Current: Leading change management efforts for the implementation of a new SaaS Treasury application, including leading the change council and serving as a liaison between IT and Business. Spearheading communication strategies to align stakeholders on project goals, timelines, deliverables, while soliciting feedback from Line-of-Business (LoB) leads. Also responsible for production readiness planning towards go-live cutover execution. Playing dual role in supporting day-to-day IT Analyst functions within an Agile Scrum team environment; partnering with IT and Business project team members supporting the implementation of a new AWS integrated Treasury Gateway platform. As an IT business analyst with extensive experience, I am eager to share my knowledge and provide guidance to a young professional through coaching. This has been a rewarding experience for me.

Leading employee engagement initiatives within our IT Finance department and contributing to the organization's IT engagement team. Fostering a more connected workplace culture by creating, distributing surveys, analyzing feedback, leading focus groups for improvements. Collaborating with other members of the organizational leadership committee on planning fun activities like food truck outdoor events while also coordinating internal luncheons/ breakfast meetings and team building activities - sharing key communications through MS Teams too! Focused on enhancing staff morale, imperative as we recover from the pandemic, with a dual focus on elevating overall job satisfaction and ensuring every voice is acknowledged.To ensure a healthy work-life balance and overall well-being, I believe it's essential to also have personal interests beyond the workplace. Some of mine include photography, traveling the world, cooking, audio books, and most importantly spending quality time with my family and friends. I am also an active member of the Elks organization as well as two community book clubs.

Continue to work closely with business partners and IT application teams to identify, analyze, and document business needs. Utilizing expertise in Agile methodologies to lead planning efforts that optimize the addressing of business goals. More recently, led the development and implementation of several reporting dashboards for expense reporting during a major project transitioning from mainframe to Tableau, enhancing overall business performance and stakeholder engagement. Created and maintained an end user engagement communication channel within MS Teams and new SharePoint web pages with reporting links, “FAQs”, and other key expense information. Led production readiness cutover process, and transition support calls. Throughout my tenure, I have provided support for over 20 applications within the Corporate Finance and HR/Payroll departments. In addition, I led multiple large-scale investment projects as conversion and interface lead for several HR/Payroll application implementations including a data warehouse.I played a crucial role in the implementation of Agile methodology, designing and supporting our Rally agile tool. As part of Scrum team today involved in huddles, sprint planning & review while tracking development iterations/releases. In my capacity as an innovator within organization I designed an IDEA Bank leveraging on Agility; ensuring end to end successful implementation of team members ideas.As an adaptable professional with experience leading change management initiatives, I excel at facilitating smooth transitions to new technologies like MS Teams for enhanced collaboration and productivity outcomes. Additionally, I enjoy showcasing creativity through presentations built using PowerPoint, Visio data flows, and Microsoft Publishing tools.

As a Change Lead, supported the Finance Expense business partners in their transition from an outdated WebFocus reporting tool to a modern Tableau reporting platform of dashboards and reports. Developed change management strategies and plans aiming at maximizing end user adoption of new processes all the way through production readiness planning and support therafter. Maximized use of Microsoft Teams in building and sharing effective communications; including regular updates encompassing PowerPoint presentations. Built and maintained metrics supporting leader status updates as end users transitioned from current state to future state. Facilitated the transition towards change by guiding business associates through the process, while actively participating as part of the Agile Scrum team and undertaking duties synonymous with those of an IT Business Analyst. Collaborated with developers in providing multiple data mappings, enabling efficient data source table creations. Also, developed and tested innovative insights through dashboard and report creation within Tableau tool, supporting seamless Agile rollouts.Maintained the change management process throughout project, providing timely communication and training to stakeholders, while adhering to Agile methodologies.Developed and maintained SharePoint webpages that provided easy access to current dashboards, reports, and FAQS, replacing outdated content.Developed these webpages without formal training, showcasing a proactive approach to skill enhancement.

I have been actively involved in altruistic endeavors throughout my lifetime, holding diverse positions which have sharpened numerous proficiencies spanning civic participation, direction, cooperation, advancement of procedures, evaluation, arrangement making and coordination. My extensive experience includes affiliations with entities focused on Autism, spearheading fundraising initiatives to benefit underprivileged segments of society during festive seasons, heading girl scouts troops for nearly seven years, contributing as part of administrative bodies tasked with formulating policies amongst primary schools' parent-teacher associations ; additionally playing key role in elevating junior sportsperson's victory through enhancements made possible via robust partnerships fostered among mentor figures / guardianship . Finally it would be remiss not to mention how much pleasure was derived from hosting yearly banquets showcasing accomplishments attained collectively across multiple sports disciplines. And also to mention how much I enjoyed my time spent with my children and amongst their peers in school volunteering.