Benjamin Dains Email & Phone Number

Kansas, United States

Many of my duties as a contractor with Evergy became my full-time position tasks along with additional needs like being the point of contact for QA software, working with vendors to bring their software into our environments like Test Complete & WebLoad from SmartBear.We also went through the challenge of COVID like everyone else in the world which.

Kansas, United States

After coaching many IT teams for Walmart and travelling to Bentonville, AR twice a week for a year, I decided it was time to come back home to Kansas. Evergy wanted my Agile experience to help with their company merger, so I decided to help out! I worked with the web teams (most on-site but another team remote) to help them better understand Agile and how.

All online training courses listed under this section were completed voluntarily to learn more about: Agile, IT, Scrum, Content Training, Leadership, Design, Development, Jira, Team Foundation Server, and so much more! I've completed over 150+ Pluralsight courses! Along with Pluralsight I also have a personal subscription to Udemy for a few years now where.

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

I got the privilege to work with some great people at Walmart in Bentonville, AR as an Enterprise Agile Coach. Each day I would work with many Scrum Masters and their teams to help them discover what Agile truly was (and wasn't), we would uncover places for efficiency to be made, but also setup a true Agile culture that Walmart is still using to this.

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Leading a 45+ member team and teaching them how to use Scrum, Team Foundation Server, and JIRA.
• Leading sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog refinement meetings, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives with the team. This includes maximizing velocity with the team.
• Managed client relationship with in-house stakeholders, facilitating weekly scoping meetings, defining requests and requirements, managing timelines and acceptance deliverables.
• Agile / Scrum practice, working with teams and stakeholders to define product backlogs, sprint backlogs and scrum artifacts utilizing Scrum 2.0 template for Team Foundation Server / Visual Studio.

Topeka, Kansas Area

• I am currently working in a business analyst position for Security End To End (Se2 & Security Benefit, partners with Guggenheim). The respected clients for Se2 are many, well known, life insurance & annuity companies..
• Managed client relationship with in-house stakeholders, facilitating weekly scoping meetings, defining requests and requirements, managing timelines and acceptance deliverables.
• Contributed to standard definition requirements template for our web offerings, delivering user stories, researching data systems by utilizing SQL, business and functional level requirements and a comprehensive client.
• Quality analysis and control of deliverables, working closely with other business analysts, quality assurance partners and project development staff to deliver a high quality product.
• Agile / Scrum practice, working with teams and stakeholders to define product backlogs, sprint backlogs and scrum artifacts utilizing Scrum 2.0 template for Team Foundation Server / Visual Studio.

Emporia, Kansas

• Managed a 30 – 40 men for more than 16 weeks at basic training and graduated with top honors in my class.
• Started my military career as a Engineer, and this required me to learn many math formulas and it forced to me to adapt to hectic, fast paced environments as well as become a leader.
• I have been specially promoted twice in my career for going above and beyond the required standards that all Army personnel must uphold.
• I now hold two jobs in the Army National Guard because my new unit requested transfers from other units due to the lack of experience in their unit. My new MOS (job) was maintaining, shooting, and operating a M1A2 SEP.

Technology Administration

Management Information Systems And Services

Activities and Societies: Track & FieldI studied Computer and Information systems.