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Manage three scrum masters and oversee seven scrum teams to lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies. Work with Product Owners to refine product backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments. Monitor and track sprint progress and refinement initiatives to ensure healthy product backlog.•Improve team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.•Coach/mentor new scrum masters and cross functional team of 40 resources on agile processes to deliver quality products.•Facilitate release planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospective meetings.•Collaborate with team members of the Product, Business and Engineering teams to develop and maintain product backlog. •Work with Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the products, prioritization, and develop software release planning. •Communicate the progress to senior management thru “burndown charts”. Monitored the quality through metrics and mentored team thru the project management process.•Ensure sprints are not started until all stories have adequate definition to be “ready for sprint”, and acceptance criteria, and point assignments.•Create JIRA dashboards to help facilitate sprint planning and product backlog discussions with Product Owner and development manager.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Manage Project Manager/Business Analysts responsible for eliciting and delivering requirements from various lines of business and external agencies for Treasury Reporting. Accountable for managing the reporting of MHA/HAMP modifications to the US Treasury and providing detailed information for internal consumption. •Ensure use case/Agile stories are accurate, thorough to scope, consistent, and meet the business needs while being aligned with the Agile transformation.•Direct oversight that all work is prioritized in the product backlog and completed and delivered timely per the US Treasury and business timelines.•Responsible for the relationship and program management of Business and Development dictated by the MHA/HAMP program per US Treasury directives•Manage and mentor a team of 6 Project Managers/Business Analysts to gather clear and unambiguous business requirements•Summarize program analytics in consumable reports and decks to frequently present to senior management current and recurring trends, including forecasting of incoming change projects •Prioritize book of work and coordinate projects with conflicting priorities from Business, Technology, and US Treasury to ensure deadlines are met •Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and IT groups to ensure requirements are developed per the business intent•Cultivate team members to improve knowledge in firm policies and business procedures to become subject matter experts to build partnerships with business stakeholders and ensure compliance with the SDLC (waterfall and agile methodologies) •Work closely with Business Partners and cross-functional teams (Applications development, IT Business analysts, Production support, Data stewards, Database administrators, etc.) to ensure Business Requirements are complete for the accurate consumption by IT

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Manager of development team responsible for delivering contractual reports to Investors, Rating Agencies, and GSE’s for internal (enterprise-wide) and external to Chase consumption.•Responsible for team of application developers (PL/SQL) for project deliverables in an iterative environment•Created and provide summary level reports for executive and senior management speaking engagements•Implemented and standardized development best coding practice with quality standards such as usage, maintainability, performance, functionality, and reusability to minimize enterprise audit exposure and IT risks•Ability to react quickly and complete adhoc reporting requests within tight deadlines while ensuring content is concise and accurate•Facilitated JAD sessions with customers to determine system requirements, process work flows, and business logic for new application and functionality •Identified project opportunities within existing processes that had excessive variation and waste (outliers) and obtained senior management endorsement to lead successful projects that reengineered processes with the objective of usability and reliability •Provided leadership to newly formed team by encouraging collaboration, enforcing peer reviews and cross training and developing consistent, repeatable procedures

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Manager of an Operations Delivery team, responsible for demonstrating and guiding loan modification program functionality. Responsible for managing enterprise releases, the timely execution of project tasks, stakeholder updates, resolving and escalating issues.•Worked closely with Senior Management, Legal, Policy and Procedure, and multiple lines of business to ensure projects align with firm direction and compliance•Managed implementation of requirements and functionality of an enterprise application for a Fortune top 20 organization.•Ensured projects remain on target, identify issues and risks, drive to resolution, report status to management and stakeholders •Managed team of 10 Business Analyst providing direction and guidance as needed as well as managing performance and professional growth•Set resource goals that tie into broader functional/firm goals•Mentored business analysts responsible for driving collection of business requirements, creating consistent functional specifications, working with development team through the build process and working with QA/UAT for product readiness •Worked under fast paced conditions in an waterfall/iterative development environment with multiple high priority tasks in short timelines •Prepared and deliver presentations to business owners to articulate new system functionality and process improvements using Visio diagrams, prototypes, and business scenarios •Managed multiple projects in parallel, requiring frequent interactions with various project teams that will extend to Technology, Risk, Audit, Client Services, and Operations management

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Certificate In Information Systems, Information Technology

Information Systems

Bs - Accounting, Math Minor