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Product owner, ScrumMaster, and business analyst: served as a product owner for two development teams, taking overall priorities from dedicated Product Managers and balancing those priorities against project requirements. Worked directly with the newsroom to gather requirements and refine internal processes. Acted as team ScrumMaster, keeping the team aligned with sprint goals and overall deadlines. Managed backlog on a daily basis and refined tickets requiring clarification. Acted as a liaison between The Minnesota Star Tribune development/product teams and the vendor hired to build the frontend site.Product manager in Cargill Protein: support three applications all designed to maximize output and value gain from eight meat-packing plants. Manage interactions between development/product team and Cargill Global IT departments. Define and manage project scope and timeframes. Support product owners in all communications related to initiatives/concerns outside of direct business/end-user interactions. Visited a meat-packing plants to gain more direct knowledge of plant operations and feature requests.Multiple roles in Cargill Risk Management: product owner, business systems analyst, and ScrumMaster. Responsible for multiple initiatives, including implementation of client systems via API connections and data downloads. Facilitated legacy software transition to new custom software solutions and ultimately decommissioning of the older software. Project lead on the complete overhaul of authentication methods for legacy software.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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Edina, Minnesota, Usa

AutoPay initiative – formalized and documented requirements for initiative to allow customers to sign themselves up for an automatic payment method online. Facilitated communication between stakeholders and 3rd party vendor executing the development. Worked with internal Salesforce developers to connect the new features into existing web services and billing system.Credit Card Surcharge – executed fresh start on project designed to add a surcharge fee to credit card payment methods made by customers. Analyzed existing user stories and determined a new set of stories was required. Conducted story writing workshops to elicit proper user stories and provided them to the developers. Worked with internal Salesforce developers and analysts to enhance existing services to allow internal users to walk customers through the payment process.Discontinuation of Renewal Offers – executed test steps in a multi-month testing/QA process to support project intended to discontinue policy renewal offers, an antiquated feature of the legacy policy system still in use. Monitored the status of several hundred test policies to ensure database changes were complete. Automated several manual verification steps by developing SQL queries to validate data within multiple database tables.New billing and policy system – created documentation for billing processes from all branches of the company to support discovery phase of project intended to replace an aging billing/policy system.Joined Agile Committee in 2018 and was voted as head of the Agile Committee in 2019. As a member of the committee, responsible for providing leadership and guidance to the company’s Agile journey. Joined Jira Committee to support the configuration of company-wide Jira usage. Promoted several enhancements to make the system easier to use for stakeholders and business representatives.Joined Teambuilding Committee to support IT department teambuilding activities and social engagements.

Saint Paul, Mn

Implementation of Atlassian software – initiated project to implement the usage of Jira and Confluence with business departments. Met with stakeholders and users to determine high-level goals, project-specific requirements, and made all configuration changes. Launched solution with limited number of users, and immediate financial benefits were gained when the productivity of specific teams was able to be tracked more effectively. Provided end-user training to department members.Summit Hill Reporting System – elicited requirements for new custom developed reporting application. Shadowed several users to identify optimizations in their work patterns; users reported an estimated gain of 10-15 hours per week of productivity by eliminating manual reports and automating them in the new system. Worked with developers to integrate system with data warehouse. Executed FDA Part 11 compliance testing to ensure software met federal requirements.IRMS Global Implementation – participated in RFP process to determine if an off-the-shelf system would support a new global solution for in-taking client data via email and 3 call centers. Assigned team lead for the onboarding team responsible for assessing effort to bring each client into the new system, assembling timetables, and providing recommendations on the order in which to implement existing clients. Elicited requirements from all branches to implement necessary software customizations and partnered with 3rd party vendor hired to implement the changes. Worked with development team to integrate new software with existing custom developed client portal, data warehouse, and reporting system.Custom data import package – elicited requirements from several clients to develop a custom solution designed to automatically import large sets of legacy data into Oracle Argus Safety Database. Oversaw FDA Part 11 compliance testing.

Saint Paul, Mn

Implementation/onboarding manager – managed implementation of over 30 new clients and ensured all client needs were met upon launch of services.Client relationship manager – maintained client accounts of over 75 total clients. Maintained proper billing for clients, anticipated client needs, and responded to requests for additional services or one-time needs.

Robbinsdale, Mn

Deltek Vision – provided training for new accounting/payroll system. Responsible for configuration of system and implementation of custom features.Trade show organization - Organized company presence at two national tradeshows. Attended the 2011 AIA Exposition.