Blake Garibaldi Email & Phone Number

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

As a Senior Transformation Associate, I...- Lead project teams to finish tasks on time and within budget.- Make important decisions about project goals, timing, and resources.- Manage project finances and ensure quality deliverables are on schedule.- Coordinate with clients and teams to implement changes efficiently.- Support leaders in decision-making and communication.- Mentor team members and improve project processes.

Plano, Texas, United States

As a Technical Delivery Manager within the Multimedia Quality Management Office, I played a key role in its success. My contributions encompassed collaborative stakeholder engagement, refining and prioritizing requirements, implementing robust risk management strategies, promoting tool adoption, and aligning project schedules with vehicle milestones. I introduced Agile methodologies, resulting in a 25% increase in team productivity, and led cross-functional Scrum teams to achieve the version 3.0 milestone release. I championed increased collaboration and improved project visibility by setting up and managing various Jira projects for QA group and UI/UX group. I successfully improved communication, efficiency and project status updates for UI/UX team by integrating Jira with slack application. Streamlined the collaboration between development and project management teams via GitHubintegration in Jira

Plano, Texas, United States

My job as a technical project manager at Rent A Center was like being the captain of a ship during a big adventure. I helped the technology department change and upgrade the way they worked by implementing Agile principles and frameworks to various teams throughout the organization. I made sure all the tasks and goals were organized, and IT leaders understood and comprehended the value of our Agile transformation. It's like being the leader of a team on a treasure hunt, making sure we reached our goals and found all the valuable digital 'treasures' along the way!

Plano, Texas

As a Technology Adoption Leader at Rent-A-Center my objective was to:1. Introduce Microsoft Teams: let everyone at Rent-A-Center know about Microsoft Teams and explain how it can make their work and communication easier and more efficient.2. Teach People How to Use It: help people understand how Teams works by providing training and resources. This might include showing them how to create teams, chat with colleagues, schedule meetings, and share documents.3. Answer Questions: Sometimes, people may have questions or run into problems when using new technology. The Adoption Leader is there to help them figure things out, so everyone can use Teams effectively.4. Encourage Collaboration: Influenced everyone in the organization to use Teams for group projects and team discussions. This helps people work together better, even if they're in different places.5. Ensure Security: Made sure that everyone knows how to use Teams safely and securely. This was important to protect sensitive information.6. Measure Success: By the time of the tool launch, I was leading a team of 45 MS Teams champions made up of both corporate and field TM’s. More than 250 corporate team members had gone through my MS Teams training initiative. I was able to maintain commits from the CIO, the Exec. Director of HR and 2 members of field leadership. At the start of this initiative, the utilization rate of the tool was 12% and 6 months following the launch we saw an increase of 63% utilization of the tool. In a nutshell, a Technology Adoption Leader's job is to make sure that everyone at Rent-A-Center understands how to use Microsoft Teams and sees the benefits of using it for their work. They're like a guide, helping everyone make the most of this helpful tool.

Plano, Texas, United States

My job as a Senior IT Service Manager was a bit like being the principal of a school, but for computers and technology. I made sure that all the computers, software, and systems in our company were working smoothly and that there were minimal disruptions to the IT services that enabled our corporate and field operations. I also lead a team of tech experts, a bit like being the coach of a sports team, and we worked together to keep everything running perfectly. So, in simple words, I'm the one who made sure all the technology at our company worked as expected, just like making sure a school runs smoothly."

Plano, Texas

Process owner of engineering research & design team. Providing QA Testing in the scope of connected vehicle technology. Currently providing project support to connected technologies department at Toyota Motors North America.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Contractor at Kofile Conversion Services, Inc.Responsible for independently applying SDLC and Agile QA methodology and standards to verify and validate that core products meet specifications and customer acceptance criteria in order to ensure customer satisfaction>Create regular project status reports. Communicate all risks and issues to the off-shore developers, project managers, and configuration manager in a timely manner.>Functioning as a business tester for document management system and a document search engine for a variety of county offices.>Execute test cases based upon the User Stories.>Performs User Acceptance Testing throughout the web application>Apply SDLC and Agile software quality assurance and software testing concepts and practices to continuously assess the risks, condition and quality of products and releases>Review requirements, acceptance criteria, functional design, technical design, and use case design documents to determine testability>Document and track defects, issues and enhancements to resolution using defect tracking tools and participate in root cause analysis

Richardson, Tx

• Engaged with voice recognition software engineers building mobile devices to develop test cases and evaluate software for completeness and design• Test Voice Activated software on all versions of Samsung mobile devices• Worked with quality assurance analysts and project managers on tracking the progress of test script execution as well as the synthesis of prevalent issues being discovered• Played a role in taking the VUI’s (Voice User Interfaces) that needed to be tested and built the Excel spreadsheet (included creating formulas and setting up easily sorted test sheet) with the data stages that needed to be tested to help increase the efficiency and productivity of the Testers• Used MS Excel to report the data, run the utterance and document each stage we are testing and any comments for the issues encountered and then sort this data by failures to move to PLM• Documented found software “bugs” and worked with software engineers on steps-to-recreate; used in-house testing software, PLM to manage and communicate software defects• Utilized PLM, Product Life Cycle Management, to interact with the Samsung mobile engineers for communicating bugs, fixes and software failures• Checked PLM to identify regression testing issues for new versions of software or software fixes and executed the regression tests and reported on results in PLM

Frisco, Tx

Driving product sales in-store through customer interactionEducating customers and retail associates on the productProduct demonstration, merchandisingProfessionally representing Advantage Solutions and our clients at all timesMaintaining knowledge of our client’s consumer electronic productsComplete paid e-learning requirementsAttends regularly scheduled conference callsCollecting data via call reports for our client

Richardson, Texas

I serve as an inside property claims adjuster for the Safeco brand. Deliver superior service to policy holders; Adjust property damages for building property and personal property losses; manage an ongoing claim load ranging from weather related claims to theft/burglary claims to common homeowner claims.

Richardson, Tx

I coordinate sales calls with small business owners to view free website demos of RightNow Media @ Work. RightNow Media @ Work is a Netflix style of Video Studies and Leadership Development for your business. To learn more about RightNow Media @ Work visit www.rightnowmediaatwork.org

Tyler, Texas Area

As Director of Education, I played a crucial role in driving the success of my department by doing the folllowing:-growing the volunteer base by doing face to face recruiting-developing strong training initiatives-organizational restructuring and strategic planning of new programs-increasing program participation rates through creative marketing and advertising of services

•Responsible for driving revenue and overseeing branch operations while leading a team of associates to perform primarily in the areas of customer service and sales. Promoted to management level within 2 years of starting with the company by demonstrating a consistent sales performance and contributing to a collaborative effort of team customer service performance.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Strategic Management And Leadership

Activities and Societies: Student Life Leadership Department

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Counseling And Psychology

Activities and Societies: Student Life Leadership Department, Intramural Sports, Choir, TheaterSpiritual Life Dorm Leader