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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

· Responsible for facilitating Scrum events, quarterly forecasting exercises, and continuous improvement for a fully remote, cross-functional Scrum team spanning five time zones supporting Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Service Delivery through the implementation of custom flows, automation, form updates, application integrations, and CPQ product & pricing configurations in Salesforce· Routinely seek relevant trends and techniques through online sources and Agile Communities of Practice that could help the team and organization improve· Align teams and stakeholders by facilitating the creation and sharing of Product Backlogs, Feature/Story Maps, Working Agreements, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and value-based metrics· Instruct Scrum teams on how to leverage our Agile Lifecycle Management tool to manage impediments and dependencies, and make those transparent to stakeholders for timely coordination and resolution· Served as Project Manager for a large, vendor-driven traditional SaaS implementation involving 30+ people spanning three departments with a $1.3M budget. Managed progress, budget, risks, and impediments with an agile mindset, leveraging a cross-functional daily scrum, and facilitating a Steering Committee review every two weeks between the team and executive leadership

Madison, Wi, Us

· Responsible for assembling, coaching, and serving two cross-functional Scrum teams in Product Delivery with members onsite and remote in a startup environment for delivery of customer facing data analytics solutions who delivered a potentially shippable product in 4 weeks, 2x faster than any previous delivery team· Led value-stream mapping exercises resulting in significant process improvements that eliminated waste and increased speed to value· Built dashboards leveraging real-time data to monitor backlog health and progress of feature delivery

Madison, Wi, Us

· Participated in Agile transformation in IT Operations by assembling a co-located, cross-functional Scrum team that incrementally delivered secure Microsoft 365 cloud-based services to 6,000 employees and contractors, which helped propel our Agile adoption from 2 agile teams to 16 over a 24-month period· Proposed, designed, and executed the transition of a project from Waterfall to Scrum to increase transparency and enable the team to quickly adapt to changing requirements and priorities, leading to the successful delivery of date-driven features to 500 employees

Madison, Wi, Us

· Successfully managed a variety of small/medium functional projects including Internet Explorer upgrade impacting 200 internal applications, deployment of 100+ Access Points across 3 corporate offices nationwide, a Mainframe upgrade for 96 products, and deployment of 800 monitors to 450 employees located on-site and remote

Janesville, Wi, Us

· Updated and developed production forms for internal applications· Updated and developed reports used for supply chain forecasts and analysis· Queried, updated, and altered database tables and stored procedures· Executed the setup of an entire network infrastructure for a new 160,000-square-foot building