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Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

-Launched and scaled a weight loss coaching company dedicated to empowering women through personalized, technology-driven coaching solutions.-Pioneered innovative approaches to health and wellness, leveraging technology to create a supportive and results-driven environment.-Created cutting-edge weight loss programs to help women lose weight and understand their food and habits

United States

- Led a team of 40 staff members to strategically deploy an operating systems software upgrade for iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows in 6 weeks that secured $1.2M in annual revenue and supported 5K+ employees.- Leveraged technical expertise to achieve product management initiatives to produce high–quality software solutions by collaborating with a remote and globally distributed team of software engineers.- Agile coach for software teams to drive predictable delivery metrics and organizational excellence resulting in 25% in productivity- Promoted process improvements by implementing lean methodologies to achieve cost – savings.- Directed a 6 – member team of Junior and Senior Engineers to multi-task and complete 2 large – scale technical projects, including a GitHub systems migration that procured $1.5M in savings - Effectively triaged and prioritized tasks to minimize risks and ensure optimal delivery of results.- Help teams create programs and product backlogs along with roadmaps resulting in clarity and improving delivery rate by 90%- Experience in working at the team level to support large-scale agile transformations from pilot through full-scale implementation

Vienna, Va

-Successfully transitioned a team of Software Engineers to Agile, maximizing customer response time by 90% through enhanced portfolio management.- Coached team members on overcoming organizational impediments boosting productivity by 80% - Supported Agile tool adoption and consistent utilization saving over 60 hours a week- Identified and eliminated operational bottlenecks impacting overall progress, ensuring high-quality results on tight deadlines in alignment with stakeholders’ diverse interests.- Led Scrum meetings to discuss project goals, evaluate current progress, collect valuable feedback, and suggest optimal solutions to exceeding client expectations.- Instituted Agile methodologies to encourage cross-functional collaboration with small teams, driving product functionality, implementing continuous process improvements, and drive organizational efficiency.- Deployed lean principles to add value, optimize workflows, and support customers’ evolving needs.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Program Manager Role• Engage customers for feedback to drive insights for product intent changes to scale customer patterns• Build relationships with product teams to develop product roadmaps, build excitement for upcoming features and drive stakeholder communication• Backlog management, unblock developers by bridging gap between Design & Tech teams to ensure developer productivity is maximized• Foster an environment that inspires teams to grow, voices to be heard by embracing diversity & inclusion• Build trust among cross-organizational stakeholders and • Ensures team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery of projects/initiatives• Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments and progress

• Facilitated daily standups, backlog grooming, retrospectives, prioritization, iteration kick offs, planning, validating user stories• Worked with Product Owners, delivery team to create and size product and release backlogs• Remove blockers by always digging deeper as to how an issue has risen and what the solution is or how it can be triaged ; an agile coach to help educate the expectations around agile• Oversaw that agile best practices are being conformed to from a project/team level• Resource planning, budget and forecast for upcoming client projects • Monitor scope creep, risk mitigation, change management

Greater Atlanta Area

- Act as Scrum Master for 1-2 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards agile best practices for continuous software delivery• Communicated to diverse stakeholders on project updates, had difficult discussions with the customer when needed and • Practiced servant leadership by working closely with the team to do whatever needs to get done to meet project deliverables/deadlines etc. • Oversaw that agile best practices are being conformed to from a project/team level• Facilitated daily standups, backlog grooming, retrospectives, prioritization, iteration kick offs, planning, validating user stories, removing blockers• Managed a virtual team of developers & product owners in India, Ukraine, London and U.S to coordinate project updates and requirements• Resource planning and forecast for upcoming client projects • Established and maintained customer relationships to ensure business goals are met• Was a mentor to some team members and an agile coach to help educate the expectations around agile, lean and continuous delivery - Coach and mentor other scrum masters in our product team in order to ensure our ways of working are consistent across the teams - Actively contribute to the company's Agile and Lean Community through participation in the internal Agile Community of Practice and Scrum Master ForumsAccomplishments:• Led a scrum team of Quality Engineering leadership (QA directors & VPs); where I have improved their portfolio management to be able to track and deliver QE initiatives in an agile environment & timely manner • Was a Project Manager on a web and mobile application (UI Toolkit), that was voted by the customers to have the best ‘quality’ with minimal defects for 2012/2013 • Received an award for going ‘Above and Beyond’ my day to day responsibilities on project initiatives, strategic planning and high productivity on the team

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Wells Fargo provides banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance services through more than 8,700 locations, more than 12,500 ATMs, online (http://www.wellsfargo.com), and mobile devices. Tracked metrics & project output using SDLC to manage expectations and timeline Led projects on mergers and acquisitions to strategically into one platform Maintained relationships with customers through biweekly meetings to communicate current issues & future requirements Mentored and trained new team members on application business rules or career paths Conflict resolution & removing roadblocks to facilitate a healthy work environment Coordinated testing activities, defect management & defect tracking for reporting bugs Provided project plans, test estimates and participated in feature/functional integration testing Led UAT (user acceptance testing) with customers to ensure their business needs are met; managed manual and automation scripting in HP Quality Center and QTPAccomplishments:• Wells Fargo acquired RCIS, a leading provider of agricultural insurance in the U.S. I was closely involved in the strategic discussions during the mergers and acquisitions to help ascertain the strategic direction of combining the diverse range of systems into one platform.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

 Maximized productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders & top management Led test execution to ensure completion to meet project deliverable timelines Management of test scenarios, test scripts, test plans, and test strategies Facilitated code reviews with developers, to validate test scripts pre and post deployment Performed regression testing on existing applications Led delivery efforts for the client projects and was middle person, data validation by querying databases

Provided leadership, expertise and consultation to the team on project strategies Effectively communicated risk mitigation plans, exit strategies and back up plans for deployments Managed projects timelines and customer requirements Subject Matter Expert, provided feedback on text execution & project implementation Mentored and train new staff members & business on new testing standards Provided signoffs, approvals and support for QA, UAT and Production testing Led meetings for test planning, defect management to set appropriate goals

Mba, Computer Science

Masters of Business Administration - I.T

Bachelors Of Computer Science, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Leadership, Speaking eventsBachelors of Computer Science