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San Diego, Ca, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

- Lead and facilitate Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives)- Coach and mentor team members on Agile methodologies and practices- Collect and analyze data to track performance, identify trends, and advocate for enhancements- Communicate with stakeholders to ensure they are well-informed about project progress, challenges, and changes.- Manage conflicting stakeholder priorities and align them with project goals- Determine team capacity and allocate resources effectively to meet project goals.- Ensure the team's workload is manageable and balanced, preventing overextension or underutilization- Represent the team in executive meetings, conveying alignment with strategic organizational goals.- Present project progress, challenges, and recommendations to senior leadership effectively.

San Diego County, California, United States

· Champion agile best practices for 3-4 teams of 5 product designers, and be an owner of process improvements in a 70+ person organization· Coordinate stakeholder alignment, intake, and delivery of 10+ initiatives at a time within schedule and scope constraints while ensuring product requirements are met and documented· Work with multiple product managers to develop 20+ technical features at a time, and developed 3-4 detailed product and design roadmaps at a time with added research plans · Partnered with directors and L4 leadership to roll out change management and address project risks and to escalate schedule, bottlenecks, and ensure leadership reviews and feedback from all directors is documented· Document new process roll-outs for the product design organization of 70+ people and align on and share out process solutionsAccomplishments· Improved the Figma Management for iterative continuous delivery and Improved the QA process by implementing design cut-off dates and version control so that development builds can easily be evaluated by QA’s· Improved design share out transparency for leadership by documenting and suggesting a way to organize the design library by platform and Figma version· Improved the definition of the Jira structure by creating cross-functional features and templitized User Story and Feature definition.· Defined New Feature and Product Intake Process for multiple departments that included the required User feedback, metrics, financial impact of new potential features, and high level work estimation.· Educated the teams on the benefits and ideology of backlog grooming for multiple departments which brought process rigor to a meeting that previously had unclear objectives and documented R&R’s so that everyone knew what to bring to the meeting and what their role would be· Implemented Design Sprint Workshops for new or complex features - which focuses on problem definition and solution brainstorming.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

· Manage and track the release of software development investments totaling $1.61 million · Manage resources for continuing software development investments totaling $2 million · Managed over 30 technical and functional IP resources and 5-6 cross-functional teams · Utilize technical development knowledge to overcome development project roadblocks · Lead change management of Agile improvement, product, and process changes by delivering principals via team and individualized training resulting in teams committed to Agile processes · Manage project implementation including decomposition, status tracking, stakeholder communications and budget resulting in on-time releases and high-quality software products · Report risk areas and partner with leadership on strategies to address concernsAccomplishments· Created and updated Jira reports that visualized the teams data including, burn down charts, delivery dashboards, Jira Plan roadmaps, and sprint completion metrics· Reported up to management with leadership dashboards that gave the current status of different projects, any resourcing needs we had, and any risks the team was trying to solve for at the moment. I also displayed a high level roadmap that was projected out to the end of the quarter.· Facilitated all the planning and feature breakdown meetings for 6+ engineering teams, which included coaching the teams on Agile methods and ensuring iterative development was followed

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Within a team environment I was accountable for building analytical reports for State defined requirements and/or improvement areas. In addition, I made creative reports and presented during client training events. I assisted the proposal team by aligning our product to the various needs of states. Additionally, I conducted on-boarding and presented on various topics within our team. Accomplishments· Analyzed large quantities of government foster care system data and identified trends in order to form hypotheses so share with our data team and with the client· Pulled Data from a large database in order to create data tables that we could then use in data visualization tools· Ran reports in Tableau and other tools using SQL to display hundreds of thousands of rows of data visually· Created Tableau Reports with 10+ charts displaying the data in various ways that told the story of the customers data and what trends I could find in it· Trained 30+ people at a time on how to scrub their data and then use that data to create visual reports that could be monitored for ongoing use

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

· Lead 500+ hours of high intensity workout classes· Received 300+ hours of training in order to demonstrate and build leadership skills for teaching· Lead a variety of multi-level workout classes 3+ times a week for upwards 50 people at a time· Built unique and progressive workout sequences monthly · Branded and marketed my strengths to elicit new customers and championed the Core power brand on social media

Master'S Of Business Administration, Management

Bachelor Of Science In Business Administration, Finance & Banking