - 11/2004 – 11/2005, Lowe’s Global Business Initiative (Canada) - 10/2005 – 01/2007, Import Sourcing Project - 01/2007 – 11/2009, Import Purchase Order Management Project - 08/2009 – 03/2010.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management Information Systems, 4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems And Business Administration, 4.0