Barbara Varanka Email & Phone Number

Leawood, Kansas

Kansas City, Missouri Area

+ Lead Agile Scrum ceremonies for development teams, including: daily standups, sprint planning and backlog review+ Collaborate with creative, experience design, and development teams to elicit requirements for web development projects from client stakeholders at a Fortune 500 company + Document and prioritize requirements using JIRA+ Manage development ticket boards using JIRA and coordinate with development and quality assurance teams to streamline the ticket management process+ Work with team leads to increase the efficiency of internal processes+ Regularly present completed development work to client stakeholders for feedback and review

Charlestown, Ma

+ Elicited, documented, and prioritized requirements for mobile applications using JIRA, CA Agile, and Microsoft Team Foundation Server+ Led stand-up meetings for multiple projects with teams in-office and off-site and assisted with removing blockers reported+ Created and maintained the product management Google site, a central resource for all employees to access product information, news, and training deliverables+ Communicated process changes, enhancements, and modifications to management and internal stakeholders+ Reduced product release documentation process timelines through implementation of a DMAIC (Lean Six Sigma) process improvement plan + Worked directly with product owners to implement product improvements and enhancement requests+ Improved end user understanding of products by creating accessible training materials+ Increased enterprise operational readiness by analyzing current process inefficiencies, and executing updated product rollouts+ Documented best practices and improved SDLC methodology

Lexington, Ma

+ Acted as a liaison between internal technical teams and client stakeholders by eliciting and communicating functional and business requirements + Provided training and configuration services as part of software implementation+ Created, maintained, and reported on project work plans and specification deliverables+ Managed client expectations by providing reliable and up-to-date project statuses+ Translated technical ideas into clear, nontechnical concepts for clients+ Collaborated with clients on user acceptance scripts and user acceptance testing + Implemented process improvement suggestions related to ticket process flow and SDLC+ Wrote use cases and assisted in the development of user testing documentation + Maintained client satisfaction by providing thorough first-line customer support + Worked with product owner to prioritize and understand bugs

Miller Nichols Library

+ Enriched student understanding of academic research and resource evaluation through live training and one-on-one research consultations + Improved information literacy teaching methodology by designing updated curriculum and educational materials+ Assisted faculty and students with individualized academic research projects+ Worked alongside specialists to preserve historical materials in the Marr Sound Archives and LaBudde Special Collections

Kansas City, Missouri Area

+ Cultivated student participation by producing engaging lesson plans and activities+ Met with students regularly to provide customized individual feedback

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Creative Writing

Activities and Societies: English Graduate Student Association

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Art History, Criticism And Conservation

Activities and Societies: WTBU (radio)